Shameless Plagiarist Screws Sony, Rips Off Student & Professional Animations In PS4 Lineup Video

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[@YongYea]

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[@chocolateshake4917]

@mokolate ??

[@mydreaminghill]

@mokolate ??

[@jackmehoff7088]

@mokolate ??

[@jackmemes8530]

@mokolate ??

[@ethanbradshaw2858]

Hey yong, are you gonna do a reaction to YT rewind 2019?

[@deltalord6969]

One of the things i hate the most is when a person gets attacked because someone thought that the plagiarist's work was stolen by the original creator.

[@suli559]

Damn that actually happened? 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@deltalord6969]

@@suli559 its been happening and has happened for many years now. Most cosistently with art and anything related to video games. Characters, music, weapons you name it.

[@yuuup862]

Never heard of any plagiarists being hailed as the original creator, but ofc with song covers it's very common for ppl to think that the cover is the original

[@VatchGaming]

those are dumb folks.. actual ones just check the date it appeared first.

[@FEARSWTOR]

@@suli559 Two words: Fortnight Dances. People actually think that the originators of the dance moves stole them from Fortnight

[@mcbadrobotvoice8155]

When the project is due tomorrow and you haven’t started yet

[@DrunkCocogoat]

"Due tomorrow, Do tomorrow!", right!? 😂

[@hugomendez5625]

nah man, not even, I just bullshit the paper, people get put on the blacklist in Universities all of the time and it follows them forever, professors use programs that check for certain percentages that are plagiarized.

[@SomeoneStoleMyHandle911]

@@hugomendez5625 I dont understand why people think plagiarism will fly in this day and age , maybe in the 90s but not now the internet is simply *too powerful* XD

[@TSPH1992]

One hour later

[@randromix8135]

mc bad robot voice I thought your pfp was a Terminator version of the Oh yeah yeah Deus Ex pic. That’s a great drawing though. Do you have the source?

[@bushisback112]

It didn’t “screw Sony” but it definitely screwed his own career.

[@mattlane5632]

I’m sure the moment they got word of his copying they had to act.

[@TakumiJoyconBoyz]

It does screw them. They can now be sued.

[@Verpal]

Sony have enough money to deal with this lawsuit, it will definitely screw over whatever animator that work with Sony next time though. Sony loss face in this event, which worth way more than money, especially in Japan, getting laugh behind the back is bad for business in any East Asia country.

[@muhammadnursyahmi9440]

@@Verpal yup, it's not about the money, but the reputation of Sony had been tarnished because they hired this thief

[@ToveriJuri]

@@muhammadnursyahmi9440 Though most of the rep damage can be rightfully diverted towards the "animator". Sony might be taking a hit for this but it's not a big one.

[@jorgemigueltavares6041]

He'll probably vanish for a while, then get hired to make ads for chinese mobile games.

[@420Cris]

Which will also be blatantly plagiarized but no one cares about those.

[@Reeses7501]

@@420Cris true lmao

[@BSFilms1997]

Some Chinese gacha game copied Dairin’s work for their ads as well.

[@ThePooper3000]

Yeah, what's up with Chinese companies blatantly plagiarizing? Are there no copyright or intellectual property laws in China?

[@Redhunt86]

@@ThePooper3000 they wouldn't be in a trade war with the US if there was

[@richard3921]

he just killed his own career.

[@nowonmetube]

Him: I'm going to destroy this man's own carrier

[@jbzhummerh2gamer]

Or you could say "This man is about to end his whole career."

[@TomatoGatcha]

He didn’t deserve his career in the first place

[@Numeriku]

Inb4 he changes his name and does this all over again.

[@MrHoneuma]

Unfortunately, probably not. They're Chinese, so they'll just keep doing it in China and wait until people forget.

[@HellGatyr]

"can i copy your homework?" "sure but chan..." "ok ty bye"

[@CYXNIGHT]

Writes it in blue pen instead black

[@ghostratsarah]

I was in middleschoolmath class, I had to stay behind for an hour to do catch up work after a long absence. My teacher called in my homeroom teacher and I heard them muttering in the corner going over a couple kids' homework. Math teach asked "does this look like copying? It looks like they just changed a couple words." And Homeroom responded saying that absolutely was not those kids' normal style of work. I had to hold back my side splitting laugh. I let my friends copy me, but we were smart enough to make sure we showed alternate and personalized methods of making our conclusions. This guy's the most careless plagiarist ever. (Not condoning plagiarism, and I don't do it since I'm not a kid in math class, but pointing out that he could have gotten away with it without anyone knowing.)

[@BirdOfHermes83]

Very long comment!

[@ghostratsarah]

@@BirdOfHermes83 tl;dr

[@Jason_Ultimate]

*copies answers character for character in a different colored pen* "There! Done!"

[@mtallmen184]

I'm almost impressed that he ripped off about 20 different sources in 4 minutes

[@michaellorah9051]

And he blended them all together so well that I wouldn't have known if it wasn't said.

[@trisjack82]

Michael Lorah that’s shocking for me just melding all those works is really impressive animation work, if he can do that why does he rip off?

[@michaellorah9051]

@@trisjack82 because its easier

[@trisjack82]

Michael Lorah a waste of talent I guess

[@cherrygrabber7172]

Not literally through all 4 minutes, there are segments in which video game footage is shown, so basically about a minute of animation in total. Also, I would’ve really liked to see even more of his “work” that made him an award winning animator, and then see it tore to shreds with additional evidence. Has anybody tried via the way back machine or something?

[@chaotixthefox]

Plagiarist: *Has a job* Plagiarist: I'm gonna end my whole career.

[@futurevisionarchives3995]

@Non-Ugandan Knuckles yeah, and that sucks... but you are engaging in whataboutism right now, cause your point had nothing to do with the conversation at hand

[@WhirlingMusic]

@@futurevisionarchives3995 he made a point.

[@mtnd02.06]

@@WhirlingMusic Yes, on a comment that had nothing to do with their own.

[@WhirlingMusic]

@@mtnd02.06 Still made a point

[@knerf999]

isn't that every time you plagiarist though?

[@iwakeupandboomimarat]

i dont know how that person expected to steal from steven universe, that fandom alone wouldve gotten the video down

[@aR0ttenBANANA]

And if not CN wouldn't let it slide.

[@Ryukai-san]

There's an animation clip of Sousuke from Naruto too. LOL, seriously, how the heck he thought people wouldn't notice that! is just beyond comprehension xD

[@TheMattsem]

Yeah this is actually doesn't make any sense

[@21swords76]

steven universe fans are degenerates but I applaud them for catching this asshole.

[@KuraudoSutoraifu7]

Steven Transveres is ass. Who cares. The fan base is worse than the kkk and hate groups.

[@TheOdMan]

The title of this video feels like a riddle.

[@dislikebutton6596]

The answer is 5

[@ConnorTheUndying]

Is that a duck?

