Not Knowing His Wife Deleted His Account, Man Showed Up At YouTube And Got Arrested

On March 10, 33-year-old Kyle Long showed up at Google’s Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California. The man accused YouTube of deleting his account and the only video that he had uploaded. He was later arrested for causing a ruckus there.

Unfortunately for him, it was not YouTube but his wife who took out his account. Because she was scared of how he might react, she told him that Google was probably the one who did it. He had traveled a long way, over 3,000 miles, to reach Google’s headquarters.

The content of Long’s video was about some kind of how to get rich real quick guide, which his father Kevin Long thought as “bizarre” and “rambling.” The father also said that Long has already had a long history of mental problems and getting into trouble with the police. The cause for this might be a drunk driving accident that took away his close friend’s life when he was still a teenager.

Kevin Long said:

It’s common to see disgruntled customers showing up at large tech companies and asking for in-person meetings. But the problem is that most of the decision from online platforms like YouTube is made through an automated system. So if anything went wrong, bad luck YouTuber would not receive much notice from the company staff.

What is notable about this story of Kyle Long is that it is the second time for a high-profile accident to happen in just less than a year.

In April 2018, Nasim Aghdam, a 39-year-old resident in San Diego, went into YouTube office in San Bruno and fired her gun, causing injuries to three people before killing herself. The police later said that she was dissatisfied with all the terms and policies of YouTube.

Following the attack, YouTube increased its security level at all of its office around the world. But the relationship between content creators and the platform has only intensified over the last few years. Youtubers are seen almost constantly express their frustration over the copyright system, demonetization methods and other policies of the company.

When being asked about this matter, Google did not respond immediately.

Thankfully, Long didn’t carry with him any firearms when making his trip to Google, but he did have three baseball bats found in his car. The Mountain View police said: