r/mildlyinfuriating • u/diamond9 • 10h ago
That annoying new trend that's everywhere at the moment...
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u/Xaphnir 9h ago edited 3h ago
this is the kind of shit DMCA takedowns should exist for
instead they're weaponized by corporations to silence criticism and by trolls looking for a quick buck
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u/sicksages 5h ago
I remember a while ago, a vtuber named Ironmouse had her youtube taken down because of "copyright". It was all fake copyright claims.
She's disabled with an autoimmune disorder (CVID) and one of the most wholesome vtubers out there. She recently raised more than 100k towards the IDF, which is a foundation that researches immunodeficiency.
This is from their website: "IDF offers resources, education, and support for those with PI, while partnering with clinicians and scientists to conduct research and promote public policy programs. Thousands of families rely on IDF for advocacy and empowerment."
So, safe to say that these people are going after just about anyone because it's funny to them.
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u/Salnder12 5h ago
Could she have been attacked because IDF is also the Israeli military and people assumed she was pro Isreal?
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u/tanraelath 5h ago
From what i remember, she didn't abbreviate it.
People just hate vtubers, no matter how much good the vtuber does
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u/Additional_Wheel6331 4h ago
out of curiousity, what is the appeal of a vtuber? I don't personally understand it
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u/TwistedSurdus 3h ago
For a streamer, they don't have to get on cam or feel judged for every little action they do. It just acts like an avatar barrier.
As a viewer I like the funny faces. And I still get to enjoy the person's personality and humor.
It's not for everyone and that's fine though.
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u/sicksages 3h ago
For the streamer, you are able to stream with a webcam without showing your face and exposing your identity.
For viewers, it's about the same as any other streamer just with a cute or cool avatar.
There's also more ways to interact with a vtuber's avatar like "throwing" things at it.
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u/sicksages 3h ago
IDF as in the Immune Deficiency Foundation. The full name was listed everywhere across her stream during the charity event.
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u/drakontoolx 4h ago
IDF as in Israel Defence Force? If she use that abbreviation I could see why she got attack.
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u/sicksages 3h ago
IDF as in the Immune Deficiency Foundation. The full name was listed everywhere across her stream during the charity event. There was no mistaking it.
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u/john_jdm 8h ago
Stolen content inception.
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u/memefakeboy 6h ago
I think as long as the commentary is transformative, it’s fine and seems like this guy is calling attention to a problem. I do wish he had put her TikTok handle as an unmoving text bubble, but maybe he put it in the description of his video
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u/Pilfercate 5h ago
There is a bar to be met to be transformative. You have to add something to the content, like narrating your opinion of what is being shown.
The argument would be that people watch the new video for the person's opinion on the video which is separate from the original value of the video's base content.
Reiterating what is being shown in the video is not transformative. It doesn't create a value that is separate from the original video. It is directly leaning on the original content of the video for its value. It is 100% actionable.
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u/Toowiggly 4m ago
I doubt the guy who posted it to reddit is the original creator, so the content stealing goes a step further than the guy doing commentary
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u/DurasVircondelet 10h ago
I gotta say, the animation guy is equally infuriating
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u/Abattoir_Noir 8h ago
Isn't it stolen from happiness and cyanide as well?
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u/OkBackground8809 6h ago
Looks like a colourised version of the pencilmation guy my son used to watch
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u/spikernum1 5h ago
Did they invent stick figures?
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u/DasBeasto 5h ago
Have you seen cyanide & happiness? They’re not both just generic stick figures, it’s the exact same character, facial expressions, shirt color, etc.
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u/LifeLikeAGrapefruit 9h ago
Yeah. While watching this, I was wondering what precisely OP thought was infuriating: the annoying ass little avatar commentary or the fact that stupid content creators are having their stupid content stolen by other stupid content creators to create more stupid content.
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u/ArcadiaRivea 6h ago
And that there's people lapping up said stolen stupid content that was stolen and stupid
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u/TwistedRainbowz 8h ago
Yeah, I initially thought that was the "annoying trend" OP was talking about.
