‘This is Khorosho,’ the Russian YouTube channel that reviewed viral videos for 16 years, is shutting down after copyright disputes

Source: This is Khorosho

Blogger Stas Davydov has announced that “This is Khorosho” (“This Is Good”), a YouTube channel known for its humorous reviews of viral videos, is shutting down. Its creators decided to close the channel after copyright disputes over clips used in the show’s episodes.

That’s it — an era has ended. Reviews from “This is Khorosho” will probably disappear gradually from YouTube. Several outfits that bought the rights to viral videos from their creators had already been taking the ad revenue from almost all the old episodes anyway, even if only one of the videos reviewed in an episode “belongs” to them.

They often bought viral videos only after the clips had already appeared on our channel. They frequently weren’t bought from the real creators at all. Well, as long as they could show YouTube’s internal system that they now held the rights, that was all that mattered.

In particular, the American company ViralHog filed claims over the use of the clips, reporting “This is Khorosho” to YouTube. Those claims forced the channel’s creators to delete hundreds of episodes.

Davydov said the situation with ViralHog became “one more drop in our cup of patience, which was already overflowing.” “We’re just tired of fighting for this channel’s existence,” he said. The channel plans a farewell livestream in early September.

“This is Khorosho” has been on YouTube since 2010. It became popular thanks to its reviews of viral and funny videos. The channel now has more than 6.3 million subscribers and 1,800 videos.

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