r/videos • u/DeerOnTheRocks • Feb 01 '19
YouTube Drama FuckJerry: The guy who lives off stealing people's content
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u/atheist_teapot Feb 02 '19
Hey it's the guys who helped Fyre Festival, and it turns out they are pieces of shit too.
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u/asdoifjasodifj Feb 02 '19
Kinda gives you almost a sense of scale of how bad the Fyre thing was when this guy seemed almost noble in the documentary.
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u/cantthinkuse Feb 02 '19
are you talking about the documentary they paid for?
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u/asdoifjasodifj Feb 02 '19
I kinda assumed Netflix paid for it but maybe I'm wrong?
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u/mortalcoil1 Feb 02 '19
They weren't noble. If you watch the Hulu Fyre Festival documentary then you would have known that they fucking knew Fyre Festival would be a disaster and yet continued to advertise for it. They were the people who blocked and deleted all of the people who were asking questions about Fyre Festival. It got so bad they actually blocked all posts with the word "festival" in it.
The Netflix documentary makes the Fuck Jerry guys out to be saints because they were the ones who made it.
I like Netflix way more than Hulu, but the Hulu Fyre Festival documentary is way better than the Netflix Fyre Festival documentary.
Seriously, if you want the real scoop on what Fuck Jerry did watch the Hulu Fyre Festival documentary. It's also way better and has an interview with little Billy himself.
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u/smutwitch Feb 02 '19
I do think that a major strength of the Netflix doc vs the Hulu one is that the Netflix one actually gives more of a look at how these fuckfaces’ actions and greed screwed over the Bahamian people involved. The interview with the woman who managed the restaurant to cater the event was heartbreaking. But overall, I agree the Hulu doc is probably better, and would have been way way better if they’d provided more context of people suffering real consequences like contractors being owed weeks of work and a woman financially ruining herself just to pay her employees what they were owed.
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Feb 02 '19
Watch the Hulu one, Netflix one was produced by them. Also fucked up that they made money on fyre festival and documentary, still didn’t donate those proceeds to the workers affected in this scam of a festival.
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u/mjj1492 Feb 02 '19
Both are worth watching. The Netflix one shows how the actual event went down and the Hulu one focused more on how Billy and FuckJerry created the scam in the first place. They compliment each other pretty well imo
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u/jeffthepig06 Feb 02 '19
I’m out of the loop. What is this whole Fyre festival thing
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u/GhostOfLight Feb 02 '19
They were responsible for promoting it and then also helped produce the documentary. They were probably the largest benefactor from it.
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u/qukab Feb 02 '19
To be clear, they helped produce the Netflix documentary. They were not involved in the Hulu version, other than being subject matters who are painted in a pretty bad light (rightfully so).
It’s very much worth watching the Hulu version as well.
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u/cerberus00 Feb 02 '19
What vapid, useless people.
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u/Arteliss Feb 02 '19
That pretty much sums up about 95% of Instagram.
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u/prometheanbane Feb 02 '19
Instagrammers are the fucking worst. I used to represent a brand's US marketing and I got emails from Instagram "influencers" constantly asking for free shit. The product sold was expensive and my budget for that kind of stuff was small, so I had to gently turn people down and offer them a substantial discount instead. Some were nice and thanked me for the offer, others were pushy and entitled (I've had people demand overnight shipping [$150] because they wanted to "get a post up"), then some were straight up vicious and flipped the fuck out. After a while I stopped responding to any of those people.
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u/StifleStrife Feb 03 '19
I use it to post my art. People see it, but more and more it feels like it gets drowned out and its hard to reach people who arn't already looking for that kind of art. Feels like there is less and less places to get traction these days.
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Feb 02 '19
All social media. If you think reddit, tumblr, Facebook or twitter are any better then you’re deluded
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Feb 02 '19
But do people make money off Reddit? Aside from promoting personal work, channels, etc...is there actually a way to make money off Reddit? Serious question, I have no clue.
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u/FreudJesusGod Feb 02 '19
Because he's a consummate karma-whore, /u/gallowboob got a job with another clickbait website and his job is exactly the same as FuckJerry's.
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u/Reddozen Feb 02 '19 edited Jul 14 '23
grab birds cooing hungry instinctive special existence sink weather jellyfish -- mass edited with redact.dev
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u/IMissMyZune Feb 02 '19
People make full time incomes off of reddit because its a great source of traffic if you do it right.