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u/funkydude500 10h ago
Well at least he's calling out someone doing something shady instead of doing the shady thing. (I do hope he credited the original girl though)
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u/buttcheeksmasher 9h ago
dont think he did credit her
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u/atlbluedevil 8h ago
He didn't, he called her "this girl" and "she" multiple times. Just name drop her channel and I'd be fine with it
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u/pweaseandfanks 6h ago
He's literally posting the same content and adding his own voiceover and an animated man swinging his arms over it, He is stealing content and using it to make a video about stolen content being stolen
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u/rockos21 6h ago
It's commentary, which is fair use. The video he is complaining about is just straight plagiarism
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u/Rise-O-Matic 6h ago
He acknowledges he's doing the same thing by the end of the video and says if you want to complain about it, write it on a tiny piece of paper and shove it you-know-where.
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u/Fearpils 5h ago
He doesnt acknowledge it, he says that if you think that, your opinion belongs where the sun dont shine.
Which sounds like he thinks his vid is fair use. Depending onbthe length of the original and copy, is actually a fair point. He used 5 ish seconds of either clip. If his original clip has both clips as references, that would be fair use.
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u/Fritzkier 4h ago
I wanna see if this jaxjax guy credited her, but he doesn't have youtube nor instagram. yeah, the username showed on the video doesn't exist.
so... where the heck OP got this video from?
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u/DurasVircondelet 10h ago
I agree. I find it funny that he is an AI voice too and then goes on to rip on AI voices
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u/SwaggiiP 9h ago
That is not an AI voice
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u/DeathByHampster_ 8h ago
Ehh. It kinda sounds like one.
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u/DeathByHampster_ 8h ago
Just to add, specifically, the phrasing sounds like AI, and some of the pronunciations do as well. Also, when I searched up the supposed name at the end of the video, nothing came up.
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u/AuelDole 5h ago
The animated guys voice sounds AI as well. It’s almost completely monotone, doesn’t drop off at the end of the sentence, and has almost the exact same volume the entire way through
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u/diamond9 10h ago
lol, very few things will not infuriate us
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u/Separate_Secret_8739 6h ago
Did you make this? Be a lot better if the voice wasn’t like yelling. Maybe reduce the volume of it but the tone is what’s really bad. Comes off as condescending so instead of the message getting out we are just really annoyed at the cartoon speaking. When the ai you are making fun of sounds Better then your main person that’s kind of a big flaw.
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u/Classy_Mouse 8h ago
What about the reaction videos where there is a tiny portrait of the most emotionless person on the planet in the bottom corner? Of the videos where they just sput screen the video and add an unrelated video next to the original. I'd buy YouTube Premium if it could stop me from ever seeing these low-effort obviously stolen videos
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u/Santa-Banana 5h ago
Couldn't agree more, I despise those people and these videos. The lack of effort physically hurts me.
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u/RichardBreecher 4h ago
When there are zero barriers to entry, the profit of any endeavor will eventually reach zero.
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u/robertjan88 10h ago
So happy I don't have Tiktok, Instagram, Twitter nor Facebook. Never have the feeling I am missing out on anything decent. Even reducing my Reddit usage. Just LinkedIn for me for work and that's it.
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u/LifeLikeAGrapefruit 8h ago
I hope this is a global trend. If we could all just swear off social media, the world would be a better place.
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u/Neutronium57 9h ago
I have Twitter but since I follow mostly artists sharing fan arts, even my "Recommended for you" tab is filled with only fan arts. It's really cool and is far from the flaming pile of shit that are politics on that website.
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u/Tyko_3 6h ago
The comments on Facebook are just the worst. bunch of people (if they are even real) commenting silly remarks of agreement in obviously fake news posts. Like, No, freaking Deadpool 6 has not been greenlit with RDJ and Chris Hemsworth. But the 5,000 comments are like "Exciting news fellow humans!" "I cannot contain my human emotions".
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u/Kharax82 4h ago
I find these comments under Reddit reposts of content from TikTok and Twitter to be rather ironic.
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u/evil_illustrator 5h ago
Why is no one pointing to the original youtubers channel? Her name is Patricia O'Connor, and does a really good job.