[@liFE-gt6or]

It’s a hippopotamus

[@reyntime1950]

I cannot see I cannot wave I'm not a man But yet i shave

[@dmwanderer9454]

@@reyntime1950 A rude blind bearded woman.

[@oppositealive3966]

“Ima end this whole mans career!” *staring into the mirror*

[@JordoniusGames]

Haha..

[@zooso3785]

Wow dude. Funny...

[@Jason_Ultimate]

...well I liked it at least...

[@thrace_bot1012]

14:00 Yong : "Just don't Plagiarize!" *P l a g i a r i s m rate drops to ZERO*

[@revolvingworld2676]

Starving people should just eat *World hunger drops to 0%*

[@akatoshslayer7599]

@@revolvingworld2676 Yeah, why don't those poor starving people just eat cake?

[@IamSpacedad]

Hi there, professional 2D animator here - This scandal has pretty much ripped through my entire industry and community because of the extent of plagiarism this guy is guilty of. Some of the people I know have met this guy, who passed his work off as genuine, and got away with it because people didn't realize what he was doing until now. There's no excuse for what Kevin Bao did, and he should be held up as an example of what you must never do in our craft. Also as a side note: Re-animating someone else's work is not unheard of WHEN IT IS CREDITED OR HAS PERMISSION. (It's also okay to copy existing animated work to study or learn, so long as you do not steal credit for the work - studies of other people's work are okay when you say it's a study and give proper credit.) Disney used to recycle its own animation in different productions all the time - and that's fine because Disney owns the work and can do with it what they want. If Kevin Bao had gotten full permission to re-animate stuff with his own style, it would also be a very different story - but this is a guy who built his career pretty much on wholesale theft. No excuse. Oh yeah, one way this guy could have saved his bacon is if he didn't trace the stuff he was 'copying' and just riffed on it from completely different angles and shit. He could have also shot his own live-action reference and then used that as a basis for the animation, with the stuff he wound up 'plagiarizing' merely used as a point of inspiration rather than something to be traced & stolen. I think he thought he could get away with what he was doing because he used enough of his own surface style to cover up what he was doing - but that was NOT enough. You can pull inspiration from things to create your own original spin on an idea, but you should NEVER STEAL WORK. (And if you do use someone else's work, get permission!)

[@masrr3678]

Ain't a big deal

[@PusoSkateCo]

I also animate. Yeah it is obvious. But we act like he didnt put any body of work into it. There is a clear double standard i see here. Music tries to as you call it "plagiarize" artists - that's ok we just call it inspire, video games "borrow" aspects and mechanics from eachother. I understand how much work animation is. But yet again- we act all upset and asif he just pushed a button. Saying none of the artwork is original work is laughable. Thats still hours of work.

[@WhoTookMyMirr]

@@PusoSkateCo tracing an original and passing it off as 100% yours with a new coat of paint over everything is still plagiarism

[@IamSpacedad]

​@@PusoSkateCo We animators know what work goes into the timing and posing of animation; the posing, acting, and physical feel of all of that is a lot of hard work. The surface-level drawing Kevin did in his own 'style' is the icing on a cake he stole (by very evident tracing, I might add) rather than baked himself. He stole the guts of what we do and put a quick coat of paint on it.

[@GarethXL]

ehh... so we going to need to credit everytime somebody do a gainax/sunrise pose, shaft tilt, itano circus, yutapon cubes, what ever the hell studio trigger is churning out call, etc etc etc? other then what trigger is doing since their style is so experimental/unconventional that it could be call a signature, most of the example shown here are pretty conventional and over used in some expect that calling it an intentional plagiarism is a little reaching. using them as a reference sure but calling plagiarism is a little hard if it isn't for the Disney ties.

[@TheHuskyGT]

"Did you think no one would notice, or you just didn't care?" "Yes"

[@XsaviXander]

Y r u so mad?

[@dooplon5083]

@@XsaviXander That is the weakest trolling attempt I've yet to see

[@XsaviXander]

@@dooplon5083 Who are you again?

[@dooplon5083]

@@XsaviXander it's a mystery :o

[@EastPort10]

"...did you think you were being discreet, or did you just not give a damn?" - Qrow Branwen, RWBY

[@Asexual_Individual]

What really amazes me is this guy thought he could get away with copying Steven Universe of all things, something that a lot of the internet has its eye on, with even people who aren't interested in SU are familiar with. As soon as I saw the clip copied from the SU movie, I immediately recognised it as Spinel. Did it never cross this guys mind that copying a very popular animation that loads of people are guaranteed to have seen, would result in him getting caught through people recognising that very unique movement?

[@xana3961]

In addition to doing it for Sony who the internet also has their eye on?

[@miguelcapetillo7160]

I mean... he ripped off a lot of different artists (some small, some more well-known...), but even something like FLCL (an anime that despite being really well-known, probably hasn't the same instant recognition as SU) isn't from a movie that just came out THIS EXACT SAME YEAR! How did the guy think he was gonna get away with that, again?

[@ghostratsarah]

I HATE SU, avoid any exposure like the plauge and immediately block from my memory anything I couldn't avoid (PTSD thing, not the show's fault). But even I recognized the SU style immediately. My PTSD caught it before I even processed the first second. SU has an incredibly unique squash/stretch and artistic flare to every movement. It really is a shame that I can't enjoy such a beautiful work of art.

[@wizardsmix7961]

its been completely restyled. the su animation looks like dogshit compared to what the plagiarizer turned it into

[@miguelcapetillo7160]

@@wizardsmix7961 despite your thoughts on the artsyle or animation in the original show, it doesn't change the fact that the plagiarizer didn't restyle or turn anything into nothing, he TRACED over the key frames of the work Takafumi Hori made for the movie, as well as all the other creators he ripped off. That, for me, doesn't deserve the sort of acknowledgment you are suggesting.

[@fructose589]

Btw guys, I came up with a new word. It’s called “plagiarism”. I thought of it myself :3

[@VikingBadass94]

Now this is an avenger level threat

[@ShadicgunMan]

"What did it cost?" "Everything."

[@jedi1josh]

I just invented a new joke. I tell people that I invented the word "plagiarism". I thought of that myself.

[@fructose589]

Josh Combs :0

[@giraffeorganic]

So you have chosen death.

[@geoleo965]

That's the beauty of *stupidity* itself: *having no limits and going beyond.* Quite inspiring & philosophical in some way, if you ask me.

[@ChunkyJo]

As somebody who's entire livelihood is based on creativity and originality, I can confidently say this guy's career is dead. As high profile as he is, nobody's going to touch him again if his name is attached to any work.

[@geoleo965]

@@ChunkyJo Just like the dude from IGN, hopefully.

[@Sorrelhas]

What bliss it might be, to walk onward not giving a damn about the way ahead. Truly, the stupid are the vanguard of the human race.

[@geoleo965]

@@Sorrelhas Stop it, you're making me start to feel infatuated with your poetic words.

