Capcom Legal Request Hit Resident Evil Mod Videos on Apr 15

Capcom legal asked YouTuber GrizzoUK to remove adult-oriented Resident Evil mod videos, according to Kotaku's Apr 15 report, and the channel was briefly terminated before YouTube reinstated it. The r/Games post had 735 points and 229 comments at crawl time, putting the mod-policy dispute above the community's score floor even though Reddit's listing endpoint later became unreliable from this network.

What Capcom objected to

Kotaku says GrizzoUK posted a video about the situation that included an image of an email from Capcom's legal department. The email said adult-oriented mods based on Capcom characters go against the company's Terms of Service and asked that the flagged videos be removed. The report also says the channel included videos involving games beyond Resident Evil, including Stellar Blade.

Report date: Apr 15, 2026

Company involved: Capcom

Creator named by the report: GrizzoUK

Platform affected: YouTube

Status described by Kotaku: channel briefly terminated, then reinstated

The legal basis is not presented as a simple line that says modders cannot make adult content. Kotaku notes that Capcom's Terms of Service use broader intellectual-property language, covering acts such as modifying, altering, reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, or extracting software where not legally permitted. That gives Capcom room to treat some mod videos as a brand or IP problem even when the public rule is not written as a specific NSFW ban.

The report also connects the takedown request to Capcom's prior position on mods. In 2023, Capcom programmer Taro Yahagi said some offensive mods can damage product image and branding, and can be mistaken for legitimate implementations. That history makes this episode part of a wider PC modding tension rather than a one-off YouTube moderation case.

For players and creators, the practical point is that Capcom is willing to act against videos showing certain character-based mods, not only against files hosted for download. Kotaku said it reached out to Capcom for comment. Until Capcom provides a narrower policy, creators working around Resident Evil footage, mod showcases, and adult-oriented character edits face a more explicit enforcement risk.