Nataliia Prokopchuk

Our partner’s channel covers true crime stories in their long-form videos. In May 2026, two weeks after joining the AIR network, the channel’s views started suddenly declining. Recommendations all but disappeared. By the time traffic came back three weeks later, the channel started to grow faster than before: views up 62%, subscribers up 117%, and revenue nearly doubled. Here’s how they did it.

Famous YouTubers get hacked too, and rarely because of a weak password. Linus Tech Tips lost three channels to a fake sponsorship file in 2023, and a hacker group got into the channels of Logan Paul and other Studio71 creators in 2017. Here are four channels that were hacked, how each one got back, and what the story means for your own channel.

A YouTube Partner Program rejection for reused or inauthentic content means the reviewers looked at your channel as a whole and couldn't see enough of your own work in it. Usually, it's a pattern, like clips with thin commentary or videos built from one template. You can fix that pattern and reapply 30 days after a first rejection.