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  • čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
  • An exploration of plagiarism and all the times I've stolen or been stolen from. Visit surfshark.deals/tomskafriends to join my Surfshark alliance! Enter promo code TOMSKAFRIENDS to get up to 6 additional months for free.
    Join our Patreon to get early access and extra content / tomskaandfriends
    Research by Eddie Bowley ‪@eddache‬
    Edited by Kai Newton ‪@KaiPie‬
    Special thanks to James Oliver ‪@supertechdeals‬
    and Harris Bomberguy ‪@hbomberguy‬
    Scale animation by Ryan Hammond ‪@Rizatch‬
    Hebrew translation by Nery ( / nery75059746 ) and Shalev Cohen
    Jesus voiced by Harry Gibson ‪@hazmatfilms4662‬
    Merch (sharkrobot.com/asdfmovie)
    Twitter ( / thetomska )
    Tumblr ( / thetomska )
    Reddit ( / tomska )
    P.O. Box!
    Thomas "TomSka" Ridgewell
    Suite 62
    81 Lee High Road
    Lewisham
    SE13 5NS
    United Kingdom
    0:00 Introduction
    2:23 0 - No Correlation
    2:39 1 - Parallel Thinking
    7:54 2 - Subconcious Appropriation
    12:08 3 - Inspiration
    14:37 4 - Influence
    16:51 5 - Reference
    18:43 6 - Allusion
    21:06 7 - Derivative
    27:53 8 - Imitative
    37:00 Surfshark
    38:23 9 - Cloning
    41:04 10 - Freebooting
    41:30 Conclusion

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  • @LievenHumbert
    @LievenHumbert Před 7 měsíci +23442

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

  • @primebandet8937
    @primebandet8937 Před 7 měsíci +6405

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

    • @TomSkaAndFriends
      @TomSkaAndFriends  Před 7 měsíci +2981

      No, my quote!

    • @dimsthedimwit600
      @dimsthedimwit600 Před 7 měsíci +679

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

    • @FrankFrendreiss
      @FrankFrendreiss Před 7 měsíci +304

      @@dimsthedimwit600 I invented words

    • @NaCl1252
      @NaCl1252 Před 7 měsíci +188

      I actually invented words@@dimsthedimwit600

    • @Robboo.
      @Robboo. Před 7 měsíci +82

      I invited everything

  • @Myder_Dragon
    @Myder_Dragon Před 6 měsíci +2629

    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
      @Sarah12471 Před 6 měsíci +343

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

    • @billionai4871
      @billionai4871 Před 5 měsíci +230

      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
      @Myder_Dragon Před 5 měsíci +31

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

    • @scoutagain9749
      @scoutagain9749 Před 5 měsíci +16

      Isn’t this a tumblr post?

    • @Myder_Dragon
      @Myder_Dragon Před 5 měsíci +26

      @@scoutagain9749 no its tf2 lore

  • @dwindlebunny
    @dwindlebunny Před 6 měsíci +966

    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
      @krkngd-wn6xj Před 5 měsíci +71

      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
      @advanceringnewholder Před 2 měsíci

      like bruce schneier?

    • @ob2kenobi388
      @ob2kenobi388 Před 4 dny +1

      Yea or a guy who's really into cryptids, like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster and stuff

    • @MrBrick-vb3xh
      @MrBrick-vb3xh Před 4 dny +1

      @@ob2kenobi388 thats called a nerd

    • @LizordSword
      @LizordSword Před dnem

      to be fair that's how mining cryptocurrency works, its computers having a puzzle solving race for a big shiny prize (pennies) (and its terrible for the environment)

  • @Steampunksappho
    @Steampunksappho Před 7 měsíci +4107

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

    • @Eric_I_Guess
      @Eric_I_Guess Před 7 měsíci +282

      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
      @Imperial_Squid Před 7 měsíci +183

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

    • @MaxEverywhereSystem
      @MaxEverywhereSystem Před 7 měsíci +460

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

    • @redwiltshire1816
      @redwiltshire1816 Před 7 měsíci +27

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

    • @jazzy4830
      @jazzy4830 Před 7 měsíci +43

      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.

  • @300IQPrower
    @300IQPrower Před 6 měsíci +5822

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

    • @Kei-ye8if
      @Kei-ye8if Před 6 měsíci +450

      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
      @Blewlongmun Před 6 měsíci +165

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

    • @Kei-ye8if
      @Kei-ye8if Před 6 měsíci +57

      @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
      @ninjixu5082 Před 6 měsíci +31

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

    • @minaDesuDesu
      @minaDesuDesu Před 6 měsíci +31

      ​@@Kei-ye8ifin Estonia minimum wage is like 4,86€/h bro 😢😂

  • @LadyHuggington
    @LadyHuggington Před 6 měsíci +2056

    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
      @Heidegaff Před 6 měsíci

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

    • @titan4257
      @titan4257 Před 6 měsíci +25

      Did they fail you?

