Honestly Matto, the "Copying an essay and adding your thoughts after each paragraph" is one of your better React analogies, just because most people are aware of how obviously disallowed it is. Not sure if I've seen you use it before, but if you do return to the Anti-React business, it might be one to have more front-and-centre - I like the slot-machine analogy for the market as a whole, but it's a good supporting analogy for the individual works as I see a lot of people claim "added value" as a defence.
I still think the best analogy is to ask that they 'react' to a movie or tv show in the same way they do a YT video. Is that legal? Would you expect that to stay on YT? If so, why? If not, why not?
i also really liked this analogy. it mostly made me think "in school you are using other people's work in your essays because you are LEARNING, when you finally get into the industry you studied for you don't have that luxury, you need to produce the material that you need and other students will eventually use in the future. that's a big part of it there. in school, you use that work because you aren't supposed to have full knowledge of the topic. essays are not only a way for instructors to determine your writing competency, but it's also an effective way for you to gain a lot of knowledge by researching. with theo, he just seems to know everything (though more often than not it doesn't really seem to end up that way, but i don't watch him), but instead of creating content that would be "used in the essays" and adding something valuable to the field like she should be, he just does the "writing the essay" part, and very lazily like matto explains. it kinda gets infuriating to think he gets PAID to do that, especially while there's plenty of talented programmers being put on the back burner because of it like many people mentioned. as someone who returned to college for a programming degree, i would much rather be recommended a video with 20 views that actually helps me learn something rather than one of theo's videos i think this situation like doing unpaid training for a job (entry level would be the best example). yes, you are still TECHNICALLY working, however when 90% of the job is being done by the person training you in order to teach you how things need to be completed, you can't exactly claim that all that work is your own and get paid for it. maybe i'm wrong but i feel like if the entire world worked like that then you would eventually have nothing but a world of mediocre surgeons etc. that are only there to get paid during their training. they wouldn't care to put in the work and get good at what they do, cause why would they if they can get paid all the same to just watch someone better do their job for them
I mean there is a whole section of "essays" called literature reviews. Which look at research papers and other essays and basically look at what has and hasn't been researched. So while the analogy makes sense, there is a specific category for such "react" content in my opinion. Which if you ask me, in my opinion is also low effort, but it does actively take place.
@@deathtrap5556that's still kinda different because that could be used as a learning process, I remember doing that in school, but I'm not putting it online and getting money from it
Nahh people don't understanding that a random guy just stole someone's months of work without even giving them any credit is making me mad in every way possible😂
@@LoFiAxolotlI usually don't have a dislike or hatred towards many creators because if I don't like them, I just don't watch them but I sincerely hope that Hasan gets deplatformed
literally everyone i see defending react channels are seriously in need of help: xqc, h3h3, this guy, sssniperwolf etc, like none of them are happy ppl with good content just mean and delusional ppl who are entitled asf!
its so funny hearing "washed up gta streamer" and "make me the target of his 2 million subscriber audience", both washed up and incredibly powerful eh?
That is standart thing to say when you have no real counter arguments. Usually people like donald trump, ben shapiro and alex jones say things similar way when they talk about their opponents
@InfiniteDeckhand really it isn't unique to fascists. Just an aspect of propaganda in general. The allies did the same thing when talking about Germany in ww2 for example. Its essential when trying to encourage people to fight because they 1 can win and 2 need to fight in order to win
@@kainoawaikiki2614The allies were also fascists? Like until Hitler came along they pretty much agreed with him that blacks are lesser, Jews are lesser, women suck, etc. attitude is the same but policy wise very different
@@owaisunar5227 Dude, DarkViperAU is literally stealing Theo's content and reacting to it. This is hypocrite level 10. Fair use commentary FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES is not stealing. The Supreme Court ruled in Google vs Oracle that you don't have the right to use a contract to stifle other's fair use. DarkViperAU is just a grifter trying to use other's copyright to get money and fame.
I feel like now that Jacksfilms is not doing anything with credit the creators, the crusade against react content has sort of died out, despite it still being a huge issue, and I really appreciate that Matto still talks about it.
Crediting the creators wouldn't be good enough anyway. It barely gets the original video any views because the viewers had already seen the original within the reaction video.
@@boneheadedfellow it's about the same "bare minimum" as asking your viewers not to harass the person you're critiquing. It doesn't do anything useful except making you seem like you're doing something. That's not "bare minimum" in my eyes.
