The production company is Netflix and the network should be YouTube. Based on an interpretation of the linked rules, it's not a web series hosted on a personal YouTube -- it's on an official Netflix YouTube channel. The production quality is not amateur. It's a non-scripted web series.

Should an amateur project be screened at a selective and relevant film festival (e.g. a small town festival, a youth film festival or the Cannes Short Film Corner do not qualify), have a proper theatre release (e.g. a private/rented screening do not qualify), be on national TV in a country (e.g. small, local channels do not qualify), be on Netflix or an equivalent (e.g. content uploaded to your own YouTube channel, Vimeo or website, or Amazon Prime do not qualify), or picked up and sold by a proper distributor (e.g. local stores do not qualify), it might be allowed.

From what I understand, only the content, produced specifically for YouTube (YouTube Originals, YouTube Red) is allowed to be added from YouTube. The rest is considered "content uploaded to your own YouTube channel", in that case, Netflix's YouTube channel. Many other series were deleted for that reason only, hence the question to mods.

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Well, at the end of the day, it is still technically content distributed by a professional streaming service, even if they used a third-party video service to do so. There are similar cases with for example Adult Swim (I think?) uploading original shorts on their YouTube page or television networks releasing web series on their official YouTube page instead of their own website.

@banana_girl said:

Well, at the end of the day, it is still technically content distributed by a professional streaming service, even if they used a third-party video service to do so. There are similar cases with for example Adult Swim (I think?) uploading original shorts on their YouTube page or television networks releasing web series on their official YouTube page instead of their own website.

As far as I remember, at the time of reporting it, this particular show was added and deleted several times, based solely on the fact that it was released on YouTube. Despite being produced and distributed by a major company. So it was weird to see another one having a different treatment for no reason.