    • @RJ-wx3fh
      @RJ-wx3fh Před 6 měsíci +120

      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
      @rayhatesu Před 6 měsíci +115

      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
      @Sarah12471 Před 4 měsíci +4

      ​@@rayhatesuidk how coding in latin would change that

  • @vicky__p
    @vicky__p Před 6 měsíci +1853

    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
      @123Todayy Před 6 měsíci +81

      Really loved that movie, wish people would highlight it more

    • @IgirlbossedTooCloseToTheSun
      @IgirlbossedTooCloseToTheSun Před 6 měsíci +43

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

    • @fruitymcfruitcake9674
      @fruitymcfruitcake9674 Před 6 měsíci +44

      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
      @endigolikesarson Před 6 měsíci +16

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

    • @icravedeath.1200
      @icravedeath.1200 Před 6 měsíci +9

      ​@@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.

  • @gurzeh8787
    @gurzeh8787 Před 7 měsíci +10645

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

    • @Vicy5Modapk
      @Vicy5Modapk Před 7 měsíci +371

      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
      @gurzeh8787 Před 7 měsíci +117

      @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
      @hooting-ton5215 Před 7 měsíci +112

      @@Vicy5Modapk George Washington was very proud

    • @Vicy5Modapk
      @Vicy5Modapk Před 7 měsíci +46

      @@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
      @maximum_rebo Před 7 měsíci +51

      He worked together with Shigeru Miyamoto to create America

  • @davidshea6272
    @davidshea6272 Před 7 měsíci +7071

    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
      @15oClock Před 7 měsíci +275

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

    • @MrGorillafist
      @MrGorillafist Před 7 měsíci

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

    • @BraxtonMeyer
      @BraxtonMeyer Před 7 měsíci +88

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

    • @nickdotjpg
      @nickdotjpg Před 7 měsíci +217

      @@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
      @jadegreenleaf781 Před 7 měsíci +70

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

  • @michellegodwin6567
    @michellegodwin6567 Před 6 měsíci +277

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

  • @SonicTimewarp
    @SonicTimewarp Před 6 měsíci +731

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

    • @linearcurve
      @linearcurve Před 6 měsíci +37

      this *might* be a jay foreman reference

    • @icravedeath.1200
      @icravedeath.1200 Před 6 měsíci +7

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

    • @ClementinesmWTF
      @ClementinesmWTF Před 6 měsíci +25

      @@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
      @freindlycommentator1710 Před 5 měsíci +7

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

    • @liovox
      @liovox Před 5 měsíci +1

      Jay foreman fan detected

  • @j.b.5422
    @j.b.5422 Před 7 měsíci +3990

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

    • @asackboyplush6508
      @asackboyplush6508 Před 7 měsíci +225

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

    • @Hilliam66
      @Hilliam66 Před 7 měsíci +165

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

    • @Xhepyxopila
      @Xhepyxopila Před 7 měsíci

      autistic people liking trains is a stereotype?

    • @InsightfulUndercurrents
      @InsightfulUndercurrents Před 7 měsíci +36

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

    • @TheSpeep
      @TheSpeep Před 7 měsíci +28

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

  • @XJXyoutube
    @XJXyoutube Před 7 měsíci +4347

    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
      @angusperson4222 Před 7 měsíci +425

      Can you subconsciously appropriate from yourself?

    • @weasel7491
      @weasel7491 Před 7 měsíci +735

      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
      @dojelnotmyrealname4018 Před 7 měsíci

      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
      @therealronnie5187 Před 6 měsíci +10

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

    • @nitro5247
      @nitro5247 Před 6 měsíci +7

      What was the joke?

  • @_darbo
    @_darbo Před 6 měsíci +676

    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
      @moethemoon Před 6 měsíci +75

      Omfg that is so bad 💀

    • @perrytheplatyhoe3501
      @perrytheplatyhoe3501 Před 6 měsíci +98

      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
      @carlosemilio5180 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@perrytheplatyhoe3501 millions must plaigarise

    • @SilverSaiyanAce
      @SilverSaiyanAce Před 5 měsíci +9

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

    • @lindboknifeandtool
      @lindboknifeandtool Před 3 měsíci +12

      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 😂

  • @jortand
    @jortand Před 6 měsíci +470

    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.

  • @ScottElyte
    @ScottElyte Před 7 měsíci +874

    "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
      @lightyagami4541 Před 7 měsíci +17

      Absolute banger ngl

    • @sylverscribs0490
      @sylverscribs0490 Před 6 měsíci +11

      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

    • @spoopyvirgil4944
      @spoopyvirgil4944 Před 19 dny

      @@sylverscribs0490 As a train special interest autistic person, I also approve. Despite being an adult, I want to go to my state's children's museum to look at their massive model trains....

