My Virtual Production Tutorial Channel taken down by YouTube

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Many people have used my Virtual Production tutorials on a channel I’ve been running on youtube for 7 years to get started using Unreal for Virtual Production.

Last week they took down my entire Virtual Production channel without warning for what they claimed were “nudity and sexual content” violations. There was nothing even remotely like that on the channel and I have a full download of it straight from YouTube to prove it. It is entirely Unreal Engine tutorial and Virtual Production content. I have attempted an appeal, but they are completely blocking/ignoring me without providing any evidence of a violation.

What I’m wondering is if there is any way I could host these tutorials on the Unreal site so they can still be available to people.

Alternately, is there is someone who can talk to YouTube on my behalf to try and get the channel reinstated?

These tutorials have been useful to so many businesses, schools and individuals worldwide it would be a shame if it just dies for no reason.

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I totally sympathize, although can’t help I’m afraid. This is Youtube in the final throes of ‘enshitification’ where they shoot themselves in the foot, by letting AI remove content that is part of their core business.

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If you hover over the learning button on the left-hand menu of this site, there’s a “+” button that allows you to make a tutorial that will be hosted on the site after being reviewed. If you host your videos on Vimeo, I believe that embeds just as well as Youtube. I seem to remember accessing some Vimeo videos in an animation course. So, you’d make tutorials that have a link to the video and a brief write-up.

Here’s an example by another youtuber: Green Screen Offline Virtual Production Workflow - Live-Action / UE5 Filmmaking | Community tutorial

There’s even a prompt there from Epic to learn how to make your own tutorial under his user-name.