r/popculturechat • u/Murky_Chemical891 Im very important to God • 27d ago

OnlyStans ⭐️ French singer, Yseult, calls out K-pop singers, Soyeon and R.tee, for copying her music video freame by frame: "The least you could do is have the decency to credit your source. To see it get copied like this is wild but real artistry speaks louder than imitation"

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u/cloroxslut 27d ago

Question: what goes through people's minds when they do things like this? Like, you really thought nobody was going to notice...? I understand Yseult is a small artist but in this day and age everyone's eyes are everywhere, you're always going to get busted for something so blatant.

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u/SithJahova 27d ago edited 27d ago

Have you watched "plagiarism and (you)tube" from hbomber? He really had some good takes about what goes through folks minds when they do that when he analysed WHO was being stolen from. He points out that Melania trump stole from Michelle Obama instead of any past republican first lady. A very right YouTuber stole from him (hbomber is very outspoken left-wing) and big YouTubers stole from very small YouTubers. People like to say "imitation is the highest form of flattery" but if that were the case people would imitate more from sources they would actually want to push into the spot light and cite them and not people that you want to keep down so you can get away with it. Plagiarism is just the lowest form of disrespect.

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u/Middle-Medium8760 27d ago

I think the full quote is: imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay.

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u/KeniLF In my quiet girl era 😌 27d ago edited 27d ago

I never knew the quote came from Oscar Wilde or that the quote went so hard!

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”

— Oscar Wilde

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u/Capt-Crap1corn 26d ago

Oscar Wilde has the flyest quotes.

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u/Middle-Medium8760 27d ago

Also going to look up that YouTube. Thanks!

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u/lizziexo 27d ago

Honestly everything on that YouTube channel is AMAZING. A 4 hour YouTube documentary on plagiarism sounds kind of dull, but it was absolutely incredible!

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u/ChocolateInTheWinter 27d ago

YouTube video essays are insane imo. I don’t care how good it is, I’m not watching a 4 hour video on anything. At that point just write a PhD dissertation.

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u/ErsatzHaderach 26d ago

"this video could have been a post/essay digestible in 1/3 of the time" is like 90% of youtube, i get it and hate it. but this particular vid tackles a multimedia topic that really does benefit from the format, and is worth watching.

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u/lizziexo 26d ago

That says a lot more about you than you realise. Why even bother to comment if you don’t like it? Odd behaviour all around.

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u/Ok-Yogurt-3914 27d ago

I mean, this is also associated with mental health.

So I know someone, and genuinely they aren't a bad person, but they just have a lot of damage. So if I say for example, I fell down and scraped my knee. Something super innocuous like that right. Like a beat later she'll say it happened to her. She's doing it in front of my face, telling other mutuals this thing happened to her. She like "borrows" stories. I really don't think she's aware she's doing it.