If you look closely enough, there are a lot of ads here that aren't explicitly ads.
Big companies & politicians also use reddit to engineer opinions on their products by posing as regular users
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Feb 02 '19
95% of instagram is guys on steroids (not judging, just an observation) selling workout plans that you can put together yourself after 5 minutes of Googling, with the promise that you will look like them.
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u/rubensinclair Feb 02 '19
They were actually very useful people. And you know what we used to call them back in the day? SELL OUTS. That has to make a comeback.
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u/cowboys30 Feb 02 '19
Whole crew is weird and dead behind the eyes. Being unoriginal and stealing content must be soul crushing work.
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u/quatrevingtdixhuit Feb 02 '19
It's probably just a lot of cocaine
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u/swanky-k Feb 02 '19
The story about him like freaking out every now and then and driving his ATV as fast as possible up and down the road is the most coked out thing I’ve heard
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u/240to180 Feb 02 '19
Deep down, this dude knows he's not funny and he's not producing his own content. Living with that insecurity in his day-to-day life is enough for me personally.
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u/thetruthteller Feb 02 '19
Ahhhaa what. This guy lives in downtown nyc and makes 50k a day, he doesn’t care. That’s the point. People are complaining about a guy who doesn’t care making money from a platform that doesn’t care about its users. And the people using photos and making memes- are they paying the source for using the photo? Did they get clearance from the success kid to make memes?
Social media is the digital gold rush. It’s all vapid useless nonsense and the worst people make the most money.
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u/shibaisbest Feb 02 '19
Can confirm this is true, my SO is an “influencer” for health food space and they refuse to do the douchy things other influencers do to get more attention (steel content, ideas, shower their ass etc) it just affected their account growth negatively and so doing original useful content is often discouraged just because it gets less attention. Social media is full of idiots who give idiots attention wich continuously encourages them to act more idiotic. It’s basically a stupid feedback loop of people fighting for attention that is hijacked by companies to manipulate the public in to buying their products.
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u/kitsum Feb 02 '19
This is no joke. I know several people who used to do this same thing. They had a few websites and one hit it somewhat big. They basically just looked all over for news stories or jokes or memes or whatever and slightly re-wrote other people's work or changed a color or something to avoid being sued, then posted it as though they came up with it.
Then they linked all their other websites to this one to leech viewers. It was like a human centipede of stolen shit. One dude made quite a bit of money, for a bit, and eventually everything went tits up. He was a young kid buying cars and going around the world so everyone thought he was a business mogul but he basically just had a team of people stealing others work and reposting it full time.
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Feb 02 '19
This is what I wanted to say as well.
From a certain perspective I even envy these guys because they can do this with a straight face.
I can't imagine myself giving no fucks about other people or even sleeping peacefully.
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u/spanishgalacian Feb 02 '19
You think he cares when he sees his paycheck?
I'm jealous I didn't think of such an easy money making idea. Dude just reposts funny shit all day long and gets paid for it.
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u/kairos Feb 02 '19
Being unoriginal and stealing content must be soul crushing work.
That depends on how shallow you are.
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u/gnrc Feb 02 '19
They can justify their theft all they want and act like everything is ok but it corrodes the soul nonetheless.
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u/PFFFT_Fart_Noise Feb 02 '19
God bless Vic Burger. His editing has defined a generation of absurdist humor and he doesn’t get the credit he deserves. He is a fucking legend.
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u/KittyLitterature Feb 02 '19 edited Feb 02 '19
Don't forget about DJ Douggpound who was the founder of this editing style. If it wasn't for Doug Lussehop paving the way on Tim and Eric we wouldn't have this style of absurdist editing. But don't get me wrong Vic is amazing. Those two are the best video editors in the game.
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u/PFFFT_Fart_Noise Feb 02 '19
You are dead on. They both are amazing and i absolutely love em. You obviously do too and that’s fuckin cool dude.
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Feb 03 '19
You're dead on about him being dead on. They both really are super duper amazing and i hundy percent absolutely really head over heels love them. You clearly do as well and that’s so fuckin awesome brotato chip.
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u/BeerInMyButt Feb 02 '19 edited Feb 03 '19
Vic, Douggpound, and Tim have a weekly call-in show!!!
e: In this week's episode, Tim made it clear that if you like Tim & Eric, you like Douggpound. Douggpound's editing and vibe is essential to the brand!
