ign posted a review for DeadCell and a small youtube channel Boomstick Gaming accused it of plagiarism. Its a heavy accusation that garnered a lot of attention ending in Miucin losing his job.
In most cases plagiarism has to be word for word. Now the creativity level of Filip leave much to be desired, but as a person that finish college level english myself, I know enough to see that although the sentence structure and the construction of the paragraph are
heavily inspired by Boomstick Gaming, the use of verbiage is changed enough for it to not be considered plagiarism (Most of the other terms used were game mechanics verbiage).
We see this a lot of times in music ('rap' music). By adding or subtracting a single note/word here or there, its enough to ''make it ones' own...''. There are a lot of people who like the sound of their own voice and its a shame Filip got fired over someone's
butt-hurtness. AGAIN, the creativity leaves a lot to be desired but Filip DID do enough word switching to make it his own even if it was
HEAVILY INSPIRED by ''DEADEYE'' of "Boomstick Gaming'' (which im sure if we did enough digging we would find he probably used a lot of the verbiage pushed by the developer used to promote their game, enough to accuse him of the same) Filip COULD HAVE just ended it with a single sentence of his own thoughts but again, ''heavily inspired'' suggest he was so captivated he couldn't think outside of the review he was inspired by...
HERE'S THE REVIEW
https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1026972177881427969
p.s. im not a fan of ign or filip, but im going to assume Filip has the education levels required to be a writer at ign and he's gone through enough school to understand his work is NOT plagiarism. (as i have and know). I am a fan of YongYea but this video his is of a shitty elitist view, and i know his stuff is also HEAVILY INSPIRED from other stuff but he uses a bit more creativity.
the problem here is not about plagiarism is it? its that he worked for the much hated ign and there were failures to cite sources because the thin line the writer walked on when it comes to plagairsm is very narrow wasnt it?