[@Sorrelhas]

@@geoleo965 Imagine being a sapient human being on this Earth that looks at Steven Universe, a cartoon controversial to some, beloved by others, but *known to all* and thinking "Ah yes, gonna steal that, no one will notice". Imagine being a sapient human being on this Earth that steals from anime and sells the spoils to Sony, who will put your work on the internet. How can a professional, who has worked for Disney, not consider any kind of consequence? *Is this the timeline Doctor Strange was talking about* ?

[@foliagedcloud8096]

It’s one thing to plagiarise professional animation but to plagiarise STUDENTS WORK is absolutely unforgivable for a “award winning” animator. I hope Kevin Bao never finds work ever again and has his awards stripped from his name.

[@KaiKrimson56]

@@benjaminpeterson455 Ironically, his video promoted Persona 5 R.

[@Aheguuuh]

@@jakelee7083 It's going to take a lot to come back from this. Receiving an award for plagiarism, on top of plagiarizing for a while now, is pretty hefty. Strip him of his award and make him earn his reputation back legitimately.

[@Aaron-is8yt]

Damn you'd think he would've killed someone for people to call for such drastic measures. Sure the guy was out of line and he should be punished for that but to genuinely wish from the bottom of your heart for someone to never get another job again, essentially ruining his life is a bit far. Maybe focus that hateful nastiness to people who actually deserve it.

[@foliagedcloud8096]

@@Aaron-is8yt A guy with actual connection to the industry vs A student trying to find a place and name for him/her self in the industry. From the student's perspective, what the hell are you supposed to do when your work gets stolen my a big wig? would people even believe you? Kevin Bao knows that they have no power to fight for their claims. You have to be a special kind of asshole to do that and this wasn't even the first time he stole from smaller animators. He's been doing this for YEARS. literally nothing was original about him, that's how lazy he was. When I say "never get a job"I meant within the industry, he can go sweep some floors for all I care. No offence to janitors, thx for keeping the... well everything clean.

[@Aaron-is8yt]

@@foliagedcloud8096 First up, let me apologise. I read back what I wrote and the last part made me kinda sound like a dick, I wasn't referring to you as horrible or nasty. I agree, he held a position of respect and responsibility and was obviously quite renowned in the industry, and unfortunately, he got lazy and stole from a student and he should be definitely be punished for that. At the same time, I don't believe that he should have essentially his entire life pulled apart in front of a mob of people that honestly want nothing more than to see him suffer for his actions. People make mistakes, I've made mistakes, we have all made mistakes but now we have the internet and those mistakes will follow you for life now, you can never get away from it. Whenever someone googles his name now, they will know him as essentially a thief because that's what he did. He now has millions of people harassing him, calling for an end to his career, for all he's ever achieved to be stripped from him and then for him to be banned from the industry he has made a living from. That is harsh and heartless, he is still a human and still deserves respect. He's no Hitler or Stalin, he's a plagiarist. This will hang over him for the rest of his life, and he's pretty young so he has a long way to go under all that pressure.

[@skookathing]

When my artwork gets plagiarized, that's when I know I've made it

[@hubguy]

Probably would be strangely flattering lol On one hand your art is stolen. On the other you’re considered good enough to steal from

[@Sil3ntLynx]

Hope you make it And sue them to Hell, my dude

[@XkitkatersX]

It's defo one of the most backhanded compliments an artist can get in a way! It's more upsetting than flattering overall tho, especially on a scale like this Dx

[@hubguy]

Kitkaters oh yeah of course. Especially if it gets more attention than the original work

[@gungrave254]

imitation is the greatest form of flattery they say.

[@Kingpinn02]

inb4 that one FLCL fan gets pissed that he didn't pronounce it "Fooly Cooly".

[@aesthetic_apples888]

Yong aint no true weeb! Lol

[@caav56]

It reminded me of this funny NGE/FLCL comic. "We ran out of LCL... so we filled the entry plugs with FLCL".

[@FelisImpurrator]

Slightly late by 4 minutes. In after.

[@kgamer1715]

I was about to go gamer mode til I saw this, took the words out of my mouth

[@demonvictim]

He got caught because of weebs

[@TigerBears11]

“Dude, can I copy your homework?” “Yeah, just don’t make it too similar” > Changes literally nothing but the colour of ink

[@VanTesla]

The biggest joke would be that the person copied the name as well 😂

[@ChiwwySiwwyWiwwy]

@@VanTesla that actually happened in my freshmen year of highschool. I was dead.

[@VanTesla]

@@ChiwwySiwwyWiwwy I believe it. It's happened before and people can be really dumb when trying to cheat/be lazy.

[@awesomeruben]

@@VanTesla I swear at that point that would be fucking hilarious to see😂

[@hiropisku1078]

Kevin Bao: "Should I develop my skills and create my own animation?" Kevin Bao: "No, no-one will ever be able to tell where I got this animation from!" *Slices together various pieces of animation from various sources on a wide audience Sony Video*

[@TripleBarrel06]

The worst part is that his sources are animations with huge followings of dedicated fans too, it's incredible that he thought he could get away with it in the first place.

[@Ehh.....]

The Japanese dont watch animation! its the perfect crime!

[@TheKenttt]

It's kind of scary watching someone's career die like this.

[@maryford3676]

That was his own fault, tbh. Japan has sakuga nerds. What made him even THINK no one was going to notice it?

[@adamjamestattoos]

It's well deserved

[@gippooverground8067]

@@adamjamestattoos not really

[@TSPH1992]

I just laugh about it

[@gippooverground8067]

@Trololol Trololol I think otherwise because he did nothing wrong, plagiarism is a big word in this context, so he doesn't deserve it

[@wanderergaming358]

He just totally nuked his career and finances 😂

[@REXae86]

All in one fell swoop 😂

[@DeadliestDuck]

Untamed Warrior He’ll probably get sued a LOT, bye bye retirement funds! XD

[@ultimusG]

Unless he starts animation under a different moniker. People might not know and/or provided if Sony does not sue him for likely damaging their Playstation brand.

[@MeidoInHebun]

@@richardgray3112 only in China.

[@alex_9949]

You guys really want his life ruined for this?

[@3Guys1Video]

I’m making a channel called BongYea I swear to god this comment was not stolen whatsoever

[@SpoopyChicken]

Plagiarizing a plagiarized parody. The inception is unending

[@GerardoBecerra597]

At least make one that's actually good.

[@peachflavored]

ThongYea, that is the way.

[@2ScoopsPlz]

Actually a 200 IQ joke. Noice.

[@SubliminaIMessages]

Yea

[@azriqhaikalazahari7148]

Not gonna lie, the art direction of the “plagiarism video” really awesome looking. Have those cartoony abstract that really mesmerising. Sad that the core animation is taken from others work.

[@FallicIdol]

It gives Sony a bad look but it clearly wasn’t there doing.

