The HOI4 Society Experiment [Archive]

This is an archive of the HOI4 society experiment video lmao.

Bruh, what even happened? Lemme explain:

Aight so some of you may be wondering;.. where is goated? Well, it’s gone. It has been deleted off YouTube, but I did not do this voluntarily, YouTube has disabled the channel. More specifically; they disabled the google account that owned goated. The reason was due to 'using multiple google accounts to break our terms of service'.

I literally didn't use this email for anything but hosting my YouTube channel, I had no idea what sort of terms of service I was breaking. After a little bit of thinking though, I realized I was actually very much breaking a YouTube policy; creating goated was against YouTube's terms of service. Let me explain:

Around 3 years I ago I was going through a toxic phase as the alias 'Shawn'. I made degenerate videos on my YouTube channel and after my channel was reported by hundreds of people, YouTube banned me due to community guidelines strikes. Now under their policies, I couldn’t create a new channel – it was illegal, and any new channels I'd create would be deleted as well. So now I had a very good guess as to why my new channel, goated, was banned.

Realizing this, I appealed my old/Shawn channel termination, and it was actually un-terminated and restored by Google. This meant that I was no longer breaking any sort of Terms of Service. Ergo; my goated channel shouldn’t be banned anymore. I tried appealing my goated Google account with this new info, but Google didn’t accept it. Because my first appeal was rejected, I can never send any new ones.

Here's the absolutely braindead thing though; I wasn't banned because of Shawn, and avoiding a YouTube ban - that was just an assumption I had made. In reality, I discovered that my google account was banned because I made a google forms document.

I’m not joking. A week after this whole ordeal, I decided to use my business email to do a forms document for ‘HOI4 Criminality’, a series I'm trying to do. I had actually done this prior via my goated google account, having made the exact same forms document there, but now needing to re-do it via a new gmail. So I did it on my business gmail. Now after 2 days of this forms document being created… This account too was disabled.

My business email didn’t have a goddamn YouTube account or literally ANYTHING else that could've gotten me banned. The google forms was the only thing that I did. And it was the only thing I also did with my goated account prior to being disabled. For whatever reason, whenever I make a forms document my google account gets disabled. What I'm assuming has happened is that my IP and/or all my google accounts have been flagged for Forms abuse and they're now disabling my accounts whenever I use that service. I honestly don't know though, maybe I genuinely did break some sort of Forms document policy? All I did was collect flag and portrait info from my players, so I honestly can't fathom how that'd be not allowed.

So yes, goated has been permanently DELETED from history because I used a fucking google service. I tried appealing the business email and telling them that I didn't do anything, but of course I was denied. It's pretty much over for appealing my goated channel, it is gone.

I can confidently say now that I am TERRIFIED of using any sort of google service, and probably will be for the rest of my life – at any moment I could do something completely innocent and get banned for it. At least I’m not breaking terms of service anymore with Shawn, and goateds fall made me remove a looming, great dark cloud over my YouTube career that was going to bare lightning soon enough. Too bad that goated had to die for it to clear.

I might change my name back to goated now with google mapper. It's a banger-ass name.