Im Getting Harrased and My Life Threatened

Summary

In a powerful and emotionally charged video, Nicholas Light TV discusses his ongoing battle with copyright strikes on YouTube. Expressing frustration and anger towards Japanese labels and corporations, he reveals how these entities exploit the copyright system to harass and threaten creators like himself. Highlighting specific instances where videos were struck down, including one that wasn't even public, Nicholas argues that the system is unfairly biased against smaller creators. He contrasts this with his positive experiences on Patreon, where the platform cooperates with him to resolve issues. With his livelihood at stake, Nicholas vows not to back down without a fight, seeking justice against what he perceives as a flawed and discriminatory system.

Highlights

• Nicholas is at his wit’s end with copyright strikes affecting his channel. 😤
• Japanese labels are targeting his videos, causing immense stress. 😱
• Despite disputes, the system feels rigged against creators like him. 🎭
• He highlights Patreon as a platform that supports and values creators. 🌟
• Nicholas vows to continue battling against unjust copyright enforcement. ⚔️

Key Takeaways

• Copyright strikes are severely impacting Nicholas Light TV's channel. 🎯
• The strikes are seen as an abuse of the system, especially by Japanese companies. 🚫
• Nicholas emphasizes the unfairness of threatening creators without proper warnings. ⚠️
• Patreon offers a more creator-friendly approach to copyright issues. 🤝
• Nicholas remains determined to fight and protect his channel. 🔥

Overview

Nicholas Light from Nicholas Light TV opens up about the ongoing harassment he faces due to copyright strikes on his videos. In his passionate and fiery address, he calls out YouTube and Japanese companies for exploiting the system to selectively target creators like him. With his second channel now at risk from strikes over videos that fall under fair use, Nicholas expresses deep frustration and anger over what he sees as an unfair system stacked against the little guys out there.

The video sheds light on the mental and emotional toll these copyright issues have had on Nicholas. He describes the anxiety and panic of potentially losing a channel he's dedicated years to building, which supports his livelihood. This frustration is compounded by a lack of direct communication from YouTube, where reaching a human for help seems impossible. In contrast, Nicholas praises Patreon for its proactive support and creator-focused approach, illustrating a stark difference in platform policies.

