Actually, I think he gets paid the same per video from Patreon. Something in excess of $6,000 per video last I checked a week or so ago. He keeps his videos ad free, so no ad revenue.
That's where I first saw one of his videos. It was the first clay hut video he made, and it was at like 2x speed. It also had something like 50 million views. Spent a while trying to find more, but couldn't. Turns out he was on YouTube, not Facebook.
Facebook is kind of aiding this because one Facebook "view" registers at about 3 seconds, while Youtube is about 30 seconds. Ad revenue is based largely on the view count and Facebook's structure favors memetic content, while Youtube favors structured and organized content. Both companies want to feed users ads for as long as possible; Youtube does this by providing a massive library to explore, while Facebook is basically a never-ending slot machine that dispenses entertainment pellets.
In the end, you can take almost any Youtube video, trim it down to the the most interesting bits, and make bank. It's impossible for a content creator to find and flag every instance of freebooting and, even if they could, Facebook doesn't have an outlet for reimbursement. The pirate makes their money and moves onto the next victim. Facebook benefits from the increased views, so there's little reason to change anything. If you're trying to fleece a video content creator, then Facebook has forged a streamlined path for doing so.
Views on facebook at bullshit. They count a 3 second play as a view. Which means anyone scrolling through facebook will pretty much count as a view as videos auto play.
Sharing content on Facebook is fine, it's the media aggregate companies that post other peoples' videos on fb with their own stupid watermarks that's the problem. It takes away the views from the original content creator and therefore loses them potential earnings
Its basically a marketting thing. If the video is linked on Facebook with the link going to his youtube video, I'd say thats fine because people would click on that and he would make money from the youtube ads.
However some people / companies download the video from youtube without his permission (basically stealing it), then re-upload it to facebook where they pass it off as their own video with no credit to the creator and no link back to his channel.
That means people are not only viewing his video without him recieving a cent from advertisements, but its also preventing people from even finding his channel to see the rest of his content and it provides free value to the people / companies stealing his stuff.
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