There have been no such take-downs since. Whilst they admitted to it being a genuine mistake, they did not issue a statement to what caused the termination in the first place. Strangely, Google only briefly apologised and never mentioned why the channel had been taken down in the first place. Garrett posted a video in the evening explaining what had happened, and thanked everyone who had shown support and sympathy. In the late afternoon, the channel went back online, along with all the videos and their viewer & subscriber counts. He asked to one of his friends and Youtubers, LDShadowLady, to pass the information to a member of Google which was a friend of hers, becoming his hero. Stampy's only hope of bringing his channel back turned out to have worked. Tons of Stampy's helpers helped (even Stampy's teammates on Race To The Moon, superchache39 and Mousie) to reactivate Stampy's account.Ī petition was started by Amy_Lee33 to help protest to Google's and YouTube's decision. 4J Studios, Markus "Notch" Persson and The Yogscast are among the twitter users who gave their sympathy.Įven WeeWeeGaming tried to get some YouTubers like SkyDoesMinecraft and Syndicate to help the trend but it was unknown if they helped. News sites featured bulletins of the growing bombardment that Google was getting of people demanding to know where their favourite orange and white cat had gone.Īs the day stretched on, and there was still no word from Google, '#SaveStampy' trended on Twitter, attracting the attention of thousands more people who had never even heard of Stampy. Fans of Stampy posted their dissapointment and outrage on social networks, comments, blogs, etc. News began to spread that an incredibly popular Youtuber had lost his channel for unknown reasons.
He emphasized that, if his channel could not be retreived, he would start a new one and attempt to continue all ongoing series from there.
Garrett took to Facebook and Twitter to notify his fans and let them know that he was attempting to contact Google to ask them why this had happened. There was no official way for him to log in, or appeal the decision.
On 2nd December 2013, Garrett received an email from Google that outlined that he had breached YouTube community guidelines, and thus his channel had been terminated. His popularity also brought the attention of Disney-owned Maker Studios (presently Disney Digital Network), where he would partner with them for various projects, including Wonder Quest, which premiered the following year. 2014 to 2015 is considered by many to be Stampy's peak of popularity, with several articles stating that his channel was getting more popular “than Justin Bieber”. It would later gain its 5 millionth subscriber in February 2015. The channel continued to grow in 2014, with its number of subscribers growing in millions and would later gain one billion views. It would later gain its one millionth subscriber on 8th January 2014. After the termination incident with Google, the channel had reached 900,000 subscribers by the end of the year. Numbers began to grow exponentially, and would eventually reach 500,000 subscribers by November of that year. He reached his 100,000th subscriber in July 2013, from just having 1000 subscribers by the beginning of that year. Stampy's rise to fame continued through 2013, with his number of subscribers and views both continuously gaining throughout this period. Stampy had one of the fastest growing channels on YouTube, reaching 1000 subs a week. At this point his popularity and fame by his Minecraft videos reached a new height. At this point he had begun to move his video content onto the stampylonghead channel, so at the realization that his viewers may be offended by the language and gameplay shown, he ceased all inappropriate activity. As the audience expanded, Stampy began to notice an increased proportion of younger viewers. However, he was unable to go ahead with this change as he could only upload videos to a maximum length of 10 minutes on stampylongnose, thus rendering it impossible to transfer the series across.Īs the amount of episodes in his Minecraft series increased, the interest increased too. Since his side-channel did not obtain as many viewers as the more popular Stampylonghead channel, Stampy announced that the Minecraft series would switch back to the main channel. The channel 'Stampylonghead' was created on 29th July 2011 as a side-channel for his vlogs and the console gameplay channel, Stampylonghead The first, and for a long time, the only series of videos uploaded on this channel were his main Minecraft series set in Stampy's Lovely World (and other worlds).