YouTube's Faceless Creators Face the Music in AI-Driven Crackdown

YouTube has a growing AI slop problem, and its efforts to fix it are catching legitimate creators in the crossfire. In January 2026, the platform terminated 16 channels with a combined 35 million subscribers and 4.7 billion lifetime views under its inauthentic content policy, a quiet rename of the o

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