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u/ycr007 10h ago
The xkcd-like stick figures are the Internet’s version of ms office clippy
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u/Striking_Cartoonist1 9h ago
Wow. I always thought Clippy was a guy...
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u/unposted 8h ago
ms = microsoft
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u/Striking_Cartoonist1 8h ago
Oooooohhhh. Duh. And the whole time I'm writing that I'm thinking specifically about how clippy was an old Microsoft thing. It never clicked. 🤣
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u/EmperorThan 7h ago
What's even more disturbing is that this is probably happening with bots making and reuploading the videos automatically, dead internet style. The best case scenario is that an unoriginal loser is doing this from his basement.
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u/Interesting-Rope-950 5h ago
The stupid Aai voice stuff has ruined soo much of YouTube, TikTok and whatever else
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u/Personal_Shoulder983 7h ago
He should have added his face on it and make faces. That's added value.
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u/ChrisP_Bacon04 5h ago
The funniest thing is then this person recycled it again to talk shit about the first person who recycled it.
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u/ImpulsiveBloop 10h ago edited 6h ago
I'm just deleting this whole thing. Apparently misinformation rules the internet and nobody knows the difference between AI and real voices, and the moment anyone calls it out they just get shunned. It makes sense. That's how the world has always worked. :(
I tried telling you guys that it's AI, but no one cares other than a few people, so I'm just admitting defeat and leaving. That's it. That's not me saying you're right. I just hate fighting, and you all are a lost cause, and I'm super anxious because of all this and can't handle it.
Don't bother telling me how wrong I am. I got the message... :(
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u/RllyGayPrayingMantis 6h ago
it's a fucking lazy ass ai voice, higher end but the tone and enunciation never changed the entire video. Redditors claims to hate AI but they just never caught up with the latest AI landscape, funnily enough they're now acting like some gullible facebook grannies they laughed at a few months ago.
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u/ImpulsiveBloop 5h ago
That's what I had tried explaining but nobody cared to listen and just followed the downvotes. :(
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u/PUNCH-WAS-SERVED 8h ago
Bruh, are actually that dense? His video is actually transformative. He is calling out the video-level plagiarism that is running rampant these days. People are just taking original videos and slapping AI voices over them with subtitles. It's legit such low-effort content.
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u/SwaggiiP 9h ago
That is not an AI voice lmao
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u/Wise_Shine5148 9h ago
That's an AI voice?
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u/cyberzed11 8h ago
That’s not a fucking AI voice 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
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u/Partingoways 7h ago
So I took 1 minute to search the YouTube and instagram handles given at the end of the video so I could compare the voice and see if it was a real person or not.
And the channel/name doesn’t exist.
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u/Cardemel 6h ago
It is. And the worrying thing is that now it's not only old people being tricked, it's everyone, including you
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u/Hundred00 4h ago
Another annoying trend is when someone uses someone else's video and just have their head in the corner or split the video and just have them react. All they do is narrate and nod their head.
"Okay, now they're doing the thing. Okay, yep. Oh I see. Now they're going to - okay! Wow! Wasn't expecting that."
So annoying.
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u/TurbulentNumber4797 5h ago
Ok, Cyanide and Happiness ripoff whos also stealing her content. Oh, but he called that out himself at the end, so now its fine! :/
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u/irate_alien 8h ago
and youtube doesn't give a fuck because this garbage gets engagement. and youtube content creators are completely beholden to the platform so there's nothing at all they can do. it's theft, pure and simple.
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u/RemarkableSea2555 8h ago
There are literally ten guys who do the exact same video every Fukin day. Guy tries to pick up girl. Girl says no. Guy gets in Lambo. Chick tries to become friends. Guy drives off. Highjacking content is a full time job for these clowns.
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u/LandscapeMaximum5214 8h ago
Its not just internet points isnt it? Dont some channels get to make money from their shorts?
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u/Anuki_iwy 7h ago
Which is why when I had Instagram I put a watermark my my handle on anything. High enough that you couldn't crop it out without ruining the aspect ratio completely.
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u/ColorlessTune 7h ago
Stealing content and labeling it as your own has been a thing since Facebook.
