Today Nathan Builds Robots (NathanBuilds on X & NathanBuildsRobots on YouTube) reported that Bambu cancelled his highly successful affiliate link without giving him any reason or sighting anything he did to deserve this after he has made many videos on their printers that were very fair and accurate and left the viewer knowing if the printer was right for them or not. Not only that but his reviews obviously were good because his affiliate was selling quite a few printers as I understand it.
Why would Bambu cancel an affiliate link for a good reviewer? 
When he posted about this news on X, Bambu decided to respond to him publicly sighting that they did give him the reason why his link was terminated and posted a screen shot of an email that also doesn't say what he specifically did to get his link cancelled other than his link was successful and they were thankful for him selling printers and generating revenue but he just doesn't fit with their "brand identity" which makes no sense for an affiliate since the whole point of an affiliate is you get paid if you sell products while being free to say whatever you want. Bambu isn't paying him for a product review, so he doesn't have to sign a contract agreeing to only say exactly what they want.
How dare you have valid criticism & make us money! 
Nathan then responds to them pointing out that they never said anything about the affiliate program or specifically pointed out what he did to get anything cancelled. The partnership was a separate thing from the affiliate program since the affiliate program is something anyone can sign up for even if you're not a content creator via ShareASale and you get paid if you get people to use the link to buy printers and it's that simple. They are acting like the affiliate link is some kind of paid sponsorship and they require anyone that has an affiliate link to only say what they want them to say otherwise they will get cancelled. Doesn't that basically make every other affiliate look bad by basically stating publicly that anyone that speaks the truth and has any concerns on any level will lose their affiliate link? That's rediculous!
They never said anything about affiliate link 
So, I went back and watched Nathans videos and they are really good, I highly recommend watching them. He's very honest about everything and even gives the printer a glowing review. It's almost like they waited for him to make the review and get it posted before cancelling him to get out of paying the affiliate sales generated from his link knowing his video would be very popular given that his last video was so popular. I think Nathan is right when he says they wanted one last taste of the sweet affiliate sales because that's exactly what happened and what the time table clearly shows.
It's obvious that Nathan didn't do anything wrong to hurt Bambu's reputation and quite honestly was moving a lot of printers because his review is excellent, and he goes into a depth 99% of other reviewers don't. He talks about the pros and the cons equally and he's very honest without being biased. I saw nothing in either of the reviews that I watched that would make Bambu cancel an affiliate link. This genuinely looks like they are just trying to rob him of his reward for the hard work he put into the review because once it was posted they didn't think he would take it down.
Here is his review from 3 days ago that I watched on the new A1 and I urge you to watch it also before commenting. Nathan is one of the few completely honest reviewers out there that doesn't seem to be giving the review from the perspective of someone with an affiliate link in the description at all. And because of this people trust his perspective and buy the printer with his link if it's the right fit for them. This should be exactly what Bambu is looking for and yet they try to cancel him when he's clearly selling a lot of printers which isn't right.
https://youtu.be/WDW0BccRJYs?si=8RTz2cq9qKWBBzjs
I'm hoping with enough eyes on this we can get Bambu to reinstate his affiliate link and everyone else they have also cancelled because they didn't say positive things about everything and bust out the sunshine canon which isn't true for any 3D printer ever made. Bambu is honestly making a lot of huge mistakes lately and they are under scrutiny for a lot of other bad things they have done like the slicer GPL code theft early on where they had to change their story and the printables website being reverse engineered and proved though HTML code behind screen shots. You would think the last thing they would want right now is to be publicly seen claiming they will only give affiliate links to people who act like they are being paid up front large sums for scripted endorsements of their products which isn't the case. Heck, their affiliate rate is only 3% which is tiny compared to even Amazon's lowest affiliate commission on Toilet Paper so you would think they would be grateful for every single sale.
But I'll end with this, it makes me sick that Bambu keeps acting this way. Nathan Builds Robots is a great YouTube channel that makes some amazing content and Bambu was lucky that he purchased their printer to review and gave it such a fair and realistic review that made people want to buy it and to treat him this way right before Christmas by stealing thousands of sales away from him is absolutely criminal and says a lot about this company. Just another reason why I would never buy one of their printers.