Video summary
The video transcript details the creator's exhaustion and frustration regarding a widespread crackdown on anime reaction channels, specifically targeting content related to *Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War*. The speaker explains that after receiving multiple copyright strikes for reacting to recent episodes, he discovered that numerous other major reaction channels were simultaneously hit by takedown notices from Viz Media. This phenomenon, which the creator terms the "react apocalypse," has led him to delete all of his *Bleach* content to avoid further legal complications and potential account termination. He expresses disbelief at the severity of these actions, noting that even simple openings or image-based reactions are being flagged, while other popular anime like *One Piece*, *Demon Slayer*, and *Chainsaw Man* have largely been spared from such aggressive enforcement.
A significant portion of the video is dedicated to investigating the entity behind these strikes, which the creator identifies as "Remove Your Media." He expresses skepticism about this company's legitimacy, jokingly suggesting it might be a small operation running out of a Walmart or a sweatshop in Bangladesh rather than a legitimate legal firm. The speaker argues that these takedowns constitute copyright abuse and violate fair use principles, pointing out that the companies are not even contacting creators to resolve issues but instead issuing automated DMCA notices that lead to shadowbanning and revenue loss. He highlights the absurdity of the situation by noting that some channels are being struck for content that does not even show the actual episode footage, relying solely on static images, yet still facing legal threats that could cost creators over $100,000 in legal fees.
Consequently, the creator has decided to shift his strategy away from YouTube for anime reactions and is moving his *Bleach* content exclusively to Patreon. He emphasizes that this decision is driven by a desire to protect his livelihood and avoid the endless cycle of strikes and appeals, rather than just a preference for paid content. While he admits that views are still important to him, he refuses to risk his entire channel for what he perceives as unjust claims from entities like Viz Media. He encourages his audience to support creators directly on Patreon where disputes can be handled more fairly, and he warns viewers not to comment asking for deleted videos, as the situation is a direct result of corporate overreach that has forced many channels to stop posting anime reactions entirely.
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I'm tired. No, like I'm really tired. I
just woke up. But in all seriousness,
guys, I am beyond tired of this. What do
I mean of this? Well, if you take a look
right here, I got a copyright strike
again. For what this time? What do you
know? The most popular anime out right
now, Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War. You
know, it wasn't too long ago, probably
about 3 4 weeks ago, where everybody was
getting hit for their Infinity Castle
reactions, including myself. And what
did I tell you guys when that happened?
Give it about 3 weeks, the videos will
be back up. And what do you know?
Nicholas Light was Nicholas Wright
because everybody's, including this
beautiful man, the number one reaction
channel on planet Earth. Everybody's
reactions are back. Just like I said,
Nicholas Wright TV back at it again.
Just like I was right about One Punch
Man for all the drama channels. Yep, I
had to throw that in there. Anyways, it
seems like round two of the react
apocalypse is upon us because last
night, channel after channel after
channel was getting hit for their Bleach
reactions. How do I know? I'm part of a
reaction channel Discord. Every reaction
channel, you know, is probably in that
Discord. It's like the Hollywood elite
of reaction channels. We all gather and
we talk [ __ ] about every single one of
you. Not only do we talk [ __ ] about you,
but we also talk [ __ ] about this issue
right here, copyright strikes. And I was
on my phone last night on my couch with
my beautiful sexy wife. You know what I
mean? I was scrolling. I was laughing at
everybody. I was like, look at these.
Look at these morons. These absolute
[ __ ]
buffoons. They're all getting hit. And
then I get a notification. You got a
copyright strike. So, it looks like I'm
an idiot as well because I got a
copyright strike. And it wasn't even for
the [ __ ] episode. It was for the
goddamn opening, which is six minutes
long. So, you know what I did? I said,
"Fuck it. I'm deleting every single
Bleach reaction on my channel." So, now
if you go to my channel, Bleach is gone.
Except for the original Bleach, of
course, because they don't care about
that. But let's talk about this real
quick. This is the most important part
of this video if you're going to be
watching anything here. And then we'll
segue into different paths. But let me
show y'all something real quick. Content
removed by Viz Media. HOLY [ __ ] VIZ
MEDIA KNOWS ABOUT ME. THEY KNOW I EXIST.