[@alphapt9370]

Well, yes and no. They paid top dollar to have a good artist to do that work. The premisse was original work. That, obviously, wasnt what they got. They were respectful of that, and took it down as soon as they realized they've been scammed. Probably now they're doing their own investigation, not for just the PR statement, but to seek legal ways to deter future smart asses to do the same. For them, suing the company who connected them and the artist is not even a drop in the bucket of money that they get yearly. But it makes the message crystal clear. Probably because of this, future artists will be more scrutinized than before. Or they'll not look as much for outside work, keeping it in-house to prevent these issues. So it pretty much fucked up the good freelance artists who dont want to be tied down to one company. Either way, Sony did what a self respecting company would do. Quite sure the PR message to answer this will be devoid of all soul and morally ambiguous, but that's what PR messages usually are.

[@akewlen2888]

*their

[@Reydriel]

@ They didn't know it was plagiarised, they didn't make it themselves lol. Imagine having to be responsible for a plumber you paid for not doing the job correctly.

[@seri-ously8591]

@ It's difficult to identify plagiarism until you compare source material and the subject side by side. You're mostly looking at this issue in hindsight which won't mend any of the damage that this lowblow of a plagiarist did to not only Sony but other companies that most likely didn't know of his methods.

[@mwperk02]

@@alphapt9370 Why would sony sue the people who connected them to the artist? They did not perform an illegal act the artist did. They will likely sue him for all the money he just cost them and then some.

[@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668]

This is a totally original video that I came up with, because I am LongLea, Long out. ^Plagiarism^

[@Welchlocket]

BongBea Bong out!

[@ksenijas1783]

Glad to see 2019 bringing down bad professionals and people

[@D0NU75]

I lost it when of all the things, they ripped off things from SU which at the same time blatantly rips off from anime shows.

[@edwhatshisname3562]

"professionals"* Fixed

[@SummerRainer]

The orange idiot you're likely referring to isn't out just yet

[@nobooty69]

ksenija s cancel culture is cancer

[@reyeus5282]

@@SummerRainer More like the withered old demon that suicides people.

[@ultimusG]

The steven universe movie came out recently. This guy must've rushed to draw his scenes lolol

[@leevc2037]

Amir I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one to notice that!!

[@300IQPrower]

He clearly is more than capable of animating his own stuff, guy is just lazy and corrupt

[@EnkiDenki7]

I know a guitarist that can play incredibly difficult songs, but when he writes his own music, it's dog shit. Copying isn't hard, creating takes talent. This guy isn't lazy, he just doesn't have the ability to create, he's a beta artist.

[@looots1320]

EnkiDenki7 ain’t a excuse, a lot of singers have hired composers for them to sing

[@alexdhamp]

Considering the fact that he _redrew_ everything...lazy doesn't quite describe him. Just unoriginal.

[@EnkiDenki7]

@@looots1320 What excuse? Singing it it's own art, but it's a performing art, and yes, singers do often hire actually songwriters/composer to make their music. They know they can't write music on their own. Not sure what you're trying to say. If anything, this guy was meant to be the told what to animate, he doesn't have a vision to create his own.

[@ericbazinga]

This reminds me of a similar situation I read one time where someone made royalty stock images of VHS tapes. He later found out that those images were used without his permission as part of the cover art for the Stranger Things season 1 BluRay sets. He reached out to Netflix about this, asking for royalties cause it was his image, especially since he was a broke college student and the extra income would really help. Netflix told him that they had a third party produce the sets, and apologized on their behalf. They gave the creator royalties for the sets as well as a copy of the box set in question. It was the best possible outcome and I'm glad the guy got the royalties for his work.

[@blankpage9277]

I'm surprised Netflix didn't just try to sue him into oblivion for wanting payment for his stolen work.

[@sirshrooma]

Another Channel why are you surprised, did you know of cases where Netflix did such things before?

[@earthwormjim91]

Netflix has seemed to be pretty chill in a lot of situations

[@IamSpacedad]

Yeah, giving out royalties is definitely what should be done in a situation like that. However the fact that that guy got lucky with Netflix being merciful is an exception to the rule. The rule is that often big companies that commit plagiarism will screw over the little guy and then go unpunished for it, basically abusing the court system to screw over people trying to seek justice & payment for their work. (On the flipside of that, there's also the copyright trolls who basically abuse the court system to try to steal other people's credit & work.)

[@pagatryx5451]

@@earthwormjim91 I mean I hate Netflix's guts but they aren't stupid when it comes to that sort of stuff. It IS stupidity not to just give the college student some money anyway but I know a lot of companies wouldn't cause they don't understand how important public perception can be, especially in the era of whiny people on the internet.

[@speznaz212]

Yong: "Plagiarism will catch up to you especially on professional level " Every single programmer in the world: I AM IN DANGER!

[@Striker775]

This is why more people need to have personal comments between lines of code.

[@XsaviXander]

@@Striker775 You can just remove those comments. There's a reason closed and open source exist.

[@ZeroCanalX]

I mean, that's how Silicon Knights died.

[@bunnipop1867]

It's even encouraged to use other people's coding when building sites, at least it is at my school lmao. I'm in IT Web development and Digital Web Design and we use peoples coding to fit the webpage we're designing. There may be tweaks here and there but for the most part..

[@XsaviXander]

@@bunnipop1867 That is exactly how it is. My IT professors even encourage us to do that.

[@bvicc20]

Jay Jonah Jamison would've terminated that ass immediately.. JJ: "Pack your things, get out of my building." Eddie: "I was just try-.." JJ: "YOU'RE FIRED!!!!"

[@blankpage9277]

@DAVID YEUNG yep. Cranky but a rare honest newsman. Seriously, your odds of finding a shiny pokemon are higher than that of finding an honest person in the media.

[@bvicc20]

@DAVID YEUNG Yup that's him bro

[@bvicc20]

@@blankpage9277 Dude, spot on! JJ can be annoying but he don't shy away from the truth even if it was him at fault

[@randomduck8679]

Another Channel but he does lie when it comes to Spider-Man

[@DarkSharingan21]

@Non-Ugandan Knuckles You really hate Stan Lee, huh?

[@Sombody123]

"Good artists copy, great artists STEAL." "Uhh umm, yeah... How's that working out for you?"

[@arcknight_bk2o183]

There are people who have got it great because no one really caught them. This guy just got caught by chance but there a millions out there copying someone else's work, and getting by their life while making other people miserable.

[@cherrydragon3120]

@@arcknight_bk2o183 wouldnt say by chance... he made the animation foor a HUGE company. And stole animations by stuff that has Huge followings

[@cherrydragon3120]

@Non-Ugandan Knuckles seen you say this multiple times. You clearly got something against stan lee.

[@arcknight_bk2o183]

@@cherrydragon3120 I mean yeah.. but I am talking about the bigger picture. Like this is one guy who got caught when everyday millions slip away. Some legit ask people to do their work and the other guy can't even say no and never gets credit for it.

