I'd like to thank Tommy Tallarico for this video.

@CMGThePerson

5 ай бұрын

His mother must be very proud

@Ranboo-The-Beloved

5 ай бұрын

His mother is very proud

@Ranboo-The-Beloved

5 ай бұрын

I'm stealing this comment now

@richardcope5066

5 ай бұрын

I'm stealing this comment now

@Dino_Saur212

5 ай бұрын

I wouldn't like to thank him

Can't believe Tommy Tallarico invented plagiarism, truly the first american

@Vicy5Modapk

5 ай бұрын

Tommy Tallarico was literally the first American to work on America. Truly the most important person of all time. So glad to see he made this video on why people shouldn't take credit for things they don't own.

@gurzeh8787

5 ай бұрын

@Vicy5Modapk Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a cannon event that he worked hand in hand with Christopher Columbus and was the sound designer for the founding fathers

@hooting-ton5215

5 ай бұрын

@@Vicy5Modapk George Washington was very proud

@Vicy5Modapk

5 ай бұрын

@@gurzeh8787 I remember the moment the founding fathers showed up at video games live. It was truly the most important moment in American history.

@maximum_rebo

5 ай бұрын

He worked together with Shigeru Miyamoto to create America

The "We'll pay you 20k" reminds me of some team fortress 2 lore. When MannCo hired Sniper they asked him how much it would cost for him to off a guy and he said "idk 20 I guess" meaning he'd be willing to do it for $20 to which they responded "ok 20,000 dollars seems reasonable".

@Sarah12471

4 ай бұрын

Remind me of a vine "Yea, I'd kill him" "For how much" "50" "50 Grand?" *spittake*

@billionai4871

3 ай бұрын

I've seen this exact gag in an episode of iCarly. "sure, we'll do the shoe sponsorship" "how much do you want?" "100" "alright. write them a check for 100 thousand dollars."

@Myder_Dragon

3 ай бұрын

@@billionai4871 dang, iCarly brought some flashback to my childhood

@scoutagain9749

3 ай бұрын

Isn’t this a tumblr post?

@Myder_Dragon

3 ай бұрын

@@scoutagain9749 no its tf2 lore

I once had a prof accuse me of plagiarism on an online exam because in the essay section, I mentioned vaguely similar points in almost the same order to another exam from 6 years earlier. She insisted I must have gotten a copy of this other person's answer. Not a single citation was the same, no phrases were the same, and I didn't even go to that school, this was a one-off course to finish my degree. She had 300+ people per class per semester, hadn't changed the exam in at least 15 years, she had made it very clear that she expected us to basically parrot back her lectures to her in the exam, and she gave us the essay questions ahead of time, so I had gone through her lectures and written an outline ahead of time based on what she said she wanted to read. At that point, it would be statistically impossible NOT to get similar essays through parallel thinking, I'd be shocked if I was the only one even that semester.

@Heidegaff

4 ай бұрын

Your professor is lazy, unmotivated and stupid, all opposites of what a good teacher should be.

@titan4257

4 ай бұрын

Did they fail you?

@RJ-wx3fh

4 ай бұрын

lower stakes, but having studied a STEM subject a uni with many friends studying similar subjects , we often had a mild paranoia when we happend on phrasing for a thing that can only be phrased clearly a few ways (e.g. 'the force increases with distance from the fulcrum' ) and we'd wind up with a 10-20% plagiarism rating on certain assignments- Lecturers let common sense prevail that it wasn't stolen, just phrased similarly, but it's not a surprise that formulaic education creates formulaic answers that often come out similarly phrased.

@rayhatesu

4 ай бұрын

I'm not surprised by this. Heck, there's one point where I got "caught" plagiarizing in a programming course ... because the other two people who triggered it had been sitting next to me in the computer lab we worked on the assignments for this course during and had the same issue, so we all asked advice from the upperclassman running the lab and implemented the fix we were recommended. Makes it funnier given this was a programming course, and barring coding in a nearly dead programming language, it's nigh impossible to code something 100% different from what may have been submitted before, especially in a course of 100+ students

@Sarah12471

2 ай бұрын

​@@rayhatesuidk how coding in latin would change that

Hbomberguy is now powerful enough to break the 4th wall and reach through computer screens. He is too powerful, and yet, not yet powerful enough.

@15oClock

5 ай бұрын

Using 1% of his power, he destroyed Illuminaughtii's career.

@MrGorillafist

5 ай бұрын

This is fantastic. Now when I say 'Choke me daddy' while watching one of his vids my fantasy can finally come through 🤤

@BraxtonMeyer

5 ай бұрын

He's not even doing it in his video. How much more power will he have.

@nickkenneyjpg

5 ай бұрын

@@15oClockto be entirely fair he didnt ruin her career, she ruined it herself by being an absolute scumbag before the plagiarism stuff came up. i encourage you to look it up because it is very fucked.

@jadegreenleaf781

5 ай бұрын

@@nickkenneyjpg yeah, but from what I understood she was still hanging on by a thread? and hbombs vid just- well yknow

"Good artists copy, great artists steal" Look at this quote I just made

@TomSkaAndFriends

5 ай бұрын

No, my quote!

@dimsthedimwit600

5 ай бұрын

Bullcrap, I invented the quote. In fact, I invented quotes in general

@FrankFrendreiss

5 ай бұрын

@@dimsthedimwit600 I invented words

@NaCl1252

5 ай бұрын

I actually invented words@@dimsthedimwit600

@Robboo.

5 ай бұрын

I invited everything

So pleased you mentioned Goncharov (1973). My parents met at a secret screening of that. Without that film, I never would have been born!

@123Todayy

4 ай бұрын

Really loved that movie, wish people would highlight it more

@IgirlbossedTooCloseToTheSun

4 ай бұрын

​@@123Todayy so sad it's been lost to time 😔

@fruitymcfruitcake9674

4 ай бұрын

Fr! I've heard of a few other married couples for whom Goncharov had special significance and I've started inviting dates over to watch it partially as a litmus test, partially for good luck. I'm so glad it blew up like this ♥

@endigolikesarson

4 ай бұрын

Im so sad I never got to watch it! My parents loved the movie

@icravedeath.1200

4 ай бұрын

​@@IgirlbossedTooCloseToTheSunMartin Scorsese was involved, how the fuck was it lost to time? Or is there a joke I'm not getting here, I'm legitimately very interested in Scorsese's work so a lost film he produced sounds really interesting to me.

If I had heard the word "cryptobro" 15 years ago, I would have assumed its a guy who really likes to solve puzzles :)

@krkngd-wn6xj

3 ай бұрын

The fact that saying crypto in the computer science building in university went from meaning cryptography class to cryptocurrency is the biggest hurt I feel from the most inconsequential thing that happened to me.

@advanceringnewholder

21 күн бұрын

like bruce schneier?

What I've learned here is that every British person knows each other

@Eric_I_Guess

5 ай бұрын

To be fair it's roughly the size of Oregon with the population density of Connecticut. If every internet person from Connecticut knew eachother I wouldn't bat an eye

@Imperial_Squid

5 ай бұрын

We get together and drink tea and chortle on a weekly basis

@MaxEverywhereSystem

5 ай бұрын

common misconception actually! prior to the queens death her psionic powers connected all brits to a single hivemind. theyre finally free.

