YouTube’s favourite Wall Street expert was banned from the platform on April 8th, 2021. Here’s what happened to Matt Kohrs.
Fans of the stock market enthusiast Matt Kohrs noticed that they couldn’t access his YouTube channel on April 8th.
He later took over Twitter to announce that YouTube terminated his account. Here’s what has happened.
Who is Matt Kohrs?
Matt Kohrs is a popular YouTube with a passion for investing and all-things stock market from Virginia, United States.
He has over 132k subscribers on YouTube, where he shares all his knowledge about the market and regularly does live streams featuring the current stock market numbers.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Matt is a Software Engineer at Analytical Flavor Systems and has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Is Matt Kohrs banned from YouTube?
- Matt posted a tweet informing his fans that YouTube terminated his YouTube channel, however, he wasn’t finally banned from the platform.
“This is obviously extremely disheartening, and the feeling is amplified because I’m unaware of my violation. If you have seen any of my content, you know it’s all above board,” the YouTuber wrote.
Later that day, on April 8th, Matt was able to get his YouTube account reactivated and shared a short video titled “he’s back” on his channel thanking his fans for the support and explaining what happened.
“My YouTube channel was terminated because I was deemed to be dangerous and harmful. Obviously, when I found this out, I appealed right away, because if you’ve seen any of my content, you know I’m not harmful or dangerous. I mean, I wear a duck shirt, c’mon!” he laughed.
Matt went on to explain that his appeal was denied by YouTube and that he thought he was witnessing his channel vanish, after putting in a thousand hours of work.
The reason why his channel was not banned was because of all the support his fans showed to Matt, claiming that his content isn’t harmful. “From the bottom of my heart, thank you. I will forever be in your debt,” Matt gratefully concluded the video.
In other news, Who will be the next Duke of Edinburgh? Events that unfold following Prince Philip’s death