User:BetterSkatezalt/History of youtube abuse

Pre-Copyright Implements

 * 2006 - Some videos uploaded have descriptions changed to mention youtube and it's copyright system later in the future. Examples being a full upload of a music video of the song "Nag, Nag, Nag" by Cabaret Voltaire.

Copyright Implemented

 * February 2007 - Viacom has been filing a lawsuit against Youtube due to use of their content (ex. Spongebob Squarepants) used in youtube poops removing over 100,000 videos. 60 - 70 of which are non infringing.


 * March 13, 2007 - Viacom attempted to sue Google over 1 billion dollars.


 * 2008 - Present - HyperRide sometimes gets one of his videos muted for containing a song by a-ha titled "Take on me", A different copyright claim prevents one of his videos from being muted that would otherwise be muted if that song wasn't or or something else (The one containing a song by Bryan Adams titled "Summer of 69").


 * 2009 - Richalvarez has to deal with takedowns and mutes on Stupid Mario Bros Episode 36 against Warner Music Group.


 * June 1, 2010 - KevinTThoms was false flagged by butthurt people causing his account to be suspended.


 * November 9, 2012 - Caiden Cowger gives NateTalksToYou a copyright strike because NateTalksToYou reuploaded with 2012 election prediction where Caiden Cowger thought Mitt Romney would win by a landslide.


 * 2013 - 2015 - MadFranko008 constantly had to battle WMG over the disputes of what may be considered transformative use of the music video of Talking Heads - Once in a lifetime. Viewers are reminded to blame WMG.


 * May 2013 - BetterSkatez gets a first community guidelines strike on his first channel.


 * December 4, 2013 - Ravish Yankem gets a community guidelines strike without reason.

New Copyright System Implemented

 * December 2013 - Youtube updates their copyright system to allow automated copyright claims on youtubers. This leads to companies being able to the steal more revenue from youtubers.


 * December 12, 2013 - YourMovieSucksDOTorg explains why the youtube copyright system sucks.


 * December 15, 2013 - WatchMojo official youtube channel was terminated for filing 3 appeals which all came with copyright strikes.


 * December 16, 2013 - WatchMojo official youtube channel gets reinstated


 * Spring 2014 - Youtube Channels are getting signed out randomly without reason.


 * 2014 - 2016 - Elliot Rodger constantly has to have his video muted due to it containing a song by Don Henley. He died on May 23, 2014 which he was known as the perpetrator of the infamous 2014 Isla Vista Shootings.


 * July 14, 2014 - BetterSkatez gets slammed with 2 copyright strikes despite not using their music, One of the videos gets blocked worldwide.


 * January 2015 - Dillon the Hacker gets hacked by Derrick the Hacker.


 * January 12, 2015 - The most infamous internet reviewer known as TheMysteriousMrEnter gets his channel deleted due to more than 3 strikes from Viacom.


 * January 15, 2015 - Angry Joe gives nintendo the finger after he received multiple copyright claims from them.


 * March 29, 2015 - KrazyGames gets his youtube account banned because he gets 3 false community guidelines strikes.


 * April 5, 2015 - BetterSkatez gets a copyright strike on his second channel by a fat guy.


 * May 14, 2015 - ValwinMedia gets a Community Guidelines strike when his video "Top 10 Hentai Anime of 2013" was taken down despite it containing many things that he censored, The appeal was rejected stupidly, The video is back up right now."


 * May 30, 2015 - BetterSkatez gets a community guidelines strike due to archiving a JuliusColesV2 video.


 * Late 2015 - 2016 - CodyTheKingofYoutube gets his video "jacksepticeye SUCKS" video removed because youtube is being a pussy once more.


 * Summer 2015 - Dillon the Hacker's second account known as Dillon Prescott Henderson get his channel deleted without any reason.


 * June 17, 2015 - BetterSkatez get a community guidelines strike on his third channel because a video was taken down for spam, it was reinstated a month later.


 * July 2015 - The Fine Bros filed a trademark request on the protection of the word "React"


 * July 2, 2015 - BetterSkatez get his 4th channel suspended without legitimate reason.


 * July 6, 2015 - BetterSkatez gets a second copyright strike on his first and second channel, both channels are in jeopardy. (Adding insult to injury was that it happened before the second copyright strike was a day before expiration on his first channel received in July 2014, The strike was lengthened another 6 months.)


