Tonya F.

I got permission from a creator to post their video. After I posted the video and it received views, the video was bought *******@Viralhog. ViralHog did not contact me to take down the video. When I asked them why they didn't contact me they gave a very RUDE response saying they don't have to give me the privilege of asking me to take it down. But the real reason they put the strike on my page rather than asking me to take it down, was so they can EXTORT me for $200. I did further research and found out that most of Viralhog revenue, is coming from copyright infringement claims. Copyright infringement claims that they don't even inform the seller of the videos, prior to buying the videos from them. Nor is it in any of the contract or paperwork between them and the seller of the video.
Viralhog actually said if I want to keep the video up and have them take the copyright infringement strike off, I WOULD HAVE TO PAY THEM $200. If that isn't extortion I don't know what is. I am an older woman who make cooking videos and occasionally put up funny animal videos, and they're trying to extort money from me. They keep telling me it's legal. Just because it's legal doesn't mean that it's not a terrible scam all in the name of money. They are messing up people's livelihoods by putting copyright infringement strikes on people's page. They are getting tons of money from their videos, having over 4 million followers, as well as the money they scam people out of with copyright infringements. I am an elderly lady who's raising my grandkids and now my page cannot get revenue for 7 days. Facebook stopped my monetization for 7 days. Which is really going to affect me. I only made $1.46 off of that video and they want to extort $200 from me.
This is a terrible company with very low morals. Who steals money from a grandmother? Collectively with all my social medias sites, I have over 75K followers. EVERY SINGLE DAY I will be telling all my followers, until my copyright infringement strike is over (even if it takes a whole year until the strike naturally falls off), the bad business practices of Viralhog.