• KittyBobo [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I identify with the plagiarism YouTuber. I also don’t care about my job and see it as just a paycheck too so I do the bare minimum to make money. Like, unitonically, that’s the system we have that incentivizes us to do the least work to get paid. I’ll reserve my ire for cops and landlords, not some YouTuber who is ruining the sacred art form of YouTube content by phoning it in to get paid.

    Edit: I think I see what the problem is. I only watched the part about the pyramid head cartoon plagiarizing articles, I didn’t even see anything about the other guy.

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      Plagiarizing much poorer queer authors while holding up a pretense of original research and further misinforming people when you speak off script because you don’t actually do any research is bad. Dude could literally just not fuck over poorer authors writing articles on blogs and such and he’d still get plenty of money.

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        Dude could literally just not fuck over poorer authors writing articles on blogs and such and he’d still get plenty of money.

        Exactly. Making stacks off other people’s work is antithetical of the whole leftie wave we are all on. We are suppose to be openly collaborating, sharing, exchanging, coordinating, all that sort of cool stuff together. Not just private making bank and saying “I did it all myself because I"m very uniquely intelligent”

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          I’m trying to articulate what is arguably an even softer point politically because it to me is a stronger indictment: He could remain a full-on content mill that is just profiting off of other people’s work, but give them proper credit! He’d lose some of his personal mystique, but he’d still make a lot of money while still being incredibly lazy but without fucking those other authors over!

    • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      the guy’s not just getting a paycheck, he’s doing pretty well and even founded a (Star Citizen-esque) movie production company, all while lifting his content from marginalized authors that often struggle financially themselves (or are dead, in some cases)

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      I also don’t care about my job and see it as just a paycheck too so I do the bare minimum to make money. Like, unitonically, that’s the system we have that incentivizes us to do the least work to get paid. I’ll reserve my ire for cops and landlords

      I understand where you’re coming from, however I still think it’s probably uncool to bite off the work of others, especially when they themselves aren’t getting paid let alone being recognized for their work. Don’t get me wrong I’m 420.69% all for slacking on the job and doing the most you can to figure out how to do the least you can and still get paid, get your money. However, when I think it’s a slimeball move to swipe the work of other workers.

      Writers and “CONTENT CREATORS®©™” are workers, and it seems like the leftie-thing to do is not jack their shit. Stealing from your boss, the professional managerial-class, MEGACORPS, all that sort of stuff is sexy and cool. Stealing the work of other katz who are just trying to make it as well seems kinda wack to me.

      Especially when things like writing which is actually transformed by the person doing it. I don’t know the Marxist term or whatever, but it seems like actual work and labor going into forming ideas and getting those ideas out into the world.

      I hope I don’t come as a scold or a buzzkill. Not my intention at all.

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      Did you watch the thing? I gotta say that you sound to me like someone whose going off of summary and here say and honestly if you haven’t seen it I encourage you to because it is hard to grasp from summary how insidious the behavior he exposes really is. It is certainly lazy but it’s also very exploitative, particularly to obscure queer historians and writers

      • KittyBobo [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Yeah, I think I watched the wrong video. I watched the one on HBoomer’s second channel about some pyramid headed cartoon character, I didn’t even see the video about that other guy.

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          that one was bad too, people found out that on top of plagiarism, she was a landlord, and on top of being a landlord, she was landlording her own employee, whom she illegally evicted and destroyed his possessions

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        Did you watch the thing? I gotta say that you sound to me like someone whose going off of summary and here say and honestly if you haven’t seen it

        This is most media crit on HexBear

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      I’d be more okay with these people phoning it in with their research if they actually credited their sources properly, most either don’t at all or barely do it.

      Also this isn’t someone slacking at a corporate job, they’re making pretty damn good money by fostering a parasocial relationship with their fans. Some are even successful enough at it they can springboard it into starting their own small business ventures meaning they’re basically kulaks. And often when someone points out that their work is copy+pasted from somewhere else they sick their fandoms on them, or sometimes even get the people they copied from harassed.