Ed WeeksFounder & M&A Advisor, Weeks Consulting Group · Founder & M&A Advisor | Lower Middle Market at Weeks Consulting Group

They Copied My Newsletter Name, Here’s How I Turned It Into Power #shorts

4 Oct 2025 · 2 min

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In this YouTube Short, Ed Weeks Jr. reacts angrily to another newsletter that he claims has copied his own newsletter name, "HV Vibes" (Hudson Valley Vibes), noting that the rival uses the similar name "Valley Vibes." He frames the incident as symptomatic of a broader limited mindset in the Hudson Valley community. In response, Weeks decides to consolidate all of his existing projects—HV Vibes, Revenue Stack, AI Jumpstart Lab, Fractional Fakes, Press On Report, and Wild Weeks—into a single weekly media brand called "Weeks Weekly." He positions this move as a way to outmaneuver the copycat, asserts that karma will reward authenticity, and ends with a dismissive, defiant tone toward the competitor.

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Here's what's sickening, disgusting, backstabbing, pathetic. They use the same freaking name. Like my newsletter, HV Vibes, HV being the Hudson Valley. Theirs, the same freaking name. Sorry, it's Valley Vibes. Give me a break, dude. Disgusting, makes me sick. It makes me say, this is what's wrong. This is what's wrong all over the Hudson Valley, especially in My age group. There's some sickness, limited mindset, just I don't know what the hell it is. It's me, me, me, me, me, and I can't stand it. I honestly can't. So what do I do? Here's my response. I make everything that I was working on— HV Vibes, and it was all testing, Revenue Stack, AI Jumpstart Lab, all these different facets, the Fractional Fakes, Press On Report, Wild Weeks— all these things that I was looking at doing I am now making one Weeks Weekly because how do you copy me? My name, Weeks, Ed Weeks Jr., the Weeks Weekly. I'm coming to you once a week and I'm providing all that information under one media brand. And that to me, thank you, good luck to you, good luck to your limited mindset. You'll be in the same place you were when you couldn't monetize what you're doing now. You're going to be in the same place. And you know what? It is what it is, that's what happened. Karma is real and it's a bitch, that's just the way it goes. But for me, it just reflects on things that you've gone through.