• Soulg@ani.social
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    8 hours ago

    Unless I’m misunderstanding you, the streamers doing it don’t try to hide it, they openly pay editors to manage their YouTube clips etc

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      7 hours ago

      I think I’m miscommunicating it. You know how sometimes you feel as though you understand a topic until you have to explain it? :D

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5lqJF5BTvo (40minutes)

      This video talks about it.

      He talks about a Discord server where they pay people to do it. Not like editors or employees which are perfectly fine and make sense, but to hire other people to do it:

      https://discord.com/invite/clipping

      If you clip their stuff they’ll you via their campaigns through that Discord server. It’s to game the algorithm to make people think that other people are really interested in this to push them up the charts.

      He brings up a good point in the video where he talks about how this should be considered advertising as opposed to natural content and labelled as such but laws around this are not clear.