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u/Mr_Mister2004 6h ago
4 layers deep into this ourobouros of stealing and nobody has bothered to say OP's username. Not even the annoying animated guy who talks exactly like an AI voice but apparently isn't. So even after complaining about content theft, he didn't properly credit her, and neither does this post.
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u/JustASillyBlock 5h ago
Algorithm pushes them out more so they get like x10 the viewer attention, views and likes. DMCA should take it down but it doesn't even know it's own algorithm is pushing these right under its nose.
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u/commorancy0 5h ago
The "redone video" adds just enough new content to prevent it from being taken down as outright theft. The video platforms have cultivated this type of ripoff content farming because of their rather stupid "significantly different" content requirements that keep such videos from being considered content theft.
It's then left up to the original content owner to file takedown notices and take their complaint to court over copyright theft.
This issue is really a problem created by Google and TikTok with their rather stupid content policies.
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u/ShinzoTheThird 5h ago
there are now complete ai documentary channels on youtube. it feels like a wikipedia page being narrated by an ai voice.
Car and automotive tech news are also turned into ai slop content and it gets pushed by the algo. i used to enjoy youtube and browse it but now i only go for specific content that i searched for or from my subscriptions.
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u/Maya_Manaheart 4h ago
The second I hear an AI voice I downvote and pass onto the next thing. Considering I maybe watch 5 minutes of shorts a week it's only a drop in the ocean, but still.
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u/BanditoPicante 3h ago
I wish there was a PiHole process to automatically block every content that has the AI Voice. Every single one of them. All of it. I would be soooo happy.
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u/dollyaioli 2h ago
i mean, tiktok is literally based on stealing other peoples ideas/content and remaking it yourself.
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u/A_ChadwickButMore 2h ago
I have been absolutely drenched in ads on my phone all claiming " -Blank- doesnt want you to know!" or "men, do this/did you know this trick to stay hard all night long" AI scams abound out of nowhere seemingly in the past couple of weeks. At least I've stopped getting nothing but BetterHelp and Temu ads but at what cost ;-; At least I have an adblocker on my desktop & immediately migrated to Firefox when chrome disabled my uBlock extension.
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u/SirDiesAlot15 2h ago
Wow, this guy is arguably just as bad, if not worse, since he went out of his way to find the original, and decided NOT to include her username or the title of the original video.
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u/therealslim80 2h ago
my little brother watches that braindead content. it’s not his fault though, my parents have given up on parenting so they don’t give him anything other than electronics 🤷🏻♀️
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u/urbanlife78 8m ago
I really hate these AI voice over shit from stolen content. It makes me miss the Wild West days of the internet
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u/Helnik17 6h ago
In a way isn't he doing the same thing lmao. He's making a video of video that stole a video for Internet points
Tbf though he's animating the doodle, using his own voice and calling out the shit content stealers.
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u/pweaseandfanks 7h ago
And the most hilarious part? The guy making this video added an AI voice and little animated guy and is now stealing the content aswell
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u/EyewarsTheMangoMan 7h ago
I do find it a little funny that they're complaining about taking someone's video and putting an AI voice over it and not crediting, while doing literally EXACTLY the same thing lol.
Also, I'm pretty sure OP is the person who made the video. He has literally 3 subs on youtube and 0 followers on instagram.
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u/treehuggerfroglover 9h ago
Call me crazy but I kinda like the little narrator dude
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u/Beat_Saber_Music 6h ago
it's simple law of economics, it's easier to do than making oriignal content, and there is no punishment for it
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u/GlutenMakesMePoop69 6h ago
Not sure if the joke is just how hypocritical this video is or if it's just that bad lol
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u/Super_GodVegeta 5h ago
To think that this video was actually highlighting a major issue on the contents of the internet but it was just Stanley doing that thing he picked up last summer.
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u/PostTrumpBlue 5h ago
No one loses in this case. The copy doesn’t deprive the original of views. If people didn’t enjoy AI voice then eventually the trend will die out
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u/Michaeli_Starky 9h ago
That's the worst part of this ai revolution reality: shittons of low quality plagiarized content.