WOW. OH, I FEEL SO HONORED. You know
what I do? I appeal. But when I appeal,
something interesting pops up, right?
Infringement at removeyourmedia.com.
Natur. That's not viz media. What the
[ __ ] is remove your media? What is this?
Some shack in Bangladesh? For all I
know, it probably is. So, I dis digging.
You know why? Because I'm a digger. Just
like my boy Seaman. I go on their
website, remove your media studios. Look
at that [ __ ] AI ass website. Look at
this [ __ ] studios, publishers, OTT
Media, creators and producers. So,
they're antipiriracy solutions. That's
what they advertise themselves as. Uh,
uh, turnkey solutions, aka AI. They use
AI. So, do they even use AI or does AI
use them for all your piracy issues. We
do all the infringement takedown work,
thereby saving you money on costly
out-of- pocket legal expenses. The [ __ ]
out of here. Nobody, and I mean nobody,
is taking a reaction channel to court
for a video that makes a few hundred
dollars. I see my friends with 10 views
getting copyright strikes. You think
they're going to be taken to court for 8
cents? You're telling me Viz Media, Take
Your Media, whatever the [ __ ] they call,
remove your media. You think they're
going to take us to court for a few
hundred, spending over $100,000 on legal
lawyer fees? So, I want to make this
clear. This is all public information.
You scroll down, you see their address,
you see their phone number. Yeah, I'll
call them right now.
>> Thank you for calling remove your media.
If you know your party's extension,
please enter it now. If you have
received a DMCA notice from remove your
media, please contact the copyright
owner directly. Nope.
>> Under original material
information on your notice.
>> I'm contacting you. Otherwise for sales
press one for accounting press two.
>> Person one.
>> Hi. If you record your name and reason
for calling, I'll see if this person is
available.
Go [ __ ] yourself. So then this shows
their address right here. So let's see
where they are. You know, I find it
funny that it looks like that they
reside inside of a Walmart, right? Yeah.
Maybe this is them operating. They're
operating, you know, behind the carts,
you know? Maybe they're in the [ __ ]
roof. No, with a laptop. You know what I
mean? May Maybe they're in this little
truck in the back. I think I see a guy.
Yeah. Yeah, I see a guy in the car over
here. Maybe maybe that's him. Yeah, he's
taking down Bleach reactions right now.
Right. Right there in the car. I want to
make this clear to you guys. This is all
[ __ ] This is copyright abuse. We
have the right We have completely fair
use to upload our anime reactions. I'm
related to lawyers, top lawyers, and
they tell me what I'm doing is 100%
within my rights. Why do you think
reaction channels are able to make a
living off reactions for so many years,
for beyond a decade, and nothing has
ever happened other than these false
copyright claims? King of Lightning was
taken down. He made a whole tweet about
it. Viz Media has been striking about
Bleach reactions, even reactions that
were done in 2023. They hit me with two
strikes in the morning, right? And as
you could see, he got hit with his
strikes. Ichig goes bankai. They did it.
redemption. Uh uh what else they got?
Kimpachi's Bankai full episode
everything. You got you got all these
strikes. And then you GOT ROGERS BASE.
[ __ ] ROGERS BASE. ONE OF THE ONE OF
THE GOATS. You know what I mean? I've
been watching this dude for like a
[ __ ] decade. I used to watch his
Super Smash Bros. reactions. I didn't
even know he was an anime channel,
right? I didn't give a [ __ ] about anime,
bro. But look at this. Unfortunately, I
got hit with the same strike as well.
You're striking Rogers base out of
everybody. You could strike my mother,
bro. You're striking Rogers base. They
strike this dude. They not only never
contact us for anything, they
purposefully went to the biggest bleach
channels on YouTube and removed our live
reactions to the latest episode. They
took down my reaction to Mr. Tommo's
video, too. So, this guy goes on, Neil
got dropped, too. The thanks I get for
promoting Bleach. My videos are well
within fair use, and your reaction
didn't even show the episode I was
reacting to. THIS DUDE DOESN'T EVEN
REACT TO THE SHOW. HE SHOWS IMAGES. YOU
WANT TO SEE SOMETHING? LOOK AT THIS.
