#illuminaughtii

[coffinwoodx]

like witnessing the french revolution beheadings firsthand in the 1800s

[the-rear-admiral-reborn]

I do wanna say while I'm reblogging hbomberguy stuff that I'm extremely uninterested in calling out anyone's viewers because they "should've known better" or "should've seen the red flags." The entire point of the video is that these people are exploiting an algorithm and churning out massive amounts of content. It's not a moral failing to not watch a YouTuber's entire weekly back catalog and google around for criticisms.

I got more I can say about video essays and documentaries and their issues with sourcing in general, but I'm gonna save it.

[charlesoberonn]

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[dimonds456]

HES AT IT AGAIN

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Hbomberguy's Plagiarism Video: Was it itself also a work of plagiarism?

FIJMU News: 12-3-23 by P.L. Giarrist Jr.

Hbomberguy has been an excellent YouTube documentarian, most famous for actually liking Dark Souls 2. Beyond this strange behavior however, his videos are widely admired despite not even having a colossal stuffed porg in their background. Recently he uploaded a documentary on plagiarism, but is that video plagiarized? And indeed, is his whole channel? His very life?

We at FIJMU have found concerning evidence that Hbomberguy is in fact simply repeating another YouTuber, also named Hbomberguy: He even stole the original documentarian's name, and as seen above, wardrobe, wallpaper, and face. Hbomberguy did indeed make a nearly identical video to Hbomberguy's, and in a startling, perhaps AI enabled act of thievery, Hbomberguy uploaded an identical video at exactly the same time. Most deviously, the duplicate Hbomberguy video has also used the same link and YouTube address.

While some have claimed that we simply have two windows of the same video open, the truth remains to be discovered. Did Hbomberguy steal from Hbomberguy? We may never know, at least not for a while because I am still only halfway into his like 4 hour long video and he's barely into the cave part and the meta aspect of this is giving me a headache.

I'm also worried now about parts in my Valhalla trilogy where I directly quoted death metal lyrics as a reference because I wrote it when I was really into Metalocalypse but like it's a novel so it doesn't explicitly say what those are and though I've talked about it all at length like am I any better than that one lady who stole the whole documentary and treated everyone she knew badly and stuff? Probably.

BUT HOW CAN WE KNOW FOR SURE???

god im tired i wish i had a pizza

[halozeta]

Hbomberguy's latest video is the closest thing to watching an actual murder without anyone getting physically hurt. Criminals are very lucky Harry didn't get into law.

[gaykarstaagforever]

I think Todd in the Shadows is also a good example of how long it can take to put out videos, if you're researching / writing / producing them yourselves:

One a month? One every three months? It takes time to do all this.

If someone is dropping a weekly hour-long commentary video that isn't just them podcast-ranting about too many gays, they either work with a team, or are stealing.

And if they work with a team, they should credit them, so we know whose art or words are a part of this.

Sarah Z does it like this.

Jenny Nicholson does two huge videos a year, because I'm pretty sure she does them all herself. This content takes MONTHS to put together.

If you like a non-corporate channel and they're dropping slick videos daily or weekly, that's a red flag. You should probably narrow your eyes at where this content is coming from.

...Or they just don't sleep and use hard stimulants. But that also makes the content suspect, in its own ways.

You're not an unsupervised 11 year old. Be more mindful about what you're consuming. Stop generating revenue for dipshits who don't want real jobs.

"HEY I DON'T CARE IT IS JUST CONTENT I'M TIRED AND -- "

You can either stand against the dystopia, or get eaten by it. Grow the fuck up.

[kiruyeen]

ok but the hbomberguy video dropping only days after Oz media, a genderqueer content creator who's landlady was illuminaughtii and had treathened to kick them out (from what I remember, but she definitely was dangling their right to shelter over their head), had decided to make a 24 hours stream to hopefully get enough funds for their own house EVENTUALLY and was quote "only expecting to get 5.000 in 24 hours if they were lucky" but ended up crushing through and past their goals within an hour and crying so hard from joy that their nose started bleeding and they couldnt even get to the actual content part of the stream until after like an hour and a half in, was, in my opinion, very based. sincerely fuck illuminaughtii.