Either way, the question is the same. What happens to everything you made?
For most creators, the honest answer is that all of it sits inside one account. Years of back catalogue, in one place, behind one login you don't ultimately control.
01Appeals only work if the platform says yes
Search for help and you'll find plenty of it. Appeal forms, recovery steps, support threads, guides that walk you through every screen. All of it is about getting the account back, and all of it is worth trying.
But every one of those routes ends in the same place: the platform's decision. If the answer is yes, brilliant. If it's no, there's very little out there to help you, because the only record of your work was inside the account you just lost.
02What the platforms say happens to your content
Each platform documents what happens to content on a terminated or deleted account, and most offer a way to download your data while you still have access. Here's what they say, in plain English. (Checked October 2026.)
YouTube
When YouTube terminates a channel, the channel and its videos come down and you lose access to them. You also can't simply start a new channel and carry on while the termination stands.
To save a copy while you still can, use Google Takeout. It exports your uploaded videos along with your channel data.
TikTok
When TikTok permanently bans an account, the account and its videos are no longer visible to anyone. You can appeal from the notice in the app, and the platform's decision is final.
To save a copy, go to Settings and privacy, then Account, then Download your data.
When Instagram disables an account, the profile and its posts are hidden from everyone. You get a window to appeal. If the appeal fails or the window closes, the account is disabled for good.
To save a copy, go to Accounts Centre, then Your information and permissions, then Download your information.
03Keep a record that doesn't live in the account
This is the part most creators never get to. A record of your work that sits outside the account, so if the account goes, the record stays.
There's one catch, and it matters. The record has to be made while you still have access. Afterwards is too late. That's exactly why it's worth doing now, on a quiet day, rather than on the worst one.
And if you're wondering whether you owned those videos in the first place, the short answer is almost certainly yes. The longer answer is here.
04How it works
There are two ways in.
Upload through JubJub. This is the strongest record you can have. Your work is registered as you make it, and the record shows the file hasn't changed since.
Import and register your existing channel. Connect your platforms, bring in your back catalogue, and register it. Each video is registered from its platform details rather than as a copy of the file, so years of past work get a record too, not just what you make from today.
The two routes produce different strengths of record, and the provenance page explains the difference. Either way, your record sits on Base, a public blockchain, outside any platform account.
05What this does not do
We'd rather you know exactly what you're getting. So, plainly:
06What you can do today
Some of this needs JubJub. Most of it doesn't.
Keep your master files somewhere you control.
An external drive, your own cloud storage, anywhere that isn't the platform.
Download your archive using each platform's own export tool.
Do it while you still can. The links are above.
Connect, import and register your back catalogue now.
Not after the email lands.
07Your back catalogue can keep working for you
A back catalogue you can prove is yours is a back catalogue that can keep earning, whatever happens to any one account.