  • @Arcade_Cat_
    @Arcade_Cat_ Před 7 měsíci +1918

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

    • @Arkouchie
      @Arkouchie Před 7 měsíci +132

      preemptive plagiarism
      /s

    • @zer0ishere
      @zer0ishere Před 7 měsíci +103

      that's actually parallel thinking

    • @rodrigoportalesoliva897
      @rodrigoportalesoliva897 Před 7 měsíci +33

      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
      @lemonlordminecraft Před 7 měsíci +11

      @@rodrigoportalesoliva897 their mother is very ashamed of them

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB Před 7 měsíci +6

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

  • @serpenttailedangel
    @serpenttailedangel Před 6 měsíci +380

    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
      @robertbrennan8187 Před 6 měsíci +39

      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 CZcams or wherever.

    • @thefungiwhisperer2313
      @thefungiwhisperer2313 Před 6 měsíci +1

      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
      @Ratscallion_exe Před 6 měsíci +11

      Payday 2 Dentist

    • @Quackervoltz
      @Quackervoltz Před 4 měsíci

      What is this referencing

    • @yoBmeF
      @yoBmeF Před 4 měsíci +8

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

  • @Boop__Doop
    @Boop__Doop Před 6 měsíci +120

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

  • @scottbuck1572
    @scottbuck1572 Před 7 měsíci +574

    New CZcams 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
      @elucified Před 6 měsíci +33

      Ok but what if that was the goal 😏

    • @supadumi5489
      @supadumi5489 Před 6 měsíci +22

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

    • @scottbuck1572
      @scottbuck1572 Před 6 měsíci +29

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

    • @gregoryvn3
      @gregoryvn3 Před 6 měsíci +8

      I'm okay with this.

    • @coleflames
      @coleflames Před 4 měsíci +4

      Don't threaten me with a good time.

  • @viadmelo
    @viadmelo Před 7 měsíci +2472

    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
      @ridiaraspberry4095 Před 7 měsíci +65

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

    • @DyslecticAttack
      @DyslecticAttack Před 7 měsíci

      ​​@@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
      @sneal8526 Před 7 měsíci

      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
      @nelejanbbi4616 Před 7 měsíci +420

      ​@@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
      @TomCantDance Před 7 měsíci +187

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

  • @Crow_Smith
    @Crow_Smith Před 6 měsíci +169

    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.

  • @alface935
    @alface935 Před 6 měsíci +153

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

  • @TheVeeBeaT
    @TheVeeBeaT Před 7 měsíci +2367

    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
      @redwiltshire1816 Před 7 měsíci +97

      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
      @herowither12354 Před 7 měsíci +8

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

    • @TheVeeBeaT
      @TheVeeBeaT Před 7 měsíci +95

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

    • @alex.g7317
      @alex.g7317 Před 7 měsíci +6

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

    • @peterobinson3678
      @peterobinson3678 Před 7 měsíci +18

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

  • @ComradePark
    @ComradePark Před 6 měsíci +3220

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

    • @martian8987
      @martian8987 Před 6 měsíci +14

      Yessss!!!!!!!

    • @martian8987
      @martian8987 Před 6 měsíci +5

      !!!!!!!!!!!

    • @Culpride
      @Culpride Před 6 měsíci +43

      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
      @Surepeacooler Před 6 měsíci +47

      Two Trucks - TomSka

    • @bobbodaskank
      @bobbodaskank Před 6 měsíci +22

      ​@@Surepeacooler Two trucks one wife

  • @hielispace
    @hielispace Před 2 měsíci +24

    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
      @illpunchyouintheface9094 Před 2 měsíci +1

      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

  • @Lucaan0102
    @Lucaan0102 Před 6 měsíci +76

    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
      @HouseDagothCultist Před 5 měsíci +1

      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
      @Lucaan0102 Před 5 měsíci +5

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

  • @SpLajroy101
    @SpLajroy101 Před 7 měsíci +689

    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
      @BeardedWoodland Před 7 měsíci +128

      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
      @dedusmuln Před 7 měsíci +65

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

    • @macskasbogre133
      @macskasbogre133 Před 7 měsíci +23

      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
      @methanesulfonic Před 6 měsíci +5

      ​@@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
      @deethwarrior Před 6 měsíci +3

      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))

  • @onetrueratqueen
    @onetrueratqueen Před 7 měsíci +3959

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

    • @Randomstuffs261
      @Randomstuffs261 Před 6 měsíci +160

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

    • @silverXnoise
      @silverXnoise Před 6 měsíci +25

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

    • @Randomstuffs261
      @Randomstuffs261 Před 6 měsíci +23

      @@silverXnoise His mother plagiarised the gyrating motion from me

    • @MyChannel773
      @MyChannel773 Před 6 měsíci +9

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

    • @silverXnoise
      @silverXnoise Před 6 měsíci +4

      @@Randomstuffs261 Thanks, it’s very nice.