Despite the overwhelming stress, Nicholas maintains his resolve to fight back, not willing to back down against what he perceives as a wrongful and targeted attack on his content. His call for a fair and transparent process underscores the broader struggle many creators face on platforms like YouTube. By voicing his experience, Nicholas hopes to rally others to push for change and protect the creative freedom of content creators everywhere.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Frustration with YouTube The chapter starts with the speaker expressing their deep frustration and anger towards YouTube, focusing particularly on copyright issues. The speaker feels that YouTube does not care about their creators, especially concerning the misuse of the copyright system by certain corporations, such as Japanese labels. These corporations selectively target certain creators, including the speaker, by abusing and harassing them, potentially leading to channel termination. This experience is causing significant distress and dissatisfaction for the speaker.
• 00:30 - 01:30: Copyright Strikes and Disputes The chapter 'Copyright Strikes and Disputes' discusses the narrator's experience with receiving two copyright strikes on their second channel. One of the strikes was related to a reaction video for a solo leveling OST by Hiroyuki Sano, which the narrator believed to be a fair use case and did not expect to generate much revenue. Despite expressing admiration for Sano's music, the narrator emphasizes the video was a 'harmless reaction.' The chapter highlights issues surrounding fair use and copyright claims on digital content.
• 01:30 - 02:30: Abuse of the Copyright System The chapter discusses how some copyright holders abuse the copyright system on platforms like YouTube. The narrator describes a situation where they received a copyright strike, potentially leading to the termination of their channel, without any prior warning. They explain the process of disputing such claims, noting that if the copyright holder doesn't respond within 10 days, the claim is typically resolved in favor of the video creator. The narrator shares their consistent success in these disputes. They critically highlight how copyright holders exploit fear tactics to intimidate creators.
• 02:30 - 03:30: Issues with Drafted Videos The chapter discusses issues related to "drafted videos" and touches on the experience of facing legal threats such as copyright strikes. The speaker describes a personal strategy of disputing these strikes, noting that although threatened with dire consequences such as getting sued or having content removed, they consistently manage to retain the rights to their videos. The chapter highlights the speaker's resilience in not being intimidated by these tactics and their successful outcomes when calling the bluff of those imposing the strikes, who often back down due to potential legal fees.
• 03:30 - 05:00: Lack of Support from YouTube This chapter discusses the issues faced by content creators on YouTube regarding copyright strikes. The speaker expresses frustration at receiving copyright strikes for content that is still in draft form and not publicly accessible. The chapter emphasizes the high costs associated with resolving such strikes and critiques the system for potentially being abused, leading to unnecessary expenses for creators over trivial content.
• 05:00 - 06:30: Comparison with Patreon The narrator discusses encountering copyright strikes for their reactions to an anime and music by Ado, despite Ado and her team appreciating and enjoying the content. The narrator expresses frustration over being targeted for copyright issues even though they have a positive relationship with Ado and her team. This situation raises questions about the inconsistency and fairness of copyright enforcement.
• 06:30 - 08:30: Personal Impact and Future Concerns The chapter titled 'Personal Impact and Future Concerns' illustrates the author's experience with copyright issues on YouTube. The author recounts an incident that occurred a few years prior, involving a copyright strike against one of their Bleach OST reaction videos. Although the video was only in draft form, it was still struck by Shiro Sagisu, an artist associated with Bleach. The author expresses frustration towards 'suits and ties,' accusing them of exploiting the copyright system due to the assumption that the author lacks legal representation, despite being related to a lawyer.
• 08:30 - 10:30: Frustration with Being Targeted The speaker expresses frustration about being frequently targeted by copyright claims, noting that they are related to a top lawyer, which makes them feel like they should be the wrong person to target. They question why similar things do not seem to happen to other reaction channels, highlighting a constant barrage of claims and threats that they have to deal with regularly. This ongoing harassment is leaving them exasperated and questioning what sets them apart from others in their field.