 * July 8, 2015 - Reliable Coaster Critic gets a community guidelines strike for expressing his opinion on Christopher Rahaman.


 * July 9, 2015 - BetterSkatez's second channel gets deleted due to copyright abuse. BetterSkatez's 4th channel was restored.


 * July 10, 2015 - BetterSkatez gets a second community guidelines strike on his first channel putting his channel on a 2 week mute period causing his channel to become vulnerable since it cannot access the video manager, resulting him in creating more accounts.


 * July 14, 2015 - RedGamer75 gets his old youtube account deleted without any reason, It's still banned as youtube refused to give his account back, he's come to discover that youtube's service could be run by bots.


 * July 17, 2015 - BetterSkatez gets his first channel banned, it did not survive the 2 week mute period.


 * August 22, 2015 - BetterSkatez gets a community guidelines strike on his third channel for expressing his own opinion, the appeal got rejected.


 * September 4, 2015 - XExtras 1996 UTTP, Markiplier SUCKS, VanossGaming SUCKS and PewDiePie SUCKS [OFFICIAL], Reliable Coaster Critic and 7 of the 9 standing accounts used by BetterSkatez was removed without any reason, They were reinstated hours later.


 * September 14, 2015 - Universal was sued for abusing youtube's copyright system after a strike was issued against Stephanie Lenz posting a 29-second clip of her 13-month-old son dancing to a Prince song called "Let's go Crazy".


 * Autumn 2015 - KieranStrikesBack1490 gets his channel deleted without reason.


 * Early October 2015 - CuteFuzzyWeasel gets a copyright strike from Time Warner disabling all his features except for custom thumbnails, videos longer than 15 minutes and monetization.

Attention rises

 * November 2015 - ShadowACS gets attacked with 2 copyright strikes, he privated all his videos until the situation gets sorted out.


 * November 9, 2015 - Bobsheaux and I Hate Everything gets a copyright strike by Derek Savage for their review on Cool Cat Saves the Kids.


 * November 28, 2015 - I Hate Everything's channel gets his uploaded video back, after weeks of constant harassment and threats from Derek Savage as I Hate Everything uploaded a video that same day detailing what has happened.


 * December 7, 2015 - MyloTheCat ArchivesVideos get terminated a second time for unknown reasons.


 * December 28, 2015 - Pyrocynical gets two copyright strikes, one from Sam Pepper and the other from vJamahh as youtube mistakes them as being full uploads of videos. Pyrocynical calls these strikes blatant censorship. Months later, It was said by GradeAUnderA that filing false strikes is illegal and these strikes are one of those kind.

2016

 * January 2016 - Xtrojan Reincarnated and Mysterymeat123 gets their channel suspended without reason, hoopsanddinoman constantly deals with videos being claimed and blocked.


 * January 4 - 9, 2016 - GradeA UnderA gets his video "Exposing Fake Pranks" age-restricted though the videos where he used his clips from are not age-restricted.


 * January 5, 2016 - Channel Awesome has been hit with a copyright strike from Studio Ghibli on the Disneycember review on My Neighbor Totoro review leaving all his account features disabled except for Custom Thumbnails and the Youtube Video Editor, CODAWEnlightenmentRoblox gets a copyright strike from Finland Ball for using footage of a SuperMarioLogan video which didn't belong of Finland Ball.


 * January 6, 2016 - hickok45 gets his channel terminated and then reinstated due to the issue of Google+ having stricter rules against firearms.


 * January 7, 2016 - hickok45 gets his channel terminated and then reinstated again.


 * January 8, 2016 - CODAWEnlightenmentRoblox gets another copyright strike from Finland Ball for using a footage that again doesn't belong to Finland Ball, He uploaded a Suicide note the day after and closed his account 2 and a half weeks later, Despite this, He's still alive with a new channel.


 * January 12, 2016 - Snipe and Wib get a copyright strike from ALcot from their gameplay video of My Girlfriend is the President


 * January 17, 2016 - hickok45 makes a video explaining how his channel was terminated.


 * January 19, 2016 - I Hate Everything gets his entire channel deleted for unknown reasons (Accusing him of uploading spam content) because of a take down of a video "Destroying the Little Panda Fighter".


