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IGN to scrub Filip Miucin from site almost completely after even more plagiarism surfaces (READ OP)
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Ha. Could've sworn I quoted the other guy. Alright, I got nothing.
Aye. I mean, there's always room for improvement, especially if the industry wants to shake off people always saying games 'journalism' with air quotes, but I don't think it's feasible for companies (yet) since there's no actual real way to catch stuff like this unless you harness the power of the internet's collective interest/boredom. Even if you throw some interns into the meat grinder, are you actually going to get results? And is it even a good use of manpower considering that a lot of plagiarism isn't just 1-1 copying, i.e. easily identifiable, and they'd be spending extra time puzzling out potential instances?
For his LinkedIn thing, it looks extra embarrassing on top of everything else, but it's not uncommon for people to just use templates like that because companies themselves are often searching for those very bullet points/key words for potential employees. I'd say it's just lazy/dumb rather than another 'gotcha', tbh.
lol wow. How will he get a job ever again? I feel bad for his family :/From the latest Kotaku article about this clown. Filip's resume on the left, job website template on the right:
I am confused, but not about that. Can you elucidate a bit further?
- Do you mean antipathy?
- We're not in charge of prosecuting the case against him, and have no ability to determine punishment.
- This entire thread is riddled with people asking for empathy for the express purpose of stopping discussion and moving on.
We're talking on an internet forum.
Works for me just clicking it now.
EDIT: Works bc it redirected me to the UK ver. Still up there.
I was serious. No harm done, I just found it hard to read and wasn't 100% sure what you were saying.
Welllllllll if someone behaves in fucked up behavior like this maybe they are mentally ill. Doesn't really excuse his behavior but it could help explain it.
Good Lord. Embarrassing.
I actually also agree with this. I'm not saying we can't discuss this topic but that doesn't stop me from worrying that all this negative attention couldn't have a serious effect on his well being and general health.
Wait, that shit is still up? Seriously? I remember way back in the day they had that babe section aimed at like 13 year old boys and I always found it so lame.
They might want to take down the follow-up article too. It's all hottie ;)))))))
http://m.ign.com/articles/2005/10/11/babe-interview-return-of-jessica
http://m.ign.com/articles/2005/10/11/babe-interview-return-of-jessica
To add more onto the similar post I just quoted... NO!
If this guy has plagiarised everything he's ever done all instances must be brought to light and the right people credited, imagine Boomstick gaming never noticed, he'd still be on his 10k YouTube subs with a struggling patreon, while Filip's on his 40k a year wage working for IGN off the back of Boomstick Gaming's work, screw making Filip the victim here.
Direct threats to the guy is absolutely shitty and shouldn't happen, but those skeletons in his closet, keep searching Internet.
For posterity, my crude screenshot:
I mean plagiarism is bad of course, but this old article. Yeesh.
Edit: To avoid derailing here, I just want to say the fact that questionable content like this interview is still up makes me think they may want to hire some contractors to do a deep scrub of all their content.
Why on earth would you double down and challenge the internet to find more instances of your shittery when its all easily available to anybody that wants it?
Did he really think he could pull off a bluff that big? He was already going to be put under heavy scrutiny after the initial incident.
What an incomprehensibly idiotic thing to do. Feel bad for the rest of IGN staff that was unaware of this.
Did he really think he could pull off a bluff that big? He was already going to be put under heavy scrutiny after the initial incident.
What an incomprehensibly idiotic thing to do. Feel bad for the rest of IGN staff that was unaware of this.
IGN is reading this thread or people complained about the article because I was literally on it 5 minutes ago and now it's removed.
Man, this is a very big shit show. I know some people comment this is a witch hunt, or that he might kill himself and it sucks. I hope he doesn't but he put himself in this spot by himself.
When I saw all the backlash and his fake video I thought of suicide. In today's society, all this attention and protagonism can be good, but also very bad like in this case.
Hope it doesn't come to that but this guy completely ruined his credibility and journalistic integrity. He will not and should not be allowed to work as a journalist in a professional setting ever again. Hope he comes out of it, but he will not by doubling down on it
When I saw all the backlash and his fake video I thought of suicide. In today's society, all this attention and protagonism can be good, but also very bad like in this case.
