Stark Zodiark - Youtube Channel Deleted

I was surprised to see Stark's channel with all of its helpful guides had been deleted this morning. I'm not sure why, or how, or any of that, but I just wanted to say thank you to Stark for his hard work over the years in making informative and humorous guides for fledgling tanks to get their bearings. Thanks to those guides I was able to really get into and enjoy tanking, and have a bit of fun with a role that had always intimidated me in the past.

So Stark, thank you for the guidance and the good times, and I hope wherever you are you feel the good vibes from all the young tanksters you helped grow.

Oh, no! His tanking guides really helped me out more than any other could even hope to - not just for tanking, but on all jobs. He and TSDS were my go-tos when starting up.

If you read this, thank you for your help, Mr. Stark Z. It was invaluable. :)

Apperently from looking up tweets and such to find out what happened, the person also had extended HQ rips of music on their account. Unfortunate they got hit for that and that means the guides got hit too.

Is this big FFXIV news? Who is this? :confused:

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

Is this big FFXIV news? Who is this? :confused:

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My understanding some youtube content creator. Sucks for his subscribers if he went MIA without a hint.

He uploaded FFXIV tracks in high quality, which I had on my favorite's playlist. Sucks because a lot of those tracks uploaded by other channels are in low quality and sound really bad.

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Originally Posted by MoofiaBossVal

He uploaded FFXIV tracks in high quality, which I had on my favorite's playlist. Sucks because a lot of those tracks uploaded by other channels are in low quality and sound really bad.

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He was intentionally uploading copyrighted material then, not surprised the channel was nuked. Some companies is very strict on that.

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Originally Posted by Sotaris

He was intentionally uploading copyrighted material then, not surprised the channel was nuked. Some companies is very strict on that.

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especially if monetized.

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Originally Posted by Sotaris

He was intentionally uploading copyrighted material then, not surprised the channel was nuked. Some companies is very strict on that.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

especially if monetized.

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Mekkah Dee and DudeWhereIsMySpoon regularly upload FFXIV tracks with ads and they aren't copyright stricken. And yes, Stark's music uploads had gameplay footage in them.

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Originally Posted by MoofiaBossVal

Mekkah Dee and DudeWhereIsMySpoon regularly upload FFXIV tracks with ads and they aren't copyright stricken. And yes, Stark's music uploads had gameplay footage in them.

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Ads on youtube don't mean monetized anymore. Youtube/Google can put ads on any video due to a recent policy change.
They might gone under the radar, it could be a matter of time depending how the content ID system is being triggered.

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

Is this big FFXIV news? Who is this? :confused:

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A chap from my server who made top notch tanking/dungeon guides, particularly for new tanks, but they were good enough guides for any role. I don't think I've seen any post 4.0 content from him though (not a new tank anymore and 5.0 stopped me bothering with guides so much anyway), so my initial thoughts fall to perhaps he just didn't want to maintain a channel with so much outdated info, and didn't want to leave anything up that pertained to it. I mean, you could argue he could leave the music up if that was the case, but maybe he just didn't want to be bugged by other people about it, and considering there are other channels who do the music thing (including the looping the track over gameplay footage thing), he didn't see the point. Maybe he just wasn't getting the views anymore. Or it could indeed be YT being a pain, as it often is to content creators. Who knows? It's not "big" FFXIV news per se, just relevant to some of us who appreciate what the chap did for us. :) I personally wish him the best!

If I had to take a guess, he probably got hit for all the music. Assuming he didn't delete his channel himself. I never watched their guides myself, so all I know him from is the extended music uploads.. and yeah.. that is risky.

I remember listening to some of the extended music he'd upload, thats a real bummer, and a bad sign if it was cause of the music.

SE has been known to just pull the worst f cking stunts with FF music on YouTube, they've struck down the whole FF15 soundtrack before, videos that had hundreds of thousands of views gone overnight, the FF7R soundtrack was struck down, including the first video of One Wing Angel FF7R version to get a million views, and the Nier Automata has had the same fate as both too. All still have the music up somewhere, but its all newer stuff, can the really not just forcibly monetize the videos? Christ that's better then taking the damn things down, probably some anal SE exec who's overprotective with copyright.

Hope to god SE leaves the majority of the FF14 (and FF16 when the time comes) soundtrack up, it'll be a disaster if they strike it down.

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Originally Posted by E4EO

thats a real bummer, and a bad sign if it was cause of the music.

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If you knowingly sharing copyright material on your personal YT channel you must know you may be taken down. If it's in a fair use setting, then that's fine but are you ripping a track and it don't fall in fair use then you're own to blame.

You seem to not know alot about copyright and IP protection. We can all say we dislike the companies do this but from a business pov I understand.

If he deleted his channel himself, then you can take it simply as him no longer wishing to be a content creator and perhaps just.. well, like any of us, just a player. If he got hit for the music, well, fear for Mekkah Dee I'd say.

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Originally Posted by E4EO

I remember listening to some of the extended music he'd upload, thats a real bummer, and a bad sign if it was cause of the music.

SE has been known to just pull the worst f cking stunts with FF music on YouTube, they've struck down the whole FF15 soundtrack before, videos that had hundreds of thousands of views gone overnight, the FF7R soundtrack was struck down, including the first video of One Wing Angel FF7R version to get a million views, and the Nier Automata has had the same fate as both too. All still have the music up somewhere, but its all newer stuff, can the really not just forcibly monetize the videos? Christ that's better then taking the damn things down, probably some anal SE exec who's overprotective with copyright.

Hope to god SE leaves the majority of the FF14 (and FF16 when the time comes) soundtrack up, it'll be a disaster if they strike it down.

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I'm pretty sure you can buy these soundtracks - as a real disc, on iTunes/amazon, get a Spotify-abo to listen to them... I didnt check all the outlets, so not all of these options might offer all soundtracks and there might be more options out there aswell. They're giving you access to their music, as long as you're willing to pay for it - which you should be if you value said music or music in general. Artists and musicians dont survive on people listening to their music... and yes, in the case of videogame soundtracks they probably earn most of the money to pay Soken, Uematsu or whoever else by selling the game, but they have every right to make sure they get paid for the music, too.

Almost all of Youtube is run by bots and the algorithm, so if Youtube deleted his channel then it means that either the bots went through and found enough strikes and automatically destroyed it, or he deleted it himself. There's almost no human interaction whatsoever with Youtube staff or execs, except for the occasional PR move when larger channels get strikes and speak up about it on Twitter.

The error message the videos and channel give all indicate it was a self-deletion. The reason will probably never be found out.

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Originally Posted by Sove92

The error message the videos and channel give all indicate it was a self-deletion. The reason will probably never be found out.

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Then I would say he probably no longer desired to be a content creator. Maybe people poked him a bit too much? It's all conjecture ultimately. But if he's not posted any guides since the 4.0 days, despite still playing actively into 5.2/5.3 content then my guess would be as I stated.