VICE Media Had YouTube Shut Down My Gaming Channel Without Even Contacting Me

They will instantly revoke your right to claim videos the moment you start abusing it to mass-claim.

As much as we want to make Youtube the villains here, there is at least some sort of rhyme and reason to the claims we see. Vice claiming ViceRust? Pretty self-explanatory. Automation or mass-claim would be shut down pretty fast because they know their system is shit and would fall apart without fail safes.

You would need a shit ton of accounts to do this, verify each one with an actual valid trademark that you need to prove, and then you'd need to automate each account to claims videos that on the surface look at least relevant to the trademark you own. Do a claim a day of that's day's most popular related content and tada! You're literally not even scratching the surface, you become the asshole everyone hates hurting the bottom line of content creators and Youtube don't even give a shit about you because they just automatically resolve it by fucking over the content creator.

Grats. You did it.

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