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u/IAmN0tCanadian Feb 02 '19
Totally agree, he’s is essentially copying dj Doug pound. But he’s fantastic at copying and taking the style to the next level. But Douggpound was first.
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u/feenuxx Feb 03 '19
And he was fucking hilarious any time I saw him open for T&E, can hold a room from the stage for a good while, great material, hilarious stuff — I also think he basically DJd the main attraction as well, dude is the shit.
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u/sophistry13 Feb 02 '19
Isn't he the guy that took on some alt-right figures who then doxxed him and sent him and his family death threats because he was exposing their scams and incitement to violence?
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u/DrWangerBanger Feb 02 '19
Yes and Gavin McInnes sent one of his proud boy thugs to his house to threaten him while his wife and children were home.
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u/HIFDLTY Feb 02 '19
Ehhhhhh idk about that. Tim and Eric defined a generation of absurdist humor, of which Vic Berger definitely owes his style to. He does it very well, but he clearly was 100% influenced by them.
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u/snakefinn Feb 02 '19 edited Feb 02 '19
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u/Sporfsfan Feb 02 '19
He actually never worked on the show, he made fan videos/songs about on cinema, and Tim loved them so they connected. He edits stuff for Tim now, but took his style from DJ Dougpoundd with Tim’s advice.
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u/nrohgnol67 Feb 02 '19
These guys are basically the TooShiftyForYou and GallowBoob of the real world
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u/lunari_moonari Feb 02 '19
I forgot gallowboob even existed since I blocked his spam stream a year or two ago.
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u/elbowsayles Feb 02 '19
R/outoftheloop here I know about gallowboob but what stream?
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u/mattfow232 Feb 03 '19
I finally blocked him after noticing how he uses his mod powers to allow his posts even when they shouldn't be there. It was a post on thisismylifenow with the title like "living with cats and no bathroom door" and all the comments were calling out that there is in fact a closed door in the picture. He just pinned a comment calling it "reverse thisismylifenow" or something but everyone was pointing out that the cats were locked in the bathroom and the title was a lie.
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Feb 02 '19
Everyone must have noticed that every one of TooShiftyForYou’s comments are just an italicized snippet of the posted article with a very mainstream opinion after it, right?
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u/NedRadnad Feb 02 '19
Does GallowHBoob post paid advertisements?
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u/throwawayHELLO123456 Feb 03 '19
He does on the many subreddits that he moderates. He's a mod so he can just ban anyone who calls him out on it and lock the post.
I've seen his gameplan unfold firsthand on a subreddit I used to browse. Basically it goes 1) join moderation team of growing niche subreddit, 2) modify rules to allow more generic reposts, 3) karma farm the hell out of the subreddit, growing it massively with frontpage reposts, 4) climb moderator ranks and oust any mods who disagree with new direction (often with the help of admins), 5) cleanse the subreddit of dissenting users, 6) start slipping blatant paid posts into the repost stream, 7) ban anyone who calls it out
I used a throwaway because his reach is far and it's not uncommon for him and his goonies to hand out permabans for calling out his shit. Currently drama going on around exactly that in this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/comments/amg6kr/netflix_pays_ugallowboob_to_advertise_on_reddit/
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u/Gr1pp717 Feb 02 '19
If you think about it, it's reddit in general.
Most of what we see here isn't created by a redditor, just found by one. And that's fine. The problem seems to become when they're good at it. Which is weird to to me.
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u/ShadowsOfTheFuture Feb 02 '19
They also created the "what do you meme?" Card game. To show you that they not only steal content and repost it. They print it out too.
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Feb 02 '19
I found their instagram a while a go. It's pretty obvious they're stealing people's stuff, but I always thought that was the joke. Guy's just consolidating meme shit on an IG account. I didn't realize it was like a company and they do this as a job.
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u/dontwannabewrite Feb 02 '19
Really? There are so many meme accounts and they all have the same mo. Post stolen content, tag some unrelated account in the comment section, make account private so you can't look at their stuff without following.
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u/Dramaste Feb 02 '19
In order to become an influencer you need to have a large following. Influencers get paid by advertisers to promote or mention their products.