@redwiltshire1816

5 ай бұрын

It’s true I’ve met them all just casually walking around

@jazzy4830

5 ай бұрын

As far as youtubers, who've been around for a decade, are reasonably prominent, and occasionally collab or attend industry events, go kind of. If you're newer, smaller or more antisocial you probably haven't networked very much, a bit like with LA youtubers or Streamers.

so I, as an autistic dude can now sue anyone that likes trains, despite me not fulfilling that stereotype! Thank you Tom!

@asackboyplush6508

5 ай бұрын

So do we split the pot or is it just based on whichever of us are more dedicated to trains

@Hilliam66

5 ай бұрын

@@asackboyplush6508 Settle it with train jousting! Both combatants get to chose their favored train.

@Xhepyxopila

5 ай бұрын

autistic people liking trains is a stereotype?

@InsightfulUndercurrents

5 ай бұрын

Surely we can sue Tom for the “I like trains” joke from asdf… 😉

@TheSpeep

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm more of an airplanes and dinosaurs kinda autist myself.

39:36 The way Jonathan Coulton added his name is like how map designers add trap streets to maps to detect forgeries.

@linearcurve

4 ай бұрын

this *might* be a jay foreman reference

@icravedeath.1200

4 ай бұрын

Is that when Devs put in hidden messages to tell players who made it?

@ClementinesmWTF

4 ай бұрын

@@linearcurvewhich itself is a John Green reference, which we all know is just a reference to an Esso map from the early 20th century

@freindlycommentator1710

3 ай бұрын

An entire street just up and vanished and you think thats normal? (Doctor Who reference)

@liovox

3 ай бұрын

Jay foreman fan detected

In elementary I "made" a series from "scratch" and my teacher really liked it so she would read it out to the class whenever i would make a new chapter and eventually compiled all the pieces of paper i wrote on a into a folder so she could show others how talented one of her students was. In actuality I would just go home and write down word for word a story that someone on flipnote hatena was making and pretend it was my own. I think the only original part I wrote was the ending but it sucked so the teacher asked me to go back and rewrite it and I just ended up copying the original ending too. 😭

@moethemoon

4 ай бұрын

Omfg that is so bad 💀

@perrytheplatyhoe3501

4 ай бұрын

When I was in elementary school we had a group where we’d share things we wrote and I would steal lyrics from songs I like and pretend I wrote them. I eventually got caught when my dumb ass thought I could get away with stealing All the Things She Said 💀

@carlosemilio5180

4 ай бұрын

​@@perrytheplatyhoe3501 millions must plaigarise

@SilverSaiyanAce

3 ай бұрын

THE ORANGE FROG APP FROM DS!? that brings back so many memories

@lindboknifeandtool

Ай бұрын

You know the story with the two people in the hospital. One is blind, the other can see and is by the window. Every day the window guy would describe what’s going on outside. Beautiful birds, kids playing, all that. Described it all to the blind man so he could get a little taste. The seeing man either died or got better, whatever a new guy too the seeing man’s bed. The blind man one day asks the new guy to describe what’s going on outside like his old friend did. This confuses the new guy. Ends with “I’m not sure what you’re talking about, all I can see is a brick wall.” Edit: oh yeah gotta actually conclude this. I ripped that story for creative writing. Basically half the class knew because I told them. My teacher was super impressed 😂

A good example of *almost* subconscious appropriation is a story about when Dan Povenmire, the creator of Phineas and Ferb, made a joke and his fellow writers wanted to use it in the show but he knew it was familiar and searched up the joke to find that it was a joke from Spongebob- which was an episode he worked on as well.

@angusperson4222

5 ай бұрын

Can you subconsciously appropriate from yourself?

@weasel7491

5 ай бұрын

Considering self-plagiarism is an actual thing you can get in trouble for in journalism and arts, yes! If you produce content for one piece of media, you are legally or sometimes informally in an agreement not to reuse the content elsewhere.

@dojelnotmyrealname4018

5 ай бұрын

I'm guessing once you sell the work, even if you made it, it's no longer yours. I'm not a lawyer tho.@@angusperson4222

@therealronnie5187

4 ай бұрын

This is the same thing I was thinking of when I was watching this video

@nitro5247

4 ай бұрын

What was the joke?

Tom I _promise_ you describing 20k as a life changing amount of money is the opposite of "unrelatable"

@Kei-ye8if

4 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing! It's not an insignificant amount of money, but 20k isn't even half of minimum wage in the EU. For, what I assume is, a permanent license to be used by a long standing entertainment institution in a country as developed as France, 20k is a steal. I don't blame Tom for taking it, I'm sure he felt incredibly guilt (although he shouldn't have), but with proper guidance he could've gotten WAAAY more, especially with the circumstance, cuz they were DESPERATE.

@Blewlongmun

4 ай бұрын

The comparison to Tommy Tallarico are hilarious. I wanted _this much_ and then they just gave me 100x that.

@jozina1

4 ай бұрын

​@@Kei-ye8if20k is double the minimum wage in The Netherlands though.

@Kei-ye8if

4 ай бұрын

@jozina1 uh... for a wage to be half of 20k it'd have to be like 8 per hour. I don't know minimum wages in the Netherlands, but I'm willing to bet my cat's college fund not a single country in the EU has a minimum wage that low

@ninjixu5082

4 ай бұрын

@@Kei-ye8ifdifferent places have different living costs so it costs less in some places do they get paid less

Honestly, the whole story about tracking down the Chinese ad agency was hilarious, congrats to Victor for his dental practice

Tom going crazy over 20k to build his studio is the most relatable thing I have ever seen. There are youtubers out here who wipe their ass with more who think they are relatable when talking about money.

@matthewcampbell3146

4 ай бұрын

It isn't crass. Bleed TV Networks dry if you can. He'll knows they'd do the same to you

In the span of 2 videos Hbomb has somehow deleted an entire Guiness World Record and sparked the largest plagiarism discussion the most recent years has seen

@ridiaraspberry4095

5 ай бұрын

"deleted an entire Guiness World Record " can you please elaborate? havent heard of this

@DyslecticAttack

5 ай бұрын

​​@@ridiaraspberry4095when he informed about information about a Guinness World Record held by Tommy Tallarico (don't know if I spelled that right, but the person the oof.mp3 video was about), he first got a response that Guiness didn't have the requested information because it was done through an "outside expert", and 2 weeks later the record had disappeared from their site and record of records.

@sneal8526

5 ай бұрын

Tommy Tallarico, the person that Hbomb discusses in ROBLOX_OOF.mp3, originally had a Guinness World Record of the "Most Prolific Video Game Composer." This world record had various complications around it, like how he always called the "person who worked on the most video games in their lifetime" and how the number of games apparently connected to this world record kept growing in spite of Tallarico being mostly retired on game work. So Hbomberguy's editor, Kat, asked Guinness themselves how the record was verified, and Guinness basically said "it wasn't. A consultant we approved of verified it for us." meaning that Guinness did not have a full list of video games that Tallarico worked on because it was never given to them directly. Later, Hbomberguy went back to find a screenshot of the record in question, and... it's no longer in the list. It's gone, it's completely vanished from the Guinness World Record website. And when people say he deleted an entire world record, this is what they're refering to- Kat asked Guinness information on the record, Guinness basically said they had no information, and then Guinness seemingly removed it from the website sometime between the email exchanges and Hbomberguy trying to find it again.

