Video summary
The speaker describes the past ten days as an incredibly difficult period marked by severe sleep deprivation and relentless communication with other content creators, legal professionals, and YouTube support teams. He emphasizes that this was likely the most frustrating stretch of his life due to the lack of response from YouTube, noting that he received answers from his long-deceased grandparents before getting any official reply from the platform. The speaker argues that the only way to force a resolution is by generating significant noise, a strategy that worked for him and the community after they collectively amplified their voices regarding rejected appeals and copyright strikes affecting over 200 videos across multiple channels.
Despite facing accusations of profiting financially from the situation, the creator provides proof that his AdSense revenue remained at zero throughout the crisis, debunking claims that he was banking on the viral attention. He highlights that while he successfully prioritized himself through the noise he made, many smaller creators who lacked his platform would have received only automated bot responses or generic articles instead of human review. The collective effort resulted in a major victory where most strikes and copyright claims were removed for him, Rice and Ginger, Call Caw TV, and numerous other reaction channels, allowing them to resume uploading content after facing existential threats to their livelihoods.
However, the speaker insists that while they have won the immediate battles, the larger war against YouTube's systemic issues remains unresolved because it still requires creators to generate millions of views to get a human review for every affected account. He expresses deep concern for smaller creators who cannot afford to make noise and are left fearing for their channels, questioning why the community must endure this cycle repeatedly whenever an issue like the Eric Green case arises. He also addresses the toxic behavior of some commenters who attack him personally rather than supporting the cause, labeling such individuals as selfish and unworthy of association, while thanking the many supportive creators who helped spread the word regardless of their personal opinions on reaction content.
Looking toward the future, the creator announces that he will continue making anime reactions but plans to shift his strategy by moving less popular episodes to Patreon while focusing this main channel on high-impact commentary and justice-driven content. He views this recent ordeal as both a curse, due to the mental toll and loss of sleep, and a gift that reignited his passion and gave him a renewed fire to do more with his content. Ultimately, he concludes by expressing eternal gratitude to everyone who helped, including even the haters whose engagement boosted the viral reach of their videos, before stating that this will likely be the final video dedicated to this specific situation as they move forward.
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The past 10 days, they were challenging.
Very challenging. I feel like I've
barely slept. I've been working
tirelessly talking to other content
creators, reaction channels, trying to
help them out, give them advice,
lawyers, phone calls, emails, texts,
back and forth, pretty much all day
long, every day for the past 10 days.
And honestly, it's been probably the
most frustrating 10 days of my life
trying to get an answer from YouTube.
I'd get an answer from my grandparents
before I get an answer from YouTube. and
they've been gone for like 15 years. But
it seems like the only way to get an
answer from YouTube now is to make
enough noise and because of all of the
noise that we made together, remember
the channel I talked about yesterday,
Rice and Ginger? Well, the whole purpose
of that video was to get all of their
appeals forwarded. YouTube for some
reason rejected their appeals. Over 200
videos, 51 strikes, they were all
rejected. But because of the noise that
we made together, guess whose videos are
going to be reinstated in 10 business
days? Besides them, what happened with
my channels? Nicholas Dark TV, Nicholas
Light TV, they were fine. You know why?
Because I made enough noise. I made
enough noise to the point Moist Critical
covered it. And because of that, YouTube
prioritized me like I prioritized the
Dorito bag last night. A lot of creators
covered this situation. We're going to
thank them later on because I want to
say something first. But in a lot of
creators comment sections, they think
I'm doing this for financial gain. Oh,
he got millions of views on these
videos. He's making thousands. Wow.
Yeah, look at all the thousands I made
on this video on Dear YouTube. Estimated
revenue, nothing. Let's go on the next
video. HOLY [ __ ] I'M RICH, BRO. $7.
[screaming]
WOW. YEAH, I'M really banking off of
this situation. Oh, let's go to the next
video. I'm getting sued. $22. Wow. Now I
have a total of $28. Maybe I could get a
Happy Meal now. Oh, let's go to the next
video. Oh, nothing. And then lastly, my
video from last night. Nothing. So, if
you think I was lying about not being
monetized, here's your proof. My AdSense
has been in progress for the past 10
days. For over 6 years, I have never had
a problem with my AdSense. So, it's
funny to me. I start having problems
with my AdSense. The 10 days I choose to
go after YouTube. Really makes you
think. So, maybe we should shut the [ __ ]
up when we say stupid [ __ ] like he's
banking on the situation. He's only
doing this for money. All right. So, now
with that aside, we won the battles. my
channel, Rice and Ginger's channel.
