Because when he finally became No. 1 subscribed on YouTube he started put the videos on his website and put up links to them. I guess Google asked RWJ to remove the links and he just said "Oh h*ll no."mr. awesome said:
RayWilliamJohnson has been banned.
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I'm happy about this.
He doesn't add anything to them. He just shows the clip, then adds unfunny commentary. People watch him because of the clips he takes from OTHER people.
He doesn't add anything to them. He just shows the clip, then adds unfunny commentary. People watch him because of the clips he takes from OTHER people.
Stupid viral video theft, down for the count? Less polluting of people's minds?
Please, let it be permanent. And the world just became a slightly better place.
Please, let it be permanent. And the world just became a slightly better place.
I enjoyed him initially, but I stopped watching him a while ago. He's become terribly unfunny, and at this point he's just riding the inherent humor of internet phenomenon.FamoFunk said:
An attention whoring piece of shit got banned on a site frequented by attention whoring pieces of shit? The horror!
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Am I the only guy here who actually enjoyed watching him?
The reason I did is because he seemed to be stupidity personified. All those snarky, sarcastic comment below pages just merged together to form one person. He was stupid, and I loved him for it.
The reason I did is because he seemed to be stupidity personified. All those snarky, sarcastic comment below pages just merged together to form one person. He was stupid, and I loved him for it.
My god...I think it...and it happens!
Meh, it's probably just some tightass filing a copyright infringement claim. He'll be back before sundown, he makes shittonnes of cash for youtube.
I kind of wish he was off youtube permanantly though, i don't like how YouTube has become, in the words of Thunderf00t, like a forest where a few large trees take almost all of the light while the little flowers on the ground get almost none.
If the RWJ tree has been permanantly cut down, many little flowers have the potential to grow where it's shadow used to be.
Meh, it's probably just some tightass filing a copyright infringement claim. He'll be back before sundown, he makes shittonnes of cash for youtube.
I kind of wish he was off youtube permanantly though, i don't like how YouTube has become, in the words of Thunderf00t, like a forest where a few large trees take almost all of the light while the little flowers on the ground get almost none.
If the RWJ tree has been permanantly cut down, many little flowers have the potential to grow where it's shadow used to be.
I don't know him but with 4 million subscribers he was apparently liked by a lot of people. From what I'm picking up this is an issue that goes beyond whether you loved him or hated him, and into the ridiculous protections on copyrights and the IP laws out there.
From the way it sounds this guy is basically like our own Yahtzee (who started on Youtube) except with a differant target, and a style of humor that doesn't quite appeal to the video game nerd demographic the way Yahtzee does. Like many things on Youtube he's basically gotten smacked by people claiming copyright violations, despite general fair use policies and the like.
I'd imagine if this guy is a Youtube partner part of the reason he got suddenly banned was that there was a preception he was getting away with things other users couldn't (and I mean look at all the bans) because of it.
Personally, I think Youtube needs to lighten up considerably and do more to take the side of the users than the businesses and IP/Copyright holders... at least when it comes to things like Satire, Reviews (even bad ones), and outright parody.
If I had to guess the straw that probably broke the camel's back was one of those viral videos being part of an ad campaign for something that does business with Youtube, with the producers getting all butthurt that someone mocked it to a large enough audience that it couldn't be taken seriously for it's original purpose.
From the way it sounds this guy is basically like our own Yahtzee (who started on Youtube) except with a differant target, and a style of humor that doesn't quite appeal to the video game nerd demographic the way Yahtzee does. Like many things on Youtube he's basically gotten smacked by people claiming copyright violations, despite general fair use policies and the like.
I'd imagine if this guy is a Youtube partner part of the reason he got suddenly banned was that there was a preception he was getting away with things other users couldn't (and I mean look at all the bans) because of it.
Personally, I think Youtube needs to lighten up considerably and do more to take the side of the users than the businesses and IP/Copyright holders... at least when it comes to things like Satire, Reviews (even bad ones), and outright parody.
If I had to guess the straw that probably broke the camel's back was one of those viral videos being part of an ad campaign for something that does business with Youtube, with the producers getting all butthurt that someone mocked it to a large enough audience that it couldn't be taken seriously for it's original purpose.
Only took him a few years of constant rulebreaking to finally suffer the banhammer. How long do you think it'll be until he's back online? I mean, he's probably got millions of other accounts.