This is Divi and he's stolen over
29 million views from other content creators with barely anyone realizing. You
see, he's a Polish Minecraft Youtuber who blatantly copy and pastes other's content.
Today, I'll be investigating Minecraft's most explicit content thief, who he is,
how much he's making, and how we can stop him. Before I start telling you about the rabbit
hole that is Divi's channel, you have to see for yourself just the extent to which he copies other
YouTubers. Take the example of this video uploaded by Divi, and this video uploaded by sandiction,
there are barely any differences. This is the same with every single one of his videos. He copies
from channels such as camman18, tazoh, MudFlaps, and sandiction, and he's slowly expanding the
range of channels he steals from, but he's not dumb, and he keeps his identity private using
a text to speech voice, and he doesn't include any links that could possibly connect the dots on
who he is. On the surface, there are absolutely no clues on Divi's channel to hint at who he is, and
I expected him to be a random person who's trying to make a quick buck off of YouTube; however, I
was wrong. On a quick YouTube search, I saw a video in Polish by a user named q szymons (correct spelling, I butchered it in the video), talking about
the situation, and it was interesting to say the least. I'll let q szymons talk about his findings.
I've been working on Divi's case for over 2 months now, and as I said before, it was very hard to
find anything that would connect him to someone else. Divi made his channel in the start of 2022,
and from the start, he was posting videos. Sadly, all of his original videos are now deleted, and
I haven't been able to find them. The one thing I found interesting about Divi was his Minecraft
skin because it immediately struck me as similar to another Polish YouTuber named Dranhis, who
has a bright yellow skin with a similar face expression to the orange skin. So Dranhis was
one of my leads, but then I also saw that in all of his shorts, he includes the tag #dexsi, who is
one of the biggest Polish Minecraft YouTubers. It didn't make any sense, but as I was scrolling
through Dranhis' channel, I realized that he stole ideas from English Minecraft YouTubers like
IGoByLotsOfNames, just like Divi does, so it would make sense for Dranhis to be the one operating
the channel, so as to not slander his name, but still make free money. But there's more, Dranhis
hasn't posted a long form video in 5 months which is close to when Divi started uploading, so he
probably got bored and started uploading on Divi's channel to make some money. The Dexsi tag in the
description might be him trying to throw Dexsi under the bus; however, it's impossible to know
for sure. There's one more piece of evidence I'd like to mention. Divi originally did not have a
premium account because I would log into cracked servers as him, but when he bought one, the only
server he joined was PykMC which, guess what, is owned by Dranhis, well that's all from me. Shout
out to q szymons for helping with this video, much appreciated, the link to his channel will be
on screen right now. If you guys are wondering, the reason we know that Divi's account is divi7
is because he accidentally showed it when he died in the ancient city video. To elaborate on
what q szymons said, divi used to have a cracked Minecraft account. We know this because to log
into servers, cracked accounts need a passcode to keep track of their server profile and keep it
safe. Q szymons realized that divi7 wasn't a real name at the time when Divi uploaded the Ancient
City video and decided to try to enter that name on the Dranhis server. It prompted him for a
passcode, and he guessed 1 2 3 4, which worked and allowed him to appear as divi7. This could be
a reason that Divi switched to a premium Minecraft account; however, after he bought a premium
account, q szymons wasn't able to log in as Divi anymore, specifically on PykMC, which means that
this was one of the only servers he played on, and it was coincidentally owned by Dranhis. Some
more things I'll add on is that Dranhis didn't post any videos from February 2023 to July 17th,
2023, when he returned. This was coincidentally just 10 days after Divi posted his first short,
which blew up. After he came back, you can also see the big difference in the content he produces.
