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Why do leftists put so much respect on hbomberguy? especially compared to breadtube at large.
I've seen a handful of his videos and they seem like just decently well-made gaming commentary. I accidentally half-watched ~3 hours of the 4 hour long video after it autoplayed, and felt it didn't warrant the glowing appreciation I saw online about it. Not explicitly bad, just far too much effort put into calling out people for plagiarizing...which I don't give a flying fuck about because it's usually immaterial and glorifying IP rights.
Never had any strong opinion about him, but got a vague impression he'd eventually pull the same thing most YouTubers do...burn any good will on anti-AES takes.
He's managed to avoid doing that for this long by merely avoiding the subject. And he's doing well on Palestine. He's been around long enough now that I doubt thatll change.
I think he earned most of his leftist street cred through his big charity stream for Mermaids. And a few of his vids have been criticizing right wing creators or topics.
But tbh in dont like him because I think of him as a principled leftist lol I just like his content a lot. Especially his Pathgologic video and ESPECIALLY the video on Loss. His potical videos arent even my prefered stuff from him, though his climate change one is solid.
That said, bad take to say you don't care about the plagerism he covered in his video, because its mostly cases of larger creators with clout stealing from powerless smaller creators. Im anti-IP too but smaller creators need protection from theft whilest capitalism still exists. Its the same reason the majority of leftists are against AI art, at least under capitalism.
YouTube wanted me to watch this so bad. I thought it was good, but I had never heard of Pathologic before the video. I think I'm just not interested in that genre of content.
Theft of what? If I publish a video reading out your article, what was stolen from you? I understand the sentiment, but there's limited tangible impact. The discussion on AI produced content is more interesting because it introduces systemic components & is capable of copying & pre-empting creators at scale.
The way writers get more money is through notoriety, when you steal a writer's work without saying they made it you claim the notoriety for yourself and effectively get to steal future roles and credibility that would have given them money.
Writers build a moneyed career slowly over time, being paid for good articles isn't the point and isn't why they do it, they do it to build for future positions and security. In this lense it's easy to see that yes, it is literally bourgeois behavior to steal uncredited labor to build your own enterprise.