Paramount Strike

This article is about an ongoing event in the ai_sponge community. All information currently in this article are currently preliminary.

The Paramount strike is a strike by Paramount Global on ai_sponge on the 7th of June, 2023, and is still in affect. This has caused many events to occur.

Beginning
At about 4:42 PM CDT on the 7th of June, 2023, The owners of ai-sponge were shocked to receive that Paramount has copyright striked them. This was an invalid strike, as it was a parody and was under fair-use.

New account
In the early morning hours of the 8th of June, 2023, a new ai-sponge account was created at about 2:46 AM CDT. The stream was put back up on that channel, but this didn't last long. The stream was taken down by Paramount at 9:46 AM CDT.

Possible causes
A possible cause for the copyright strike is that Paramount believed that some content in the stream was copyrighted, even though SpongeBob SquarePants was in the public domain since 2008. Paramount might have thought that SpongeBob wasn't in the public domain.

Copyright notice possibly issued by YouTube
It is possible that the YouTube team issued the copyright strike themselves, as they might have contributed to the copyright strike, They might have believed that SpongeBob SquarePants was not in the public domain, causing them to issue the copyright strike, with it saying a copyright strike by Paramount Global.

Plans
The owners of ai_sponge are discussing about how to prove parody and remove the strike. A suggestion that could work was changing the characters names. (Examples: Squidward to Loudward, and Patrick to Patrice.)

Fake live stream
As of right now, a stream by the YouTube user, Manhwa Lovers, claimed to be running an actual SpongeBob AI stream. However, this stream was replaying clips from previous streams of the ai_sponge channel. It is belived that the Manhwa Lovers channel used that stream as a scam to collect money to whoever who donates.

Current events
As of now, their discord server is back up, but some channels (i.e. #stream-chat and #stream-suggestions) are still down, and their other channels are still in chaos. More members are now saying to raid the Paramount Headquarters.

Extras

 * While chaos emerges, a new ai came out of the shadows, named ai-peter, being an ai version of Family Guy.