YouTube removes Bee Movie memes due to its policy

Darcy Grivas had a YouTube account with memes of the 2007 animated film, Bee Movie, that had garnered millions of views. Today, YouTube has removed all but three.According to a description that appears on some of Grivas’ older videos, the videos were removed because they violated the company’s policy on spam, deceptive practices and scams. More than 10 videos were removed in total, including Grivas’ new version of the meme that he applied to Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

There are a variety of factors that can contribute to a video being deemed as spam, deceptive content or a scam, including misleading images, tags or metadata.

Based on the content that was included in the videos — different versions of the Bee Movie trailer and film slowed down, sped up or otherwise warped for comedic purposes — it seems like Grivas may have violated YouTube’s rule on video and comment spam. Essentially, because Grivas posted the same type of video multiple times over the course of two weeks, YouTube staff could have viewed the replication of the idea as a form of spam.