I won’t go into details, but I now have several specific examples of other huge YouTubers and streamers covering content that is almost verbatim something I have said or covered in a way that defies time and coincidence. I’m flattered more than anything. After all, they have a much bigger audience that I, and at the end of the day I don’t care as much about getting credit for my words and advice and discoveries as much as I do getting them out to everyone no matter how that happens. I have to admit there is at least one of them that makes me really cringe because of the way the content is changed into YouTuber sham-wow-guy marketing spew, but oh well.
I feel better getting that out. This has been happening my whole fucking life. One dude at Nike actually cut and paste my entire email without changing a single fucking word and resent it as his own proposal. Thank God my manager, Barb, had my back and brought me into the office for a little laugh. She spotted it immediately, “Isn’t this the email you sent?” It was so bald-faced it was ridiculous. I loved facing that dude and just smiling at him about it. He was beat red with shame and that made me very happy. Yeah, I was the one that won the most prestigious Nike IT award there is, the “There is No Finish Line” for which you must be nominated and selected by your peers, and no, he never won anything, ever. I wonder why?
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