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I love 3blue1brown and have followed the channel for years. One of my absolute favorite content creators.

But I think you're vastly overestimate how popular he is compared to other channels that have gotten copyright strikes, or how much YouTube/Google care.

I also don't love YouTube's policy, but are you so confident there's a better policy out there?

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Out of curiosity I checked, and he's at 6.83M subscribers. According to https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/3blue1brown (not sure how trustworthy the site is, but I believe it should give a general idea) it's 706th channel by subscribers.

On the other hand, 3B1B's audience tends to heavily bias towards the tech crowd. I'm at a FAANG, and a decent number of our senior engineers know the channel.

I agree it's not enough to directly push policy, but the impact is certainly larger than what the subscriber count might otherwise suggest.

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