I need your help everybody I need your help this is a serious situation and it sucks because I'm uncomfortable being serious because I like being very loose and jokey and roasting things and just you know just a playful person but this is a serious situation and I'm going to try to handle it with just as much information as I can possibly have that's why I wrote it down in my notebook because I wanted to make sure that I didn't forget anything but I just wanted to mention that in the very beginning I kind of just want to get that part out the way this is is a serious topic though and it's a problem with YouTube I've been seeing videos about false copyright strikes lately and it finally hit me too so if you want like The quick summary version of this I suggest you click the first link in the description box below and read through that whole thing and spread that news like spread that post and just make sure more eyes and ears are seeing it so we can make sure this doesn't happen again because this happened to me this happened and other creators and I'll get more in depth with that and this could potentially affect other creators that you definitely don't want it to happen to so let's just get started so basically on July 3rd I woke up to an email from my contact at YouTube and they told me hey you got a copyright strike if you want to figure out what's going on go on your computer and you'll see what happened so I've never gotten a copyright strike in 10 years of doing YouTube so so I was just like boom I'm out of bed just running to the computer right there in my face I've never seen that before in 10 years Channel violations active copyright strikes one out of three so like anybody would do I clicked on the copyright strike just to see what I did if I infringed on any copyright and seeing if there's anything I can do to resolve the situation or make sure that this never happens again and I'm going to block out any names because I don't want to reveal anybody's personal information but I got the strike on July 3rd 2024 it's a 90day strike so it says 84 days but I've been researching this for 6 days going on seven days now basically a full-blown week now and that's why I'm making this video because there's a lot of stuff that isn't right with this so basically I got my video called watching scary videos that gave me chill so bad I almost teared up it's a scary animation reaction and it's from 1148 to 759 which is where the copyrighted content was found so that's what like 6 minutes and some change and it was content Called Paradise hell and I'm just going to block out the Creator's name so my first reaction was literally like what like what is that I don't remember reacting to anything Called Paradise hell in my entire life so what I did I clicked on actions because there's two actions that you can do you can contact the person who's the claimant the the one who filed this copyright strike on you or you can submit a counter notification which is basically like you're kind of like your own lawyer and you give all this evidence proving that what you did was fair use and you have the right to be able to react to this content or transform this content so what I wanted to do at first because I had no idea what that even was I wanted to email the email that is right there like the email that's right here I'm not going to show the full email I'm just going to show you the first four letters of it but just take my word for it okay it says Visa so basically I emailed them and I just wanted to know what was going on and how can we resolve this and I don't even know what this paradise hell animation even is and the sad part is you can't even click on the video or see anything from the video once you get a strike because YouTube just takes it down automatically like you would think that they would give you a heads up especially if you've been doing YouTube for 10 years you would think that they would be like hey you know somebody's trying to um copyright strike you on this content maybe you know you want to review this and try to have a discussion with them no it was just came out of nowhere like it literally came out of nowhere no emails about anything no heads up it was just boom bam strike in your face but I'm going off topic because that is not the point of this video the point of this video is that I've never heard of paradise hell before so since I couldn't even figure out what happened in my own video video I went to YouTube just like I'm doing right now so I typed in Paradise hell and then the person's name because that was the whole video name it was Paradise hell a film by and then the Creator's name so I typed that whole thing in and these were the results it was just stuff like this it was hell's Paradise people talking about things like this hell's Paradise a bunch of shorts about hell's Paradise but there was nothing Called Paradise hell with that Creator's name attached and I was so confused because I still couldn't figure out what that even was because maybe if I just saw like a screenshot then I would be like oh that animation okay I do remember that but there was nothing there was nothing that I could go off of so the next thing that I did was I Googled it so as you can see right here I Googled Paradise Hell by the Creator and it says Paradise hell a short from 2023 on imdb.com so one thing that I noticed is that that thumbnail looked very familiar I know that animation before because I saw my boy Corey react to it I vividly remember that thumbnail it was like a person standing at a window and he just you know had his face in the corner and then the person's face was there and I was like what is that animation even called so I went to YouTube again and I typed in Corey kensin spooky scary Sunday playlist and I'm scrolling through all of his videos and I see it on spooky scary Sunday number 20 she is standing outside your window so I go back into the search bar she is standing