Im Getting Harrased and My Life Threatened Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 I've had it absolutely at my limit. I'm furious. I'm angry. I'm pissed off. YouTube does not care about their creators. I'm sick of these goddamn copyright holders, these Japanese labels and corporations overseas that abuse the copyright system and selectively choose who they want to harass and terminate. And I am one of those people. They are selectively abusing and harassing and trying to
• 00:30 - 01:00 terminate. My second channel just now got two copyright strikes. One video was for a solo leveling OST that maybe made $5 because nobody gives a [ __ ] about that OST and they care even less about my reaction to that OST by Hiroyuki Sano. No disrespect to them. I [ __ ] love their music. But it was a harmless reaction which falls under fair use. copyright strike. Not even a claim to
• 01:00 - 01:30 claim the $20 that I was going to make from that video. Not even a warning. They send a copyright strike to terminate my channel. Okay, whatever. I'll dispute it. And they say in 10 days if the other side doesn't answer, then you win. You get the video and uh they back off. Always happens. And guess what? Whenever that happens, I always win. You know why? Because these goddamn stupid [ __ ] copyright holders, you know what they do? They scare you. They use these
• 01:30 - 02:00 scary words like lawyers and lawyer uh get a lawyer and uh uh uh you're going to get sued and terminated. You know what they do? They copyright strike your video in in hopes that you won't dispute it. But I always do because I'm not going to get pushed around like a [ __ ] That's not me, bro. So, I dispute it and in 10 days I get the rights to the video. Always happens. They never fight back because they don't want to pay the lawyer fees. The lawyer
• 02:00 - 02:30 fees will cost them literally thousands and thousands of dollars for what? A $20 video? Are you [ __ ] serious? No, they're not going to do that. So, why copyright strike me in the first place? Why do that? It makes no [ __ ] sense to me. It's abuse of the system. I woke up this morning and I got a second copyright strike for a video that was drafted. A video that wasn't even privated or public. It was literally a draft of an ado song an opening she did
• 02:30 - 03:00 for an anime that I don't even know the [ __ ] name of. I got a copyright strike from that. Meanwhile, Ado herself watches my reactions. Her team watches my reactions. They've literally been in contact with me. I wasn't able to talk about that for a while, but now I could talk about it because I'm not under contract or anything. They watch my reactions. They appreciate me. They enjoy me. So, tell me, why the [ __ ] am I being targeted and copyright struck for that? Literally, two copyright strikes for a drafted video that's not even
• 03:00 - 03:30 public or privated. It is drafted. And I got a copyright strike. This happened uh a few years ago with Bleach. I did a Bleach OST reaction that was drafted and Shiro Sagisu, which is I think a singer or a producer on Bleach copyright strike my channel for it for a drafted video. I'm not saying he did it. It's these [ __ ] suits and ties that don't know a goddamn thing about copyright that want to strike me and abuse the system because they think I don't have a lawyer. I'm literally related to one.
• 03:30 - 04:00 Not only am I related to a lawyer, I'm related to one of the top lawyers in the goddamn country. So, I am the wrong person to [ __ ] with. I am so sick of this happening to me. This happens to literally nobody else. Do you all hear any other reaction channels going through this [ __ ] Every [ __ ] day, every [ __ ] week. Copyright. I wake up every single morning. I either get five copyright claims or a threat or or some other [ __ ] And I'm so goddamn sick of it. What do I do differently from
• 04:00 - 04:30 everybody else? I put the little um transparency screen on my reactions. YouTube does nothing. They do nothing. You know what they do? They do this. They send you a bot reply. We hear your frustration. You don't hear my [ __ ] frustration. You don't even have ears because you're a robot. You're a robot. That's what I'm dealing with. I can't speak to a human. There's no way to contact YouTube. There's no way to call them. There's no way to message them without talking to somebody from another [ __ ] country that doesn't speak your language or it's a goddamn
• 04:30 - 05:00 robot. It's absolutely ridiculous. And then I'm supposed to sit here every [ __ ] day in worry and panic that I could lose my career. I could lose my channel that I've worked years and years on that literally provides for me and my wife. My wife that I just married maybe a little under than two months ago. I just got our wedding pictures today and I can't even be [ __ ] happy because of this because my career could be at risk. I feel like I am screaming at a wall right now. I'm screaming at the clouds
• 05:00 - 05:30 right now. Like nobody's going to fix this. YouTube's always going to be like this. How many creators that are not reaction channels, but creators on the platform have had to complain about [ __ ] like this. Why copyright strike a person's video if you're not going to follow through with it? Why put them through that panic and mental stress and depression that they could lose their channel? If you're just going to make them wait the 10 days so you don't reply and you give the rights to the to the creator. Now, why do that? Why not just have a system where the person says,
