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sisabetOkay - so get this: I am totally not fired. At least for now. I am just taking comfort in podcasts - I so totally love podcasts right now. Feel free to pimp your favorites to me as I am in a very receptive mood.
So, I finally check my email today and I get an alert from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fahrbotdrusilla that she came across a Buffy/Spike vid to the song "Closer" and halfway through she noticed that the vidder was using stolen clips from one of her vids and one of mine. I think the big giveaway that she is using clips from my vid? The huge, honking "HT" bug in the lower right corner. Chickadee not only stole clips from a vid of mine, she stole clips and edits from my vid "Closer" for her vid "Closer" which on a strictly artistic scale sucks ass. Seriously - waaay too long and all dramatic tension she has built up is spoiled when Buffy cuts her hair in fast motion.
Melodramatic hair-cutting is hard enough to pull off without inducing giggles. Making it all fast-forwardy? Just wrong. Sadly, these are life lessons it doesn't appear the youth of today is getting. I fear for the future. Well, that and don't steal from a fellow fan.
fahrbotdrusilla emailed her about the clip theft and apparently she didn't take edits from us as we took edits from Joss...or something, I think she is pulling out that argument. Also, I think she thinks that I have a penis. Maybe she meant someone else was "he" - like Jesus.
I'd be mad if the clip theft was not so fucking obvious. I mean really - we bugged the vid with the "HT" (for headtilt - I used to have a website at headtilt.com) because of clip theft and now it is just -- wow. I am dying. I think this is cracking me up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmO3Bshy6c0
So, I finally check my email today and I get an alert from
fahrbotdrusilla that she came across a Buffy/Spike vid to the song "Closer" and halfway through she noticed that the vidder was using stolen clips from one of her vids and one of mine. I think the big giveaway that she is using clips from my vid? The huge, honking "HT" bug in the lower right corner. Chickadee not only stole clips from a vid of mine, she stole clips and edits from my vid "Closer" for her vid "Closer" which on a strictly artistic scale sucks ass. Seriously - waaay too long and all dramatic tension she has built up is spoiled when Buffy cuts her hair in fast motion. Melodramatic hair-cutting is hard enough to pull off without inducing giggles. Making it all fast-forwardy? Just wrong. Sadly, these are life lessons it doesn't appear the youth of today is getting. I fear for the future. Well, that and don't steal from a fellow fan.
fahrbotdrusilla emailed her about the clip theft and apparently she didn't take edits from us as we took edits from Joss...or something, I think she is pulling out that argument. Also, I think she thinks that I have a penis. Maybe she meant someone else was "he" - like Jesus. I'd be mad if the clip theft was not so fucking obvious. I mean really - we bugged the vid with the "HT" (for headtilt - I used to have a website at headtilt.com) because of clip theft and now it is just -- wow. I am dying. I think this is cracking me up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmO3Bshy6c0
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:13 am (UTC)WTF??
Jesus. Kids today, Sisabet. Kids today.
Hm. I'm in an angry mood. Lemme at her.
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 05:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 05:14 am (UTC)Lovely.
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:19 am (UTC)Okay, that's just sad.
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:25 am (UTC)Like indicative of the breakdown of society and maybe she didn't have good parents or even a good parent or maybe she was just born stupid or maybe someone dropped her on her head or maybe she misstimed crossing the street one day and got hit by a truck or maybe her mother drank while she was pregnant or maybe she is a Cylon and I got it all wrong and they are actually, terminally stupid.
God, I hope the cylons have a good plan, cause otherwise I am wasting so much of my mental time on them...oh right - we are not talking about BSG. Meh - this chick, what can you say? Let us discuss Six instead.
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:24 am (UTC)You mean you don't keep one stored in tupperwear under your computer like the rest of us?
That video is just *sad,* really. The BIG HT IS KIND OF A GIVEAWAY.
In my head this person is fourteen. *Please* tell me this person is fourteen. Because if there is an actual adult somewhere going 'its not steaaaaaling you stooole alreaaaaady' then I may weep.
Linzee
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:30 am (UTC)I was thinking 15 when I talked to her! She said she'd been vidding FOREVER and KNOWS all these laws (water marking is against copyright laws). Also that she ripped everything except those clips, because they were just what she wanted...
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:36 am (UTC)Thank you for emailing me. She is such a cliched clip thief she is almost quaint.
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Date: 2006-01-21 02:51 pm (UTC)Exactly!
Thank you for emailing me.
No problem, I love your sense of humor, do you mind if I friend you? You probably wouldn't want to friend me back but I like to ask first before I friend anyone.
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:43 am (UTC)My God. My brain hurts. Hopefully the fact that now five zillion people have seen her video and all gone 'omgwtfpolarbear' will make her stop? Perhaps? Hopefully?
