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Apparently Internet Historian is a huge plagiarist and hbomberguy just did an exposeé.
Plagiarism
Link to the video, if you haven't already watched it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ
Dang, I really enjoyed his content. I wonder if this will blow up?
Eh...has anyone looked into his other videos thoroughly? I just saw a comment (EDIT: By revanchistvakarian575) under his Cost of Concordia video indicating that the segment around 23:30 is plagiarized from this Vanity Fair piece.
Historian: "All day Saturday, rescuers searched for people on the ship. On Sunday morning, a South Korean couple was found in their cabin, safe but shivering. They had slept through the crash and woke up unable to exit their cabin."
Another Night to Remember, Bryan Burrough, Vanity Fair: "All day Saturday, rescue workers fanned out across the ship, looking for survivors. Sunday morning they found a pair of South Korean newlyweds still in their stateroom; safe but shivering, they had slept through the impact, waking to find the hallway so steeply inclined that they couldn't safely navigate it."
Yup, that's 100% plagiarism. The "safe but shivering" bit obliterates any possibility in my mind that they just happened to tell the same story in similar ways. He definitely seems to be better at covering his tracks than the other subjects of HBomb's video, though.
In The Swedish Job, which came out the year before Cost of Concordia, he does at the very least show sources and URLs at the bottom of the video as information comes up. It's still not amazing; the sources are not clickable nor are they collated in the description, but he at least made some effort there. Two years later, he just plunges balls deep into plagiarism. Fucking weird.
Not trying to claim that that video is plagiarized, but I do want to clear up that just because he shows some sources doesn’t mean there isn’t plagiarism.
That’s one of the tactics a lot of people in the Hbomb video specifically used. Cite some sources, so it looks credible, and then the parts you don’t use citations in look like your own original ideas by comparison.
The Swedish job I thought made it pretty clear that parts were ripped straight from an article. If I remember, it actually showed highlighted portions of the article in the animation as it was read. As if it were trying to prove credibility for the crazier parts by showing it was straight from a news article
There's probably way more than that tbh. People are going to comb through his stuff now and find them
there's no such thing as a one hit wonder plagiarist. if they did it once they have done it hundreds of times.
That was the genius of putting that Filip guy first in the video because it was truly the case with him on a massive scale. He was a talentless hack and after the dead cells incident it all came crashing down.
"if you catch someone plagiarizing once, chances are they've rolled those dice a few times before" - Me
The next sentences after that as well, he just rewrote it but its the same order and series of events. He gets a ton of details wrong in the process too
Somehow, though, no one found poor Manrico Giampedroni, the hotel director, who remained perched on a table above the water in the Milano Restaurant. He could hear the emergency crews and banged a saucepan to get their attention, but it was no use. When the water rose, he managed to crawl to a dry wall. He stayed there all day Saturday, his broken leg throbbing, sipping from cans of Coke and a bottle of Cognac he found floating by. Finally, around four A.M. Sunday, a fireman heard his shouts. It took three hours to lift him from his watery perch. He hugged the fireman for all he was worth. Airlifted to a mainland hospital, Giampedroni was the last person taken off the ship alive.
In the IH video most of these sentences get cut out but it's clearly another example of changing some sentences around.