  • @goranisacson2502
    @goranisacson2502 Před 6 měsíci +87

    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.

  • @ShiraCheshire
    @ShiraCheshire Před 6 měsíci +63

    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!

  • @TeamNevilleL
    @TeamNevilleL Před 6 měsíci +2353

    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....

  • @asj3419
    @asj3419 Před 7 měsíci +816

    "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
      @raeplaysval Před 6 měsíci +89

      and then in the sources put _me, just now_

    • @matejlieskovsky9625
      @matejlieskovsky9625 Před 6 měsíci +4

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

  • @KeKe-bv8qv
    @KeKe-bv8qv Před 6 měsíci +25

    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.

  • @Alcy-091
    @Alcy-091 Před 6 měsíci +20

    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.

  • @Ani-rq7wv
    @Ani-rq7wv Před 7 měsíci +2238

    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
      @moonlightact1792 Před 7 měsíci +93

      His mother is very proud

    • @LinguaPhiliax
      @LinguaPhiliax Před 7 měsíci +48

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

    • @Idkpleasejustletmechangeit
      @Idkpleasejustletmechangeit Před 7 měsíci +11

      @@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
      @redRuxx Před 7 měsíci +22

      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
      @moviepenguin Před 7 měsíci

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

  • @velvaetalt
    @velvaetalt Před 7 měsíci +527

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

    • @carydorse705
      @carydorse705 Před 7 měsíci +41

      I like your shoelaces

    • @mousesteam7882
      @mousesteam7882 Před 6 měsíci +22

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

    • @The_wheels_turn_ever_forward
      @The_wheels_turn_ever_forward Před 6 měsíci

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

    • @Melonist
      @Melonist Před 6 měsíci

      @@carydorse705 thanks, i got them from the president

    • @gracel2mart
      @gracel2mart Před 6 měsíci

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

  • @CubicMathTime
    @CubicMathTime Před 4 měsíci +13

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

  • @CollidedUniverses
    @CollidedUniverses Před 5 měsíci +22

    18:54 I love how basically every CZcamsr that was around since 2010- absolutely adores Bo, because of the CZcams 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
      @clemclemclemclemcl Před 4 měsíci +2

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

  • @destinyweb1311
    @destinyweb1311 Před 6 měsíci +1302

    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
      @corruleumblue3317 Před 6 měsíci +213

      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
      @pan.gremlin Před 6 měsíci +85

      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
      @yaluckyboy Před 6 měsíci

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

    • @beloveduser
      @beloveduser Před 6 měsíci +69

      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
      @Echo-tl7wh Před 6 měsíci +13

      @@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

  • @mizushimo
    @mizushimo Před 7 měsíci +1054

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

    • @THEJPIndustry
      @THEJPIndustry Před 6 měsíci +13

      Indeed this should be a whole genre now

    • @charliemcmillan4561
      @charliemcmillan4561 Před 6 měsíci +12

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

    • @Delta-ei7im
      @Delta-ei7im Před 6 měsíci +14

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

    • @absolutelyspiffing
      @absolutelyspiffing Před 6 měsíci +13

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

  • @DarcOne13
    @DarcOne13 Před 6 měsíci +36

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

    • @KelpTheGreat
      @KelpTheGreat Před měsícem

      .........how?!

    • @DarcOne13
      @DarcOne13 Před měsícem +1

      @@KelpTheGreat I live under a social rock. Don't boo me.

  • @Ningy909
    @Ningy909 Před 6 měsíci +22

    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.

  • @trustindean5164
    @trustindean5164 Před 7 měsíci +412

    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
      @plushdragonteddy Před 7 měsíci +26

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

    • @trustindean5164
      @trustindean5164 Před 7 měsíci +15

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

    • @bambii-_
      @bambii-_ Před 6 měsíci +1

      what was the line?

    • @trustindean5164
      @trustindean5164 Před 6 měsíci +5

      @@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.

  • @Ace_Larrakin_Productions
    @Ace_Larrakin_Productions Před 7 měsíci +144

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

  • @yournamehere100
    @yournamehere100 Před 6 měsíci +33

    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.

  • @griffonsarcade
    @griffonsarcade Před 6 měsíci +22

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

    • @jan-pi-ala-suli
      @jan-pi-ala-suli Před 6 měsíci +8

      Boss Angry on Airplane, Throws Briefcase Hard*

    • @ExpandDong420
      @ExpandDong420 Před 6 měsíci +3

      ​@@jan-pi-ala-suli: Throws briefcase hard*

  • @atomiicos
    @atomiicos Před 7 měsíci +248

    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
      @winteriris13 Před 6 měsíci +20

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

    • @AngelofGrace96
      @AngelofGrace96 Před 6 měsíci +14

      Yeah that genuinely made me giggle, well done tom

  • @Alzhaer
    @Alzhaer Před 7 měsíci +1164

    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
      @odkres Před 7 měsíci +115

      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
      @SirPhysics Před 7 měsíci +36

      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
      @LHZOZ777 Před 7 měsíci

      Reall‼️‼️🗣️

    • @Nanoqtran
      @Nanoqtran Před 7 měsíci +34

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

    • @nitsanraviddaos4797
      @nitsanraviddaos4797 Před 7 měsíci +10

      ​@@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.

