one nice side effect to come out of the somerton plagiarism stuff: holy cow is it doing something to alleviate my own securities about making art! like if his videos can be that bad and still gain all that traction, why the hell am i not putting more of my own [high quality, well-researched, original] creative projects out there?? (i suppose it's because i have a spine and some taste and don't want to let people see my stuff unless i think it's really good... asked and answered here, perhaps)
of course as the Hbomb video very shrewdly and correctly points out, a lot of that traction is because plagiarism allows you to generate content in a way that games the algorithm etc etc but STILL. sometimes to spoils really do be going to the doers and it's unfortunate that the doers in this case are the folks stealing other work to compete on scale (doing more, faster) rather than any form of actual value
then again, if the Hbomb video (and all the other hardworking folks in the space) prove anything, it's that there's just a huge an appetite for the high-quality, slow pace stuff, too. idk about anyone else but that's the art scene that I wanna be in