I find it interesting that the only videos from you that get recommended to me are the rants. RU-vid has successfully figured out that I stopped really thinking about GTA 5, but I like hearing an Australian man be passionate about things.
That ChudLogic guy made a "response" video to you, not sure if you're aware. It's literally him waffling on camera for an hour and all he does is insult you. It's hilariously bad
I would have been more surprised if that guy pulled out a decent response. Dude who spent "3x the original video's length" (super transformative!!!!) not understanding anything and calling Matt autistic wasn't going to shit out anything worthwhile. Barely worth an acknowledgement. The same goes for other react defenders who either cannot understand or cannot argue Matt's position, so they stoop to disingenous, false narratives or name-calling. Can you imagine a scholarly paper that makes an argument like this? If I turned in an essay that was 50% the source and 50% me admitting I don't understand and calling the author gay and autistic, I would expell *myself*, save the admins the trouble.
Must be a case of malignant narcissism, very little else can explain Theo's behaviour. Remember, the very worst thing in the whole universe for a malignant narcissist is to feel "unfairly" attacked. Anything negative against them, no matter how objectively valid, is seen as a huge personal insult and an attack on their very being. Only thing you can do is to ignore such people, for they are legitimately and chronically mentally unable to see their own faults. It's as futile as trying to convince a person w/o eyes who somehow believes they can see, that no, you can't because you know... no eyes. They will never be able to see your point, pun intended.
The problem with 'ignoring such people' is that other people will listen and believe them without looking into any lies/misinformation/misunderstandings they say. This will then be picked up by others and spread until a whole community will think poorly of yourself. In other words, you have to defend yourself and correct misinformation when you see it. Otherwise, the truth gets buried.
@@SpectreRyder People who have kids learn this quite often. All you do by telling them not to do it is plant the idea in their head that it's something that they CAN do. The best way is like Matt said, just prevent the means to do so in the first place. Don't just tell your child not to steal cookies out of the cookie jar, just hide the jar.
I’m a Software Developer myself so I’m quite into that niche and still I never liked Theo’s content that much. I had watched a couple of his videos in the past and I immediately got the feeling that he thought he was better than everybody else, I’m glad to know it wasn’t just me who felt that way
I've clicked on the "Don't recommend this channel" on one of Theo's video a couple of months back. It made my life happier. Unfortunately he's all about hyped js "frameworks", and then change his mind about everything he was using months later. I'm not saying people shouldn't watch him. You do whatever you want with your time, but I stopped wasting mine with his videos.
He's very clearly narcissistic, it's incredibly hard to ignore. His videos showing up are still useful for me to hear about new things but I stopped taking him seriously pretty quickly.
Sad thing is his technical videos aren't even that high quality - I can think of at least 3 that had gaping flaws in them, the most recent one being that "AI isn't going to keep improving" analysis. I find him to be a bit of a bore, personally. He might be a talented web developer and I wish him all the best, but he needs to spend some time reflecting on the quality of his videos before claiming that he doesn't do reaction videos because other content creators are too low quality for him.
These videos are good and necessary. I just hope it doesn't hurt your channel as you were just picking up good views again this might "scare" away some viewers. Let's hope not. Love ya Matto
Theo is an exemplar of "Schrodinger's Victim: Claim he is a victim and at the same time assert that you are powerless and pathetic." The "victim" will use whichever suits him best in the moment. He's a compulsive and pathological liar who lives in denial and is massively egotistical and a narcissist (which is a hell of a combination). He wants to make you a villain so badly to play the victim to gain sympathy but his ego prevents him from doing that so he has to constantly also put you down. He's literally a walking contradiction. And it doesn't matter how many times you tell him what the truth is, he will delude himself into making other excuses because its far easier for him to lie to himself than to face reality that he is not a good person and he made mistakes. His ego will never let him do that.
That's what mat is doing here in this situation tho? "Oh he's so powerful, relentlessly attacking us poor, innocent bystanders" and also "lmao he deranged and weak and has no audience" 🤷🏼
I hope the way he acts online is separate from how he treats people in his life. I doubt it though. The gaslighting, lies, projection, he's the victim always etc.. It's the classic "no integrity, do or say anything to protect my fragile ego". Sad.
i simultaneously understand the benevolent desire of DarkViper to not engage in bullshit, and also the catharsis from seeing a guy like Theo logically and factually destroyed. never heard of Theo, never will look em up, let this vid be the last of it :P
9:58 "used car salesman" might be the best description of him. I don't like focusing on someone's looks, but he _really_ looks like he's about to sell me a 1980's Pontiac
I love the honesty and i dislike the fact that others REFUSE to even watch videos like this. i wont leave but i cant understand others not liking this content. I do hope you all the best
This is comparable to if Theo was constantly shoplifting from a family owned type store and when they finally confront him about it, he throws himself down on the ground and shouts “THEY’RE ATTACKING ME!” and now stands outside the store with a megaphone shouting at others to not support the shop because they “gave him vague threats”
Then a random guy from the street says “hey theo is shoplifting from this family owned store this is bad” which makes theo go on a weird year long hate obsession with that guy unlimitedly forgetting about the family store.
