April 2026
This event marked the most drastic escalation in the conflict between Invisible Narratives and the BringBoomBack movement. Shortly after Inviz leaked Alexey’s messages where they also publicly argued that creators were not operating under “threats or retaliation”, multiple YouTube channels that were publicly critical of the company received copyright strikes with no warning. This began around the same time that the hashtag #LetBoomSpeak was created.
Starting in mid-April, Invisible Narratives and their partner David Levine Lightboat (David LB) made a combined total of 27 copyright strikes across 10 YouTube channels. All of the affected channels are vocal supporters of #BringBoomBack. Neither party put copyright strikes on Skibidi channels that were not publicly critical of the company.
Adam Goodman has not come out to deny that Inviz sent these strikes. Inviz has not communicated with any of the affected creators about these strikes.
The channels and their number of strikes: Zacdoor – 9 strikes. EliteBlueGuy – 4 strikes. Iron Cameraman – 3 strikes (on different dates). Armhov – 5 strikes (on different dates). Veynor – 1 strike . The Dark Void – 1 strike. Super Cameraman – 1 strike. ISO Toilet – 1 strike. Celanimation Theories – 1 strike. Dafart?! – 1 strike.
Many of these strikes were given on videos that creators argue use content under fair use laws. The news / analysis channels use footage from Skibidi Toilet in the background of their videos for discussion purposes, which usually falls under fair use in YouTube’s guidelines. Invisible Narratives made multiple strikes on these types of news / analysis videos for Skibidi footage in the background.
David LB made all of his strikes based on creators showing screenshots of his messages from Discord. These screenshots are messages from his discord that show David’s photo in the profile picture. David made the copyright claims based on owning the rights to his profile photo. However, using a public photo of someone in a news video often falls under fair use.
Zacdoor
ZacDoor, an animator who worked with Alexey on Skibidi Toilet episode 79 and a major voice in the BringBoomBack movement, received 9 copyright strikes throughout 2 days from IP owner Invisible Narratives. Having 3 active copyright strikes on a channel automatically schedules a channel for deletion. Fans viewed this high number of strikes as unnecessarily aggressive.
On April 17, Zacdoor received an initial strike from Invisible Narratives. This was the same day that other channels received strikes from both Invisible Narratives and David LB.
About 6 hours after he made the above post, Zacdoor received 6 additional strikes, bringing his total to 7.
By the next morning (April 18), Zacdoor had a total of 9 strikes.
ZacDoor’s tweet gained over 100 comments of support, tagging @TeamYouTube. Soon after, Zacdoor received an email saying 6 of his strikes were removed by Youtube. He sent appeals for the other 3 strikes, which were eventually approved by Youtube.
Iron Cameraman / Armhov / Veynor
Iron Cameraman and his other 2 channels, Armhov and Veynor, received strikes from both Invisible Narratives and David LB over the course of a few weeks.
It started on April 17 when Iron Cameraman was hit with 2 strikes; Armhov got 2 strikes; and Veynor got 1 strike.
Iron’s first post about the strikes
Iron Cameraman posted this video after he received his first strikes:
After he uploaded the above video, Iron received a copyright strike on that video from Invisible Narratives on April 21. They claimed that he used Skibidi content in the entire video – but Iron did not use a SINGLE frame of Skibidi content in the video at all.
At this point, Iron had appealed 1 strike on the Iron Cameraman channel and 2 strikes on Armhov.
Also on April 21, Armhov received 2 more strikes – 1 from Invisible Narratives and 1 from David Levine Lightboat. Iron soon appealed these strikes as well.
More information can be found in this video:
Later, on April 30, David LB issued another strike on Armhov.
Additionally, David LB filed a legal complaint with the Copyright Claims Board against Iron Cameraman. This complaint was over the use of screenshots of David LB’s public profile photo on his Discord account. The screenshots included in Iron’s videos were simply showing David’s public profile, which included a photo of him. More info in the video below:
Elite Blue Guy
Youtuber EliteBlueGuy received 4 strikes from both Inviz and David LB over the course of a few weeks. On April 16, he got 1 strike from David LB over a screenshot of his public discord profile photo. On April 17, he got 2 strikes from Invisible Narratives, 1 for reuploads of videos with slight changes, and 1 strike for using Skibidi footage in the background of a covid update video. Since he had 3 strikes, that meant his channel was scheduled to be deleted.
On April 20, he got another strike from David LB on a BringBoomBack video over a screenshot of his discord picture.
ISO Toilet
ISO Toilet, a channel who makes videos on the Inviz controversy and criticizes the company, got a strike from David LB over the use of his public Discord profile photo.
Super Cameraman
Celanimation Theories
On April 13, Skibidi channel Celanimation Theories was hit with a copyright strike from David LB over the use of screenshots of a discord conversation where David’s profile photo is shown. The copyright strike is on the photo itself, which is very small and is used on David’s public account.
The Dark Void
On April 19, Youtube channel The Dark Void (musakhar_ali) received a copyright strike from David LB on a video for using a photo of his public discord profile. A few days before the strike, The Dark Void actually blurred out that image from his video using Youtube’s editing tool, because he had been anticipating a possible strike. But Youtube still let the strike through despite the image not being visible.
Dafart?!
On April 23, a small YouTuber was hit with a copyright strike from Invisible Narratives on a BringBoomBack animation video they made.
Journalist takes interest
The wave of strikes drew attention from journalist Steven Asarch, who asked affected creators to contact him.
Why copyright strikes are so bad
On YouTube, there’s an important difference between copyright claims and copyright strikes. A copyright claim usually allows the video to remain online while redirecting some or all monetization to the claimant. A strike is much more serious. When a strike is made, that video is removed and it affects the health of the channel. If a channel receives three active copyright strikes, the channel can be terminated unless the creator successfully resolves them.
Later, observers raised further questions about how the strikes were conducted, including the apparent involvement of third-party enforcement company MarkScan.
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