  • @ImThatLemon
    @ImThatLemon Před 6 měsíci +22

    16:01 NOT THE KEN PENDERS JUMPSCARE

  • @bobolobocus333
    @bobolobocus333 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Every mafia movie that isn't Goncharov is a full Somerton on the Somerton Scale

  • @mrrd4444
    @mrrd4444 Před 7 měsíci +411

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

    • @alexlongfur2515
      @alexlongfur2515 Před 7 měsíci +50

      My favorite character from Goncharov is Ice Pick Joe

    • @Dinnyeify
      @Dinnyeify Před 7 měsíci +21

      Definitely a cult classic

    • @harimenui-forever2036
      @harimenui-forever2036 Před 7 měsíci +9

      @@alexlongfur2515 SAME, i love lil fucked up guys

    • @Starach
      @Starach Před 7 měsíci +9

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

    • @Echo-tl7wh
      @Echo-tl7wh Před 6 měsíci +3

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

  • @kadabraguy9846
    @kadabraguy9846 Před 7 měsíci +315

    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
      @Arkouchie Před 7 měsíci +42

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

    • @Wewin42
      @Wewin42 Před 7 měsíci +6

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

  • @oogamcbooga3636
    @oogamcbooga3636 Před 4 měsíci +7

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

    • @Maniac_l23
      @Maniac_l23 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Wow! Nice work on this video!

  • @Dolamieu
    @Dolamieu Před 6 měsíci +21

    36:37 lettsss goo victor

  • @notmimimarquez
    @notmimimarquez Před 7 měsíci +2901

    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
      @jeremylugodas Před 7 měsíci +66

      as a fellow joco fan, the glee version is ass

    • @Zulf85
      @Zulf85 Před 7 měsíci +39

      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
      @magicrainbowkitties1023 Před 7 měsíci +151

      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
      @ZipplyZane Před 7 měsíci +39

      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 CZcams.)
      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
      @genericmoron3008 Před 7 měsíci +12

      "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 >:/

  • @juliamavroidi8601
    @juliamavroidi8601 Před 7 měsíci +273

    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
      @ultratheman Před 7 měsíci

      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

  • @qiae
    @qiae Před 6 měsíci +15

    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!

  • @razzledazzlecheeseontoast9808
    @razzledazzlecheeseontoast9808 Před 6 měsíci +12

    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

  • @bambii-_
    @bambii-_ Před 7 měsíci +671

    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
      @bogboybogboybogboyb Před 7 měsíci +111

      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
      @jankbunky4279 Před 7 měsíci +52

      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
      @thezachman1 Před 7 měsíci +20

      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
      @sev1120 Před 7 měsíci +1

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

    • @octochan
      @octochan Před 7 měsíci +9

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

  • @purp4168
    @purp4168 Před 7 měsíci +1324

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

    • @whateveridontcare8484
      @whateveridontcare8484 Před 7 měsíci +9

      thanks dude

    • @kuobah
      @kuobah Před 7 měsíci +42

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

    • @ibagiousvii4458
      @ibagiousvii4458 Před 7 měsíci +23

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

    • @amesstarline5482
      @amesstarline5482 Před 7 měsíci +4

      It's funny how it's all connected.

    • @N1ckelD1me
      @N1ckelD1me Před 6 měsíci +1

      brian and da brits

  • @Ryfangor
    @Ryfangor Před 2 měsíci +8

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

  • @Lwhale.3797
    @Lwhale.3797 Před měsícem +1

    Such a massive flex showing how Tom’s decades of making creative work have been so successful that he has many many examples of others ripping him off.

  • @volpe7436
    @volpe7436 Před 7 měsíci +495

    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
      @Yixdy Před 6 měsíci +8

      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
      @Blewlongmun Před 6 měsíci +2

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

  • @MsCreepyChan
    @MsCreepyChan Před 7 měsíci +275

    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
      @loke6664 Před 7 měsíci +36

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

    • @cryforhelp7270
      @cryforhelp7270 Před 7 měsíci +1

      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!"

  • @substandardnerd
    @substandardnerd Před 6 měsíci +8

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

  • @elliotp9026
    @elliotp9026 Před 4 měsíci +4

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

  • @st0nks
    @st0nks Před 7 měsíci +221

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

    • @substandardnerd
      @substandardnerd Před 7 měsíci +11

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

    • @wemz2782
      @wemz2782 Před 7 měsíci +3

      so happy to see it getting the recognition it deserves!

