Weird thing I'm noticing on Facebook more often: videos being created with top and bottom black bars that have attention-grabbing text on them throughout the video. A lot of times these appear to be someone else's videos re-purposed.
Example:
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoZ41i2dSIw
Re-purposed: https://www.facebook.com/uniladmag/videos/2373444009345311/
Notably, they did give credit in the comments and linked to the YouTube channel.
Maybe some are legit — the original video creator decided to make it that way (or maybe they don't care about this type of re-purposing), but I would recommend double-checking for an original source before sharing, and trying to give the original source the traffic/credit rather than the meme-ified version.
Responses
★ Josh Oberheide, Sally Cassidy, Matthew Morrisson, and 3 others
Josh Oberheide – Funny you mention this, I've started seeing that too and almost instantly try to find the original vs watching what is many times cut off or a lower quality video.
Christopher Siler – It's the new form of freebooting to circumvent automatic copyright protection. >:O
I hate that! It's stealing!