Comment on Freebooting Twitter Account getting millions of views without credit, original creators get next to none...

funnystuff97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  OOTL: what is meant by freebooting. Is it just reposting other people's content without proper attribution?

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  • NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You got it dead on.

    It’s always been an issue, but it’s getting worse and becoming even more common.

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    • ProfessorZhu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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”

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    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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

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    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A video and a meme are completely different things.

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  • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s an old term for pirates. Some of us believe the term was coined by Brady Haran on… iirc Hello Internet?

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