Video summary
The video transcript details a creator's desperate plea to YouTube regarding a systemic crisis of false copyright strikes, specifically targeting anime reaction channels. The narrator reveals that their channel has received thirteen strikes and faced deletion after sixty videos were removed, only to discover they are far from alone in this ordeal. He showcases a series of absurd examples where legitimate content was flagged, including reactions to music openings, video game trailers, fan animations, and even static images containing the word "Naruto." The core argument presented is that these strikes are not based on actual copyright infringement but rather on automated systems or malicious actors misinterpreting titles and fair use principles, effectively silencing creators who simply discuss or react to media they do not own.
The creator expands on this issue by highlighting other affected channels, such as Kakawa TV, which has endured eighty strikes with hundreds of videos removed, and another channel that has reached triple-digit strike counts after filing six hundred appeals. He identifies the primary aggressor behind many of these false claims as Eric Green, the CEO of Remove Your Media, a company he alleges operates with zero legitimate authority to issue takedowns. The transcript describes Green's operation as a form of mass automation where individuals or even homeless people could theoretically submit identical false claims, leading to the same devastating outcomes for creators. This situation is portrayed not just as a bureaucratic error but as a targeted campaign to silence voices in the anime niche and potentially beyond, leveraging the platform's "guilty until proven innocent" mechanism to destroy livelihoods without proper due process.
Furthermore, the narrator emphasizes the severe personal and professional toll these false strikes take on creators, citing instances where individuals lost their channels just as they faced personal tragedies like the death of a family member. He points out that the current system allows attackers to mass-submit claims using automated tools while victims must manually file appeals, often revealing sensitive personal information like addresses and phone numbers to unverified entities. The video argues that under US law, specifically 17 USC 512F, anyone knowingly issuing false copyright notices should be liable for damages, yet the current enforcement mechanisms fail to hold these bad-faith actors accountable. The creator asserts that the existing process is broken because it forces victims to prove their innocence after their content has already been deleted and their channels scheduled for termination.
In conclusion, the video serves as a powerful call to action for YouTube to immediately investigate and resolve this sitewide issue before more creators are permanently silenced. The narrator urges the platform to revise its copyright system to ensure that claimants must provide legitimate documentation and proof of ownership before issuing strikes, thereby reversing the current dynamic where victims bear the entire burden of the legal process. He expresses his determination to fight back through legal counsel and encourages other affected creators to speak out and support one another against these unjust practices. Ultimately, the message is a demand for justice and a restoration of fair use rights, insisting that YouTube must stop enabling individuals who abuse the system to destroy the livelihoods of hardworking content creators who contribute to the platform's ecosystem.
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13 copyright strikes, over 60 videos
removed, seven days until my channel is
gone. And trust me, I'm not the only
one. But we'll get into everybody else
in a little bit. You must be thinking TO
YOURSELF, "HOLY [ __ ] WHAT DID THIS GUY
DO?" WELL, let me show you what I was
striked for. So, I just grabbed a
handful of them. That's going to blow
your mind. So, the first strike was for
save one anime opening, One Piece versus
Naruto. What I did in that video is I
put One Piece openings up against Naruto
openings. Now, let's play Devil's
Advocate. I'm over here reacting to
music. You're able to strike that. How
about the video game? This Naruto game
is unreal. I can't react to video game
trailers now. A video game, by the way,
that is developed by 10 cents more fun
studio. China. Why is Viz Media removing
this? Why is removeyourmedia.com
removing this? The next one is
absolutely insane. Naruto filler arcs
summarized. You see this video right
here? Naruto filler arc summarized. This
is what I reacted to. Pictures. Okay, so
now you're telling me I'm getting a
copyright strike because of a picture.
And by the way, don't you think this
video should have been strike, too? Or
was it because the word Naruto was in my
title? We'll talk about that in a bit.
These next two make me want to smash my
head through a wall. One Punch Man is
saved. This One Punch Man fan animation
is insane. So now I'm getting striked
for a One Punch Man fan animation. A fan
animation. The fan animation doesn't get
stried. I get strike for watching it. Or
is it because the name One Punch Man is
in the title? We'll talk about that in a
bit. Brutal Naruto scenes that were way
worse in the manga. Well, what do you
know, Joe? Look at this. The most brutal
Naruto scenes that were way more intense
in the manga. Another video that I
reacted to on YouTube. So, this video
doesn't get a strike. I get one ONCE
AGAIN FOR REACTING TO [ __ ] IMAGES.
AND HERE'S THE LAST ONE I wanted to
show. Naruto unhinged. Oh [ __ ] Well,
what do you know? Naruto unhinged. I
must be reacting to this [ __ ] Is this
picture of Obama copyrighted too? Why is
it this video strike? But mine is. We'll
talk about that in a bit. Before I go
further and explain everything, this
video is sponsored by absolutely nobody.
[ __ ] off. I'm about to give two
examples, two extreme examples of the
same thing that happened to me happening
to other creators that so happen to be
in the same niche as me, the anime
niche. But if you're part of any other
niche, this doesn't just apply to anime.
