Part of the responsibility falls on IGN to monitor what their employees are saying/doing and to set the record straight. Expectations should have been communicated clearly.
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IGN to scrub Filip Miucin from site almost completely after even more plagiarism surfaces (READ OP)
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Part of the responsibility falls on IGN to monitor what their employees are saying/doing and to set the record straight. Expectations should have been communicated clearly.
So, how long had this been going on. Has he been that slick or obvious all along (before the unraveling). Did his teachers and or professors fail him?
At some point everyone learns about plagiarism through education or reprimand. How could someone be that ignorant of their actions unless they were egotistical or enabled?
At some point everyone learns about plagiarism through education or reprimand. How could someone be that ignorant of their actions unless they were egotistical or enabled?
Was that a tweet from Filip? Whatever it was it's since been deleted. What did it say?
Somehow I doubt he went to school for journalism.
Beyond that, not everyone gets caught in school. The super obvious guys do, but beyond that a lot of people just sneak by.
Right now Filip is my vote for 2018's Fail of the Year. I can't believe this.
I think this has also shined a light on how formulaic a lot of reviews have become that people seem to follow a type of script. Folios review passed as just another review because it was just exactly that. That's why I like AngryJoe reviews they are very original.
Not sure if this is a thing which still happens, but it would be quite common for record companies to send out press packs with review copies with 'suggested lines' and the skeleton of a review already written in the press notes.
As a sort of former Journalist of 20 years, who still has a passing interest in the field, this situation isn't really all that surprising - I know of people who work for major major media outlets who when they started had absolutely no training whatsoever, but they grafted and learned the trade the hard way. The levels to which this chap seems to have gone do seem unprecedented, however.
I personally don't think there are any winners out of this, and the talk of 'winning' and 'losing' is just surface skimming the problem, really, situations like this just undermine people's ability to have trust in the copy they have in front of them - it's going to make things harder.
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1. Most reviewers operate under embargoes, so they don't even have the opportunity to read what others had to say.
2. Even if that opportunity was available to them, any reviewer worth their salt wouldn't take it.
Heh, that Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion Impressions.
Him:"Another level, the Tubular 8-Ball Station, required me to guide a massive 8-Ball through what can only be described as a giant Rube Goldberg machine, which is essentially a mechanism designed to perform a simple task in an overcomplicated fashion. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine
"A Rube Goldberg machine is a machine intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and overcomplicated fashion. "
He does change it up a bit. But still...
Him:"Another level, the Tubular 8-Ball Station, required me to guide a massive 8-Ball through what can only be described as a giant Rube Goldberg machine, which is essentially a mechanism designed to perform a simple task in an overcomplicated fashion. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine
"A Rube Goldberg machine is a machine intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and overcomplicated fashion. "
He does change it up a bit. But still...
Woah that is so shameless. His "research" was second to none...
So he just repeated what others said with a few changes? Real-time plagiarism. ;-)
Sorry if mentioned earlier, but I was watching his review of the hori fight stick, and saw multiple comments from when the video was posted calling him out for copying the entire video from someone else. So there was evidence long before IGN hires him
SMH at the family shit. Exactly the kinda garbage I was worried about.
Saw that kinda shit coming a mile away.
Saw that kinda shit coming a mile away.
I've been following this and the previous 2 threads since the story got revealed and imo IGN has handled the situation well. Everyone who's avoiding them from now on has failed to understand that the whole situation has nothing to do with the rest of them team, but is solely Filips fault. The guys working there have enough to do on their own, than monitoring his work/ checking for plagiarism.
This story just keeps going, it just might tide me over until fall tv shows start again! Love it! More please!
Someone posted a tweet of what seemed to be a family member. (It's been deleted now I think)
A line was crossed, anyway.
He has vlogs on his YouTube channel showing his family, so if people are just showing his family I don't see that as bullying
Don't drag his family into this just because he exposed them
Whether the info is public or not his family have absolutely nothing to do with the plagiarism discussion and are probably the biggest victims in all this.
