What is YouTube's 'paused mode' for channel memberships, what triggers it, and what happens to members' payments, including the 120-day limit?

Problem: A channel's membership program can stop delivering without the creator choosing to cancel it. Conditions: a channel changes MCNs, is set made for kids, or cannot monetize. Method: while paused, the channel cannot earn from memberships or deliver perks and benefits, and active members' recurring payment, billing cycle and access are paused. A pause and unpause within one billing cycle changes nothing in billing. Memberships can stay paused at most 120 days, after which memberships and recurring payments are cancelled. Failure modes: members who signed up on iOS or Android may have recurring payments cancelled if the pause is still on after their billing period ends, and must rejoin once unpaused. Limitations: this page is written for members; it does not say how a creator is notified or how quickly an unpause follows a fix. Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Limitations: Page is undated; the creator-facing consequences of the pause and the unpause path are not documented here; whether web-billed members are also cancelled at 120 days relies on the general statement. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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