The German YouTuber Ahman “ApoRed” Nadim Ahadi has built a large gaming channel on Fortnite . As “RedSama,” he has about 1.48 million subscribers on YouTube. This makes it one of the largest German-speaking Fortnite channels. But the channel is now in danger: Epic has issued copyright strikes against him. Deletion is imminent.
This is the situation: In a video from November 2nd, YouTuber ApoRed (25) explains that he received numerous copyright strikes on YouTube on November 1st, the holiday.
These strikes come directly from Epic, and if they are not revoked, his channel “RedSama” is set to be deleted on November 8th.
ApoRed shows images of the strikes and says that he currently has an upload ban. The strikes were issued on “completely normal Fortnite videos” without any special oddities.
He knows no further reason for these copyright strikes. He does not understand why Epic is targeting him specifically. No one else seems to have these problems.
YouTuber Claims Innocence
This is what ApoRed says: He emphasizes his innocence in detail. He repeatedly says in the video, “I did nothing.” At least he has not done anything that other Fortnite YouTubers haven’t done. These were completely normal videos that were struck. He has a completely normal Fortnite channel.
ApoRed admits, however, that he has promoted sites on his channel RedSama that sell unique skins – but he says that other YouTubers have done that too. They are not banned.
ApoRed Feels Harassed
He believes that Epic hates him or that one or two people at Epic hate him. This has been a pattern throughout his career:
- He made Fortnite known in Germany, thousands discovered and downloaded the game thanks to him
- Still, he was never invited to events
- When he complained about this, Epic subsequently banned his “content creator” code, which allows him to earn money – he is the only YouTuber of this size for whom that has happened
- And now they are letting his YouTube channel be deleted “for no reason” – at one point, ApoRed suggests “racism” as a possible reason or something he did “in 1998”
ApoRed feels harassed. Epic is looking for a pretext to ban him. He googles both words live in the video to ensure he uses them correctly.
ApoRed Will Involve a Lawyer, Make a Real Noise
This is how ApoRed is reacting now: He announced that he will go to Berlin to visit Epic. He wants to “step in Berlin.” Furthermore, he wants to involve “the press” and his lawyer Stefan.
He says it needs to be made known how badly he is being treated here.
For the moment, ApoRed has deleted all videos on his channel RedSama, except for the explanation video.
In addition, he has renamed the channel to “Please don’t delete me.”
Furthermore, he has opened a new channel called “RedSama.”
Under the video, some comments indicate that the promotion for skins could be the reason for the strikes.
Has this ever happened before? In August 2019, a similar case occurred. There, Take-2 issued a copyright strike against the YouTuber “SupMatto”.
However, there was a clear reason and statements: SupMatto was said to have spread leaks regarding Borderlands 3, which he obtained in ways that Take-2 could not tolerate. At that time, YouTubers showed solidarity with SupMatto. They did not like that a company exerted its power in such a way.
In the meantime, however, SupMatto’s channel has been deleted. He has withdrawn.
More background on ApoRed and his conflict with Epic can be found in this article:
Update November 9th: The channel of ApoRed has indeed been deleted.
