#Breadtuber

[breadtrice]

Hey Brods :D

Me got mascot that represent my fans. A BUNny. Such cute like you all. Thank you so much Mamma Artist. Me so happy. From now on you all are BunBuns :3

(Credit to @sweetdreamfallx​ )

[altairattorney]

This James Somerton debacle is something else, and I mean it's definitely not the main thing we should be talking about now, but:

Never let it be forgotten that this man is determined to keep conning (and most likely plagiarizing) people from a community that is so vulnerable and in such need of good faith actors.

He is counting on hbomb's video's fame waning to hide his wrongdoings. And his wrongdoings are egregious - misinformation, misogyny, outlandish amounts of plagiarism. He is still hoping to squeeze money out of the same LGBTQ+ community he has been stealing from all along, because all we are to him is exploitable idiots.

Please pass around this information for the newcomers, when he inevitably tries it again and again. Don't let his exploitation of our fellow queer authors be forgotten, especially given the times we are living through.

[repla-ace]

Sigma TikTok Needs To Be Stopped

[sapphia]

The thing I love about Hbomberguy’s latest video essay on plagiarism is it really gets to the root of why someone plagiarises, which in turn reassures the audience of the soundness of their own creative process and that of the creatives they love. He spends so much time praising and analysing the difference between derivative works (non-negative) and plagiarised works that it reassures and broadens the knowledge of other creatives and of the audiences consuming their works, which in turn helps assuage any unconscious reactionary feelings of “But this other creative I love does something slightly similar”.

As someone who writes, and as someone who went through the churn-em-out of the modern university degree system and all the plagiarism anxiety that comes with that, the topic of copying and mimicking other creatives is a heavy and ill-understood topic in so many spaces. The education system, at least in my country, went from encouraging rote-learning and copying by rewarding those who best memorised answers previously learned (e.g. exam answer schedules, memorising the wording of pre-practiced essays) to encouraging original thought in extensively-written about topics for essays. It’s very hard not to feel like you’re plagiarising when you’re one of 300 first year law students writing about a a topic from one very in-depth source that you’ve studied in class and three smaller ones, and Turnitin has put in your mind that the MOST important thing you can do for this essay is not to pass it, but to reword it well enough not to get caught up in this plagiarism detector. And I can recognise my behaviours in what Hbomberguy identifies - I remember minute-before-the-deadline essays where I was guilty of padding out my biography with sources from my sources, and can think of phrases or techniques of writing I’ve read in books that I sometimes worry might come through in my writing in a way that feels like stealing.

Plagiarism anxiety is real, and it’s fed by a lack of understanding around what plagiarism is and where it comes from. Hbomberguy is so right for complimenting a bunch of lame youtubers for the enthusiasm with which they openly bounce off of other people’s ideas. This collaborative method of creating where ideas are taken and passed on due to love of the craft can feel derivative eventually - but taken within a body of work where the creator is riffing or paying homage to and not merely regurgitating others success is at the heart of where any meaningful success and love for the medium lies. Creators need to be coming from a place of genuine enthusiasm and respect - it’s when they dont, when they’re looking down on others, that we see these behaviours emerging.

And that helps identify the urges within ourselves, and know more firmly whether what we’re doing is tribute or theft, including the many not just acceptable but positive ways of referencing back to sources and inspiration. It helps us tell when we ourselves are genuinely trying to pay homage and when we are treading the more murky waters of unfair attribution. So thanks Hbomberguy for dumbing down this topic in the most relatable but inaccessible-by-length way possible, as per usual.

[queenoftheimps]

THERE'S MORE???? HOW IS THERE EVEN MORE

[madlori]

The downward spiral of YouTube video essays is so seductive.

One minute you're watching Lindsay Ellis's 90 minute video about Yoko Ono and the HBomberGuy's 4 hour plagiarism takedown, and the next thing you know you're watching not one but TWO different videos about Ned Fulmer.

Anyway recommend me your favorite YT video essayist. Not Jenny Nicholson, Sarah Z, Strange Aeons or Hannah Alonzo, I already watch them.

[renthebarbarian]

Me, yesterday, reblogging a post about hbomberguy with this tag:

Hbomberguy: *mere hours later* *drops an entire 4 hour video destroying James Somerton*

Me: did I…? do this???????????

[notaplaceofhonour]

something I realized looking at the stats for “breadtube” creators like Hbomberguy, PhilosophyTube, ContraPoints, etc. is, as much as we may tend to think of them as all having comparable platforms, it really isn’t even close.

yes, many of the core group have a similar number of subscribers (1-2M) and many of them are friends or have collaborated in the past, but in terms of actual viewership, none of the others even come close to having the same reach as Hbomberguy.

at time of writing, his last video got 24M views. 6 of his last 8 videos got ~10M or more. The average viewership for his essays is ~5.6 million, a number that ContraPoints has cracked a total of four times, Lindsay Ellis and Shaun once each, and PhilosophyTube never.

there isn’t a huge point to this other than that it kinda reframes the scale of their platforms, for me at least. none of them have a platform even remotely comparable in size to hbomberguy.

[victoriadallonfan]

I’m only halfway through, but this is an interesting video on horror, and YouTubers who present information wrong or hide alt-right connections

Internet Historian is one of them, but Wendigoon is included as well.

Why the FUCK would you claim (lie) about starting the Boogaloo Boys (an alt right hate group)

[limeade-l3sbian]

"You love jkr so much, how about-?"

Listen, I know the concept of critical thinking is lost on you, but I have never once hailed that woman as my lord and savior. I even made a post saying there are genuine things that are shitty about her. I would prefer if you just blocked me and then went on back to your echo chamber about how there is a secret plot to kill trans people. Thanks. <3

[breadtrice]

Happy Easter!

Me made “find the eggy”. Can you Bunbuns find them? :3

[redditreceipts]

Least misogynistic Vaush fan

[dontbemeanmrbubz]

I just cannot get over this RPG loading screen ass advice. It's just so incredibly funny.

[tubecinema]

Folding Ideas: "I Don't Know James Rolfe"

Camera by Dan Olson, Kara Artym & Alex Mitchell

[phoenixyfriend]

Me: wow, I'm really enjoying this YouTuber's content, I wonder if anyone is discussing it on other platforms and expanding on the issues brought up or politely going through the oversights and what could have helped round out the production!

All social media:

Mostly Tumblr and reddit, both of which provide Twitter drama for no additional cost.

[lesbiancosimaniehaus]

So many of you absolute numbskulls misuse and misinterpret sociological terms such as socialization and intersectionality, and it’s not even a little bit funny. Socialization is a lifelong process. It’s a dynamic process. Females receive “female” socialization by virtue of being female. An individual is either more receptive to it, or less receptive to it, or the input is more or less intense. The most masculine woman still “receives” female socialization. Socialization simply refers to the process be which an agent is exposed to and by which it receives social information such as norms and rules and mores. It’s basically the way people react to culture. I can’t stand all these feminist-ish “critical thinking” women using the term and not even having a basic sociological definition to work with. Same with “social construct”. Same with “intersectionality”. Yashar Mounk (sp?) had a very interesting conversation on the unspeakable podcast about how absolute idiots butchered the idea of “intersectionality” to an extent that Kimberle Crenshaw couldn’t even trace the prevailing use to what she’d originally written on the subject.