@vaurora
People profitting off other people's original work and other people's names has been happening a lot on YouTube. Not just people reposting other people's videos but also the AI generated rip-offs.

A couple of months ago many content creators were highlighting those problems and that YouTube were not preventing those frauds AND were also letting the thieves keep the Ad revenue generated.

As long as companies take a share of ill-gotten gains through "non-trademarked names" they see no reason to take substantial (or even simple) action against the thieves.

Yet users 'establishing a personal brand' and 'verifying identity by 2FA' is all the rage with internet companies. More scams.

(nb: I just checked YT to find the name of a vid by Kyle Hill about YouTube's "Science Scam Crisis" ... there's a react video directly beneath the search result. I may watch it to see how much original commentary - not just video - that the reactor has in their video.)