Edit : I meant plagiarism, but my point really was going about filing a takedown notice. I don’t think there’s a plagiarism option under Yotubes report button.
God, a popular, incredibly annoying Youtuber plagiarized my articles for years. It’s all the more vexxing that most audience members don’t care. He only had to pay for it because he started a fight with other popular channels and they started calling him out for his shit.
Oh wow that’s really frustrating, youtube recommended me and I watched the nerdstalgic video without any knowledge of this, never got recommended the original.
(though to be fair their thumbnail game was way better than the original)
I tend to have an innate avoidance for anything that has the words “nerd” or “geek” incorporated into it. It’s usually low-rent content that’s made to appeal to specific (lucrative) demographics. It gives me commodification of culture vibes instead of someone who genuinely wants to educate people on a subject matter.
Nerdstalgic is a content mill channel that buys scripts from freelance writers and just records the voiceover. Apparently they aren’t paying much for writers and it’s pretty easy for hacks to find smaller channels and steal video concepts.
This is unfortunate. I just watched the nerdstalgic video and was unimpressed with how it basically resummarized the thesis multiple times rather than using the last 5 minutes to dig deeper. That makes sense if it wasn’t an original idea.
Content stealing is incredibly common. I used to go see a lot of improv in NYC and every so often you’d hear stories of a bit they worked up on stage being done, almost word for word, on SNL.
People that have to produce a lot of content on a schedule get desperate and just start stealing.
This is to no way excuse this theft but to give context on how common it is. Nerdstalgic should either take their video down or work out something with CGY that allows the video to stay up.
This is probably due to gig economy shit. Some underpaid script writer who is paid by the word but still expected to spend hours and hours of unpaid time doing research in order to even know what to write in the first place. Probably is expected to hand in a certain number of scripts per week too and just said fuck it, looked up other district 9 video essays and paraphrased everything.
Doesn’t justify it of course, but it’s likely less a matter of creative integrity and more that the gig economy is fucking cancer and channels like this exploit freelancers like crazy so the situation is shitty all the way down.
Isn’t Nerdstalgic just the same guy who was CleanPrinceGaming who got blasted for plagiarism?
Literally every video of his is some “power word” hodge podge of supposedly prolific insight, or it’s entirely ripped from someone else.
The guy doesn’t seem to have an original bone in his body. Used to watch his video essays as something to have on in the background until his voice got too annoying and his cadence was all “I’m so fucking cool and important for having the most popular gaming opinion. *Mic drop*”
Pretty sure he has a handful of channels that all do the same things for different topics, the only similarity is the lack of originality and the same over-important voice over.
As mentioned in CGY’s video, they also plagiarized one of my favorite Youtubers, Comic Tropes, last year. I unsubscribed from Nerdstalgic then and I suggest everyone do the same now.
Can’t he copyright claim or something?
Edit : I meant plagiarism, but my point really was going about filing a takedown notice. I don’t think there’s a plagiarism option under Yotubes report button.
God, a popular, incredibly annoying Youtuber plagiarized my articles for years. It’s all the more vexxing that most audience members don’t care. He only had to pay for it because he started a fight with other popular channels and they started calling him out for his shit.
cool didnt know about this. unsubbed from nerdstalgic
Oh wow that’s really frustrating, youtube recommended me and I watched the nerdstalgic video without any knowledge of this, never got recommended the original.
(though to be fair their thumbnail game was way better than the original)
Netdstalgic has very directly plagiarized several videos. In most cases, they steal from creators with much smaller followings than theirs.
Nerdstalgic used to be a different channel with a few 100k subs, and it was bought out and turned into a money making machine.
I tend to have an innate avoidance for anything that has the words “nerd” or “geek” incorporated into it. It’s usually low-rent content that’s made to appeal to specific (lucrative) demographics. It gives me commodification of culture vibes instead of someone who genuinely wants to educate people on a subject matter.
I immediately recognised the copy’s thumbnail! I didn’t watch it but it’s been showing up consistently in my recommended videos, this sucks!
Nerdstalgic is a content mill channel that buys scripts from freelance writers and just records the voiceover. Apparently they aren’t paying much for writers and it’s pretty easy for hacks to find smaller channels and steal video concepts.
this was stollen by the same writer as the comic tropes video, dave baker should probably be fired…
Nerdstalgics a fuckin asshole thru and thru
This is unfortunate. I just watched the nerdstalgic video and was unimpressed with how it basically resummarized the thesis multiple times rather than using the last 5 minutes to dig deeper. That makes sense if it wasn’t an original idea.
Didn’t this guy go by Prince Gaming or something
that voice sounds so familiar
Content stealing is incredibly common. I used to go see a lot of improv in NYC and every so often you’d hear stories of a bit they worked up on stage being done, almost word for word, on SNL.
People that have to produce a lot of content on a schedule get desperate and just start stealing.
This is to no way excuse this theft but to give context on how common it is. Nerdstalgic should either take their video down or work out something with CGY that allows the video to stay up.
Content Parasite.
Nerdstalgic didn’t just die… it was murdered
Nerdstalgic deleted the video.
I don’t know for you guys but now that video has gone private, i’m wondering why?
This is probably due to gig economy shit. Some underpaid script writer who is paid by the word but still expected to spend hours and hours of unpaid time doing research in order to even know what to write in the first place. Probably is expected to hand in a certain number of scripts per week too and just said fuck it, looked up other district 9 video essays and paraphrased everything.
Doesn’t justify it of course, but it’s likely less a matter of creative integrity and more that the gig economy is fucking cancer and channels like this exploit freelancers like crazy so the situation is shitty all the way down.
I just checked, and it looks like they took their video down. Pretty good evidence that they know what they did was shady.
Has Nerdstalgic taken the video down? I can’t find it anywhere on YouTube! If so, good on you!
they removed the video…
Had no idea! I follow them (or did until right now).
I never heard of Nerdstalgic but now I’m glad I didn’t give them any views
Even the name Nerdstalgic sounds unoriginal. It sounds like they mixed the Nostalgia Critic and Angry Video Game Nerd’s name.
Nerdstalgic lost my sub months ago. You got my sub today.
This happened to my friend Johnny 2 Cellos too.
Edit: I’m a video essayist in the same space as these guys. If you want more content made by individual creators, there’s a bunch of quality stuff here: https://www.youtube.com/@animationappreciationhub/channels?view=49&shelf_id=2
Isn’t Nerdstalgic just the same guy who was CleanPrinceGaming who got blasted for plagiarism?
Literally every video of his is some “power word” hodge podge of supposedly prolific insight, or it’s entirely ripped from someone else.
The guy doesn’t seem to have an original bone in his body. Used to watch his video essays as something to have on in the background until his voice got too annoying and his cadence was all “I’m so fucking cool and important for having the most popular gaming opinion. *Mic drop*”
Pretty sure he has a handful of channels that all do the same things for different topics, the only similarity is the lack of originality and the same over-important voice over.
As mentioned in CGY’s video, they also plagiarized one of my favorite Youtubers, Comic Tropes, last year. I unsubscribed from Nerdstalgic then and I suggest everyone do the same now.
Looks like the nerdstalgic video got set to private?