So stick around. Shout out to this
creator that goes by the name of Kakawa
TV. 80 COPYRIGHT STRIKES, 449 VIDEOS
TAKEN DOWN. That's like multiple
channels worth of videos. You would
expect YouTube to be like, "Oh my god,
there's something going on here. There's
something wrong." This tweet that I
found of his pretty much highlights the
entire situation kind of like how I did
a 51 second video asking my audience if
they want Dangers in my heart which is
an anime asking his audience if he
should react to AN ANIME. HIS FACE I
GUESS JUST SAYING THE WORD OUT LOUD
dangers in my heart. Bam commentary
video reading Kaisen's tweet laring
about Naruto. I guess streamer
university wasn't enough. Kaisenat needs
more money. He's over here copyright
striking a channel THAT PROBABLY MADE
$10 ON A VIDEO. Wait a minute. Naruto.
Could it be that Naruto in the title
triggered the co? We'll talk about that
in a bit. A Sylvvin skit reaction about
Naruto. So, he's talking about one of
these videos right here. People who
think Naruto is the best anime. The
third Okag taking care of Naruto. I
guess you could copyright strike
Naruto's clothes. Now, I could go on and
on with all the rest of these videos,
but it's going to be the same common
theme. [ __ ] You silly [ __ ]
thought that it stopped there. Ed anime,
another anime channel. 52 copyright
strikes. Him and Clawclaw TV are in a
race right now. Who's going TO GET THE
MOST COPYRIGHT STRIKES? FIND OUT IN THE
NEXT EPISODE OF DRAGON BALL. WHAT? AM I
GOING TO GET STRIKE FOR SAYING THE
[ __ ] NAME DRAGON BALL NOW? I WANT TO
drag my balls on something. I'll tell
you that. And you thought that was the
worst of it. [laughter]
THIS CHANNEL GOT 109 COPYRIGHT STRIKES.
WE'RE IN THE TRIPLE DIGITS NOW. GIVE
THIS GUY THE GOLD MEDAL FOR COPYRIGHT
STRIKES. Godamn it. 600 appeals. You
know how long it takes to appeal 600
videos? You have to sit there and put in
all your personal information. Phone
number, address, real name. And the
copyright striker actually sees all of
that. You want to see what appealing 500
videos does to a man? I wanted to make a
video of my raw reaction after I got
done filing 500
counter notification appeal. 500
>> 90 hybridized strikes
>> 90
>> five videos per strike
>> five per strike
>> bath
which is think I started at 8:45 in the
morning
>> 4:18 now
exhausted
whatever is happening this is not this
is not okay
this isn't okay for and before you try
to make fun of this guy I want you to
put this together in your [ __ ] head
this is his life. It's not like YouTube
have real people working for them. So,
who do we get in contact with to help
us? A robot? Some guy in Bangladesh
living in a sewer? That's all you're
getting in touch with.
>> Please,
YouTube,
help us. Help us fire the guy desperate
for money striking us from a tent and
hire somebody, a real human being, that
could look into our cases. Sadly, that's
not even the beginning. That's barely a
crumb of the content creators that have
to deal with these false copyright
strikes. Most of them are dealing with
the same striker. What's his name, you
ask? Eric Green, which is a person, in
fact, as it says right here. I thought
it was my green screen. I thought it was
a secret AI entity. No, no, no, no. This
confirms it's a person. And trust me, me
and all these reaction channels, we know
it's a person. Let's just say we did
some digging, but we'll save that for
another time. Eric Green is the CEO of
Remove Your Media. He previously worked
at Verizon as a systems development.
Eric Green attended the University of
Texas at Arlington. It says he attended.
Did he graduate? And wow, LOOK, YOU CAN
FIND HIS BEAUTIFUL WEBSITE. You know,
beautiful website that you can make in 1
minute with AI prompts. Notice how I
said AI prompts. This will be very
important in a few. And by the way, if
you scroll all the way down to contact
us, it gives you the address. And if you
don't know, you put that address into
maps, you get a [ __ ] Walmart. I guess
he's striking us from the [ __ ] cereal
box aisle. Tell me something on what
authority does this guy have to remove
our media other than the corny ass name
of his website? Zero authority. Zero
rights to copyright strike us.
Especially on a video where I'm reacting
to a video of Naruto Filler summarized.
And by the way, you think this is just
happening right now. 2020, somebody was
talking about remove your media LLC CEO
Eric Green. This company alleges to work
with larger media to remove copyrighted
materials and they're attacking
legitimate Etsy sites WHO MAKE FAN ART
OF ANIME. I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT what
I'm about to say. This will sum up the
entire video. A homeless person on
Hollywood Boulevard could submit the
exact same claim and they'll have the
same exact outcome as Eric Green. A
vindictive fan can submit the exact same
claim and have the same exact outcome.
Somebody hates you. You have a hater in
the crowd. while your life is in their
hands. You'll wake up the next morning
with over 100 copyright strikes. Do you
know what getting three copyright
strikes does to a channel? You cannot
post to your channel. The false
copyright striker has taken away your
First Amendment right. You can't even
alert your community unless you're lucky
to be popping on other platforms. You
cannot put a spotlight on the injustice
that is occurring. And if you contact
YouTube about this, you're going to get
one of two things. An AI response or an
article that nobody gives a [ __ ] about.
