Demetrious Johnson shares how his brother helps him get around YouTube’s strict copyright rules

As many online gamers are aware, Demetrious Johnson often live streams his gaming sessions on his YouTube channel called Mighty Gaming.

Still figuring out how to best optimize the gaming experience for his subscribers, Johnson revealed how his brother had helped him get around YouTube’s strict copyright rules in order to add music to his live streams.

Speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience, ‘Mighty Mouse’ addressed some of the difficulties he’s had to confront in order to make his channel his own:

“That’s the hardest thing I’ve been trying to get around being on YouTube is that I can’t play music or it’s gonna get copyrighted."

Johnson added:

"My long lost brother that I just met after 35 years on this planet is a musician, and he does beats. So I reached out to him, and I was like ‘Hey dude can you make me some synthwave music that I can play on my YouTube channel?’ So he’s doing it, and he does pretty good beats.”

Watch the seven-minute clip between Joe Rogan and Demetrious Johnson below:

Confused by the term "synthwave,” Joe Rogan subsequently asked him what that was. Johnson proudly explained:

“Synthwave is like the 80s, 90s rock, action hero, kinda like that. So he’s making me beats so I can play music when I’m streaming. It’s not copyrighted because I own the rights to it.”

Check out Demetrious Johnson's latest gaming video below:

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Demetrious Johnson prefers sharing videos with YouTube instead of Twitch

With over 100K subscribers linked to his channel, Demetrious Johnson is running a pretty successful side hustle doing one of his favorite past-times.

Although he feels he doesn’t need the money, it gives him a much-needed break from fighting and training.

Compared to the previous platforms he’s used in the past like Twitch, ‘Mighty Mouse’ concluded that YouTube is better with their algorithms. Having had a profile with Twitch for almost a decade, he realized their network wasn’t automatically sharing his videos on people’s feeds.

Happy to make the transition to YouTube, Johnson admitted there’s more freedom in producing content whenever he feels like it.

He told Rogan:

“I like YouTube, it's fun so far.”