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The Copy and Paste Culture of YouTube (ft. Austin Kleon)

The Colin and Samir Show

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The Easiness of Sharing

I think what we're seeing today, especially across YouTube is that there's actually basically no consequence for plagiarizing or like exactly replicating someone's video. The easiness of sharing, I think is a big thing that we're up against. People are judging the quality of something based on metrics that really have nothing to do with what I would consider real value or art or anything, really. And then spend five weeks on something and posted online and crickets chirp and then I can do the most half-assed, lame thing I can think of and it gets 2,000 likes. What does that mean? You know what I mean? When you make things based on quantified

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