I'm one of the lucky ones. The channel
that I showed you today is being taken
down, but I still have this channel, a
channel with over 1 million subscribers.
But what about everybody else? What
about the people that I talked about
today? They don't have massive
platforms. Eric Green can only achieve
his goal of submitting these false
claims if we can't call them out on it.
His goal and all these false copyright
strikers goals are to silence us. If
anime reactors are silenced, why would
they stop there? We may be the first
silenced, we definitely won't be the
last. So that's why I'm telling y'all
this affects all YouTubers. Every
channel on YouTube. YouTube is allowing
somebody that does not have the
ownership, does not have the right to
submit these claims falsely repeatedly
every single day. Any viewer that hates
a YouTuber enough, they could do exactly
what Eric Green is doing to us. What's
stopping them? If this guy is striking a
video of mine, reading descriptions of
Naruto filler arcs, what's stopping a
person from stopping a commentary
channel just talking to the camera?
Under Statute 17USC
512F, anyone who knowingly makes false
or bad faith material,
misrepresentations in a digital
copyright notice can be held liable for
damages. So, let me put this in my
terms. The law mandates that anyone
submitting a copyright strike, they must
review the video in its entirety, in its
complete context, which means for me
alone, it would have taken this guy
thousands of hours. And that's just me.
What about all the other channels he
went after? You telling me he spent tens
of thousands, if not millions of hours
watching our content, which means he
cannot strike us down. 17 USC 512F does
not explicitly ban the use of automated
matching algorithms to identify
copyright infringement, but it
establishes severe financial liability
for issuing automated takedown notices
without human oversight. If an automated
system takes down content that qualifies
as fair use or is otherwise
non-infringing, the sender could be sued
for damages, attorney fees, and costs.
Which means you cannot use an AI system
to review our content or to submit false
claims. Literally on their site, these
dumb [ __ ] Achieving more with
less is accomplished through carefully
choreographed mass automation using
economies of scale, electronic
notifications, AI boolean parsing, and
targeted distribution. So, he's already
admitting to abusing the copyright
system. By the way, you stupid [ __ ]
your AI spelled category wrong. Let's
pause for a second. I want to show y'all
something. I went to Twitter and said
this. If your channel has been attacked
unfairly with copyright strikes
deletion, reply to this post with a
quick description of what happened. Over
43 replies. Obviously, we're not going
to go over all of them. One of my
favorite reactors stopped doing Bleach
reactions after getting a copyright
strike, which was already heartbreaking,
but he also just lost his sister around
the same week. The guy lost his sister
and now he has to deal with somebody
making him lose his livelihood. Our
channel, Reanimated TV, also got hit
with an unfair strike. two copyright
strikes on my YouTube channel and mass
privateed all and deleted some videos
before it got worse because I felt it
coming. On Patreon, I have been strike
more than 20 times and each email has 12
to 50 videos per strike. Hundreds of
videos were taken down. We had 18
strikes last night and scheduled for
deletion in 7 days. Another channel
dealing with what I'm dealing with.
These are all people talking about their
experience with this false copyright
striker. So, what is this video gonna
do? This video is a call to action.
Every channel needs to get this
conversation moving. You can react to
this video or you can make a video
yourself. There's some people that won't
talk about this. I'm not going to say
names. They're paid by these industries,
so they're not going to help us out. If
you're a creator going through this
right now, I want to tell you, you're
not alone. We're all in this together.
So, what now? What happens? Well, for
starters, YouTube, you need to answer
this immediately. This is a sitewide
issue affecting every single creator.
The absolute least you have to do,
investigate this and you need to put an
end to the false copyright strikes. I
have an idea. Maybe make it possible for
a creator to answer with their appeal.
You know, before they get stried and
they get the whole your channel will be
deleted in 7 days. This is a call to
action to YouTube to revise their
copyright system because as it stands
now, it's guilty until proven innocent,
which does not follow legal due process.
How come I, the victim, have to prove my
innocence to YouTube? Yet, the copyright
striker does not have to submit any
legitimate documentation or
identification that they own the rights
to what they're striking us for, or to
submit these false claims on videos that
don't even show the content that he
states it does. How come I, the victim,
have to pay the price of having my
videos taken down and my channel
scheduled for termination before it's
even proven that the copyright strikes
are legitimate? How come I have to
manually appeal every single copyright
strike? Every false claim. Meanwhile,
the attacker, he could mass submit false
copyright claims using an AI system.
Giving us all these answers and
investigating this issue, which is
sitewide, by the way. Like I said, it's
the least you could do for the creators
that put food on your plates. I think
it's time to finally do your jobs. Eric
Green is lucky I wasn't a part of this
last time this happened. This would not
have happened again. I will not be
silenced. I will not back down. I am
relentless. I take this very seriously.
So seriously that I already have legal
counsel working on the case. [ __ ]
around. Find out. It's simple as that.