Yeah, I was really disappointed to learn it too. It was blatant – the entire script is ripped from a well-written article about the experience, verbatim except for a few words swapped around.
To his credit, this was the only found bit of plagiarism on his channel. The other channels he calls out are wayyyy worse. But it’s blatant word for word plagiarism.
Not quite, Internet Historian also plagiarized parts of his Costa Concordia video. Did hbomberguy actually say that these were the only examples of plagiarism on his channel?
Moxvallix@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Hbomberguy called out Internet Historian for blatant plagiarism.
Arelin@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Internet Historian of all people? Well damn :(
drislands@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah, I was really disappointed to learn it too. It was blatant – the entire script is ripped from a well-written article about the experience, verbatim except for a few words swapped around.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Except he made it a lot more entertaining so it’s a case of I don’t care
flames5123@lemmy.world 6 months ago
To his credit, this was the only found bit of plagiarism on his channel. The other channels he calls out are wayyyy worse. But it’s blatant word for word plagiarism.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not quite, Internet Historian also plagiarized parts of his Costa Concordia video. Did hbomberguy actually say that these were the only examples of plagiarism on his channel?