[@asscheeks3212]

Arc Knight_bk2o1 include China and that number of plagiarists increased by a billion.... China is full of legal plagiarism

[@vDullahan]

Game Journalists: "Ah shit, here we go again."

[@schleepy6362]

"First time?"

[@TheStarBot]

Never doubt on how much YoungYea's audience can managed to blame / make fun of game journalist on a situation where they have nothing do with anything

[@kelp7060]

@@TheStarBot I'm all for having a stab at "journalists", but I agree. I have no idea how anyone can make that connection here.

[@schleepy6362]

@@TheStarBot Well no, I think he meant that game journalists know how it feels to be screwed over by one bad apple in the bunch, the whole Filip Miucin deal? And now a VERY similar thing's happening to Sony, thus: "here we go again" XD Don't think he was blaming journalists, at least I'm not.

[@vDullahan]

@@schleepy6362 You're correct. Also it's a joke so it's only meant for a kek.

[@ihaveaname699]

Listen, as a budding artist, this is just... really?? He's clearly talented enough to make his own animation, so why doesn't he??? It's just laziness. I mean, he stole from Steven Universe. STEVEN. UNIVERSE. How did he expect to get away with this?!

[@PomuLeafEveryday]

i have a name Probably a time crunch issue.

[@masrr3678]

It ain't a big deal

[@IamSpacedad]

Having looked at his work, his talent is skin-deep. He doesn't have enough understanding to compose original scenes himself with that kind of energy and dynamism present in the work he was stealing from. This is someone who basically tried to do an end-run around the learning process of becoming an original animator with your own understanding & voice in the craft, and got caught. All of us in animation are at varying levels of skill and talent, and we're all trying to get better at whatever our own pace is. This guy cheated.

[@ARMIV4]

@@PomuLeafEveryday time crunch would explain one or two briefly aped shots. It's a lack of creativity and artistic ability that leads to this being almost entirely ripped off.

[@phobod1]

@@PomuLeafEveryday yea he's def used to getting down to due dates and tracing others animations to make his deadline

[@nebufabu]

A point of grammar authoritarianism: "to oust"="to throw out, dismiss, fire" "to out"="to make public."

[@kungfuskull]

Let me guess, you cant say the new "n word" because of the suthoritarian policies of youtube. 🙄 ffs.

[@nebufabu]

@@kungfuskull Nah, I just like to play around with stale metaphors.

[@a-blivvy-yus]

@@kungfuskull "new"? I'm a little confused by that description of it.

[@ColtonWalker073]

@@a-blivvy-yus The new "n word" refers to Hitler's merry men in tights.

[@thelexicon7294]

Thank you. I came to see if someone would point this out. Also, I really don't see why this comment would frustrate anyone. If anything, I suspect Yong would really appreciate it. You want to make sure you speak properly if you're a gaming news, reviews and discussions channel. Me out.

[@strippinheat]

It's called "tracing," to be specific. Not "copy and paste."

[@walkthebrokenpath0]

Yep if I remember correctly the main artist from an anime called no game no life traced a bunch of art and used it at the end of episodes as stills. All he did was replace his characters with the originals and used their poses and settings and that was enough to get the anime cancelled and make a mess of his career.

[@mxporygon2]

@@walkthebrokenpath0 Didn't that show also had problems with some stolen magic circle design?

[@gambello1195]

Yeah, rotoscoping. It's used by many many animators. It's not plagiarism per se

[@TheNutzak]

Yong: "FLCL" Men of culture: smh my head

[@aesthetic_apples888]

It's Fooly Cooly/Furi Kuri. The creator abhors the shorthand, "FLCL". Yong aint no true weeb like us.

[@TCGJake]

TheNutzak you that smh means shake my head so when you say smh my head you’re saying shake my head my head

[@666spalony]

@@TCGJake yeah, rip in peace

[@redey1290]

TCG Jake I think that's part of the joke

[@Vashy434]

Um, I watched the show a hundred times over yet still say F.L.C.L

[@sniperfinn590_7]

I love this channel, gives you news but without being boring.

[@Jack10016]

Bacalhau da Noruega The tone of his voice doesn’t affect how entertaining it is.

[@sniperfinn590_7]

Bacalhau da Noruega but it’s still entertaining somehow and that is to be credited

[@ferminangelcarhuajulcaguil1196]

News ✔ Boring✔

[@luigissidekick861]

Yeah It’s basic, but very enjoyable to watch

[@Virjunior01]

Jesus. I spent a single year in school for animation before dropping it, but I still got that demon-eye. That shit is EGREGIOUS. Animators work harder than almost anyone else to earn their bread, and that's busted.

[@theart-theist6049]

first thing I thought when I saw the first frame thumbnail was "oh I bet it's prolly just gonna be similar" Nope, it's definitely plagiarized, it just looks like drawing over lines and changing things up a bit, but ultimately, you can't change movement without doing the hard work. I know this because I do this myself quite a lot when I make animated gifs for memes, lol. It's how you can make an original meme yet keep it recognizable to something. I assure anyone having doubts animations itself cannot just be a coincidence. Art? Sure, sometimes it can, poses? Yeah absolutely, happens all the time, but movements down to the line art frame for frame? No, it's plagiarized.

[@blankpage9277]

The "artist" who did this needs to be blacklisted from every industry going forward. Plagiarists should be ostracised and made an example of.

[@lilliana1605]

He'll never work again. His work can't even be trusted. No company is going to take that risk. What a dumbass 😖 career down the drain.

[@akba666]

He's basically done. No company is going to risk hiring him.

[@Robbedem]

@@lilliana1605 he can work again. Just not as an artist. ;)

[@TheSolitaryEye]

Every industry? Are you suggesting this guy should just go on unemployment then? Nah. He should go into manual labour. No way to plagiarize that. Just gotta put in the work. It'd be good for him. He'd probably have to learn his lesson.

[@IamSpacedad]

He already is. Companies can't risk the legal troubles that would come from someone like that. Or the damage to their own reputation.

[@TheLegionGamer869]

Betting that his apology video will be plagiarize too.

[@0LoneTech]

You mean the standard "I'm sorry you feel you have reason to be upset" one? Surely with a dash of "this hurt me more than you, I'm the victim". An actual apology would surprise me.

[@elinfini]

@LoneTech Don't forget including a dog in it for extra sympathy points.

[@cherrydragon3120]

XD imagine he plagarize the apology video of that other guy who plagarized game news outlets

[@mtnd02.06]

@@0LoneTech So basically the FineBros equivalent of a video. Like their "apology" for trying to copyright react videos across the internet.

[@JustaBlue]

"I've made a serve lack in judgement"

[@ReesesCupsable]

When you have the talent but you just don't have the imagination/creativity. This guy just NUKED his career!

[@jkclark5204]

But, how does that even happen? Like, I'm a random asshole on the internet and I can visualize a sequence that shows various video game-style whimsical images and action. It's not even the most far out concept. This guy went to school for animation and couldn't come up with 4 minutes of orginal material?

