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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
New Hbomberguy video on plagiarism and YouTube dropped, almost 4 hours long.
What a shit link. Have to go through like 3 redirects
The biggest scam podcasts. Half the history podcast are basically just reading out someone else’s book.
I’m sure it doesn’t end there .
I think I might be in love with hbomberguy. Though it's hard to beat his Pathologic video, that one was incredibly special and I've seen it way too many times.
By the way, did James officially react to this in any way yet?
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