Y'all people always go "be (nerd) gay, do (nerd) crimes", but then a britbong makes a video whining about it and y'all suddenly forget about your favorite mantra
Source for the stolen image: https://fixvx.com/krystalwolfyalt/status/1732505768149008821
@RNAi@hexbear.net you should probably add to the body of your post the context that this guy isn't stealing from daily mail articles and corporate slop, hes stealing the work of queer people, some of whom died in obscurity most of whom are not well off
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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.
He is also pretty misogynistic
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.
https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=YMUmT6q9uPl2kn4O&t=12101
Its actually quite fucked, dude is steamrolling over actual queer writers and thinkers, many of whom are dead or languishing in obscurity, guy is a fuckhead
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.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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 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.
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)
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.
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
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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
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
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