This situation will not be solved without word of mouth. Please start this conversation with your friends, your classmates, heck even your work colleagues. YOU have to be the YOU in YouTube right now.

Viewers are returning to their favourite channels and finding them stripped down and wiped, like the channel owner is trying to burn their history with no explanation. There is going to be a lot of confusion and no answers, especially if viewers don't know where to find info.

This is not hyperbole. I just switched Restricted mode on and then checked multiple channels which have 450+ videos each. One channel was chopped down to 12 videos. Another down to 4. If viewers cannot see new videos or new community posts, they won't know what's happening.