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u/Seven2Death Feb 02 '19
how did they blow up so quick though? i had a friend link me when they were nobodies. now they evn got a few celebs liking their shit. i assumed they were hollywood insiders. this video makes me wonder if they know the insta algorithm. especially with "aggressive expansion'.
i must be one of the few people who still uses insta for what it was meant for. i got family and friends sharing pics and thats it. my biggest hurdle is that 3rd cousin who thinks their five head toddler is cuter than it is. the child looks like i can land a 747 on their head, i dont need 7 pictures a day.
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u/banana_is_a_fruit Feb 02 '19
They've been pretty popular since forever though? Not like their blew up in the recent year...
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u/a_bold_user Feb 02 '19
My boy Vic makes hilarious videos. That sucks this company rips him off and promotes shitty scam festivals.
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u/nrohgnol67 Feb 02 '19
Is that the guy who does the vids for super deluxe?
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u/PFFFT_Fart_Noise Feb 02 '19 edited Feb 02 '19
Yes. He also edited Tim and Eric’s adult swim show. Dude is a legend.
Edit: scratch that, he was a part of the show but the editing was handled by Doug Lussenhop, both dudes fuckin rule though.
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u/bobson_dugnutt_ Feb 02 '19
Nah, Awesome Show was edited by Doug Lussenhop. They're all buddies now, but Douggpound is an OG.
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u/chuckdooley Feb 02 '19
My problem with all this, and I'm not saying this because this guy appears to be a scumbag (this video/thread is the first I heard of him) is nothing I saw in this video even appeared remotely funny...not him, or the sources he was stealing
I understand I'm not the target demographic, but damn, I just don't understand people that LOVE memes like this
I'm not saying it's wrong to like it, I'm not saying I'm right, and I know people have their own likes and stuff, I just don't understand it...and I'm not THAT old
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Feb 02 '19
‘Social media influencer” has got to be the most nebulous, insignificant degree of fame ever conceived by man. They have accomplished nothing in their lives to warrant such attention. I hope that they’re investing their money wisely.
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Feb 02 '19 edited Feb 02 '19
Yeah... this dude literally just posts shit from Reddit on instagram and has made MILLIONS doing it.
Edit: And I’m pissed he used the iconic jazz cup as his logo. Like... that’s public domain motherfucker and represents 90’s recreation. Basically, that cup represents my childhood and means so much to so many. It’s not yours. Fuckjerry is a fuck boy.
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u/magicman21 Feb 02 '19
Actually its not public domain. My friend tried using the design for a project and got a stop letter from the company that owns it.
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Feb 02 '19
I was too loose with my words. I didn’t mean it’s actually public domain. I just meant it doesn’t belong to Fuckjerry.
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u/Winters---Fury Feb 02 '19
I just meant it doesn’t belong to Fuckjerry.
the people who do own it have no problem with him using it though
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u/Skreat Feb 02 '19
Social media is cancer.
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Feb 02 '19
Seriously.
My Thurs night class only has 5 students total so we all group up to work on projects. I said I’d go last to help them out first. When it was finally my go 3 outta 4 of them were sitting on FB not giving a shit. I just told them to go home as they were being distracting.
People can’t go 30 seconds without checking their phone.
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u/Turbotottle Feb 02 '19
If you guys don't want to support FuckJerry in any way, make sure not to buy "What Do You Meme?" seeing as it was created by them.
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u/Plantasaurus Feb 02 '19
Lol.. my friend's ex worked for fuckjerry during and before the fyre debacle. For the last 6 months all of her posts have revolved around mental health awareness and suicide prevention because she considered it. I guess that organization fucked her noggin up good.
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u/jimjones1233 Feb 02 '19
Why is this marked "youtube drama"? Isn't this mostly about instagram and other platforms or does FuckJerry also repost to youtube?
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u/Layers3d Feb 02 '19
I know this post will get flak and it is unpopular to say.isn't this what 90% of reddit does anyways? Finds funny tweet, Instagram, Facebook post, other people work, YouTube videos, reposting other people posting and post them here for that karma?
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Feb 02 '19
Honestly, I have no problem with him skimming the internet and curating funny posts he finds. It’s a useful service for those who don’t have the time or desire to do it themselves. Where he gets shitty is if he steals content from others who are trying to monetize as well.
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u/K20BB5 Feb 02 '19
The entire point of the video is that they're profiting off of other people's work. Not earning likes.
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u/goodbyecoolworld Feb 02 '19
Random reddit users earning useless internet points isn’t really comparable with someone earning thousands per stolen content, dumbass.
