How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views 

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Since a lot of people asked: Sharing a video on Facebook is GOOD for the creator if you use a linke to the original Voutube video. In that regard Facebook is a good thing and actually important for us. The bad thing is when people/sites upload videos into the Facebook video player. Sorry that we did not make this clearer. So feel free to share this video on Facebook.

Guys, thank you for making this... and thanks again for being such a good friend to Smarter Every Day.

"Facebook wants to change" - Time has determined that this was a lie.

Is RU-vid NOT suing Facebook over this? It's lost revenue for them too!

In before this video gets stolen, posted on Facebook and gets viewed millions of views.

Someone tried to share this video with me in a private message on Facebook... However the message was flagged as "harmful content" and deleted. This is INSANE.

Actually, we all should just boycott facebook until they change. They can't survive for very long if no one uses their services.

This, unfortunately, needs to be shared all the hell over facebook!

if facebook steals this video, thats a whole new low.

How to spot a stolen video in Facebook: 1.- Video starts or ends abruptly, with no credits nor intro sequence 2.- Video has a watermark from the facebook page that stole it, and doesn't mention any source in the description 3.- Has two rectangles, one at the bottom and one at the top, with text such as "OMG you wont believe this..." 4.- Overuse of emojis such as "😂", "😮", etc.

Even today, this is still a massive problem. I feel like its actually gotten worse. They really should lose their safe harbor over this.

The most angry calm voice.

Moral of the story: Delete Facebook.

Imagine if they also stole this video.

I personally think that Facebook will NEVER help content creators because it generates money to them. If a problem afects the revenue they get, they will attend that thing instead to help real problems like the one Kurzgesagt presents to us. Thanks for talking about this problem, Kurzgesagt. You are legend.

7 years later and nothing was essentially ever changed. It's actually gotten worse with the introduction of Tik Tok. In the last 7 years the definition of fair use has also dramatically changed. Essentially you can steal anything, slightly edit it in 2 minutes and now you're deemed to be using under fair usage. I honestly don't understand how this massive problem just snowballs worse every year and nothing gets done about it. Original, hard-working creators are still suffering the most.

Totally agree, even a small channel like mine has lost 20+ million views to stolen vids on FB, and when you report them FB does nothing as they profit from theft.

This is one of the billion reasons I don't use Facebook.

Meanwhile, FB comes after independent creators using public domain video-clips that have been falsely claimed by larger corporations --- with no ability for the creator to contest the claim, video is simply removed --- at least RU-vid offers the ability to contest false claims and gives us a fighting chance at all. Thank you posting this video ❤

7 years later they still do this -_-

You know you’ve screwed up when Kurzgesagt calls you out

I actually ranted about this on facebook a couple weeks ago after seeing how many people on my timeline routinely share stolen videos from shitty freebooting pages. Much of the problem is people's lack of awareness, so this is a much-needed video. Thank you so much for the shout-out at 2:39!

The same thing happens with "art sharing" accounts on social media. They always put the original creator at the very bottom of the post description where nobody will ever see it.

FB "watch" also removed the 'play on YT" button from the viewer. Moral of the story - Do not post on FB watch, just post the video's YT URL on your own FB page and it will take your FB audience directly to the creator's YT page.

This got recommended to me after 5 years, and I only clicked it because it is so important and I want everyone to watch it.

If a voice actor THAT calm gets pissed, you know you're screwed.

Every algorithm under what is now metaverse (as well as youtube and up and coming social media platforms that don’t get killed by Zuckerberg legal fees) started to get so annoying at the start of the 2010s. Really kicked off the wave of rewarding stolen content and sensationalist/clickbait trash and it’s honestly a brain rotting experience. Glad to have found channels like yours.

This guy really got some guts to openly say the names of the victims and the stealers Respect🙌🏻

i like how the narrator sounds slightly pissed off

Links to all the sources in the description. Also... first... I guess? Get the music of the video here: soundcloud.com/epicmountain/facebook epicmountainmusic.bandcamp.com/track/facebook epic-mountain.com

i love how this is so fast and straight forward, not making a 20 minute long video saying the same stuff over and over again.

I promise if you delete your Facebook, you won’t miss it. I’m 4 years clean from all social media and I have so much more free time now and am not constantly bombarded by ads and Ill-formed political opinions. It’s really amazing.

