Overview
- Elious, the animator behind PokéNational, said in an April 26 video that Nintendo of America struck about 20 uploads within 12 hours, leaving four active strikes and seven days before deletion under YouTube’s three-strike rule.
- Strike notices cited use of Pokémon game audiovisual works, characters, and imagery, according to the creator’s summary of the claims.
- He argues the shorts are mostly original 3D animation that use only split-second in-game cries and says he will not contest the strikes due to legal risk.
- With the channel locked from new uploads, he is downloading past videos for an archive and plans to keep creating on a separate, non-Pokémon channel; his recent Patreon for the series is under review.
- PokéNational grew to roughly 92,000–100,000 subscribers and helped popularize Pokémon nature-documentary videos, even as other creators, including AI-run channels, post game assets without visible takedowns.