"Facebook keeps deleting this video"

[NotAllThere]

Usually from someone quite earnest and well-meaning, I often see videos on my timeline, where the text says something like "Facebook keeps deleting this video. It's important to keep it online.".

Is it just me, or does this strike anyone else as a marketing gimmick to get people to copy the video and spread it as far as possible before "the man" suppresses it, and that the video was probably never taken down?

[northernladuk]

Anything that 'tells' me to do anything, share, like, paste whatever gets removed from my time line. Really annoys me this. Dunno what you call those sites that have pages that say 'You must see this' or 'Your jaw will drop when you this' etc fall in to the same category.

[TestMangler]

Anything that 'tells' me to do anything, share, like, paste whatever gets removed from my time line. Really annoys me this. Dunno what you call those sites that have pages that say 'You must see this' or 'Your jaw will drop when you this' etc fall in to the same category.

Clickbait mate. They get paid for serving the ads on their page. The content that made you click is either immaterial or, in some cases, not there at all

[original PM]

There are 13 reasons why they do this.

Number 6 will shock you

[sal]

There are 13 reasons why they do this.

Number 6 will shock you

They are all number 2s