• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    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.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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        11 months ago

        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.

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          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

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      11 months ago

      I enjoyed it. It’s rambling in terms of the overall thesis, but everything he says does have a purpose (that might not help the thesis but still means something).

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      11 months ago

      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.

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        That’s the thing for me, by the time it came around to something I might care about it’s already been 2 hours of shit I don’t care about that is only sort of related. By the time it was getting there I was already tuned out.