Linus Tech Tips, is a popular YouTube channel created by Linus Sebastian 15 years ago in 2008, which has been considered a reference in the dissemination of information about technology on the platform. Back then, terms like “youtuber” and “channel monetization” were not yet common and since then, it has grown exponentially, adding more and more subscribers, currently having more than 15 million and in the process, accumulating more than 2,500 videos.
Channel that unfortunately suffered from a hack by cryptocurrency scammers, who used their channel to publish illegal content, trying to deceive several people. Situation that has resulted in YouTube closing the popular channel, after automatically sending a series of warnings.
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As many of you will know, like many platforms, YouTube has automated systems that review and send out these warnings, automatically banning channels that violate the rules, so they probably didn’t even realize that this famous and iconic channel was hacked at first and that they were the scammers who were posting the material.
But on the other hand, in these cases there is always the option of appealing these decisions, which rarely have a satisfactory response from YouTube admins, although perhaps, in the case of such a well-known channel, it can be returned to its owner. original.
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