• 05:30 - 06:00 "Hey, we don't want this video up. Can you delete it? Can you remove it? We'll give you 24 hours." Fine, I'll do it. I don't want to risk my channel. I don't care that much about the goddamn video. I'll remove it. Thank you for warning me. But no, they go straight for trying to delete my my channel, my existence, my [ __ ] voice. And that is wrong. That is abuse. That's harassment in my book. I don't care what anybody says. You know what website cares about their creators? Patreon. You know why? A few years ago, I was in Japan, right? I
• 06:00 - 06:30 think it was like two years ago, Patreon reached out to me and said, "We just got a copyright notice from I I don't know, whoever handles Hunter Hunter, right? Um, they don't want your content on this platform. Could you please fix this for us before they remove it?" They warned me. They were on my side. They care about their creators. They put me first. They warned me. And you know what I did? I removed all of it. It was gone. and my whole page was fine. Why can't YouTube
• 06:30 - 07:00 literally do the same? It makes no sense, bro. I just got married. I have a house. This is my job. Just like you have your own job. Imagine you had to live in fear every [ __ ] day that you're just going to get let go. I have no like benefits or anything. This is strictly me. If my channel gets terminated, that's it. That's [ __ ] it. It's not like I could complain to somebody, but nah, if that ever happens, I'm getting my lawyers on my side and we're winning that [ __ ] immediately. But I don't want to I don't want to have to
• 07:00 - 07:30 go through that because then I have months and months and months of silence, months and months and months of no content, and I don't want to do that, man. It'll cause me to jump off a bridge or some [ __ ] to be honest with you guys. And I'm just so [ __ ] fed up. I think you can see it in my face. You can hear it in my voice. You can see my Italian New York coming out of me. It's because I'm so goddamn sick of this [ __ ] I'm so goddamn sick of YouTube, man. And I know what people will say. Oh, the second you react to anime, it's Japan, blah, blah, blah. That doesn't matter. That doesn't matter, guys. I
• 07:30 - 08:00 literally have lawyers on my side telling me what I'm saying to you right now. Why copyright strike me? If you're just going to wait 10 days just to give it to me, what's the [ __ ] point? Just give me a warning. Tell me, delete the video, please. Or delete the video in 24 hours. You don't even got to be nice. delete the [ __ ] video. They could even say that and I'll do it. Just give me a heads up. Just give me a warning. This is my life. Imagine I just send a [ __ ] air strike through your building with no warning. That's what they're doing to me. This isn't even a promotion
• 08:00 - 08:30 for Patreon. But if you want my content, guys, head on over there. All my content gets uploaded over there. Daily content, movies, anime, reactions, music. I get untouched over there. Nobody [ __ ] with me over there because Patreon puts me first. They know that I help them and that's why they help me. It's a team. YouTube is not a team. It's a one-sided relationship. And it's me and it's a bunch of [ __ ] cucks on the other side, which is YouTube. They sit there and they they bend over for Japan. They
• 08:30 - 09:00 bend over for these record labels. They bend over for them and they take it right up their [ __ ] ass and they laugh because they're a bunch of [ __ ] That's why. And people are like, "Oh, why aren't you having your bleach reactions? Where's D Blood War? I gotta deal with people like literally crowding my comments every day about oh and he dropped thousand-y year blood war. No, no, no. YouTube dropped it. YouTube dropped it. Me getting copyright strike by Shiro Shigisu. That's what stopped it. Not blaming him, by the way. He's like in his [ __ ] 70s. He's not
• 09:00 - 09:30 over here like, "Oh, Nicholas Flight. I got to get him down." He's not doing that, man. I'm just pissed. How many times do we have to [ __ ] say that? And it's not going to be a fix. This is going to keep happening because YouTube are full of a bunch of [ __ ] [ __ ] cucks and they're just going to take it up the ass from these business suits and ties and it's never going to stop. I could literally lose my channel right now. You know, one more strike, I'm gone. Three strikes and you're out. And that's what's about to happen to me. And if that's the case, man, that's [ __ ] crazy. That's all the time,
• 09:30 - 10:00 love, passion I put into my videos. Like, y'all see it. I don't give a [ __ ] man. You know how many people hate me just for being me? Oh, he's too much. He's overreacting. Bro, I could easily be another [ __ ] reaction channel that just sits there like, "Wow, wow, that was cool." Those channels get untouched. They don't add any level of entertainment, but but they get untouched. I get [ __ ] touched. I get hit. Are out of all of these content
• 10:00 - 10:30 creators, out of all of these reaction channels, I'm the one they choose to hit. Are you serious? I'm the one transforming the content more than anybody else in my niche. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I truly believe that. I tried to add a level of comedy, a level of entertainment, providing that for y'all. You know why? Because I want to be different. I I I I want to be a a creator, an entertainer, a comedian, a YouTuber. I don't want to just be a random guy named Nick looking at the goddamn screen. I want to be so much more, man. And I'm [ __ ] fed up with
• 10:30 - 11:00 this [ __ ] [ __ ] fed up, man. And if they ever take it to the level of targeting me and deleting my channel, I'm not going to bend over like they do. Uh uh uh no no no no. They ain't winning that one. And I promise you that.