{"id":3356,"date":"2026-07-07T19:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2026-07-07T19:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:36:13","slug":"x-video-editor-recycled-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=3356","title":{"rendered":"X says top accounts steal videos from other users as it announces new video tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Nikita Bier, X\u2019s head of product, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nikitabier\/status\/2074341886333157582?s=20\">a post<\/a> on Monday that \u201c[m]any videos from top accounts are simply stolen from other users, sometimes 5 years after they originally went viral,\u201d while noting that videos on the platform \u201cmake up close to half the impressions on X.\u201d According to Bier, X is launching a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nikitabier\/status\/2074218166033781048?s=20\">new in-app video editor<\/a> and recorder to address this \u201crecycled content,\u201d so that \u201csome videos on X can finally be original content that doesn\u2019t exist on other platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">As previously reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/07\/07\/x-adds-a-video-editor-to-encourage-creators-to-post-original-content-not-stolen-reposts\/\"><em>TechCrunch<\/em><\/a>, the new video tools are available now on X\u2019s iOS app, and include an option for overlaying captions in multiple languages and a \u201cgreen screen\u201d feature for adding custom backgrounds \u201cusing posts or photos from your camera roll.\u201d A video in Bier\u2019s announcement post also shows a tool for trimming videos and an option for automatically generating captions. The green screen videos look a lot like what you\u2019ll already see on Instagram and TikTok.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The new video tools are X\u2019s latest push to encourage more users to post original content. In May, Bier also said his team had identified \u201ca number of large accounts\u201d that were <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nikitabier\/status\/2058020001823793265?s=20\">\u201cprogrammatically reuploading content\u201d<\/a> from other users in an effort to game X\u2019s revenue share program, adding that X would be allocating the impressions from those posts to the original creator. Bier similarly announced in April that X was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nikitabier\/status\/2043045929750794399?s=20\">cutting back on payouts<\/a> to \u201caggregators\u201d sharing \u201cstolen reposts and clickbait.\u201d Now, alongside announcing the new video tools, Bier says creators who don\u2019t post recycled content \u201cwill climb faster than other account[s].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/962415\/x-video-editor-recycled-content\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikita Bier, X\u2019s head of product, said in a post on Monday that \u201c[m]any videos from top accounts are simply stolen from other users, sometimes 5 years after they originally went viral,\u201d while noting that videos on the platform \u201cmake up close to half the impressions on X.\u201d According to Bier, X is launching a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[212,46,204,34,500],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-creators","tag-news","tag-social-media","tag-tech","tag-twitter-x"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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