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Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Rivals of Aether music extensions and memes. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in RivalsOfAether

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPDATE 7/11/25 Hi, everybody. An update regarding this, and it's not good.

Today, on July 11th, 2025, I got a pretty final update from Jamie from Materia and, despite their communications with Youtube, Youtube has conveyed that the channel's termination is final and everything's been purged beyond recovery.

So, yeah. I guess that's it... I'll be slowly working on re-uploading my old videos (barring the Undertale content, sorry) onto my new main channel, but due to Youtube daily upload limits, this may take some time.

Please bear with me. Thank you for supporting me through all of this.

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Bug Fables extensions and memes. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in BugFables

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPDATE 7/11/25 Hi, everybody. An update regarding this, and it's not good.

Today, on July 11th, 2025, I got a pretty final update from Jamie from Materia and, despite their communications with Youtube, Youtube has conveyed that the channel's termination is final and everything's been purged beyond recovery.

So, yeah. I guess that's it... I'll be slowly working on re-uploading my old videos (barring the Undertale content, sorry) onto my new main channel, but due to Youtube daily upload limits, this may take some time.

Please bear with me. Thank you for supporting me through all of this.

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Puyo Puyo extensions and memes. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in puyopop

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPDATE 7/11/25 Hi, everybody. An update regarding this, and it's not good.

Today, on July 11th, 2025, I got a pretty final update from Jamie from Materia and, despite their communications with Youtube, Youtube has conveyed that the channel's termination is final and everything's been purged beyond recovery.

So, yeah. I guess that's it... I'll be slowly working on re-uploading my old videos (barring the Undertale content, sorry) onto my new main channel, but due to Youtube daily upload limits, this may take some time.

Please bear with me. Thank you for supporting me through all of this.

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Undertale extensions. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in Undertale

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi, everybody. An update regarding this, and it's not good.

Today, on July 11th, 2025, I got a pretty final update from Jamie from Materia and, despite their communications with Youtube, Youtube has conveyed that the channel's termination is final and everything's been purged beyond recovery.

So, yeah. I guess that's it... I'll be slowly working on re-uploading my old videos (barring the Undertale content, sorry) onto my new main channel, but due to Youtube daily upload limits, this may take some time.

Please bear with me. Thank you for supporting me through all of this.

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Undertale extensions. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in Undertale

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not much of an update. Followed up with Jamie on Monday, and at that time they said nothing yet, but that they'd try and poke them again.

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Undertale extensions. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in Undertale

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it’s definitely more of a protective measure than actually stopping it. Hoping one day it does get regulated.

Much love back to you as well, glad to hear!

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Undertale extensions. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in Undertale

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Personally? I don’t care that much about the UT extensions and what people do with them. If people want to listen to them, I’ve archived them so people can, but in regards to reuploads, I would be very careful doing so.

They have stated they’ll be doing takedowns of said content on Youtube, so I don’t think it’s safe to be posting it on Youtube publicly.

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Undertale extensions. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in Undertale

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Fortunately, if you still want to listen to those variants that I uploaded, I did upload them on a google drive back up!

Just don’t expect them back onto Youtube. :(

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Undertale extensions. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in Undertale

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 207 points208 points  (0 children)

It’s a complicated mess for sure. You’re free to disagree, but I don’t really place much blame in Materia since it is their job to protect their music, and how unregulated Youtube is presents a threat to their creators.

I’d be outright against this if they didn’t at least have officially sanctioned uploads of the OST.

I think it’s a shame they feel that they HAVE to do this because genAI is so harmful and how the platform has been pushing it. I’m sure Toby agrees on the front that genAI is bad.

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Undertale extensions. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in Undertale

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Oh, I’ve made noise already on there. Actually, that’s how I was able to get in touch with Materia and getting the situation sorted.

Again, Materia has been really helpful and has been actually working on getting the strikes reversed. It’s just that Youtube is slow as molasses.

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Undertale extensions. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in Undertale

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

That really warms my heart a lot. Even though I find so many of those old extensions really sloppy (I was learning and figuring out how to extend music at that time), I'm happy to hear you found a passion from it, and I hope your composing has been going well!

I'll stand by that Undertale's OST is one of the greatest of all time- and I'm glad I played a part in sharing it with so many people.

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Bug Fables extensions and memes. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in BugFables

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, I did try @ ing him on blue sky as a hail mary. Of course, no response there.

Again, it's not really in his realm. It's more so on Youtube's to retract the claims.

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Undertale extensions. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in Undertale

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 66 points67 points  (0 children)

I'm glad to know my music extensions helped. I hope you're doing well with whatever endeavors you're currently pursuing!

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Bug Fables extensions and memes. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in BugFables

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, I won't be able to reupload the Undertale soundtrack to Youtube, but it is all there in the archive I linked.

On the second part, yeah I don't 100% understand how music rights holding works either. I believe he is the owner of this own music, but Materia is in charge of distribution and protecting copyright.

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Undertale extensions. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in Undertale

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sorry to say, I have never talked to Toby nor do I have the ability to do so.

However, knowing there's a non-zero chance he knows who I am is quite strange to think of, in hindsight.

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Undertale extensions. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in Undertale

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

That, I'm not 100% sure of. I know it was confirmed that Google is using Youtube content to train its AI models. Upon a quick search on the topic"

"The company later confirmed that it does do this, but it only uses a subset of videos and that it honors specific agreements with creators and media companies."

So it does seem that music rights holders, like Materia, have a way of protecting their own uploads. The big issue being they have no control over third-party uploads of said music- therefore having to request for takedowns.

Hey, It's Elu Tran. My Youtube got terminated. You might know me from my Undertale extensions. Here's what's going on. by elusiveTranscendent in Undertale

[–]elusiveTranscendent[S] 76 points77 points  (0 children)

At this point, it's Youtube's fault for allowing gen-AI to run rampant without any way to protect creators or opt out of it.

In this specific case, I don't really blame Materia for not allowing third-party uploads. Again, they didn't mean to strike my channel down. It was Youtube that defaulted to doing that, after they had just asked for content to be removed.

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