This is Why I Stopped Doing Polyglot Investigations

What's up, grinders? Welcome back to the channel. So, today I want to talk about hyperpolyglot investigations. All of you guys down in the comment section from time to time say, "Evil Deer, when's the next hyperpolyglot investigation coming? We miss the investigations. We need more of them." Well, I would love to keep providing them all for you, but unfortunately, they are like playing Russian [ __ ] roulette with my YouTube channel, okay? So, last year when I was deep in the polyglot investigation sphere, okay? I was constantly living with like a bead of sweat going down the side of my face because I would at any one time have one or two copyright strikes against my YouTube channel. Now, these are not valid copyright strikes, but they were copyright strikes against my YouTube channel usually because I was making some type of a investigation video, and let's just say the outcome of the investigation was not to the benefit of the person being investigated, okay? For those who don't understand, doing a polyglot investigation obviously, I need to show some content of the person that I'm making the investigation about so you guys can make a judgment call for yourselves to see what you think, you know, if the investigation is actually valid or not. And that's where the little bit of a loophole is. So, if you're the person who's being investigated and you don't like the outcome of said investigation, you just claim that I'm stealing your content and you submit a copyright strike against me, okay? Now, as I said, I was living in a constant state of [ __ ] like perpetual fear because I was like one to two copyright strikes, and if you hit three copyright strikes at any one time, your YouTube channel basically gets notified that it will be deleted within 10 days. Like, there's literally nothing you can do when you're a YouTube my channel my size, and if you get those three strikes all at once and you can't win those strikes, as in you can't have them reversed, you're gone. That's it. That's the end of the [ __ ] channel, okay? So, there is a reason why I stopped doing polyglot investigations, and it's it's literally just out of fear for like my massive catalog of videos that I built up on this channel, okay? So, I would love to keep doing them. Love to be able to keep exposing, but also lifting up people, but it's just it's just too risky, okay? And to give you an example, I haven't done a new polyglot investigation in like a year at this point, and yet I am still getting hit with [ __ ] copyright strikes over them. For example, I posted this 11 days ago. I was just randomly letting you all know why I didn't make a video. I scroll down here, okay? And I got a comment, "Bro, I used one of your video about the cleverest and spottiest polyglot in the world. Uh I recorded your video from the screen, and the video went viral, and now she is about to file a lawsuit." And then like obviously little sweating bead, okay? I don't know how many people are grateful for exposing her, but she can't accept the fact that her language and teaching skills are extremely poor. When I saw that comment, I was like, that actually could be a few different people. >> [laughter] >> It could be a few different people. But then I was like, "Hey, bro, are you admitting to like straight up stealing my content and uploading it somewhere else?" Whatever. I actually don't care if people like just you know, do a straight-up chair react of me, okay? Like I honestly don't care. Because, well, I'm a reactor, so it would be it'd be [ __ ] rude if I didn't care. Like if someone literally just wants to sit there, watch my entire video, say nothing, and just sit down in the bottom left-hand corner just staring at me as if like they're looking up at me. I [ __ ] I honestly don't care, okay? But obviously, other reactors have different degrees of what they seem deem to be acceptable. So, in this case, apparently he recorded my video, uploaded it somewhere else. I don't care. Didn't didn't bother me at all. But it must have got the attention of said polyglot, okay? Because she filed [laughter] some type of lawsuit. Now, I'm not sure if it was an actual lawsuit or if it was just a copyright claim against this person, okay? So, I was aware that this person in question, who we're going to go check out in a second, okay? It's listed on my channel. They probably were only just at this point finally paying attention to my video because it went viral via someone else, okay? And little would you believe it, just today I got hit with a [ __ ] copyright strike. Again, one of three, okay? I thought I was finally safe from the polyglot like copyright strikes because I've been hit with like a ton of them already, okay? And I've fought them all off. And like I haven't made a video in a year and yet they're still here haunting me, okay? So, if I click on this one, this is a copyright strike against the video titled is this the smartest hyperpolyglot in Kazakhstan, okay? And it is this girl here. Now, I'm not doxxing her by showing her name because she literally goes by that name online, okay? I won't show