Earlier, he produced Minecraft challenges, but now he posts videos similar to camman18, the same
person Divi has been copying all his shorts from. Divi also uses similar jargon to Dranhis, such as
the word 'koks,' which is a very old slang word for gapples in Polish. Now, if you check Divi's videos,
you might see that he actually credits the person he steals from. This wasn't there a few weeks ago
and was purely the result of him getting called out, and that definitely doesn't make up for the
fact that he one to one replicates a video. It's not even inspiration at that point. I checked
some other suspects including a channel called Smieszny. The main thing that struck me about this
channel was the Minecraft Shorts which were all stolen from other creators. Smieszny started
copying shorts around November 22nd of 2023, a couple months after Divi. He also recently
uploaded a video that was one to one copied from Wunba where he gets every block in Minecraft. Not
only this, he also includes 'inspiration' in the description just like Divi; however, despite all
this evidence, I doubt that he is Divi because he was uploading IRL content while Divi was uploading
Minecraft content. I figured he wouldn't have the time to do both, but after he saw the success
of Divi's channel, he decided to go back to Minecraft content that he used to upload earlier,
but instead of making original SMP videos, he would now just copy and paste people's content. It
looks like he gave it a trial run with shorts, and since he was successful, he's now starting to make
regular videos that are copy and pasted. Anyways, I decided to do some further digging to gather
more definite evidence that Divi was in fact Dranhis. I first tried to match the fonts between
their shorts, but it turns out Divi just used the same font as camman18. I later searched Dranhis
on YouTube to analyze his channel again, but I saw another channel pop up called Dranczips, and it
seemed to be a second channel. Surprisingly, he's been posting long form content on this channel,
and they even posted a video on the same day, and both are highly edited, so if this channel was
Dranhis, I doubt he would be operating it alone because even if he copies YouTubers one to one, it
still takes time to edit the videos. My theory is that Dexsi and Dranhis are operating this channel
together which would explain the #dexsi in the description but the Dranhis like skin. If you look
at Dexsi's shorts, he also puts the #dexsi in all his descriptions. Not only this, but the skin has
an orange color which is the same color as Dexsi's Alt's profile picture; however, this is still a
theory, and it will be very hard to prove unless further evidence is revealed. If you know anything
I don't know, please contact me on Discord. The next thing I wanted to find out was how much money
he made directly copy and pasting videos, so I checked his views, and he has around 29 million.
This is a lot, but most of the views are from uploading shorts that make much less money than
regular videos. According to Hootsuite, a pretty trustworthy website, the average revenue per
thousand views on a short is anywhere from 5 cents to 7 cents. Around 28.5 million of the views are
from shorts with a duration closer to the maximum of 60 seconds. If you don't know, the longer
your short the more money you can make from it, but we'll give him the benefit of the doubt and
assume he makes 5 cents per thousand views on a short. Keep in mind that this is an estimate and
isn't meant to be taken as a fact. Now doing the math, we get a total of around $1,425 for posting
54 stolen shorts, and this is just within the 6 months that he's been posting on his channel. Then
we have to add the additional revenue he makes from uploading stolen long form content which as
of right now adds up to a total of around 450,000 views. This seems like nothing compared to the
shorts, but long form content earns way more than shorts. Using a revenue calculator on his first
long form video stolen from tazoh, which got over 200,000 views, we can see that he made anywhere
from $200 to $700; however, considering that he has a relatively high engagement rate which means
a relatively high watch time (and it was quite a long video), I can predict that he would have
made closer to $700 off of that video (Similar to his second video which had similar views and
had a similar length). His most recent video as of uploading this which is about collecting
mobs has around 30,000 views at the time of uploading this which probably adds another $150.
In total, he's made around $2,700, assuming he was monetized for the whole period. I took off
around $300 to account for any overestimation which is still a crazy amount of money if you
consider that all that money was made off the backs of other creators. Before I continue, I
would really appreciate if you subscribe to this channel. It helps me more than you know, back
to the video. I want to mention that I do not encourage the harassment of anyone featured in
this video, please do not leave hate comments. Divi is just one example of creators translating,
then directly ripping off other people's content. YouTube needs to start fighting the problem, but
in the meantime the best thing for you to do is unsubscribe if you're subscribed. It may not seem
like a big deal, but if a lot of people do it, it could encourage creators to change their
content. The second thing you can do is leave a comment providing them with feedback on how to
make original content, but make sure these aren't hate comments and provide ways for the creator to
move away from copy pasted content. The last thing you should do is to share this video to anyone you
know who watches any of these creators. Before I end the video, this video is sponsored by me. I've
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