These days, it’s hard to be original on social media and content creators often borrow ideas from each other. However, in Brent Rivera’s case, he appeared to have completely plagiarized Josh Slavin’s fake food critic video. “You know you’ve made it when a creator with over a hundred million social media followers takes inspiration from one of your videos,” Slavin shared on TikTok. He then compared a video he had made of himself pretending to be a food critic at a restaurant with one of Rivera’s — and their words were identical. Rivera even wrote down Slavin’s exact words in a notebook that read, “Yummy yummy, in my tummy.” A fan replied, “Bro copied it word by word.”
YouTuber Dabi (Dr. David Liu) wasn’t as nice as Slavin. He called out Rivera for several instances where he seemingly copied others’ ideas, including a video by Andrew Falchook that followed him in a capsule hotel for 100 hours. Two months after it was shared, Rivera posted a video of himself with the same caption. Dabi wrote, “So I’m kinda mad. Therefore, let me grab a list of all his copycat thumbnails.” Other examples include Rivera building a $25,000 dog house after creator Zealous built his dog a “dream house” and a “100 Dates in 24 Hours” video similar to YouTuber Airrack’s. “So, although one can’t do anything about copyright, I’d probably suggest most people in the YouTube space block him to avoid him pillaging ideas from your content,” Dabi advised.
