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LEMMY is how I find out there’s a new hbomber video? Not my fucking YOUTUBE SUBSCRIPTION ALERTS??
Thanks, Google!
My YouTube alerts come days after the actual video release dates. I’m not even sure how they manage to get it that delayed.
Laughing at one weird bald misogynist
“Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?” - Blight
Did I mention that they have a pet skull…hmm, no I doubt that helps either.
Perhaps they enjoy scotch and cigars as well, maybe that’ll… Ah, never mind.
Uhh, let’s see, Oh! They sold their merch on their friends’ website, which included books that were blatantly plagiarizing Roosh V!
Hang on that doesn’t narrow it down either.
“Don’t forget to like share and subscribe!”
“And you better smash that bell.”
At half the video I knew the main culprit was about to be revealed, then he put the “contrapoints” lighting and I was like please don’t be contra, and he starts talking about how that person was stealing from smaller lgbtq creators and I was oh fuck, is contra, but then it was actually that guy I didn’t even knew existed and was a relief.
Given the amount of time between Contra videos, I would be really surprised if she was plagiarizing
TBF James Somerton does often imitate the Contrepoints aesthetic.
Ha.
I was also thinking Contra was involved, but when he pulled out the lighting I thought it was something someone had done to her. I’m very glad it just turned out to be Somerton, who failed the sniff test the first time he was recommended to me by the algorithm.
Looks like some people don’t get the meme here. The first domino refers to the first hbomb video against aurini. Please don’t make me explain the joke
If you’re gonna make jokes about niche internet personalities in public you’re gonna have to get used to explaining the joke.
Or… not… post… that.
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For that you will have to check the video :) https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=Aa0qGYL2Uzy0AbiW
Oh that! Loved that video haha
Your wording made it sound like hbg was the one losing 3 channels, not the one who killed them, so I was confused at first too
Yeah I’m way too old to know who these YouTubers are lol 🥲
I really need to watch more hbomb videos
I would have but it’s 3+ (some people are saying 4) hours long. Ain’t nobody got time for that!
THIS video is indeed 4 hours long, but he has shorter ones. And longer ones, for some odd reason.
Just restarted again today on my drive to an appointment. Don’t worry, the screen is off and I’m just listening to his bald, low-T sexy voice and thinking about twinks (video reference for those that haven’t seen it).
Oh, and run-time is 3 hours and 51 minutes. So, yeah, basically 4 hours!
Lmao
I don’t know what this is about, appreciate the contribution nonetheless
been terribly out of the loop lately
Hbomberguy, after doing a video that deleted Tommy Tallarico by exposing a career of lies (even getting one of his world records removed in the process of research alone), put out a video discussing plagiarism where he, with receipts, showed Internet Historian, Illuminaughtii, and James Somerton conducted significant plagiarism. All 3 fan bases went feral over it. Somerton deleted his socials and lost a shitload of his patreon money and IH’s fans are having a Normal One.
Somerton was the main focus of the video. He’s a gay man who created a series of video essays that are basically all entirely plagiarized word for word from dozens of other queer creators, pretty much straight up stealing money from them. Hbomb has dedicated all the revenue he makes from this video to be split between everyone somerton stole from, which hilariously includes Wikipedia.
I used to watch illuminaughti but don’t want to watch a 4 hour video about youtube plagiarism to find out what happened. Can you give me a quick summary?
Multiple times she made videos that were just word-for-word reading out the transcript of a documentary, even going so far as using the documentary footage as background imagery, without crediting the original at all. She also avoided youtube copyright detection by putting filters over such footage. Honestly I’m less upset about the plagiarism (which is bad, no doubt) and more just at the outright clownishness of literally copy-pasting somebody else’s work.
That’s wild
Using a pirate link as a source from one of the documentaries is pretty based tho.
https://youtu.be/AQyLTE066YQ?si=3TdffinFqg52BvjO
Seems the illuminaughtii thing started before hbomberguy.
damn, stuff like this makes me glad that I don’t follow internet “discourse” any more
In this case it’s not really discourse so much as plagiarizing minority voices and directly profiting off them. Hbomb describes how a Somerton patreon subscriber discovered him reading her own essay back at her uncredited. She was paying him to steal from her.
Dude’s also a misogynist. When he isn’t stealing people’s words his original contributions frequently attack white women, and he’ll also misgender creators that he feels are “as bad as” women so he can attack them through the same lens.
I feel like in discourse you need two sides and nobody is on this dude’s side.
get your point, I just can’t be bothered with internet personalities.
The world is a horrible place, ik. I’m trying to change it irl rather than waste my energy online
Dude’s also a misogynist.
yea, and it took way too long to come around to this point, which is probably the only meaningful criticism in this whole thing (except the observation that serial plagiarists also spread misinformation in their attempts to cover plagiarism, which is interesting). he could have made this video about misogyny with a side of plagiarism instead of getting his panties in a twist about a total non-issue.
New Hbomberguy video on plagiarism and YouTube dropped, almost 4 hours long.
The actual link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ
I knew of the first two because their videos were everywhere and Illuminaughtii was sort of in the breadtube sphere. Never heard of James Somerton and it seems like I wasn’t missing anything.
OOTL here and my googling has come up dry, whst happened?
It’s a long video posted by YouTube creator HBomberguy regarding plagiarism on YouTube. If you watch/listen to video essays on YouTube it’s worth a play.
TL;DW- it’s a longstanding issue of ripping practically verbatim sections of other people’s work without proper sourcing. There were a few larger named channels put forth as evidence. I know at least one of the plagarist has since turned off comments on his videos.
oh wow, I never even thought about this! probably because it doesn’t fucking matter. I can’t believe humanity collectively wasted 4million hours on this in 2 days.
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hey guess who didn’t look at which user made this post before talking shit.
whoops
Shhhh. Let people enjoy things.
i think the same can be said to the whiner making a 4 hour video about shit that doesn’t affect anyone.
Sounds like someone was told they couldn’t use wikipedia as a source word for word in high school and never got over it. The less parrots we have saying shit they don’t understand to get recognition other people worked for the better. If a four hour video is too long for you, maybe break it down into chunks or use any other time management skill. Or don’t watch it still, but you’re making the case that you have no attention span and say mean things about content you’ve never interacted with for jollies.
I think the same can be said to the whiner making angry comments on Lemmy because someone made a 4 hour video he doesn’t want to watch.
what makes you think i didn’t watch it?
Because you’re saying it doesn’t affect anyone when it affects a lot of people! Someone was making lots of money out of other’s work.
No need to be so negative, stranger. Why don’t we stop party popping and try to make the internet nicer?
Why don’t we stop party popping and try to make the internet nicer?
i’m all for being nice, but the 4 hours of snark ain’t it. how many parties did hbomberguy just poop?
Someone was making lots of money out of other’s work
i don’t think this matters. at all. humans share stories and songs and recipes and jokes and tools. the people being “affected” weren’t bringing their stories to the audiences the plagiarists were.
You either have a very concerning lack of empathy or aren’t even trying, internet stranger. I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt, but if you are saying that is okay to take credit from someone else’s work because otherwise people wouldn’t have access, that’s very weird!! Its like there isn’t a better way like saying where you got your stuff. I hope you’re not assuming that you know better and won’t expose yourself yo new knowledge but there are a lot of vulnerable people that are more at risk of having their work stolen. There’s also another video from Philosophy Tube that talks about this. I highly recommend it. :)
You would say this directly to Brian Deer’s face?
“Sorry, no one cares that people keep pilfering you for content.”why not? the worst fate that can befall an author is not that someone might steal their work, but that no one will want to.
it’s a fucking compliment.
