This is very important topic of an impudent behavior towards content creators!
Many creators deal with the theft of their content on TikTok. Most of the times thieves don't even provide the source and/or credit the original authors, as well as ignore or delete the original creator's direct request not to re-upload their content due to disapproval of such actions. This is not even the case of fair use as with edits made to appreciate the original work, supporting original creator and crediting them. This is the case of just uploading a bunch of snippets from someone else's work to get views and likes. It's not about doing anything to earn deserved praise, but rather about stealing other people's work and bread. It's disrespectful and doesn't help original creators in any way!
As in my case, I've had this problem since 2021. Someone's TikTok re-uploads of my work were getting a big amount of views while my channel and original uploads had a downfall. I wasn't getting anything but a lack of recognition of my hard work. Right now the story repeats itself with my Deluding Moonlight AU project. Kuchizuke is having around ~900 views per 48 hours which isn't that good for my channel. Meanwhile TikTok thieves simply re-upload some out of context snippets of this animation and getting 50 times more views and attention than I could ever. For the majority of times I'm uncredited, unrecognised and my story is getting rid of it's true meaning and context. This is why it's important to take actions against all this. Please report this content and tell the re-uploaders if the creator is disapproving of their content being re-uploaded on the third-party platforms! There is nothing hard in showing the slightest respect to creative content makers, because they do much more than those taking their work and simply uploading it to their TikTok account, but the thieves often think that they are able to get away with this.
Since the direct approach doesn't work, I had to resort to reporting them. I don't like taking such harsh measures, but when nothing else's working, there's not much else you can do. I can only hope that the support team would take actions.
You can also help fighting this problem, which affects a really large number of content makers. As I said, if you see someone else's content being stolen, uncredited, clearly re-uploaded just to get views from other people's hard work — please report them, include the author's name in the comments and let them know that the original creator are against the uploader's actions and re-uploading of their content.
If you want to help me, here's some stolen pieces of my Kuchizuke animation:
This user gets a lot of views out of snippets of my work not doing anything to earn it. Ignoring/deleting my direct approach to stop the re-uploads Upd. The user I mentioned here has been dealt with and I hope they will learn their lesson.
Another two cases of having snippets of my animation:
First and second.
Thank you all for reading this long post! And if you'd like to help creators and punish such dishonest action, that would be greatly appreciated! Don't hesitate to spread the word about this issue so that it can be dealt with at the root easier and faster.
