Andrea Rosen.



I live and work in New York, New York. You can find me all over the internet, like here, here, or here and ask me something here.


Nice things people have said about me:


"You were deemed 'good to have around.'" -a coworker


"You look like you should be in a catalog selling Brooklyn." -a roommate


"You think you're a lot funnier than you actually are." -an ex-boyfriend


"Don't put this in your blog." -my mother
July 16
kellysutton: charlietodd: So Gawker.tv posted about my Star Wars Subway Car video today, but instead of embedding my video from YouTube like the rest of the Internet does, they ripped it from YouTube and uploaded it to their own site without permission.  So I get no credit for any of the views of the video on their site.  How nice!  Also, by uploading their own ripped version of the video, they can prevent me from seeing any AdSense revenue and focus on making their own money from the ads surrounding the post.  Awesome!  And they link to Buzzfeed at the end of the post rather than, you know, linking to the group that made the video they ripped off.  Cool!  Oh, and to top it off, they throw in a little snarky comment about this being an upgrade from our previous antics.  Sweet! Thanks Gawker.tv!  It’s such an honor to have you take my content in full and use it for your own benefit! UPDATE: Gawker.tv fixed this at my request. This is not something that happens by accident nor oversight. I had the same issue with a Know Your Meme video a couple months ago and issued a passive-aggressive tweet about it. Scott Kidder noticed the tweet, contacted me, and resolved the situation, swapping out Gawker’s player for a YouTube embed. Since then, I’ve been meaning to ask why they use their own player by default, since they don’t run Gawker-sold ads on it. I don’t think their motives are as malicious as Charlie implied; my guess is that since a lot of the content they run (like TV show clips) is in danger of being taken down by copyright holders, they want to ensure that they have an archive of everything. After I made the first request, they’ve used our YouTube player every time a Know Your Meme has been posted to Gawker.tv. And I’m always psyched when they do.

kellysutton:

charlietodd:

So Gawker.tv posted about my Star Wars Subway Car video today, but instead of embedding my video from YouTube like the rest of the Internet does, they ripped it from YouTube and uploaded it to their own site without permission.  So I get no credit for any of the views of the video on their site.  How nice!  Also, by uploading their own ripped version of the video, they can prevent me from seeing any AdSense revenue and focus on making their own money from the ads surrounding the post.  Awesome!  And they link to Buzzfeed at the end of the post rather than, you know, linking to the group that made the video they ripped off.  Cool!  Oh, and to top it off, they throw in a little snarky comment about this being an upgrade from our previous antics.  Sweet!

Thanks Gawker.tv!  It’s such an honor to have you take my content in full and use it for your own benefit!

UPDATE: Gawker.tv fixed this at my request.

This is not something that happens by accident nor oversight.

I had the same issue with a Know Your Meme video a couple months ago and issued a passive-aggressive tweet about it. Scott Kidder noticed the tweet, contacted me, and resolved the situation, swapping out Gawker’s player for a YouTube embed. Since then, I’ve been meaning to ask why they use their own player by default, since they don’t run Gawker-sold ads on it. I don’t think their motives are as malicious as Charlie implied; my guess is that since a lot of the content they run (like TV show clips) is in danger of being taken down by copyright holders, they want to ensure that they have an archive of everything. After I made the first request, they’ve used our YouTube player every time a Know Your Meme has been posted to Gawker.tv. And I’m always psyched when they do.