I went from black hole energy to Facebook stealing stuff. Man, I love life.

Almost three years old, but definitely still relevant.

Plot Twist: This video gets posted on Facebook

This sounds a lot like NFTs in 2021/2022... Stealing other's content and making money outta it... And the platform being a pain-in-the-ass to deal with...

for some reason, I can feel the anger through the narrator’s soothing voice

So glad I hate Facebook. I saw this on Facebook.

Facebook, by itself, is one of the darkest parts of the internet. For instance, the way the Facebook app for mobile devices behaves is quite dubious; it gathers a lot of information from your phone, including text messages and location information that doesn't seem to be tied to how you use the app. In most cases, this may be regarded as stealing your info. Doesn't matter whether it's legally allowed or not, the process does seem ethically questionable.

Facebook has the worst and sickest ethics in the world, MZ is really dirty minded person.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This is unbelievably important - and I've been saying stuff like this for years with everyone brushing it off as 'petty'. People have NO idea. It's fucking disgusting. People need to understand that RU-vid isn't just a 'collection of viral videos' itself - it's a PLATFORM. A platform for amazing content, much like a great TV channel, but online. And the sooner these dicks understand that, the better. Or, ya know, even if they don't get it, they should at least know that stealing and profiting via other forms of media is just fucking shit in itself. Also, the Facebook video service is shit anyway. It barely works on my brand new phone. Unacceptable.

One more reason to hate facebook

One thing that I'd like to add is that Facebook's only app isn't just Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are also apps owned by Facebook and they are also involved in some big illegal works.

Facebook gets worse on a daily basis. I used to be a content creator at a company I worked for and now coordinates media campaigns. Every time a client wants to have their content on social media, my team has to alert of all dangers involving sharing it on Facebook as it’s not worth the possible headache even if it ends up viral.

This is exactly why I will never get Facebook Edit: I love how he sounds happier talking about the end of the universe than Facebook.

Facebook is a terrible company

4:13 nice touch with the OCP, Cyberdyne and Weyland-Yutani logos.

Do we love that 7 years later this is still a prolific problem on both Facebook and Twitter?

Facebook is trying to become RU-vid. If you don't pay to promote your posts, don't expect many views. It's all about money. : (

Someone is going to steal this and post it on facebook.

Facebook in 2015: steals video Facebook in 2022 : steals your info, data, home address, size of your appendages brain size what kind of boxes you have in your house? What kind of postal orders are on your wall and the exact type of tree and age in front of your house.

I feel very happy that Facebook is dying right now

A year ago, I made a goofy little video where I took a children's shark book and voiced over the pictures. Not the most original idea -- it's something a lot of people do, and it was just something that I made in like five minutes with no production value whatsoever just to make a couple friends laugh, but it went on to garner millions and millions of views... all of which are from people that ripped it and uploaded it to their Facebook pages. At first, I didn't think much of it. The video was getting attention, and what made me happy was seeing all the comments from people that really seemed to enjoy it -- sharing it with their friends, saying how it brightened up their day, etc... I was thrilled that a silly little thing like that could do that for people. I didn't mind that my official upload of it only had an extremely small fraction of those views. After a while, though, I started getting a little bitter. I don't make videos in hopes of "getting rich" off of them, I make them because I enjoy it and I love making people smile... but when I realized just how much I missed out on by having all those views go to uploads from other people who stole it, it felt like a huge slap to the face. I realized how much exposure I missed out on, and how much the ad revenue on a video like that could have really helped me out. Again, I can't stress this enough -- I'm not in this for the money, but being able to earn a living off of this stuff is kind of the goal. I know that might sound contradictory, but the reason for that is so I can keep working on creating content full time and not have to rely on working shitty day jobs to pay my bills. With a video as big as this one turned out to be, it totally could have kickstarted all that and helped me get my foot in the door, so to speak. It would have helped me build a larger audience, draw more attention to my other work, and helped make it so that all my time and energy could be applied to doing what I love, and I felt like I was kind of robbed of that. The biggest slap to the face is that people don't even bother crediting the original creators. I mean, you're stealing their fucking content. The LEAST you could do is throw them a bone, and not doing so just adds insult to injury. What stings the most is that if they truly felt compelled to share something, they could EASILY just share a link to the original upload; it only takes a couple clicks. Instead, they go out of their way to rip the video, be it with a RU-vid video converter or screen capture software, and present that shit as if they had done it. Shit like this needs to stop, and it's pretty upsetting that it likely never will. I've accepted the fact that I missed out on a great opportunity, but it's the principle of the thing that really drives me up the wall. What these people are doing is stealing, and that isn't cool.