 * January 20, 2016 - I Hate Everything gets his channel reinstated thanks to the help of many people. That same day, Boogie2988 uploaded a video titled "Francis Hates Youtube" that same day mentioning the deletion of I Hate Everything, IDubbbzTV gets hit by a copyright strike from a toy channel. The video's back up, however, it's age-restricted based on YouTube's community guidelines.


 * January 23, 2016 - RageElixir gets his channel deleted without any reason, his comments were false flagged.


 * January 24, 2016 - Alternate History Hub makes a video explaining his issues on youtube when he wasn't able to monetize his videos. Two Weeks prior to the issue, he's received an error when trying to upload his World War II video, Rice Gum gets his channel deleted and then reinstated.


 * January 25, 2016 - Eli the Computer guy makes a video stating that he's leaving youtube (not entirely) because of a Community Guidelines strike he had where his appeal gets denied, The flagged video isn't inappropriate.


 * January 26, 2016 - The Fine Bros announce their launch of React World, A scandal they used they require reactors to share their revenue with them to avoid attacks of copyright abuse from them, It came at a time were about everyone was fed up with the copyright system and people have disagreed with the whole trademark of the word "React" the The Fine Bros have done.


 * January 27, 2016 - RageElixir desperately appeals to I Hate Everything to get his channel back, RageElixir got his channel back that same day with a warning that if he ever gets one more community guidelines or copyright strike, he will get deleted forever without ever having any strikes to begin with.


 * January 28, 2016 - Channel Awesome releases the video titled "What the Hell Youtube?" after 23 days with no monetization and he references others dealing with the youtube issues, Chibi Reviews gets a copyright strike by Tokyo Broadcasting System, deleting 3 of his videos and disabling his monetization and custom thumbnails, The Fine Bros starts losing subscribers as they are being protested against the scandal they use to abuse the copyright system and take money from it. The Black Critic guy uploads his video talking about how broken Youtube's copyright system and community guidelines system are broken, talking in fear this his channel could be shut down the same way. I Hate Everything releases his video titled "YOUTUBE IS A JOKE! (YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS)" explaining the current situation on youtube. Bluedrake42 gets a majority of his videos removed without reason, including those that aren't even public.


 * January 29, 2016 - Channel Awesome gets their monetization back. same goes with Alternate History Hub.


 * February 2016 - Present Day - King Warrior [ATP] constantly flags and harasses MylotheCat and several other youtubers.


 * February 1, 2016 - The Fine Bros lost over 142,606 subscribers that day, and continue to lose subscribers in a rate of about 5000 an hour.


 * February 6, 2016 - African Vulture accidentally given Pyrocynical a copyright strike, she apologized later and plans on retracting the copyright strike.


 * February 8, 2016 - GradeAUnderA uploads a video called "Everything Thats Wrong With Youtube" (The first part) as he states that people are getting unfairly punished without breaking the rules, He does this before he starts getting punished on youtube (Which he never really did get punished)


 * February 9, 2016 - I Hate Everything uploads a video titled "5 EPIC Ways To Be a YouTube Celebrity! ✔" explaining how people could get famous the cheap way with no talent and roasting the most people in that video.


 * February 13, 2016 - Dillon the Hacker gets a second community guidelines strike after his video about Donald Trump gets taken down for Sexual Content and Nudity despite having nothing of it in the video.


 * February 16, 2016 - #WTFU (Where's the Fair Use) trend created by Doug Walker aka The Nostalgia Critic used to fight for fair use.


 * February 22, 2016 - #MakeYoutubeGreatAgain (Which is similar to Donald Trump's #MakeAmericaGreatAgain) trend was created by GradeAUnderA on his video "Everything Thats Wrong With Youtube" (The Second Part) encouraging people to come together and have youtube make their voices heard.


 * February 23, 2016 - TeamFourStar's youtube channel terminated immediately after 4 strikes breaking the 7 day grace period of a channel having 3 copyright strikes. The Incident was mentioned on one of Jim Sterling's video's fighting for fair use.


 * February 24, 2016 - SunBunz makes a video expressing her opinion on youtube's broken copyright system and the unfair censorship of channels. TeamFourStar channel reinstated.


