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title: 'Copyright Strike Abuse on YouTube Is Out of Control'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=0BI5mG3FLLs'
video_id: '0BI5mG3FLLs'
date: 2026-09-07
duration_sec: 1035
channel: 'penguinz0'
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# Copyright Strike Abuse on YouTube Is Out of Control

> Source: [Copyright Strike Abuse on YouTube Is Out of Control](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0BI5mG3FLLs)

## Summary

This video discusses the recent wave of copyright strikes on YouTube, particularly targeting anime reaction channels and channels that merely discuss anime. The creator highlights the role of Remove Your Media and Eric Green in issuing thousands of strikes, including cases where videos with no anime footage are being taken down, and mentions a cease and desist sent to YouTuber Nicholas Light.

### Key Points

- **Copyright strike abuse spiraling** [00:00] — The creator notes that copyright strike abuse on YouTube is reaching unprecedented numbers, with one channel receiving 109 strikes. Three strikes typically lead to channel termination within a week.
- **Anime channels hit hard** [01:09] — Many anime-focused channels, especially reaction channels, are receiving hundreds of strikes, with one channel losing 600 videos. The creator distinguishes between full anime episode reactions (which are in a gray area) and blatant abuse.
- **Anime reactions in gray area** [02:11] — Anime reaction content has always existed in a gray area, allowed only because rights holders turn a blind eye. Most reactions show 15 minutes of a 25-minute episode uninterrupted, which is a stretch to call fair use.
- **Creators know it's not fair use** [03:23] — Reaction channels often alter footage (filters, opacity, orientation) to avoid copyright detection, indicating they know their content isn't fair use.
- **AI automation suspected** [04:24] — The speed of takedowns suggests AI automation, as no human could file that many requests. The strikes are also hitting videos that only discuss anime without showing any footage.
- **Community posts struck** [05:07] — A channel had a community post struck for copyright infringement because it contained an image of an anime, which the creator finds unprecedented and concerning.
- **Strikes on videos with no anime footage** [06:01] — The creator's own video about One Punch Man Season 3, which contained no anime footage, was reacted to by another channel that then received a strike. This implies the creator struck them, which he denies.
- **Blatant abuse of copyright system** [08:11] — The strikes extend beyond reactions to conversations about anime, showing a blatant abuse of the copyright system. The theory is that they target keywords like 'bleach'.
- **Eric Green and Remove Your Media** [10:03] — Thousands of strikes are tied to Remove Your Media and specifically Eric Green. YouTuber Nicholas Light received a cease and desist for his coverage of the situation.
- **Targeting conversations, not just content** [12:49] — The strikes target videos that don't show any copyrighted material, silencing conversation around properties. The creator compares it to not being able to say 'Voldemort'.
- **BleachBit targeted by mistake** [14:12] — BleachBit, a software application, allegedly received a DMCA notice from Remove Your Media because of the word 'bleach' in its name, highlighting the absurdity of keyword-based takedowns.
- **Ongoing problem** [16:59] — The issue is ongoing, with hundreds of new strikes issued daily by Remove Your Media, and the creator emphasizes the legitimate abuse of YouTube's copyright tools.

### Conclusion

The video concludes that while some anime reaction content is in a gray area, the current wave of strikes includes blatant abuse of copyright tools, targeting conversations and even unrelated software. The situation is ongoing and worsening, with AI automation likely driving the takedowns.

