This PC Building YouTuber Needs to Be Stopped

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Update: 2.5 hours after this video went live, it looks like he set his entire channel to Private. We'll keep an eye on it. Thank you all for the support ❤ Don’t forget to activate Windows on ALL of your gaming PCS! (Use Code ZTT18 to save 25%!) biitt.ly/7MXAR

[@brandonramsaran8312]

Will for sure check it out as im building my system soon

[@hayseedfarmboy]

you could here the micro studder in his voice right before he says "gamers" when you say degenerate, it seems he is using your videos with closed captions turned on as scripts that he hasnt even practiced , i mean its really dirty but kinda of ingenious, i would have never though to do this , but this is definitely minimum effort content unlike anything ive ever imagined before .

[@t3mpl3tw3]

That is crazy. I've been watching your content for like years and I rarely get recommended your shorts. But I was getting his shorts all the time.

[@t3mpl3tw3]

KZbin was like well if you like ztt content you're going to like his

[@The_Chxmist]

His mic sucks anyway

[@ScatterVolt]

I will be distancing myself from him. Thank you for standing up for yourself Zach and ZTT team.

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Thanks Marc, appreciate the support!

[@DominicAngelo-tt1zv]

@@ZachsTechTurf It's so cool that you guys know each other. I watch both of your videos often. I guess it makes sense though.

[@brandonramsaran8312]

@@DominicAngelo-tt1zv For real they are some of the best in my opinion

[@brianr9989]

​@@ZachsTechTurfyou should definitely bring this up to KZbin I personally feel like you have enough evidence to get him banned from the platform.

[@DominicAngelo-tt1zv]

@@brandonramsaran8312 FR real I'll take these guys over Linus Tech Tips or Jay'z Two Cents all day.

[@TechAuditTV]

Can't wait to see his version of this video! 😂

[@LOLXD-sw4ed]

😭

[@ImriGD]

😂LOL

[@danielivanov930]

🤣

[@graphicarc]

Imagine that :D

[@FantasticGreek]

He deleted his channel?

[@techyescity]

That level of plagiarism is insane... Good stuff for calling it out and standing your ground bro.

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Very crazy for sure. Thanks for the support man.

[@nialmurphy9622]

No ammount of tech yes lovin can clean his rep

[@slaydog5102]

RBN Hardware is a high IQ genius, bless him.

[@Neyar_RS]

Yo his back with the same Chanel

[@TheMEZ918]

Thank God you finally noticed him. UPDATE: We did it bois.The rbn guy deleted his channel lmfao...

[@chrisjlocke]

Makes you wonder how many others are out there copying.

[@Idk1_hi]

@@chrisjlockewell get them eventually

[@OroBox_]

Thats why i couldnt search up his channel 💀

[@AlexanderPulsipher]

ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

[@999plays]

W

[@CoalitionGaming]

Sorry to hear about this Zach, thanks for bringing this into the light! His content never crossed my feed but now that I know, I'll be sure to avoid him and his content. Personally, makes me feel pretty terrible that creators like me can try to make it on this platform with proper original content and still struggle horribly. 400+ vids over the last 7+ years and only barely inching close to 40k subs. What a world.

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Thanks Chris! What a world indeed.

[@toddlermindcrafts]

He might be gone. I can’t find his account.

[@Soham-re7lc]

@@toddlermindcrafts He is back again but dont think he is copying ZTT vids..

[@duckspcs]

Bro deleted his account💀

[@athariqokazakiichiro5714]

His channel is back unfortunately 🙄...

[@LionClawed]

He has returned

[@gracegabaza5768]

His back 💩

[@mridulkrishansharma5394]

But only 8 months old videos are there now 😂

[@aight111]

He is back, posted another copy shit 8 hours ago

[@DominicMalta]

I have zero respect for people stealing content. It took me 450 hours to make my video on benchmarking BG3 to find the Best cpu and Gpu combinations and received 13 views, but at least it was all my content I didn’t steal it from somebody else

[@WittyBros]

Good job standing up for yourself and your team. We all now how much work you put into making videos and for him to just copy you is so messed up. You should report him to youtube for violating and impersonating you thanks for all the great videos keep up the great work and hopefully he stops

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Thanks for the support, I appreciate it!

