Hey everyone! How are you all? Hope you are doing well.
So...recent happenings had come to light in regards to the K-Pop world as well as a lot of K-Pop reaction video creators with their own channels. In case you may or may not had read the news on the Internet, CJ E&M, a giant multimedia company based off of South Korea, has been giving copyright strikes on YouTube channels (i.e. JREKML, BRISXLIFE, etc) that had posted reaction videos on live broadcasts of music shows such as M Countdown, MNet Asian Music Awards, etc. Some of these channels had even gotten deleted, which is making some of us who have our own K-Pop channels re-evaluate the necessary actions we need to take in order to continue sharing our love of this genre with our audience.
For a more in-depth explanation of this controversy, I will leave you two videos that were made by a YouTube channel named "Form of Therapy."
As far as my thoughts are concerned, I find it very disheartening that a lot of K-Pop YouTubers had their channels taken down. I have enjoyed the creative process of filming/editing my videos for Youtube. I have so much appreciation for all the hard work that they had put into their videos for us to enjoy. I personally did not get a copyright strike for any of my K-Pop reaction videos (at least not to my knowledge), however I unfortunately had to remove a reaction video of a performance from M Countdown for precautionary reasons. The hard part of it was that the aforementioned video that I made had the most views on my channel. I felt so happy that a lot of people enjoyed it.
Even though this copyright strike controversy is a challenge for a lot of us K-Pop fans who have our own Youtube channels, I will not throw in the towel on the creative process. These recent occurrences are making me step back and re-evaluate what I need to do and how I can prevent myself from losing all my hard work. Therefore, going forward, I will continue to post reaction videos of comeback MVs as well as dance practices because those had been released by Korea's entertainment companies and are in accordance to broadcasting laws.
Thank you for taking the time to read this post, and I hope you all have a wonderful K-Poppin' day!
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