Hope it doesn't come to that but this guy completely ruined his credibility and journalistic integrity. He will not and should not be allowed to work as a journalist in a professional setting ever again. Hope he comes out of it, but he will not by doubling down on it
Hey I came across that comment and thought the same. I don't see him clarifying that it is gaming culture until a later post. So I think your reaction was fair.
I would just like to say, this is the greatest ban message I have seen in all my journeys on the Internet. Thank you ERA
People are idiots. A witch-hunt is nothing like this situation, since there is evidence upon evidence. And the people who suggest that he may kill himself and this forum would be to blame are incredibly overplaying their hand.
I don't blame you - didn't mean to sound snotty in my response ;)
Trying to squeeze in replies in between work and getting a little careless with my proofing.
Indeed, pulling out old ass articles like that doesn't really mean anything related to the topic here.
Hahaha wow, the cringe. This was 13 years ago, but still.For posterity, my crude screenshot:
I mean plagiarism is bad of course, but this old article. Yeesh.
Edit: To avoid derailing here, I just want to say the fact that questionable content like this interview is still up makes me think they may want to hire some contractors to do a deep scrub of all their content.
This is some CTRL+ALT+DEL tier writing.
Shame on them for publishing this, good on them for taking it down now.
Though to be honest I would feel a lot better about an acknowledgement on IGN's website than a silent sweep under the rug; that's just inviting controversy.
Yeah, it's shitty, but that's what the industry was back then and we're still seeing the damage from it today.
Bring back the dutch angle videos
I love Jessica Chobot, but agree. Some things just don't age well :)
Pretty fucked up IGN removed that Chobot interview. It was monumentally embarrassing, so I get it, but it was a good reminder of how far they've come in the last decade. Anyways, you can't hide from the wayback machine, so if anybody is morbidly curious you can still read it:
https://web.archive.org/web/2017112...2005/06/06/ign-babes-interview-jessica-chobot
https://web.archive.org/web/2017112...2005/06/06/ign-babes-interview-jessica-chobot
It's always funny when people come in and try to paint it as some minority or fringe attitude. "Not all gamers."
The culture was built on this shit. It permeates everything.
IGN directly profited off stolen work product.
The dude himself is irrelevant at this point. But the people he stole from need to be identified and informed so that IGN can try to make it right.
That's not true Archive.org will comply when an author wishes to be deleted (partial or otherwise) from the Wayback Machine.
Holy cow they really took down their Jessica Chobot interview in like 5 min.
IGN is spying on us.
IGN is spying on us.
Derailing a bit too much here. We're begging for a mod warning at this point.
Why are you guys giving so much attention to the Chobot interview when IGN had a whole segment of the website devoted to celebrating women who had even the slightest thread of connection to nerd culture?
Welcome to IGN Babeology: http://www.ign.com/videos/series/ign-babeology
Welcome to IGN Babeology: http://www.ign.com/videos/series/ign-babeology
Nothing new. We had special babe features in gaming mags. It was a different time.
They aren't sweeping anything, Chobot's history in the industry is very well documented. In any event, this thread seems like a poor place to relitigate a 13 year old artifact of gaming culture, despite how distasteful it is.
I can't believe i never saw this, i was cringing since the first line lol
I like how everyone is surprised when there's someone from IGN in the ERA forums who's talked to us about this whole ordeal. Of course they're going to clean up other suss articles while doing the sweep.
Yeah the legal ramifications of this is probably the biggest driving factor behind scrubbing the site.
Yeah the legal ramifications of this is probably the biggest driving factor behind scrubbing the site.
The majority of what is being found now has nothing to do with IGN.
Filip in his castle of gold with his $40,000 salary!
(I know what you're getting at, but I just through the definitely-lowballed figure was funny.)
Exactly
Chill out a bit and stay on topic. There has been no shortage of bans handed out during this whole ordeal
Hey IGN, Metroid Prime 4 trailer is dropping tomorrow. You can go ahead and report this as I am legitimate.