Why This Topic Landed in Japan

Genshin Impact has a large, invested fanbase in Japan, so an official voice actor's stream being taken down read as an injustice. The reaction sits on top of long-standing suspicion of Tencent and its relationship with HoYoverse, the studio behind Genshin. What is actually confirmed is narrow: Honda's own posts saying her Genshin stream was blocked, and that the claimant appeared as "FUTURE TV" (Mirai Terebi). Whether Tencent was behind the claim, and whether the burst of rival-game spam in her chat just before was connected, has not been established.

Key Reaction Themes

  • Suspicion of a coordinated hit (most) — Many read it as Tencent, or the rival game's camp, squeezing out a competitor; "too far," "scary."
  • Frustration with YouTube's claim system — That an unrelated content claim can take down a stream at all struck people as broken.
  • Caution (smaller) — A minority said the cause is unknown, pointing to trolls filing false reports or automated misdetection, and that the story is spreading without any context.

What Japanese Netizens Are Saying

A Genshin voice actor's stream is taken down

A stream hit by rival-game spam is then blocked by a copyright claim, and viewers argue over whether Tencent was behind it.

本多真梨子
本多真梨子
@honda_mosamosa
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今日原神配信してたんですが、アルレッキーノの伝説任務中に、配信がブロックされてしまい観れなくなってしまいました💦枠を変えても同じようにブロックされてしまい、現在観ることはできません。特に問題のある配信はしていないので、現在対処を調べてるところです💦#本多真梨子の実に原神ね

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MEGANE@鳴潮
MEGANE@鳴潮
@metyoMEGANE
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サンドローネ声優本田さんの原神配信 ・ゲーム内ギフトでの嫌がらせ ・チャットで「鳴潮やってください」スパム ・度重なるライブ配信停止からアーカイブがブロック 申し立てはテンセントが設立に絡んでるとこ テンセントって鳴潮のクロゲ筆頭株主だよねえ… こんな嫌がらせしてくるなんてこわいわ

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Comments:

  • "At least write up why she's being harassed like this."
  • "This can't be allowed to just fade away — it's gone way too far."
  • "Right before the stream got blocked, the chat was being spammed with Wuthering Waves comments — is that connected somehow?"
  • "Even if that's the case, why does a claim over unrelated content go through at all?"
  • "Because YouTube is broken, that's why."
  • "During today's stream she was getting pelted with those illusion(?) stones too, so there's no doubt she's being griefed."
  • "HoYoverse may have that stance, but for some reason it's unrelated Tencent that files the claim and the video gets removed."
  • "Well, worst case she can still pull an audience with things other than Genshin streams — no idea if she streams other games, though."
  • "People are losing it, but with no context the story isn't going to take off — I have no clue what all this 'Tencent' stuff even is."
  • "Tencent, which hates HoYoverse, is trying to ban Genshin-streaming accounts one after another. Tencent wanted to bring HoYoverse — who just want to make games — under its control, but HoYoverse said, 'If Tencent buys us, we won't get to make the games we want.' That's where the feud started."