[@WittyBros]

@@ZachsTechTurfAnytime. You actually helped me build my pc. I watched all of you videos which helped me pick out my parts. I appreciate you bro. Thanks for the great content keep it up.

[@stringermcconker3753]

I used to be subbed to this guy and I always thought it was suspicious when he would put out a short talking about the exact same topic you mentioned before. I thought I was a bit crazy to believe that but now I know it's true. It's unbelievable the length people will avoid researching for a video just for attention.

[@Mr.TechnoWiz-ts3cb]

Same

[@JahonCross]

I wasn't sub to him, but dam, I'm shocked because I used to see him shorts all the time

[@charliesretrocomputing]

Sameeee But his channel is deleted now, check it out

[@pachecodc5]

This guy took down his YT, his twitter and any presence in social media, he was about to get demolished.

[@youngwavy16]

🤣yo I noticed that fr

[@hydrix7452]

Update: His channel is back up, but now that he's not copying Zach anymore, it's extremely clear that he has no idea what he's talking about

[@Melvinh_OG]

That's wild someone would do this so blatantly...people really go to any lengths smh

[@chrisjlocke]

If it brings in £££ each month, from his point of view its worth the effort.

[@distortionex3521]

You're a great guy, Zach. You deserve your success and I love your channel. I'm so sorry you were forced to even address a situation such as this. You have your community support my guy.

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Thanks!

[@Geekzmo]

Dude, as a fellow tech youtuber I FEEL YOU. It happened to me, BUT in reverse of your case my copycat has more than 300k subs while I have 10k. But they ran out of ideas, and started copying some of my videos or themes. IF there is anything I can take as good out of this.... is that it means your content is good, that's why they copy. Keep doing what you do, you are raising the bar sir. Eventually copycats won't be able to catch up. I will go to his videos to protect your IP.

[@JS-zs1sr]

Would be hilarious if he uploaded a video tomorrow telling his viewers that ZTT needs to be stopped for copying him.

[@AresEverett]

That's what Crosssed my mind as well

[@djadja6357]

Oh jeez lol that would be a big brained move right there 😂

[@JS-zs1sr]

Seems like he deleted his channel instead@@djadja6357

[@Amy-kh3zl]

He'd get flamed to ash for that lol😂

[@user-ds1jt9mq4l]

Love the ZTT videos. Frustrating to see someone outright stealing like this. Hope YT does something about it.

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Very frustrating indeed

[@nathanlarson6535]

Ever since the hbomberguy KZbin plagiarism video came out, I've seen multiple of these other videos exposing certain creators for plagiarism across various topics and niches. Another example is a recent video I saw made by JaguarGator9, which is over 1.5 hours long discussing a certain content creator who basically stole most of his content from Wikipedia and other articles regarding sports and politics. Plagiarism really is a SERIOUS issue and I'm glad that so many other content creators like you are bringing this to light. Thank you.

[@CoopersGaming34]

I went over there and dropped him an informative content. This dude better get stopped. I can’t have my favorite tech KZbinr deal with something like this!

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Thanks for the support!

[@OveralGaming]

I went there too but i coulnd't find his channel anymore, :O

[@DIVINITY444]

He deleted the channel it looks like

[@lamster7422]

​@@DIVINITY444seems like he did

[@andymorin9163]

@@DIVINITY444he's back

[@Tech.Closet]

Knowing myself how hard the creative process is, it's crazy to me that you can get away with that. He is really putting a lot of work into stealing videos. KZbin should do something about it!

