the girl whose TikTok went viral exposing the Astronomer CEO / CPO got 37.8M views (now at 117M views) and a whopping creator rewards total of exactly zero dollars

As it should be. Nobody should earn money off something like that.

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I agree with you on the content, it is sickening and a sign of a societal fabric in decline.

I disagree that monetization of content should be determined by central authority in general. of course, this user posted freely to tiktok, thats the game they played, so be it.

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how do the people in the video get paid for their performance

if that was the point you were making I missed it because I think that's a problem too. again I still take some issue with central authority blah. I can be swayed with an alternative. 

those people particular are paid in negative social value and reputation without due process or reprieve

honestly, I do not know. Its not a hill I die on but im anti tictoc and pro less authority so I shared my strong opinion on it. in my view typically popular accounts get the credit regardless whether the content was stolen or not.

that wasn't the original point but it's my answer to people saying 'creators should get paid regardless.' ok, well in this case the 'creation' has a cast. how should they get paid?