## Transcript

Schoolhouse Rock taught us that three is a magic number, and that remains true to this day. It also happens to be how many times I have motorboated this topic in the last week,
but it is extremely important and it's only getting worse. So I'm once again spreading the legs on this like a Thanksgiving turkey. Copyright strike abuse on YouTube. It is spiraling out of control, and it's reaching numbers I thought impossible.
These are like fucking Bellatro numbers at this point here. 109 copyright strikes on this one channel alone. Having three strikes on your channel leads to a termination within a week, like some shit out of The Ring where you're going to die in seven days.
You get three strikes, the clock starts ticking. Having 109, you don't just lose your channel, you lose your life, you die in the game, you die in real life, and then you get vanquished straight to hell.
You get sent to the deepest pits of Tartarus. That is unreal, and it's happening to so many channels. Wardrobe change, gonna give you a little peek at how the sausage is made here. So I started covering this topic a few days ago, and I wanted to see how things developed.
So, it's, the numbers have only gotten bigger. Numbers go way up, so a ton of channels, tons and tons of anime-focused channels, mainly anime reaction channels, are getting hundreds of strikes losing.
I've seen one channel lose like 600 videos being struck, taken down. There's a lot going on, and some of it is not eyebrow-raising at all, like full anime episodes that are getting reacted to.
Come on, don't even pretend to be shocked. Like, everyone always knew that that was not, strictly speaking, allowed, but there is a completely separate thing that is happening in tandem with this that is blatant copyright abuse.
But yeah, one of the big things here is that there are a lot of channels that are having hundreds of videos taken down, a lot of them being anime reactions. Now, brace yourself for the cold water, it's not going to be a popular thing to say, but it is true, so here comes the airplane with the vegetables.
It's not overly surprising. Anime reaction content on YouTube and Twitch by extension has always existed in a gray area Where it's allowed to persist only because the rights holders turn a blind eye to it
Or just don't know about it This is nothing new, it's not a brand new phenomenon There are some things about it that are new and are blatant abuse of the copyright systems on YouTube Which are the ones I'm really going to yap about But the overall talk around like anime reactions are fair use
in some cases there are examples of channels that do it properly but in most cases these are like 25 minute videos where 15 minutes of the anime episode is just playing uninterrupted
and even if it is interrupted with like a WOAH! during a hype or aural farming moment that's a stretch to call it, you know, fair use eligible now and it's not like this is a bombshell revelation
and the channels themselves know it, which is why in a lot of these anime reactions, you'll find the footage playing in, like, a small box that they fucked up a little bit, whether through filters, or through changing the opacity, or tilting it, or even, like, putting it upside down, or just changing the orientation.
They do these things on purpose to try and skirt the copyright tools, so that way it doesn't get flagged and detected. So, like, they know as well. It's hard to make a strong argument that that's fair use.
Like, anyone remember on Twitch a couple years ago the big trend was for these huge streamers just watching entire seasons of anime without permission? People were rightfully chirping up talking about how that's just blatant copyright infringement and it's like really silly.
And also on YouTube. Do you remember like Suzy Lu used to be public enemy number one on YouTube when she like did some false flagging, but she is also just an anime reaction YouTube channel that everyone was pointing the finger at like how does she get away with it?
this isn't shocking new information. Like, people, I think, do at their core understand that when you just going to be plastering most of an anime episode in a YouTube video you are playing with fire So I don think it should be surprising to see a lot of channels that have tons and tons of that content having
it taken down. What is surprising is the speed at which it's happened, where it's very clearly an AI tool that's doing so. There's not a single fucking human being on this planet. I don't care how much of, like, a soulless loser you are, there's not enough hours in
the day to be filing this many takedown requests and all of these strikes. And they also flew too close to the sun because they're not just taking down things like full anime reactions or anything like that. They're also taking down videos that are just talking about anime
without showing a single image or video from the anime they're talking about. 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 copyright infringement because they had an image of an anime in their post. So 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've never heard of that in my entire 20 years on this platform. That's fucking 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 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 are they not concomitant extract? If you think that's
the extent of it and it can't go lower, you're wrong. Get a load of this number 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.
Yes, he still got a copyright strike for it. Thus, it is now, like, the impression, like, 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 up the Viz Media to take down a video about One Punch Man with 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 actually think that he did it. No, of course not. Now, while 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. There's no footage or anything, yet he's getting a strike for reacting to me. So it does feel like, hey, maybe it was Charlie that did that. That's fucking crazy.
So now they can just strike something that's entirely unrelated to the rights that they have. You can't just strike someone because they talk about your show. That's never how that's worked.
They don't have the rights to my video I made yapping about One Punch Man. They have the right to one punch, man. Okay. I can talk about it. It's still my video. I'm allowed to talk about it.
They can't be copyright striking on my behalf. They don't have the right to do so. And there's a lot of instances of this happening where channels that are showing no anime footage and are just talking about an anime or reacting to someone talk about an anime with no anime footage are also receiving strikes.
This is where the blatant abuse of the copyright system comes into play. So it's really two separate things. One, tons of channels are receiving hundreds of copyright strikes because of like the anime reaction and tons of channels are also receiving copyright strikes because of even just talking about anime or in that case
showing an image of an anime in a community post which I understand they have the rights to that image but it is a promo piece that other outlets are also utilizing Why are you hard a YouTube community post for the strike Feels like it AI getting a little hog wild there
This video right here is literally a reaction of me reacting to Moist Critical. What's he talking about? How bad 1.7 Season 3 was, and goddamn, we're reaching a one-year anniversary.
Zero anime scores. Again, I'm not sure that today's the nature of fair use and reaction content I'm trying to show you how ridiculous this current scam being done by remove your media is