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Very crazy indeed

[@KAMIFreeFire]

You provide us with some of the best content related to pc building and stuff. Your videos reflect your hardwork. When we watched others stealing your content, it just didn't felt right to ignore him stealing some of the best quality works on internet.

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Thank you very much

[@arovetli5810]

What are u smoking his stuff is just as lazy and he presents himself as "hello fellow kids" is cringe. His news and content has 0 uniqueness and will he will always be average at best.

[@walter-bijeli]

WE DID IT!!!!!! RBN PRIVATED ALL HIS VIDOES!!! Actually, it says his channel is deleted, maybe youtube deleted it but i don't believe it because youtube would never help us. I think he just deleted his channel.

[@NukaOrQuantum]

This guy has always appeared in my feed from time to time; honestly just ignored it and eventually forgot about him until now, lol. Yeah, my guy is definitely going to take advantage of this as long as possible, possibly gaining more publicity even if it's not necessarily positive.

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Ignoring is also a vaild approach lol

[@Rohitshah-dp6dz]

Thank you for sending the windows key link, I'm currently finding PC parts for my gaming pc and the cheap key with your discount helps lower down the cost, so I can put a bit more money on the cpu or GPU, and youtube should take down his channel for copying your content, hopefully he stops copying content from you.

[@RueRemix]

The worst part is when we watch you , youtube decides to push his videos since they’re similar basically leaching off u entirely

[@navethegreat6314]

Thank you for informing me, I somehow didnt notice he was plagarizing and just noticed you cant find his channel anymore

[@brandonramsaran8312]

Thank god this is being addressed

[@ameyakushwah5040]

You're 100% right Zach, I totally agree that this guy should be punished, and I can feel when you work hard for creating your content and so other bastard stealing it without actually doing some work. You're doing a great job, and we are with you!

[@Mr.TechnoWiz-ts3cb]

I can’t believe I never noticed this, I’ve been subscribed to both for a couple months now

[@woostinstechflip]

I blocked him from my feed because even before he started copying you, he didnt know what he was talking about

[@HBr-i1f]

GUYS THAT GUY IS BACK, you can find it on youtube.

[@t3mpl3tw3]

Copycats will breed copycats. If they are not dealt with it'll just happen to someone else.

[@NotAaronJaime]

Just checked and the RBN Hardware channel no longer exists on KZbin 🎉🎉🎉 Edit: I searched it up on google and his account has a warning saying “This channel is not available”. ITS CONFIRMED

[@kaylagale615]

Dude, noticed this shit months ago and gave up paying attention to this guy. Glad you finally called him out!

[@devolitionxd]

We love you ZTT. No on else can take your place. Keep up the hard work!. We're Always with you.

[@squarebook1204]

I saw some of his videos and I thought "huh, didn't ztt make the same video?" Glad you found out

[@JohnLondon-gt7ub]

Bro, Im a mod of a buy/sell Facebook group and the amount of people that legitimately rip the hell off of your builds is absolutely ridiculous. To make things worse, they not ONLY rip off your builds but they do WORSE on SO MANY LEVELS BOTH aesthetically AND performance. I love your content and what you do, and it makes me sad that someone has legit just stolen your content for profit. Keep up the good work and legit screw that dude

[@WorldLoveGaming]

There's a difference between replicating a PC and replicating video content. It's called popularity. If parts are aesthetically pleasing to many, of course you're gonna use it and no-one can stop you. Content stealing is way different.

