I can’t really think of a moment Aloy specifically preaches against anyone’s religions as a whole, but rather heavily discouraging the worship of her. For example, she never brings up that Tenkath society is pretty much based off military propaganda, nor does she criticize the Quen about their worship of Faros until…

Again, I have no qualms with people reviewing media, or using clips during reviews, or anything of that nature, and there are plenty of Youtubers and companies that are thriving and doing well in that regard with great ingenuity.

It seems replying to a few different comments has resulted in them appearing all together. Seems replying on here is something else I’m ignorant on!

Didn’t realise I needed a law degree to post an opinion on the comment section of a video game site, apologies. 

Yep, I keep saying this, but the guy could have used a blank screen, or fan art, or any number of things as imagery for his video. He instead used clips, loops and images from the show.

Why? Because he gets more views that way, that leads directly to more money through monetization. He has more viewers, and more money,…

I have no issue with this dude as a reviewer, he’s clearly popular and the work he does is great, I’m sure.

And Crunchyroll probably pays for the privilege, and Toei makes money. 

This was my stupid phrasing, by ‘unedited’ I was meaning more he couldn’t claim he was adding more to the images and footage itself, like making it a meme or turning it into a parody. He talks about a character or scene, and has footage of that person or scene in the background.

But here’s the thing, this isn’t even just one guy - he has a full time staff, apparently, and so has been making enough money to keep at least 3 adults and their families. This is a professional operation it seems, and the fact he thought this would be okay is a bit boggling to me.

His 3 hour review of Attack on Titan seems to have about 2.5 hours of muted clips, loops and images. This isn’t a case of this guy being punished, but of being essentially told, “Nope, can’t do that anymore.” He could still repost those vids with new imagery, I would assume.

This is kind of the point I wanted to make. Produce all the reviews you want. There was nothing stopping this guy from having random images or fanart as he reviewed and analysed this stuff. Instead he put up clips and loops and images from the shows.

Not at all, and I’m not saying you do. But posting a 3 hour review, with 90% of it displaying footage from the show without the consent of the creators, you should do. There was nothing stopping this guy from putting some fanart or something in the background of his videos. He decided to put muted clips and loops from…

Well it’s an Irish youtuber taking Japanese footage so American fair use policy isn’t really applicable, but of course I believe in Fair Use, and a lot of channels work within those confines, showing short clips, images and relevant to the point samples.

These companies will put up these promos on Youtube both to advertise their show, and also monetise those videos... therefore they’re in better control of their own product, rather than low quality rips on the site, and still able to make money even if the person watching doesn’t go on to purchase the product.

A fan watches the ‘review’ and can see all the spectacular visuals and watch the best scenes without having to go out and pay for a boxset. “Well, pretty much got the gist of it now. Why pay $10 buying the boxset when I’ve seen the best it has to offer.”

I could have expressed this better, but my issue is not with someone reviewing someone else’s work, but rather someone using full, unedited footage of the show under their review.

Siskel and Ebert didn’t go into a movie theatre, film the movie on a camera then put it on their show. The movie studio gave them the clips, and had a say on what clips could and couldn’t be shown.

A good point! Those ones I agree they should probably appeal, and a good example of why the appeal systems should improve. There is an argument that it’s once again an example of this company making money directly from the work of Toei, rather than just some fanwork, but in the case of those videos I would probably…

If this guy’s company (and it is a company, with full time employees as he talks about in the video)  was just offering up reviews over publicity stills like sites like iO9 and such have to do, then they’d certainly have an argument that it’s ‘unfair’. But even looking over the AoT link in the article, it’s not what…

Oh my goodness, yes, Liara in ME1 is... wow. “You’re so amazing and I am totally obsessed with you Shepard, even though (if Renegade) you’re a crazy sociopath that I potentially only met a few missions ago, have killed my mother, and have repeatedly insulted and rejected me! I’m also totes a virgin, but I want to give…