Anime reaction YouTuber Suzy Lu responds to \u201cfrustrating\u201d channel ban Suzy Lu, a popular YouTuber known for her reaction videos to iconic anime series \u201cNaruto,\u201d suffered a complete channel termination after a copyright bot repeatedly struck her videos in late December. Lu is the latest victim in a string of similar cases, with many YouTubers bemoaning the platform\u2019s copyright ID system, which has even flagged their own original content, such as \u201cTheFatRat\u201d having his own song stricken by another channel. However, Lu saw her entire channel terminated over an error on YouTube\u2019s end \u2014 although she originally pinned the blame on a copyright bot from Japanese television network TV Tokyo. According to Lu, she received a slew of copyright claims from TV Tokyo near the end of the year, which she was thankfully able to fight off using YouTube\u2019s dispute system despite being temporarily banned from uploading content. \u201cIt\u2019s a really confusing time in the anime industry just now because people who are using split-seconds of footage are also getting caught in this bot,\u201d she explained. \u201cSo literally, Fair Use is just out the window.\u201d https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sMJVmCwl-bw However, that wasn\u2019t the end of her worries: days later, Lu\u2019s entire channel was terminated, after TV Tokyo submitted yet another bot that blocked \u201cabout 25 to 30\u201d of her videos. After receiving three copyright strikes, Lu was on the verge of having her channel terminated \u2014 but that wasn\u2019t the reason it went down shortly after that, with the YouTuber explaining that a video she\u2019d streamed weeks ago \u201csomehow got caught in [YouTube\u2019s] system\u201d and terminated her account, as she streamed during a time when she \u201cwasn\u2019t supposed to upload.\u201d Although her channel is now back up and running with its usual daily uploads, Lu is \u201cnot touching Naruto with a large pole\u201d on her main account for the foreseeable future, as her legal team bandies with TV Tokyo over copyright infringement. \u201cI\u2019m not taking any more risks,\u201d she claimed. \u201cI have been working on this channel professionally for four years and to watch it disappear\u2026 and at that moment, you wonder, \u2018Is that it? Gone? Forever?\u2019\u201d https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CU6xdOcDA9E Suzy\u2019s fight with the bots, which she calls \u201cso illegal,\u201d marks the most recent struggle for YouTubers in the wake of the site\u2019s confusing content ID system, with her channel boasting over 361k subscribers, puts a massive spotlight on the recurring issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anime reaction YouTuber Suzy Lu responds to \u201cfrustrating\u201d channel ban Suzy Lu, a popular YouTuber known for her reaction videos to iconic anime series \u201cNaruto,\u201d suffered a complete channel termination after a copyright bot repeatedly struck her videos in late December. Lu is the latest victim in a string of similar cases, with many YouTubers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}