He expects you to say :"pleAsE dOn'T HaRasS" him,in your very calmly toned video,but he himself shows no such restrains when angrily shouting and screaming about some small company to his thousands of underaged...what a shallow hypocrite
I'm not quite sure why you decided to read a bunch of comments dunking on Theo, especially when you later say that random people shouldn't be automatically believed. Isn't it contradictory?
Hey Dark, wasn't expecting to be in here but I won't complain because that's a part of speaking publicly on social media :) I tried to take an approach of understanding and being friendly to dissect the behavior going on (ie pointing out the pettiness and the original video this all started from being wrong). It's true that Theo did somewhat steer the conversation (even getting a little aggressive towards me) so I backed down a bit. That's not to mean that I thought you're in the wrong or that Theo was right. Just wanted to, as a software developer, cover my ass (and my projects) from potential hate mobs. Hope you can sort this out, this is the downside of YouTubing. And yes... react videos are a cancer on this platform. EDIT: I just want to add that I've talked to both individuals directly, and they are both pleasant to speak to. Gotta remember everyone is human.
@DarkViperaAU When I was young, my grandad used to tell me that having no friends is better than having bad friends and the right road can be a lonely one. I stand by that 35 years later and I stand by you. Your audience appreciates the way you handle the shit you take from these delusional "creators" and the way you deal with them is a lesson I will use to direct others in similar situations. Thank yhou Matto.
Because he comes off as extremely spergy sometimes and very hostile, not to mention his weird dms with other creators. Still on his side in general but I can see why people dislike him.
@@vietnamsemonky4082 I can maybe kinda see him in that way, but I am sure in my assessment that the videos he makes are top notch and totally fact based. He provides proof and talks in a professional manner. Any new viewer with even the minimum capacity to think should be able to understand his stance and not think of him in a negative manner already
@@vietnamsemonky4082 So it's because you and them are ableist, right. Got it. Makes sense honestly. If you can't take the message, you just attack the messenger.
@@ChristinaGXL Okay cool, I literally said I agree with Matt and his points and was just pointing out what others might perceive. But go off with your Reddit buzzword.
As a SWE who knows Theo from programming videos that knows about this channel only because of GTA speed running shorts, I legit thought I was tripping when I saw the thumbnail. 💀
It's again and again impressive to me how many deranged people there are on the internet, and that are famous too. Makes me wonder if the internet encourages antisocial behavior in people due to it being so impersonal and relatively consequence-free. If we were living in like 1000 BC or in tribes and caves, would there still be so many people like this who are eager to exploit others without second thought and badmouth people who voice criticism over it? I like to imagine, if Theo lived in ancient Greece or something, the people would have simply held a vote to banish him lmao
I have a hypothesis that the rise of reality TV stardom and "influencer" as a career might be why there seem to be fewer infamous serial killers today compared to, say, the 1970s. That itch, that desire for notoriety, can now be satisfied by views instead of murders.
As a web developer, I’ll never watch Theo’s videos. He’s so egotistical and as many of the people you deal with he attacks your character and makes up lies rather than actually wrestling with your argument’s. Even outside of this drama I can tell from his tweets how full of himself he is.
Iv watched him a few times and i can never finish his videos, he just comes accross as pretentious and anything he reviews is just more interesting going directly to the source . He also pauses and comments so often it just becomes irritating .
There's no way he actually believes what he's saying, especially with that part about his videos being limited by the quality of others. I would hope that nobody is quite so delusional.
The funny part about that If he's saying that his content is worse when watching other people's videos... isn't he basically saying it isn't transformative? Cuz surely is if it was transformative, the content would actually be good even if the video isn't
35:45 Dark Viper AU: 1) Washed up GTA Streamer. 2) Nobody watches his stuff. 3) Has a massive audience who targets people. Does this make any sense? No.
