havana syndrome enjoyer

@pawdrugs

if you know you know

they/them
pawdrugs.tumblr.com/

37
black
that cartoon you saw that made you feel weird
idiot flirt
underworld fagdyke
terminally horny for nonsensically specific shit

havana syndrome enjoyer @pawdrugs12/6/2023, 10:43 PM

Aisling @DiscoDeerDiary

Aisling @DiscoDeerDiary12/6/2023, 8:43 PM

In light of the whole James Somerton situation I still want to reiterate the importance of everyone having the right to post the little half-baked rambles that come to their heads. The problem with James Somerton wasn't so much that he "lacked rigor" or "didn't put in enough effort" so much as he completely underperformed in comparison to the authority he presented himself as, and propped up his image as a serious scholar by stealing passages from people who actually had done the work. Academic rigor and hard work are not in themselves obligatory, but honesty is. My posts all sound like first drafts because they fucking are, and yet you all get plenty of meaning and value out of them.

Aisling @DiscoDeerDiary12/6/2023, 8:55 PM

I'm deeply frustrated by the possibility that a lot of people's takeaway from the HBomberGuy video is gonna be "you have to be this educated and this hardworking or you should just shut up" when like, no, plenty of video essayists got their start as low effort vloggers. Low effort posting is not a sin. Demanding money while peddling fraudulent products is. If you're not literally faking your work and qualifications? You're fine.

You must log in to comment.

in reply to @DiscoDeerDiary's post:

Cam @camfusedly12/6/2023, 8:57 PM

I love this. This whole thing has weirdly made me feel more comfortable thinking about putting myself online, like, “it’s very hard to do things that are perfect so people who can do “perfect” (or professional looking) things often are actually scammers, you might as well just do what you can”

in reply to @DiscoDeerDiary's post:

Coda @Codarobo12/6/2023, 10:54 PM

I think the fact that he was making a comfortably six figure income just by reciting others' articles and concealing it to increase the perception that his work was original (and thus worthy supporting) doesn't help

M A R M @virtualmarmalade12/7/2023, 4:11 AM

Idk I think he was pretty clear on the point that making stuff Good, stealing content and lying about it Bad
Maybe I'm just an optimist tho lol

DistinctiveStatic @alchemistdoctor12/7/2023, 6:26 AM

I liked his bit about loving the guy who posts his rambles about something else. He's like "that's totally fine! But look at how he mentions that he is emphatically talking about someone else's thing."

Crediting doesn't need to be this big laborious process. It can literally just be "I read this thing, and-"

Snazzy the Dragon @snazzy12/8/2023, 7:08 PM

Literally the ONLY POINT of the video is to say "Hey, don't steal other people's work"

I don't understand how people could possibly come away from a video solely devoted to the topic of plagiarism and not understand that the message of the video is "don't plagiarize"