[@JohnLondon-gt7ub]

@crimson0411 there's nothing wrong with using his builds as inspiration or for getting ideas for builds whatsoever. It's the fact that these people turn around and claim that THEY came up with the build to begin with, all the while claiming to be a "pro" when their aesthetics and performance are SO below what ZTT does it's laughable and then when I confront them outright like "ztt did this exact build and you ripped off it" they have the audacity to sit there and claim that NO they did it all originally themselves-- and in some cases legitimately the builds they release practically immediately follow video releases from ztt. As to your question as to what group specifically the group is called PC & Gaming Parts. Only recently have the active members there have gained the ability to control the page/chat, but we are actively working towards trying to build a general community to educate people on tech overall while advising on how to specifically approach buying and selling PCs or components either online or in person to increase the overall safety of doing so because there are so many friggen scammers out there it's ridiculous. We also regularly call people out on builds where it's like anyone that's going to buy such and such build is getting hella ripped off because for instance why would you do a b550 with an r7 5700x + 3060ti on a 550-600w PSU? Like sure it'll run, but you aren't going to get optimal performance and if the customer goes to upgrade the GPU (as usually that's one of the first things people upgrade) they're now stuck having to rebuild the entire pc as a whole which, IMO, violates rule 1 of building: DBAA (don't be an asshole) and rule 2) just because you *can* doesn't mean that you *should*

[@JohnLondon-gt7ub]

@@WorldLoveGaming I totally get that and agree generally. But these people when called out literally sit there and deny deny deny when it's blatantly obvious that's what they did meanwhile ultra cheaping out on components that kinda isn't ok. But, 100% I agree that content creation stealing is absolutely in its own realm of effed up and not ok.

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Thinking I make a video on those people next! 🤣

[@JohnLondon-gt7ub]

@@ZachsTechTurf PLEASE GOD YES. Doooooo eeeeeeet. Drives me UP A WALL when I call those people out and they deny everything. Especially when they claim to be "pro" but don't even have a fundamental understanding of the components going into the build. I guess being a "pro" now-a-days just means you got paid for your build. Oh, how standards have fallen.

[@pearelectronics3083]

I’m glad I picked the original for advice, this guy has been on my shorts feed for a while and I always thought he was a little fishy

[@ItsWazzaP]

I used to watch that guy and I didn't even notice that he's copying you. It's good that you noticed and took action! Good job!

[@slaydog5102]

Lies.

[@ImmortalGMD-xr6gq]

I’m actually shocked, I’ve been subbed to both of you for almost a year and I never noticed

[@RADish-official]

We did it bois, RBN is no more

[@blickyd.escobar1035]

wow that's insane and dissappointing to hear at least he is exposed now

[@Mathmos252]

He deleted his Channel 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@MultieMalik]

Wait ... whatttt 💀

[@3drts753]

I'm so happy he was caught red-handed. I would rather listen to you. For some reason, even though he is saying the same thing, he does not sound informed or a competent PC enthusiast.

[@smaulthethird]

press down there if you thought rbn hardware was good but later found out he was copying ZTT and keep up the content man. 👇

[@Falcon5ive]

Commenting on his videos, good or bad, is still engagement, anf YT thinks that the video is doing well. The worst thing that happens to a video is when someone opens a video and leaves it after 15 seconds, then YT thinks that people don't like it and then YT doesn't push it to more audience.

[@webtraingaming]

But the real question.... how will he copy THIS video? 🤣

[@brandonramsaran8312]

For real bro

[@tatjiv145]

His channel has been reinstated

[@Bingwai]

I think he deleted the channel ! I can’t find it when I search for it 😅

[@dougarnold7026]

This is interesting...I teach high school IT and all of my students follow your chanel We talk in class a good bit about entrepreneurship and monetizing online presence etc..I will use this as an example of what "to do" and "not to do"...Zach is doing it right! My students and myself appreciate your good work...Keep it up!

[@ZachsTechTurf]

That’s amazing to hear. Send me an email if there’s anything else I can do for the class.

[@PixlByPixl]

It sucks to have your work stolen and I really hope this does get settled fast. That said I did mention this in one of your shorts I think you could do better referencing or linking the articles you site when you make your shorts. You show images of the articles that you're going off of or site specific videos in some cases hardware unboxed. I feel it only fair that you link so that people at least get to support the place you yourself took the information from. P.S Congrats on 400k lol

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Thanks for the honest feedback. No vertical video platform lets you hyperlink anymore, so I don't really see the point. There's not that many people that would copy the text and then paste it in a browser.

