What strikes me about the hbomberguy vid (besides the fact that he dresses like the survivor of a nuclear apocalypse, what’s up with that) is how easy it is to rip off academics. A lot of these people have spent decades writing in obscurity and created a goldmine of analyses anyone can rip off

the bit where somebody who had been following JS on patreon for years recognized their own writing in one of his videos and was like "wait" is sooooo

The torn up lab coat is a running gag, all of the ways he destroys his set and costumes stays that way as his videos go on

Like it’s bad enough to steal from bigger blogs or websites like kotaku, but you also have tons of analyses that only exist in books published in the 70s-90s that aren’t online and that were written by people who are either middle aged or retired and definitely not checking YouTube regularly