  • @JomaXZ
    @JomaXZ Před 7 měsíci +754

    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
      @FabbrizioPlays Před 7 měsíci +110

      Thing is we've known for a long time that plagiarism is rampant, given CZcams 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
      @alexn5743 Před 7 měsíci +80

      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
      @maromania7 Před 7 měsíci +14

      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__
      @DelDel__ Před 7 měsíci +15

      I've recently watched two videos of a CZcamsr, 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
      @waningbloom Před 7 měsíci +10

      Me, personally, I intended to make a shit ton of CZcams 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

  • @blakeellis9171
    @blakeellis9171 Před 11 dny +2

    You know, looking back, I'm really glad i made this video, one of my all time greats

  • @sweeneylens
    @sweeneylens Před 6 měsíci +3

    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!

  • @EvilMastermindOfDoom
    @EvilMastermindOfDoom Před 7 měsíci +507

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

    • @Kfoglarsson
      @Kfoglarsson Před 7 měsíci +15

      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
      @PuffyPinkSpirit Před 7 měsíci +5

      I knew that there was something off with their voices!

  • @datdude888
    @datdude888 Před 7 měsíci +1039

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

    • @snage-thesnakemage
      @snage-thesnakemage Před 7 měsíci +24

      Fr like why arent more peple talking about this!!

    • @avokka
      @avokka Před 7 měsíci +134

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

    • @Cerise4697
      @Cerise4697 Před 7 měsíci +130

      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
      @Dracinard Před 7 měsíci +19

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

    • @datdude888
      @datdude888 Před 7 měsíci +4

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

  • @FFKonoko
    @FFKonoko Před 2 měsíci +2

    Wow, that surfshark vpn ad was so incredibly persuasive, tom is a genius for coming up with such a clever skit format.

  • @roselovescheese
    @roselovescheese Před 6 měsíci +3

    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

  • @Sophie_Cleverly
    @Sophie_Cleverly Před 7 měsíci +289

    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
      @AbandonedVoid Před 6 měsíci +12

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

    • @susumeyun
      @susumeyun Před 6 měsíci +56

      ​@@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
      @hugmonger Před 6 měsíci +5

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

    • @infinitecurlie
      @infinitecurlie Před 6 měsíci +6

      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
      @cheeseboogar Před 6 měsíci

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

  • @DinnyOrSomething
    @DinnyOrSomething Před 7 měsíci +518

    Okay so I know this started off as a jokey "I'm gonna steal your plagiarism video idea lol irony" but this was genuinely so well put together that I think it works as a fantastic addition to Hbomberguy's video to explore the different levels, kinds and alternatives to plagiarism to really define the topic
    Ps. original comment by me pls don't steal

    • @Bobberation
      @Bobberation Před 7 měsíci +41

      Okay so I know this started off as a jokey "I'm gonna steal your plagiarism video idea lol irony" but this was genuinely so well put together that I think it works as a fantastic addition to Hbomberguy's video to explore the different levels, kinds and alternatives to plagiarism to really define the topic

    • @vtp6903
      @vtp6903 Před 7 měsíci +14

      Okay, I know this started off as a jokey "I'm gonna steal your plagiarism video idea lol irony" but this was put together so genuinely well that I think it adds fantastically to Hbomberguy's video to explore the different levels, kinds and alternatives to plagiarism to really define the topic.
      -Based on the comment of DinnyOrSomething

    • @localinternetclown
      @localinternetclown Před 7 měsíci +7

      Okay so I know this started off as a jokey "I'm gonna steal your plagiarism video idea lol irony" but this was genuinely so well put together that I think it works as a fantastic addition to Hbomberguy's video to explore the different levels, kinds and alternatives to plagiarism to really define the topic

    • @rangeldino2633
      @rangeldino2633 Před 7 měsíci +7

      Okay so I know this started off as a jokey "I'm gonna steal your Rise of Kingdoms video idea lol irony" but this was genuinely so well put together that I think it works as a fantastic addition to Hbomberguy's video to explore the different levels, kinds and alternatives to plagiarism to really define the topic
      Ps. original comment by me pls don't steal

    • @quantummelody2959
      @quantummelody2959 Před 7 měsíci +5

      Okay so I know this started off as a jokey "I'm gonna steal your plagiarism video idea lol irony" but this was genuinely so well put together that I think it works as a fantastic addition to Hbomberguy's video to explore the different levels, kinds and alternatives to plagiarism to really define the topic
      Ps. original comment by me pls don't steal

  • @amirviola71
    @amirviola71 Před 5 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @KangarooKommando
    @KangarooKommando Před 6 měsíci +7

    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 ❤

  • @apjtv2540
    @apjtv2540 Před 7 měsíci +1083

    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
      @rembrandx Před 7 měsíci +25

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

    • @AbigatorM
      @AbigatorM Před 7 měsíci +4

      @@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
      @PrincessFelicie Před 7 měsíci +8

      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
      @ichijofestival2576 Před 7 měsíci +30

      @@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
      @rembrandx Před 7 měsíci

      @@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.