[@bilalsadiq1450]

The most baffling thing is to why someone would even bother plagiarizing the script of a 60 second KZbin short lol. Like, surely it'd be easier to just crank out something themselves in like 5 minutes instead of rewriting it...

[@Rooneytwins]

(Update) He deleted His yt channel! 👑👑👑

[@JahonCross]

Wow exposed

[@ikram2512]

And twitter account also lol

[@aydenaldrich389]

No it's back

[@lauritsholmbergmadsen4997]

No

[@YavuzTheIntern]

1:08 "Lightning reflections" How did you get the clouds in the studio?

[@RADish-official]

Honestly, I feel like you can file some sort of community strike against this literal dirt stain.

[@chrisjlocke]

Why - ZTT can't claim 'copyright'.

[@Stixs123]

Heard him talking about it live and immediately thought of something like this!

[@aro4439]

Bro he no longer on youtube boys we did it

[@mr.playerlone7254]

After watching this video, I tried searching for his channel and there's nothing to be found.

[@FantasticGreek]

He deleted it

[@rumiyano]

A perfect plan would be doing a bait video where you purposely give the wrong info, and see if he'll do a tiny bit of research before copying it. If he uploads word for word even if it's fake info, he's really that scummy. Unfortunately, he hid his channel, removed his Twitter, etc. Would've been a funny thing to do.

[@RattPackGaming217]

That’s insanely disgusting, I can’t believe he copied u, Zach I support this video bring him down

[@WolfChen]

Justice on this idiot has been served, thank you Zach

[@roguestorm2136]

I don't know if I helped call attention to him or not, but I'm glad Zach has found out about him and he's being called out about it.

[@ZachsTechTurf]

So many people helped. Thanks ;)

[@walter-bijeli]

​@@ZachsTechTurfyo, he deleted the channel

[@dncewzrd]

Bro disappeared from existence after this video dropped 😂

[@nasty_knight4266]

My suggestion would be to copyright claim him and get youtube to investigate

[@gooderish]

I can't be mad at the dude. Afterall, what's the internet without a liitle piracy 😂

[@manos7469]

How messed up would it be if he released a video claiming that ZTT copied HIS videos

[@PieStudios]

I keep seeing RBN in my shorts lol thought it was a lil familiar

[@DefinitelyAreo]

Ya mine also after few days i finally understood he just copies everything of ZTT then reported and do not recommend him.

[@AcM.5233]

I just went and searched for his channel and it is no longer found. Hopefully he has learned his lesson and will actually either start a new channel creating his own content or sneak back into the shadows where he belongs

[@Guilfultreat]

He deleted his chanel lol

[@iissss9847]

He's back again!

[@nightcat87]

That's a weird crazy compliment

[@ms-dosmanfred249]

Let's wait for his video tomorrow saying, that you need to be stopped. xD That would be hilarious.

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Would watch lol

[@bifloskatsaba9627]

LOOOL...Me and my friend got a tiny channel too and we never even thought to do something like this.. you are more than capable to protect yourself, truth always shines ! we support you and the hole team ! keep going boys!

[@Orangutangy5]

Hey Zach, tuned in to your stream last night. Can you build a budget micro center gaming PC for Fortnite and rocket league for around 550$? thanks❤. (Also I hate leeches on KZbin. This guy doesn't deserve the praise you do. wish their was a system for this on the youtube software).

