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I used to like her videos, but found out that she takes other people's work and passes it off as her own. This video is a good example. Anyone reading the title

by ipsum2 3y ago

I used to like her videos, but found out that she takes other people's work and passes it off as her own. This video is a good example. Anyone reading the title and watching the video, it appears that she's done all of the work iterating on the prototypes. No one else is mentioned in doing any of the work. Only in the comments does she post "If you have any technical questions, my co-inventor @stumcconnel will be here helping answer stuff!" So not only did she not invent this by herself, she's referring to someone else for technical questions. This isn't the first time she's done this. It's just a pet peeve as someone who is technical and has gotten credit assigned to someone else. /soapbox

dc3k 3y ago
> No one else is mentioned in doing any of the work. She mentions two people by name in the video
theshrike79 3y ago
All companies need a face, Simone clearly is the one for her brand. She keeps talking about how "we" went through iterations in the video too, not claiming to be the sole inventor and designer. It's not like the people doing presentations for Apple, Google or Samsung 100% made the stuff themselves either.
BlindEyeHalo 3y ago
I am just assuming that she bankrolled the development herself from the income her youtube makes: How is this different from any tech CEO going on stage saying "We created this amazing thing"? It's not like they personally developed this.
meigwilym 3y ago
Perhaps the co-inventor hates talking to camera and is perfectly happy that she does this part of the process.
Timshel 3y ago
At the end we can never know but the fact that she may have now delegated the handling of the production to someone else does not exactly mean she did not work on the original idea/prototype. As a single data point someone linked one of her previous video (from 2years ago) on her bed and funnily enough in it you can see some coat hingers prototype : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inVvXS6gA8c&t=984s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inVvXS6gA8c&t=984s

by ipsum2 3y ago

dc3k 3y ago

> No one else is mentioned in doing any of the work. She mentions two people by name in the video

theshrike79 3y ago

All companies need a face, Simone clearly is the one for her brand. She keeps talking about how "we" went through iterations in the video too, not claiming to be the sole inventor and designer. It's not like the people doing presentations for Apple, Google or Samsung 100% made the stuff themselves either.

BlindEyeHalo 3y ago

I am just assuming that she bankrolled the development herself from the income her youtube makes: How is this different from any tech CEO going on stage saying "We created this amazing thing"? It's not like they personally developed this.

meigwilym 3y ago

Perhaps the co-inventor hates talking to camera and is perfectly happy that she does this part of the process.

Timshel 3y ago

At the end we can never know but the fact that she may have now delegated the handling of the production to someone else does not exactly mean she did not work on the original idea/prototype. As a single data point someone linked one of her previous video (from 2years ago) on her bed and funnily enough in it you can see some coat hingers prototype : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inVvXS6gA8c&t=984s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inVvXS6gA8c&t=984s