Amid the outrage for Go Young Wook’s YouTube channel, the platform announced the permanent ban of Go Young Wook’s YouTube channel.
Yes, you read that right, the South Korean singer Go Young Wook who served in jail for sexually assaulting minors, recently faced a permanent ban from YouTube. According to the reports, the news of Go Young Wook’s YouTube channel ban surfaced on Monday, August 26, 2024, almost three weeks after the singer announced the launch of his YouTube channel.
Meanwhile, the K-netizens demonstrated against it and called for a ban on his YouTube channel. Amid the outrage, YouTube imposed a permanent ban on Go Young Wook for creating a channel on the platform, raising several questions on this decision as netizens are eager to learn what reason YouTube explained while imposing a permanent ban on Go Young Wook. However, we have explained it in the following section. In this article, we have a lot more to discuss with you about Go Young Wook’s YouTube channel. So be sticky with this page and follow it to the end. Scroll down the page.
Earlier this month, the convicted singer for sexually assaulting minors, announced the launch of his YouTube channel. On August 5, 2024, he took to his social media handle and announced that he had lived a shameful life and felt helpless and aging poorly at home, thus he decided to start YouTube in a desperate attempt to break away from his lethargic routine. This announcement of Go Young Wook sparked widespread outrage among the K-netizens who demanded the termination of the singer from the platform.
Despite igniting a wave of criticism and outrage among the K-netizens by announcing his YouTube channel, Go Young Wook posted a video of his pet dog on the platform. It is quite shocking to report that Go Young Wook’s pet dog video accumulated more than 300K viewers in two weeks, which eventually encouraged Go Young Wook to upload more videos on his YouTube channel. However, Go Young Wook’s YouTube channel could remain active for only 18 days as it was wiped away from the platform. YouTube deleted his channel 18 days after its creation, prompting a frustrated reply from him.
Go Young Wook frustratingly said that it seemed his YouTube channel was removed overnight despite he did not post harmful content yet he is being targeted simply because he has a criminal history. The singer further expressed his frustration that he has served his jail sentence so why are some allowed and others not? He asked Is this fair? However, it should also be noted that the YouTube Community Guidelines claim they have the authority to take action in a bid to protect the community if a creator’s actions on and off the platform are deemed harmful to the ecosystem of YouTube.
The internet users majority supported YouTube’s decision for permanently banning Go Young Wook from the platform. The decision to terminate Go Young Wook from the platform reflects the platform’s judgment that Go Young Wook’s actions are harmful. For the unversed, Go Young Wook was found guilty of sexually assaulting 3 minors on 4 occasions between July 2010 and December 2012.
He spent two years and six months in jail for it. After deleting Go Young Wook’s YouTube channel, YouTube explained its decision by stating that the harmful creators produce harmful content. YouTube further added that the victims could be re-traumatized by watching Go Young Wook’s videos on the platform. YouTube shut down convicted sex offender Go Young Wook’s channel to protect his victims especially minors from getting re-traumatized by his YouTube videos.
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