 Alright everyone, what is going on? Welcome back to another video and welcome back to the office. In today's video, I just wanted to touch on a subject I haven't had to touch on before. YouTube has issued me my first ever copyright strike and I don't know what to do about it. Well, I do know what to do about it and that's played the rules for the next three months because once you've got one copyright strike, if in the next three months you get another, that's two and within that three months if you get three, well your channel could well be terminated with nothing you can do about it. So look guys, at the moment I am one third of the way to my channel being terminated and that's a little bit of a worry. So let me explain what happened. Usually when you upload a video it's got copyrighted content in it. A copyright owner will put a claim on your video. Now they have three options. They can either just leave it, they can either track the stats or you know most commonly they can take the revenue from the video. Now even me, I've got probably six or seven videos on YouTube that is using my content and basically it's just people who've downloaded my rugby tutorial videos and then uploaded it on their channel. Straight up you know they haven't made any changes to it, they haven't put any reactions to it, nothing like that and you know I see that and I know that they're not going to be earning a hell of a lot so I just leave it. I just leave it but the likes of NFL, the likes of you know NHL, NCAA, things like that, Rugby, Rugby World Cup, they see videos, they see content that comes up, other people have used their content, they don't like it, they hit it with claims. Now that's fine. What I did recently is I decided to really back the Jaguars like I said and I made full match reactions. That's two hour long videos to the first four games of the season and I absolutely loved it. I put so much effort into those to be on for two hours straight. Commentating on a game, giving my reaction is not easy and I put so much effort into those. It was two hours making the video, it was three hours editing at least, another two hours on the back end, that's seven or eight hours per video and I did four of them so that's at least 30 hours work I put into these. I uploaded them to YouTube, expecting them to get a copyright claim on them but what happened this time is the NFL decided to block them in the US and obviously majority of the viewers that are going to watch that video are in the US. Now that really fucked me off and I tried everything to try and basically beat that claim so that it couldn't get blocked. I tried to speed it up by 1%, I tried to speed it up by 2%, I tried to speed it up by 3%, it wouldn't work. This is the whole entire video I'm talking about. I tried to cut pieces out, nothing would work, the videos would block. I was like, well fucking hell, what am I going to do here? So I decided to write out a really, really detailed, specific paragraph to go and dispute these claims because I really wanted my audience to be able to see these. These were going to be probably my best work for the actual regular season. Full match reactions to the Jaguars. So I went and disputed these claims which is what you can do. If you feel like you are in the right, if you feel like the copyright claims are not valid, if you feel like you've changed the content enough to beat those claims you can dispute it and that's what I've done for a few videos but what I will say is that at one point I had probably 300 claims on videos and I went through and took a whole day, I think it was two days and disputed every single one of those claims. And you know what happened? Nothing. I got nothing out of it. Every single one of my disputes was not seen valid by YouTube and by the NFL. So what happened was I disputed the claims. I didn't really know this because it hadn't happened before but what a copyright claim holder can do, so what the NFL can do is they see me dispute it, then they have the option of either not entertaining the dispute which is what usually happens or they can go one step further and actually request that the video gets removed from YouTube and that's what happened. Luckily it was only on one of the full match reactions. It wasn't on the four. The other three were left alone. Thank God because what happens? Once you dispute a claim and your video gets taken down because of that, that is a copyright strike. That's one copyright strike against your name and against your channel and they don't even tell you about it. I never got, I get an email every single time one of my videos is claimed. I get an email every single time one of my disputes is thrown out but I never got an email telling me that I had a copyright strike on my channel. So one day I logged into my YouTube channel. I saw a little red piece of text up the top and it said one of three copyright strikes with a little bar going across. It was 33% full. I was like, what the fuck is this? I went on there. I found out that the video was taken down. I didn't even know that that video was taken down. I still had three left on my channel but the first one got removed and I got my first copyright strike. So guys, basically I've got to be on my best behavior for the next three months. Or actually you know what? I don't really. All I need to do is just not dispute any of these copyright claims which really annoys me because at the end of the day YouTube has actually really come to the party as far as people doing reaction videos and people doing opinion based videos on other people's content because you are transforming that content. In those two hour reactions I was completely transforming that game, giving my opinion, spreading the game of YouTube around the world especially to Australia and New Zealand. And you know I thought I was doing my part. I thought it was okay but low and behold I basically won't be disputing any more copyright claims