 Alright folks, yesterday was the game awards and there's a whole lot we could talk about. We did a 4 hour live stream, most of it being the event, a little bit of a pre-show. We did some reactions at the time and there's actually quite a bit of news we could talk about today. After all, the MPD report came out today and we learned some really interesting things. PlayStation 5 had the best launch in terms of unit sales and dollar sales in the history of home consoles and Nintendo Switch is still on top. Of course we knew that yesterday because Nintendo announced that Nintendo Switch is still on top in terms of unit sales, it sold the most amount of units in November. So cool, let me talk about that, how wrong I was about my predictions, it's okay. But what I want to actually focus on is an aspect that needs to get better, an aspect I expected, but an aspect of covering these events that needs to change. And I don't know how it can change. I just know that it needs to. So the game awards, whether you liked it or hated it, was massively advertised across the internet. Not just the official streams, which I'm sure did record numbers, I think Jeff Keely said the official streams did record numbers. There was also a record number of watchers through co-streams. And for those who don't know, co-streams are basically people like me that are streaming the event to my audience with my live reactions. Just live reactions, right? We do this all the time. We do it for E3, we do it for Nintendo Directs, we do it for Stata Plays, all that jazz. We try to do it across all the major events in the industry. And it's because it's interesting to see when you don't know what's going to happen how that your favorite content creator, live streamer, whatever is going to react. Plus, you get to come together as a smaller community instead of jamming hundreds of thousands and millions of people into one stream and one chat where you don't know anyone. You can come together in a community and also talk to other people in that community and react kind of together in the chat. So it's a really nice community driven event that also benefits obviously the original event. So it's common for these streams to happen. Now there are some things that you just accept when you are streaming these events. In E3, if you stream Ubisoft's press conference, you know you're going to get a copyright strike and or copyright claims or both. This is primarily because of the game Just Dance 2021, 2022, 2023, et cetera, Just Dance is a game that uses a bunch of copyrighted music. It leads to copyrighted music being played during the Ubisoft stream and you just kind of know if you stream it, you're going to have those issues and have to deal with them. And sometimes they crop up with other companies as well and you get strikes and this is really frustrating during E3 because if your channel gets strike on YouTube in particular, you literally can't stream for the rest of E3 and if you get a couple strikes, you can't upload either. So it's just, it's really frustrating and really infuriating, but it's also known and it's something we've been wanting as content creators to get better. But the problem with the game awards is that Jeff Keely went out of his way to create a co-streaming program. He went out of his way to advertise, promote and get people like me to stream the event. He wanted all content creators, no matter what platform it was on, in particular he targeted Twitch and YouTube to stream or co-stream the event. They provided official assets for it. They provided artwork, like my starting soon splash screen was provided by them. My entire stream layout was provided by them. They provided early access to some information. It was really cool. It was a really neat thing to do. It made people like me feel like we're part of the game awards too. And I think it helped make the community feel like we're all part of the game awards as well, even if you didn't like the awards. This isn't a criticism of whether or not you enjoyed the awards themselves or the show. But when you're doing that, you can't have things like this happen. This is my email last night. YouTube copyright claim was created for content in the game awards. Oh, for the Smash character. Wait, that's my title. Oh, wait, it is over the potential Smash character, I think. What's it got here? Oh, right. It's not a copyright strike, but this video had a copyright claim. Okay? Let me look. Another copyright claim. Well, this one gives you even more details. It tells you exactly what was claimed. Here we go. The most wonderful time of the year copyright claimed. First incident, no choir copyright claimed. Copyright claimed by two people. Add reference. Geez. Oh, look. Federal portals to earth copyright claim for follow such unfollow by OFK live from the game awards. Huh. Okay. Oh, look, more copyright claims that I didn't even open yet. Future Guardian. Let's see here. Copyright claim. Rune instrumental. Even instrumentals were getting copyright claimed. It takes two, obviously, that game and that entire song in that game was going to be copyright claimed. Mantra. These are 10 plus and I have another email chain of copyright claims from the game awards. Now, who really cares, right? Who really cares about copyright claims? The video gets to stay live. Oh, no, I can't make ad revenue move on with your day. And that's fine. You know, we had people donate during the stream and all that. You get to keep all those super chats and that. But the problem with copyright claims is that any point from now to the end of my channel's life, a copyright claim can turn into a strike. I have had strikes from copyright claims that happened five E3s ago on this channel before it was even Nintendo Prime. I've had a copyright strike from a stream or video that had copyrighted music from back then. Strikes are bad on YouTube. Okay. On Twitch, if you have copyrighted music, you can not only get your stream deleted after the fact and any clips from that stream deleted after the fact. You can lose your ability to stream. On YouTube, you can get a strike, which the first one gets rid of streaming. Second one limits your ability to upload content and blocks you for a bit. Third one, your channel's deleted. So like, it's a very serious thing on these platforms. And my issue isn't that the copyright holders can't copyright claim music. The issues are that if you are going to have this massive major event, right? This huge event that you are actively trying to get people like me to cover and co-stream where you know there's copyrighted music. You as a showrunner need to ensure there is zero copyrighted music put into the event. Because you can't control YouTube. You can't control the copyright holders that are going to do whatever they can to get as much money as possible. And you can't control, you know, Twitch as well in the way their filters work. What you can control is if there's music in your event that can be copyright claimed in the first place. You cannot have copyrighted music in an event like this when, when, and this isn't me criticizing E3 and Ubisoft like that's fine. They're not advertising people to co-stream. This is where Jeff Keely reached out to my personal email and asked me if I would co-stream the event. If you are going to push for creators to co-stream, to co-stream the event, you can't then have an event