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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

"people told me I was a part of something called breadtube and also fuck you for it"

-HBritbongGuy

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@[email protected] 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

This is the bad kind of stealing

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, the title is ironic, I gave for granted that everyone saw the video, or at least a sinopsis of it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

sinopsis

I had a chuckle thinking about a synopsis of a 4hr hbomb video delivered by the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All I know about that Somerton guy is that he is very horny for nazis.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

Americans didn't get horny for Soviet men

I have photographic evidence to the contrary

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Also reinforced the "asian men aren't masculine" trope.

This is how you know someone hasn't watched Olympic weightlifting in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

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!"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He is also pretty misogynistic

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, the four hours video has like 20 min section about it

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He is erasing queer history and substituting in reactionary daydreams as factual history, its destructive and fucked up, you should care

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I suggest you to watch the video

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

MBAs are evil

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