Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining. I have noticed people saying stuff like “covering up a spoiler” in the comments. Or tagging an “lc” when that one was never there in the first place. I wonder why they get that misaligned sometimes then. In one drama, I noticed that it definitely was a deleted scene, because everyone was talking about some sort of singing competition that never happened and it misaligned all the comments after that scene. But in others, there really was no obvious explanation why all these comments were just randomly out of place. There must be some sort of glitch at work that misaligns them sometimes.
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Sometimes (copyrighted) music scenes get removed by Viki.
Exactly.
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Ah, then that explains why sometimes there are some scenes with different music than what the comments are referring to as well. I was confused why that happened and why they’d remove the song. I guess I kind of assumed that if the scene was in the drama and if the drama was on the platform, then automatically they had the copyright to the music as well. But I know copyright laws can get a little complicated and can be different all over the world, so it makes sense why scenes might get removed and/or have the music replaced if the copyright is no longer valid. Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering why some scenes were missing sometimes in certain dramas. 
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I also had that question “Didn’t they think of securing the copyright before filming or editing?” And then it dawned on me that they may have the copyright for Korea or other Asian countries but not worldwide. So the Korean audience who watched on TV saw it with that song, but we at Viki had to get another song.
Another instance. In “I’ll Come To You When The Weather Is Nice”, characters often quoted passages from a poet’s book. At some point, these voiceovers were completely removed and Viki requested us to also remove the subtitles with the translation. It was weird, because it was done mid-show. The pages of the book if shown on-screen were blurred. Also there were many scenes with voiceover from that book that were completely silent now, and they seemed boring, just showing landscapes etc. whereas the poetry matched what we were seeing and gave meaning to it - since the scenes were chosen to reflect the sentiment expressed, in relation with the plot of course.
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Your theory makes a lot of sense. I always wondered how those copyright problems ended up happening and I think this definitely explains it. The poetry one must have been especially difficult, though. Because with the background music, it can just be replaced with something different from the OST. But when full sentences are removed, probably some of the conversations won’t even make sense. Especially if the poems they quoted are deeply embedded in the storyline. I know I would have loved it, since I really love when literature is referenced in cinema and it’s somehow intertwined with the story, especially poetry. Such a shame that they had to remove it.
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The character just appeared, gave them the story they needed and then left immediately, so this comment was really funny to me 
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Another cliff one
Context (this is a minor spoiler):
One of the characters got injured and it’s implied they are dying.
This one is about the same character, with a spoiler as to how the character got injured:
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The flying thing reminded me of “The Legend of Queen Lau” and the joke they made to poke fun at the “flying”. When one of the characters literally flew off got me laughing so hard I had to rewind it multiple times.
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When the flying is ridiculous, I feel like the director is making it obvious they are in on the joke
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in episode 22 of princess royal when su rongqin was talking to li rong and pei wenxuan became jealous again
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I mean, at this point, they’ve gotta be. Some of those scenes are definitely very out there. Hahahaha!
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Happy to be featured in your list.
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Hahaha it gave me a good chuckle, because it crossed my mind too 
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Another one that had me laughing:
Lines:
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I only turned on the TCs occasionally. A collection a few that made me laugh.
Cdrama & Kdrama watchers know the scene they are talking about 
When a person drowns, they seem to sink deep down into a dark abyss.
In love with the food
Reply:
The FL is making tea (Song dynasty tea ceremony, somewhat similar to a matcha ceremony).
The following comments are filled with people’s preferred tea.
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“The Mariana Trench” got me. I laughed so much when the FL in a drama fell into this waist deep pond and the ML had to save her from the deep abyss that is the Atlantic Ocean in the next scene. Especially since I think someone else fell first and that person got up immediately and was just standing in the water. It was my first “falls in water” scene and I was so confused what was going on, just thinking “That was barely a pond, what is this?”
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Those are the worst .
They could at least pretend that the water was deeper, but no (unless it’s on purpose to make fun of the trope).
First of many .
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But, hey, one could drown even in a bucket of water
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