outside your window I search it and this is the thumbnail that pops up the same one from when I looked up Paradise hell the short from 2023 and I'm like what is going on I could have sworn the creator of that was from a different person so I click on his video and he always leaves links to the animations that he reacts to so I scroll down and it's called Pleasant in by David Romero and I was like that does sound familiar I know who David Romero is because I've reacted to Pleasant in I've reacted to I believe midnight snack and other ones so I click on the video this video is no longer available due to a copyright Claim by the person who copyright claim myself as well I was like wait is this David's animation or is it this person's animation so I clicked that IMDb link the paradise hell the short from 2023 and then once I actually go to the site it got changed from Paradise hell 2023 to Paradise hell 2016 which doesn't make any sense at all because before I click the link it said 2023 and a little trivia about the film is that it's the world's first AI animated short film which I don't even know what that even means it's supposed to be the world's first AI animated short film like how do you even know that like did it just get put into a database of every single AI animated film and then they were like yep that's the first one so immediately after that I go to David's channel the last video that he has is from8 eight months ago and I see a pinned comment and it says this Pleasant in wasn't deleted by David it was taken down by a false copyright strike from the person I looked into the company and it is owned by the person who owns the company who on IMDb listed the video as a directorial by him under the name Paradise hell so I looked at the replies and there were a couple other people that got their videos copyright strike and removed so immediately after that I texted Corey and I just told him that somebody's going around false copyright striking anybody who's reacted to David Romero's Pleasant in and he said I remember personally asking David for his permission to react to his stuff so if they try me it won't work and I was like you know what that's actually a good idea let me contact David Romero and see what he thinks about all this so I get into contact with him and I let him know hey man like what have you told YouTube what are they doing about this to reject this whole false copyright strike what are they doing to make this all go away and he showed me so much evidence that this was his like he posted the screenshot of the IMDb post of paradise hell before it got changed from 2023 to 2016 he showed me so many versions of like him working on the animation which I'm not going to show here just in case the person is going to try to screenshot these and say this is him working on it but he showed me so many like work in progress animations that he did on this he even showed me the copyright he showed me the title of the work and just the copyright and the copyright date and the author of it that's David Romero it's the entire motion picture so the entire animation he copyrighted it and he still got his video taken down and others taken down and he got a strike and anybody who's reacted to it got a strike besides Cory's video that's why I want this to be resolved before even more people get their videos strike the craziest thing to me is that he actually has the paperwork of the copyright that's what I'm looking at right now I don't want to show it just in case like I said the person tries to like screenshot and he's like oh so that's what it looks like that's what it looks like let me put my name on it and just all these work in progress like animations and still images it's sad it's sad because David Romero put his time his effort his hard work into making a really really good animation I remember reacting to it and I just remember watching it and I was like this is impressive it looks like we're watching a painting move and I'm not like an artist and I don't know all the terms but it felt like all the brush Strokes were just like each individual frame looked like a painting and it just looked like a painting moving in real time it's just a shame that this is happening and it's really sad but yeah I'm looking at the emails that he sent me so much evidence and the saddest thing is David told me they still said that he needs to provide more evidence he has all the work in progress um pictures and animations he has the title of the copyright that's in his name the entire motion picture he even showed the images of the paradise hell dates being changed on the IMDb page because it's not like a foolproof system like you can easily change the dates on Facebook on IMDb and nobody would even know like heard there was a big problem with people that were trying to break into the film industry that were adding themselves as part of the cast and crew to kind of build up their resumés to make it look like oh I worked on this film oh I helped this project oh I was one of the editor assistants on this project and it's easy to just like add your name on there when there's so many people that you have to credit and I heard that that was a thing like at least a couple years ago like in 2022 I heard that's how people were like trying to build up their credentials like the the industry to be like indie filmmakers or work in like Hollywood and just basically gassing yourself up to make yourself look a lot better so with those emails and with his response and the mountain of evidence I told him that I'm going to do everything that I can to help you out and you know to make sure that all of our strikes get removed make sure that your animation goes back up and you know you could proudly have your work up there without anyone trying to falsely take it down so the craziest thing about this individual copyright striking everybody falsely by the way is that they have removed every trace of their existence on