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This comes across as posturing around internet drama. The article's subject demolished a plagiarist for ripping off the community they're apart of; not bad at a
by hitekker 3y ago
This comes across as posturing around internet drama. The article's subject demolished a plagiarist for ripping off the community they're apart of; not bad at all! Then the subject gets an interview where they talk endlessly about their guilt and the good they've done; well, this part feels off.
"Virtue signaling" might be the lazy term to describe it. Or maybe it's how self-awareness mixed with self-marketing is too self-convincing. Particularly when one's audience is too eager to confirm that marketing as reality.
- nulld3v 3y agoWell what do you want him to say? I think the interview is fine, what's wrong with talking about his feelings? You call it "virtue signaling", usually that refers to signaling your support for a cause but not actually putting effort in to support the cause. I don't think he did any signaling. He did what he could do, he put in a lot of effort to make a video about a wrong that he observed. I don't see any reason to call it marketing, most of the claims in his video are verifiable.
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