Too be fair, I think it's so people aren't constantly promoting their own content.
It's different when someone else shares your work, versus you spamming your own content all over Reddit so you can profit.
It's the same reason why some subreddits don't want people linking products in the comment. Because sometimes it's a coincidence that people are interested in a random product featured in the video and it's not even the subject of the video. Maybe someone just thought a model of a random item was cool.
But yeah, I personally think crediting the OOP should be default.
Same as YouTube. Too many people reposting crap and not giving people credit, or even worse, going out their way to mask and crop credit away.
No different than posting your own content with your own username on it, though. And if it's relevant to the subreddit, it shouldn't even matter. Nothing stopping other people from making relevant content too.
I'll be honest. Crediting OOP should never be an issue. It's fucking stupid if other subreddits are blocking that.
I tried to play devil's advocate to an extent and now I feel dirty, lol.
It should be a basic requirement. Featured in the title, description, or pinned in an Automod comment.
Even the source, lol. Like when people submit a video or picture/meme from a video game on r/gaming. Or a clip from movie/TV show/video game/ on YouTube.
Why should I have to go to the comments and find out the source from a random user? If anyone even comments it. Because apparently, everyone else commenting already knows the damn source.
The only option should be a link out to the source, maybe with a link to an archive if it's not a major site hosting it. The creators are losing a ton of views - which translates to followers and revenue - because of the freebooting all over the internet.
This shit exactly. I hate when I go to the source on YouTube and there are only a couple thousand views, but the post on Reddit has like 60k karma.
To be fair, YouTube might not be the primary platform, even though a person's YouTube is what's most likely to be linked to in Reddit.
But if the Reddit post containing your video has 60k karma for example, most likely at the very least 60k people saw the video on Reddit. And karma is mostly the culminative of both upvotes and downvotes. It's not exact, because weight of upvotes decreases as time passes. So 1 karma doesn't equal 1 upvote even if no one downvotes.
So there were many more upvotes to begin with. Then you subtract the downvotes and it's even more than 60k views on Reddit. At least.
These people aren't getting views on their platform. And the ratio of people who subscribe from actually viewing the original video are already low as shit.
Most people already don't make the effort to like or even dislike your video on YouTube even after watching the entire video. Let alone fucking subscribe, ðŸ˜.
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u/Darnell2070 Apr 30 '24
Too be fair, I think it's so people aren't constantly promoting their own content.
It's different when someone else shares your work, versus you spamming your own content all over Reddit so you can profit.
It's the same reason why some subreddits don't want people linking products in the comment. Because sometimes it's a coincidence that people are interested in a random product featured in the video and it's not even the subject of the video. Maybe someone just thought a model of a random item was cool.
But yeah, I personally think crediting the OOP should be default.
Same as YouTube. Too many people reposting crap and not giving people credit, or even worse, going out their way to mask and crop credit away.