Okay, so since the discussion been going in circles, i'll try to explain what's the fuss about.
It's not one of those "Disney stole shit again without crediting original author(s)" videos.
It's actually quite the opposite. The author(Adum) states that it started as a short summary of a conspiracy theory, that was meant to be featured in the beginning of his "Lion King" review, until he did some more research, which resulted in the big, over 2-hour long debunk video.
The theory being Disney allegedly plagiarazing Osamu Tezuka's "Kimba: The White Lion"(which isn't the name it's known under in Japan!) animated movie. Excuse me, movie? No, not just movie, but also animated series spanning from the 60s to roughly today. The author watched hundreds of hours of Kimba content to see if the theory holds water.
I haven't been watching YMS regularly for a while now. Last video i saw was his Spike Lee's "Oldboy" review. I don't particularly care about Kimba or The Lion King - only seen one of those, once - so i watched the video due to curiosity and word-of-mouth... But it might be Adum's best one. Not cause it's pretty funny(the abysmal english dub of the old Kimba tv series is hilarious), but cause it shows how fucking wrong people can be due to perception bias and jumping to conclusions.
Now this isn't exactly discovering America, but i think it can be worthwile due to abundace of conspiracy theories flooding social media. Usually because of their mostly political nature, questioning those makes their believers simply scoff and withdraw back to echo chambers. But since this one is all about plagiarism and cartoons, some gears might start moving after watching it, and encountering another one those "definitely not a coincidence" twitter posts.
It's not one of those "Disney stole shit again without crediting original author(s)" videos.
It's actually quite the opposite. The author(Adum) states that it started as a short summary of a conspiracy theory, that was meant to be featured in the beginning of his "Lion King" review, until he did some more research, which resulted in the big, over 2-hour long debunk video.
The theory being Disney allegedly plagiarazing Osamu Tezuka's "Kimba: The White Lion"(which isn't the name it's known under in Japan!) animated movie. Excuse me, movie? No, not just movie, but also animated series spanning from the 60s to roughly today. The author watched hundreds of hours of Kimba content to see if the theory holds water.
It doesn't.
I haven't been watching YMS regularly for a while now. Last video i saw was his Spike Lee's "Oldboy" review. I don't particularly care about Kimba or The Lion King - only seen one of those, once - so i watched the video due to curiosity and word-of-mouth... But it might be Adum's best one. Not cause it's pretty funny(the abysmal english dub of the old Kimba tv series is hilarious), but cause it shows how fucking wrong people can be due to perception bias and jumping to conclusions.
Now this isn't exactly discovering America, but i think it can be worthwile due to abundace of conspiracy theories flooding social media. Usually because of their mostly political nature, questioning those makes their believers simply scoff and withdraw back to echo chambers. But since this one is all about plagiarism and cartoons, some gears might start moving after watching it, and encountering another one those "definitely not a coincidence" twitter posts.
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