Tales From The Crypt (My Brain)

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Gotta say, after Hbomberguy's extremely thorough takedown of a plagiarizing YouTube Guy I feel a little better about a big fear of mine: cryptomnesia.

I have a hell of a good memory, and I retain information pretty well. This can be a problem when 1. the information I absorbed is wrong,* or 2. it pops up in my brain as something I think I'm coming up with on my own, which is the definition of cryptomnesia. I think it has to do with how I synthesize information as chunks, metaphors, references, and even a sort of echolalia, which I've noticed on this blog specifically.** But yeah, I have this fear of accidentally stealing other people's ideas.

But watching this video kind of lays that fear to rest. I still want to be careful and fact check myself, but there's no goddamn way I'm gonna wind up stealing entire passages from somebody else and then reword them stupidly. I can assure you that it's REALLY EASY not to copy huge chunks of text from someone else's work and pass it off as my own, so I don't have to worry so much about that.

What a relief.


*This is why I tend to fact check myself when I impart an Interesting Anecdote or Fact. Because who knows if the information I'm retaining is true?

**Ask me about my theories on Stranger Things as modeling neurodivergent storytelling! It's like watching a Darmok alien try to tell an original story!

Comments

[marianainthemoatedgrange]

Oh god, what did the actors and/or showrunners do? Once again I find myself out of the drama loop (except on the recent H-Bomb, I suppose. Speaking of insider jargon.) And that is legitimately true about the usage of references to other stuff for actual themes and motifs instead of, say, the Friedbeg and Seltzer school of reference comedy which isn't actually funny because references are not fucking humor. A lot of critics do seem to confuse the two and just act like ST being a reference-heavy show just makes it de facto lazy and unoriginal which I feel like could maybe be seen of a byproduct of being burned by the Seltzerberg Method, but maybe I'm giving them too much credit there.

Also, for the record I feel like I can trace a direct line of your development from your love of Wrongfully Accused to this post.

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Brett Gelman and Noah Schnapp have been spouting Zionist rhetoric and the showrunners and Netflix seem to be supporting them, which is real fuckin disappointing.

I think you're right, the Seltzerberg/Family Guy style seems to have conditioned people to get really angry about references in general. Maybe if we use a fancy literary word like "allusion" they'd accept it?

Okay, I would not have thought of Wrongfully Accused, but damn, you might be on to something. The fact that all those parody scenes are strung together into a semicohesive action-thriller plot (oh my god, the plot synopsis on Wikipedia is incredible) is rather impressive!