LOOK, LOOK, LOOK. Look at this. Look at
this. Look at this. Look at this, BRO.
HE SHOWS [ __ ] IMAGES.
>> I mean, there's no difference here
between this and One Punch Man season 3.
It's just zoomins into [ __ ] images.
He's not even showing the episode. He's
showing the goddamn images. And he's
getting a [ __ ] strike from this
stupid ass company. [ __ ] Viz Media. [ __ ]
remove your media. Michelangelo got hit.
Flexi J got hit. Freshest Anime gets
hit. This dude gets hit every other
minute. Asian Nicholas Light gets hit.
They're even going AFTER THEIR OWN KIND.
Rice and Ginger got hit. Not for this
episode, but for the Kenny's Bunkai
episode. They got hit once again.
They're going AFTER THEIR OWN KIND. SO
NOW WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? WHAT do we do?
Well, all we could do is appeal. But
what I did was I deleted all of my
Bleach Thousand-Year Blood War
reactions. NICK, YOU'RE DUMB. YOU
SHOULDN'T have done that. Just appeal.
Guys, I'm going to be real with y'all. I
don't need Bleach to succeed on this
channel. I do other content. I don't
rely on Bleach. I've never relied on
Bleach. I don't want to get these
copyright strikes and then I got to
appeal them and and and then I get
shadowbanned and then I got to make
another one of these [ __ ] videos. I
don't want to do this. So, like I said
right here, looks like Bleach Reactions
will be removed from YouTube. Not only
my channel, but tons of others. First,
it was One Piece. Yeah, [ __ ] One Piece,
by the way. They don't strike Wano. They
don't strike Marine Ford. They don't
strike the best moments, but they're
striking Elbath. Mid episodes of [ __ ]
Elbath. Are you serious? I uploaded a
5minute reaction of One Piece and they
even struck that. I hope your mother
gets struck by [ __ ] lightning. Demon
Slayer. Well, it doesn't really matter
cuz all of our Demon Slayer videos are
up now and they kind of stopped hitting
Demon Slayer reactions now. I think they
got bored because they realized they
don't have the rights to go after us.
And now Bleach. The more this happens,
the more I want to put anime on Patreon
exclusively. The day is coming soon.
Well, the day is here, sadly. And I want
to make this clear. Yes, sadly. Because
if there's one thing I want you guys to
know about me is that I'm a view [ __ ]
I care about views more than anything. I
care about views more than revenue. And
if you think that's cap, trust me, it's
not cap. Because for four years when I
was doing K-pop reactions, all I was
getting was views. I was making maybe a
few hundred dollars a month. And boy was
I happy getting millions of views. I was
like, "Boy, yo, I love this shit."
Luckily, I get views on other videos,
other content. No matter what I do, it
works. I don't need bleach. But if you
want bleach, I'm going to continue doing
bleach. All of Bleach is available on my
Patreon, which is right down there.
Don't only support me on there. support
all of these Bleach creators on there as
well. The thing about Patreon that I
love so much is that they care about
their creators. They reach out to us. I
have their [ __ ] phone numbers. If I
ever run into a problem, I hit them up
and we come to a solution. I don't just
lose my [ __ ] account like I would on
YouTube because I got stripped by some
guy in Bangladesh at a [ __ ] sweat
shop. So, if y'all want my Bleach
reactions, it's only going on Patreon.
Do not go in my comments. Where ble. You
know how you know how many stupid
[ __ ] people I see in other reaction
channels uh comments where they're like,
"WHERE'S THE INFINITY Castle reaction?
Where where's Infinity Castle?" And I
guarantee you every week, "WHERE'S
BLEACH? WHERE'S BLEACH?" HOW ABOUT you
read How about you read what's going on,
bro? It takes two seconds. People were
asking me a year ago, "Where's the
Infinity Castle reaction?" Yeah. Yeah.
