The Stolen Level Controversy... 

ABSOLUTELY DO NOT GO OUT OF YOUR WAY AND HATE ON THE CREATOR OF THE LEVEL, OR ANY OTHER CREATORS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO. IF YOU DO IT YOU'LL BE SHOWING YOURE WORSE THAN THEM BY DOING IT. the best thing you could do to help would probably be sending this video to a moderator you know so maybe they can so something about it. Anyways i hope your day is good! Join the discord server if you wanna submit a clip to appear in the next video: discord.gg/dailydoseofgeometrydash

One day I reported a stolen level, and the guy who stole that level reported me, and I got banned for a week, and his level is still there. I love mods

“this level has a really interesting concept of just going up”

Getting restarted on the how to platform level is PAINFUL😕

making all levels copyable was a mistake

2:11 the pain of texture packs

2:42 The level Jumper, in a game played by someone named "GW Jax", and Jax also works in The Amazing Digital Circus

2:32 Fun fact: Waterflame has a song called -Orange- which is literally -Jumper- with Pomni meme melody at 0:.28, and it came out 14 years ago 🤯

I blame Natural Disaster for stealing first…

Also another case of this was Endless Skies by (me) remember creators if you are planning to make a remake or inspired level always credit the creator, I made the mistake of forgetting this. it's always important to be original even when others aren't. Stay Strong Creators! ❤

Cool video, I despise people that steal stuff from levels and not giving credit, it’s just sad at this point

Harder difficulty face in a robber costume looks so funny 😂

The sad thing about Starry Nights is that it also just has bad gameplay, horrible transitions, and mid decoration that barely deserved a feature in the first place. So the fact that it stole assets makes me wonder if the creator spent more than an hour making the level or not.

2:32 robvatopper is that you 😮

0:01 Dang, he types SLOW

yo I made a post on reddit about the try to die stolen level and I was surprised to see the guy get banned the next day

2:32 "not many people will catch the refrence" proceeds to play the most popular online song

1:56 I have the last part in this level! I sincerely hope this gets rated, it’s been sent so many times…

Ty for adding my TV portal into the vid :) i was lacking inspiration to finish the lvl and now i'm feeling good and going to continue it. (theres a little normal face at the top-left btw)

2:03 this is why i have a restart keybind

3:03 Geometry dash is taking over talent shows

3:19 AINT NO WAY THAT GUY ELOVED FROM A CUBE, INTO A BUNCH OF PIXELS🥶🥶🥶

To be fair we dont have an infinite amount of designs and its really hard to come up with original ones so this was bound to happen eventually

with the way geometry dash works, making levels "impossible to steal" is just impossible but there could be more regulation regarding those levels, maybe a way for mods/elder mods to report stolen levels if they find out? and maybe a form for players to fill out on boomlings or something if they find out their level was stolen

We have also have witnessed this during 2.1 But this is really just straight up slaughter

As a creator, I would hate it if anything I made got stolen and then rated, some people are just too lazy to even try to create so they ruin other peoples chances

I think its crazy that now anyone can copy any level. I think that change needs to be reverted. I also think that if the creator wants their level to be copyable, bring back the password feature, or maybe make it so that only friends can copy the level.

I have contact with a few mods and I have already told them about the Tfor1 situation, they have confirmed that they are doing stuff on it.

Robtop needs to bring back the password to levels or bring back the option that disable the copy button because there's a lot of stolen levels that might be rated and this is unacceptable to do such a thing. If this is planned, RobTop needs to be as fast as possible to bring back those features into the game. There might be another solution to this problem, the moderation team can verify if those levels are potentially stolen. Stealing someone's level is a very bad way to get a rate because you can be hatred for copying someone's level without their permission, giving credits or stoling his level and getting a star rate while the player would took like a week building his level just to be stolen by a random kid who got a star rate because of this, you can even being banned like that.

i already thought the "every level is copyable" was a dogshit idea and this just proves it

I think it would be nice if you made a second level on the topic of the difficulty of platformer demons compared to classic demons. Like for example, a level like Tower of Infinity is like a lower end hard demon but rated extreme demon, but free solo is like around cataclysm difficulty

I saw this lvl a while ago and yea great job rob for rating lvls that copied other lvls but not ones that have effort put into them

1:43 old level but still really cool, sad it never got rated

2:44 DavJT Is a Good Creator or... GOD OF GEOMETRY DASH

2:33 ah yes, my favorite level, the amazing digital jumper.

The jumper refrence is refrencing the amazing digital circus end theme (or the start too)

2:34 THE amizing digital circus

1:25 I’m sorry, HOW MANY CPS??????

My idea: if you grab something from a copied level and save it as a custom object, it would save a piece of information with the object saying "Copied from level ... by ...". This could be added as a tag on the level page once it gets uploaded on the server.

This makes me rethink if the level "The Silent Hill" which I have showcased on my channel, has been stolen soem assets. The level is copyable too. It seems like some parts are just copy pasted onto the level, and the last part could have been a supernerfed version of Ton 618

From what I have heard, it is difficult for RobTop to catch stolen assets or levels when he is rating them, since there are millions of levels that have all been uploaded over many years. Ive seen stolen rated levels that were copies of levels from many years ago. Of course it is impossible to memorize every level that is ever sent/rated, and it does mean that sometimes a stolen level slips by, and ends up rated. Usually, once Rob is made aware, that level is unrated. As for ways to stop or reduce level theft, thats hard. Obviously bringing back the ability to not make your level copyable would work. (As a creator, I still dont get why that was removed.) However, putting other measures in place can also be a very delicate balance. Trying to not make uploading more difficult for creators, and trying not to create rare scenarios where the original creator is punished rather then the copier (highly improbable, but could happen) is extremely difficult. If a level is stolen, for now the best thing to always do is to just let a Mod know so the word can get to RobTop, and support the original creator instead, since they deserve the downloads and likes. Dont go after the creator that stole the level either, let Mods or RobTop deal with them.

i think robtop should add the optional "allow copy" back

There was also a level called Fisher Darkness, that was copied and featured. It's deleted by the creator now, but for some reason I still see it at the second-to-last page of featured.