you anything else, but she filed a copyright strike against me. What I'll do is I'll open this up on YouTube and we'll find a picture of her just so you know who I'm talking about, but I ain't reacting to anything. I ain't reacting to anything, okay? You see You see this girl? This one, yeah? Yeah? This one here on the right, right, right. This one right here. A bunch of people actually claimed in the video she's probably AI even though that that video like the the content we used from her came out before AI was a big thing, like before AI was even really publicly available. So, she's not AI and she's not happy. She finally found the Evil Deer video even though as part of every investigation I reach out to everyone and I say, "Hey, there's an investigation happening on you. What do you think about this?" Uh and she just ignored me, okay? But apparently the video got enough views now, became viral that it is now a problem. So, what happens now, okay? As you can see, it says one copyright strike. If you get three copyright strikes, your channel along with any associated channels will be subject to removal. That means my channel, my Esperanto random comprehensible input channel would be deleted. My Chinese channel would be deleted. Literally any channel I have under my Google account would just be straight up it'd be goneskis, okay? Assuming that this happens. Now, let's hope that by making this video I don't uh encourage anyone else to try hit me at the same time. But I have submitted a counter notification. Now, what does that mean? Basically, when someone submits a copyright strike against me, they will usually just say I'm stealing their content, and then YouTube obviously there's no one [ __ ] like checking anything nowadays. They just like accept everything and just forward it on, okay? So, straight up YouTube goes, "Okay, your video it's deleted because someone claimed a copyright strike." And literally anyone could claim a copyright strike. They just [ __ ] straight up delete it, okay? And then they say, "Oh, if you want to undo this action, now I need to do a counter claim against them." So, I have to fill out this like a little bit of paperwork that takes like 5 minutes to fill out. It's just a [ __ ] a bit of a pain in the ass, okay? Saying that this is completely fair under fair use, critique, all that type of stuff. It's not me stealing content. It's me literally doing the commentary on her language abilities. 90% of that video is me talking about her abilities based on our investigation, and then obviously there's small little clips here and there of her speaking um you know, different languages. So, I I submitted a counter claim, which means that she now has 10 days to either take me to court and provide proof of said action to YouTube, which means my video stays down, or just let it run its course, and then YouTube will go, "Well, she hasn't responded in 10 days, so you get your video back." Like this has happened a few times. It happened with the Polyglot Effect. She did the same thing, copyright strike. I counter claimed. We waited 10 days. I got my video back. I made more content out of her. >> [laughter] >> That's what I'm assuming is going to happen here. I'll get my video back in 10 days, and then I'll make more [ __ ] content out of her, okay? But there's been something that's been happening in the YouTube space with copyright strike claims as of recently. A lot of YouTubers are finding that there is now services where you can go if you want to take someone's channel out, okay? You can hire people in specific countries to raise court cases against someone, even though like none of the parties are involved, against that person, okay? Just so you got evidence of a court case that that person give to YouTube. So, she could potentially and I've seen this, okay? Go hire someone in Egypt to raise a court case to get like just a legal document to say that there's a court case pending. Even though nothing's going to happen, it's probably just going to it will just, you know, un- unless I'm notified via the person, I would never know if the court case even ended, okay? So, just to raise a court case against me to have a legal document to say, "See, YouTube? I've done it." And that would be enough for just YouTube to maintain this copyright strike, okay? So, that is also a possibility. And considering that she's from [ __ ] Kazakhstan, that might actually happen. I might actually lose this video just due to some [ __ ] [ __ ] Kazakhstani [ __ ] court case saying, "Yeah, no, he's she's suing Evil Deer in the High Court of Kazakhstan." I don't know. Like, this is a complete possibility. But, I I've lost that whole video for now, okay? And I just want to have a [ __ ] about this because YouTube is they have completely given up on trying to manage these copyright strikes at all. Like, historically, if you went back a couple of years and someone did a copyright strike, YouTube would actually act as an intermediately tree and actually check that this copyright strike is valid. So, for example, is um What's the name of that the Akram? Akram raised a copyright strike against me, okay? Um over