Thefinebros: REACT WORLD
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Thefinebros: REACT WORLD
i rarely want to start a new topic about anything because i fear that at some point i would probably make myself look stupid/ignorant. but this is something I've had in the back of my mind for a while.
i'm sure many of you already knew about the fine brothers on youtube and the recent react world controversy they've gotten themselves into as well as how it sparked so many outrage everywhere on the internet.
i just want to hear your opinions on it.
i personally think that they deserved every criticism thrown at them. But at this point i just feel that people are disliking all of the finebros' videos and constantly commenting hateful stuffs towards them simply because it's what's trending right now. even after they took down all the trademarked words and apologized about it all of their recent videos that doesn't have anything to do with react world still gets hundreds of thousands of dislikes and the comments are full of people repeating the same insults, declaring that they're unsubbing, making fun of thefinebros' jewish ethnicity (or religion? i'm not sure)
i'm sure many of you already knew about the fine brothers on youtube and the recent react world controversy they've gotten themselves into as well as how it sparked so many outrage everywhere on the internet.
i just want to hear your opinions on it.
i personally think that they deserved every criticism thrown at them. But at this point i just feel that people are disliking all of the finebros' videos and constantly commenting hateful stuffs towards them simply because it's what's trending right now. even after they took down all the trademarked words and apologized about it all of their recent videos that doesn't have anything to do with react world still gets hundreds of thousands of dislikes and the comments are full of people repeating the same insults, declaring that they're unsubbing, making fun of thefinebros' jewish ethnicity (or religion? i'm not sure)
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Re: Thefinebros: REACT WORLD
I don't watch Fine Bros or React videos or anything like that. From the outside it looks like a couple of chuckleheads with inflated egos announced a program that would stifle individual creativity in favor of corporate greed. And then everything started to burn.
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Well, if you paint a huge mark on yourself saying "here is the target", then don't get surprised you are being shot at.
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Fine Bros can go [censored] themselves
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I actually have not heard anything about this yet. I used to watch a lot of their reaction videos, but not recently.
Certainly don't know what all of this is about, so I'll need to go hunting for information I suppose. Since there is no information in this entire thread. Schro's vague post is the best I have to go off of at the moment... Come on you guys, this is barely a discussion here.
Edit:
Google searching gave... little information too. I guess this is just a hate trend, then.
Certainly don't know what all of this is about, so I'll need to go hunting for information I suppose. Since there is no information in this entire thread. Schro's vague post is the best I have to go off of at the moment... Come on you guys, this is barely a discussion here.
Edit:
Google searching gave... little information too. I guess this is just a hate trend, then.
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[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK9KJo8apfE[/video]
About as succinct as it gets. The Fine Bros. tried to police a format they didn't own and later announced they would set up a network where they would license a format they didn't own to other Youtubers for a share of the profits. There was a huge backlash and they lost nearly a million subscribers over it. They've only just now started to recoup losses.
About as succinct as it gets. The Fine Bros. tried to police a format they didn't own and later announced they would set up a network where they would license a format they didn't own to other Youtubers for a share of the profits. There was a huge backlash and they lost nearly a million subscribers over it. They've only just now started to recoup losses.
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Thank you, Schrodinger.Schrodinger wrote:About as succinct as it gets. The Fine Bros. tried to police a format they didn't own and later announced they would set up a network where they would license a format they didn't own to other Youtubers for a share of the profits. There was a huge backlash and they lost nearly a million subscribers over it. They've only just now started to recoup losses.
I guess there just isn't much to this situation, then. It seems idiotic to trademark this, and so people lashed out at them.
*shrug* Can't say I see a justification for the extreme hate, but okay.
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Spoiler!
As for my opinion on the situation? It was a very, very dumb move on their part. However, to me it didn't really seem like they were doing this intentionally, rather that they were just being amazingly stupid and didn't consider the other angles React World could've been looked at. But that still doesn't mean they're innocent. Their "business practices" still include things like publicly criticizing other content creators with no justifiable reasons, allegations of shutting other people down and unwarrented copyright strikes, which are very scummy things to do. In the end, I think all the backlash and subscriber loss is reasonable considering how YouTube is already amazingly strict in terms of copyright infringement and revenue earning.
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Okay, now I get it. This is almost related to Monsanto, in a way.
Monsanto genetically modified a strain of corn, and through the supreme court, patented it. With that patent, on a plant that reproduces on its own, they go around and sue farmers at will who's crops contain Monsanto plants for re-planting seeds, whether they did or not.
So TheFineBros decided to try to copyright a type of video. That'd be like... what? Copyrighting the 'debate'? Or the 'business meeting'? There is absolutely no way this could be seen as a good thing. And based on what has been said before me, they deserved every speck of hate they got. Maybe not for this singular event alone, but with their history, this would push anyone that was on the fence over the edge.
I know I'll certainly never look them up, that's for sure.
Monsanto genetically modified a strain of corn, and through the supreme court, patented it. With that patent, on a plant that reproduces on its own, they go around and sue farmers at will who's crops contain Monsanto plants for re-planting seeds, whether they did or not.
So TheFineBros decided to try to copyright a type of video. That'd be like... what? Copyrighting the 'debate'? Or the 'business meeting'? There is absolutely no way this could be seen as a good thing. And based on what has been said before me, they deserved every speck of hate they got. Maybe not for this singular event alone, but with their history, this would push anyone that was on the fence over the edge.
I know I'll certainly never look them up, that's for sure.
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Ahh you just reminded me of something!Bellhead wrote:So TheFineBros decided to try to copyright a type of video. That'd be like... what? Copyrighting the 'debate'? Or the 'business meeting'? There is absolutely no way this could be seen as a good thing. And based on what has been said before me, they deserved every speck of hate they got. Maybe not for this singular event alone, but with their history, this would push anyone that was on the fence over the edge.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2gPlnqqKxQ[/video]
At least the British meant it as a funny advertising...
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