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.
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
Glad to see that at least the Freebooting term is kept alive even if Hello Internet isn’t.
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.
Is the pipes bot not doing exactly the same thing? Yet it get upvoted in this posts comments?
(Genuinely don’t know, the pipes link doesn’t load for me)
No, because piped is still loading the video from YouTube and retains all of the info for the creator’s channel from YouTube. The only real downside for the creator would be that if you normally watch YouTube without adblock then the channel isn’t getting your ad revenue since piped doesn’t have any ads.
Shout out to almost friday. They have some great bits. They even have one with one of the WKUK
