# Removed YouTube Channel Help

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removed-youtube-channel-help/999599>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 30, 2024, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removed-youtube-channel-help/999599 "2024-03-30T06:39:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![brasstacks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d26b3c/32.png) [@brasstacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brasstacks)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2024, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removed-youtube-channel-help/999599/1 "2024-03-30T06:39:22Z")

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I deleted my youtube channel out of frustration with the internet a bit ago. It may have been a few months. I know they keep them for a bit. I don’t know how long. I had thousands of videos saved on there and about 500 channels I was subscribed to and I’m hoping that I could get it back but I’m not sure how. Anyone know if it’s possible?

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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2024, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removed-youtube-channel-help/999599/2 "2024-03-30T07:30:28Z")

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You might try messing around your Google account settings, there used to be a place called Google “Takeout” to download all of your data. I did it once and it had my YouTube search history going back 12 years. Neat way to revisit all that old music I listened to.

If you remember the URL for your channel you can also try typing it into the WABAC machine on the Internet Archive. They may have archived the public-facing parts. [https://web.archive.org](https://web.archive.org)

~Max

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2024, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removed-youtube-channel-help/999599/3 "2024-03-30T08:55:25Z")

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You might be able to get YouTube support to restore the channel - I’ve heard of this being done in cases where a channel was maliciously destroyed.  
The chances of getting them to do that are probably approximately proportional to YT’s perception of the channel’s value - that is, whether the content was monetised and the view rates for the content.

You have to dig quite deep into the help and support pages to find a link to chat with an actual human, but it is possible to do that.