In this vlog‑style commentary, the speaker recounts a recent YouTube controversy: an unnamed creator stole an animation originally made by the small channel Toony VTunes, covered up its watermark, and sent the altered video to PewDiePie. PewDiePie, unaware of the theft, uploaded the animation and credited the thief’s channel in the description, giving the impostor a brief boost of about 2,000 subscribers. After the community noticed the plagiarism, PewDiePie removed the video. The thief later deleted all his content and renamed his channel to “Goodbye.” The speaker reflects on the ethical implications, praising the thief’s cleverness while condemning the wrongdoing, and suggests PewDiePie could have kept the video up with proper attribution to give the original creator exposure.
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So something pretty funny happened recently. Someone stole an animation from someone else, sent it to PewDiePie, and asked PewDiePie to upload it. And PewDiePie actually uploaded the animation and gave credit to the wrong person in the description, which is kind of hilarious because when PewDiePie first uploaded the video, I actually watched it almost right away. And obviously I didn't even watch the animation, I just clicked on the channel and, uh, because that's the type of person I am, and looked at the channel who sent it in. And so this guy who's uploaded a ton of Call of Duty commentaries randomly has this epic animation about PewDiePie. And I'm just like, you know, I thought it was fake. And sure enough, it was actually fake. This guy stole an animation from someone else. He downloaded it. He covered up the other person's watermark, which pretty much means like the other— the person who originally made the animation put the name of his channel in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. He covered it up and put his own channel name so it looked like it was his video. And sent it to PewDiePie, and PewDiePie actually uploaded it, which is, uh, kinda funny. Sadly though, PewDiePie took down the video, obviously because of all the drama. I feel like he should have left it up but put the actual owner of the video's link in the description, that way he could get some publicity for making the video. Um, the person who actually made the animation is Toony VTunes. He has less than 10,000 subscribers. And then this guy who— his channel— he deleted all his videos. His channel name now is Goodbye. I don't even understand. He deleted all his videos. Um, he's the one who stole it and uploaded it. He got 2,000 subs off of PewDiePie, uh, uploading a video that he stole before PewDiePie took it down. And, uh, that's pretty much everything. Someone stole Tooney VTunes' animation, sent it to PewDiePie, PewDiePie actually uploaded it and gave credit to the wrong person, which is in a way kind of genius, you know, stealing other people's animations and then sending it to PewDiePie for fame. But, uh, I know it's wrong, but still, I mean, I applaud that guy. That was a good idea. He even covered up the watermark and everything. So that was pretty cool— or not cool, but that was pretty interesting that he actually managed to pull it off and get someone else's animation uploaded to a channel with 30 million subscribers with him getting the credit. And it almost worked out for him, but he got caught. And that's pretty much everything. I thought that was pretty interesting, so I just wanted to let you guys know about that. Hopefully some more videos in the future, and I'll see you later.
