I can speak as someone who's been personally affected by this. I've been making silly videogame videos since I was like ten years old (seriously, used to do a "gaming news show" called GAMING 411 with my friends in my basement, we had a whiteboard and everything. I rode in on my heelies because I was just the coolest kid, you know?). My old channel had somewhere around 500 subscribers, which isn't huge or anything, but it was pretty good for my goofy 14 year old voice talking over TF2. Then I used an old Flintstones Traffic Safety commercial and got a claim. I was just thinking hey, this is really silly and absurd, so I refuted the claim, then Youtube decided to destroy my entire channel for good just because of that. FUN STUFF MAN.
I have a new channel now, but if I get auto claimed for something silly (like using a portion of a TV show intro from the 80's and heavily editing and transforming it, yup) then my video can get blocked everywhere and I literally can't do anything about it because that would risk having my entire channel permanently deleted. Youtube's copyright system is utter bullshit.
I have a new channel now, but if I get auto claimed for something silly (like using a portion of a TV show intro from the 80's and heavily editing and transforming it, yup) then my video can get blocked everywhere and I literally can't do anything about it because that would risk having my entire channel permanently deleted. Youtube's copyright system is utter bullshit.