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IGN writer plagiarizes Dead Cells review - IGN issues impassioned statement on journalistic ethics
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autoduelist
Member
One time I had to sift through fifty or so resumes for a position. One felt particularly odd, and then I realized it was a carbon copy of one of the ones I had looked at earlier. They were nearly identical except for name. This was for a senior position and a decently large company. One of them either cribbed it from the other one or they both hired the same resume writer , although some of it was so specific cribbing seems more likely.
Nikana
Go Go Neo Rangers!
Wait ...the text wasn't from ign? Or it was?
Edit: holy crap. This might be the worst one yet. I was waiting for the video to switch over to the writer but didn't realize he was reading the text word for word.
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Vawn
Banned
The text was from Nintendo Wire
Vawn
Banned
Is trolling and derailing a thread no longer a bannable offense?
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
If you have no intention of actually engaging the discussion and addressing the points people brought up to rebut your claims of overreaction, then why even bother continuing to post if you're just going to present shit post level gems like this one?
Agent_Carnage
Member
Was any of this guys reviews 100% legit?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
lol at this guy telling the internet to go ahead and try to find more evidence of his plagarism in his "apology" video. He asked for it.
Petrae
Member
Get the fuck out of here with this bullshit. People have tried to engage you reasonably on this issue, and you keep shitposting. If you don't understand why this is a big deal by now-- and why Filip is catching so much heat-- then there's no hope for you.
Halo0629
Member
They should hire boomstick gaming. He sounds like a really good reviewer for filip to even outright copy his review word for word.
Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
No dig at Boomstick, but it looks like Filip copied every c**t and his dog.
iconmaster
Banned
Your position seems to be “it’s video games, it doesn’t matter.” But integrity matters, regardless of the industry. Respecting others’ work and their ownership of it matters, regardless of the industry. Take out the video games for a moment and consider Filip Miucin the man.
hecatomb
Banned
He knew what he was doing, just didn't care, you can't do under handed things when you work for companies and think you are going to get away with it, especially online, were everyone knows about it. He clearly didn't think that part through.
Vtecomega
Banned
Agreed, but people going on a witch hunt to find every minute fuck up will drive him to suicide.
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Petrae
Member
I understand this concern, but it's hard to deny that he invited this controversy to continue by creating a fake (and monetized) "apology" video and inviting Jason Schreier (of all people) to prove that he had plagiarized. That's like bringing a pen to a gunfight. Schreier accepted Miucin's invitation and proceeded to dismantle his credibility and future career prospects. Now-- had Miucin elected to either keep his mouth shut, or to perhaps make a genuine apology video and then go radio silent-- we might not be where we are now. Instead, the whole web of deceit is coming unraveled and Miucin is likely ruined for a long time.
I feel bad that it's come to this, as having limited future prospects is stressful and depressing, but he made all of these decisions of his own accord. For his sake, he needs to silence himself online and hope that this all blows over afterwards. I wouldn't even think about accepting interview requests at this point, if I was him... even from sympathetic individuals.
Cato
Banned
What if his name isn’t really Filip Miucin and he stole a dead guy’s identity?
Bravo Sir.
I sprayed beer all over my keyboard.
hecatomb
Banned
Theres a ton of twitch streamers and youtubers that got caught doing dumb things, and now are ruined. So he's not the only one. So no I don't feel bad for him at all.
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NiiloPielinen
Member
I wonder if he was one of those kids who just constantly lied about everything no matter how stupid it sounded
Paradicia
Member
He brought this on himself. The fact that he never even tried to give credence to any of the people he stole from goes to show how much of an asshole this guy really is. Just listening to him speak, you can tell he is devoid of any emotional intelligence towards what he did. In other words, he holds no remorse and was happy to brush this whole thing under the carpet - like a true sociopath.
He deserved to lose his job for being such a snake. Imagine a colleague in your own company was standing on your shoulders to get to the top. How would that make you feel to know someone is using your content and thoughts to pass them off as their own? It's such a sleveen move what he did.
This dude won't even be able to get back into working on YouTube videos as they will be downvoted to oblivion each time he posts something and I'm happy for him as it's obvious at this point he never had anything between his ears in the first place.