@nelejanbbi4616

5 ай бұрын

​@@ridiaraspberry4095 it's in his "oof" video. tommy tallarico had a record that said he was the "most prolific composer of videogames" or something like that with 300+ videogames. hbomb's producer, Kat, asked for a list of games to confirm that they had the evidence, and Guiness just ******* deleted tommy's record!

@TomCantDance

5 ай бұрын

"Two videos" makes it seem like a much shorter amount of time than it has been lol

Tom: I didn’t invent the concept of liking trains. Me: That’s autism Tom: That was autism SAME HAT

@Arkouchie

5 ай бұрын

preemptive plagiarism /s

@zer0ishere

5 ай бұрын

that's actually parallel thinking

@rodrigoportalesoliva897

5 ай бұрын

I can't believe At Arcade Underscore Cat Underscore would blatantly admit to plagiarizing Tommy Tallarico's very creative joke! Shame on them!! /j

@lemonlordminecraft

5 ай бұрын

@@rodrigoportalesoliva897 their mother is very ashamed of them

@DeathnoteBB

5 ай бұрын

@@zer0ishereEh, idk if that is, it’s just an extremely popular meme based on a stereotype

You should make a skit about a dentist who turns out to have a dark past involving some sort of drug crime. That sounds like a fascinating and very original story.

@robertbrennan8187

4 ай бұрын

For thirty seconds I was thinking about how Breaking Bad didn't have a dentist in it. Then things clicked and I laughed. Now I think that is a great inspiration for a book, movie, or skit. I hope I remember this when I see it on Netflix or KZread or wherever.

@thefungiwhisperer2313

4 ай бұрын

I don't know if this is sarcasm or real, and if it is real I need to see it immediately o-o

@Ratscallion_exe

4 ай бұрын

Payday 2 Dentist

@Quackervoltz

2 ай бұрын

What is this referencing

@yoBmeF

2 ай бұрын

​@@Quackervoltz36:20 to 36:38. That's the reference lol

I remember when I was a kid I used to trace bases or "how to draw" books for art. And I remember being ROASTED on every website for "Stealing art". And then I went into art in college and soooo many assignments were "here is a work, here is a light box, you're going to have to trace this" and the cognitive whiplash of "Tracing is the WORST SIN YOU COULD EVER HAVE AS AN ARTIST EVEN IF YOU MAKE 0 MONEY OFF OF DOING SO, EVEN JUST TO PRACTICE/EXPERIMENT" to "Yeah like 80% of what you're going to ever do as an artist in a money making role is tracing, and tracing is literally one of the most important and necessary tools for all artists, so get good at it so it looks original and not like a jittery mess" was ... bigger than I expected.

Tomska actually has a world record for the most KZread videos ever made. His mother is very proud.

@Randomstuffs261

4 ай бұрын

"Tomska actually has a world record for the most KZread videos ever made. His mother is very proud." - *An original comment by Randomstuffs*

@silverXnoise

4 ай бұрын

I got more points in World of Rising Tankcrafts, and now his Mom is proud to gyrate on me.

@Randomstuffs261

4 ай бұрын

@@silverXnoise His mother plagiarised the gyrating motion from me

@MyChannel773

4 ай бұрын

The record in question: Most KZread videos ever made (…by a guy named Tom… on the Tomska channel… on a Wednesday… if you squint). His mother is very proud.

@silverXnoise

4 ай бұрын

@@Randomstuffs261 Thanks, it’s very nice.

New KZread feature; if you plagiarize someone, Hbomber appears in your room and full nelson head locks you until youre unconscious and he deletes your channel

@elucified

4 ай бұрын

Ok but what if that was the goal 😏

@supadumi5489

4 ай бұрын

with warhammer 40k logic, if enough people believe that exact thing, it becomes real.

@scottbuck1572

4 ай бұрын

@@supadumi5489 blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne, plagiarists for the bomber man

@gregoryvn3

4 ай бұрын

I'm okay with this.

@coleflames

2 ай бұрын

Don't threaten me with a good time.

I think the most fascinating part about this piece is finding out what happens when you ask about things like inspiration in good faith, rather than outright accusing people.

Imagine selling your car and licencing a KZread property for 20000€ when the guy you are licencing from just wanted some Lego

I want a full studio version of "Big truck, love Christ; second truck, hate wife"

@martian8987

4 ай бұрын

Yessss!!!!!!!

@martian8987

4 ай бұрын

!!!!!!!!!!!

@Culpride

4 ай бұрын

Have you heard "What bro country sounds like to people who don't like bro country" from the channel "There I Ruined It"? Currently there are only the reuploads, because of copyright strikes by Universal Music Group.

@Surepeacooler

4 ай бұрын

Two Trucks - TomSka

@bobbodaskank

4 ай бұрын

​@@Surepeacooler Two trucks one wife

"I didn't invent the concept of liking trains... That was autism" holy shit I am legit rolling on the floor laughing after this one

@lightyagami4541

5 ай бұрын

Absolute banger ngl

@sylverscribs0490

4 ай бұрын

as an autistic person i approve. i’ve seen trains, elevators (a kid built a functioning miniature elevator for my middle school science fair! it was awesome!), one kid who was into quantum theory (his name was caleb he was really cool), taylor swift, dogs, and in my case, politics

Still so crazy to me that TomSka was the first Englishman to work on Sonic

3:11 You know this experience is a lot weirder when you are an American born child who gets Scottish comic annuals for Christmas, and you talk to your friends about this character and are about 30mins in realizing you are talking about 2 different things because the default is swapped... From your own experience...

@morbidsearch

4 ай бұрын

When I was a kid I thought 9/11 happened in Malaysia because I mixed it up with the twin towers in Kuala Lumpur.

Holy crap, I was a freelance Chinese-English translator on Fiverr while I was getting my Masters degree in Xi'an, and I edited the English subtitles for Rise of Kingdoms ads! I'm so glad other people have joined me in this surrealist hellscape. I wish they had hired me to edit the scripts BEFORE shooting, but... alas....

@lottievixen

4 ай бұрын

Xi'an, sweet

Can’t believe TomSka invented James Somerton and Tommy Tallarico for us to use as short hand for “person who plagiarizes” and “person who takes credit for the work of others and lies about their own accomplishments to seem cooler and more successful” respectively! I’d love to see an HBomberguy do a video about your amazing contributions to internet culture and content!

@moonlightact1792

5 ай бұрын

His mother is very proud

@LinguaPhiliax

5 ай бұрын

And then a certain Wolf with a s-s-sniper reacts to that video, meaning nobody watches the original.

@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit

5 ай бұрын

@@thesnesman5235 I tried to reply to you with a fake IP adress I made by mindlessly typing, but youtube seems to have filtered that out. Just imagine there's an IP adress here.

