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Is misstaken as deletion? English is not my first language, but I have a hard time reading this as "we may delete your channel".
Removing monitization is as good as deletion for the content creators. Furthermore, their "appeals" process tends to be a black hole, as is basically everything at google that would require human intervention.
The majority of content that is watched on Youtube is monetized and people do depend on it to some degree. If they didn't, then they wouldn't be on Youtube, because there are plenty of other services that offer you the ability to upload videos for free.
> because there are plenty of other services that offer you the ability to upload videos for free.
Even without monetization, the community/discoverability benefits of YT have to be appealing. As much distaste as I have for Google, the ability to find a plurality (at least) of the content related to my area of interest in one place is quite appealing.
It appears that he saw demonetization and mistook that as deletion.
That said, for some channels, demonetization means effectively shutting down the channel.