[@giraffeorganic]

Guys chill, he just forgot to cite his sources.

[@TheAbsoluteZxero]

Phillip Muicin: I told you it’d catch up man Kevin Bow: shut up

[@crazychristyler714]

Plagiarist : 'I'll Steal it! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!!' Everybody : 'Are you sure about that?'

[@wizzenberry]

CrazyChrisTyler the internet, never underestimate the power

[@wizzenberry]

Jibo Da Grey the key frames are traced, he was even lazy covering his tracks. If your gonna plagiarise atleast be clever about it . The trick is to create original work. lol

[@AliasUndercover]

Alright, Dan Backslide.

[@wizzenberry]

Jibo Da Grey that’s a bit of a false equivalency

[@VikingBadass94]

That is the equivalent of stealing an item in skyrim, without sneaking, right directly in front of the guards and the whole townspeople.

[@DarkZerol]

IGN would like to hire the plagiarist.

[@andrianve5310]

Why would IGN even hire such a person?

[@hunterwhite3813]

My initial thoughts on title: "Was it Philip Mucin again?".

[@oliver_twistor]

Mine as well. :)

[@jheronimmu]

I'm out of the loop, admittedly. Mind explaining who is this Philip Mucin guy?

[@andrellhardy6780]

@@jheronimmu so Philip mucin is a guy who ign fired for plagiarizing review on the game dead cells next more information found out he has been doing this before he even worked with them which include Nintendo life, edgadget, several forum's and several Wikipedia pages.

[@jatkinson85]

@@jheronimmu If you want more info just search Yong's youtube page, he has an extensive set of videos on this cretin.

[@avatar61]

Big fan yong from the Caribbean been here since mgs 5 speculations. Congrats on all you do

[@MercerVerse]

Yeah I remember when he was at 70k subs. Incredible growth

[@StarscreamSigma]

Same here. I'm from Puerto Rico and I subscribed to Yong when one of his videos reached my recommendations.

[@TurkishChubs]

Me: So what did he copy (15 minutes later) Me: E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G 😮

[@awesomeruben]

What did it cost? Everything Lol

[@syfyky]

Of course his name is Kevin. I could definitely see a Kevin doing this lol

[@gunnart48]

It's funny because the only SU character that Steven actively hates is named Kevin.

[@christopherpaxton9823]

Ironically, he's Chinese. Lmfaooooo

[@returnfreedom]

no creative mind those chinese

[@Goochigoop]

Yes let us generalize to all the peoples.

[@marctradler7014]

@@Goochigoop Yes, that racist trope that Chinese corporations steal intellectual property of everyone else because their government supports them and doesn´t give a shit about international law...easily debunked by reality. Come on which planet are you from?

[@TSPH1992]

And here I thought mainland Chinese were supposed to be clever

[@Redhunt86]

@@marctradler7014 would there be a trade war with the US if it was false?

[@blankpage9277]

They literally traced everything. I hope the person responsible never works in the industry again.

[@giomjava]

How about we all realize that he didn't rape or kill anyone? What is it with you people with condemning others to hell fire?

[@Marcuscaravan]

@@giomjava Hardly hell fire. Just a fitting punishment for his lack of care and respect for the art.

[@giomjava]

@@Marcuscaravan "never works in the industry again" is pretty much hell fire. Do you expect the to be flipping burgers for the rest of their life?

[@connorh2215]

Gio Mag well when someone works on something for years and someone else simply copy pasted that thing and claims it’s their own work and makes money off of it you would be a little pissed, the reason this guy will likely be barred from returning to the industry because if they worked for any company in that industry it would likely tarnish the companies image

[@DeadNoob451]

@@giomjava well come back after somebody steals your work so we can tell you to chill out.

[@hetiswim]

Disney did this with The Lion King as well.

[@nathanthom8176]

Every animation in the Lion King was made by scratch. Lion King's story is very similar to the anime Kimba the White Lion but has sufficient changes to kind of use the 'inspired by' excuse.

[@RaiKageRyu]

@@nathanthom8176 I thought he was making a joke about the CGI rendition trying to hard to be a 1:1 with the animated original.

[@splat-a-tat6780]

Animator: I’ll just copy from MULTIPLE sources so nobody will be able to track down the original!

[@Mbentley83]

Yong Yea has been outed that he doesn't know what ousted means

[@nowonmetube]

In before the "Nahh, plagiarism is just coincidence" people

[@nirast2561]

It's 'intentional coincidence', the lesser known cousin of 'surprise mechanics'.

[@nowonmetube]

@@nirast2561 😂

[@sharif47]

"Naah, plagiarism is just coincidence" and this comment was not plagiarized.

[@monkeysaru3957]

I've already seen people make this excuse about this particular incident. Like...bro, come on. It's literally note for note the same animation. Like, can I just go ahead and try and release a movie under a new name, and then claim that I just happened to think up the exact same fucking movie by chance? "It was just correlated thinking. I pulled from the same ideas as someone else, that's all, it wasn't on purpose that it's literally the exact same fucking thing".

[@joemartinez9786]

radu nicolae and those people are the product of “ Accidental impregnation “

[@Hibernape]

This is a surprise, the fact that someone as big as you covering this at all. Thanks a lot.

[@ChunkyJo]

That's a beauty of Yong. He's never let his popularity go to his head. I've been watching him since 100k and he's been consistent and real the entire time.

[@33melonpaws77]

is this really a small story though? I thought plagiarism was a big deal.

[@GECKman88]

There's a lot of stolen artwork in Disney too, the newer Star Wars comics often have fan art just copy-pasted.

[@nathanthom8176]

Fan art is derivative but the copyright still stays with the owners. A fan artist does not own any copyright on the fan art they create and are subject to the whims of the copyright owner. I still think it is a dick move but legally Marvel are probably not in any wrong doing.

[@tonywoods1226]

Yeah. Disney's fucked up nowadays.

[@liesdamnlies3372]

Nathan Thom You’re only partially correct. The ownership of the fan art rests with the creator. If the copyright holder of the original work it was derived from wants to use it for profit, they still have to make an agreement with that creator. That the fan art is derivative protects the artist from an immediate lawsuit. That said fan art can also even be sold for profit, legally, like with prints. As long as they are substantially transformative works, people are allowed to make money off of their own creative efforts. The holder of the copyright of the original property doesn’t automatically own copyright on all derivative works. This is very much a legal gray area decided most often in court, but only when lawyers actually think it’s close enough for a case to be made. So yes, Disney stealing fan art *is* theft of that work. Whether or not individual fans have the means to go up against such a large corporation in court is different. As a matter of practicality, the difficulties involved in that are what allow Disney to get away with what they are doing, and not any sort of legal footing. They are the biggest bully on the playground and they know it, so they use that power to get away with breaking the law.

[@donloder1]

@@liesdamnlies3372 to me, making money off of a fan art is still a shameless move.

