Yeah but that's fucking gay.
So much of Internet content is these lazy shithead aggregators that just take other people's pictures, videos, articles, and social media posts, then just reposting them. Almost always, the context is neutered and the identities scrubbed. Half the time they even remove dates, so you can't notice the thing you're supposed to be angry at happened literally 10 years ago.
YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and Xitter are all competitors competing for attention. It really doesn't benefit them to be proactive about large channels on their platforms wholesale stealing people's shit. A considerable amount of money changing hands from Facebook Ads to "meme channels" is literally just for going to YouTube, downloading a video, and reuploading it to a new audience (existing, in legal terms, in the same reserved market).
And as someone who doesn't like copyright as a concept I still find this aggravating because of how far out of the way these people go to make sure you CANNOT FIND the original source, even when you want to. I agree with hbomberguy that this is a symptom of guilt. These people know what they're doing is wrong and instead of not doing it they just choose to cover their tracks better.
Even xQc, who people point and gawk at as being the king of copyright theft, does not infringe as much as these people do. He is playing videos with source information on screen from the perspective of an average viewer. If he watches something you think is funny, you can find it on your own easily. The information and content laundering building careers across the Internet is done through deceit and people with merit, creativity, and work ethic are left behind when they don't have the built-in audience to benefit from selling to.
It's quite frankly fucking bullshit.
