![]() I’ve always found myself drawn more to “The Simpsons” or “King of The Hill” when it comes to adult animation. The thing is, I don’t even really want to watch “Family Guy.” There’s some bits here and there that I find funny, but the majority of the show just doesn’t match up with my sense of humor. It seems like everyone I know is getting funneled into the “Family Guy” pipeline, especially on TikTok. I’ve also seen countless clips from “Fleabag,” “Big Bang Theory” (as well as its prequel spinoff “Young Sheldon”), “Rick and Morty” and “Bluey.” It is, however, the most frequent one, and the one that I’ve heard the most people commenting about recently. “Family Guy” isn’t the only show to proliferate in my social media feeds. This is nowhere near the thousands of dollars that you could have made by taking the class, but still - it’s never been easier to profit off of someone else’s intellectual property. This is assuming that the videos aren’t being demonetized according to TikTok’s copyright guidelines, something that I’m sure isn’t an issue considering the sheer amount of copyrighted content that is being posted. I totaled up the views of the last 10 videos posted by one of the accounts that popped up in my feed and, using this article for an estimate of TikTok’s payout rate, found that they would have made around $600 - and that was just within a one-month span. Otherwise, who would take the time to cut, edit and post all of these videos? Sure, there might be bots behind all of it, but someone, somewhere, is profiting massively from these clips, especially on TikTok. But in some way, this must be lucrative for them. ![]() As funny as that would be, I highly doubt that there’s that level of cooperation between the massive glut of uploaders. Now, I’m not trying to say that every account you see clips from on social media are a part of some massive pyramid scheme. But how any of these tips for seemingly basic things could be worth $47 is beyond me, and the claims of how much money you’ll make from them is a bit suspicious. ![]() These lessons would teach users how to build their own channels to post “Family Guy” clips to, including instructions on how to hire people to do the work for you. ![]() In the comments on a now-deleted channel, the owner posted a link to a website where they claimed that people could make several thousand dollars a month while only working 20 minutes a day - if they paid a $47 fee for lessons. In trying to understand how the show had become so prevalent lately, I came across something called the “Family Guy” Funny Moments pyramid scheme. But this is something new, something that seems a bit more elaborate than a simple meme. The show - which is now in its 21st season - has always been ingrained in internet culture, especially meme culture. Whether it be TikTok, Facebook, Instagram Reels or the god-forsaken Youtube Shorts, clips of “Family Guy” are everywhere. If you’ve been on any video-based social media platform within the last few years, you’ll understand this scenario to some degree. Sure enough, as I swiped up through the 40 or so videos I had dipped in and out of in the last half hour, an overwhelming amount of them were clips from the show - a show which I have never seen a full episode of before. How many “Family Guy” clips had I seen at this point? By now, they were almost more frequent than the advertisements. While scrolling through my TikTok feed in a mindless daze, I had to make myself stop.
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