@redRuxx

5 ай бұрын

Can’t believe TomSka invented James Somerton and Tommy Tallarico for us to use as short hand for “person who plagiarizes” and “person who takes credit for the work of others and lies about their own accomplishments to seem cooler and more successful” respectively! I’d love to see an HBomberguy do a video about your amazing contributions to internet culture and content! Can’t believe I managed to make an original reply too!

@moviepenguin

5 ай бұрын

thank you for explaining the joke, i couldnt find the reference anywhere!

35:39 "Nice Argument Senador but why don't You Backup with a Source?" "My Source is that I saw this in a Porn"

I remember as a kid, I think I was 11 or 12, writing a short story about werewolves where I "came up" with the idea of calling the werewolves "lycans." I was actually super proud at the time for coming up with that, as if shortening the word "lycanthrope" was some stroke of genius. While trying to come up with ideas to take the story, though, I discovered that a movie I hadn't seen before, Underworld, was already using the word "lycan" to refer to their werewolves. I remember being legitimately angry finding that out. Like, *I* came up with that, it's not fair that someone else came up with the same idea completely independently. I think that was probably my first conscious experience with parallel thinking, and apparently the concept was too much for my dumb kid brain to handle. Funnily enough, the actual story I wrote was probably just a straight rip off of the Cirque du Freak series with a bit of Darren Shan's other books sprinkled in as well. Definitely something I look back on and laugh about.

@HouseDagothCultist

3 ай бұрын

Lycanthropy both as word and a concept (tho it can be argued that most civilizations have some sort of man-wolf mythos) comes from King Lycaon' name, who was cursed by Zeus into a werewolf, neither of you came up with it, sorry

@Lucaan0102

3 ай бұрын

@@HouseDagothCultist I literally never said I came up with the word "Lycanthropy", but okay.

my worst act of plagarism was when i forgot to do an assignment in high school, so my friend lent me theirs and said "just reword mine it's cool" and then i did and i got a higher grade than them and to this day i feel so dirty for doing it

@BeardedWoodland

5 ай бұрын

I plagiarised my business studies teacher once, he called my work "the badger". That was 11 years ago, still not sure what he meant.

@dedusmuln

5 ай бұрын

@@BeardedWoodlandi'm gonna think about this comment for the rest of my life

@macskasbogre133

5 ай бұрын

I did the reverse by doing an assignment for both me and my friend in one of our IT classes, and letting him pass it off as his own. (In return for him doing the same for me for a different assignment.) My assignment was a typing game. His was a flappy bird clone. His assignment got a higher score than mine.

@methanesulfonic

4 ай бұрын

​@@macskasbogre133I know this feel, it sucks even more especially when your assignment that they made for you (returning the favor) scored lower than theirs.

@deethwarrior

4 ай бұрын

I made this thing one time it got lots of hate because people thought it was plaigerized so I took it down before I realized that I had made the "plaigerized" thing aswell and I remade the "plaigerized" one and people think I plaigiarizid the second thing and it's was very wierd situation (pls dont find it(and if you know it dont speak its name))

At this point Hbomb has a) spawned an entire new trend/subgenre of drama-entertainment b) potentially played no small part in saving creative industries from predatory behaviour by making plagiarism "THE conversation"

@redwiltshire1816

5 ай бұрын

One problem when a serious issue becomes drama tho is people stop caring it goes from a simple discussion to “this person is bad cancel him” it becomes so washed that people forget what the original point was to begin with. Prime example react drama it’s happened 3 times and by the end it became semantics and people stopped caring

@herowither12354

5 ай бұрын

c) hated on Fallout 3 and praised Fallout New Vegas for the exact same things

@TheVeeBeaT

5 ай бұрын

@@herowither12354 Not sure if you're baiting or mad but either way you're incorrect so 🤷‍♀️

@alex.g7317

5 ай бұрын

@@TheVeeBeaT & @herowither5031 it’s just a game kids, your both entitled to your own opinions

@peterobinson3678

5 ай бұрын

I'm not sure Harry WANTS that kind of responsibility...

TomSka having to live with making THAT joke in his introduction to THAT particular sketch infront of THOSE people... the bravery in this man to keep waking up every morning. He deserves 100 X more than what he got from Canal+, I say.

The part where the dude on the phone offers you ridiculous money had me laughing harder than I have in a long time. That must have been such a surreal moment. I'm so glad you got that kind of opportunity!

my favorite accidental plagiarism was when, just a few years ago, i came up with a story about a bunch of weird guys with superpowers who entered people's brains to defeat their traumas and resolve their problems a few months later i discovered psychonauts was a thing

@corruleumblue3317

4 ай бұрын

Tbh that sounds more like parallel thinking than plagiarism. After all, you'd never heard of the prominent work that also used the concept at the time, you came up with it independently.

@pan.gremlin

4 ай бұрын

Also the persona series, at the very least 4 and 5 (I haven’t played 1-3 so idk if those apply as well)

@yaluckyboy

4 ай бұрын

was gonna say the exact same thing so I'll say it was Parallel Thinking@@pan.gremlin

@beloveduser

4 ай бұрын

at this point, there is no way for any human to come up with any story idea that doesn't have something in common with another story that was told before. it's kinda how people keep reinventing homestuck, but homestuck itself was reinventing a polish folk tale and a bunch of other things.

@Echo-tl7wh

4 ай бұрын

@@beloveduser sorry, what do you mean homestuck was reinventing a polish folk tale is there a polish folk tale where kids team up with bisexual aliens and their alternate reality gay parents to fight a chess dog and a sexist green skeleton who uses deviantart

"The Somerton appropriation scale." Take that phrase and add a bracketed number after it and you could probably get away with putting it in a academic paper.

@raeplaysval

4 ай бұрын

and then in the sources put _me, just now_

@matejlieskovsky9625

4 ай бұрын

I wonder if I can rate the papers I review like this. Or the homework solutions.

Jokes aside, I think your Somerton Scale is actually a very useful way to think about this whole issue and assess works of creativity. Appreciate your honesty in exploring this.

I did not realize you're the ASDF guy! Thank you so much for many hours of amusement.

I love this new edition to the "man has an existential crisis while making a video about plagiarism" genre

@THEJPIndustry

4 ай бұрын

Indeed this should be a whole genre now

@charliemcmillan4561

4 ай бұрын

“The… End! Thanks for watching my brief 4 hour video on plagiarism”

@Delta-ei7im

4 ай бұрын

So at the very least James wrote this right? RIGHT????? NO!!!!!!!!!!

@absolutelyspiffing1828

4 ай бұрын

​@@Delta-ei7imThe same energy as "Sell their houses to who Ben, FUCKING AQUAMAN!!"

As a massive Jonathan Coulton fan, I have to thank you for getting the word out about that Glee BLATANT plagiarism scandal. It went almost unnoticed at the time, and I hear people talking about how much they love the Glee version all the time, totally unaware it's a copy of Jonathan's. Sadly he never got his day in court, even though it's blatant cloning (i.e. the literal usage of his name!) But, my hope is that with this video, more people will be able to find out JoCo wrote that amazing interpretation, and if they like it, they should support him. If you love his stuff, go buy a T-shirt or CD or something, he's a really cool guy!

