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 1 year ago
Hbomberguy called out Internet Historian for blatant plagiarism.
Arelin@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Internet Historian of all people? Well damn :(
drislands@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Except he made it a lot more entertaining so it’s a case of I don’t care
flames5123@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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?