He deserved to lose his job for being such a snake. Imagine a colleague in your own company was standing on your shoulders to get to the top. How would that make you feel to know someone is using your content and thoughts to pass them off as their own? It's such a sleveen move what he did.
This dude won't even be able to get back into working on YouTube videos as they will be downvoted to oblivion each time he posts something and I'm happy for him as it's obvious at this point he never had anything between his ears in the first place.
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Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Hahahaha omfg the amount of shit this dude did wow.
I feel bad for him but obv this is karma at work.
Drac84
Member
That is astonishing. What I can't get over is how brazen it is. There's barely any attempt whatsoever to cover his tracks.
goldenpp72
Member
Yeah we should just ignore everyone who steals work because other people are hungry. Very related.
Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
Scopa
The Tribe Has Spoken
iconmaster
Banned
Good summary of the response and actions being taken by IGN: https://www.gamerevolution.com/news...filip-miucin-following-plagiarism-controversy
They’re saying that beyond just removing Miucin’s work, they’re going to have to generate new content in some cases to fill the gaps. Sounds like a lot of extra and unexpected work.
They’re saying that beyond just removing Miucin’s work, they’re going to have to generate new content in some cases to fill the gaps. Sounds like a lot of extra and unexpected work.
Petrae
Member
Which adds to an already heavy workload as gaming press is about to move into its busy season. The damage from Miucin’s actions continues to mount.
Vawn
Banned
Man, what brings people to this point? Sad.
Lol, someone steal $1,000 from this guy so he can complain about it and be shut down with the same rhetoric
Kenpachii
Member
And this is why you always use different names.
Alebrije
Member
This guy would've never got a job had he not been another rabid Switch fanboy. But hey, if that's what the fanbase wants then that's what they'll get.
Vawn
Banned
I don't think you have room to use the term "rabid fanboy" against anyone else.
Bryank75
Banned
We should have a game where somebody writes a review of a new release, inserting lines lifted straight out of publications reviews.
People have to find all of them and write the reference beside it in the posts below.
We could call it ‘The Miucin Malaise’.... or something like that.
People have to find all of them and write the reference beside it in the posts below.
We could call it ‘The Miucin Malaise’.... or something like that.
Mochilador
Member
I'm out of the loop here, did this guy plagiarize other videos? Fire Emblem too??
Lanrutcon
Member
Other videos. Written reviews. Shit, he even stole a Neogaf post.
nowhat
Member
And his LinkedIn profile is direct copypasta from a job template site. And despite all this, he has the audacity to tell people to try to dig up more stuff on him. If there's ever anyone who had it coming, he is it.
I have to say though - for all the flack IGN gets (and not all undeservedly, there's plenty to criticize), I think they handled this situation quite exemplarily. It's unreasonable to assume they'd check every article beforehand for plagiarism, the internet is a "pretty big" place after all. But once the shit hit the fan, they've consistently done the right thing in this case.
iconmaster
Banned
Kotaku did a follow-up article with more examples, but the guys at IGN are talking as if more or less everything Miucin did while employed there was lifted from somewhere else.
DunDunDunpachi
Banned
Wait, this train-ride isn't over yet?
Geez, this has become a huge inditement against IGN, not just Filip. The fact that huge quantities of content leaked through calls everything they've done in question.
nowhat
Member
As stated above, I wholeheartedly disagree. Benefit of the doubt/innocent until proven guilty and so on. Getting a new staff member aboard, someone with (so far) no bad track record, it would be unreasonable to scrutinize everything. And the guy was able to fly under the radar, using only material from less-known channels and such - until after getting caught, he did perhaps the most braindead decision there is, that is, to yell at the internet "come get me!". The internet always delivers - if there's anything there, it will be found.
But once all this was discovered (hell, the guy even plagiarized a fellow IGN-er), they completely threw him under the bus, and he deserved as much. And for the record, I don't particularly like IGN; as a matter of fact, I blame them for perpetuating the culture that numerical scores (if they should be given at all, but that's another topic) should be between 7 and 10 instead of 0 and 10 as the scale should work. But in this instance, they made all the right moves, as rare as that may be.
Nymphae
Banned
I'm sure it was less a lack of having opinions and more a desire to not do any work.