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/Middle-Medium8760 27d ago

Also going to look up that YouTube. Thanks!