@jeremylugodas

5 ай бұрын

as a fellow joco fan, the glee version is ass

@Zulf85

5 ай бұрын

I heard about it off the social media of his buddy Brad Sucks when it happened, and am still mad about it. I already hated Glee with a passion as is back then lmao

@magicrainbowkitties1023

5 ай бұрын

For those reading that are unaware: Jonathan Coulton literally wrote the end songs for the Portal games. Most of you already love his work, you just don't know it. (Also my dad fuckin loves him. Code Monkey is a staple of family road trips)

@ZipplyZane

5 ай бұрын

This whole time, I had always assumed Glee was covering Coulton's song, and had legitimately gotten the rights to do so. (I didn't know who Coulton was, but I'd run into his video on KZread.) I'm honestly surprised they didn't try to pay him off as soon as he called them. Did he not pursue it legally at all?

@genericmoron3008

5 ай бұрын

"I'm your moon" is legit one of the most underated songs out there. if I ever get the chance, i'm including it in something i make the second it's appropriate. with royalties, licensing, and proper credit, mind. i'm not glee >:/

I had a really unfortunate case of parallel thinking during my bachelor thesis. It was literally the last day before the deadline that i discovered my topic had been talked about by someone else previously, with the same conclusion and i had to awkwardly work that in somehow because it was obviously too late to change anything major.

18:54 I love how basically every KZreadr that was around since 2010- absolutely adores Bo, because of the KZread live performance and because of how far he’s gone after starting really young on, what was at the time, a really small website

@clemclemclemclemcl

2 ай бұрын

he makes every youtuber that was around since 2010 say “oh bo”

A goncharov joke within the first three minutes is the best. Gotta be my favourite movie of all time.

@substandardnerd

5 ай бұрын

Yes, it is definitely one of the films of all time

@wemz2782

5 ай бұрын

so happy to see it getting the recognition it deserves!

I never noticed how many times BDG, Tom Scott, Tomska and HBomberGuy collabed before. Love all 4!

@whateveridontcare8484

5 ай бұрын

thanks dude

@kuobah

5 ай бұрын

UK youtubers seem fairly close. Also list includes Ashens and Jay Foreman

@ibagiousvii4458

5 ай бұрын

Should watch Tomska and Tom Scott battle over who the better Tom is. That video is great, especially the ending.

@amesstarline5482

4 ай бұрын

It's funny how it's all connected.

@N1ckelD1me

4 ай бұрын

brian and da brits

I don't use twitter, but your old skit about self-aware characters in a student film inspired a short play I wrote about self-aware characters in a student play! It's been performed at a few local festivals and I always get compliments on the concept and fast-paced humor.

James (not Somerton) made me laugh. Dude seems nice with a decent sense of humour. Suddenly being dumped in the middle of a porno like that must've been crazy.

The interview with James is actually SUPER interesting, it’s really cool you were able to contact him!

@snage-thesnakemage

5 ай бұрын

Fr like why arent more peple talking about this!!

@avokka

5 ай бұрын

A drug related exiled american being a successful dentist and an actor in chinese mobile game ads wasnt what i expected

@Cerise4697

5 ай бұрын

The way I thought this was about the James whose surname is in the title 🤣 I really went "hold up, he got in contact with JAMES?!"

@Dracinard

5 ай бұрын

Beautifully done. You truly did have me in the first half, ngl.

@datdude888

5 ай бұрын

@@Cerise4697 I totally didn’t even think of that LMAO

A good example of the subconscious appropriation is in "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" the writers wrote a line they realized not long after was from "Story of a Girl" by Nine Days and in place of replacing it or calling out the allusion chose to just make it a running gag to the point basically every universe visited has a different version of that exact song playing somewhere

@plushdragonteddy

5 ай бұрын

omg that’s hilarious, i love that idea for handling it

@trustindean5164

5 ай бұрын

@@plushdragonteddy its like top 3 ways of handling something like that

@bambii-_

4 ай бұрын

what was the line?

@trustindean5164

4 ай бұрын

@@bambii-_ "your clothes never wear as well the next day and your hair never falls in quite the same way" it was while the alternate daughter was telling the mom about the alternate universes and why things suck.

I'm a young person at the start of my scientific career and I'm relatively new to writing papers. Hbomberguy's video filled me with dread because I know I source my inspiration in others work when I write the introduction part. But this video makes me feel a little better because it's very insightful about the creative process. Thank you

guys i hope you liked this video i worked really hard on it

@Maniac_l23

2 ай бұрын

Wow! Nice work on this video!

I'm so glad you mentioned Martin Scorsese's underrated masterpiece Goncharov, nobody ever talks about it these days

@alexlongfur2515

5 ай бұрын

My favorite character from Goncharov is Ice Pick Joe

@Dinnyeify

5 ай бұрын

Definitely a cult classic

@harimenui-forever2036

5 ай бұрын

@@alexlongfur2515 SAME, i love lil fucked up guys

@Starach

5 ай бұрын

YES! Goncharov got absolute screwed by the execs with the marketing budget, but it’s such a great film.

@Echo-tl7wh

4 ай бұрын

confused martin scorsese with martin shkreli and was very confused. didn't realize price-gouging AIDS medicine qualified as a masterpiece, but ok.

Tom and Eddie dubbing each other for the ad is way funnier than it should be

@Kfoglarsson

5 ай бұрын

I have not watched the video yet and this comment made me giggle in excitement for a freaking ad. Tom has done did the impossible.

@PuffyPinkSpirit

5 ай бұрын

I knew that there was something off with their voices!

16:01 NOT THE KEN PENDERS JUMPSCARE

Aftwr years and years of stopping myself on every creative pursuit because i didnt wanna be stealing other peoples work....the breaking down of the different ways that stuff can wind up happening was seriously incredibly helpful. A few years back i finally had a moment to stop and think about the "we stand on the shoulders of giants" and actually understand what it means, and this more thorough breakdown of things helped me to find the words and facets that have been rather vague and nebulous concepts since taking that time, so thank you. Best of luck to everyone out there, creating your own works and sharing your love of the things you have loved in your life in your own unique flavour and form!

Unironically that interview with James about the mobile game adds is actually really cool And i guess congrats to victor on his redemption arc i hope his dental practice good

@Yixdy

4 ай бұрын

In East Asia knowing "American style dentistry" is like *the way to go,* as it were. Granted who knows where he learned, I wish I could have been booted out of America for good when I got my felony drug charge lol

@Blewlongmun

4 ай бұрын

@@Yixdy I don't think he got booted, pretty sure he said he ran and now obviously cannot go back.

tom almost asking for just 300 bucks is so funny to me... how did he still not know what he was worth. how much money THEY made off of that sketch,, bless him

@bogboybogboybogboyb

5 ай бұрын

It's certainly a conversation to be had with digital media creators! If you've only ever worked on commission, your instinct will be to just add up the cost of your time, materials and labor to arrive at the total you should be paid for that work. But if your work is going to create revenue for the buyer (or already has,) that math all goes straight out the window and you have to calculate based on an entirely different scale.

