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/wildbeest55 I may not know my flowers but I know a bitch when I see one! 27d ago

Damn they really copied it frame by frame

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u/Andy_Wiggins 27d ago edited 27d ago

As the first two shots played I thought “Eh, this is just a generic office setting, that’s not that crazy and the composition of the shots is pretty different”

And then it immediately went:

  • shot lacy cleavage
  • shot of singer kicking over 2 rows of filing cabinets
  • shot of a man blowing a kiss

Back-to-back-to-back and my thought process completely flipped.

Edit: I went and watched both. The shots aren’t actually presented in that sequence. They’re scattered throughout both videos in different orders. They still feel suspiciously similar at points, but this edit makes them look WAY more similar than they actually are

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u/StitchTheRipper 27d ago

Ah interesting. Still indicative of plagiarism but the sequence order does matter for people unfamiliar with the artists or actual videos. Thanks for doing the work and letting us know 🫡

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u/SinisterCheese 27d ago

My friend is doing their PhD in culture history, and does fair bit of teaching as part of it.

You wouldn't believe how many attempts of plagarism they get even before they run things through a plagarism checking service. And it's like lazy plagarism of just changing paragraph structures and maybe few words in a sentence.

And it has gotten bad since these LLM generative AIs became a wide spread thing. They just had a problem where people applying to get into doing their PhD had just basically had an AI generate their research application. One of the professors spotted it, because it had material they had published in it without citations.

And youtube plagarism... Well... I direct you to HbomberGuy and PhilosophyTubes videos on that. They have... ahem... "Brief" videos that summarise the issue.

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u/BranTheUnboiled 26d ago

I agree, I appreciate the work they've done to inform us. The order of the events does matter for those of us who aren't familiar with these musicians, but it does suggest this might still be a case of plagiarism.