Let me react to an illegal recorded
version of the [ __ ] movie of one of
the biggest movies of all time. You
know, becoming a gaming channel, movie
channel, music channel. It's becoming
more and more real by the day. I don't
even want to react to anime right now. I
don't even react to that much anime to
begin with. LET'S GO TO MY CHANNEL real
quick. Look, look, look. Hasbin Hotel
200K. Grand Theft Auto 150K. Harry
Potter 139K. Anime Tik Toks. Hasbin
Hotel. Uh clickbait video. Anime edits.
Uh uh uh I'm shocked I didn't get a
copyright strike from Chain Smoker Cat
yet, but that video is doing fairly well
as well. But in the past how many weeks?
In the past month, I've only reacted TO
CHAIN SMOKER CAT AND Demon Slayer movie,
and one of them got a [ __ ] strike,
and it just came back. So, why do you
think I don't do anime anymore? You
using your anime audience. Brain dead in
souls. That's what I call people that
comment [ __ ] like that. You don't know
what you're talking about. It takes 2
seconds to do research of why reaction
channels aren't posting as much anymore.
The funniest part about ALL OF THIS IS
that I WASN'T EVEN GETTING STRIKES FOR
ONE PUNCH, MAN. AND I WAS OVER HERE
BULLYING THEM DAY IN AND DAY OUT. I WAS
UPLOADING FULL [ __ ] EPISODES. LOOK
THIS UP REAL QUICK. WATCH. WATCH. Watch
this. Watch this. WE'LL DO IT LIVE.
WE'LL DO IT LIVE, BRO. WE'LL DO IT LIVE,
[ __ ] LOOK AT THIS.
>> LOOK, LOOK, LOOK. Shut up. I wasn't even
blurring the screen, BRO. THEY WERE
LIKE, "TAKE the money, bro." [ __ ] man.
People always ask me, "What anime did
you have the most fun with reacting to?"
It was One Punch, man. I can't wait for
it to come back. And I'm going to go
Mach 7. I'm going to go even harder than
last time. If you think I've changed,
yeah, I've changed for the worse. I
don't even get a strike for Chainsaw Man
or or or or Attack on Titan or Jiu-Jitsu
Kaizen. Literally the bohemoths of anime
right now. I got a copyright strike for
Bleach. [ __ ] out of here with that. I
want to make this clear, right?
Sometimes I could get a little too much.
This ain't that time. This is I I
deserve to feel this way. Every reaction
channel, if they come to you like, "Hey
guys, uh, sadly the Bleach reactions are
Shut the [ __ ] up. Show a little bit of
rage. Show a little bit of your anger. I
see it in the [ __ ] Discord. Stand up
for yourself. Stop being [ __ ] You're
a [ __ ] You deleted your reactions. I
don't want to deal with this [ __ ]
That's why. One Punch Man season 3
videos did better than Bleach videos for
me. Better than every channel, in fact.
So, why would I risk my channel, my
livelihood, and loading up my pistol?
Like, well, why would I do all of this?
For what reason? Where's the win for me?
A few hundred,000 views. I'll get one of
those tomorrow if I want. I'll probably
get that on this video. This sucks, you
know? Like, I had to take off One Piece.
I had to take off Bleach. The [ __ ]
Demon Slayer movie. Black Clover's
coming back. I think that's Viz Media.
That's probably going to be a [ __ ]
problem, too. Which is why I'm just
going to tell you guys right off the
bat. Patreon. Patreon literally exists.
I post on there every single day. Two
episodes a day. We're watching like 45
different anime on there. And then
people get mad. They're like, "Oh, if if
Bleach is getting strike, why don't you
put it all Patreon for free?" No, I'm
paywalling that [ __ ] too. You think I
want to make a free so all these
copyright abusers could just click on
the link and strike me from there? I'm
going be honest with you. That's a
[ __ ] reason. It's a valid reason.
But the real reason is, guys, I want
money. This is my job. New news flash.
IT'S MY JOB. SO YEAH, THAT'S pretty much
it. I just woke up. I did not expect to
make a video like this. I already drank
my whole C4. That's crazy. I haven't
even put my underwear on yet, bro. Like
like like like I'm still in my pajamas.
I'm sweating dick right now. I haven't
even worked out yet, man. What a day.
[ __ ] Viz Media. Remove your media. [ __ ]
your media.