Description: A freebooting Twitter account (very likely without permission) posts a screenshot of a TikTok with no credit and gets millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes. The creators of the original video respond, and get next to no views. (And currently have 6 likes on the tweet.)
As a side note, go watch Almost Friday TV, their videos are hilarious and incredibly well directed: https://youtu.be/Y5HInrono_o
I’m so incredibly fed up with freebooters, but what can one man do really?
OOTL: what is meant by freebooting. Is it just reposting other people’s content without proper attribution?
You got it dead on.
It’s always been an issue, but it’s getting worse and becoming even more common.
Every meme I’ve ever seen has never given credit to the original creator unless it’s watermarked on the meme. It’s so weird to me that people get upset by this.
The monetization aspect is a part of it. Without any form of credit, eyes aren’t going back to the original creator, losing them potential earnings.
The foundation of YouTube was people taking episodes of TV shows and trying to get around the auto filter by putting images off to the side etc. This has been common and previlant for a very long time now. Also see the ancient meme of “I made this”
Yeah, specifically jumping between platforms. So for example the term was coined by YouTuber Brady Haran of Numberphile after his videos kept getting rehosted on Facebook video posts
A video and a meme are completely different things.
Glad to see that at least the Freebooting term is kept alive even if Hello Internet isn’t.
One of the best “2 guys talk” podcasts
Freebooting was the first sign for me of the downfall of reddit. It used to be that the community demanded credit to the creator at the very least. Once reddit added in their own video you’d get downvoted to oblivion for asking for a source, creator or even linking to the original. Reddit video made it ok to not only freeboot, but to freeboot purely for the purpose of removing the creator’s views as reddit only pays in karma.
Long story short, I’m glad to see that lemmy is stepping up and standing up for creators.
I don’t think I ever saw people get downvoted for linking the source. It was always considered a good gesture.
Shout out to almost friday. They have some great bits. They even have one with one of the WKUK
Immediately became my new favorite channel after watching like 2 skits. Hope they keep getting bigger and better. Loved the one with the WKUK dude, felt like a passing the torch moment.
You’ve just given them more views
