Why we terminated Andrew Kibe's Youtube channel - Google

Head of Communications at Google Africa Dorothy Ooko has explained why media personality Andrew Kibe's YouTube channels were terminated.

Ooko said Kibe violated YouTube's terms of service and was restricted from using the platform's features.

She explained that after one channel was restricted, Kibe went on to use different accounts to get around the restrictions. 

"He used another channel to get around these restrictions also known as circumvention, resulting in the termination of all his channels," Ooko said in an X post. 

Ooko was responding to Kibe's fan Marian Wairimu who had called out YouTube for terminating the channels. 

"Cancel culture can not be allowed to take root in content creation. Andrew Kibe's termination of YouTube accounts is not about his message but a direct attack on the creative. Restore his accounts. Say no to cancel culture," Mariam said. 

On his part, Kibe said he had not received an email indicating violations, which caused his termination. 

"Sounds so pedestrian. Can you show me the emails of the violations? That is the procedure, right? I mean there is no way YouTube permanently blocks any channel that has more than 3000 videos with no paper trail?" he asked.

Kibe has for some time been notifying his fans that once he is done with YouTube, he will upload his content on another platform.

Popular personalities whose accounts got terminated at some point include Diamond Platnumz, who runs one of Africa's biggest accounts with more than 7 million subscribers. His account was terminated in 2022 but he managed to recover it.

In 2020, Comedian Flaqo faced the same fate. Tanasha Donna also experienced the same in 2021.  They all, however, managed to recover the accounts.