Still find it funny that he says they made vague threat to DMCA strike him. Image people making vague threats to use their right. When some dude steals your stuff and you tell him you call the police, you are the bad guy. This dude is not on earth. 🤣
Content like this is why I was for keeping stuff on rambles. It'd be much harder for people to claim you are coming at them with an army when you could quote tweet a screenshot of the video on the rambles channel with 100k~ subs. I dont follow youtube analytics to the degree that id understand if this type of content would recommended the channel more or less like some people are claiming. Just happy to see it recommended to me.
Easy way to tell someone has no defense for their actions: they use ad hominen insults, talk seemingly to no end about unrelated things, and when addressing the actual topic breeze through and intentionally misunderstand nearly word. Theo is not honest and not worth the time to address nor the stain on one's reputation, having interacted with him. Bottom of the barrel lazy content creator that will be forgotten in due time. He's like a chihuahua barking at a larger dog that's just chilling but the second that big dog stretches the chihuahua runs screaming like it just got viciously attacked. Pathetic.
The diffrence between a real villain and an idiot is that a real villian knows they are doing bad and do it anyway because they like it or have other "reasons"
The comments here are so confusing. To be sure, React is not the best framework, but to learn there is an entire anti-react community is mind-blowing. Guys, do you really want to be an Angular carrot farmer that bad? :o
I'm a dev and I've watched Theo's twitch channel and youtube videos occasionally. All he contributes to the internet is his "take" on things, and most of the time it's a garbage take. When anyone criticizes him, he loses his temper and they get banned.
He's the epitome of "Dev doesn't want to bother actually learning things to become a senior and figures out it's easier to make RU-vid videos giving opinions on stacks/technologies with basically zero backing behind them and never any real knowledge". It would be funny if there weren't so many of these guys on RU-vid...
PaaS = "Platform as a Service". It's a concept related to "cloud computing". You can find some high level overview articles to get a basic idea of what it is.
Matto, you're losing braincells over a techbro react native shill that paywalled having a dark theme on one of his services. None of this is worth it, he's lost the plot long ago
Theo: Just wants the web to keep getting better. Also Theo: Spreads the most vile lies about people while stealing content from actual experts to make a few pennies for his channel.
Theo sells twice managed cloud infrastructure at massive extra costs adding an extra layer of "simplicity" and vendor lock in. Serverless architecture is bull and he sold a really simple tech ontop of S3 buckets.
It's just one of those things on RU-vid that is immediately used to blame someone, it's like on the "RU-vid drama accusation checklist". Hmm has he warned not to harass? No? THE BENEVOLENCE !
I love how Theo said he doesn't want to be harassed and called slurs when he literally called Matt schizophrenic and "washed up". Calling someone a schizophrenic is an insult! Same with that Chud guy calling Matt autistic every 5 seconds.
Wow, Matt just fully reuploaded that DarkViperAU video without even pausing it at any point. I expected better of you. He's a smaller creator and you shouldn't be stealing his content. For shame.
I like watching some of his "techological" takes (not the drama), mainly because it's a very good thought exercise - to identify which parts he's objectively right about, which parts are are his personal taste presented as a holy dogma, and which parts are absolute bullshit presented as a valid point of view.
I watched Theo's video when youtube started recommending them but I quickly realized his and my views were not aligned and he had a weird vibe that made me stop watching them. The only reason I thought to go into his videos was to comment that his thumbnails always look like he just sharted himself
i dont understand how people can get mad at people for dropping the "r slur" and yet be totally ok with people using schizo as an insult. like the context is the same, youre calling someone stupid and mocking a mental illness, either both are ok or none are. getting mad at Darkviper fans for saying the r slur, (they didnt) but belittling someone by calling them schizo is wild.
@@rusi6219 i would agree. the context of message as a whole means alot more than the individual words. however if youre going to get on your high horse and claim that 1 is wrong then you cant be dropping the other.
Theo's videos are so badly researched, so often gravely factually wrong, and so far removed from the realities of software engineering that I'm not surprised he's not working for Twitch anymore and has to resort to stealing content
RU-vid just put this in my feed. I'm quite disappointed that this is how Theo acts. I'm now debating if I should continue to follow him or not. Thank you for making a video, showing his character.
@30:00 DV reacting to his own reaction content, about people who make reaction content is like a Russian nesting doll of videos. Neat. I hope he reacts to this clip so there can be another layer added to this video onion.
