Maybe it's easier to create a new account, but they could also flag you for that if you keep both active at the same time.

I'm sorry for you, in my opinion, you did a bad beginner mistake (not clever to copy paste more than half of your content from another source without citing it) that should made you warned and on a temporary watch list, but not blacklisted forever.

In my beginning I made few mistakes in my first posts :

• I used few images that weren't free without sourcing them
  • A member of the french community told me it's not ok and I change to Pexels and Pixabay with sourcing the images
• copy paste my whole article from my own posts on WordPress
  • Cheetah warned me, I was not in agreement since it was my content and I wanted it to be more readable on many social networks, but I decided to respect Steem watch dogs warning at the time to continue on the blockChain, but it was my choice.

So with a human respectful warning, I quickly correct my behavior and improved the quality of my publication here and elsewhere too which is positive and made me contribute to Steem and Hive since the beginning of 2018 and I actively try to recruit few people to join and help the newcomers in the french communities while sharing my Steem and Hive publications on many related social network trying to bring more traffic and user to the BlockChain.

I feel that with a so rude welcoming, you will either quit or be less motivated.
If your doing gaming Videos here 2 alternatives :

• DLive : Mostly gaming video community that spanned from Steem a while ago and now have it's own cryptocurrency and ecosystem
• LBRY : Peer2Peer decentralized video or memes platform that should resist censure with it's own rewards in cryptocurrencies with a gamification system to earn a little free LBC while joining the platform

Good luck with the case and your channels