I'm not actually sure but the is the song at 2:30 a reference to The Amazing Digital Circus?

Riot... 0:10

My suggestion for solution: If you copy a level, you can't upload that copied level

I remember accidently going into the practice mod on room 1834 of how to platformer. This was so painful

Where do you get the idea to start your videos and when do you think you will run out of ideas for beginnings? 😅

2:24 My intro makes a reappearance :o

Bro couldn’t afford an intro💀

"This is a cool ad!" *the ad then proceeds to play music from a friday night funkin mod*

3:01 Yo that's so cool! Props to that guy!

Goofy ah wave 1:34 💀

People here within 24 hours, 👇

1:26 I really hate how geometry dash hard levels have degenerated into more of a casual question of "do you have one of those mouses that click like a bajillion times per second"

ngl this difficulty face in the thumbnail goes hard asf

2:33 The amazing digital circus

LOVE THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS SONG ON JUMPER

Yeah, stealing should be more punishable in more serious cases like Natural Disaster (like if you're stealing cherryteam's resigns or culuc's lightnings). I'm not very familiar with the situation but I genuinely hope that it's the background that got stolen. Cause if it was the block design that's just absurd. Placing a block and slapping a star onto it, wow you're a genius of design. Such a deep and complex work of art. What next? Copyright for default 1.9 blocks? xD Anyway if it was anything more serious it's just sad man.

“Not many people will catch the reference”, proceeds to play one of the most famous meme themes from one of the most popular internet shows ever

15 stolen levels got rated while my original early 2.2 platformer level hasn’t gotten rated with 19 sends.

2:33 siivagunner where you at (Joke: The Amazing Digital Circus Main Theme)

i dont know if i can survive in this digital circus without you!

That edit goes so hard!

2:44 this is fire and apparently we’re getting crazy 4 next year

1:10 remember when 2.202 was released? People started complaining about that all levels need to be copyable, and it became worse with 2.205, since that is the mobile bugfix update. It seems very simple, but just look what that has made... Also, I'm a victim of beating Try To Die and needeng to rebeat it as Ultrakillmeworld

Recently a youtuber made a new demon list exclusively for tiny levels. I think itd be cool if you covered it on your channel :)

2:33 hmm.. yea i see i see.. Digital circus.

2:32 the amazing digital jumper

Does ordinary have a verifier? I really like the level and want to see it on the list.

LETTSS GOO SISYPHUS MADE IT INTO DAILY DOSE OF GD!!!

today's intro is having so much effort my eyes have been blessed

1:43 i beat this a while ago, rate worthy imo, great song 👍

2:33 Welcome, to the AMAZING DIGITAL CUBE GAME!

You really need to see Nebs reaction to verifying unnerfed zodiac it is the most insane reaction ever

‘Not many people will catch the reference’ Me : Really?, Amazing Digital Circus,

The reference at 2:31 is the amazing digital circus because of the song

1:37 This is how New dancing line levels work

2:13 wrong buttons ca be terrifying

2:11 thats what happens when you use such a cursed pause menu, also how tf did it take 5 hours to get less than halfway through how to platformer??

If this is rate standards than dear nastalgists should be epic💀

2:10 why did the texture pack make the buttons look so similar to each other?

2:30 AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS

2:32 it goes hard and the song would be called the amazing digital jumper

In my opinion if they steal the effects but not the level it's fine helps new players but if it's the whole level n o

1:43 someone whould make a video of how to climb slopes in platfromer, Speedtek will remain as hard demon but more players will be able to beat it

2:40 Amazing Digital circus!!!

This controversy kinda reminds me of Natural Disaster but worse

Stealing levels is not something we should underestimate, we need to do something about it, if we don't that more people try to do it, and more levels will get rated with no originality, stop this BS

I actually got accused of stealing a lantern from a level I've never even heard of. The lanterns are HAND MADE

2:31 i catched it THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS'S THEME X JUMPER

funfact: my first rated level got stolen 2 days after i published it. didnt knew about it till a friend send me a msg. the stealing thing sucks so bad.

Omg it’s the rebirth of the gioat (greatest intro of all time)

Yeah, Robtop should absolutely make a code, so not everyone can go in the level editor, that each creator would choose for each of their levels

2:32 "Not many people will catch the reference" 398 million people: 😶

Btw i'm the one who sent the comment in full caps and the reason i did this is because i think that stealing is an extremely bad thing, as a cp creator myself i'd be horrified if one day someone gets away with a feature on a stolen level of mine, this is very bad to do so dont!

“Stare-y night” What are we, Irish?

Man this is HORRIBLE! I copied a level and I haven’t verified it yet, but honestly. I feel guilty seeing this

2:34 Welcome to the digital Waterflame 🗣️🔥🔥🔥

I think RobTop should take action against people copying assets from other levels, especially if those levels are getting away with it.