Is it copyright strikes? That’s not what the article says.
While the Pokemon bans would arouse suspicion of The Pokemon Company taking action, the Pokemon publisher is not believed to be involved with the bans. Several of the affected content creators, including the previously mentioned PokeRev, have previously worked with The Pokemon Company in an official capacity. Many were even invited as guests to major Pokemon events like the Pokemon World Championships. Neither Instagram nor parent company Meta has commented on the unexpected wave of bans against the Pokemon content creators.
And if you watch the embedded video, his ban message just says “Community Guidelines” and it sounds like nobody has been able to get a straight answer about it. Also, he got his account back automatically after verifying his contact info, and he doesn’t know why that worked either because he didn’t change anything, while some other people with the same ban message instead received automatic appeal rejections, which is wild because nobody can tell what the difference is between accounts that got auto-reinstated and the ones that got auto-rejected.
There is someone in the Youtube comments claiming that usernames containing Poke, Poki, or Pokemon are getting auto-flagged by a bot, which sort of makes sense (except that it doesn’t explain the differing appeal outcomes) and was something he speculated in the video, but they are cagey about their sources so I’m consigning that to Youtube comments rumormill until I see better info.
The first time one of these lemmy servers gets hit with official court papers thing will no doubt change. A big part of the operation budget (well maybe not so big of a percentage but big as in price) is to hire a legal team to handle stuff like this and juggle international laws.
I imagine a few lemmy instances will be killed by things like this.
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Is it copyright strikes? That’s not what the article says.
And if you watch the embedded video, his ban message just says “Community Guidelines” and it sounds like nobody has been able to get a straight answer about it. Also, he got his account back automatically after verifying his contact info, and he doesn’t know why that worked either because he didn’t change anything, while some other people with the same ban message instead received automatic appeal rejections, which is wild because nobody can tell what the difference is between accounts that got auto-reinstated and the ones that got auto-rejected.
There is someone in the Youtube comments claiming that usernames containing Poke, Poki, or Pokemon are getting auto-flagged by a bot, which sort of makes sense (except that it doesn’t explain the differing appeal outcomes) and was something he speculated in the video, but they are cagey about their sources so I’m consigning that to Youtube comments rumormill until I see better info.
“Mysteriously”. Of course it’s copyright strikes by either Nintendo or one of the firms they pay to hunt for this.
Moving to platforms like this is really being pushed more than ever with nonsense like the above.
The first time one of these lemmy servers gets hit with official court papers thing will no doubt change. A big part of the operation budget (well maybe not so big of a percentage but big as in price) is to hire a legal team to handle stuff like this and juggle international laws.
I imagine a few lemmy instances will be killed by things like this.
Then we make another, or move to another; as they’re all linked, it will not really affect anything.
The Amazon warehouse hiring method, go through them all?
It won’t change anything.
We’re here.
Wouldn’t it be on the Pokemon Company?
I want to post a useful comment but I can’t get over the title and its very specific “come, Watson, the game is afoot” vibe