Okay, probably not.
Linzee
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Date: 2006-01-21 02:52 pm (UTC)That’s what *I* say whenever a clip thief has given me that line.
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:54 am (UTC)But she's been VIDDING FOREVER OMG. Since she was like, 12!
What is wrong with kids, today, Linz??? Hmph!
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:59 am (UTC)The Internets: Where "Forever" Translates to "Since Last Wednesday."
Linzee
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Date: 2006-01-21 06:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 06:05 am (UTC)Alright. I'll admit I'm just hoping she's younger than that. Because at seventeen *I* knew that stealing was bad, mkay? So should she.
Kids today. :gets cane:
Linzee
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Date: 2006-01-21 06:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 06:13 am (UTC)Do you think she's a sockpuppet?
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Date: 2006-01-21 06:17 am (UTC)------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hunh. Interesting. I dunno, my son (who is only 9) assures me that "heavy metal" music is popular at his school. "I like really old music", he says. *headdesk*
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Date: 2006-01-21 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 09:13 pm (UTC)Big city public school; at 14, I knew people who were having sex. I couldn't look at the vid (the link is now dead), but someone (Lum?) commented that, on "You let me penetrate you," she had Spike doing that to Buffy, which seems to indicate she understands about sex.
And really, that's one aspect of LJ that's really starting to freak me out: coming into contact with so many *kids* who are into the same things I am. In my mind, I'm still in the same adults only playground, that happened to move from lists to LJ, but every once in a while something like this happens and really knocks my perception sideways.
As for the song, turns out it's really about heroin addiction. What a bummer.
Yep, that's what happens when heroin addicts write music. I love Nirvana, but a lot of KC's stuff is about that, too.
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Date: 2006-01-21 09:27 pm (UTC)And yeah - when I was 12 there were girls in my class at school who were pregnant so I would have understood what the lyric meant. I just wouldn't have been comfortable with it or really understood it.
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Date: 2006-01-21 10:24 pm (UTC)Not her, but others. I run into *lots* of kids on LJ.
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:29 am (UTC)And yes on the melodramatic hair cutting in fast forward, although the clip that made me giggle the most was the fast forward shagging up against the pillar in the house they bring down. Fast forward shagging is just wrong.
The stupid... it burns...
(and it probably says something that every time I hear Closer now, I'm expecting the Spike and Angel voice overs "Cause it's always got to be blood..." "I'm not an animal" and it sounds wrong when I don't here them.)
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:31 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-01-21 06:05 am (UTC)At least that kind of stupid speaks for itself. It was sort of like she needed all nearly seven minutes of the song so that she could fit every bad vidding cliche into it.
::clutches head all over again just thinking of the "HT"s::
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Date: 2006-01-21 06:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 06:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 06:44 am (UTC)I totally think she's taken some of mine too. Too bad I never learned to watermark before recently.
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Date: 2006-01-21 07:23 am (UTC)I think the HT makes it charming. Do you think this calls for Molotov Cocktails or just an email to her mother (who, I'm sure, is a crone of 33 or so)?
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:29 pm (UTC)::rolling eyes::
Date: 2006-01-21 07:40 am (UTC)Victory?
Date: 2006-01-21 07:53 am (UTC)Well, alright. I did read your blog post the first time you emailed me. I already said I'll take out her edited clips. I just worked really hard on that video too, and its going to take me a few days to download the scenes I need from limewire in order to replace the scenes I'll take out that she edited. I hope thats okay. I just don't want to fuck up the video right now lol. But I will fix it. I use to have some pretty awesome videos that I made using no one else's clips but my own. But there came a time when my computer crashed, thus losing all of the Buffy/Angel episodes I downloaded and had saved for future vidding. So ever since then its been a killer pain in the neck trying to locate just the right clips I needed to express what I wanted fans to see in my video. I got upset and just snipped up some of Sisabets clips of Spike because I liked her video and had it saved on a disk. But, now since everyone is so upset about it, I won't do it again. But as said I will fix it. This is the first time I've ever used someone else's work in one of my videos.
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Date: 2006-01-21 02:38 pm (UTC)Re: Victory?
Date: 2006-01-21 02:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 04:14 pm (UTC)Anyhow...fangirl squee. *G*
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Date: 2006-01-21 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-21 06:43 pm (UTC)Thank you! (You do mean "Holding Out for a Hero," right? *g*) I was wondering that, myself. Proof that, in addition to being a thief (and knowing it!), she has zero imagination.
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Date: 2006-01-22 03:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-22 07:27 am (UTC)::hugs and a high five for your superior brain and maturity::