  • @Okabiz_
    @Okabiz_ Před 7 měsíci +204

    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
      @DeathnoteBB Před 7 měsíci +15

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

  • @gabe_s_videos
    @gabe_s_videos Před 2 měsíci +3

    The manufactured controversy regarding the UK Dominos ad sounds, to me, like one person said it was racist purely as a joke, another person saw it and thought they were being serious and commented somewhere else that they thought it was racist too, a third person saw this and intuited that the consensus was that these ads were racist and some news outlet took it as a concentrated group of people were making unfair criticisms about Dominos because it made for an interesting story.
    As I'm to understand it, this is how tabloid news has always worked.

  • @aliensmoothie6156
    @aliensmoothie6156 Před 5 měsíci +7

    37:52 I know this is supposed to be riffing off of those ads you were just talking about, but the specific cadence of "spin! amaze-in!" REALLY reminds me of Xavier Renegade Angel. I wonder where on the scale this one falls?

  • @ccyamato
    @ccyamato Před 7 měsíci +304

    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
      @misteryA555 Před 7 měsíci +13

      That episode traumatized me as a child

    • @ccyamato
      @ccyamato Před 7 měsíci +6

      @@misteryA555 I like Space

    • @ZipplyZane
      @ZipplyZane Před 7 měsíci +36

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

    • @genericmoron3008
      @genericmoron3008 Před 7 měsíci +52

      Forwarding this to Hbomb, your days are numbered m8

    • @Sarah12471
      @Sarah12471 Před 7 měsíci +3

      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

  • @AngeredPally
    @AngeredPally Před 7 měsíci +275

    26:55
    This is so funnily similar to that one iCarly episode, I don't remember exactly what it was, but Carly and her friends were going to make an offer to a company that wanted rights to something, I think intellectual property to do a show.
    Carly's squad did a quick pow-wow and decided that they will only ask for 300 dollars, because they didn't want to sound too needy and it was for something they thought was pretty insignificant.
    The board members come back, Carly says "we'll do it for 300" and the head board guy says "You've got a deal; 300,000 dollars"

    • @gray007nl
      @gray007nl Před 6 měsíci +78

      smh another time Tomska shamelessly stole someone else's creative work, I can't believe he orchestrated that whole sequence of events just to have a funny story to tell.

    • @Tp_hedgelinghog
      @Tp_hedgelinghog Před 6 měsíci +4

      ​@@gray007nliCarly doesn't have a creator, and you can't prove me wrong.
      No, I didn't steal that line from Quinton Hoover, also known as Quinton Reviews.

    • @PxPtheBook
      @PxPtheBook Před 6 měsíci +5

      iCarly Saves TV is the episode, if you’re curious. (Could also be the shoes one, the wording’s a touch odd)

    • @Tp_hedgelinghog
      @Tp_hedgelinghog Před 4 měsíci

      @@PxPtheBook it's Saves TV.

    • @henke37
      @henke37 Před 13 dny

      It's parallel thinking. Normal people just have no idea of the scale corporations work at. Your fancy dinner is their pocket change.

  • @pixyireproductions
    @pixyireproductions Před 6 měsíci +2

    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

  • @LeahLovesNature
    @LeahLovesNature Před 6 měsíci +3

    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.

  • @Panda-vq4gd
    @Panda-vq4gd Před 6 měsíci +617

    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
      @yaluckyboy Před 6 měsíci +45

      his mother must be very proud

    • @giggabiite4417
      @giggabiite4417 Před 6 měsíci +1

      who?

    • @thecrab3033
      @thecrab3033 Před 6 měsíci

      @@giggabiite4417tommytalarico, he made you

    • @JackSiesko-li5ow
      @JackSiesko-li5ow Před 6 měsíci +14

      ​@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
      @jedimasterpickle3 Před 5 měsíci +12

      @@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.

  • @Braddowski
    @Braddowski Před 7 měsíci +331

    I got my university dissertation capped at 40% for plagiarising myself... That was a special time.

    • @republicansarepedos2
      @republicansarepedos2 Před 7 měsíci +27

      I love this one. I mean, does it count as plagiarism when you are plagiarising yourself?

