LEMMY is how I find out there’s a new hbomber video? Not my fucking YOUTUBE SUBSCRIPTION ALERTS??
Thanks, Google!
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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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.
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.
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.
Ha.
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
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
New Hbomberguy video on plagiarism and YouTube dropped, almost 4 hours long.
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
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?
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. :)
i am of the opinion that plagiarism is a total non-issue. serial plagiarists, eventually, are caught. whether by becoming too prolific and having their "work" discovered by the source from which they are plagiarizing, or by virtue of the fact that there is, genuinely, a limited amount of material from which one can plagiarize, and, so, they cannot actually keep up their publishing until others do the work for them. and once they're caught, it's almost impossible to repair that reputation, and the people from whom they plagiarized may end up getting even more exposure in the fallout of the scandal.
BUT that's only one mole-hill-sized mountain i found in this "video essay". his whole aside about melania's speech writers plagiarizing michelle obama's speech writers does no damage to anyone at all. it's silly drama. the way he whines about people actually DOING the bare minimum research and going to the wikipedia sources is also silly: even though many people (or bots) copy-and-pasted those individual links, the work of reading them well enough to include them usefully in a video is a genuine service.
and all of this sort of talks around my initial point above: the whole point of culture is to share it. the people harassed by the plagiarists' fans are victims, but only of harassment, in my estimation. they can't believe that having their name appear on screen in these videos made by (let's be honest) intellectual lightweights would have added to either their own gravitas or their financial well-being.
there is honestly no circumstance in which you are going to convince me that anyone should be compelled to say anything, even the name of the person who told them something verbatim. and leaving out that name can vary in it's acceptability from maybe-a-little-rude to lifesaving (consider confidential newspaper sources).
If you had watched the video, you’d know that it actually discusses how translating media from one format to another has merit given it is properly cited (or permission is given for adaptions).
Your opinion is morally wrong and it doesn’t matter how many words you use to try to explain it away 🙃
ok. you must be right: your use of emojis is devastating.
properly cited (or permission is given for adaptions).
I don't need to cite anyone, and you won't compell my speech. I don't need permission to share information.
If you had watched the video, you’d know that it actually discusses
yea. and I disagree with the analysis. what's with everyone assuming I didn't watch it?
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?
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.