Retention & Deletion · Company practice
Deleting your content doesn't remove a strike, and a strike can be issued on content you deleted
YouTube says deleting your content does not remove a strike, and that it may also issue a Community Guidelines strike on deleted content. It points to its Privacy policy for when it retains deleted content; that policy is not supplied here.
Supporting quotations
Note: Deleting your content doesn't remove a strike.
We may also issue a Community Guidelines strike on deleted content.
You can learn more about when we retain deleted content in our
Qualifications & exceptions
- A strike on deleted content is stated with "may".
Not stated here
- The Privacy policy is linked but not supplied, so how long deleted content is retained is not part of this analysis.
- The page does not say how YouTube decides to strike content that has already been deleted.
Cross-references
- qualifies (model-proposed): A strike stays on your channel for 90 days from the date it was issued, even after your privileges return — qualifies: A strike stays on the channel for 90 days. Deleting the content does not shorten that: the page says deleting content does not remove a strike.