Anime reaction YouTubers are at war with copyright enforcers

September 11, 2026 Charles Pulliam-Moore

A digital illustration depicting a thumbnail of a YouTube reaction video being placed in a garbage can. Next to the garbage can is a delete button from a mechanical keyboard.

On September 6th, YouTuber Nicholas Light posted a video to one of his channels that made it seem like all of his content was about to be removed from the platform. In the video - ominously titled "My Channel will be Deleted Today" - Light alleges that he was on the receiving end of some of the "thousands upon thousands of false copyright strikes" recently initiated by a company called Remove Your Media. Light spends much of the 13-minute video accusing Remove Your Media CEO Eric Green of being a troll who systematically targets creators whose content mentions or features clips of popular anime series like Bleach and One Piece.

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