Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for attributing origination to content creators are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: determine whether content created by a user is original; in response to determining that the content is original, track the content created by the user through the social media platform; determine whether other users have leveraged the at least one attribute of the content; in response to determining that at least one other user has leveraged the at least one attribute of the content, generate a metric that represents a popularity of the at least one attribute of the content; update the popularity of the at least one attribute of the content; and cause display of the metric through a user interface of the social media platform.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media for facilitating collaboration on video media items are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive, from a first user device, a video media item having core video content and an enhancement; store the received video media item on a server in an editable format; share the video media item, in the editable format, with a second user device; receive, from the second user device, a modification to the shared video media item to create a collaborative video media item; store the collaborative video media item on the server; and cause the collaborative video media item to be published in a non-editable format on a social media platform that supports display of user-created video media items.

Abstract: An apparatus, and an associated method facilitates play out of media data pursuant to a media data service in which the media data is susceptible to modification during play out. A calculator calculates a value indicative of a buffer level of media data buffered pursuant to play out during performance of the media data service. The calculated value is evaluated. And, the reading of media data is caused to be slowed or stopped if the calculated value indicates an increasing buffer level.