‘DOOR STUCK!’ The Door Stuck video has changed ownership. For
almost a decade and a half, it was being monetised by KinetiK001, who was the guy who originally
uploaded it to youtube. He’s not technically the Door Stuck guy, but he is the one who blocked him
in the doorway. His youtube channel was recently demonetised for other uploads,
which he has since removed, but he’s now unable to re-monetise the Door Stuck video, because it looks
like an opportunistic copyright troll has jumped in, claiming ownership of the audio. A ludicrous
claim, indeed. So in short: somebody else is now making money from the original Door Stuck upload.
And Kinetik is understandably angry about this, saying that he might even delete the Door Stuck
video to stop them from profiting from it- and of course that’s the headline this video
ran with when it was posted on Global Offensive. Don’t do it, Kinetik! That would be a real shame.
He has since clarified that he meant he’d make the video private- which is definitely the more
favourable outcome of the two- since it can be made public again, once the situation is resolved.
No matter what your stance is on monetisation on Youtube, I think you can agree that this situation
isn’t fair on Kinetik, and sets a dangerous precedent moving forward. What’s stopping
anybody from publishing the audio of a popular youtube video, and claiming to have made it first?
Sorry, I’m showing my biases here. Maybe Kinetik DID steal the audio from the song
that was published just the other week, then he travelled back in time to 2007 and constructed the
Door Stuck video around it to conceal his crime. Maybe Stone Door song by Bob Tik IS the rightful
owner of this content. Because, despite publishing it just the other day, they do claim this music
was made in EARLY 2007- which would put it just over 6 months before the Door Stuck video was
published. It’s just unfortunate that the burden of proof is being put on the accused,
with Kinetik some how having to prove the guy who published the song last week DIDN’T make the song
before Kinetik uploaded the video in 2007. Maybe Bob Tik is simply an opportunistic,
copyright troll.
I have listened to his Stone Door song, and I can save you the hassle by saying that it’s just
the Door Stuck audio, played several times at different speeds. It’s clear to anybody
real and fleshy who’s looking at this situation that the audio comes from this
video. It’s insane that Youtube’s manual, definitely-not-automated checks, somehow
overlooked this obvious fact. Youtube, please fix. I checked out Bob Tik on Spotify. They’ve
published a LOT of stuff this year- all at various speeds, which I guess is because they’re paranoid
of others trying to steal their songs! There were a LOT of uploads, so I didn’t expect to
be able to find Stone Door song anywhere. But sure enough, there it was- right at the very
bottom, since it’s Bob Tik’s oldest creation! Out of curiosity, I investigated the next oldest
song that they claim to own: this one’s called Math Class, composed in 2009. And what do you
know, this also happens to be a 2009 youtube video, of a guy playing the harmonica in class.
This one has 44 million views- twice the number of views that Door Stuck has! And again,
Bob Tik claims to have got there first, saying that they created this song several months
earlier than the youtube video’s published date. And there’s a lot more where that came from,
spanning the years between then and now. All with names which are sort of related to their
youtube video counterparts, but as is the case with Door Stuck, not quite the same.
This isn’t automated- this is targeted stuff. Bob Tik finds a popular video,
changes or shortens the name a bit and then releases it as their own,
along with some paint art to represent it with. That requires some thought and
effort. Admittedly, not much. But still some. Which makes it all the more insidious.
So there you go: a reuploaded audio track with an earlier claimed ‘publish’ date is more proof to
Youtube than a decade-and-a-half old Youtube video classic, complete with context, video accompanying
the audio, and with several people directly involved in it, still claiming that it’s real.
But please, don’t go on a crusade against this Bob Tik guy. He isn’t worth it. He’s NOTHING.
You’re better than he is! He’s simply yet another copyright troll:
merely a symptom of a flawed system. Youtube needs to sort their stuff out,
and to stop trolls from copyrighting certified classics like Door Stuck.
From what Kinetik has said, it wasn’t Bob Tik’s Stone Door song that got his youtube
channel demonetised. This was done from his other upload, which contained music that he didn’t own.
Now, he says he never monetised them, and had simply uploaded them because he wanted high
quality versions of them to exist online. But these triggered Youtube to blanket-demonetise
his entire channel, which of course included the Door Stuck video as well. So what he did,
he removed all of the music uploads and applied for monetisation again, which was
when he was denied, because it claimed that he was reusing content from the Stone Door ‘song’.
THAT’S how he found out about this pretender. So Bob Tik might have just opportunistically
published Stone Door in a moment of weakness when the original door stuck video wasn’t being
monetised. Of course, I’m not in the best position to know the specifics or timings of all of this,
but I’d be interested to know the monetisation status of the other
videos they’ve claimed copyright for to see if there’s a pattern of some sort going on.
So yeah, with just the Door Stuck video on his channel,
Kinetik reapplied for channel monetisation, along with a video explaining the situation,
but he was again denied, with youtube claiming that he hadn’t provided enough
evidence of his creative process to prove that this was his video.
Kinetik has now used up his video appeals. He now has to wait a month,
and on August 23rd(ish), he gets to do one final automated appeal. And while we would
rather his video remains up throughout this, it’s understandable why he’d want to remove it,
to stop the copyright troll from profiting off the video during this time.
Luckily, Jake… Lucky has a large presence on Twitter,
and when he tweeted about the Door Stuck, Youtube ‘luckily’ responded, claiming they’re looking into
it. So hopefully the situation will be remedied. It’s just a shame that this is what’s required
to get something like this sorted. I know it wouldn’t stand up in court, but… just look at it!
It’s blatantly clear that what’s going on here is wrong. Sort it out, Youtube.