 * February 27, 2016 - Dillon the Hacker makes a video about his issue after his 2 weeks of channel mute is over from the second community guidelines strike.


 * March 4, 2016 - 1980 ACT II UTTP gets a community guidelines strike accusing him as being a bully resulting in closing his own account and making a new one.


 * March 7, 2016 - 1980 ACT II UTTP gets a community guidelines strike without reason and the video removed contained nothing inappropriate.


 * March 8, 2015 - 1980 ACT II UTTP gets his video reinstated.


 * March 9, 2016 - Dillon the Hacker gets his account deleted due to a third strike from a Taylor Swift video which results in his channel being deleted, The video was taken down the same reason his other 2 videos were taken down.


 * March 10, 2016 - XExtras 1996 UTTP get his video removed without reason, he closed his account and opened a new one a day later due to the appeal being rejected. Markiplier SUCKS, VanossGaming SUCKS and PewDiePie [OFFICIAL] Makes a video talking about how much she wants to delete youtube after being mad about Dillon the Hacker being deleted.


 * March 15, 2016 - Pinehoney gets his second youtube account removed because you mistaking it as spam, scams and commercially deceptive content despite having no videos uploaded there.


 * March 16, 2016 - BetterSkatez gets his second channel reinstated after 8 months of it being terminated due to copyright abuse. Pinehoney's little brother get his youtube account banned unfairly.


 * March 17, 2016 - Dillon the Hacker gets his main channel reinstated.


 * March 18, 2016 - Matthew Davis get his video "Top 10 Worst theme songs" blocked worldwide. He uploads a video complaining about it.


 * March 25, 2016 - Markiplier SUCKS, VanossGaming SUCKS and PewDiePie SUCKS [OFFICIAL] has her channel suspended similarly to how I Hate Everything got suspended because a video of his got removed. The Video removed was "PewDiePie SUCKS - The True Evil" even though the video was on topic. I ARE TECH got terminated nearly that same day.


 * March 29, 2016 - XExtras 1996 UTTP gets banned from youtube a second time without any reason.


 * March 30, 2016 - Markiplier SUCKS, VanossGaming SUCKS and PewDiePie SUCKS [OFFICIAL] got his channel reinstated along with the removed youtube video. XExtras 1996 UTTP's channel was also reinstated.

The Calming Period

 * April 2016 - Pacman 80 gets a copyright strike from Dark Paparazzi


 * April 20, 2016 - Krazy Games uploads a video titled "The battle of Krazygames", he mentioned his channel deletion but keeps hopes that he will win the war.


 * April 22, 2016 - TheMysteriousMrEnter gets a copyright strike from 20th Century Fox on his Simpsons Homer Badman episode review, he later whines that he cannot submit his counter notification due to a server error.


 * April 25, 2016 - Jim Sterling performs a copyright deadlock to prevent Nintendo from monetizing his video using content from Metal Gear Solid V, Grand Theft Auto V and Beyond: Two Souls, as well as the song by Erasure known as Chains of Love.


 * April 28, 2016 - Jim Sterling makes a video based on the copyright deadlock.


 * May 2016 - Our Third Life gets suspended for 2 weeks on youtube.


 * May 24, 2016 - Ethan and Hila (h3h3 productions) gets a copyright strike from Matt Hoss leading Ethan and Hila to become sued later in the future.


 * May 25, 2016 - Elton John blocks Mark Dice's video in the UK.


 * June 10, 2016 - An edited version of Stupid Mario Bros episode 28 was uploaded with audio edits due to the original being blocked by Warner Chapel.


 * June 13, 2016 - Anime America gets hit with another copyright strike.


 * Summer 2016 - Soproxi has to deal with copyright claims. (She confuses it with Copyright Strike, which is something people normally confuse for).

Censorship Abuse Period

 * June 28, 2016 - Almost every youtuber loses subscribers due to a glitch that not even youtube knows.


 * July 5, 2016 - DoctorGTA is in critical risk of getting his channel shut down due to a copyright takedown by Machinima, He fears that if he appeals the strike, he could be vulnerable in a lawsuit against them.


 * July 6, 2016 - Weegee Plays gets a community guidelines strike for making a parody on leafyishere, Appeal gets denied and he has to reach out to others to resolve the strike.


 * July 7, 2016 - Fiaura The Tank Girl deals with claims from some revenue stealing companies and VidaextraTV.