[@liesdamnlies3372]

@@donloder1 Oh it is. Especially when you have the means to either pay the artist or make it yourself. They just know those artists can't dream of having the money to take them to court over it.

[@sebastiendemarce631]

I love how much his accent fires up when he gets heated.

[@hubguy]

Stops putting on his channel voice and starts speaking in his unaltered one

[@VenomEXsoldier]

As an animator... It upsets me that I see something like this...

[@nicktubara]

I just hope it's not your work he copied lol.

[@asscheeks3212]

What’s worse.... China would love to hire this guy because Chinese fully supports these sleazy practices...

[@VenomEXsoldier]

@@nicktubara no, but there are people who work their asses off to create good creative stuff in their animation. And you see this guy who just bullshits his way out.

[@Pete-vz5uj]

There was a time in a recent job, I had been promoted to another role and was backfilling my old one. Part of the old one was organising events for the division. I spent quite a lot of time organising Melbourne Cup day lunch for the office. Had to go to special places around the city to get different kinds of food to also cater to some people's dietary requirements. Arranged additional catering, setup the room, booked it in everyone's calendars, setup games. When i was about finished and gonna tell the boss of the area its all ready, This one girl That was in my team carried a single plate of food from the kitchen and placed it in the room where the boss was and she completely took credit for arranging the whole thing. The boss sent an email out to everyone afterwards thanking her for all her efforts and mentioning me as assisting. I told her good work for setting it all up and she looked me dead in the eye and said it like she genuinely believed what she was saying "Thank You".

[@meowmeowmeow1243]

Oh wow, that is really messed up. On the other hand, that person will have to live with what she did and more (probably not the first time she did stuff like this) for the rest of her life. Some people might play it like they don't care much about what they did, but karma is a bitch and memories will start eating you up from the inside sooner or later.

[@Pete-vz5uj]

@@meowmeowmeow1243 Unless your okay with your actions that is. What's bad to you or me is not worth a seconds thought to some people. Not everyone has a moral conscious. Some people simply use other's, or worse and will never regret it. You ever met somebody, other people warn you about as being difficult. Bet you anything that person truly believes it's everyone else that has a problem towards them, not their actions. Truth is, shit people exist and keep getting away with it but occasionally they encounter somebody that will mess with them back, I don't let Karma take credit for that.

[@arcknight_bk2o183]

Lol, I feel bad for you but I can only shrug man. Plagiarism happens everywhere and not just arts. People don't look at those things though. Nobody is gonna care either. And it's often much more worse. When I saw the video here, I saw enough differences to call it different but I guess that can only happen when he gave enough credits to the inspirations. The direction of the animation was completely copied too.

[@arcknight_bk2o183]

And unless that girl got something special other than thanks, you should not care either and just be careful on your next project.

[@meowmeowmeow1243]

@@Pete-vz5uj i understand. Tho, people can be very different from one another. What i wrote about that person living with herself, was something that reminded me of how i used to be. I hurt a lot of people when i was younger, walked over others without caring. Yet as the years passed and i got older, i started thinking back on what i did, and i couldn't find peace anymore. I ended up searching for people that i haven't seen in 10-15 years and apologising to them. Sadly, some people never change and are difficult until their last breath.

[@Dinjur]

It's sad because even though it's basically traced, it still looks fantastic.

[@elinfini]

Of course, since the stuff that was traced from was fantastic to begin with.

[@MASJYT]

@@elinfini the animations are...but the designs aren't as far as we know...

[@RadMadClad]

Jake Lee I feel like I should remind you of a certain controversy that is basically forgotten about in the Steven Universe fandom, because no one seems to care about it...so I'll just see if you want more info... But let's just say, I can't look at SU the same way again...but you can just ignore me.

[@Dinjur]

@@RadMadClad what controversy?

[@alexdhamp]

Not traced...redrawn. He just rehashed what was happening in them.

[@Gkowi]

As an aspiring animator, this is so frustrating to me. I'm still working so hard to even have decent looking drawings, and this guy is using his drawing abilities to make Bank ripping off others.

[@mightylink65]

Oh yeah, that's definitely traced, like someone was using layers in photoshop to draw over the original frame by frame just with the lines slightly out of place and using different colors.

[@sharif47]

It's not plagiarism. It's just rotoscope on others' animation. Edit: It's a joke, btw.

[@dorkydragon5055]

Awe man back at it again with the surprise mechanics ;p

[@IzukuMidoriya-em3bn]

Surprise rotoscoping

[@sleepfgc]

@@jakelee7083 yeah, isn't it tracing instead of rotoscoping?

[@kittah4]

My brain keeps skipping when you use the word "ousted" when I think you just meant "outed".

[@kendarr]

This guy heard that great artists steels and took it to a whole new level

[@GrizzlyClawss]

I truly expected something like a similar video but this was honestly insane.

[@Cybermaul]

"Ousted." You keep saying that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

[@danielcastaneda4975]

So true lol

[@lovecastle7154]

verb past tense: ousted; past participle: ousted drive out or expel (someone) from a position or place. If Yong is referring to their "place" as their "dirty secret" then the word is appropriate, although "exposed" would have been better. Yong probably means "outed" not "ousted"

[@lovecastle7154]

@@paulroberts3639 like the song says.... "when it comes to oust every weekend"

[@leonardogomez8812]

Cybermaul It means to basically be thrown out?

[@jroggs85]

Yong used a word incorrectly? Please. Surely we're in agreeance that such claims are the epitoam of falsehood and a kurrickachur of unfair criticism.

[@adam-my9sw]

I think he could have got away with it if he said it was paying homage to other shows and telling everyone to guess the references lmao

[@PawsOfFate]

You say that jokingly, but I think people actually would have been more accepting of that since at that point everyone would already know points of the animation are actually stylized references of something else already existing.

[@Labarynthtube]

@@PawsOfFate with cited sources at the end of the video yes I think it would have been ok. Would have had to convince sony to let him do it

[@mwperk02]

@@Labarynthtube and then got the permission of the 20+ sources he seems to have copied from.

[@DemonicAkumi]

Kevin had to Bao out of his line of work when are now finding out he's just a tracer.

[@xxnike0629xx]

Why do people plagiarize especially in this day and age? People will found out if you plagiarized. 🤦‍♂️

[@slipknota7xeg]

Stupidity is at all time high these days. That or the internet just makes it much more noticeable.

[@Dreadjaws]

Well, the guy has been working for several years without being found out. Probably thought he was untouchable. That's the problem with plagiarists: ego.

[@slipknota7xeg]

@@Dreadjaws Glad he finally got caught.

[@AscendantStoic]

Some people (idiots) underestimate weaponized autism .. if they knew they would shit their pants.

[@IamSpacedad]

The simple answer is no one catches them at first so they keep doing it thinking they won't get caught. (Until they do...)

[@geebeepman]

dishonor! dishonor on them! dishonor on their family! dishonor on their cow! commit sudoku!

