Yeah they do it because it works. I’ve seen several who make otherwise good content talk about it in their videos and make comments about how stupid it is bit they basically have to to be competitive.

Unfortunately things need to get bad enough that Trump loses his base or we’ll be stuck in this shit forever. Best just to bite the bullet and brace for the shitty hopefully short term until he pushes the wrong person and everything comes crashing down on him. It’s the only way forward that may actually result in improvement as far as I can see.

Then I guess they can’t use it… Unless the owner wants to cut them some kind of deal.

There are works that are free to use. They could also compensate copyright holders for their work. As they should since they are profiting from it.

Why? Nothing they’ve shat out is good for anything anyway.