My uncle in Reno said just appeal the takedown, and the platform restored my video in 9 days
I got a strike for a clip about a city council meeting, and he pushed me to file the appeal instead of making a new account, and it worked, so who else has actually won one of these or just given up and started over?
Man, I hate to be that guy but the appeal thing isn't some magic fix that works for everyone. Your uncle's advice worked for you and that's great, but appeals get denied all the time depending on what the strike was for and which platform you're on. I filed one last year for a video that got flagged and waited almost three weeks just to get a copy paste rejection with no real reason given. The whole thing depends on whether a real person even looks at it or if a bot just rubber stamps it. So yeah, appeals can work, but it's not like a guarantee, more like a coin flip with bad odds.