    • @dfgdfg_
      @dfgdfg_ Před 7 měsíci +32

      ​@@republicansarepedos2my mum always told me I'd go blind if I kept doing it

    • @derAtze
      @derAtze Před 7 měsíci +26

      ​@@republicansarepedos2yea, if you hand in the same paper twice for example. It's not about what you copy, it's that you're dishonest with it

    • @xaf15001
      @xaf15001 Před 7 měsíci +15

      ​@@derAtzeThe thing is it kinda falls in line with unconscious plagiarism. It came from the same person, and that same person would probably write the same thing anyway. It just feels unnecessary.
      And no, the reason wasn't about honesty. It's because academic papers are usually published through some esoteric publishing companies that really upcharges your papers. Like it's really bad. They made the idea of self plagiarism so the writer couldn't write the similiarly good papers to other companies or to the public. The knowledge stays gatekept to that publisher so if you want to continue that research, you have to publish with them again.

    • @Braddowski
      @Braddowski Před 7 měsíci +30

      @@derAtze I got charged because two sentences were the same. I had previously done a shorter essay on the same topic in my 2nd year which I had been told wouldn't be an issue.

  • @youdontknowwho505
    @youdontknowwho505 Před 2 měsíci +3

    “Big truck, Love Christ.
    Second truck, hate wife.”
    - Uh… Me, right now.

  • @WaitWhat-zw2in
    @WaitWhat-zw2in Před 5 měsíci +2

    That opening gag was just a perfect way to set the scene

  • @LoyalSage
    @LoyalSage Před 7 měsíci +534

    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
      @gracegrrl007 Před 6 měsíci +46

      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
      @Technizor Před 6 měsíci +38

      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
      @skunkjo3195 Před 6 měsíci +15

      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
      @pikgears Před 6 měsíci +8

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

    • @Nightraven26
      @Nightraven26 Před 6 měsíci +3

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

  • @Ramonatho
    @Ramonatho Před 7 měsíci +119

    That point about the French TV show ripping you off then trying to pay you was wild to me. Both because they even admitted any fault at all and tried to rectify it, and also that the amount of 20k is insanely low for any TV show that actually matters. You shoulda got around 400-600k for that.

    • @LessDevoid
      @LessDevoid Před 7 měsíci +49

      I initially thought it was 20k per episode, not just a one-time payment. Tom probably should have gotten in touch with a lawyer ASAP to get a constant payroll instead of, what appears to be, hush money.

    • @alexstone691
      @alexstone691 Před 7 měsíci

      This is the first quote for the suckers that dont know their worth

    • @DelPlays
      @DelPlays Před 7 měsíci +21

      Not every TV show business is in the "millions of dollars" bracket, especially with how modern media has been driven away from traditional TV shows. Throwing something like 20-30x higher price sounds like gross overestimation to me, and once you start talking about numbers like that.. That's where the lawyers start to hit their pay-rolls which is a fight that individual content creator can't win against entire TV companies.
      Could Tom get more from his idea? Yeah probably.. Should he get greedy over it and potentially end up in legal battle? Absolutely not. 20k is a huge payment for individual person over a relatively short term idea of only 3 short episodes.
      I appreciate what you guys are trying to say, but please don't over value stuff or you might end up with nothing at all. Your numbers sound more like gambling addiction than actual rational thinking. Greed is a massive issue in modern times for both corporations and individuals, so please try to avoid falling for it.

    • @LessDevoid
      @LessDevoid Před 7 měsíci +5

      @@DelPlays
      They made over 100 episodes. The 20k was payment to license the idea for years of content, not just the three. I have zero idea about the proper payment and contracts for these things but 20k seems way on the low end for something that they keep producing and making money off of.
      EDIT: I wasn't suggesting a lawyer for some made-up legal battle you imagined. That's just what you do for deals and contracts like that. The lawyer knows how to interpret legal jargon and has a better idea of how these deals usually work. Being called up out of the blue and then immediately being offered 20k is suspicious as fuck.

  • @PopsicleSponge
    @PopsicleSponge Před 6 měsíci

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

  • @James-jy3lh
    @James-jy3lh Před 11 dny +1

    think there's a significant chance the your sketch "Bad Director" is an example of subconscious appropriation of the Door Monster sketch "On Set: What."

  • @raziraphale
    @raziraphale Před 7 měsíci +582

    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
      @dolphinloser6546 Před 7 měsíci +73

      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
      @readyforlol Před 6 měsíci +21

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

    • @Sqwivig
      @Sqwivig Před 6 měsíci +4

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

    • @michellestoaevertsson3830
      @michellestoaevertsson3830 Před 6 měsíci

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

    • @starliightrays8560
      @starliightrays8560 Před 6 měsíci +6

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

  • @toryslapper69
    @toryslapper69 Před 7 měsíci +369

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

  • @C-Llama
    @C-Llama Před 6 měsíci +5

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

  • @G-Ilan-M
    @G-Ilan-M Před 6 měsíci +5

    13:33 a personal example of subconcious apropriation was one time i made a sketch about a cereal that makes your head explode for a highschool project thinking it was my own idea but looking back i probably took the idea from that sketch