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
Heather Pechin Myers Heather Pechin Myers
I hate that! It's stealing!

Josh Oberheide 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 Christopher Siler
It's the new form of freebooting to circumvent automatic copyright protection. >:O