In a lot of cases, I do see saying "don't harass rhis person" more as a form of insurace like "welp, i tried" it really doesnt do anything but make you look better, it is almost entirely performative
Love it when he twists your subscriber base and views to fit whichever narrative he wants to pursue during the different variations of his ‘argument’. Lights are on but no one’s home
Often when a system is being abused for financial gain by bad actors, and that abuse is brought to light by good actors, clashes will arise between the two. Those bad actors, especially those who are aware of their abuse, know that it will one day come to an end. Matto bringing to light the absurdity of react content is a catalyst that works to accelerate the ending of react content, and is therefore costing futur benefits to those bad actors whose abuse will be cut short for them, and could no longer further exploit reacting. I think that's why he get's the hate he does. I appreciate matto's react content series, i have grown to always seek the original video if a title is intresting to me( reactors often just copy the original video's title, further proving their laziness ), even if i get recommended a reaction of that video, both to get the *very often* short version of the content, and to form my own criticisms on the content and not be spoon-fed opinions. Matto, i wish your community's appreciation for your fight is enough of a reward, even though it might at times seem to you that you're fighting a losing fight.
Every time I see you upload another RU-vid/Twitch "drama" video, I shake my head, because I truly believe the potential positive impact is limited and if anything, it just brings a wider audience to those who don't deserve it. But also, if I watch it, I also realize that in your position, I couldn't help but feel compelled to do the same thing. The internet was a mistake :D
somebody on the darkviper team needs to make a montage of all his “enemies” contradicting themselves. they probably won’t watch it, but I guarantee it will be the ultimate “stfu” that you’re looking for 😂
As another web developer, my opinion about Theo and his ego, is that it seems to be as you, says. Theo in many cases talks about things he doesn´t know, technologies he haven´t even learned, for example Rust (the programming language) and keeps its mind very closed to different points of view when it comes to tools related to productivity, like code editors for example where instead of trying to understand the point of those different tools, needs and workflows, he instead compares them with his own needs and workflows and only because they don't work for him he just concludes it doesn't work, which makes sense if you have such a big ego to think your needs are the only ones. So well, that's what I think about him.
I met Theo last year at opensauce. Was a totally douche with insanely bad takes (at the time, it was how shit ai was and was going to just be a dad, wouldn't be a threat ever to programmers etc). Glad to see other people see through his bs. And God, his website is so so bad. How can you have a website like that an promote yourself as a dev?
I got blocked by Theo for keeping it a buck under one of his posts. The dude is just out of control. He’s a contrarian. He complains way too much. He’s just a hater.
I'll be honest, I was thinking about sending a hate comment to Theo on his recent video after the previous video darkviperau realeased but I didn't go through it because he is not worth my time.
it's funny to see all these people coming out to try and throw punches at you, Chud, Theo and I saw The Quartering came out to add his two cents to things, they are forming a league of extraordinarily dumb guys.
I find it funny seeing someone without emotion reacting to something vs another screaming and name calling . it's usually pretty easy to tell who is the good side when this happens.
Here's a thought to everyone who wants to go to Theo's channel and leave a nasty comment. Do it here instead. It's a good chance that Theo, like most creators, hardly look at their own comment section, but will benefit off all the views each commenter gives. however, leaving the comment here instead gives the benefit to Matt, and has just as much probability of Theo seeing it.
so he was getting mad at you for “attacking him” on twitter with one tweet which was about him attacking a different smaller creator. idk if that’s projecting or like some other manipulation tactic but it’s definitely insnae
all arguments aside, how can someone be so mad about taking down 1 video that literally took them no effort to make... he already got majority of the ad revenue anyway by having it online for so long. very questionable iq
His content reminds me of those gaming "news" channels that just read other people's articles and give their opinion on what they're reporting, and then read a bunch of Reddit threads.
Yeah, Theo's a childish jerk with a very petty nature. I think anyone can take that away from watching just a few videos of his. Anyone saying his content is high-effort is typing nonsense into a database. Kinda shocked he had the balls to engage in what is pretty commonly called out as copyright infringement but not surprised he doubled down. Definitions of harassment are very subjective and what you may call harassment is different from what he may call harassment. I don't see anything out of the ordinary outside of an obvious "wtf" moment and standard Theo response. 45 minutes to say all that is wild, mixed in with exaggeations from you. This whole thing could be done in 5 minutes easily with a 20-minute video if you want to cover more details, Louis Rossman style.
I love how every time someone has beef with Matt they claim he's a "washed-up GTA streamer". As if he hasn't been doing these rants and commentaries on the hypocrisy of the RU-vid culture for years now.