@jankbunky4279

5 ай бұрын

300 insane! It's thinking in the scope of people money, instead of corporation money. For a random person, 300 euro is a pretty penny. To a corporation that's absolutely nothing.

@thezachman1

5 ай бұрын

Even 20,000, idk. I feel like if he surmised that €300 and multiplied it by 4 (it was meant to run four times a week), assuming it ran for 40 weeks...That's...that's where i would've started

@sev1120

5 ай бұрын

​@@thezachman120k is closer to 70 weeks than 40 (so more than a year) if multiply 300

@octochan

4 ай бұрын

If they were offering 20k right off the bat, then he probably could have asked for 30k. You know that's their lowball number

36:37 lettsss goo victor

35:00 Boss Angry on Airplane was a good performance, James Oliver seems cool.

@jan_Majeken

4 ай бұрын

Boss Angry on Airplane, Throws Briefcase Hard*

@ExpandDong420

4 ай бұрын

​@@jan_Majeken: Throws briefcase hard*

To be fair, the Dennis The Menace one is easily explained by the fact that "Dennis The Menace From Venice" was in the top hits at the time.

@loke6664

5 ай бұрын

So they are both based on plagiarism? Lol, that makes almost too much sense. :D

@cryforhelp7270

5 ай бұрын

The American version was actually named after something the Creator's wife said after their son was... Being a menace. Also, yes, his son was named Dennis. (Also, from what I've read, he isn't the best dad.) "Your son is a menace!"

Oh god I was worried when you mentioned Jonathan Coulton. I'm glad he didn't plagiarize anything, but damn the balls of the Glee producers to say they didn't steal his composition when his fucking name is in the song is wild

@Arkouchie

5 ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure he'd have a solid court case, if he cared enough.

@Wewin42

5 ай бұрын

@@Arkouchie I think because of the licensing agreement Coulton signed, he doesn't really have a case.

the fact that “Praise for Tommy Tallarico is a category”

Wild video. This took some TURNS. Thanks Tom, a treat seeing your continued existence, humour and apparent happiness. Mad thinking I must have been 9 or 10 when I first heard your dulcet tones, I turn 25 in a month. Much love to you and your kin

"Good artists copy, great artists steal." - Tommy 'TomTa' Talarico. His mother is very proud.

Tom never feel guilty for your work being paid for by corporations because they would have paid you 300 quid if they didnt offer you 20k. Most companies would offer exposure, get that bag and run to the bank.

@odkres

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, I was horrified when he said "300 euros". It's a big production by a big company in a big country with a big audience, they have to pay accordingly. Also aside from your own worth, there's always the risk that if you let them get off the hook practically for free, they'll be encouraged to "take inspiration" from other small creators and lowballing them and their own writers because "hey, we don't NEED to pay that much." Glad they made the first offer!

@SirPhysics

5 ай бұрын

When dealing with big companies like that, it's important that you ask for what it's worth to them, not what it's worth to you.

@LHZOZ777

5 ай бұрын

Reall‼️‼️🗣️

@Nanoqtran

5 ай бұрын

It's funny because they probably super excited that he took the lowest offer they offered. They most likely lowballed him at 20k.

@nitsanraviddaos4797

5 ай бұрын

​@@Nanoqtran Exactly! If something like that happens between an artist and a big company you haggle like an old jewish grandma at the Shuk! Milk that cow because god knows you can use the cash.

I found your work quite a few years ago after taking film classes and having high aspirations. I had wished I had a team like yours to collaborate and create the kinds of things you did. As a result, I really didn't make all that much; none that saw the light of day on the internet. I haven't given up, I'm just making other types of content. Thank you for all the crazy stuff you've made over the years!

Yo, it's obvious that Hatsune Miku wrote the Harry Potter franchise

As someone who has been saying for years that the potatoe in "Die Potatoe!" should have been a tomatoe, because potatoes aren't that squishy, I feel incredibly validated. (My mother is very proud)

@ultratheman

5 ай бұрын

spadeson spadeson valid valid invalid invalid password valid you're so valid valid invalid password and username please re-enter your password because potatoes aren't that squishy, I feel incredibly validated. because potatoes aren't that squishy, I feel incredibly validated. because potatoes aren't that squishy, I feel incredibly validated. because potatoes aren't that squishy, I feel incredibly validated. (My mother is very proud) (My mother is very proud) valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid valid

the goncharov reference slapped me in the face and then the picture of the rat kissed me on the mouth. thank you tom

@carydorse705

4 ай бұрын

I like your shoelaces

@mousesteam7882

4 ай бұрын

@@carydorse705 No. Those words are not to be spoken here. Tumblr does not belong in the comment section.

@cosmiconni-chan2982

4 ай бұрын

​@@mousesteam7882no, Tumblr belongs to every hidden corners, every nearly derelict spaces. You don't get to say where Hellsite™ can be found, nerd.

@Melonist

4 ай бұрын

@@carydorse705 thanks, i got them from the president

@gracel2mart

4 ай бұрын

@@mousesteam7882This Code was originally made for IRL tumblr-to-tumblr communication, you cannot keep us out

His RoK parody was so good, that I forgot it was for SurfSharkVPN

I came to watch this video after your vlog and i wasnt prepared for how amazing this video is and truly how intriguing the ad stuff was blew my mind

A benefit of this whole plagiarism drama is that people are becoming more aware about how hard it is to be creative, and why creative skills are worth paying for. Cause not everyone has them.

@rembrandx

5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, those people are now offloading the work onto A.I. & the culpability onto the companies who develop said A.I.

@AbigatorM

5 ай бұрын

@@rembrandx i think people are WAY to afraid of AI for art in any form. Cause it is noticeable if it was made by AI. IT baicly just maeks GOOD creative work more valuable.

@PrincessFelicie

5 ай бұрын

Not everyone _has_ them but very few people can't _get_ them. Just like any other skill, it's not inate, it has to be developed, trained up and maintained. And if you allow me to be topical and date my comment, typing "anime girl big big big bazonkas massive glossy lips in style of ArtistWhoIsGood" in a prompter is no replacement for learning the craft.

@ichijofestival2576

5 ай бұрын

@@AbigatorM I'm reminded of a quote from someone, probably me, right now: if you're not afraid, you haven't been paying attention. The data was stolen ("collected") long before most artists knew to raise a fuss, and now it's so pervasive it's literally being integrated into MS Paint. Any wrinkles you may have been able to spot are being ironed out daily and the only way you'd know the difference is if the person/entity in question felt some ethical obligation to admit it. Let me put it this way: corporations, particularly the shameless "non-creative" ones, aren't going to look at a slow, expensive human artist, and a fast, cheap AI service and say, "Yeah, let's go with the one that costs more and might produce something we don't like." Not if they don't have to.

@rembrandx

5 ай бұрын

@@AbigatorM I wish that were so, but the capabilities of recent Midjourney and the likes has improved massively in a short time. For commercial companies, 'good enough with little effort' is better than 'fantastic and paying people for it'. We're already seeing AI being brought into commercial projects (eg. advertising, movie intro's, …). In my industry, it's actively used in (sales) presentations and looking at my LinkedIn stream, a lot of people are aching to implement it in the concepts & design phases. They don't care about great creative art, mediocre or slightly good is fine for them.