YouTube and any trace of pleasant in they're trying to take down all the animations and you can only find Paradise hell in two places Facebook and IMDb which just has like the biography of everything and just like the description of the video Facebook actually has it up uploaded and the date still says 2016 but like I said Facebook posts and IMDb dates can be changed they can be accessed and changed and that is a fact so I did some research everybody I tracked down the creators YouTube account called image e Nation 56.9 th000 subscribers no content though they deleted all of their content and I was like of course they did so the funniest thing about the internet is that you can find whatever you want to find like if somebody privated or deleted all of their videos all you need is the URL of the channel and bada bing bada boom So I entered the website right here found all of the privated deleted videos but I'm only looking for one thing I'm only looking for Paradise hell and I'm only looking for it to be released after 2016 and I found exact ly what I was looking for everybody Paradise hell AI animated horror short film by the Creator it was uploaded 517 2023 not February 21st 2016 like the IMDb page is suggesting it was uploaded to the image e Nation channel on 517 2023 and the only reason why I'm even connected to this channel is because this channel was connected to the Creator himself if you type in the person's first name and last name and YouTube channel it actually takes you to the YouTube channel of their name where it said Paradise hell a film by and then the person's name if you put their name and then YouTube channel in a Google search it'll bring you right to image e Nation no videos though you take the URL you put it in a website like playboard or way back machine and you can get all of these videos all of the videos they privated and deleted it shows for a fact right here 517 2023 not to mention that there's also previews like this person uploaded a trailer on March 18th 2023 for their world's first AI animated film and then they finally released it on 517 2023 and just to put a little fun fact there I read the biography of this creator of uh Paradise hell and and it says right here in 2023 the Creator won the Monstra 2023 honorary award for Extraordinary contribution in the field of Animation film making with his AI animated film Paradise hell which made him the creator of the world's first AI animated short film his upcoming debut film Paradise hell premiered at the 2023 film festivals in lisban Portugal and this was a mini biography by Shan krinski of the Euro time I actually looked up Shan krinski and there was nobody with that name it tried to correct me to John krinski the dude who acted in the office and the one who starred in the first quiet place and directed the other ones and I looked at the Euro times and anybody on the staff and was just trying to search for a Shan krinski could not find anything I tried a combo of like Shan krinski Euro times couldn't find anything what I wanted to do most importantly was figure out if this animation won a Monstra 2023 film award in Lisbon Portugal so what I did is I actually went to the Monstra website and I got the contact information of the director so shout out to the director of Monstra Film Festival your name is Ines baroso hopefully I said that right inz but I said hello Monstra is it possible to get a full list of all 2023 Monstra film candidates a person who potenti potentially stolen animator's work is claiming to have won an honorary award from Monstra in 2023 and then I sent a link of paradise hell and sent it to inz and I was hoping to get a list of all the entries to the Monstra 20203 films and award winners but I can't find any could you please provide it for me and they responded right away so enes you are the real MVP hey Jay hope you can find the award winners of Monstra 202 23 here and they gave me a link and I'll link that also in the description box below I also looked and did not find any award given to the film or the film creator that you mentioned I hope you managed to sort this out best regards inz baroso the director of production for Monstra Film Festival so I tried to track down Sean krinski of the Euro times Bros a ghost he's got to be the first writer in the history of the Euro times to never want any type of clout because I could not find his name for anything I even just put a combination of like Sean krinski and then some of the words that he wrote because apparently it was mini biography by Sean krinsky of the EUR old times so he wrote that right so I had to try to find it somewhere but I couldn't find any of it so if you find it and you found Sean krinski of the Euro times and he wrote all that please let me know in the comments I'll wait for it but not only that like I said I emailed the director of production at Monstra Film Festival that was never entered into the 2023 film festival in lisban Portugal and it didn't win any awards especially not for an extraordinary contribution in the field of Animation film making when I told David that I would do whatever I can to help him out I meant that and I don't appreciate something like that happening to David especially after I read what he said in his tumblr post so this is what David said and this was the first link in the description box so if anybody could spread the word on this like I said please leave a like on this video please spread the word about this like we have to protect the creators the people who took the time to make beautiful work like Pleasant in David Romero is an extraordinary artist and he doesn't deserve this and all the other creators that got strikes that aren't able to do anything that got rejected by YouTube they deserve to have those strikes taken away as well just because some stolen animation and passed it off as their work and bypassed through the YouTube copyright system but I'm going to read what David said to end