when you can strike videos that you don't own just because why? Well, if you've been following the drama, it's not even drama at this point. It's because the keywords, anime keywords are in it, right?
What did I show you before? Examples of Naruto keywords being flagged and then their, you know, bad faith, just action being taken with AI automation, taking down any and every video. Do you know what I'm at right now?
Just showing that there is indeed no anime footage in there, thus they have no grounds to be striking on my behalf. He reacted to a video of me whining about One Punch Man Season 3.
Why the fuck is Viz Media, remove your media, Eric Green, taking action against him and striking him for that video? That doesn't make sense. Now that name I just mentioned, Eric Green, has become an infamous one already
because all of these thousands of strikes are all tying back to Remove Your Media and specifically Eric Green is the one that's always cited in the actual takedown information there.
So Eric Green, a lot of people have their eyes on. And a YouTuber named Nicholas Light just made a video talking about how he's now getting sued. He apparently received a cease and desist for his coverage of all of this.
If he's one of the channels affected that's about to lose one of their channels from the content being struck so much. Nicholas Lights. Remove Your Media, LLC is writing a formally demand that you immediately cease making false public statements about our company, our enforcement practices, and Eric Green.
You tried ruining my livelihood. Going after my channel. False copyright striking polls instead of me seizing my statements. How about you cease your company? Remove Your Media. You have engaged in a deliberate pattern of harassment and defamation directed at Evergreen and Remove Your Media LLC
through private harassing emails, repeated phone calls, a counter notification to YouTube, and public video statements on YouTube. Your conduct is harassment, defamation, and bad faith. It must stop immediately.
So he's allegedly staring down the pipe of a cease and desist here. They're saying that he's publishing defamatory statements about their company, and Eric Green in particular, and harassing them, that kind of thing.
From what I can tell, he's been reporting on what he's been experiencing as well as, like, many others in the anime community. And yeah, he is extremely harsh to the company and the individual, but I mean, why wouldn't he be?
They're taking down these channels. Like, that's entire livelihoods being vaporized there. So, a cease and desist here. Obviously, that kind of shit never goes over well,
and in a case like this, it goes over even worse, considering it's following on the back of them, taking down these fucking channels. Like, Jiminy Christmas. We can take down all your shit, but don't you dare be mean to us about it.
It's so, it's pretty lame. Again, some of their content has been taken down, And, like, the anime reactions where it just blatantly shows most of an anime episode uninterrupted. Yeah. Like, this isn't new.
Like, these waves come and go and always have since the inception of YouTube. Where there are sometimes big sweeping takedowns of, you know, just the full anime episodes that were posted or reacted to.
In this case, this is on the larger scale of things I've seen with hundreds and thousands of strikes that are being issued to tons of channels. and it encompasses more than just those instances.
There are a multitude of cases where they are targeting things that don show any image or video of their property that they have the rights to It totally out of their realm to be taking down conversations
around their properties. And the theory is that they're targeting keywords, the biggest one right now being bleach, it seems, where anything that has bleach in it is immediately on the chopping block, which is, of course, not at all within their right to do. You can't just silence conversation
around your property where no one's even allowed to utter the name. It's not fucking Voldemort. Like, this is ridiculous. So, there is blatant copyright abuse here. I don't know if this is a real cease and desist that Nicholas Light was sent.
I'm inclined to believe that it is. I imagine it probably is. I would assume that Nicholas did his due diligence to ensure that this was coming from a legitimate source and not some kind of hoax.
I will say that it's very fast for them to be sending a cease and desist. it's only been like five or six days roughly. No, I think it's been closer to like seven or eight days. So it does still feel a little fast to be officially issuing a cease and desist,
but maybe they are just really expediting the process. But yeah, so he's apparently now facing a cease and desist, and like I said, it appears that all of this stems from AI automation here,
from remove your media just going ballistic and targeting keywords. Because any human being that was actually going through and taking down, like, anime reactions, probably wouldn't have been confused about taking down anime conversations.
Because, like I said, there are a lot that are just actual conversations, don't show any footage or images of their property. It's related to the word bleach. I want you to take a look at this right now. The name of this website is Bleach Disk Space Cleaner Privacy Manager and Computer System Optimizer.
The Bleach bit source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 3. It's a space cleaner. Oh, so we're on the BleachBit website now. To remove your media LLC and biz media LLC, your DMCA copyright infringement notice filed against BleachBit is incorrect.
BleachBit is a software application, not anime or manga content, unless your copyrighted characters have learned to clean temporary files and wipe private data. Wait a minute, don't you know about Ichigo's new Bankai, the disc cleaner?
He whips out his Zanpakuto and his Clorox all over it. This notice appears to have been issued in error. That's beautiful. A totally unrelated service that just has the name Bleach in it, allegedly targeted by Remove Your Media.
And they made a public statement addressing that. Now, I went to BleachBit. I can't find that post. I don't know if they've retracted it since Nicholas Light posted this video,
or if Remove Your Media, you know, groveled at their feet like, Oh, goodness gracious, we're so sorry. please, we're taking it back, and I don't know. I can't find it, so I guess there's a chance that it could be fraudulent, like it was fake.
I don't think so, because in the video he is interacting with the website, and everything seems to be in its right place, so I don't think that it's fake, but I guess it's entirely possible, so right now it is allegedly Bleachbit got targeted by
remove your media here just because of the name Bleach. And they had like this whole thing where they were kind of dunking on them for the mix-up and how it must have been issued in error and how ridiculous it was.
So, yeah. Regardless of whether or not that's true, the rest of the strikes are on YouTube. About like channels, such as the channel that was reacting to me talk about One Piece getting struck for that video.
Which is nonsensical. I didn't strike that channel. I would never do that. And Remove Your Media has no right to do that for a video I made just talking about a show. So, there is a legitimate problem here. They are absolutely abusing YouTube's copyright tools in certain cases.
So yeah, I wanted to briefly yap about it a bit. It is still an ongoing thing. Like, every day there's hundreds of news strikes that are being issued across the platform from Remove Your Media. It's fucking wild
Anyway That's really about it See ya