because at the end of the day if they do decide sitting in their office I really would love to see the back end of the NFL YouTube channel and see who runs it and how many people they've got and how serious they take these claims and whether they've seen my videos or if my videos just been on a list of heaps of other YouTubers who've used their content and they've just pressed click click click click click delete delete delete delete. Who would know? Who would know unless you actually work for them. So the back end of YouTube is a bit of a secretive old place. I'm still working it all out and this was an experience that just adds to my YouTube experience you know what I mean. At the end of the day I don't really care. It's just a couple of videos but I really, the thing that pisses me off and this is what always pisses me off when videos get blocked is it's not the revenue that I'm missing out on because I don't get fuck all. It's the fact that my audience don't get to see that video and every single video that I upload on my channel I've put a hell of a lot of effort into and that's something I'm proud of. But at the end of the day I'm proud of this too. And whatever YouTube does, whatever fucking NFL does that you can never, you can never take this away. 100,000 subs plaque. I'll always have that. Not many people in the world do. I still feel amazing every time I look at it. It's sitting right here in my office and you know at the end of the day. What's one copyright strike? If I had two I think my live streaming ability gets taken away for three months so that would probably be a bit more of a hit and I'd probably be getting a bit more serious about it but one out of three ain't bad as they say. And look I just wanted to update you guys. It's probably one of the reasons why I haven't been in this office. I haven't really been putting my all into my content lately and the reason why you haven't seen many videos lately is because I've sort of just been taken aback for a couple of weeks after that happened. Just thinking about what to do, thinking about this next stage in my YouTube career, possibly thinking about going away from the whole reaction thing because I need to know that my videos are going to be eligible for YouTube. There's also something else that's happened on the back end of YouTube and that is content that is geared towards children but is produced on the YouTube app rather than the YouTube Kids app. The ad revenue that is going to be directed towards that content is going to be slashed by up to I think up to like 75% or something crazy like that. So channels who are kid related, maybe gaming channels, things like that, toy unboxing channels, possibly vlog channels that include young kids, those channels, unless they do something drastic about changing the way that they produce their content and the way that they target their content, their revenue is going to be slashed but what that means for me being that I'm a channel that's not specifically targeted at kids is the fact that I'm hoping that maybe some of that revenue gets dispersed among us creators that don't have to worry about that. So what that means is that in January 2020 I'm going to be eagerly watching my revenue statistics to see whether the changes are implemented. I know that those kid related channels are either going to have to transfer across to YouTube Kids or they're basically just going to have to take the hit which is unfortunate, it really is but I can also see why and the reason is because basically what was happening, kids were jumping on their parents' accounts whether it was on their phone or their laptop, computer and searching up these accounts whilst signed in to the adult's account and what YouTube has is an age restriction, you can't create a YouTube account unless you're 13 years old and what YouTube was finding is that kids under the age of 13 were jumping on their parents' accounts or getting on it somehow and watching the content that they wanted but then in the related box it was coming up with all this other kind of stuff that was on the main YouTube app and it was basically exposing kids to content that they really shouldn't be exposed to and that's what YouTube kids came in to try and help but people obviously haven't transferred across to YouTube Kids. Now parents out there that want to let their kids watch YouTube, they should be signing in to YouTube Kids and then giving it to their kids to watch but it wasn't happened so YouTube's come in and made this change and basically they've put a box, a tick box on the back end, once you upload a video you either tick whether it's aimed at kids under 13 or not, if you don't tick that you won't be hit by the revenue slashes, if you do tick that obviously you will be hit. Now where the grey area comes in is people who do still upload content that's aimed towards kids but don't tick that box, you're going to be eligible for fines, you're going to be eligible to get your channel terminated, videos, blocks, all that kind of thing and it's just not something you want to mess with so for me going forward I don't tick that box because I don't believe that my content is geared towards kids under 13 and I guess I'm lucky in that respect. So anyways guys, this video is about my YouTube strike, I'm not worried about it but it's something that you just need to, you know, I guess take into account and the fact is that copyright claim holders have the power to issue you with a strike if you dispute the claim. So it's up to you guys what you want to do but I just thought I'd bring the information to my audience because that's what I always do and open an honest way and that's it. So I'll see you guys in the next one. My channel is effectively one third of the way to being terminated, that's a fucking scary thought but unless I get to two thirds of the way I'm honestly not worried whatsoever. So with that being said I wish you guys a good day and peace out.