sry sweatie the britbong video was too long and he’s associated with a CRINGE subgenre so here’s me screaming for several replies on why it’s bad actually
“people told me I was a part of something called breadtube and also fuck you for it”
-HBritbongGuy
All I know about that Somerton guy is that he is very horny for nazis.
Oh for fuck sakes
He argued that the reason so many Americans joined up to fight in the western front was to get a glimpse of those shirtless ubermensch they’d be fighting against. Never mind that the Germans were getting really rough by the time the USA showed up in the western front and also most US soldiers were drafted, and also you couldn’t pick the front you’d fight in. And that the US bodybuilder movement comes from trying to create their own gorgeous muscular bodies to emulate the Germans.
He also said Americans didn’t get horny for Soviet men the same way because they all wore thick coats all the time. The Soviets. The world champions in broadcasting oiled up, muscular athletes doing feats of strength and dexterity.
Americans didn’t get horny for Soviet men
I have photographic evidence to the contrary
Damn, what they eating? Looks good for military rations.
iirc this photo was taken soon after the end of the war so it would be a celebration dinner
it’s the actually good version of the nurse photo
This looks like something my grandma would cook up. Very much an old style Polish dinner.
Also reinforced the “asian men aren’t masculine” trope.
Also when questioned, the co-writer revealed that he just made all this up with no source.
Also reinforced the “asian men aren’t masculine” trope.
This is how you know someone hasn’t watched Olympic weightlifting in a long time.
Todd in the Shadows… A goddamn music critic also did a Somertin take down, more of a “Here are the facts he got straight up wrong” video. One of them was “Hitler didn’t kill Ernest Rohm because he was gay… It’s because he was fat!”
He is also pretty misogynistic
Yeah, the four hours video has like 20 min section about it
Did you die during those four hours
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I remember Hbomb show Somerton mysonigy but nothing about nazis
sorry but he wasn’t able to convince me. maybe if the video was 6 hours or 8 hours. 4 hours just is not long enough to make a convincing argument.
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.
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).
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.
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.
I’ve been laid up with sickness for three days and I still can’t talk myself in watching a 4-hour video.
As I was scrolling by, I read this as you saying you wouldn’t watch it simply because “I’ve been laid”, which, well, fair enough
Have you tried getting really drunk and high first?
Hmm, makes sense. I basically need to work 8 days straight with little sleep to put me in the headspace to watch a movie, so you may be onto something.
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.
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.
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”
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!
It’s settled then. I’m going to commission a Kitty Bobo vtuber model and start making videos where I just read out effort posts from Hexbear and pretend they’re my own words. It’s the perfect crime. 😼
do it. people here will be so happy when they get featured.
Hexbear grindset!
Ooh, do mine
You know those AskReddit content mills? Literally if you just say “this is from the website Hexbear, the user is Alaskaball” [or whoever, but he does a bunch] it is no longer plagiarism and you still have a completely viable content mill, arguably more viable because you can slingshot around ideologically without question because you are transparent that it’s other people’s writing.
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)
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.
Yeah, I see what you mean.
I also want to point out your hate for cops and landlords is cool.
I don’t believe in cops, bosses, or politicians. Some call that Anarchism, I call it having a heart that fucking beats.
The moral here is that you should steal the plagiarist’s videos and pass them off as your own.
I suggest you to watch the video
I got halfway through before I got bored.
I tell my kids that you steal from Walmart not the store down the street.
the second half is the actually important part. I wish he’d published it as 2 videos so people didn’t bail halfway thinking it was all just punching at chuds and a bitch who’s already destroyed her own career.
I believe that’s just before the part that’s not just about plagiarism
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
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.
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
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
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.
MBAs are evil
if you care about any of this you need to seriously re-evaluate your life
Death to America
ripping off a bunch of queer people who are much less well-known than you - some of whom died of AIDS in obscurity - is kind of serious for the queer community. a lot of people missed how horny for nazis he was and they’re just learning it now.
Yeah, you’re only allowed to care about important things. All media is banned except for post war italian cinema reflecting on fascism and revolution
i kinda do think plagiarism bad honestly
i don’t even know what the video is about, i just know it’s 4 hours long and therefore should be irrelevant to literally everyone. also youtube is not the academy, who gives a fuck lol
Death to America
who gives a fuck? the queer writers whose work was stolen and pumped out as shitty content farm video essays for a greasy misogynistic nazi fucker
look i understand four hours is a lot but that is just the amount of shit this asshole has churned out.
Plus you can just use the chapter headings to skip around…
or watch it in like 20 minute chunks.
Lol people were getting pissed at me for suggesting that when the video was first posted. Idk why people care if you don’t wanna watch something that long don’t.
Its performative aloofness
Marxism is the ruthless criticism of all that exists. Plagiarism isn’t bad for academic reasons, but because it exploits the labor of vulnerable people and is a basis for spreading misinformation.
It’s a long video, yes, but it’s primarily a video about one of the largest queer creators on YouTube stealing from smaller queer creators, erasing their contribution to media and literary critique while simultaneously positioning himself as King Queer.
I know it’s a meme to laugh about internet drama and be contrarian and popular media here, but in this case, it’s a valid subject.
H bomber guy is one of the better YouTubers out there. He seems to really make his videos out of passion on the topic he going on about, and not just for profit.
It’s a worthwhile listen, play it in the background while doing something else.
ok so you dont really mean anything
My hot take here is that both Hbomber and this guy are people who are too anti-social to have jobs and who are trying to be content grifters and at the end of the day adding plagiarism to it only makes him 10% worse.
hbomber being mad at somerton is like when the democrats were doing a “how dare you sir” about the children in cages during the trump presidency.
My hot take here is that both Hbomber and this guy are people who are too anti-social to have jobs
Yeah that totally doesn’t describe half of the people here
Most of us here need to have jobs despite being too anti social cause we can’t all be yourune celebrities or content mill guys
can’t all be yourune celebrities or content mill guys
Apparently it’s pretty easy if you plagiarize so maybe we should be using Hbomber’s video as a guide
just steal posts from here. people will thank you if you drop a /u/ in the corner so we can congratulate ourselves.
Conservative estimate (myself included, to be clear)
these takes are weird, Somerton was being cited as an authority on queer topics outside of the youboob sphere, which makes his takedown a bit more bigger than a beef between online types. dude was not only a plagiarist, he was also a known falsifier. it’s just plain old academic dishonesty, the sort of thing that would make the news if this had happened on an actual campus. we’re now in an era where bonafide pundits are taking fucking video essays at face value, B-list celebs like Neil Gaiman find out Hbomb uploaded a new video hours after it gets posted. Somerton’s channel was going to be his platform towards building a movie studio ffs. we’re in a new world where youtube is mainstream and things that happen there are now felt in meatspace.
Did this guy used to post on Hexbear/CTH or is he just one of our screenshot guys? My timeline is getting hazy at this point.
I’ll check this out tomorrow either way. I’m not gonna spend four hours of my free time watching it but I will definitely spend four hours of my work time listening to it in the background.
Started listening to it in the background as well, literally watching the end right now.
Summary: a long list showing some guy passing off other people’s content as his own, a lot of those other people being queer writers. Glad I watched it, but it is seriously too long.
I heard a bunch of good takes that will never get talked about like they should be. He was scamming his boss to get paid doing a terrible job. So we have to respect the hustle.
Hbomberguy posted a video about his videos so in a way he is just recycling thst same content for views again.
How hilarious would it be if our villian just copied Hbomber’s video and declined to explain thr joke?
Which boss?
Harddrive did that joke
