Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26239285-20191122101158

I posted this on Vocaloid Wiki so you might have seen it. Since we rely on Magenetra for translations and link to their videos, I'll post it here too. But it's actually much bigger than that. It could affect my channel and many others.

I noticed a message by Magenetra that they may have to close their channel. At the same time there's a video from an art channel I subscribe to that explains the matter. Apparently, if you've classified a video as not targetted at children but the authorities disagree about your classification, you can be fined many thousands of dollars wherever you are in the world.

It's common for Japanese music videos to have anime-style illustrations which may be deemed appealing to under 13s while the content is about romance, grief, suicide, etc., clearlly not targetted to young kids.

I don't know how things will progress, but currently the only option is to close down! This applies not only to Magenetra, but to me, and most of the channels I subscribe to if they have any sense.

In addition, content creators for whom YouTube is their main source of income will lose a good proportion of that income if their content is in any way appealing to children, so art, craft, gaming, anime/disney/etc reivews.

Anyway, Amy's video (last link above) contains a link to another video as well as links to a petition and to a government page where you can give feedback about the laws as they stand. 