 * July 11, 2016 - TheMysteriousMrEnter gets his Norm of the North Review blocked from a random unknown company.


 * July 12, 2016 - GradeAUnderA makes a video on how to become hack proof.


 * July 14, 2016 - BDTV gets more than 4 community guidelines strikes in less then 5 days for reasons such as harassment and bullying, BDTV made a new account and made a video in tears about the scary situation.


 * July 16, 2016 - OfficialDuckStudios gets a community guidelines strike for a very stupid reason. (Claiming his Counter Strike: Global Offensive video contains nudity.) It was removed later on.


 * July 19, 2016 - Headhunter Productions gets a copyright strike from Hybrid, LLC removing 2 of his videos.


 * August 2, 2016 - SoSoSensational gets his channel suspended for near similar reasons I Hate Everything has been suspended. It's still banned.


 * August 8, 2016 - Scarce gets a community guidelines strike for unexplained reasons, the video is back up.


 * August 11, 2016 - BetterSkatez gets a warning from Google+ being threatened that his access to Google+ might be limited for reasoning such as spam, promotional and commercial content, etc.


 * August 12, 2016 - Dabhdude gets his channel terminated due to copyright abuse.


 * August 31, 2016 - Advertiser Friendly Youtube Guidelines become enforced. People make videos about it.

Rising Controversy Period

 * September 20, 2016 - Youtube uploads a video titled "Getting Started with Youtube Heroes" It has been received extremely negative responses as many people feel that the mass flag videos option is gonna cause massive destruction on youtube because butthurt individuals are able to abuse the system.


 * October 1, 2016 - CODAWEnlightenmentRoblox gets another copyright strike from ALcot on his review of Clover Heart's.


 * October 20, 2016 - CODAWEnlightenmentRoblox gets his review video reinstated.


 * October 22, 2016 - MinecraftHater1991 UTTP gets his video removed from youtube.


 * October 23, 2016 - MinecraftHater1991 UTTP gets his appeal rejected.


 * November 2016 - The full upload of the Clover Heart's opening survived more than a decade without copyright abuse from ALcot.


 * November 14, 2016 - Jim Sterling makes a video "Lessons in Five Nights' explaining the unique and more generous way Scott Cawthon (The creator of Five Night's at Freddy's) handles criticism and how it was for the better and explains it was a rather right way to handle it and how filing copyright strikes against negative reviews on games is considered censorship.


 * December 21, 2016 - Rucka Rucka Ali gets his "Everything is Racist" song removed for reasoning such as hate speech and makes a video about it. The video is back up shortly after.


 * January 13, 2017 - The mlgest 420 got his video removed for stupid reasons such as harassment and bullying.


 * January 24, 2017 - The mlgest 420 gets another one of his video removed for stupid reasons such as hate speech.


 * January 30, 2017 - MinecraftHater1991 UTTP gets his joke video removed.


 * February 1, 2017 - MinecraftHater1991 UTTP gets his appeal falsely rejected.


 * February 3, 2017 - MinecraftHater1991 UTTP commits suicide.


 * February 12, 2017 - BlackScreenTV gets his giveaway video removed for spam, scams and deceptive practices.

Lives are being ruined

 * February 13, 2017 - PewDiePie gets harassed by liberal fake news. Disney-owned Maker Studios multi-channel network cut its ties with PewDiePie because of the aforementioned controversy and the additional videos containing anti-Semitic jokes. Season 2 of Scare PewDiePie was cancelled.


 * February 17, 2017 - Markiplier SUCKS, VanossGaming SUCKS and PewDiePie SUCKS [OFFICIAL] gets a video falsely removed for reasons such as scams spams a deceptive practices. Markiplier uploads a video titled "Respect" sharing his concerns for the future of humanity.


 * February 18, 2017 - Markiplier SUCKS, VanossGaming SUCKS and PewDiePie SUCKS [OFFICIAL] gets hrt appeal wrongfully rejected.


 * February 20, 2017 - Roger Stone get his youtube channel terminated without reason.


 * February 23, 2017 - BetterSkatez gets reminded that his google+ account is violating the guidelines while not telling him why.


 * March 5, 2017 - Jim Sterling has to deal with an attempted trademark takedown.