Bogus copyright strikes again!

Issue #137 | May 25, 2023

Brace yourselves, because our town misogynist, edgy streamer Adin Ross, actually copystriked a video… he helped make???

It looks like the edgelord supreme copystriked one of his collaborators, Call of Duty streamer Futives, who co-streamed gaming with Ross (with Ross getting his ass righteously handed to him in the game), robbing Futives of monetization on a video with 1-million-plus views.

In response to the madness, gamer Jake Lucky tweeted, “Gotta be the lowest thing I’ve seen in awhile… Lift the strike brother.” Hell yeah, brother. Agreed.

While the strike was removed by YouTube, this is just the latest in Adin Ross’s spree of low-blow false copystrikes—remember when he tried to make a claim against Hasan Piker for Hasan’s own content? (He also tried to take down someone he thought was Hasan’s main moderator, so it looks like someone might have a crush).

Sit down, let’s talk, Adin. We think you have a problem.

– Grace Stanley, Newsletter Editor

THE DARK SIDE

Adin Ross has a copyright striking problem

Streamer Adin Ross has been in the news constantly for making false copyright claims. The question is, why?

By Steven Asarch, Passionfruit Contributor

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FROM ONE CREATOR TO ANOTHER

“Please do not be pressured to have DMs open as a content creator. I had DMs open for a while, but noticed having that communication line open to dozens and dozens of viewers was effecting my mental health. Do what is best for you and your mental health!”
—VTuber Cat (@coolboomcatt) on setting boundaries.

FROM THE PICKET LINE

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In this ongoing series, we’re looking at some of the lessons everyone, not just the next generation of showrunners, should be learning from the Writers Strike—this week, we’re talking about long-term sustainability over short-term gains.

By Lon Harris, Passionfruit Contributor

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TECH NEWS

SCOTUS just awarded Twitter and Google a big win. Here’s what it means for social media creators everywhere.

There’s a Section 230-sized elephant in the room.

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IN THE BIZ

The anti-woke Twitter brigade was hyped this week with Florida’s conservative governor Robert DeSantis’s 2024 presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces alongside Elon Musk and co-host David Sacks. Too bad there were tons of glitches and audio issues at the event.
In a very Trump-esque claim, Sacks laughably claimed it was “probably the biggest room ever held on social media.” CNN reported only a few hundred thousand concurrent users were in the room… So let’s just ignore the YouTubers and Twitch stars that regularly get millions of viewers at a time, or that stream by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez playing Among Us that got over 400,000, okay?
A Google AI language model is making behind-the-scenes metadata descriptions for YouTube Shorts to help with discoverability. Let’s hope it works properly, considering it hasn’t always been a smooth ride for Google.
A comedian named Mizzy was taken to court over a “prank” video where he walked into a stranger’s house… an age-old reminder it’s not always best to “do it for the Vine.”
Hold onto your sides, folks, because this hilarious comedian has been fearlessly dishing out political commentary with his character, Uncle Roger, who cheekily talks trash about just about everyone. He’s currently fighting social media bans in China due to his jokes, but according to Ng, “Uncle Roger always talks shit about everybody. It doesn’t matter if you’re BBC, CCP, or even Jamie Oliver. Nobody safe!”

ZELDA MADE ME DO IT

I swear this isn’t a Tears of the Kingdom fan account, but I’ve been dying over what people are doing to these poor adorable woodland spirits… including crucifixion.😭