We want to share a bizarre story around our latest upload: "The Most Genius Cannabis Scam Ever" A lot of people are wondering if we stole this video and thumbnail from "meld". Of course we didn't. They stole most of our original (German speaking) video from 2023: https://youtu.be/cFbD6QKNj4s?si=ra6Yr... They also took one of our previous thumbnails (from a fern video) and adapted it slightly: https://youtu.be/WyQ7z8BMwwk?si=T0bNf... Their voice over is a pitched up AI version of ours.
We took the liberty to make clear who actually researched, ideated and animated this content. Also since our original German video came out there have been interesting developments in the case (which meld did not cover, as they simply stole our old video).
In a bizarre twist, meld is now claiming to be an ex-fern employee under his video. That is obviously a blatant lie. There are several German language sections in his video, which demonstrates this person did not have access to our project files at any point. Also his English is quite bad and he clearly does not speak German. He accidentally thanked interview partners (with partly mistranslated names) in his copied video description, who we personally interviewed two years ago.
In an even more ridiculous twist, our video is now overrun by cheap bots (joined YT 1-2 months ago, attractive women as profile pics, random male names), claiming we stole our content from meld. We've been on YouTube for a decade and this has to be the wildest cope we ever witnessed.
Anyways - hope you enjoy the video!
TL;DR: Some AI garbage artist can't handle being called out.
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Hey, long read below:
We want to share a bizarre story around our latest upload: "The Most Genius Cannabis Scam Ever"
A lot of people are wondering if we stole this video and thumbnail from "meld". Of course we didn't.
They stole most of our original (German speaking) video from 2023: https://youtu.be/cFbD6QKNj4s?si=ra6Yr...
They also took one of our previous thumbnails (from a fern video) and adapted it slightly: https://youtu.be/WyQ7z8BMwwk?si=T0bNf...
Their voice over is a pitched up AI version of ours.
We took the liberty to make clear who actually researched, ideated and animated this content. Also since our original German video came out there have been interesting developments in the case (which meld did not cover, as they simply stole our old video).
In a bizarre twist, meld is now claiming to be an ex-fern employee under his video. That is obviously a blatant lie. There are several German language sections in his video, which demonstrates this person did not have access to our project files at any point. Also his English is quite bad and he clearly does not speak German. He accidentally thanked interview partners (with partly mistranslated names) in his copied video description, who we personally interviewed two years ago.
In an even more ridiculous twist, our video is now overrun by cheap bots (joined YT 1-2 months ago, attractive women as profile pics, random male names), claiming we stole our content from meld. We've been on YouTube for a decade and this has to be the wildest cope we ever witnessed.
Anyways - hope you enjoy the video!
TL;DR: Some AI garbage artist can't handle being called out.
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Hey 👋
Did you know we make free music? Check out Every Track an Essay here: soundcloud.com/et_ae
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Hey 👋
As requested by many, the intro song to our Ted Bundy video is now available on Spotify. The band is called KEPLER - feel free to check it out: open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/5oxWFFty1OwjFWB14K1…
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