Aww! YouTube does an Oopsie, lifts YouTuber's video without credit
YouTube apologized later on another tweet, but more than 24 hours later.
While many YouTubers do have a problem of people lifting their hardwork without even crediting them, how would they feel if the platform itself does the same to their videos?
Well, in an incident on Christmas day, YouTube happily lifts off a YouTuber’s video and shares it with everyone in order to wish its followers on Twitter for Christmas. The shared video tweet was spotted by many followers of that particular YouTuber and the entire community went out against YouTube. Most even spoke about how they should CopyStrike YouTube for doing such a mistake.
A video with dominos falling around to create a Christmas video card was uploaded by YouTuber Lily Hevesh, which was then lifted ahead by YouTube without credits to the owner of the video. YouTube posted a tweet without crediting the Lily, the original owner of the video, to its fans wishing them for Christmas. After many of her followers spotted the tweet, they sent out sour replies to YouTube about the unreasonable action.
Lily was also tagged in a few replies, and when she found out, she was upset too. However, being in a Christmas spirit, she let it go with a smile. “I’m pretty surprised they didn’t at least tag me or something. @youtube should know better than to re-upload people’s content with no credit :/ But hey, it’s cool that they featured my video and that’s a nice little Christmas present!,” said Lily in a reply.
Fans and YouTubers, who were angry at YouTube’s doing, went out in protest asking YouTube to credit the original source, and delete the existing tweet.
YouTube was not quick to take action either — a whole 24+hours later, YouTube (on Dec 26th) re-tweeted again with a post tagging the creator, crediting her and apologizing for their mistake. “Our mistake–we forgot to credit @Hevesh5 for this video! Check out more of @Hevesh5's epic domino art here: https://www.youtube.com/Hevesh5/,” tweeted YouTube, a day after the “mistake.”
Sadly, many YouTubers also did notice that the video was blatantly lifted and the original video maker lost out on views to her video. Many also retaliated stating that YouTube should have shared the link to the video rather than lifting it off directly, and some also went on to support Lily by asking YouTube to add the amount of views it received to her video on YouTube.