[@churro54]

I’m not Zach but if you’re buying from micro center it should be possible if you’re okay not getting the newest gen things and what’s in stock at your micro center , this is base the brand ne near me : i3 10 th ($80) motherboard (80-100) gen rx 6600 ($200) 16 gb ram ($30-40) 500 watt psu ($40 60), 1 tb SSD ($30-40) case ($50-70) . Then for windows you can make an iso file from Microsoft and get a windows key for like $15

[@happtic7500]

You most definitely could I built mines around 550 (ryzen 5 4600 hellhound rx 6600 asrock a520m-hdv motherboard oloy ddr4 ram 16 gb 3600mhz Kingston 512 nvme ssd barracuda 1tb hdd 600 w evga psu lol yes I'm aware of the bottleneck

[@Orangutangy5]

@ice/hvtrs8%2F-wuw%2Cymuvu%60e%2Ccmm-cjalngl-UAa%3AL38%2FuD5aEMrrtP6QsOIe Thanks man. what about wifi tho?

[@dcrdlgy]

pretty open and shut case of plagiarism. some people just have no shame or integrity. really sad.

[@LeonAlkoholik67]

You're not much better. In a few shorts (not all) you were providing rather misleading information and some rather questionable recommendations. You could improve yourself too by just doing bit better researching.

[@Mo9ses]

Completely true. I find it completely fair that RBN Hardware “copies” the “original” content that ZTT makes. ZTT does really make any “new content,” he just relays information. RBN does change the style of the video, and says slightly different stuff in his own words sometimes making it perfectly legal.

[@ilnoox]

​@@Mo9ses it's legal in the furst place ztt's shorts aren't original or exclusive ideas and their idea isn't copyright protected. On the flip side what zach did in this video can pass as defamation which is illegal lolz

[@mrknighttheitguy8434]

I'd laugh if he did a video saying that ZTT is copying his work!

[@zik744]

bro, you do some clickbait shorts. so clean your own house first

[@LaythZ1]

ur right ngl

[@voidion593]

Thank you Zach I've been seeing this guy everywhere and reading the comments saying he copies you I didn't think it was real but nosnu opened my eyes

[@ZachsTechTurf]

Very real :(

[@lordtickles1478]

Dude that's crazy

[@andrzejandrzejski229]

You know what else needs to be stopped? Ads for illegal codes for software, especially Winows OS.

[@boxedbydeccy]

I am proud to say his channel has been removed form the platform!

[@nix294]

"He copied my whole fucking flow, word for word, bar for bar!" - Soulja Boy

[@maag78]

Dude this is CRAZY

[@mbkutluer]

This is effed up indeed! Just out of curiosity, does KZbin have a policy similar to copyright? This is a verified channel after all.

[@kakaka1k]

I can't find his channel anymore. That is insane

[@TheARguy15]

I just saw this with our favorite tear down everything content creator yesterday regarding a unnamed phone case company

[@TechBizPC]

Looks like he’s been removed from KZbin as of right now. Sorry to hear this happened, but keep it up Zac!

[@fubkegt4964]

This situation is literally like in school when you someone else writes off from other guy but changes few words

[@nightcat87]

He even has the fake plant

[@mgaming7]

I will report all his videos and then block his channel. So sick of these rip off artists.

[@UrLocalAsian-x]

I bet that RBN hardware doesn’t even know his stuff.

[@riseabove3082]

Wow - That is so wrong. Glad you pointed it out, I will not be watching anything from RBN.

[@_Qu3so_]

Zach, ur just that good. He can’t come up with good original content and is stealing you guy’s great ideas. I’m glad you are standing up for yourself.

[@jonatanpalma1815]

Thank goodness you noticed Zack. Good job addressing this to viewers.

[@Budgetiers]

This guy stole and Zach brought RECEIPTS

[@vault_tec_404_4]

I wouldn’t even send people to comment in the first place. That’s just helping him in the algorithm.

[@JonoGotye]

Should’ve made a KZbin short with a bunch of fake information to see if he would have copied it and then delete your post and then put him on blast

[@PulpVision]

Whoa damnnn! This guy gives "cultural appropriation" a whole new meaning!! 😮

[@blindtechh]

Damn. I am going to keep myself away from that phony

[@itspch]

Hopefully you started a lawsuit against this guy before posting this video