At YOASOBI’s concerts held on November 7 and 8 at Vantelin Dome Nagoya, smartphone filming was permitted for the entire show. As a result, nearly full-length videos of the performance were posted to YouTube one after another, sparking buzz on social media. On 5ch forums, opinions clashed between those welcoming it as the same “fancam” culture seen with overseas artists, and those arguing that uploading for monetization — rather than just personal records — goes too far.
YOASOBI concert allows filming, triggering a flood of “full-length” videos online — some fans push back against monetizing a “do-or-die service”
On November 7 and 8, the two-person music unit YOASOBI held concerts at Vantelin Dome Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture. The venue was filled with excitement over the performance, but a flood of “full concert videos” uploaded to YouTube afterward has stirred up social media.
YOASOBI is on its “YOASOBI 11-CITY ASIA-OCEANIA TOUR 2026-2027 ‘Super Planet’” tour, which kicked off with the Kyocera Dome Osaka show in October and runs through a Tokyo Dome show in December. This tour has featured a new approach.
If they gave the OK then it is what it is.
Plenty of overseas musicians already have tons of footage up on YouTube.
4AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:24
Japanese people who don't even know what "fancam" culture is lol
So behind the times lol
7AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:26
Holding your phone up the whole concert is just ridiculous.
8AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:26
They gave the OK, so there's no problem here.
9AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:26
AC/DC
Full concert videos of theirs are all over the place.
20AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:31
Re: #9
A lot of them are shot really nicely too.
10AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:26
Even if people film it and post it, doesn't the song's copyright claim kick in anyway so the money ends up coming back to them in the end?
11AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:27
This has already been settled. These days, letting it flood social media is actually the better business move in all sorts of ways.
12AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:27
The aim is probably to get more people wanting to hear it live in person.
It's basically free advertising.
13AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:28
So more fans will feel like they don't have to force themselves to go in person — nobody loses out.
30AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:34
Re: #13
They're probably confident it'll still get people to show up to the actual concert.
14AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:28
Even calling it "full length," the crowd noise and everything means it's not really enjoyable quality anyway.
15AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:28
Other artists already do this — why's this even news at this point?
16AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:29
They wouldn't allow this if the seats were empty, so I guess the rumor about them struggling with ticket sales really was fake.
19AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:31
Re: #16
Sapporo Dome is apparently struggling a bit, so they're doing it in "reverse mode" (a reduced/reversed seating configuration).
46AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:44
Re: #16
They said filming would be allowed back when tickets first went on sale.
17AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:30
If only certain songs are allowed, you get this awful sight of everyone hoisting their phones up just during those songs.
Apparently allowing it for every song is the smarter move lol
18AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:30
Of course that's how it'd turn out if filming's allowed the whole time.
If you don't want that, your only options are to limit the filming window or ban it outright.
21AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:31
ｧ,､'`(*´∀`*),､'`'`,､ (a scattering laugh/mocking kaomoji)
22AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:31
They must have allowed it knowing full well that's how it'd go.
There are concerts all over the place by artists who allow filming anyway.
23AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:31
Doesn't holding your phone steady to keep the angle the whole time kind of ruin actually enjoying the concert?
25AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:32
Apparently it's just normal in Korea — and the footage comes out looking practically professional too.
26AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:32
Guess to Korean fans, Japan really does look behind the times~
28AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:33
K-pop concert footage is absolutely everywhere online, yeah.
32AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:36
I'd get more enjoyment watching "Russia Kaitai Shinsho" (a history YouTube channel) than that "Peace-kun" clip from Omiya Park anyway.
33AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:37
I don't think monetizing it should be allowed, though.
They didn't give permission for that part, so it's just straightforwardly illegal.
35AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:37
A one-hit wonder riding on nothing but "Idol".
45AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:44
Re: #35
"Racing into the Night" and "Gunjo" are well known too, you know.
36AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:38
Let's say filming itself is fine — but is profiting off it also fine?
Feels like the unspoken understanding around "personal use only" isn't being grasped.
37AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:38
Most artists don't even get one hit, so calling someone a "one-hit wonder" is actually a compliment.
38AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:39
Even if the video quality is watchable, the actual audio is about what you'd expect — skip through it, watch once and that's enough.
Though straight-up uploading the raw audio track should get flagged by AI detection these days and have its monetization stripped anyway.
39AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:39
Honestly, amateur phone-shot footage just isn't watchable.
40AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:40
Well if they gave the OK, of course this is what happens.
Though personally I think you should watch the concert with your own eyes instead of through a camera.
49AnonymousNov 11, 2026 23:46
On YouTube, even when an individual uploads it, the copyright holder ends up getting the revenue anyway — isn't that probably exactly what they're counting on?
71AnonymousNov 12, 2026 00:10
Re: #49
If that's the case, then it should be fine, right?
And yet some fans are still pushing back.
62AnonymousNov 12, 2026 00:01
Monetization on YouTube for live concert footage and music content is set up so the money goes to the artist, right?
63AnonymousNov 12, 2026 00:01
Re: #62
That's true for every song.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Overseas, a “fancam” culture that officially permits filming is well established, and YouTube has mechanisms like Content ID that route revenue back to rights holders. As pointed out within the thread, if the same system applies domestically, revenue from these videos could flow to the artist’s side too, meaning this isn’t necessarily a simple case of “an unauthorized third party profiting.” At the same time, there’s no clear, stated line between what counts as personal record-keeping and what counts as repurposing for monetization, and the article doesn’t make clear how far this filming policy is tied to ticket sales or audience-building strategy. Note that individual details, such as the seating change at the Sapporo show, are being discussed in a separate context from overall turnout.
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