Creator Of Popular Pokémon Nature Documentary Series Says His Channel Will Shut Down Due To Nintendo Copyright Strikes
The creator of the popular Pokémon nature documentary series PokéNational Geographic, Elious, announced his YouTube channel will be deleted in seven days due to multiple copyright strikes from Nintendo of America. He claims the strikes target original 3D animations with minimal use of game assets, such as brief Pokémon sound clips, and says he is unable to fight the takedown despite years of uninterrupted content creation. Elious expressed disappointment over losing nearly 100,000 subscribers and the inability to continue the series, though he plans to keep creating non-Pokémon content on a new channel. He also noted that other Pokémon-related channels, including AI-generated ones, continue operating without similar enforcement.
- ▪Elious' YouTube channel faces deletion under YouTube's three-strikes policy after Nintendo of America issued four copyright strikes affecting 20 videos in 12 hours.
- ▪The strikes cite unauthorized use of Pokémon video game content, including characters, audiovisual works, and imagery, despite Elious using mostly original 3D animations.
- ▪Elious stated he only used short sprite-based sound effects under three seconds and had produced the content since 2023 without prior issues.
- ▪He recently launched a Patreon to support the series, which is now under review, and regrets losing the ability to maintain his audience for future non-Pokémon projects.
- ▪Elious will continue creating content on a new channel, EliousEntertainmentYT, but will no longer produce Pokémon-related videos.
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Creator Of Popular Pokémon Nature Documentary Series Says His Channel Will Shut Down Due To Nintendo Copyright Strikes 'PokéNational is dead. I'm not going to be able to make PokéNational again.' Pokémon By Rebekah Valentine Published April 28, 2026 | Comments (0) | 𝕏 Copied! © The Pokémon Company Elious, the creator behind the popular Pokémon nature documentary YouTube series PokéNational Geographic, says that his channel will be deleted by YouTube in seven days due to a series of sudden and aggressive copyright strikes from Nintendo of America. In a video posted to an alternate channel, Elious says that Nintendo of America suddenly issued numerous strikes on large batches of his videos, all in the space of 12 hours.
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