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I get unusually annoyed by fake movie trailers. The type that edit together random scenes from previous movies and get 17M views.

Like… wtf. If an actual content creator uploads something they filmed in their own garage but there’s a sliver of a poster in the background with Mickey Mouse in it, it’s instantly flagged as a copyright violation.

Straight up reposting of 5 minutes of a movie pretending I be a new one? Fine, go ahead…

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Lots of ad dollars to be made on 17M views so I'm not surprised they really take their time to carefully consider and weigh up the opposing arguments of removal, free speech and what not /s

Meanwhile the one with 200 views gets their channel banned along with their Google account.

Assuming this is the person's first viral video and they have no affiliate contract yet, do they get something in retrospective?

And if someone is a partner, how much money would they make just by the views? Let's exclude followers etc. Do they get something for just the views or do they have to have ads in the video?

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