YouTube accidentally deleted Team Falcons’ legitimate channel after complaints about scam adverts. However, things have worked out.
Over the last few years, fake streams and adverts for products have run wild on Twitch and YouTube. The likes of Elon Musk, MrBeast, PewDiePie, and even esports stars like s1mple have been used by scam artists to try to con fans out of money.
These streams and advertisements typically promise free cryptocurrency and, if you don’t look closely enough, can be pretty convincing. However, the name of the channel in question can be the thing that gives the game away – they’ll use a zero instead of the letter O in Elon, for example.
However, there are times when legitimate channels and outlets suffer the blowback from these scammers. That had been the case with esports organization Falcons as well.
Falcons channel deleted instead of scam ad crackdown
The Saudi Arabian organization had their star Counter-Strike player, Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovač, used in the advert to promote fake case openings and in-game events during the ongoing Austin Major.
Plenty of players and fans, including NiKo himself, had urged YouTube to pull the adverts down. Instead, on June 11, the platform removed Falcons’ actual YouTube channel instead of the fake ads.
“Update on this. YouTube didn’t remove the ads and to my knowledge have now banned the legitimate falconsCS account on YouTube,” CS creator Erik ‘fl0m’ Flom posted on X (formerly Twitter). “You can’t make this s*it up.”
YouTube reinstates Falcons channel
YouTube ultimately apologized for its mistake on June 12, confirming that the channel had been reinstated.
“Your channel has been reinstated! This was a mistake on our end we’re so sorry. We also terminated the channel that was reported earlier. Let us know if have any Qs, we’re here to help,” their support account posted.
However, there is no word as to whether or not they’ve blocked the scam adverts.
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