We're not the only channels that got all
of our strikes removed, all of the
copyright claims removed. Pretty much
every reaction channel that I've talked
to, their appeals went through and now
we're all waiting for our videos to be
reinstated. We're strikeless now.
Remember the guy with 109 copyright
strikes, the picture that went viral,
he's back to uploading as normally
scheduled. He made a video one day ago
talking about the whole situation and
now he's back to uploading his
reactions. Call Caw TV. He's back to
uploading as well, man. Look at this.
I'm done with anime reaction. Sure,
buddy. Ed anime. Another channel that I
showed you guys that had 50 plus strikes
on his channel. He's back to uploading
as of 20 hours ago. The worst week of my
life. I agree, buddy. Now, I'm not
saying everything is fixed. Everything
is fine. There are still channels with
strikes, but I'd say about 9.9 out of 10
of them, the appeals are being
forwarded. But my question is, and
that's the reason why I'm saying we may
have won the battle, but what about the
war? Why do we all have to go through
this every single time? Is Eric Green
going to come back next week, next
month, next year? What happens when he
does? Do we have to go through all of
this again? Do I have to make another
million view video in order to get
YouTube's attention so we could have a
human being review the situation for
every content creator that was affected?
Because if that's the case, fine. I
don't mind using my voice. But what
about these creators that are losing
sleep because of this? I spoke to about
30 reaction channels last night on a
video call. They've been fearing for
their lives. What if you didn't have
somebody like me or a big channel
talking about this situation? What's
going to happen to them? They can't make
enough noise to get YouTube's attention.
YouTube's going to hit them with a bot
reply. YouTube's going to hit them with
the whole, "We understand your
frustration. Here's an article that you
could read. [ __ ] your article." You have
channels fearing for their lives and
you're sending them an article that
tells them a system is reviewing their
account, not even a human being. Wow,
that'll help. Moist Criticals huge
copyright strike situation video
covering the situation. 4.3 million
views. Is that what we have to do every
single time in order for YouTube to help
us out? That's my problem. That's why
I'll never say we won the war. So, I
want to give y'all an update on the
whole Eric Green remove your media LLC
situation. I see a lot of people saying
sue him, do this, do that. Obviously, I
can't talk about everything. That's just
how all of these processes work. I feel
like YouTube. I'm not giving you guys
any answers, but just know I don't think
he's going to mess with us again. And if
he does,
[gasps] that's all I'll say. All right.
I want to quickly thank content creators
that covered this situation. Techan was
one of the biggest creators that covered
this. I appreciate that so [ __ ] much,
brother. Thank you. He signal boosted
this to WestJet Nux. Whether you like
these creators or not, like I always
say, it doesn't matter. We need all of
these creators to come together so we
could get the word out there despite
what you're feeling. So, a quick little
note about that. There's a lot of
reaction channels that covered this
situation that made a video and within
that video they thank me. They just say
something as simple as, "Thank you to
Nicholas Light TV for spearheading this
whole situation, for really standing up
for us." And you see a lot of comments
in their comment sections. I'm not going
to point it out. I don't want to put a
spotlight on miserable individuals, but
you see some commenters under their
videos saying things like, "Listen, I'm
behind you, but I could never get behind
Nicholas Light. If you associate with
him, maybe I should rethink my
subscription." Oh, you're a terrible
human being. These idiots have a bigger
problem with these channels associating
with me, let alone just mentioning my
name. These people, and I'm talking to
the channels now, these people that
comment stuff like that, they don't care
about you. They don't care about your
channel. They would rather dunk on me, a
guy that's helping a channel that they
say they're a fan of, than actually talk
about the problem at hand, the fact that
your channel might have been deleted.
These are the type of people you need to
eliminate from your life. So, if you're
thinking these people are supporters of
yours, they're not. They're selfish.
They're all in it for themselves. And
the second you [ __ ] up, the second you
make a single mistake, they're going
somewhere else to complain about you.
They're leaving your ass as if they're
perfect. And if those audience members
are watching this video right now,
whatever you're against me for, I'm glad
I did it. Or maybe I said something that
you're offended by, I'm glad I said it.
But yeah, thanks to all of the creators
that covet us. Loki Gotcha, Dorne's
World, Legions Gaming, Gotcha Smack the
[ __ ] Goat Bro, Neil, another reaction
channel. Shout out to him. Check it out.
St. Tone Toss, Myar, Deep Humor. Y'all
got to check out Deep Humor's channel.
