On Christmas Eve of 2008, Higa and Fujiyoshi's two most popular videos, How To Be Gangster and How To Be Emo, were removed due to copyright violations.[11] On January 21, 2009, the nigahiga account was temporarily suspended and was required to remove more copyrighted videos. Because of this, Nigahiga's lip syncing videos were all removed (with the exception of You're Beautiful, which was audio swapped),[12] along with most of his other videos that included copyrighted music. Since then, Higa started composing the music himself.