519: YouTube Is Cleaning House in 2026 (AI Strikes & New Rules)
The Think Media Podcast
Think Media
4.9 • 862 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, before we jump into the show, I wanted to give you a heads up that my free YouTube strategy |
| 0:05.3 | class is available right now on demand at thinkmasterclass.com. On the class, I reveal the one YouTube |
| 0:12.8 | strategy. We use at Think Media to generate over 330,000 views every single day. So if you're new to |
| 0:20.4 | YouTube, this will help you start right and avoid mistakes. And if you're new to YouTube, this will help you start right and |
| 0:22.7 | avoid mistakes. And if you're a YouTube pro, this training will help you multiply your growth. |
| 0:28.4 | This class is 100% free and you can watch it now on demand at thinkmasterclass.com. Now, let's jump |
| 0:36.6 | into today's show. Well, so here's the thing that people have to |
| 0:39.5 | realize being on YouTube is a privilege. It's not the government. They don't need to do |
| 0:45.6 | anything they don't want to. You are a tenant on YouTube's land and they can kick you or evict you |
| 0:51.1 | at any point. YouTube just deleted over 4.7 billion views worth of AI slop videos. |
| 0:56.8 | It's becoming clear YouTube is declaring war on deep fakes. |
| 1:00.6 | I've actually stopped taking on channel terminations because I can't get the channels back. |
| 1:05.9 | 12.4 million channels were terminated. |
| 1:08.1 | What's happening? Why are channels being deleted and demonetized? |
| 1:10.7 | This will be a lesson for all creators. All right. We're back on the Think Media podcast with the |
| 1:17.1 | creators attorney Tyler Chow. Hi, Sean. It's good to be here in person. Good to be here in person for |
| 1:22.6 | this episode. We have so much to talk about. There's a lot of legal news. There's a lot of relevant |
| 1:26.3 | news for creators. |
| 1:31.5 | Last time we talked, though, you said one wrong move and your whole channel could disappear overnight since them have things gotten worse or better? I think they've gotten worse because |
| 1:37.5 | YouTube and, you know, my focus is always YouTube because I think if you want to build a media |
| 1:42.7 | company, you need to build on YouTube. But this applies to all the platforms I think all the platforms are using AI to detect |
| 1:50.1 | violations or AI content and AI as we know is not perfect they make mistakes so I'm seeing a lot |
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