LEMMY is how I find out there’s a new hbomber video? Not my fucking YOUTUBE SUBSCRIPTION ALERTS??
Thanks, Google!
103My YouTube alerts come days after the actual video release dates. I'm not even sure how they manage to get it that delayed.
15my people, check out Newpipe (Android, download through F-Droid) and Freetube (desktop) - your feeds will be chronological, no black-box suggestion algorithm. all videos from all your subscriptions will be shown to you (you can even group your subs to customize how they show up)
you'll avoid some of that surveillance capitalism
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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.
74Given the amount of time between Contra videos, I would be really surprised if she was plagiarizing
56TBF James Somerton does often imitate the Contrepoints aesthetic.
10I 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.
3Ha.
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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
42If you're gonna make jokes about niche internet personalities in public you're gonna have to get used to explaining the joke.
83Or... not... post... that.
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No you gotta explain it to dummies like me. Which 3 established YouTube careers?
14Yeah I’m way too old to know who these YouTubers are lol 🥲
8For that you will have to check the video :) https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=Aa0qGYL2Uzy0AbiW
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OOTL here and my googling has come up dry, whst happened?
42It'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.
81From looking, his recent video is retreading drama that had happened over the last several months but OP is claiming bald man did all the work.
I dunno about the other 2, but the iilluminautii segment in the video has been done dozens of times at this point and involved half a dozen creators that were direct associates of her bringing her down. But, nah, all bald man.
edit: I forgot but she also partially took herself down by posting one of her editors notes containing suicidal ideation because of her in her video defending herself against that editor…
-35He covered at least 5 content creators, so it's not just 'the other two'. This is purely anecdotal as this was my personal experience.
I definitely knew about the illuminati drama, but none of the others. I've seen video essays from every creator covered (except for Phillip) and had enjoyed having James S in the background in particular. It looks like he's turned off all comments in his videos post plagiarism video. For the record I hadn't seen any other hbomberguy videos prior to this.
22If you're this invested, watch the hbomberguy video. I think you'd like it.
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I don't know what this is about, appreciate the contribution nonetheless
been terribly out of the loop lately
33Hbomberguy, 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.
52New Hbomberguy video on plagiarism and YouTube dropped, almost 4 hours long.
20What a shit link. Have to go through like 3 redirects
11The actual link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ
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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 .
22Yeah, so many times I'll watch one and think 'that's an interesting topic I'll watch another video on it' but all the other videos cover exactly the same bits of information and often have the same thoughts and jokes.
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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?
7Why yes, they did react
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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.
2Breadtubers who aggregate and present unified information is still legitimate content creation. People dont want to watch multiple 2hour long documentaries and read 10 articles. So if a breadtuber does that and condenses that into a 30min video, good for them. Improving citation is a legitimate point but ultimately not that important for most people.
-26It's not condensing when it's a) copying verbatim and b) not citing sources.
It's not an issue citation needing to be improved. It needs to exist at all. And the audience's opinion on whether citation is important to them is a total non-issue. Their opinions don't matter in this regard.
You cite sources and give credit, or you don't publish.
48This point was brought up at the end of the video. You just need to watch it.
22And I have nothing against that, as long as they are not trying to get me to believe that they did all the work themselves
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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.
edit
hey guess who didn't look at which user made this post before talking shit.
whoops
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