 Okay, so I wasn't gonna make this video because I genuinely thought that I messed up. I thought this was a mistake on my end. I used a copyrighted image in a video so I got a strike on the channel. But then I checked the copyright strike at the timestamp that YouTube gave me and I genuinely think this could be the worst thing to ever happen to the back room's community and to people who do videos on little spaces and just YouTube in general because we all know how messed up the copyright strike system is here on YouTube but I did not think it could get this bad. I'm gonna show you all what happened and I genuinely just don't understand how someone can copyright strike this. This is awful. Okay, so here is the strike detail thing. It was in a video that I made last December for Brugmas, if you can see and the strike is from Giant Food and from Burtonsville, Maryland. There was a strike out of the channel. The video was removed and it's, and I was with the monitors. I don't care about this stuff. This stuff doesn't matter to me. This is not the problem. Copyright strike should exist, yes, and things should be able to be taken down but I just wanna show you exactly what they're trying to strike. So they have the segment 18 seconds to 31 seconds and they're saying that this was a copyrighted image or copyrighted content in some way and I just want you to watch the, I'm not to blur it in the video but I want you to watch this so I don't get struck on this one but here we go, 18 seconds. Terrify you and if you don't have that fear, well, you're probably still like the video, I hope. Anyways, thank you for watching. Let's get into the video, shall we? Check the top link in the description for Brookly Merch, use code BRUGMIS for 10% off. Thank you. Okay, tell me in this 18 seconds to 31 second segment where there was copyrighted material because in that 18 seconds, all you could see was the glimpse of this image and that was only for half a second and the rest of the time it is my character, it is lights and a blurred background of a random grocery store aisle with no logos, no marketing, it is literally a heavily blurred image and not only that, not only that, no it doesn't end there. Here, well, you're probably still like the video, I hope. Anyways, thank you, it's my character again with a Santa Claus hat. Thank you for watching, all custom content. Let's get into the video, shall we? Check the top link in the description and then a shameless plug from myself for my own store, my own merch store for the last five seconds of this designated time state. Thank you for the description for Brookly Merch, use code BRUGMIS for 10% off. Thank you. Tell me where in that content is not custom, tell me where I'm copyrighting in this content. This is the image that they're saying that I got the copyright strike for. This image is not the same as the image in the clip before. This is the image before that could have been copyrighted because they did from 18 to 31. This is at 17, this is not the same image. You can literally tell easily. This image has a red shelf, the lights are visible, there's light bars visible. This has no red shelf, there's one light bar visible and you can't see what's actually in there. So even if this was the copyrighted image, and for some reason they just messed up the timestamp, this still is not the same image as the one used on here, which is licensed as a CC by SA2. So this image is the copyrighted image from the giant food, this is the one that did the copyright strike, but they should have done it for this image. This image is not, is not this image at all. So that completely nullifies the entire timestamp because even if, like I said, even if it was a second before, this is not the image, not even the same one. It's crazy, bro. So from this 18 second to 31 second, there is half a second of an image that, and if they might have claimed, but even if they did, they should have claimed the timestamp before, like this, like 12 to 18. If you have a fear of being stuck in a, this is not copyrighted, this is an old image with again, no descript logos, no copyright from the holder, because at 18 seconds it's gone. So what are, what is between 18 and 31 seconds? And if you don't, that is something that is able to be copyrighted. I genuinely want someone from YouTube or somebody that's like a guru on this to tell me in these, in these seconds, have that fear. Well, you're probably still, which part of this is not custom content. My character is custom. This is custom, like the video, I hope. And half of this timestamp doesn't mean just shelling my own merch for people from my own store. Let's get to the video, shall we? Check the top. Look at this. Over half of this is literally just my store with nothing else. And if they're trying to copyright the background, it's completely blurred out. There's no logos. And this is just a random image of a grocery store aisle. What can you do on YouTube if you're not safe from just using a picture of a grocery store aisle with no logos? This is a non-descript freezer section. But say that this strike is valid. Say that I actually messed up. Say that, you know, this is whatever they can copyright strike the video, give a strike to the channel. What does that mean for the rest of the back rooms and the liminal space community? Can anybody that took a picture of a random liminal space or a store or a movie theater, can anybody just copyright strike someone for using that even though it's non-descript? It's just a random thing. Can I go inside of a movie theater, take a picture of the hallway being empty and then file a copyright and then somebody uploads a picture I can strike their entire channel? That doesn't make any sense. Like this image in Wendigoon's latest, you know, Crypto's Iceberg video. What if the owner of this image just came to his channel and struck it for him using it for like 10 seconds? Or the picture of the skunk ape? That's a famous image, just like all these liminal space images are. What if somebody struck his video for doing that? Or literally any of, like, any of these images. I mean, they're not credit in the description. So like, what is protecting a creator from something like this? And I can understand copyright claiming the video if there was claimed content, such as that picture. You know, like, even if that picture was the proper picture from the Wikidot, they could have claimed the video, but they strike the video instead. A claim is not a strike. You know, they just, they could split the money from a claim, but a strike is, you know, endangering to the channel as a whole. So tell me why as, you know, a YouTuber, and I know other YouTubers have gone through this, there's no safeguard. There's no protection from people striking channels because of stuff like this. How are people allowed to strike channels over a nondescript random blurred image in the background? I didn't think that was the case. I didn't think that was possible on YouTube. I know I sound like a whiny little turd right now, but it's just frustrating to me that this is this current state of YouTube. Like, what even is this? I really understand. Like, yes, that image at 17 seconds could have been copyrighted, but that wasn't what they were striking. That wasn't the image that has the copyright CC by SA from the Wikidot. That was a different image. It wasn't even the same thing. I just want to know when it stops. Like, what if somebody copyrights background level zeros picture? What if somebody wants to strike every single channel that's uploaded a picture of that? Like, what's stopping them from doing it? There's nothing stopping them. And that's, that should terrify everybody. Because at that point, there's nobody checking, nobody balancing any of this. And the strikers can just go willy-nilly and take down entire channels if they wanted to. All right, that's my rant. I'm sorry y'all to see this video. Leave a like if you just hate the situation. I do. Like I said, even if I messed up, you know, I want to own up to it, but I genuinely don't understand how I can own up to something like this that I really don't think I did. Now, if I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. That's on me at that point. But I genuinely don't see how 18 to 31 seconds can be copyright struck. Let me know in the comments what y'all think. Share those with your friends and family. Maybe they'll get a good laugh out of it. I don't know. Hope you'll have a great day. This is just a random ranting video. There's not really many videos like this on my channel. I try to keep it lighthearted and fun here, but when stuff like this happens, I just get kind of mad. Anyways, love y'all and appreciate you so much. I have the best fan base ever, seriously. Thank you all. I will see you in a few days in the next video. Peace.