Super insightful, super smart. Love his
content. Light novel historian. Listen,
I may hate Lord of the Mysteries. And I
think it's butt, but I don't think
you're a butt. I like you, buddy. Thank
you. Knox Hill, bro. Knox, if y'all know
Knox, y'all got to check him out. He is
one of the coolest, most brilliant,
awesome dudes on this platform. He's
helped out tremendously. Even in the
DMs, he's offered a lot of good advice
and I'm super thankful for him. And bro,
if you're watching this video, I
appreciate you, brother. Thank you so
much. You're the real rapper reacts.
West Jeet, bro. WestJet, this video is
about to be one of the biggest videos on
your channel. You're welcome. And of
course, Rev says, "Desu, always got love
for my man Rev." Thank you, brother.
That's not even everybody. These are
just the videos that I saved. And then
there came a point where I forgot to
save videos. So, if I forgot to talk
about you, thank you so much. Of course,
Moist Critical, thank you. Also, there's
this channel that's been a big help.
Y'all should check out their content. I
own a copyright strike law firm
specializing in battling false YouTube
copyright strikes and YouTube channel
deletion. So, you could only imagine the
content that this guy made. He's been
killing it. super informative and I
appreciate the [ __ ] out of him. Bro,
what the [ __ ] is that picture of me?
[laughter]
Despite the trials and tribulations, the
stupid [ __ ] morons in other
YouTubers' comment sections, at the end
of the day, I just want to thank every
single person that helped during this
situation. Y'all were the reason why
these videos went viral. This entire
situation went viral. And despite what
people think about reaction channels
being lazy content, whatever, I don't
give a [ __ ] about that conversation.
This has been a niche for over 10 years.
You can even say 15 plus years and it's
going to be a niche for the next 10 plus
years. Whether you like it or not, it
doesn't matter. I see a lot of people
still arguing about fair use. What we do
is so wrong. If it was so wrong, none of
us would have a career. And you could
say the whole, "Well, it's because they
turn a blind eye." Yeah, they've been
turning a blind eye towards us for 15
years. I guess there's a reason why our
channel still exists, and they're always
going to exist no matter what. And
honestly, that's thanks to all of you
guys that come to support us. You're the
reason why these channels still exist.
Yes, I put up a big fight. I don't want
to pat myself on the back. Look at this
guy trying to be a hero to make up for
everything he did in the past. Talking
about me like I touched kids in the
past. No, guys. I criticized One Punch
Man, clowned on the animators, had a few
fights with some animators on Twitter.
And yeah, that's pretty much it. But
yeah, I guess that situation makes me
such a horrible person and we can't move
on from it for some reason. Acting as if
I murdered the One Punch Man director.
If there's something I wanted to murder,
it would be the anime itself. So, let's
close the book of [ __ ] and let's
move the [ __ ] on already. All right,
which leads me to this anime reactions.
Will I continue to do them? Yeah, of
course. Go check out Patreon. We upload
daily anime reactions on there. What's
YouTube going to look like? Well, I'm
just going to be honest with y'all. If
it's not a popular episode, I'm not
going to upload it to this channel.
Everything else goes to Patreon. The
popular content comes to this channel,
but I want to do way more than reaction
content. Now, I've been using my voice a
lot for the past 10 days and look at the
amount of noise I've been making with
it. I feel like I've been waiting a long
time to really use my voice like this.
So, I would love to do a bit of
commentary on his channel as well
because I feel like when you're a
reaction channel, especially the kind of
reactions that I do, it's more about the
reactions like the faces I make and the
hype moments. So, I'm going to use
commentary as a way for me to vent, as a
way for me to complain about things or
just to bring justice to people that
deserve it. Nicholas Dark still exists.
I want to be uploading about three times
a day over there, reactions all day
long, every day. But this channel, I
want to do something different with, you
know, that's why I like to look at this
entire situation for the past 10 days as
a gift and a curse. The curse was the
loss of sleep, the headaches, feeling
like I was about to lose my channels,
channels that I worked on for many, many
years. The gift was the amount of
attention that it got. And it really
gave me a fire that I haven't had in a
long time makes me want to do so much
more with my content. And this whole
situation proved that I could do so much
more with my content and I will. So once
again guys, thank you for everything
you've done. Thank you for letting your
voices be heard. I can speak on behalf
of every channel probably every reaction
channel. Thank you for helping us out.
I'm eternally grateful for every single
one of you. Even to the haters. Y'all
gave the videos engagement which made
the numbers get boosted even more. So I
appreciate y'all too. Other than that,
guys, this is probably the last video
I'm making about this situation. We're
going to move on. And until next time,
say sonata.