Content creators call out YouTube for \u201cstealing\u201d their thumbnail DeadMeat\/YouTubePopular content creators \u2018DeadMeat\u2019 have called out YouTube after their thumbnail was apparently stolen for one of the platform\u2019s on-demand horror movies. The YouTube channel \u2018DeadMeat\u2019 has built a massive following of over 3.5 million subscribers for its reviews and breakdowns of popular horror titles. However, the popular review channel did not seem to be too impressed after realizing that YouTube had taken a thumbnail from one of their videos for one of their own newly added movies. One of the most popular series on the DeadMeat channel is called \u201cKill Count,\u201d where they keep track of how many deaths there were in many of the fan-favorite horror films. The content creators did an episode for the 6th movie in the popular A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, \u201cFreddy\u2019s Dead: The Final Nightmare\u201d in February 2018. However, when the movie was later added to the video-sharing site for horror fans to rent or purchase, DeadMeat was quite surprised at how familiar the thumbnail that YouTube decided to use was. Lol wow that’s weird. What up, @YouTube? https:\/\/t.co\/qDXYJdB69n \u2014 Dead Meat (@deadmeatjames) February 6, 2020 \u201cLol wow, that\u2019s weird. What up, YouTube?\u201d DeadMeat founder James Janisse simply asked, quote tweeting a picture of their video\u2019s thumbnail in comparison with the recently added horror movie. The two thumbnails were almost identical, although many of the channel\u2019s fans pointed out a noticeable smudge where the \u201cKill Count\u201d series\u2019 title had been erased from the image. \u201cNice to know YouTube steals your thumbnail and horribly removes the kill count logo,\u201d expressed SaintJOS03, who originally shared the bizarre similarities between the DeadMeat upload and the classic movie. As of now, it seems as if YouTube has removed the movie from their platform following the controversy around the thumbnail but has not responded on the issue as of yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Content creators call out YouTube for \u201cstealing\u201d their thumbnail DeadMeat\/YouTubePopular content creators \u2018DeadMeat\u2019 have called out YouTube after their thumbnail was apparently stolen for one of the platform\u2019s on-demand horror movies. The YouTube channel \u2018DeadMeat\u2019 has built a massive following of over 3.5 million subscribers for its reviews and breakdowns of popular horror titles. However, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}