Perform a Google Takeout, all my videos were there from my banned YouTube account.

In this kind of cases I always bring up POSSE[0] (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere)

Never use someone else's platform as the only location for anything you're not prepared to lose at a moment's notice.

[0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Peloton has no way to recover secondary account passwords and thus my wife lost all her workout history. I couldn’t believe it when customer service told me. All you can do is create a new account.

> Not having backups

Lesson learned I hope.

Never leave your treasures in the house of someone you literally don't know.

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I can't help with the account closure, but I can guarantee you that your account was not closed because of a face your kid made. That's not something any automated tool would detect, and if it was private nobody should have reported the video either which would have triggered anything.

I can tell you that YouTube is not the right place for storing family videos. Google Photos is more appropriate for that, and you should be using Google Takeout on a regular basis to back everything up to a hard drive or secondary cloud service.

We should all be aware by now that what in 1995 was "my hard drive stopped working and I lost all my data", is now in 2024 "my account got closed and I lost all my data". As consumers, we now back up primarily not because disks break, but because we lose access.

(I'm not condoning Google here, just saying that this is the sad reality with any cloud provider.)