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Matthew Santoro Plagiarism Exposed!

2016-05-04 · 4 min

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    Okay, so there's this YouTuber called Matt

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    Santoro, and he's a pretty big YouTuber.

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    He has like 6 million subscribers,

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    millions of views on every video. And a

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    few days ago, GradeAUnderA, who's another

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    YouTuber obviously, he made a video saying

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    that Matt Santoro plagiarizes all his

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    content. Now Matt Santoro, all of his

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    videos are like Top 10 videos, top 5

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    videos, you know, typical boring top 10

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    list crap stuff. And what

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    happened was that it has been found out

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    that Matt Santoro's— is it Matt Santoro's?

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    Santoro? I don't even know. He basically

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    takes all of his content from websites.

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    There's this one website in particular

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    called listverse.com. And he just takes—

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    he takes articles word for word and he

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    just reads them out on his video and makes

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    it look like it's his own original

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    content. And he doesn't like cite where he

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    got his information from. So people have

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    been calling him out on this and well,

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    now he's citing his resources on every

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    video's description, but I don't see how

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    that makes it okay. Just because he cites

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    his resources doesn't mean it's okay for

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    him to plagiarize and just— you shouldn't

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    go over to people's websites and just read

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    out the content and make it into your own

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    video and then start making money off it.

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    It's just so— it's such a shitty thing to

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    do. I never really liked the guy in the

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    first place for some reason. I don't know,

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    it's just like his super happy,

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    hyper-energetic kind of personality

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    that I really dislike. It just comes off

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    as fake and phony and, and, uh, what's the

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    word? I don't know. I just find him very

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    fake and like he's putting on an act in

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    all of his videos. And, ugh, that weird

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    face he does all the time, that creepy

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    smile, just looks so— it's just, it's just

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    so creepy. And the way his eyes are always

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    huge and wide open. Now I know these top

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    10 videos— video creators need to get

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    their information from somewhere. Like

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    most of them probably just go onto Google

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    and Google up whatever they're making the

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    video about, go onto Wikipedia. But you

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    shouldn't— you should at least write out

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    your own content, change the words so it's

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    in your own writing, not just read out

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    what someone else has already written.

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    Because that's just stealing. It's not

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    your own content and It's just so

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    hypocritical because some time before,

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    Matt Santoro made a video saying that

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    YouTube is going downhill because of all

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    the drama videos and YouTube is a place

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    for creativity. And then look at his own

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    videos. There's no creativity. He's just

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    ripping off other people's work. So, ugh,

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    I don't know what he's doing. And he's

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    losing subscribers fast. Well, not fast,

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    but bit by bit. And his latest videos have

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    loads of dislikes, like 50/50% ratio

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    likes to dislikes. There's so many people

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    disliking his videos, it's kind of funny,

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    funny actually. So yeah, GradeAUnderA did

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    a good job exposing him, and it's good

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    that people are finding out what, what

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    he's really doing. And hopefully he'll

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    stop doing it, try and write his own

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    content. Just citing where he's copied

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    the content from isn't really good enough

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    in my opinion. So hopefully this will make

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    him change his ways. I don't know. I don't

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    really care because I don't— I'm not

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    interested in his videos anyway.

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