Anonymous asked: Rev, have you heard of the Where's The Fair Use movement? Because TeamFourStar (the makers of DBZ Abridged), had their ENTIRE CHANNEL taken down without warning earlier today. #WTFU
#WTFU is a critical issue to me. For those of you that don’t know what anon is referring to please go watch this video https://youtu.be/zVqFAMOtwaI he explains it better than I can.
I try not get into the back end stuff of YouTube because most of it is boring stuff but this is something that has been going on for a while and it effects us at Vinesauce as well. Some of my most popular videos are copyright claimed by illegitimate companies but because they don’t actually have to verify they own it these companies get away with it.
Videos of mine that have been claimed illegally include:
Some Frozen flash games
GTA Vice city
All Nintendo content
Shoppe Keep
Ride to Hell Retribution
The hearthstone match against hootey.
And many many more.
Frozen flash games do use copyrighted music from time to time so those could me legit but the other are interesting. Let me break it down.
GTA: The radio in GTA is part of the game and should be considered fair use but YouTube is to limp dicked to actually back up creators on this. This is why the music was off most of the stream.
Nintendo: Nintendo is extremely backward in its methods and actively attacks content creators illegally. This is why there is so little Nintendo content on my channel. Every Nintendo video on my channel could get claimed at best and at worst could create a strike to shut down the channel.
Shoppe keep: this is an interesting example of how YouTube is broken. Companies claiming to represent the creators claimed the videos this is after the devs said they encourage lets plays and streams. Some how a company that was not a representative of the developers uploaded the music from the game to YouTube and claimed it as their own meaning anyone who lets plays it gets the video monetized for a third party. My claim against this to YouTube was automatically denied because no human was ever involved in verifying it. This is the developers official condemnation and attempts to work with YouTube on the problem http://steamcommunity.com/games/381120/announcements/detail/746831411318807958 . Regardless this shows how the system is broken.
Ride to Hell: this claim is actually still on my channel despite the fact that it is one of my most popular videos I make no money from it. The claim is from deep silver and claims the music (which appears no where else other than the game and it’s official soundtrack) is worthy of all the money the entire video makes even if I use YouTubes own censoring method (this is the thing that makes the audio sound like its run through a dish washer). This is likely done as a means to make some money from the game (which is widely known as a colossal failure) and silence people who criticize it. This is the kind of crap that destroys channels.
Hearthstone match against hootey: this video is claimed by a DJ who used part of moonlight sonata in his song so he could claim any video that uses the ROYALTY FREE SONG. Keep in mind that the amount of the video that has this song playing is less that 5 minutes but the video itself is an hour long. Let me repeat some asshole claims a song from a dead composer and therefore gets to claim 1 hour of content of mine despite the fact that the portion of the video that it plays is less than 5 minutes. YouTube still believes this claim is legitimate.
Take these examples as proof that YouTubes current system is actively helping corrupt companies censor content and as does not check if the claims are legitimate.
I love that people are getting so see this stuff and how much traction the movement is getting. I’m not sure what it will take to change things but being pissed off is a good first step.
So what would happen if things changed? I would start getting more money and would have to spend less time from my day fighting illegal claims. With more time and money I could stream more often, possible make it a full time job (which is a dream for me though I will probably still need close to 100k subscribers) and finally marry Tilde (because I might have enough money to support her).
So yeah I’m fucking livid. This system actively punished people who do things legally and supports those who do it illegally. I don’t imagine things will change until there is a big enough outcry or a class action lawsuit.
Sorry for the long post but this is important to me. I wrote this whole damn thing out on mobile.
This design is very culturally influence. As Americans or Canadians, we don’t see or know what a shakoki-dogu is, we just see some weird-ass teapot. In Japan, they see a highly praised idea in a well designed digimon. It makes sense for that to be a holy/rock digimon
Why do so many Digimon fans complain about this design and have no apparent idea what it’s based on when Dogu are in EVERY JAPANESE THING EVER.
I mean I’m exaggerating a little obviously but not much.
These are also like THE thing UFO nerds back in the day swore were actually idols of “ancient astronaut visitors" which is why they’re often portrayed like robots or aliens.
They’re very special to Japan, as they’re among the most ancient signs of civilization and art ever uncovered in the islands. Some are at least 15,000 years old. And they’re gorgeous. Though this particular style is the most famous they vary widely in design, demonstrating incredible imagination and artistry in a prehistoric world.
And we still don’t know exactly what their significance was…except that the majority of them appear to have been ritualistically smashed only shortly after they were created. We don’t know what for.
Honestly though, haven’t nerds learned yet that if something looks “nonsensical” to them, it’s PROBABLY a culturally important reference they’re ignorant of? I guess some fans are just too proud to realize they don’t know everything about Japan….even shit as basic as the country’s most famous and iconic archaeological artifacts.
So I had to return a book to the library today and I came straight from the horse farm. I went to the front desk because it was an item on loan from another library and I wasn’t sure if it had to be checked in differently. The librarian said no, it could get returned in the normal slot but she could take it and check it in right away.
It was only when I got back to the car that I realized I had walked into the library covered in dirt from head to toe and handed back a book about grave robbing.
When trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that that “women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and that their “uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies if they were accelerated to that speed.”
I have so much respect for historical women not murdering every man they know
im just so………… Proud of daniel avidan because nearly 3 years ago he came onto game grumps as this lil unknown musician guy who everyone immediately hated cause our heads were too far up jontron’s ass to see how much potential and talent this man had
and now in 2016, hes one of the most well liked grumps, still does music but is now recognized for his talent and charisma, and is doing shows sold out to over 4,500+ people AND he’s finally able to say he’s happy where he is………………….. WHO PUT THESE TEARS ON MY PILLOW
This happened last night, not today, but still less than 24 hours ago.
So my husband LOVES birds, all kinds of birds. He thinks they are great. He is especially fond of ducks. Last night while he was in the kitchen prepping a snack, I thought it would be fun to change the desktop photo on his laptop (he had left it open on the couch). I found a cute duck picture, made it his desktop background, set the laptop back on the couch, and made my way innocently back to the kitchen table where I had also been having a snack.
My husband finishes his snack a little while later and heads back to the couch while I remain at the table. He pulls his computer towards him and goes, “OMG honey look! Ducks!” As he stands up holding his laptop and tries to come to me, he trips and falls over the glass end table we have, shattering it. If that wasn’t bad enough, he fell onto his macbook, smashing it completely open and crushing it. If that also wasn’t bad enough, he also broke his wrist because of how he fell on it since he was holding the laptop.
I feel like a terrible person, but my husband still loves ducks.
TL;DR: My husband got so overexcited over a picture of ducks I procured that he broke himself, a table, and his macbook.
