Wow! Ethan! Great moves! Keep it up, proud of you! A lot has happened since we posted our video yesterday about SoFlo including him threatening to sue us and making a response video. So, let's go over both of those things in detail. And I will say a very special thanks to Ryan Morrison, The Video Game Attorney who was... advising us through this whole thing and he gave us so much great advice and even represented us I mean, this guy is a literal saint so here's his Twitter guys. Please go follow him This guy is a SAINT. And one of the great things Ryan told us is that we can actually share the emails we got legally because it was sent to us unsolicited. Therefore, he has no expectation of privacy. So it is my great pleasure to show you exactly the emails we recieved from a dude at SoFlo. This is the first email we got, three hours after posting our new video it says: To whom it may concern, I wanted to reach out pertaining to the last video you released regarding SoFlo. I am an investor in SoFlo Media which is no longer owned majority by Antonio and the references that you have given regarding the brands are false as it relates to stealing content. And we all know that SoFlo has NEVER stolen content, that is PLAINLY FALSE! [SoFlo] I won't lie, this is DEFINITELY me when I'm driving: [Liza Koshy] This dude like straight up ripped off my content. Everything on this page is licensed and if this video is not taken down in 24 hours, we will sue you for defamation and there will be serious implications. So after I read that, I thought it was a bit of a laugh and I tweeted out something like: Only three hours in and we've already got a threatening email from someone at SoFlo👌 Because the last time we made a video, SoFlo also threatened to sue us so I made a little goof at the end like: "Oh yeah, he's gonna try to sue me again" not actually expecting him to do it because it's so ridiculous. And AGAIN after three hours, here comes the SoFlo team threatening to sue us. So he writes to me again: I can tell by your tweets that you are not taking this seriously, we will be working on taking your channel down and suing you for defamation. And you know, SoFlo is SO well connection on YouTube that I'm sure they can just take channels down at will. CALL YOUTUBE HEADQUATERS! SOMEBODY GOOFED ON ME! REMOVE THEIR CHANNEL RIGHT AWAY! He continues to send me emails because I don't respond. He says: Tarnishing a global brand and trying to sink investor dollars is NO JOKE! Never mind that I made a shitty investment, it's YOUR PROBLEM! You're the reason why SoFlo isn't making money, okay? if I loose my investment including other big names that have put money in, then we need to get our money back from somewhere and that would probably be the guy who's tarnishing our brand. This is my favourite email that I recieved because it somehow implies that I'm responsible for his shitty investment. Like somehow, SoFlo was a perfect, pristine brand until I made this video. I mean, dude, I don't know what to tell you, you're a shitty businessman. You're the one who invested in SoFlo. I can't think of a less reputable, good brand to invest in, He built the whole thing on theft! I mean what more do you need than that? And somehow I'm the guy that made you lose your money, dude? I don't know what to tell you, you're a bad businessman. And I fail to see how that's my problem. Basically after I recieved this email, I made a tweet talking about more specifically that we're being sued by SoFlo and almost immediately I recieved this email: Ethan, I'd appreciate not being blasted on the Internet. I'll retract my claims and we won't pursue this further. I think what he means is: "I'm used to bullying smaller channels with less influence and I'm not used to people standing up for themselves because I sound really scary and usually people just comply. So actually, can you please just remove your statement and leave us alone? I'll do whatever it takes, just don't blast my ass on the Internet". The thing that really pisses me off about this is that if we were a smaller channel, and I'm sure these guys bully smaller channels all the time, we would've been completely helpless. So, you know what? If you don't want to get blasted on the Internet, maybe you should stop being an asshole. You're gonna present your ass to me and ask me not to blast it? Dude, come on! I'm in the business of ass-blasting, dude! Now if you really actually truely believe that I'm defaming your company I urge you, to follow your heart, and to sue me. Because, you know, I'd love to find out not only what would happen in that case (You'll lose by the way) But also what will happen