Just caught wind of the purpleyeenba situation, which is managing to piss the hell out of furries.
Here's the quick version: Purple is some gender special 16-year-old furry who obsessed over some furry content creator going by
Dander Woolf. Now it's important to note here that Dander certainly isn't a saint and apparently got into some drama himself, but that's another situation I'm not going to get into at the moment because it's otherwise irrelevant to this. What is important is that at some point, Purple tried to get into contact with Dander, and Dander thought Purple was enough of a nuisance to be blocked.
archive
archive
Purple decides that the best course of action from here is to abuse the DMCA feature on Youtube, taking down Dander's videos as well as videos that mentioned Dander's shitty behavior in any capacity. Purple essentially tried to blackmail creators and says "tell Dander to unblock me or I'll use the DMCA info to dox you". Purple is essentially told to fuck off.
archive
Not learning their lesson, Purple continues DMCA-ing videos and publicly bragging about doing so, all the while schizo-posting about Dander.
archive archive archive
Purple eventually gets a Twitter ban for their constant harassment, only to ban-evade on a new account.
archive archive
Purple then decided to up their DMCA abuse, spamming DMCA at seemingly random furry drama YouTubers with the demand of "tell Dander to unblock me or I'm going to abuse more DMCAs".
archive
So to summarize so far, this Purple yeen person gets blocked by another furry, then decides the best course of action is to send fraudulent DMCA takedowns on any YouTuber who discussed furry drama, seemingly at random. And by any, I really mean ANY. Any video that appeared in the search, they DMCA'd. Purple then claimed they would reverse the DMCAs if the YouTubers took their side.
Unsurprisingly, furry commentary YouTubers are not your personal army, and people began to criticize Purple for their behavior.
archive
reactions from NovelyJpg and LagoVirt:
archive archive
Purple also uploaded two videos on
their youtube channel recording themself filing the fraudulent takedowns, inexplicably interspaced with Roblox machinima and shitty music blaring over the whole thing.
archive
And that's about where we are right now. The last time I've seen DMCA abuse at a level like this was during the
Alex Mauer fiasco from 2017, where he tried extorting his employer for more money over a game's soundtrack he worked on, and was told no, so he responded by flagging any video that mentioned the game in any capacity. Alex was basically sued into oblivion for wasting the court's time. Purple seems to be abusing Youtube's lack of human moderation in a similar manner to Alex, and it's only a matter of time until they get into legal trouble for it.