It must have been over 2 years ago at this point. I don't remember, but YouTube actually stepped in and said, "No, this is not a valid copyright strike." And they rejected on my behalf. I didn't have to do anything. But, since that one, every copyright strike I've gotten, and I've gotten about six, they just straight on forward. They don't even check it anymore, okay? And it's actually become insane because the people who are abusing the system realize that there's actually really good ways to abuse the system now. And I've opened up this video, okay, I've got over here. This is from Penguinz, talking about the copyright strike situation getting out of hand, okay? This person got hit with 109 copyright strikes in 1 day. Which means that he has to, because otherwise his channel will be completely deleted within 10 days, okay? He has to now manually respond to every single one of these copyright strikes, and it takes about 5 minutes to fill out each one. And you have to provide like a reasoning for your counter claim and everything. Now, no human on earth is submitting 109 copyright strikes against another YouTuber in 1 day. This is clearly completely AI-generated. And this person just didn't hit one channel, okay? They hit like a ton of channels in the anime space, but it's not just anime. It's It's gone [ __ ] everywhere, okay? So, I'm going to jump to this point here just so we can listen to Penguinz talk about the situation a little bit. >> down videos that are just talking about anime without showing a single image or video from the anime they're talking about. >> Okay, so, I've sped him up a little bit. Let me just slow this down. But basically, as you heard, copyright strikes are being raised against YouTube channels that are just talking about anime, not actually showing anything anime in there. Maybe just mentioning anime and like like specific anime names, and they just get [ __ ] copyright strike. >> So, this channel here in particular is having hundreds of their videos taken down. I think they've lost like 600 videos that have been struck. And now they also had a community post of theirs get struck as well for >> a [ __ ] community post? That is insane. A community post is just me going on YouTube and writing a message, okay? Just writing something for all you guys. I didn't even know it was actually possible to copyright strike claim a community post. That is just bizarre. >> for copyright infringement because they had an image of an anime in their post. So, they're they're claiming the image and then striking them for the usage there, which I didn't even know was something on the table. I >> I didn't know about this. Penguin didn't know about this. You know, it's it's crazy. Like in my entire career, I've probably had like 10 plus copyright strikes against me. Most of them all within the last 2 years, okay? But even when I was an Esprontos pure YouTuber, I remember getting hit with like one or two copyright strikes. And back then, I knew nothing about this. And YouTube makes it sound very scary. Like if you want to counter notify, they're like, "Oh, this is going to lead to legal action, you know, you got to be really sure about this. False counter claim, you could lose your channel." Like every action that they offer you could result in your channel being lost. So, I was just like, "Ah." And like the only option that seems like the good one is just to let the copyright striker win and have your video deleted. Back then, I was getting like 300 views. And I was like, "Okay, you can you can delete the video." Cuz like I was [ __ ] I didn't know any better. But nowadays, I'm just like I I just go to war and I fight against the type of thing. But it just becomes tiring and then kind of terrifying when you're just that one strike off of losing your channel at any one time. >> I've never heard of that in my entire 20 years on this platform. That's [ __ ] wild. It actually makes me somewhat concerned even just showing that community post here because of that image. I wonder if they will try and hit this video because >> Now, here's the difference, okay? So, PenguinZ would have a YouTube rep. And if this got hit with like if he got hit with it, he could literally talk with his rep because he's so big, okay? The amount of views he gets per video. And the rep would just sort that situation out right away. They'll be like, "They'll just cancel it, okay?" But like for someone who's like my size, yeah, like the best option I've got is going on Twitter or X and being like, "Hey guys, help." You know, like because if for example, if the counter claim the counter claim's not something that's automatically accepted, YouTube has to approve me doing a counter claim. Now, I'm hoping because they just allow everything through that they just automatically allow the counter claim through as well. >> Cuz I am covering it and that image is there. That would be pretty outrageous if you ask me. That is a promotional image from what I can tell looking it up on Google Images and I can even find articles from outlets that have had that same image in them. So, why have they not been copyright struck? If you think