[@Shadow62x]

It's one thing to be 'inspired' and it's another when someone can compile various videos, then play it side by side, and it's nearly identical.

[@anonymousoff-brand7538]

¨so, what are ya gonna plagiarize?¨ animator: ¨EVERYTHING¨

[@IGoByGhost]

In before the artist says, "It was a homage".

[@nowonmetube]

In before people say "Plagiarism is just a coincidence"

[@VikingBadass94]

@@nowonmetube Do people really say that? I mean, I've seen cases where people take credit for someone's work, namely oc's, but I've never seen someone use that sort of excuse.

[@Ekraelum]

@@VikingBadass94 Yup, they're trying to defend the plagiarist. Mainly saying that he's paying homage. But full sequences are literally TRACED so....

[@nowonmetube]

@@VikingBadass94 if you saw my other comment, someone said the exact opposite. Oh and btw, as you can see on Filip Miucin's KZbin page, there's people in his comments all the time who excuses his criminal bullshit.

[@giomjava]

It's neither an homage nor a coincidence. The work is highly derivative, but all frames still had to be animated properly. It's like a song cover. Nobody gets fucked in the ass for making a song cover. There was no literal "copy and paste" here, despite what Yong says

[@skullcapton499]

I just loved how the community caught up with the bullshit within hours after the video was posted.

[@Holret]

I was about to say "oh okay maybe he stole a few ideas and people are over reacting". but holy shit, he straight up stole EVERYTHING from start to finish!

[@pun1982]

Boomstick gaming, that is the name of the channel the IGN guy plagiarized, just throwing that out there

[@TROBassGuitar]

I get homage, like the boondocks having a fight scene extremely similar to Naruto, but this is an exact copy of many animes all the way through

[@azadalamiq]

was more of a copy of samuria champloo due to their art looking similar.

[@TROBassGuitar]

@@azadalamiq naw there is a homage fight scene with Riley and an old lady, it was the same scene from early Naruto where the snake guy fights Sasuke during their exams in those woods (I'm not even attempting to spell that guys name) but they do alot of homage

[@PoisonInc]

And the countless times people have paid homage to Kanedas bike slide in Akira.

[@TheAverageGamer6]

@@TROBassGuitar orochimaru lol

[@TROBassGuitar]

@@TheAverageGamer6 yes

[@damienk777]

1:58 Quick tip for you @YongYea, clicking the middle mouse button will open the link in a new tab.

[@Muteki117]

Thanks for the tip, LoL.

[@noellesato311]

Oh I needed this tip too thanks

[@liquidhydration]

This is a useful tip

[@Toberumono]

For Mac users: command + click

[@tehberral]

I knew the Ctrl click thing but I never knew this. See? Reading YT comments can be useful.

[@Dysfunction2860]

Kevin: I'm about to end my whole career.

[@cured_bacon647]

So you’re going to plagiarize other peoples comment? Lol. People will never learn

[@Dysfunction2860]

@@cured_bacon647 Sssshhhhhhh Don't expose me like that lol

[@cured_bacon647]

Function lol my fault! ❤️

[@RenegadeBastard]

Filip Miucin comes to mind... 🤔

[@Hollyclown]

Bring in the “why you lyin” meme.

[@mothra__13]

It's sad. He has a nice aesthetic style (though maybe he stole that too), but he literally just layered it over the top of other people's shit.

[@FuryLobo]

What's even stupider is copying the animation concept but changing colors is alot of goddam work. Who the hell plagiarize's work but end up doing so much work either way?

[@medecko4394]

1 year later. The more shameful thing is that this guys art is actually very cool. Its a shame he used it like this. An as impressive as this is. Tracing hard work from other animations/artists is a scum thing to do. Even this man should have realized it back then.

[@DB123infane]

Why steal from Steven universe animators wtf

[@lightningonlycommentsonce5824]

Ikr, they're not even good enough to be worth stealing from.

[@Nenilein]

Um, the scene that was stolen was by Takafumi Hori, a former Studio Trigger animator famous for his beautiful work on Little Witch Academia, among other things. The SU crew gets him in whenever they need really good animation, like in the scene that was traced here.

[@DB123infane]

@@Nenilein so not the standard animation team i see.

[@pagatryx5451]

@@DB123infane Yeah, Trigger's animators are fucking amazing. As far as I know that character was from the movie only and that is why he was animated by outside help to look as good as it did. I mean I don't like SU, I prefer anime because that's where the best animators and story tellers are in my opinion, but that character looked great from the clips I saw.

[@9inchpp]

Like Yong said, plagiarist often use small time animations

[@davel231]

The word you want is "outed", not "ousted".

[@Kachuzumaki]

oust: to drive out or expel (someone) from a position or place.

[@33melonpaws77]

@@Kachuzumaki :o

[@mayborneflower]

Grammar Nazi You’ve earned your username.

[@davel231]

@@Kachuzumaki Yes, I know "ousted" is a word, but in the context he's using it the correct word would be "outed".

[@ultimaistanza]

Something else that surprises me beyond just the act itself, is how in-your-face brazen he chose to do it. He barley at all tried to cover up what he stole (not even inverting the scenes) and even chose some really popular and recent works. Like the Steven Universe Movie alone only came out about 3 months ago and the Spinel action scenes in it are some of the most memorable parts as far as it's animation goes. xD

[@I_am_ENSanity]

His ego is so big he thought no one would dare call him out on his plagiarism.

[@Archangelm127]

"outed," not "ousted"

[@servancastillo986]

this is why all of my animations online have my signature. i've had my art stolen before on deviant art back in the day. always make hashtags of your art and sign em or put a watermark, thieves are the worts in the art world. it huts what's already hard enough to do.

[@blankpage9277]

That doesn't stop plagiarists like this Kevin Bao from tracing over it, sadly

[@servancastillo986]

@@blankpage9277 helps tracing it back in case you need proof, hashtags create a time stamp

[@VendettaSoundtracks]

Watermarks dont do anything to protect your work. It takes maybe 5 minutes for someone with half a mind to edit it out using content aware fill and/or the patch tool. Your best bet is to embed your image with metadata that remains in place even across edits.

[@servancastillo986]

@@VendettaSoundtracks you really are missing the point. it's good for me to keep track of my sht so it archives in one spot in the social medias or folios when online. Yes all of this is as you say, but it's one way to make sure you can have a reference for when it happens.

[@VendettaSoundtracks]

@@servancastillo986 I understand. I wasn't trying to be condescending or anything. I just wanted to make sure you knew that signatures dont protect your work since you wouldn't be the first person to think that.

[@Checobeep]

Yong's malapropism of the day: "ousted" instead of "outed". Ousted is removed or kicked out, the meaning is not "exposed" as Yong means here. Stay tuned for more Yongisms right here.

[@zeruszephuros5419]

Oh man....I'm more stunned on how the guy was abe to pinpoint every single anime/cartoon series and the exact sequences this was plagiarised with....on the top of it he had the exact clips for comparison.....!!!!