Followers of the 1A Audits Exposé YouTube channel were shocked Friday morning to find that their favorite channel has apparently been removed from the service after receiving too many DMCA takedown notices.
While the channel no longer appears in the Playboard.co channel listings, a quick social blade check showed that the channel had 4,860 subscribers, 519 videos and 1,834,437 views since being created on March 31, 2024.
Cryptically, the Social Blade status shows the channel had picked up 110 new subscribers in the last 30 days and seemed healthy enough. However, thanks to purging videos, it had lost 58,000 views in the last 30 days, including 18380 views on Thursday.
No data is available for Friday and unlike every other healthy channel we follow, there isn’t even a listing for Friday’s metrics, which is the best indication that the channel is gone.
When we last reported on the channel it had run afoul of Christopher “Denver Metro Audits” Cordova and that Randall S. “The Unhinged Attorney” Newman, Esq., who had hit the channel with 17 DMCA takedown requests.
There had been reports that the channel owners had been prepared to fight some of the strikes due to fair use grounds and rumors that the channel was seeking legal representation.
On Thursday, Cordova took things a step further by having Newman seek out 1A Audits Exposé through a proposed subpoena of the channel’s information submitted to a court in the Northern District of California. That request remains outstanding.
Renown “Happy Birthday” attorney Newman commented on the apparent channel deletion, “He bragged the videos were fair use, said he’d file counters, and now the channel’s gone. Doesn’t really add up, does it? I guess we’ll have to wait for his farewell livestream with Mailroom Boy later today. The irony? It was a livestream with Mailroom Boy that got him into this mess in the first place.”
According to Cordova, 1A Audits Exposé was offered a settlement deal but was unwilling to accept the deal in exchange for all the money 1A Audits Exposé made off of the videos where he allegedly violated Cordova’s copyright. That settlement would include membership revenue, super chats, AdSense and sponsorships, plus attorney fees, an agreement to keep the videos permanently down, no new videos about Cordova and a public apology for violating YouTube’s fair use guidelines.
With the channel apparently removed by YouTube for the multiple DMCA violations, it is unclear whether or not the legal proceedings against it will continue.
1A Audits Exposé is scheduled to appear on the Frauditor Mania channel tonight at 6PM ET to discuss the takedown.
This is a breaking news story.