that could potentially mass delete all the creators down the line. You can't do that. It's actively working against us. Now you guys as a community don't have to care about this. It's not something you guys could just go watch the original stream. You don't have to watch co-streams. You know it's whatever. But if you care about content creators, you should care. This is my number one criticism of the Game Awards this year. It's not even about the show. It's that Jeff Keely pushed this year, pushed huge for co-streaming. Only for all of us to deal with copyright claims. All of us to potentially deal with strikes. And you know what makes this worse? In the United States there is a bill currently being pressed where any infringement of copyright which would include copyright claims on YouTube and Twitch and it's actually particularly targeting YouTube and Twitch could be considered a felony in the United States. Now I don't know if that bill is going to get passed. I think it's a long shot for that bill to really get passed because now you're going after the American people and I'm not so sure that that's something that any senators would want to back no matter how much money is thrown behind it. But it is a situation where there's a realistic chance sometime in the next handful of years that a strike isn't what we're actually worried about. We have to worry about being charged with felonies and going to jail. Because somebody else that pushed us to co-stream it allowed copyrighted music to be part of that stream affecting us. This is something that has to change in the industry. I could talk about how the greater YouTube and Twitch sphere and the music publishers need to change things. But they're just taking advantage of the tools available and the laws that are out there. We can't expect copyright holders to change their behavior as much as we want them to. We beg Nintendo to change their behavior with how they treat it. You know that charity fund with how they treat the smash community. We beg them but ultimately if they're within their legal rights they're going to do what they can do. What you can control is if there's anything that needs to have this happen in the first place. Healy is in express control of the entire game awards. The entire game awards. He if he gets a trailer like for It Takes Two which clearly was going to use the music It Takes Two which is copyrighted right. He knows this. He's seen the trailer. He has to go back to Yo Yusuf and be like hey I understand this song perfectly fits and it's probably even in the game but for the purpose of the game awards and supporting content creators we cannot allow this trailer to have a copyrighted song in it. You need to pick something out of the YouTube music library or out of some free library out there that isn't going to enable copyright claims. Just for the purpose of this trailer you're free to release an updated trailer with that song after the event if you would like. It's not that hard. It's not that hard to not have copyrighted music in this event and it is on Jeff Healy to make sure that doesn't happen if and only if he's going to push for co-streaming and you know he's going to because Jeff Healy is trying to reach as wide of an audience as possible which means co-streaming is a massive benefit for the event. So this is just my public plea to let the fans know what's happening. I talked about it during the stream. I didn't recognize every instance I was going to get claimed but there was a particular point where like it was like three consecutive trailers had three consecutive songs and music and this includes songs that can appear in some of the ads in the show. Three consecutive trailers at one point had copyrighted music and I'm like oh boy. And then you have like people that are just screaming mute mute there was already five seconds played at that point muting is not going to change anything. Oh just go back and re-edit. You know how hard it is to go back and edit out a small clip from a four hour live stream. This isn't some short event like a 15 minute internal direct. This is a long event. You know how long it takes. Just delete the stream after. Well then what the hell was the point of live reaction to a stream if people can't go back and watch your reactions if they weren't able to attend the event live. What the hell is the point? And deleting the stream after doesn't change the fact that you got those strikes. I can still or got those claims it can still turn into strikes later it it's I'm not going to blame YouTube I'm not going to blame Twitch I'm not going to blame the copyright holders I'm literally I'm blaming Jeff Keely. I love you Keely man I've been following you for a long time. We all have to talk about how Nintendo is out of touch with how the internet works you're out of touch with how this works for us streamers. Twitch has been cracking down on this stuff like crazy this year YouTube has been cracking down for years. Jeff Keely do better if you want co-streamers do better now this is where I throw my final disclaimer in I knew this was going to happen I didn't know because I knew what music was going to be used or what trailers are going to be shown I didn't know that but it happens every time the only time it doesn't happen is like a Nintendo Direct but pretty much any other thing that you stream has copyrighted music in it when it comes to these video game events so I kind of expected it but there's always that thing in the back of my mind where it's like you know they were really heavily promoting people like me do this you realize you're promoting that people like me do something that could ruin you know if this was my career could ruin my career could ruin my hobby can ruin my channel so nothing we can do about it at this point it's already come it's already happened it's already done the claims aren't going to get rescinded I guarantee that's not going to happen Ubisoft tries to get claims rescinded with theirs every single year and the most they usually can do is if it's a strike they can get the company to reduce it from a strike but they usually can't get the actual copyright claim rescinded I want to see these events done better if you're going to lean on the creator community to help promote your events that's all that's all I'm saying I feel like there is a professional responsibility for Jeff Keely in this case with the game awards to make sure the event is actually streamer friendly because right now there's going to be a point where streamers might start to ignore the game awards especially if laws get passed that turn this stuff into felonies we are being asked to cover something is like we're going to be asked to commit a crime because we know deep dinner in our memory that hey every time we've covered this we got copyright claim why should we change now not like why like why cover it now when it's a felony anyways thank you guys so much for tuning in I'm the thing Robert Jansson from the center prime got plenty of positive gaming stuff to cover lots of you know sales numbers and game awards cool this you know there's some cool trailers that came out lots of cool things to talk about but for now I just needed to get this off my chest because it's just frustrating and I want it to be done better and it's not going to be done better by ignoring it all right folks I'll catch you in the next video