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Let’s do a comprehensive breakdown of a typical post about this “inauthentic” content “issue" on YouTube. Yesterday, I found this post complaining and not really understanding the difference between scaling practices and crossing the line in terms of what counts as inauthentic content. The OP (original poster) complains that people like Preston, who has over 30 million subscribers, are allowed to have thumbnails that look alike, ideas that are alike, and compilation videos that group multiple of his own videos together. In the meantime, the same OP says that smaller creators with original editing, animations, production, and unique workflows are getting flagged for inauthentic content. Here’s what’s actually going on. OP is completely unaware, as per usual, of the actual problem here. What Preston is doing is using HIS OWN IP and repurposing this IP to cater to different audience needs. A compilation is better for when you just want to put something on in the background while cooking, repurposed shorts are better for quick consumption, and about the “similar ideas,” well, he’s pointing at Preston reusing similar expressions in his thumbnails. What most of these “small creators” are doing isn’t repurposing their own IP. They’re simply taking another person’s footage (such as IShowSpeed, television shows, etc.), recutting it and adding some subtitles to it. Sometimes they’ll add non-transformative voiceovers, thinking that this suddenly puts their content under fair use. Here’s a lesson. Fair use doesn’t just look at the effort you put into something. Minimal edits, content that acts as a replacement for the original, and straight reposts do not fall under this legal framework. What matters is the amount of footage you use and the substantiality of it. The question that these “creators” need to ask is the following: would people watch your version instead of the original? Would your work damage potential licensing opportunities for the original creator? But let’s not stop there, because I’m tired of these people tagging YouTube, other creators, and simply wasting time that should go toward genuine mistakes on YouTube’s end. In OP’s post, he complains about YouTube’s inconsistent enforcement, claiming that big creators are protected and smaller creators aren’t. That’s straight-up selection bias. You’re looking at a subgroup of small creators while there are plenty of 1M+ subscriber channels getting hit by the same rules. So what are the rules? (As the OP doesn’t seem too sure about them anymore.) Simple, create your own IP that doesn’t rely heavily on the IP of others who spend time, money, and effort creating their content. If YouTube were to continue rewarding unoriginal work, it wouldn’t just be demotivating for genuine creators to keep creating content, it would genuinely hurt their ability to do so, as other people would be generating money at the expense of their own effort. P.S. Stop tagging me with your channels. I’m not YouTube support, and I’m very much on the side of YouTube on this one, with a few exceptions where the demonetization was an actual mistake.

It takes about 3-7 days to get your Adsense approved now, days that could have made you substantial money. I don’t know why youtube decided to make it that long. Just buy an Adsense account and plug it in.

views are slowing, but hit 10k on this channel