Psycho YT Photographer - advice needed.

There are millions of false DMCA claims on youtube annually; it surely is a mostly automated process. Appeal and then back the hell away. Never assume a crazy person won’t escalate.

Never wrestle with a pig. You both get muddy but the pig enjoys it.

You could probably post a link to her website. I can't imagine PP would object to that. Then if other photographers spot their work being passed off as her own, they could also take appropriate action.

Or at the very least come back here and have a good grumble.

Can I just clarify something here? Not that I’m some YouTube mogul or anything—seriously, I mean, I watch a few videos but haven’t turned it into a side hustle or busness project.

So, we’ve got this person with a business YouTube channel, where she—shocker—promotes herself as the best photographer. Makes sense, right? I mean, if you were a dog walker, you wouldn’t pay for advertising space to say, ‘By the way, that other dog walker down the road? Way better than me!’ So she uses her platform to, you know, market herself. Like people do.

And then you—a photographer presumably with your own YouTube channel, presumably for business as you do state here on your channel that you are a professional so fair conclusion —decided to grace her channel with a comment, telling her audience she wasn’t the best. Right there, for her followers and potential clients to see. Was the plan for them to take one look at you and go, ‘Yes! Finally, an anti-fan! Take my business!’?

Now, for some truly mysterious reason that not even Sherlock could solve, she’s…upset. And now, you want to help promote her outside of YouTube? Honestly, I’m a little lost here. I’m not condoning her reaction, but why exactly did you feel the need to drop an unsolicited critique on her business channel? I mean, Nescafé has ‘the best coffee’ slapped all over their jars, and yet I don’t feel an urge to run out there, megaphone in hand, to inform the public otherwise. People can make their own minds up, can’t they? And if her channel wasn’t doing it for you, couldn’t you have just…unfollowed?

Or am i just not understanding how YouTube works..... hmmm

I don't think it's appropriate to name and shame, you've given a warning. Just let it be. 

Like Unfocussed Mike said, you can appeal the copyright claims on YT, if they are not real you will retrieve your videos.

The perils of offering unsolicited critique. 

Let the YouTube appeals process run its course.

If you get no joy there, search https://www.youtube.com/@BlackBeltBarrister's channel for where he discussed the subject.  If it comes to it, drop him a line about your case :)

I don't give a monkey's who it is and I suspect neither do most people here. In which case I wonder at the wisdom of posting something here which gives the psycho (your words) reason to cause both the site and its members grief.

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Orson Carter said

The perils of offering unsolicited critique. 

Is it only that, though? I mean, in business, it’s expected for Maxwell House to say they’re the best coffee. But if they started renting billboards to say Gold Blend makes terrible coffee, it becomes… well, something else, doesn’t it? This person went on her channel to say she was not the best (unsolicited critique, in your words), while signed in to his own professional photography channel. Clearly, she knows exactly which channel is his, as she’s disputing it with YouTube. So, what we have here is one photographer with a professional channel publicly going onto another photographer’s professional channel to say—eh, hi, you’re Shite. Not the best idea or advertising tactic, and certainly not subtle. Unless im really not understanding how Youtube works this is how i understand it and how she knew where his channel was. 

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Sensual Art said

Let the YouTube appeals process run its course.

If you get no joy there, search https://www.youtube.com/@BlackBeltBarrister's channel for where he discussed the subject.  If it comes to it, drop him a line about your case :)

This, if you must. The kind of issue he likes to address.

You have kicked the hornets nest and been stung. 

ANDY00 said

Orson Carter said

The perils of offering unsolicited critique. 

Is it only that, though? I mean, in business, it’s expected for Maxwell House to say they’re the best coffee. But if they started renting billboards to say Gold Blend makes terrible coffee, it becomes… well, something else, doesn’t it? This person went on her channel to say she was not the best (unsolicited critique, in your words), while signed in to his own professional photography channel. Clearly, she knows exactly which channel is his, as she’s disputing it with YouTube. So, what we have here is one photographer with a professional channel publicly going onto another photographer’s professional channel to say—eh, hi, you’re Shite. Not the best idea or advertising tactic, and certainly not subtle. Unless im really not understanding how Youtube works this is how i understand it and how she knew where his channel was. 

He only told someone who claimed to be the best photographer in the UK that she was full of shit, that's freedom of speech and has nothing to do with advertising or YouTube.
By the way, that "unsolicited critique" thing, it's just a PP concept, outside of here if you release something publicly, may it be photography, music or any kind of art, you must expect to be criticised, positively or negatively. Personally, I am completely against this concept.

Claytonn said

You have kicked the hornets nest and been stung. 

And this isn't even beginning to approach how nasty the Youtube photography world has got in the past.

All the OP can do is make a clear case to youtube that the DMCA complaints are in bad faith, appeal as many times as the system allows, and then let it go.

RaphaelPhoto ok my mistake in my day a professional photographer publically slating another professional photographer ie “ calling them shit” was frowned apon as bad business , must be a new trend I don’t know about.

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ANDY00 said

RaphaelPhoto ok my mistake in my day a professional photographer publically slating another professional photographer ie “ calling them shit” was frowned apon as bad business , must be a new trend I don’t know about.

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"Calling them shit" is what I would have personally done, because I don't give a damn and I am not a professional photographer in the first place.
I have no doubt that Northstar here didn't do it that way, and I quote his own words: "I commented that I disagreed with her", which is perfectly fine.