to your precious brand that you're trying so desperately to protect from my "tarnishing" it And I'd also like to say to you, SoFlo Family Dynasty, the greatest and most influential people on YouTube, please don't delete my channel, that, I find it quite ironic that you're threatening to sue anybody considering, as I've said, your entire brand is built on theft. And hey, if you don't want to take my word for it, why don't you take SoFlo's word for it. Here he is admitting to stealing videos. And, you know, you complain that I'm responsible for losing your investment in SoFlo. Well, I'm curious to see, you know, how would that investment look divided among the thousands of people that SoFlo's stolen from, because I'm pretty sure a class action lawsuit led by all these people you've stolen from would result in a nice little payout. Now, in our previous video we talked about a page called Gthtjtkt, right? That SoFlo was Facebook Like Laundering from. And there was a lot of debate in our sub-reddit and in general if that actually was related to SoFlo because it's hard to prove it, it was just a suspicion that was in my opinion. Now, if SoFlo was to sue me for defamation, one of the big points would be that I lied about his association with this page and that it was actually a legitimate source of credit and that he is actually not associated at all with this page. But, the SoFlo organization being the geniuses that they are, sent me this email: Gthtjtkt referenced in the comment WORKS at SOFLO, in our offices. WOAAAAAAH OAAAAAAH! CHECKMATE DUDE! THIS GUY'S BEEN PLAYING CHESS FOR YEARS! Why would you admit that? You're talking about suing me and then basically, just, like, proving that what I was saying was correct. So, you want to sue me for defaming? Yet at the same time you're proving my theories that you were saying I was lying about correct so, I mean, an altogether confusing and powerful play coming from the SoFlo company. The hilarious part is that after I already recieved this email proving that he works there, I recieved this email from Gthtjtkt saying: Hi H3H3, thanks for mentioning me in your video today, thought it was hilarious! I'm impartial! I don't know SoFlo or care at all! Just to clarify, I'm not SoFlo. This is actually all my original content. Would love to meet you though or collaborate, hit me up if you'd like to talk. Thanks! I replied with: Hey, ya boi admitted that you guys work in the same office 👌 👌 And, uh, interestingly that was nine hours ago and he has yet to respond to that sadly so, yeah, hit me up if you want to collab, I'm just waiting for you to write me back, so... 👌 SoFlo roasted my ass good. He... NAILED my ass and I would appreciate you not blasting my ass publicly, SoFlo or I'm gonna have to delete your channel, OK? Now of course, SoFlo being the brave and righteous person that he is disabled likes and dislikes. But somebody somehow got a glance at it and posted it on our sub-reddit and I just thought this was really a laugh. 282,000 views so far, 41,000 dislikes! That is a real achievement! That is a real achievement, SoFlo! Good job everyone, that is really something to be proud of! [SoFlo] How did H3H3 Productions become famous? Where did he come from? How did he become an Internet god? [Ethan] Ooooooooh! An Internet God? I thought this was supposed to be an insult video, man, you making me feel good, dude. [Ethan in video] I feel like... I would like to be a comedian. [SoFlo] And this is where it all started, he would like to be a comedian. But you know what happened? Ethan Klein did not succeed. When he first uploaded this video, he realized that there was a lot of trouble. [Ethan] Now if you look closely here, there's a download button plugin! Is that not the most hilariously incriminating thing you've ever seen? SoFlo is the one person who would have a download plugin. I steal THIS video! And I steal THIS video! And I'll sue YOU for defamation for saying I've EVER stolen a video! Outrageous! [SoFlo] Even Ethan Klein who accused me of stealing videos which I license, and... he... himself... STOLE VIDEOS. To start off, and he still does guys, watch this: Not his video. [Ethan] Let me just cut away from it before he actually does an edit and transforms the video which is clearly fair use. He steals videos, the proof is undeniable. [SoFlo] Example No. 2: Again, not his video. [Ethan] Ouch, roasted even harder. Did you see the video was up for a full quarter second that time? I mean I clearly just reuploaded that video and didn't transform it at all. Roassssted! [SoFlo] All copyright. All he talks about... me, is about how I steal videos. Let's get back to