I have never imagined this calm narrator could get so pissed. It's insane... But with a reason of course.

Seven years later and I still picture Facebook as a big blue floating eye monster whenever I personify it

Have you guys thought about getting RU-vid involved, If Facebook is stealing from you is also stealing from RU-vid

Facebook is cheesing!

Deleting my facebook account is a measure I had to take. It makes my life better, friendships more real, and I do not support one of the worst companies in the history of mankind.

That's the reason why we should really support people who make great videos like yours here on youtube, instead of rotating through endless random reels on social media.

My mom said that Facebook is better than RU-vid, and that Facebook teach science. So I said"show me proof then." Then she showed me one of your video on Facebook.

It is VERY tempting to re-upload this video on facebook so it will spread better for the facebook audience! How ironic is that?

Thank you thank you thank you.

Yet more evidence that Facebook needs to be shut down.

Crazy that 7 years later, this is still a problem and nothing has been done about it to protect creators.

*Rule 17 of the Internet:* _If you upload a video on RU-vid, someone will re-upload it on Facebook or Instagram so that they can mooch of your success and claim it’s theirs, or worse, upload it on RU-vid again and put ads in the video._

Facebook truly is a lawless wasteland.

I love how Kurzgesagt just straight up made a video exposing Facebook after having their video stolen

This was happening 6 years ago and it’s only gotten worse… google should’ve sued while the problem was smaller.

The narrator can talk about the world ending in a more calm voice than when he's talking about facebook.

This issue is still going strong years later

Wow, great video. Thank you for alerting me about this, I find it super unfair that other creators don't get what they deserve.

You should try sueing them. National regulators have the power to fine Facebook if they deem a platforms response to copyright claims to be insufficient.

Article 13: Just Passed Facebook: why do I hear boss music

This happens to animators constantly. We're already at a disadvantage due to RU-vid's algorithm as it is. Then people on facebook add insult to injury by stealing our content. Facebook has some huge pages to take down. Maybe one day a class action lawsuit will catch up to them, but who knows.

Tiktok: "Finally a worthy opponent our battle will be legendary!"

Not being able to search for content on Facebook was the deal breaker for me. We’re in 2023 and Facebook search features still suck.

Mark zucc 2010 : Facebook is made to meet ur old friend or separated family Mark zucc 2015 : i need more ads!

Facebook is cancer of the internet.

Imagine being a HUGE deal and 6 years later being 17 times bigger

The fact this was made 7 years ago, man i feel old

Thank you for making this. Everybody, please share it.

Now Facebook seems even more evil.

Facebook: "We want to change." 6 years later "So as we promised, we are changing our name to Meta."

Looking at this in 2021 and they still haven't done much to fix it.

I feel the narrator already got pissed off with Facebook, the sound of revenge

Truth has been told, youtubers are with you :-)

Social media culture is poison. The only thing I have left is RU-vid

This 7yer old vid still the truth to this day

I have and always will hate Facebook

This is why, facebook is considered one of the worst Social Media nowadays, while youtube is still pretty popular

A few days ago Facebook proudly announced that

Let's delete facebook accounts !!!! I did it already 5 years ago !!! Its going to nothing good having 1 !!! Wake up people

google/youtube should sue facebook for all the stolen videos considering it cost youtubers views witch is money google chould be getting a cut

The guy who told the joke THE GUY WHO SAID IT LOUDER is how this works

It's happened to me a number of times.

That expressionless Mark Zuckerberg face.

people still use facebook???what do even you do there??

I was a victim of this too, Tyrese Gibson reposted my video and got ... 81 millions views ! facebook.com/tyrese/videos/1174492419245019/ Here's my original video : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qerL893QDTY.html It's really pissing me off =/

"Facebook wants to change" 6 years later and not a single thing changed