The pacing of the "Jesus Christ!" "Yes?" **SCREAM** bit was extremely fluid and had me on the floor, good job Kai.

@GustavoIto

4 ай бұрын

that was gold

Haven’t watched your videos in years but I really enjoyed this one, thank you for making it and all your honesty

Thank you for making this. It feels like necessary viewing for creatives of all kinds, as well as anyone who cared about "ethically sourced" (for lack of better terminology) media.

The problem of hearing a melody and forgetting whether you heard it before happens to me so often while songwriting that I end up doing the opposite and convincing myself that a song I wrote is not original the second time I come back to play it, because it sounds familiar (from when I wrote it) and my brain refuses to accept that I hadn’t heard it before writing it.

@gracegrrl007

4 ай бұрын

no because this is so real 😭😭 I caught myself actually accidentally copying a song ONCE and now every time I hear anything I write I'm like "this sounds familiar........from myself"

@Technizor

4 ай бұрын

Music copyright and crediting in general is so fucked. There's a decent video on this from Adam Neely about how "music citation" would be a lot more healthy than how IP is currently enforced (shitty lawsuits and decisions and all)

@skunkjo3195

4 ай бұрын

God same, every song I write I'm convinced already exists. I play it to my friends and say 'WHAT SONG IS THIS!' and hound them, but only once did someone come back and say 'no this one sounds like this Taylor swift song'. Funnily enough I'd never heard the song, but I binned it anyway

@pikgears

4 ай бұрын

​@@skunkjo3195 That might be for the best since you can still get in trouble for "copying" songs you've never heard

@Nightraven26

4 ай бұрын

I think there are music recognition apps that find songs by humming the melody so you can check if it's original there

Tommy Tallarico had a major role in the creation of this video and it really tells. This amount of dedication shows why he was chosen to be the first American to work on sonic.

@yaluckyboy

4 ай бұрын

his mother must be very proud

@giggabiite4417

4 ай бұрын

who?

@thecrab3033

4 ай бұрын

@@giggabiite4417tommytalarico, he made you

@JackSiesko-li5ow

4 ай бұрын

​@giggabiite4417 he's the first American to kiss sonic on his cheek! He personally held hands with Miyamoto while making Metroid Prime! He made the entirety of Roblox! And he has 100 world records!

@jedimasterpickle3

3 ай бұрын

@@giggabiite4417 Subject of an earlier HBomberguy video about the origin of the "oof" sound from Roblox. Long story short, he's made a lot of false and misleading claims about his contributions to games, including taking credit for his subordinates' work. Being the first American to work on Sonic was one of those claims.

Wow, this is fantastic m8! The amount of work you put to this, on top of your humility makes me adore you more than I already did... Thank you Tom and Friends! I will certainly rewatch it.

Beautifully put. Thanks for going to so much effort to make this.

lost my mind at the "that was autism" joke. being autistic, im not that used to autism jokes being so tasteful, funny, and well executed

@winteriris13

4 ай бұрын

agree lmao, love it when a joke about autism can actually be funny without calling anyone down

@AngelofGrace96

4 ай бұрын

Yeah that genuinely made me giggle, well done tom

Oh GOD that britanic anecdote was PAINFUL like I felt that SO HARD in my SOUL you poor chap

@shpup

5 ай бұрын

I almost let out an audible yelp when you played the clip of you acknowledging them on stage oh god oh no

@obbinss

5 ай бұрын

i literally had to skip forward i was feeling myself cringe out of my skin 😭 how would you even recover from that

@CurlyJones

5 ай бұрын

​@@obbinss Oh good I wasn't the only one. I get second hand embarrassment really easily and badly and my skeleton wanted to jump out of my skin at that part

@obbinss

5 ай бұрын

@@CurlyJones god i feel you completely as that's exactly how i felt. i physically recoiled at him just describing the situation i think my skeleton would've just broken free from my skin like a butterfly exciting a cocoon if i had actually watched the clip from the event. i just couldn't do it.

When I was a tween I offered to write short fanfics to anyone who requested it. I soon realized I didn’t have any creative bones in my body and copy and pasted a LOT of other people’s stuff. As soon as someone called me out on it I pulled a Somerton and just deleted everything but I still feel bad

When I got to the part where you talked about showing your sketch Confession to BriTANicK at 29:45, I had to stop the video so I could process how that must have felt. I’d have crawled into a hole and never left it, so I’m glad you recovered enough to tell us this tale ❤

This seems like the perfect chance to finally confess this sin: When I was in 3rd grade, we had to do creative writing. And my teacher was very impressed with how many pages I was able to produce. But what she didn't know, is that I was just writing, word for word, the script of the Magic School Bus episode "Gets Lost in Space" (The one where Arnold takes off his helmet on Pluto and basically dies). I don't think I ever got passed Mars before that assignment ended, but I still spent several days in class writing the script, from memory, and passing it off as my own work. Sure I was 8 or 9 years old, I probably wasn't trying to steal, and my dumb little self probably just thought "tell a story" and didn't know the meaning of the word "original. But 25 years later, I still remember it. Straight up Cloning on the Somerton Scale.

@misteryA555

5 ай бұрын

That episode traumatized me as a child

@ccyamato

5 ай бұрын

@@misteryA555 I like Space

@ZipplyZane

5 ай бұрын

I mean, I'd be impressed you had it memorized.

@genericmoron3008

5 ай бұрын

Forwarding this to Hbomb, your days are numbered m8

@Sarah12471

5 ай бұрын

In this case, that teacher should have been able to tell, isn't the space episode one of the most well known episodes of the magic school bus And magic school bus is also i think the second most played in schools show

Thanks tommy "tomska" tallerico for this very informative video! Your mother must be very proud

Good sir this video was very informative. Thank you for taking the time to educate with just enough humour and self awareness to keep it light.

After viewing the last "Last Month" video where you explained how you broke your axe making this video... it got me curious even though I wasn't that interrested in plagiarism. You got me hook line and sinker. This was really comprehensive and I loved every minutes of it.

I'm an author and I found out that there's a country with lax copyright laws where a publisher just straight up stole all my books and sell them without permission. They have a website with my face on and everything! I get messages from kids saying how my books are bestsellers there and I'm just like 😅😃😭

@AbandonedVoid

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I just looked into it and your story genuinely checks out. At least you're being credited, I guess?

@susumeyun

4 ай бұрын

​@@AbandonedVoid She's being credited, but... she's not being paid. She's not seeing any of the revenue she rightfully should receive. Getting credit isn't enough in a case like publishing works.

@hugmonger

4 ай бұрын

Yo that's gotta be super complicated cuz at the same time I'd be flattered and pissed

@infinitecurlie

4 ай бұрын

That's wild 😭 (Also...I checked out your books and I'm adding them to my TBR! I'm super excited to read them soon!)

