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Vloggers would respond to each other, for example. But as Google started to leverage YouTube into an entertainment arm, there was less room for community. The first shot across the bow was the banning and removal of Downfall parody videos -- despite them being perfectly legal and protected by the 1st Amendment, YouTube purged most all of them. YouTubers started sharing advice on how to challenge YouTube's copyright patrols and defend their work. The first hint that Bussler was not happy with YouTube came in Video game channels had exploded on YouTube, and it ruined everything.

Competing channels would flag each other's videos for copyright violations just to jack with each other. Then YouTube expanded its ContentID system to include games as several publishers like Nintendo were claiming the videos violated their copyrights. Game companies would use the DMCA to have negative reviews pulled from searches while shows with questionable relationships that heaped praise on the games got a pass. The straw that broke the camel's back was when one user got a copyright strike for a video of a game he made.

He made it, he owned the rights, but his account was suspended and the video pulled thanks to YouTube's interpretation of copyright law. Although he has never said explicitly what made him do it, Bussler jumping to Daily Motion about the time all this was going down makes it very hard to accept as coincidence.

After all, the Intergalactic Space Arcade was now an actual warehouse with office space for the production crew. Principles are important, but so is paying your bills. He recently redid a review of Gran Turismo 3. The game opens with a song by Snoop Dog, and despite the video being up for years, YouTube recently deleted the video for copyright violation.

Bussler explained that it was a journalistic review and protected Fair Use, but YouTube didn't change their minds, and he redid the video. He also complained about people taking his footage to use in their videos. He didn't mention who, but did mention Top 10 lists. This is likely WatchMojo, which has used quite a bit of his footage in their Top 10 segments. True, they always credit CGR, but the implication is that whoever Bussler is referring to is just doing it, they aren't asking permission.

The biggest thing, though, is Bussler's veiled complaint about the state of current video game shows on YouTube. Besides the angry reviewers, most people are now just doing let's plays. Nothing wrong with that, but that's the direction things are going in, which means a shift away from reviews. Bussler has done a couple of live streams thankfully, no one attempted to swat him , but they seemed to be an experiment he wasn't interested in continuing, there hasn't been a new one in a while.

Bussler's viewership numbers have also dropped over the past few years -- people are simply finding other things more interesting to watch, things that aren't him. Simply put, the audience and its expectations are changing, and given the choice between adapting or dying, Bussler is choosing to die.

CGR isnt' completely gone, it will still pop up once in a while, and I will value those new installments. But one of the best shows on the Internet is going away because it is just too much of a headache to continue to deal with YouTube and the snark trolls in the comments and the blatant sabotage of competitors and everything in general. It's sad to see one of the stalwarts go while screaming morons who aren't above stealing material continue to thrive. But anyone thinking of starting a YouTube channel, thinking there's nothing to it?

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Not sure how many of you follow Classic Game Room over on Youtube and it's own website of course but Mark the man himself who reviews games in space, is basically shutting down production on CGR for the most part and CGR Undertow completely shutting down production.

Here's the forum post by Mark:. Greetings from the Intergalactic Space Arcade. The Classic Game Room web store, and many of the interactive features on our website will be closing by the end of the year. We may not even sell them next year. CGR Undertow will cease production by the end of the year. Thank you to all of the fans who have supported Undertow and the creators of the show.

I plan to continue CGR as a hobby. The show originally started as a hobby, so in a way it will be returning to its roots. I certainly have enough games to keep me busy! Thank you for being the best fans in the universe. Please give a round of applause for the amazing CGR Team who has worked hard behind the scenes to keep this crazy train rolling. Please continue to follow, and once again, thank you. Pretty sad news. I've been watching Mark and his videos since or so when he started them and I even remember when they were on AOL I think back in doing basic reviews even then.

In a climate of such negative insanity in video reviews on Youtube these days, it was always nice to hear Mark's reviews and takes on games as he was always positive, even when a game was a steaming pile. But I also wish him well in his art and comics since that's obviously what he's going to be doing full time now and hope he does swimmingly well.

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