Source for the stolen image: https://fixvx.com/krystalwolfyalt/status/1732505768149008821
Did this guy used to post on Hexbear/CTH or is he just one of our screenshot guys? My timeline is getting hazy at this point.
I’ll check this out tomorrow either way. I’m not gonna spend four hours of my free time watching it but I will definitely spend four hours of my work time listening to it in the background.
sry sweatie the britbong video was too long and he’s associated with a CRINGE subgenre so here’s me screaming for several replies on why it’s bad actually
I identify with the plagiarism YouTuber. I also don’t care about my job and see it as just a paycheck too so I do the bare minimum to make money. Like, unitonically, that’s the system we have that incentivizes us to do the least work to get paid. I’ll reserve my ire for cops and landlords, not some YouTuber who is ruining the sacred art form of YouTube content by phoning it in to get paid.
Edit: I think I see what the problem is. I only watched the part about the pyramid head cartoon plagiarizing articles, I didn’t even see anything about the other guy.
Did you watch the thing? I gotta say that you sound to me like someone whose going off of summary and here say and honestly if you haven’t seen it I encourage you to because it is hard to grasp from summary how insidious the behavior he exposes really is. It is certainly lazy but it’s also very exploitative, particularly to obscure queer historians and writers
Yeah, I think I watched the wrong video. I watched the one on HBoomer’s second channel about some pyramid headed cartoon character, I didn’t even see the video about that other guy.
He is erasing queer history and substituting in reactionary daydreams as factual history, its destructive and fucked up, you should care
I have no idea why hbomberguy started his plagiarism video with an hour long segment about a fifa 18 review
I’d be more okay with these people phoning it in with their research if they actually credited their sources properly, most either don’t at all or barely do it.
Also this isn’t someone slacking at a corporate job, they’re making pretty damn good money by fostering a parasocial relationship with their fans. Some are even successful enough at it they can springboard it into starting their own small business ventures meaning they’re basically kulaks. And often when someone points out that their work is copy+pasted from somewhere else they sick their fandoms on them, or sometimes even get the people they copied from harassed.
I also don’t care about my job and see it as just a paycheck too so I do the bare minimum to make money. Like, unitonically, that’s the system we have that incentivizes us to do the least work to get paid. I’ll reserve my ire for cops and landlords
I understand where you’re coming from, however I still think it’s probably uncool to bite off the work of others, especially when they themselves aren’t getting paid let alone being recognized for their work. Don’t get me wrong I’m 420.69% all for slacking on the job and doing the most you can to figure out how to do the least you can and still get paid, get your money. However, when I think it’s a slimeball move to swipe the work of other workers.
Writers and “CONTENT CREATORS®©™” are workers, and it seems like the leftie-thing to do is not jack their shit. Stealing from your boss, the professional managerial-class, MEGACORPS, all that sort of stuff is sexy and cool. Stealing the work of other katz who are just trying to make it as well seems kinda wack to me.
Especially when things like writing which is actually transformed by the person doing it. I don’t know the Marxist term or whatever, but it seems like actual work and labor going into forming ideas and getting those ideas out into the world.
I hope I don’t come as a scold or a buzzkill. Not my intention at all.
Plagiarizing much poorer queer authors while holding up a pretense of original research and further misinforming people when you speak off script because you don’t actually do any research is bad. Dude could literally just not fuck over poorer authors writing articles on blogs and such and he’d still get plenty of money.
Dude could literally just not fuck over poorer authors writing articles on blogs and such and he’d still get plenty of money.
Exactly. Making stacks off other people’s work is antithetical of the whole leftie wave we are all on. We are suppose to be openly collaborating, sharing, exchanging, coordinating, all that sort of cool stuff together. Not just private making bank and saying “I did it all myself because I"m very uniquely intelligent”
I’m trying to articulate what is arguably an even softer point politically because it to me is a stronger indictment: He could remain a full-on content mill that is just profiting off of other people’s work, but give them proper credit! He’d lose some of his personal mystique, but he’d still make a lot of money while still being incredibly lazy but without fucking those other authors over!
Hahahahah is this what it’s actually about? I haven’t bothered to watch the four fucking hour video of some people i’ve never heard about yelling at each other but friends seem to think it was entertaining.
I’ve been laid up with sickness for three days and I still can’t talk myself in watching a 4-hour video.
It could have been a 30 minute expose, but instead, he pulled out a folder full of receipts and just started reading them verbatim into the camera.
https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=YMUmT6q9uPl2kn4O&t=12101
Its actually quite fucked, dude is steamrolling over actual queer writers and thinkers, many of whom are dead or languishing in obscurity, guy is a fuckhead
Is there like a 2 page precis? I don’t know who any of these people are. I know Hbomberguy exists but I have no context on what he does or why people listen to him. Like I need some kind of briefing, here, to even understand what kind of context to put the context in to when i get some context.
hbomberguy showed a lot of specific examples of blatant plagiarism from 4 or 5 very large youtube channels. They were basically just Googling topics every day, changing scripts/articles from “but” to “and” or “he went” to “he traveled” and then reading it off to B-roll they often also stole. Many of them were also just stealing entirely from one production, as in just recreating a documentary in its entirety. They were making hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars by stealing all this stuff. At that point it’s less of “some rando” and more like a substantial media operation ripping people off
The plagiarist stealing queer content was always getting compliments for great writing, and it turns out when they did a second pass on a script they got caught on, trying to change the words around a just a bit more, he was actually a dogshit writer
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