Posting pictures/info/names about his family is at best petty gossip and at worst gives the worst parts of the internet more targets for their harassment.
Exactly.
I'm fucking amazed people were actually questioning if it was appropriate or not. That page is really sad.
And this was after I got called out for dead simple, benign mentions of the possibility he's mentally ill, sociopathic, or whatever.
But we can wonder if bringing his family into this is okay?
I'm fucking amazed people were actually questioning if it was appropriate or not. That page is really sad.
And this was after I got called out for dead simple, benign mentions of the possibility he's mentally ill, sociopathic, or whatever.
But we can wonder if bringing his family into this is okay?
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I have no idea what people did or didn't in regards to his family, was just saying it didn't require cyber stalking or anything, they appear in his videos
And that person was permanently banned for obviously making a wrong call. But you try to continue playing the victim and make it about you.
So what pisses you off is that you were called out, but others weren't?
Probably because you have no reason to do that and using mental illness as a scapegoat for every human failing vilifies mentally ill people.
If we find out he's mentally ill, you can say "I Told You So!" Until then, cool it.
There are 95 pages to go through so to cut it short, can someone tell me if there's been any further apologies since Filip dared people to find more examples of plagiarism? It backfired when people took him up on that challenge and I am curious to know if he has said anything or remained silent since then.
His creative expression since then has been to flag re-uploads on YouTube for copyright infringement.
Is there no end to who he stole from....
Imagine stealing from the same creative people you work alongside everyday.
At this point i'm simply waiting for the lawsuits from hundreds of different people against him, it's disgusting how he thought he could do this for so many years and to so many people and get away with it.
Wow. Well, thanks for the replies. I'm guessing he will lay low for a while before attempting a come back much like Logan Paul.
It took 2 threads and over 90 pages of the defense force constantly saying that THE LYNCH MOB Era WITCH HUNTING talking about this is actually bullying and harassing his family, somehow, before one loser actually tried to do it, got swiftly banned, and the thread went back on track.
Now we have to put up with these disingenuous posters patting themselves on the back while trying to shut down the discussion with renewed energy.
Now we have to put up with these disingenuous posters patting themselves on the back while trying to shut down the discussion with renewed energy.
He seems like a really nice guy that chose an awful path one too many times... Thought he was a real douchebag before I saw this video he posted on his channel. Now I feel bad for him again. He's got a rough life ahead of him.
https://in.ign.com/innerspace-1/117453/review/innerspace-review
You can still find his work in India.
I don't think it's been mentioned before.
Had to scroll through the sea of comments that were praising him to find the comments you're referring to, but some comments did mention how Filip might have taken inspiration from another YouTuber called Nihongo Gamer, to which Filip himself claimed that he only saw after he finished filming his own video.
Of course, by now I don't think everyone would believe that. However, someone should go compare the two videos and see if this is yet another case of plagiarism.
Filip's Video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Iih31oSyX-8
And I'm saying it doesn't matter how easy it is to find his family's personal information, it has no place in this thread about his plagiarism.
I mean the Nintendo Wire video is utterly cringeworthy at how blatantly he is copying.
This will haunt him for a long time.
This will haunt him for a long time.
Wait, he even links to the article he plagiarized!? This guy has guts.
Seeing the trainwreck that was his first answer, and the fallout of it: I think he will lay low for quite some time, do some work behind the scenes, and try to come back under another name and not on camera.
The difference with Paul is that one is a multi-millionaire and have tons of gullible kids as fans, the other not so much...
Damn. 11 months ago YouTube user ZeldaDraven called him out for copying a video and not a single person replied, liked, or anything. Everyone just kept loving Phil because he was giving away Switches .That's so shitty.
I don't understand Filip. He is spending his time editing and producing top notch content in his YouTube Channel. Writing his thoughts and opinions seems to be the easier part.... why is he short cutting that?!
I'm on mobile so I didn't have links, thank you for doing it for me, just so strange to me that he was called out about plagarism the entire time