Finally got to watching Hbomberguy's plagiarism video

Okay, it was really good. I still think he could've done a slightly better job at editing down the watch time, but he was definately going for the throat regarding James Somerton. I would say he ruined his youtube career, but the reality was that Somerton did it to himself. Such a piece of shit.

Filip (the Dead Cells plagiarist who used to work at IGN), Cinemassacre (feel really bad for James Rolfe on this one, it was mostly Screenwave's fault), and Illiminauttii were not really a surprise by any means. The biggest surprise though was Internet Historian... like holy shit was that a bomb. I get he wasn't the main story (James Somerton was), but Man Cave being a word for word plagiarism of an article written from Mental Floss. I don't understand from IH perspective, he did something kind of similiar with "My Immortal" when he read a fanfic and had some great editing along with it. Instead of doing that, he really try to pass off "Man Cave" like it was his own work and he would've gotten away with it if it were not for Hbomberguy's video. I'm just hoping that was his only video that he plagiarized.

Overall good watch, I definately reccomend the James Somerton section of the video.

I never heard of this guy and half of the people he talked about.

But I started watching this video and couldnt stop.
It was interesting and really well done.

Prestoff posted...

I don't understand from IH perspective, he did something kind of similiar with "My Immortal" when he read a fanfic and had some great editing along with it. Instead of doing that, he really try to pass off "Man Cave" like it was his own work and he would've gotten away with it if it were not for Hbomberguy's video.

I think the difference is that with "My Immortal" you're making fun of the writing and it doesn't really work if it's *your* writing, so it's totally natural to cite where you're getting it from.

For "Man Cave", you get to pass off the storytelling as your own.

The IH plagiarism was known before, but no one really talked about till now.

Idk who any of these people are but down with thieves.

James Wolfe is the Angry Video Game Nerd, the other people are nobodies

A5modeu5 posted...

I never heard of this guy and half of the people he talked about.

But I started watching this video and couldnt stop.
It was interesting and really well done.

I'm kinda of up-to-date with Youtube drama because I'm a weirdo that way so I knew almost everyone he listed. The only 2 that caught me off guard was IH and James Somerton, but that's because I actually like IH and I didn't even know James Somerton (he's famous...though now infamous in the LGBTQ+ community). But what James Somerton did was way worst than any of the other people listed in the video.

Anteaterking posted...

I think the difference is that with "My Immortal" you're making fun of the writing and it doesn't really work if it's *your* writing, so it's totally natural to cite where you're getting it from.

For "Man Cave", you get to pass off the storytelling as your own.

True, all IH had to do was be more upfront about reading an article word for word got permission/clearance from the author to make a video about it.

Seaman_Prime posted...

The IH plagiarism was known before, but no one really talked about till now.

I guess no one with a big enough platform that is, until now lol.

I have no idea what any of this is talking about

myztikrice posted...

James Wolfe is the Angry Video Game Nerd, the other people are nobodies

Internet Historian has even more subs than Cinemassacre does. It's insane to me that gigantic channels like this just flagrantly steal shit like no one's gonna notice

Conflict posted...

Typing "Internet Historian" in the Google search bar brought up a recommended result with a rather peculiar 4-digit number next to it.

Searching "internet historian hbomberguy" immediately returned this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/hbomberguy/comments/18doyzk/internet_historian_is_a_nazi/

They compiled a good list of his obvious right/alt right leaning but calling him a nazi? I still think that's a stretch, but this isn't the first time I was wrong about someone not being a nazi before.