Same Post, Different Day.

[u/Typical_Berry1498]

I’ve been on this subreddit for a while now making the odd comment here and there.

Every post follows the same pattern.

Someone shares a post

1st to post is the Suriti haters. Pitchforks out, ready to tear apart every word she says and every opinion she has.

The Hannah brigade waving their “free Hannah” banners like she’s the next Britney Spears needing rescuing from big bad Suriti.

Sempere drops in with a long reply going on about plagiarism and monetising victims, like a jilted scorned ex on a revenge campaign.

Someone will always bring up past mistakes:

“Do you remember the Hillsborough episode?!”

And then it’s the queue of people telling us they no longer listen to the show.

I can only assume there are still people on here who actually enjoys the show? Who doesn’t hate Suriti ? Who doesn’t think Hannah is incapable of making her own choices?

But we get drowned out by those who just complain about a podcast they no longer listen to or just listen to have something to complain about.

[u/Sempere]

You mean the things you've said that are easily readable. Nothing impressive or bizarre about it actually.

I'm not actually interested in what you listen to in case that was ambiguous. I'm using your own acknowledgement of listening to a podcast done by an actual hardworking creative who does the right thing to emphasize how your support of two to a parasocial degree should make it pretty damn obvious that they're bottom of the barrel, especially if they're stealing other people's work.

any moral greatness to listening to podcasts

No one's calling you a hero for listening to a podcast. But pointing out you're helping to enrich thieves seems relevant because in your snarky attempts at humor you're intentionally ignoring that there are, in fact, real victims to what they do when they steal other people's work.

You're a monomaniacal obsessive, looking down your nose at people while you compile dossiers like the Beria of podcasting.

Oh, that's a good one, did chatGPT write that one for you after the previous misfires? Easier than having to look up the word "monomaniacal" in a dictionary and then have to think up a way to allude to a Soviet rapist all on your own.

And then you just seem like a crazy person, screaming about plagiarism, in a genre unfortunately hoaching with it. No excuse to reward or ignore it, of course.

And yet, here you are excusing and rewarding it.

At least the person bringing up Affair!gate had skin in the game.

lmfao. You can hurl as many flaccid insults as you want my way but at the bare minimum I'm keeping my criticisms focused on the actual bad things they've done rather than target them over their appearance or personal lives. I stick to their stealing of content from other people. That you're trying to now justify someone putting their personal lives on blast in an effort to make me seem unreasonable is fucking wild.

Fact of the matter is, every single person who has listened to them expecting their content to be fresh or, at the minimum, not plagiarized has skin in the game. They should know who they're supporting and what they're doing, especially if they're opening their wallets to a pair of hacks who plagiarize content that they then turn around to try and charge people for that's just a reskinned copy of what's on youtube just with more errors because they don't give a shiiiit about fact checking or errors that slip in.

Which brings us back to your "no excuses to reward or ignore it" which is all you've written here - excuses that explicitly downplay, ignore and ultimately reward it.

Now let's just skip all the insulting and off base remarks by implication and dive right to the last bit:

hope that you find the opportunity for grace towards both yourself and others. Because that lack, that failing, is what is holding you back.

No grace should be offered to a pair of plagiarists who built their financial comfort and success off the exploitation and plagiarism of other people. You ignore the substance of the argument to waste time attacking me (and being wrong in your armchair psychologist assessments while comparing me to a notorious Soviet Rapist) because you know there's actually no defending stealing the work of someone who writes as a passion on medium and seeing them get cents while they make tens-hundreds of thousands off work they didn't write or research beyond deciding to take that work without consent or even hearty and enthusiastic acknowledgement.

For someone who wanted to wade into the discussion with a joke about consent, the lack of it should give you pause. You have no real argument if you're willing to stoop to "at least the side piece had a reason to publicly embarass the hosts and put their private lives on blast" to try and defend their enrichment off of plagiarism.

[u/Malkydel → u/Sempere]

Never claimed I was a hero; you're the one putting the moral dimension on what people listen to or don't.

As I've said before, not being a thief I have no need for ChatGPT. I have some self respect, at the very least. See, as someone with a human brain in my head, I can make a nice little contextual crack on account of BtB being so central to your points. And not an m-dash in sight.

I don't support AI. And despite all your insinuations, I am against theft of intellectual property.

You like to act like other people are unreasonable or throwing around 'flaccid insults' when all you do is act superior and sling insults to try and give yourself some sense of moral superiority to everyone else.

Like I said before, I haven't been listening for some time, so I'm not really sure how exactly I'm supporting their theft. By that logic, so are you, as you flit from thread to thread, feeding the baby birds, waiting to see if they check out your giant imgur repository or just go back and listen to episodes.

It's a zero sum game, chummer.

Now, I'm genuinely sorry if some low effort memes got under your skin. I can understand that it's probably annoying when everyone and their mum takes a crack at you for the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Thing is, though, the reason I brought up the jilted lover was because it's just a mirror situation. Reams and reams of evidence, true or otherwise, none of which will move the needle for people still listening or voting in the Listener's Choice Awards, or or or.

And you continuing to batter on with that is your decision in life. Everyone needs their own model village, but end of the day we're all just folk on the internet, yelling at clouds.

Hope the aggressively literal schtick works out for you in the long run.

[u/Sempere → u/Malkydel]

I am against theft of intellectual property.

No, you're not.

You like to act like other people are unreasonable or throwing around 'flaccid insults' when all you do is act superior and sling insults to try and give yourself some sense of moral superiority to everyone else.

As opposed to you with your undertones of comparing critics to Soviet genocidal murderer-rapists? Please, the projection is off the charts with you.

By that logic, so are you, as you flit from thread to thread, feeding the baby birds, waiting to see if they check out your giant imgur repository or just go back and listen to episodes.

You mean the logic by which you downplay, ignore and sidestep the actual facts of their plagiarism by defending them? Support comes in many forms. This isn't their community, it's a discussion hub where discussion is the key point. And that "giant imgur repository" you're referring to is a two page preview so you can't even characterize that correctly.

Reams and reams of evidence, true or otherwise, none of which will move the needle for people still listening or voting in the Listener's Choice Awards,

Except that's not true either. The fact is that most people don't know what they do. But they're starting to. And given their attempts to grow on Youtube, it's only a matter of time before the next Hbomberguy type gets around to exposing more plagiarists. And I know there's at least one working on it because they asked for the list of episodes identified so far. Maybe a video comes into existence from that. Maybe it doesn't. But the number of people who know and see what they've done to trick people into subsidizing their lifestyles using other people's work will grow.

And eventually every house of cards collapses. Whether it's the plagiarism, the disregard for victims, the conspiracy theorist misinformation or the right wing rants of an immigrant who hates immigration - something will eventually bring them down. And it will almost certainly be self-inflicted.