@cheeseboogar

4 ай бұрын

I would say fuck publishing art and keep everything to myself 🫠

Scariest moment of uni for me was having one of my essays combed through for plagiarism after a really unfortunate case of parallel thinking. We had to do a close reading of a poem for a first-year lit class, standard 101 stuff. Apparently half my class just googled the poem, and reworded the observations from one of those cheatsheet/cliff notes type sites. Independently of these people, I had read the glossary of poetry terms in our class textbook, and noted that one of the concepts in there (not covered in class) applied to the poem we were analyzing, and I cited the textbook and talked about the implications. This was apparently the exact same observation made by everyone else, thanks to the "first result of a google search" style of analysis. That one citation proving my train of thought literally saved my life, since combined with it being a simple poem with not a lot of room for radical interpretations, it gave me enough deniability to not be worth a formal investigation. The only thing I was guilty of was being boring with my analysis but it still scared me into being very meticulous about citations and not plagiarizing. Can't imagine how the James Somertons of the world risk putting themselves through that kind of scrutiny on purpose

@dolphinloser6546

5 ай бұрын

I remember when a couple friends of mine at uni had a similar experience. It was a different subject (a report on the current and potential applications of a particular concept in physics), but they just so happened to 1) both come up with the same potential future application that noone else had, 2) word it in almost exactly the same way, and 3) randomly go to different friends within our group for proofreading. If they had asked the same friend (or each other) to proofread, as they often did, it would have been noticed. If they'd worded things more differently, it wouldn't have been an issue. If they weren't both excellent at Physics and therefore able to come up with more obscure/creative ideas, it wouldn't have happened in the first place. In this case, the university (thankfully) realised that it really was just a coincidence/parallel thinking, and that there weren't actually a huge number of ways to properly word the application's definition in the first place, but it was a scary time for all of us. Mostly them, of course, but our whole friends group was shaken by it. Obviously it therefore quickly became a running joke, but man. Can't imagine doing that on purpose and not immediately shitting myself with fear of being caught.

@readyforlol

4 ай бұрын

Probably because they never went through that experience and just expect to get away with it.

@Sqwivig

4 ай бұрын

I love your Vash the Stampede profile pic! Trigun is spectacular ❤

@michellestoaevertsson3830

4 ай бұрын

Wow, it’s wild that they just killed the students who didn’t cite their sources!

@starliightrays8560

4 ай бұрын

Biggest fear right there tbh, glad that it was resolved in a good way for you!

That interview with James was great. I really need to see more.

I discovered you when I happened upon your tweet about Le Grand Journal all these years ago and I had no idea it had gone that far... Still there

Holy shit I'm glad you included the story about Meanwhile, that's so fucking cool and honestly a massive win. Very based

@altejoh

5 ай бұрын

It's even more astounding that this is probably the lowest they thought he would accept. Tom could have probably negotiated up to at least double. Life changing indeed.

Is it me or did Hbombs latest video create this sort of collective plagiarism anxiety attack among creatives? Regardless, it's good to see so many, guilty or not, reflect on the issue like this.

@FabbrizioPlays

5 ай бұрын

Thing is we've known for a long time that plagiarism is rampant, given KZread is a space that elevates people with little to no accountability relative to other media. Hbomb's video just opened up the floodgates and made a lot of people aware of what it can sometimes look like when people plagiarize on this platform.

@alexn5743

5 ай бұрын

I would say this is the first I've seen a creator evaluate and point out their own plagiarism rather than harp on someone else. Honestly, I clicked because TomSka, but stayed for just how interesting this analysis turned out to be. I'm glad Hbomb got a cameo too!

@maromania7

5 ай бұрын

Among creators it was another wave of self doubt/realization, because we usually feel like a hack on some level. While for the general public, showing that prominent people, yes even the big ones you may like, was a revelation. It's just not something most people were thinking about, or was a "yeah those people are dicks, but MY person who I like would never!" I sometimes find doing my research on people to be fun and fascinating, but that's not the case for most people.

@DelDel__

5 ай бұрын

I've recently watched two videos of a KZreadr, the first video was uploaded before his video. No sources in the description. The second one was uploaded after. Sources all neatly cited. As someone who wants to study history, I never fucking understood how anyone does not want to cite their sources.

@waningbloom

5 ай бұрын

Me, personally, I intended to make a shit ton of KZread videos since 2017, but I was too too focused on copyright and plagiarism. Now I’m just stuck on everything on that but also privacy, perfectionism, and a healthy routine

The Glee one was like if you tried to trace somebody's art but you traced the watermark into it.

Fun fact: this video almost killed me. I was watching it alone while eating dinner and the joke about trains and autism caused me to choke on my food. I spit it back up, but if that had gone just a little differently that was it for me. Great video though.

@illpunchyouintheface9094

10 күн бұрын

Darn that’s a shame. I’ve been wanting your Xbox for a long time, guess I’ll just have to wait until Oct 6 2025

French Meanwhile's director trying to reach out to you through facebook is such an obvious tell as to what French TV people thought of internet creators (and other mediums) at the time

@DeathnoteBB

5 ай бұрын

Seriously when I heard Facebook Messenger I went full Southern Grandma: “Oh hun…”

Ok the fact I’ve been a fan of you and Harris for years and I never noticed Harry Potter in Wizo the wizard was hbomberguy is extremely depressing

@zionj104

5 ай бұрын

omg

@z_zenith

4 ай бұрын

Omg he literally showed HBG and I didn't even notice until your comment. Either I'm an idiot who wasn't paying attention to Tomska or I'm an idiot for missing HBG.

@0NeeN0

4 ай бұрын

Same Jonathan, same. As TomSka fan from childhood (now I don't watch much but still love his old sketches/animations). And currently huge fan of Harry's "Harris' " (Hbomberguy) since I stopped taking red/black pills and went to left pill (I recommend it highly, it's the best pill!) since 2016/7 (I was 15/16 lol. 90% of people who believe and wants other to believe too in red/black pill are just virgin teenagers, please find a girl guys). I'm really disappointed that I watched that like 10 times but i recognized Harry just now, by that part of a sketch. Not only I didn't recognize Harry's voice BUT I DIDN'T IDENTIFY HIM BY LOOK, I THOUGHT IT'S A RANDOM BLOKE ACTOR for four damn years. I'm disappointed in myself

@Tp_hedgelinghog

4 ай бұрын

I hadn't seen the sketch, but when it appeared in the video I immediately noticed, and I know that Tom and Harry are friends offline, because I've seen them reply to each and appear in videos together

@hi-i-am-atan

4 ай бұрын

i like how it slyly makes it a double reference, because if you _do_ recognize him ... well, that makes him _harris_ the potter

I will forever remember the lesson taught by you in a video about originality you uploaded years ago. Right now I only found "How To Succeed On KZread" on your main channel and even if you also said there the core sentence about creativity being all that we've seen mixed well enough, it's missing the pants joke at the end I'm sure was there... Anyway, that was one of the most influential YT video for me during my teenage years, seeing as I pretty much live by that creativity motto now. Even reusing jokes or taking inspiration from ASDF movie gets old at some point, but your words about creativity being a recreation will stay with me forever. (I feel like I've written a comment about this before... probably my imagination) Anyway, this time once again you've created a video worth more than its length, and that says a lot in case of 45 mins long thing on YT. May it last on the internet forever.

34:22 damn I wish I had that guy's voice. Deep and bright at the same time