In this commentary video, the speaker (Speaker A) condemns a widespread practice on YouTube where channels profit by re‑uploading other creators’ content—either by copying entire YouTube videos or by downloading Twitch streams and reposting them as their own. He explains two main tactics: (1) creating a channel with the same name as a popular creator and re‑uploading that creator’s videos, and (2) downloading another streamer’s Twitch broadcasts and uploading them under a different channel. He cites several concrete examples—The Diamond Minecart (re‑uploading Diamond Minecart videos for $17k), Syndicate Twitch (a verified channel that re‑uploads Syndicate’s streams), Spam404 (a channel that reports copyright strikes but seemingly ignores these impersonator channels), and Tek (re‑uploading random League of Legends streamers, amassing 60 million views and roughly $60k). He highlights the massive view counts and earnings these copycat channels generate, the lack of YouTube enforcement (channels remain active and even receive verification), and his personal frustration at the platform’s inconsistency. The video ends with a brief, unrelated lyrical interlude from Speaker B.
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So I did a video on people who got rich off of reuploading movie trailers, and for the most part I got a really positive response. So today we're gonna be discussing people who got rich off of YouTube from stealing other people's videos. And before I get into the topic, I know you're gonna be like, "Beast, really stealing their videos? You're being a little overdramatic." And no, I'm not. Stealing videos is the best way to accurately describe what these channels do. The channels I'm gonna be discussing today, and I'm not gonna cover all of them because there's hundreds of them, fall into one of two categories. Either they download someone's Twitch streams and re-upload them under the same name, acting like they're that Twitch streamer, or they just don't care and say, for example, they're copying Markiplier. They'll make a YouTube channel called Markiplier and literally download all of his videos and re-upload them because Google+ allows you to have the same name as someone else, which is kind of stupid in my opinion, so they can impersonate someone and make ad revenue off their videos. The first person we're going to be discussing is called The Diamond Minecart, and he literally re-uploads all of the real Diamond Minecarts videos onto his channel and has made over $17,000 off of doing that, off of just downloading his videos and reuploading them. The next channel we're gonna be discussing is Syndicate Twitch, which is verified somehow. I don't even understand that because it'll be forever till I get verified and this fake channel over here has a little check beside his name. That makes zero sense to me, but literally all this channel does is take Syndicate streams, the Syndicate Project downloads his streams and reuploads them to his channel and is not actually run by Tom. None of the ad revenue from the millions upon millions of views he's gotten off of Syndicate streams go back to Syndicate. He keeps them all. And what does he do? He literally downloads and reuploads all Syndicate streams. So those two things are the basis of this video. Do you want easy money? Well then just make a channel named after a different channel and reupload all their videos and turn on ads. Or you could take the other route and just download Twitch streams and reupload them to your channel. Whichever one you wanna do, obviously it works because these people are making tens of thousands of dollars off of just reuploading other people's people's videos. And the funny thing is, Spam404, known for taking down countless videos from real actual YouTubers like IGN, Machinima, PewDiePie, ZergRiz, Scarce, all these big YouTubers have lost videos to Spam404. I've actually seen these fake channels been reported to Spam404, and these channels are still around. Why is Spam404 deleting videos from channels like PewDiePie and things like that, all these real YouTubers, and then I see these fake channels being reported to it, and Spam404 acknowledges the tweet by saying, "Thank you for reporting it." Yet these channels are still here. That kinda blows my mind and pisses me off. But anyways, those weren't the only two channels I was gonna use as an example. There are countless channels impersonating PewDiePie that range from 500,000 views to millions of views, just of reuploading his videos, not even doing anything different. They literally just reupload them. And then there's also a channel called Tek that all he does is download random League player streams and reuploads them to his channel. If you look at it, one game will be by ImaCutePie, another game will be by a Cloud9 player. Every video on his channel is just by a random streamer. He just literally goes on Twitch, goes to League and just downloads a random person's stream and reuploads it, and he gets tons of views. I think he has over 60 million views, which means he's made over $60,000 off of reuploading other people's streams. Pretty ridiculous. And like I said, the whole point of this video is there are tons of people out there that literally just reupload someone else's YouTube videos or take someone else's streams and upload them to their channel, keep all the ad revenue, and are, you know, making thousands of dollars off of doing that, and not much is happening to them. I mean, they're literally getting tens of millions of views but their channels have not been terminated. I mean, what's going on, YouTube? You should be able to do something about that. And the fact that Syndicate Twitch is verified and that's not actually owned by the real Syndicate, that blows my mind because I want to get verified so bad and I can't, yet this fake channel over here re-uploading someone else's streams that even Syndicate himself says he is mad about, he doesn't like that someone else is doing that, is verified. That's a little messed up. But anyways, that's the video. Hopefully you enjoyed.
Exception to the rule, do what you do to get by. Cause the clock keeps ticking like a metronome and my thoughts keep telling me to get me home, but my balls keep telling me to let me out. Oh, just let me out. That clock keeps ticking like a metronome and my thoughts keep telling me to get me home, but my balls keep telling me to let me out.
