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

  • Nighed@sffa.community
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    1 year ago

    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)

    • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

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          1 year ago

          There is a way to mark a video as watched in youtube-dl (--mark-watched), so it’s possible for Piped to have the same thing.

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          1 year ago

          I don’t actually know for sure, but I’d imagine it still gives a view the same way watching an embedded video gives a view.