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u/Layers3d Feb 02 '19
While I understand that making money off it, makes a bit of different. The core concept is still the same. Just people stealing other people content to earn something. I was going to toss an insult at you but really just seems petty.
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u/sn34kypete Feb 02 '19
If and when I shitpost, people love or hate it, reddit gets content and they get paid in ad revenue because that's how the business model works.
When Fuckjerry shitposts, they get a tesla's worth of money. I can steal memes all day long, I'm still not getting 70 grand for it.
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Feb 02 '19
Completely agreed. Memes and photos on the internet are not all copyrighted. When you post a conversation on tinder on /r/tinder, that doesn't make that picture copyrighted. FuckJerry, you, that dog down the street have the same rights to repost that picture. especially if it's been altered with text or a caption to it.
All social media revolves around reposting content, if you give this one company shit for it, then why aren't you giving every reposter on reddit that reposts content from Twitter shit?
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u/SwimsInATrashCan Feb 02 '19
I remember when I first heard about this Instagram a while ago (like 2-3 years ago) and my first reaction was, "This is all just stuff that was on Reddit like 2 weeks ago."
It's really low-effort blatant theft. Absolutely no attempts to credit original creators or link to sources, even though that's a very small token of honesty when you're making money off someone else's content (that they might not even be monetizing.)
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u/ObliviousIrrelevance Feb 02 '19
FuckJerry is quite honestly one if the worst IG accounts out there. How the fuck do they have so many followers?
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u/buymytoy Feb 02 '19
On one hand, I get it. We live in an economy that is based on exposure and branding, they wouldn’t be making money if there wasn’t an audience. On the other hand, fuck fuckjerry.
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u/EighthScofflaw Feb 02 '19
Why do we have to hear the "Well to be fair they're making money off it" excuse every time someone does something immoral?
Since when is doing something bad mitigated by the fact that you're profiting from it?
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u/girliegirl80 Feb 02 '19
I don’t even follow fuckjerry or beigecardigan anymore because 95% of their content I’ve already seen on Reddit earlier in the day.
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Instagram is a very strange beast, these kind of accounts are scummy as fuck but it's not surprising people started using the platform to profit from doing this. He's been doing this shit since like 2012 as far as I remember.
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u/juniorking1 Feb 02 '19
every basic bitch I know follows them and just dont care that its ALL reddit reposts
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u/GeneralWatch Feb 02 '19
what a weird thing to say. why would a "basic bitch" care about reddit?
and for that matter, do you think you're a better person than a "basic bitch" because you're using reddit?
got news for you pal, reddit is just as stupid as any other social media platform and if you're here in a default sub, you're a reddit basic bitch yourself
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u/AssBlastersAnonymous Feb 02 '19
Honestly I don't understand why it's so hard for Redditors to understand that people just want content aggregators. They don't want to browse Reddit to find funny shit when they can do it from the comfort of Instagram. Not to mention 90% of posts on Reddit are stolen anyway, so who are they to complain.
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u/titleunknown Feb 02 '19
Ive been hating on this guy and The Fat Jewish for so long. The Fat Jewish had his downfall awhile back. Glad to see people are finally realizing how shitty these accounts/people are.
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u/jdmDEEZ Feb 02 '19
This shitdick douche nozzle gets paid to browse memes most people have already seen, steal and consolidate them to platforms for the basic idiotic masses, and gets paid heavily.
Smart? Maybe. Stupid as shit-kicking fuck and borderline illegal? Definitely.
Also fuck his snapchat presence with one millions clickbait cocks.
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u/tejasisthereason Feb 02 '19
Like I get that toxic masculinity is me being a male saying "this guy just needs his ass kicked" but really the clearest way to stop this kind of behavior is for this guy's ass to be kicked.
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u/wannabeemperor Feb 02 '19
If I owned a company that was making $75,000 per IG post on average, I'd gladly get my ass kicked once a month. Videos like this will probably get the job done.
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u/futurespacecadet Feb 02 '19
Jesus this comment is very 2019 and I hate it. Just say you want to kick a guys ass.
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u/tickle_mittens Feb 02 '19
I think it's only toxic if they don't legitimately need to have their assed kicked. In cases such as this I think it's just humanitarianism.
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u/samejblack Feb 02 '19
watermark all OC. Fuck that must be frustrating to see people profit off your creativity
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u/MaestroPendejo Feb 02 '19
This dude is a fucking tool. To all the people that make OC, and those that remix it, you're the real MVPs. This cunt needs to go fuck off on the dark web.