this video and David said this might as well post this here for posterity since YouTube has yet to resolve the matter a couple of weeks ago my short film Pleasant Inn got a false copyright strike from an individual named blank he has been striking any YouTube channel that reacted to my short film in the hopes of uploading his own stolen version titled Paradise hell for comparisons here is my original short film and then you can also click the link and watch both and it's hilarious it's actually hilarious because there is one scene where it honestly looks like the pleasant inside is just almost like blacked out with like a black rectangle and then it says Paradise hell over it and it's so sloppily done and it just looks so out of place that I almost spit out milk in my mouth that I wasn't even drinking that's how hilarious it was I couldn't even believe that it said that this individual has a history of Flatout stealing as an example this is his Bloody Marry graphic novel which actually is a manga called ibitsu with only the text dialogue changed he's literally just selling this on Google Books and Amazon without any push back and he said and to add insult to injury and then he posts that it says the trivia of it is that it's the world's first AI animated short film so far YouTube hasn't done anything about this and I'm tired of waiting many channels have received false copy right strikes by this individual just for reacting to Pleasant in since 2019 he said I don't even feel bad for putting him out there because now he'll get the notoriety he desperately crave from stealing I will add this to my continued distrust and disdain for generative AI because it is only ever used for grifting and stealing also the IMDb estimates the budget as 10,000 and girl I wish I had 10K when making Pleasant in and then just reading some of the comments it says I'm so sorry you're still going through this gez I hope this will come to a stop soon which wishing you the best and David said thank you it's been really stressful but I hope things will work out at least talking about it felt kind of nice if you're on Twitter adding YouTube directly on there can help especially if you can get traction if you don't have much Twitter following you could try reaching out to other big YouTubers to promote it fireborn recently went through a copyright strike issue and was able to resolve it by calling YouTube out publicly I no longer have a Twitter account but I have gotten in touch with a couple other YouTuber channels affected with these strikes who are adding YouTube Twitter on my behalf I've also sent appeals and counter strikes to YouTube since the first false copyright strike and I'm one of those people that he's talking to I'm not trying to say that like I'm like the biggest channel in the world but I'm going to do what I need to do to make sure that David gets his strike removed and everybody's strike gets removed and this doesn't happen again because this is just a gross it sets like a bad example like you can easily bypass the YouTube copyright system and it just goes through and then the actual creator of the work got their work taken down that they actually sent me like the work in progress of it was disgusting I was just like holy [ __ ] this person is showing me the work like boom boom boom boom boom all the work that they put in and it's still not enough does the other person even have anything like that no they don't because that's not their work like I did so much research on this throughout the week it's been stressing me out out because I I want to make sure it's the right thing to do because I told my YouTube contact this I said hey man if this is actually this person's video I'll just take the 90 days but I want to make sure that YouTube actually did the thorough work and figured out who this animation belonged to because if I am sitting on 90 days on a false copyright strike something that somebody stole and passed it as their own then obviously I'm going to be pissed off like I'm pretty sure everybody that got a false copyright strike got pissed off and there needs to be more eyes and ears on this situation and it all starts with us everybody like me everybody watching share it at YouTube let them know like show them this video I showed so much evidence the most damning evidence was if you type in the Creator's name and their YouTube account it takes you to image e Nation all their videos got deleted you go back and see all like the video archives the animation was uploaded in May of 2023 Pleasant Inn by David Romero was created in 2019 I reacted to it in December of 2022 if that's the case how am I getting a strike on something that didn't even come out yet that's the thing everybody like nobody should be getting strikes because there's nothing to strike because because David Romero is the creator of this animation he has so much evidence that he showed me I wish I could just show it but like I said if this doesn't get resolved then those images could just be screenshotted and then the person could be like oh yeah these are mine like these are mine I I don't want to do that to David but just know that there's a mountain of evidence but why is YouTube rejecting people's appeals what information what evidence did this person give to prove that this was theirs because if you just do some research on this whole thing it shows you that this animation was David so like I said in the very beginning of the video I need your help everybody I need your help get more eyes and ears on this at YouTube like at them on Twitter let them know that somebody's false copyright striking Pleasant in by David Romero and I don't want this to happen to anybody else and like I said Cory's video is still up and I hope it doesn't get taken down and I hope this all gets resolved soon and I really want to do this for David let's just hope that you know this can't be easily manipulated again with these false copyright strikes