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I feel like the Hbomberguy plagiarism video has a lot of really good lessons about building an argument. Like, the thesis of the video isn't just "Plagiarism is rife on Youtube", although that point was certainly well made, it was specifically about James Somerton, who isn't mentioned until about halfway through the video. Before then, Hbomb goes through several creators who are already widely discredited as plagiarists, and in each section he introduces concepts that are later incorporated into the final takedown of Somerton, but each section also stands on it's own. Like, he starts with Filip, the game reviewer, which he uses to introduce the format of how he will discuss and expose plagiarists. Specifically, the graphic of displaying the source material while the plagiarist's voice plays, and marking up said source material every time the plagiarist changes some wording slightly. This is the method that Hbomb uses across the entire video. With Illuminaughtii, Hbomb introduces a few major concepts 1) The idea of Insufficient citation. Illuminaughtii "Cites" her sources by putting a plaintext pastebin link in her video descriptions with no indication of how each source was used. Technically, her source is CITED, but not in any relevant or useful way. She has a big list of stuff she read, and a random youtube link in there happens to be the source that she stole 90% of the video from. 2) He introduces the profit motive behind this approach. Putting out a lot of content very quickly is how one builds an audience, and therefore an income, out of making stuff on youtube. Plagiarism of this sort is a way to produce content very quickly and build a following. The Internet Historian section introduces two new concepts:

1) The behavior of an exposed plagiarist, taking down and reuploading videos with minor changes, awkwardly trying to insert credit without admitting guilt. 2) That the plagiarists are stealing not just research, but STYLE. Previous sections go over how the plagiarists are reusing the same words, but this section oozes over how much of the final product's quality was the result of how well the source material was written. TIH didn't just crib the notes from the Mentalfloss article, he created a video heavily dependent on the original author's skill as a writer. When TIH tried his own hand at presenting the same set of facts, it came out much worse. So that when the time comes for the Somerton takedown, Hbomb has already laid the groundwork to bring these concepts back. Somerton takes down and reuploads videos when he's caught, he declares this his video is "based on" work by somebody else without providing proper citation. He's not just stealing research done by somebody else, he's taking their insights and talent as a writer and regurgitating it as his own, and he's doing so to churn out a vast wall of content that he can financially benefit from, and he doesn't need to tell you why this is important, because he's already done so. He already convinced you that Illuminaughtii hiding a line in a pastebin didn't excuse her plagiarism, so you don't need to be told why Somerton saying his video is "Based On" somebody else's book doesn't excuse it.

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Kirby lore level 1: Kirby is a cute pink guy and he eats the cake and King Dedede is a mean guy :)

Kirby lore level 2: Kirby is infinite strong and he kills gods on a random tuesday. LOL

Kirby lore level 3: The Kirby series has built patterns throughout its decades of histories to create intruiging connections between otherwise innocuous events and characters aw SHIT a BUTTERFLY

Kirby lore level 4:

I found an anomalous Fandom wiki that has confused me to my very core and I need to talk about it with SOMEONE or else I will implode

Okay so the wiki is about a ficticious adult comedy show made in GoAnimate called Burngoberrie that "aired" on MTV and Comedy Central; It's the kind of unexplainable thing that children who have had unrestricted internet access from an extremely young age make and it makes me supremely confused.

I found it out from MegaFrog's video on Weird Touhou Wikis and I already knew it was strange just from the video, but just a bit ago someone in a Discord Server I'm in discovered a weird channel made by a kid that reminded me of this, so I decided to check it out, and it is so much weirder than I thought.

Okay so, this "show" has a mishmash of characters from a ton of different other properties (mostly kids' shows) and, of course, Touhou Characters. Mix this with the fact that the plots of the "episodes" of this show include such things as a machine that turns people Gay and Daphne being a Porn Star, and you get perhaps the most bizzare ficticious cross-over show to ever exist.

Strangely enough the way the episodes' plots are summed up in the List of Episodes page is similar to how Wikipedia would do it; This, alongside the clearly not child-friendly things detailed in the episode plots (Like Porn Stars, Sex and 'Cana-syphil-AIDS') leads me to believe someone older, likely a Teenager, made this, which just confuses me more, but that's beside the point.

No, what I wanna talk about here is the pages about Touhou, because they confuse me. First off, they make pages about Touhou Games, except the names are mispelled (or maybe they're changing them on purpose, I'm not sure) and they're using fake cover art they probably made in paint, but that's the least baffling thing here, no, the most baffling thing is the character pages for said games.

For some fucking reason, instead of putting the actual characters of the games in the pages, they put a ton of random characters that have nothing to do with Touhou, and, for some reason, in every page for the characters of the games, Reimu and Marisa are replaced with 'Eleanor Little' and 'Dr. Marisa Kendall' respectively, and I'm extremely confused. Also the Seihou Games are called 'Auntgoberrie' games instead for some reason.

The only character page I have seen which actually contains a Touhou character is the page for the cast of a ficticious game called 'Touhou V.S Burngoberrie,' where you play as, get this, Konngara from Touhou 1, whose page on the wiki contains ship art for some reason.

I am so confused.

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