Talk:Just Dance 2018/@comment-32966579-20171217131235/@comment-32332997-20171219044618

I remember Ubisoft sent out a notice to AVS, Tino, and several other JD uploaders back in December 2015 saying that any raw gameplay footage of JD or video extractions from the files would be removed on a specific date in January. Some channels like AverageAsianDude deleted all their JD videos as a result, but in the end, nothing ever happened.

I always wondered how AVS was always able to upload gameplays without the songs ever getting muted or blocked. His Let Me Love You gameplay got so many views because it was one of the only videos on YouTube of the song unaltered, period, until the music video came out.

I much prefer gameplay videos with as little of the HUD as possible. I especially love when people upload no-HUD videos from the game files or from JDN, but it doesn't keep me from buying the games. However, I've noticed for a long time that people use YouTube as a free JD alternative, and it's not just JD fans, either.

Here in America at least, a lot of teachers like to put on JD videos from YouTube and have their kids dance to them either for fun or in gym class. I have a friend that hosts school assemblys and he sent me a Snapchat showing a class of young kids dancing to a JD video in a gymnasium while he was setting up. It was a gameplay video of Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go Emoji Movie version, and I could tell it was from AVS because it had no scoring at the top and most gameplay videos of the routine were blocked at the time.