My family did a wolf release. This video is getting hit hundreds of thousands of times everywhere except my Youtube page where it originated.

You seem to misunderstand both why this video went mildly 'viral' and how one makes money off of videos on YouTube.

For one, the popularity of this video was due to a Native American Facebook group posting it under the guise of you guys saving the animal, which obviously isn't the case. It just happened to be the wrong gender of wolf so you were required by law to release it. I'm not trying to comment on the morality of this issue, rather I'm pointing out that if the Facebook page wouldn't have reframed the video, it would've had severely less interest. In other words, this video never would've gotten big without the reframe or your loaded Reddit title. It was a smart move for you to attach your video to another hot button issue on Reddit (content stealing) because it gave you 50k free views.

As I'm sure you've noticed though, barely any of those views have turned into page subscriptions nor extra views on your other videos. So that means that the success of this video has proven to be a one hit wonder of sorts, meaning it won't provide you with many returning views. So we're looking at 50k views worth of ads, not even counting the views from Adblock users. Also keep in mind that viewers aren't given an ad every time they view a video due to Adsense. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comments, but judging by the fact that you think a Facebook group is making "thousands" from 200k views of your video shows me that you don't know how much ad views are actually worth.

Regardless, I'm sorry your "content" was stolen, if that's what we are calling it. But your attitude in the comments makes it hard to feel bad you.

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