I feel that blogposts or videos which are basically rehashes of viral Twitter threads or Reddit posts are quite sleazy. My intuition is "repackaging, redistrib

I feel that blogposts or videos which are basically rehashes of viral Twitter threads or Reddit posts are quite sleazy. My intuition is "repackaging, redistributing, or transforming freely available things" isn't a problem. But trying to make money from it is. I can understand it's a pain if you're producing content regularly which is well received, but you're not paid for it. I think that parallels the open-software stuff at the moment. (Licenses and creative-commons seem analogous in this case). I think that "Donate to my Patreon to support my content creation" has worked out okay, though. It seems to have given more people more money than they'd otherwise get from a "only consume if you've paid" model. (Although 'Patreon supported' doesn't solve the sleazy redistribute-with-ads).