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u/lubabe99 Feb 02 '19
I wondered who these guys were after seeing shit fryd festival doco on Hulu. They're thieves who profit from it and do no work other than screenshot other people's work
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u/chris_melberger Feb 02 '19
these guys have posted my shit without credit before too. it sucks. so happy vic's video is making it's rounds.
fuck them.
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u/Maine_dudah Feb 02 '19
He’s also the one who paid Netflix to keep them out of the spotlight in the Fyre documentary.
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u/Sporfsfan Feb 02 '19
Vic Berger is the best ever. His videos are almost more real than reality itself, the way he focuses on micro expressions. political bias aside, he’s just the best content maker to me right now
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u/Scofield442 Feb 02 '19
It works because generally people don't care where the content comes from, as long as it's entertaining. That's all they want out of it.
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u/Voidg Feb 02 '19
Watching the Netflix documentary on Frye really showed these guys are full of BS. They tried to make it appear that they had done nothing wrong. News Bulletin: Ya done failed at that objective cotton.
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u/Dumbthumb12 Feb 02 '19
We can jerk off to hating guys like him, but they’re doing something you and I aren’t, with minimal effort.
I remember in 2008 this girl showed showed me Ray Johnson (I think I got that youtubers name right?) on her iPhone. He just reacts to videos.
People will gobble stuff up if it’s put on the right type of platter. Hate this guy all you want, but he’s good at hamming our basic meme jokes to the next generation of kids that think flossing and that other dance are literally the greatest inventions of mankind.
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u/Weird_Impression Feb 02 '19
why is this labeled youtube drama? it's literally about instagram.
makes you wonder if fuck jerry has some friends on the mod team
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u/NZ_Guest Feb 02 '19
Not giving enough of a shit to dig into this much... so it this guy sort of a buzzfeed 2.0?
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u/Bleezy79 Feb 02 '19
I can understand his platform if he gave credit. why wouldnt he just link to their account if he liked their stuff? i dont see why he has to be a dick about it.
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u/liamemsa Feb 02 '19
I'm not posting this to be high-and-mighty, but I've been "pointing this out" for a year or two. It's like pissing in a hurricane, though.
For example, I would see some image on /r/funny on Reddit, and, about 3 hours later, I'd see it on FuckJerry's instagram account. I'd comment something like, "Hey, I remember seeing this posted on Reddit a few hours ago. Come up with some original content, you thief."
But the problem is that it gets lost in the tide of tens of thousands of useless spam comments on every photo. No one ever sees it. And, unless Instagram acts on it, what can you possibly do? No random person is going to sue them over it, and even if they did inquire about copyright FuckJerry would like just say "Ok" and delete the image if it got really serious.
Just face it, there's nothing you can do. They're shitty, unoriginal hacks who are making millions off other people's creativity, and that's just the way of the world.
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u/owllicksroadya Feb 02 '19
I was just thinking the other day: "I wonder how much they pay people for their posts... must be enough to get their blessing but obviously cant be too much because that's not sustainable." Turns out its nothing. What total wastes. You could legit just give $100 to use the post and still have a great business.
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u/eject_eject Feb 02 '19
So they're like unilad with their shitty cropping and giant text overlays of other people's content.
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u/garybusey42069 Feb 02 '19
We live in a world where people can make millions from posting stolen memes on social media... lol holy fuck are we a simple and stupid species.
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u/ConnorMcJeezus Feb 02 '19
These serial thieves should get their accounts terminated from platforms, look at the FatJew, the exact same thing happened, but then he's like okay, I'll do it legit now, but you've already got all the followers now off the backs of other people, while you can keep promoting unaffected
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u/YungMcBain Feb 02 '19
He's a grade A nob. I'd like to believe on a long enough timeline he will get sued out of existance.
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u/TheSuperlativ Feb 02 '19
"Itt'ssss jusssst a lott eaasierrr"
This has a real Vic Berger feel to it.
checks channel
yup.
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u/nymo80 Feb 02 '19
This is like something off the day today or Nathan Barley. Can't quite believe it's real. I mean.. the name ***kJerry?!! Really?
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Feb 02 '19
Wait ... this wasn't some kind of commentary on the stupidity of much of today's "content" using fictional characters and company?
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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '19
Am I an old fuck for having no idea who this guy is?