After Taking On Pirates And Leakers, Nintendo's Next Target Is A Popular Pokemon YouTuber

Nintendo is well-known for the aggressive protection of its brands, and the YouTuber behind the popular series of "PokeNational Geographic" videos claims to be on the receiving end of copyright strikes from the company.

According to the creator of the video series, Elious, his channel has been hit with dozens of copyright strikes by Nintendo of America, and he only has a few days left until it is deleted. Because of the multiple strikes issued against 20 of his videos and YouTube's three-strikes policy, the channel is set to be deleted from the platform in a week. As for the videos in question, Elious has been producing short nature documentaries featuring Pokemon, using original custom-made animations.

"I have seven days until my channel is deleted," Elious explained in a video on a different channel. "Nintendo of America has copyright striked so many of my videos. They've done it multiple times now, within the span of 12 hours. "I'm downloading stuff of course--I have all the videos myself--but I'll never be able to post them again. And I'll never be able to use this channel again. Over 100,000 subscribers, over three years of making these animations, and it's all going to be gone in seven days."