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Light is way too conceited to plagiarize. Unless it was to set up a (meta-level) trick of some kind, he would take such an action as an admission of his own inadequacy, which he would never accept.
Saying shitty reactionary nonsense is completely like him, though.
It's ambiguous, but the Death Note seems to work based on what the name-holder believes is "really" their name, which in most cases will be their legal name (though in the case of, like, a slave name, we'd expect the original name to be the one that works). Changing your legal name as a ploy wouldn't work, plus you can't legally change your name without there being a record and people who processed the paperwork having seen it and so on. In general, this is just a poor job riffing on the source material, and I say this in part because I've absolutely seen dumb, pandering meme shit that nonetheless captures Death Note's better aspects much more effectively.
The core joke here is "Hbomberguy could solve the Kira case AND intuit the mechanics of the death note" which I find very funny. But your critiques are fair.
And huh, I had always assumed that Light would have had to have find a trans person's deadname if it wasnt legally changed (for example).
Why do leftists put so much respect on hbomberguy? especially compared to breadtube at large.
I've seen a handful of his videos and they seem like just decently well-made gaming commentary. I accidentally half-watched ~3 hours of the 4 hour long video after it autoplayed, and felt it didn't warrant the glowing appreciation I saw online about it. Not explicitly bad, just far too much effort put into calling out people for plagiarizing...which I don't give a flying fuck about because it's usually immaterial and glorifying IP rights.
Never had any strong opinion about him, but got a vague impression he'd eventually pull the same thing most YouTubers do...burn any good will on anti-AES takes.
That's the worst take I have ever seen on plagiarism. Claiming the result of someone else's labor as your own is clearly bourgeois behavior. Plus, for research, a clear paper trail is essential to making sure the speaker is not making shit up.
Bourgeois isn't a feeling, it's a class relation. Copying publicly accessible, infinitely repoducible information and signing your name on it is shitty, but it isn't stealing surplus value.
Plagiarism should be discouraged for this reason.
when a major queer youtuber steals the entire bodies of work of much, much smaller queer writers, profiting on their work and returning not even the means for social reproduction, they've expropriated surplus value and then some. some of the people stolen from died from AIDS, in obscurity, while others received pennies on the dollar for their work. half the video was building up cases of what plagiarism looks like in order to make this charge.
And yet, certain behaviors get caught up within that class and are replicated outside of it. If you get money without performing labor, that's stealing surplus value. Simple as. Social capital is also crucial, so your argument is invalid.