2018 was a rough year for me as a YouTuber and for my longtime viewers. After being on semi-hiatus in late 2017 and planning to come back in 2018, suddenly in late January my channel was targeted by false flagging, first the video of microwaving a Tide power pod, then other, even more innocuous videos including a video of me flushing shampoo down the toilet, microwaving a bar of soap, and many other harmless experiments. Before 2018, I had not one community guidelines strike despite how hard the trolls were false flagging me because they didn't like my videos. So I privated my videos to avoid losing my channel, which I temporarily did in May. However, I grew tired of being accused of deleting all of my videos and my own fans punishing me by spite-disliking my new videos because they weren't listening when I said it was to protect my channel. I decided if my own fans didn't care about me protecting my channel and just wanted microwave videos, I'd just unprivate everything and throw caution to the wind. Well to nobody's surprise my channel went down within 12 hours as the trolls who had been lying in wait for 8 months finally managed to censor me in August with their many bogus accounts.
Somehow in late December I got my channel back, but it's a pyrrhic victory at best since my channel's dead. I know I'm going to get demonetized soon for falling below the 4000 watch hours per year, assuming that happens, my channel's budget will be reduced to mere pocket change. My videos are expensive to produce and YouTube doesn't care about the circumstances for why I have such low views. In fact they created the circumstances.
And for those who have been following me, you know it's not like I've been flying under the radar all these years and finally got caught once I started getting some traffic. The peak of my popularity was 2015-2016 and I was actually in decline when I got targeted. Now I've gone from getting thousands of views per day to getting 100-200 a day, sometimes more on a good day.
However, since March, I've been dealing with a persistent video thief and impostor creating fake Microwave Me accounts. Initially he called them MicrowaveMeShow2, then just MicrowaveMeShow and sometimes misspelled Micowavemeshow. He's also a crazed cyberstalker who's found all my e-mail addresses and social media and e-mails me, sends friend requests, sends me links of the stolen videos just to taunt me. I've tried reporting his channels various ways and YouTube does nothing unless it involves stolen videos, even then it can take up to two weeks to process. He goes around telling people he's my new account and links to my music channel claiming it's his.
This is the fake Microwave Me account YouTube is protecting
Here's some of his other accounts. He's a fan of Logan Paul, Alex Jones, DaddyOFive, and Amos Yee. I'm not the first person he's targeted.
Here's his fake Microwave Me Facebook page
Here's his fake Microwave Me Twitter account
And here's his VidLii account. I have never had a VidLii account.
I explain in the video what calling cards to look for and how to identify him by two videos but in general, a fake should be easy to spot, yet I've gotten messages from people saying they subbed to "my" new account when it was just that punk impersonating me and stealing my videos.
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