that's the extent of it and it can't go lower, you're wrong. Get a load here. So, I made a video like a year ago where I was yapping about my disappointment with One Punch Man Season 3's animation and this same YouTube channel actually made a reaction to my video where I was talking about it. There is not even a split second of footage from the One Punch Man anime in my video and by extension his reaction to my video also has no footage. Yet, he still got a copyright strike for it. Thus, it is now like the impression like the what it leads you to believe is that I copyright struck him. >> And look what we have here. I can't believe John Wick he would sell out like this. He's now corroborating with Viz Media. That's right, he sold out to Viz Media to take down a video about One Punch Man with >> Yeah, this would just anger me if I was Penguin Z where people reacting to my video get copyright striked but I don't and it's very obvious what's happening here is that the person who's handing out the copyright strikes is not going to go after Penguin Z because that would just be he just wouldn't do that again. He's got the resources. He's [ __ ] millionaire. He's got the resources. He's got the connections. He would deal with you. But, some other random little YouTuber >> zero anime footage. Now, if you can't sense the sarcasm, please I need you to understand something. There's a lot of people in here that's just kind of mad that I you think I actually think that he did it. No, of course not. >> No, well, he can see that I wasn't the one that did that. It does still lead you to believe like it's not far-fetched to think that it was me behind it because it's my video talking about One Punch Man. Anyway, I just wanted to bring this up. We're not going to watch this whole video. I just wanted to show you that the copyright situation on YouTube, it's getting [ __ ] out of hand. Cuz like I've got like, you know, how many years now? Like since 2013 I've been uploading videos here. And every day uploading a video is it's it's a risk. Like there's a risk. And the crazy thing is I don't even have to be real like not even reacting. Just mentioning other things nowadays is a risk. Because these copyright strikes are now being done by keyword claims. Okay. Like I saw one YouTuber. I don't know how valid this is. Like maybe this guy was bullshitting. But I saw him mention this and I was like that's a possibility. The guy makes a video talking about a topic not anything to do with anime anime, okay? Now he said, "In this case, would I get copyright strike?" Because he's got a tattoo that's from an anime that he likes on his arm, which is going to appear in the video. You could get copyright strike for that. And because of YouTube how it's all just automated now, that [ __ ] would probably just go straight through. And imagine if you got cuz you've probably got the same tattoo in every video, you get hit with like hundreds of copyright strikes all at once. And then you got to sit there for an entire day [ __ ] fighting against that [ __ ] So that is kind of why I have shied away in a lot of ways from doing polyglot investigations. It's just because it's just [ __ ] tiring dealing with that type of [ __ ] over and over and over. Cuz like everyone knows none of this would stand up in a court of law. It's just they're just hitting you with the procedural process to kind of screw you over enough in the hope that you give up or that enough other people do it at the same time that it just it just kills your channel. Like being a channel that does a lot of exposure of frauds and stuff like that historically is very risky. And the only way I I think about I could get back to my roots and do that stuff kind of in maybe even safely would be if every single video I upload here was on a parallel service. But then even if that happens and my entire YouTube channel's deleted, 95% of you guys aren't going to like go over there and watch on another service because well, you're on YouTube. This is where you're at. You don't even look for my videos. Most people don't look for my videos. They just see recommended and they click and watch. So, if my channel's completely deleted, most of you would not even think that oh, my channel's deleted. You'd probably just think I stopped posting or maybe you just completely forget about me cuz like that's a possibility. Like I don't want to act like big [ __ ] important or anything, okay? Most people just I would disappear from their feed and they wouldn't even notice. How do you deal with the situation? Like what what do I do? Do I start an email list? That way I can [ __ ] every single person who watches a video, I can just go, "Hey guys, you know, I'll add you to an email list and then like if I my channel gets obliterated, I can just email you videos directly." How do you deal with this situation? It's Anyway, that's pretty much it. I should be safe for at least the next month or so because I'm going to China now and I'm going to be just Then again, maybe the Chinese government will [ __ ] copyright strike me over [ __ ] showing something. Who knows? Who knows? I'll see you all next video.