YOU, Ethan. All you do is steal videos. You became big off other people's content. At the end of the day, I think you're just someone that's a little bit butthurt. [Ethan] I'm actually not sure if he's trolling because I have a hard time believing that somebody could actually not understand the difference between uploading somebody's video in its entirety and fair use transformation of a video! I mean this is not the time or place to explain fair use but I mean, I consider reading about it, SoFlo. My brain is about to short circuit! The fact that you thought this was such a persuasive point that you made a video about it! It just blows my mind! [SoFlo] So before you go about shit-talking anymore YouTubers, you hypocrite, why don't you take that log out of your own eye before you try to remove the speck in someone else's? Peace out. [Ethan] You're a sweet kid, ok? I can tell you're a little butthurt from your ass-blasting. But I recommend next time, not trying to harrass and threaten us. because I mean if you would've just taken it If you would've just let me slam your tight, little ass, ok? I would've lubed up, I would've even maybe given you a reach-around because you're such a sweet kid. You're charming and you have a really, lovely, beautiful face. Okay? People on Facebook don't even give a shit about this! The people who watch your stuff don't know or care, man. I don't why you gotta get so butthurt and defensive every time someone makes fun of you, man. You're SoFloAntonio, dude! Embrace it! Okay? You're SoFlo, man! You're a living meme! You are he, who SoFlows Okay? I get SoFlowed. And you do the SoFlowing. So, take pride in who you are. Okay? Be proud of the SoFlo brand and what they do. Licensing? Come on! We all know what that means, we all know where you come from. Don't try to act like this all of a sudden just because you deleted all of your previous videos that you're not SoFlo and you don't do the SoFlowing! And just do me a favor and stop sending out harrassment, stop bullying people. Just let us talk shit about you! You're SoFlo! You think people are gonna stop making fun of you? You're SoFloAntonio! That's the whole point! That's what SoFlo means! This is Soflobro, signing out.
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"I won't lie, I'm definitely fucked 😂😂"
IT'S A MEME WAR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
Noooo they admitted that Gthtjtkt works for SoFlo! Let the goofs and gafs begin!
Wow Ethan, great assblasting, keep it up! Proud of you!
Damn that video game attorney is everywhere. What an awesome dude.
edit: /u/videogameattorney thank you for helping!
It's been a beautiful past 2 weeks.
Last week was the downfall of the Fine Bros.
And now this week is the downfall of SoFlo.
Who's next? Tai Lopez?
H3h3Production's Ethan Klein made a parody Facebook page of SoFloAntonio, known freebooter (AKA content thief) who's made a sort of Facebook empire off other people's videos. H3H3's page was fair use under parody laws.
And one morning Ethan woke up to find that he and his wife had both suddenly "liked" soflo's page, and their parody page was gone. i.e., Facebook deleted their parody account, and gave all its fans to the dude they were parodying. Or SoFloAntonio merged the pages somehow.
SofloAntonio posted a response to these accusations and it's a total shitshow, accuses Ethan of stealing videos by showing videos by H3H3Productions that are legally protected parodies that don't violate fair use at all. While SoFlo is showing h3h3's clips in his video, there is a YouTube video downloader extension visible on screen, which is how he steals and reposts other people's videos. Oops. (Also SoFlo is well known for those "it's just a prank bro" videos and many of them are pretty rapey, in case you needed another reason to hate him)
Due to some detective work on Ethan's part it also appears that SoFlo might have a dummy page that steals content, which he can then credit and say that he is not the original theft, the page that he asked permission to repost is (even if that page is run by him, an associate, or an actor). Ethan referred to this as "like laundering."
Here are some videos relevant to SoFlo's content theft, legal shenanigans, and the H3H3 drama, makes for good watching if you have the time:
https://youtu.be/P2C_CXcQprE (A video about SoFlo by H3H3)
https://youtu.be/4UNLhoePqqQ (Another one.)
https://youtu.be/NPQ75akxxr0 (A video by Lewis Spears about SoFlo)
https://youtu.be/i8kWQase9RE (A video of SoFlo threatening to sue Lewis Spears)
https://youtu.be/8qwxYaZhUGA (H3H3's call-out video)
https://youtu.be/aBwLpKdRRq0 (SoFlo's bullshit response)
Checkmate