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by fpisfun 3107 days ago
It's doomed to fail. YouTube allows creators to profit and build businesses for themselves. Facebook shares none of it's revenue with creators and this is not a sustainable model in the long term.
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They will be sharing the 6 second proceeds with creators to encourage more creators to post content to Facebook.
Even if they are sharing with uploaders, they're less creators and more freeloaders pirating other people's YouTube content in most cases so this is pretty irrelevant at best.