I love Randy Bryce a LOT. His ads are amazing. I’ve been supporting him since he announced his candidacy and I’m not even in his state.
Support Randy Bryce!
From day one he’s said he wants to “repeal and replace” Paul Ryan, and I can get behind that level of schadenfreude. Also his Twitter handle is @IronStache and how can you not love that?
i love the storytelling in the Kirby games because of the ever-present implication that something extremely significant is going on in the background of Kirby’s peaceful life on Popstar
like, in the Kirby universe there’s this massive war between technology and magic and gigantic space demons with cat faces and you don’t get to learn anything significant about it.
you are looking at these events of cosmic significance through Kirby’s eyes, and all Kirby knows is that these are are assholes that caused his sandwich to fall on the kitchen floor this morning and they need to pay for that crime
like, imagine you’re some kind of cosmic warlord demon bent on dominating the universe, but somehow you blowing up a planet caused a sandwich to fall off a plate and that enraged the wrong extremely strong pink baby.
kirby doesn’t know or care who you are or what you’ve accomplished. you indirectly fucked with his lunch and now he’s coming to kill you.
tl;dr Summary: Kyotosomo is making money from your comics on Youtube.
Here’s a list of his comic dubs and their corresponding Tumblr accounts in alphabetical order: https://goo.gl/EqFK56
Quick update: I’ve been called out by Kyotosomo. Yay! I’ll link a follow-up response post here and in the comments after I publish it: <Where’s the link?!?>
The Long Version:
I’m sorry this is a VERY long post, but if you have a few minutes, please stay for now. I feel you all should know this.
Most of you gave permission to Kyotosomo (Pierce Riola) to dub your comics. What he did not tell you is that he is monetizing them. And from what I understand after talking with some of you, none of you gave any permission to make money on your art, and he has not shared any of that profit with you or anyone else.
How do you know it is monetized?
If you watch without AdBlock, here’s how you know:
1. Yellow line in video player (usually on the left)
2. Advertisement plays before/during video
(Note – most monetized Youtube channels make ~$1 per 1000 views. The actual amount can be more, depending on a variety of factors)
If I don’t want my comics monetized, what can we do?
If you have 10 minutes to spare, you can do at least one of these right now:
2. Report copyright infringement on each of his videos containing your artwork. If you need help finding your comic, here’s the list again: https://goo.gl/EqFK56
(This comic from @ameri-lie was uploaded without permission. More on that later)
After you do this, he might ask you to remove the copyright strike and let him keep the videos up or remove it on his own (he won’t).
He will probably make excuses like:
“I’m doing this purely for fun”
Then why is he making money from it? Quite a lot too, if these posts are anything to go by:
Or he might say:
“I’m doing this for charity”
Except he lied about this in the past. For example:
(sorry about the image quality)
Or he’ll say:
“I tried to contact you but I couldn’t”
Personally, I’ve had no trouble with you all so far. Here’s how to contact people on Tumblr: (image courtesy of skitschell)
3.
Just send him a message, and he’ll probably remove the monetization. Just know that this will not stop him from monetizing other people’s content, or re-monetizing your comics once you’ve stopped paying attention.
4. (optional) Let your friends know. You are welcome to share, re-post or re-blog this post if you’d like.
If you’ve read the whole post, thank you very much! If it helps at least one person, then the writing of this post was well worth it.
If you have any questions, comments, concerns, etc., feel free to leave a reply.
p.s. – How silly of me to post this on April Fool’s Day! Unfortunately, I can assure you this is not a joke.
p.p.s. – Here is a copy of a message he sent to @ameri-lie, who reported the above video featuring her comic (he did not ask for permission before uploading).
She dropped the strike in December 2017 after he promised to remove the video (as I’m writing this, the video is still up, and of course, still monetized). EDIT: Not anymore
Coincidentally, @skitschell received the exact same message after reporting her video last week.
Edit: Sorry, skitschell just gave me a correction. This message is from December 2017, the first time she reported her video. Like ameri-lie, she dropped the strike after Kyotosomo promised to remove the video.
As you can see, she’s reported the video again after finding it was still up.
p.p.p.s. – Technically your work is automatically copyrighted the moment you create it. However, if you truly need to legally protect your work (and be eligible for
statutory damages or attorneys fees), you can pre-register your work here:
p.p.p.s. – UPDATE: A few hours before I wrote this post, Kyotosomo heard about what I was doing and sent me a threat. For privacy concerns, I won’t share the exact contents (until I find it necessary). Just letting you all know who you’re dealing with.
