Ironically, he kind of did. My YT channel is very small and I approached BFM wondering if he could get the saga to more eyes. There are enough industry types who watch his content that could push things along a little further. A few NASCAR teams held security briefings about him; I personally was contacted by JRM. Some viewers saw the videos and took it upon themselves to documente Jacoby's threats/stalking for a few months. When the police started reaching out, they were floored at how organized everything was and it was relatively easy for them to understand the synopsis of the situation.
@@housesports000 Ehhhh...at that point you're treading a fine line between being some attention whore like where he flexed about meeting an engagement quota after getting banned by the ARCA garage for being a clown and just being Stephen A Smith. S1ap and Elly mostly get away with it because their stuff is so high effort and wacky, but all BFG really does is read statistics
I'd rather Michael Mrucz, and ByteBlox on the NASCAR Hall of Fame ballot over BFM, and I'm still building my Ro-Racing UA-cam viewership tbh.... But, UA-cam is gonna be UA-cam. 🤷♂️
100% agree with what Nathan said. Met Darian twice, 2021 COTA and 23 Nashville. Both times he was super nice and I could tell he was really happy to see fans recognize him, but man. He’s fallen off a cliff. I wish him the best, cause it’s clear he has the passion for the sport, but at some point, you get enough chances.
@@rocksreviewsreactions337 literally my thought process because I saw Darren’s April fools f1 vid so I was like, this guy must be joking. Then I saw a couple more vids and went “hol up”
I said this before in another video talking about this, but the issues with Darian go much further than just plagiarism Because it's been stated by a driver in the ARCA Series that Darian has been Blacklisted from having Garage Access at every track that ARCA holds races at for his blatantly false statement that NASCAR bought out ARCA due to "Financial Trouble" even though that isn't the case And Darian has even been blacklisted from having garage access from several tracks by NASCAR as well so that goes to prove that the people in the industry know who he is and (largely) do not trust him.
Ok I know the ARCA part is true but is there any source regarding the NASCAR part? Don't remember him being blacklisted from some NASCAR tracks garages...but if true then deserved.
Let's not forget the time he and some of the other UA-cam guys got media passes to a race and all Darian did was walk around and try to get drivers to rub a Buddha statue's belly for "luck"
In my honest eyes, Darian is just the worst person... 1. I can bet he's a Bubba fan, that's pretty obvious and 2. He's not only been the worst at stealing shit but, he's also been posting "Oh here's another Darian Gilliam jinx" like my guy, it's getting very fucking old when we're trying to watch some good racing, and you're ruining these races, seen it multiple times on Twitter, this should honestly stop man. It's fucking ridiculous.
The timing on this was interesting because I started making NASCAR videos just before he first got called out, so I've been careful to cite my sources whenever I need to do research.
@@Eeeeethan09 I'm kinda tied to my everything you need to know series for the time being, but I've got some other video ideas for off weeks and when tracks start repeating.
Most of us actually agree with this statement tbh... UA-cam should either ban BFM, or the companies that BFM stole this shit from should actually sue him, or cops should arrest him. Either way, he's mainly a NASCAR UA-cam Bust imo, no cap.
I was a fan of BFM, until I left a comment of criticism and the guy put me on blast on his Twitter account. If you are a content creator, you represent your brand. You can't just act like a middle-schooler on social media. He can have a redemption arc, but he really needs to be more professional on his social media sites if he wants to be taken seriously.
Mainly whoever owns Pheonix or is it Las Vegas raceway gives out more and more passes and you see who is going to said place in media even ones like The Iceberg or Eric Estep are avoiding Media here because some dim person is doing what Black Flags Matters is doing or people in media trying to make motorsports look bad so they can take credit for taking down a whole industry of motor sports they see as a waste of resources.
@@nikhook9430 Yes unless person is willing to sign a waiver of rules and regulations saying what a media person can and cannot say/do like other media have to follow.
Very well made video. I will admit I made some mistakes addressing this situation in the past but I hope that he takes the time to do some reflection and improve as a person.
I seriously hope this guy doesn't get 100k subs on his channel. He literally doesnt deserve. It also baffles me that Eric and the Iceberg allow him to be on their podcast every wednesday.
@@DrSamwpepper I like watching Eric's videos, but he is such a meatrider towards the bad things that has hurt NASCAR. He is WAY too SOFT on them. I would love to see him harsh and critical, but not in a cussing or yelling way, obviously.
I used to be a fan of his. But he's become a massive attention seeker who loves to start drama on twitter. Being apart of that fox segment prior to the Atlanta race last year took his ego to another level.
Instant subscribe. You did your work. You were thorough. And you felt the need to do this because every other attempt failed. If this is the quality you can make on your first upload. I cant wait what you will do in the future. I don't care if the quality isn't on par with other bigger channels. The facts and sources make it proper. And the quality will come with every upload. Keep it up. And i hope this takes off. (With 22k views it already kinda goes.)
He legit makes me want to make professional videos, already toying around with a few ideas, nothing concrete yet but yeah, he’s such a Wikipedia merchant and he’s such a wuss when helpful and genuine criticism is given to him.
Great video. You should look into Depressed Ginger. Super similar situation. Man made his living plagiarizing articles on Wikipedia word-for-word, then double downed on it when called out, and even refused to acknowledge it or called it a hit piece. Absolutely sickening.
And Deperessed Ginger Has lately been doing more and more political crap where he is basically reading poles done basically wording his videos as if he wants Trump to win but is doing a bait and switch in video in hopes of getting people to watch who are MAGA Trump fans but every sport has been boycott by the most hardcore of MAGA crowed who need to see race his year will be closer win or loss or ether side then any race in history or a blowout for Democrats depending on some rulings and changes forced by some states if they get done in time, so they will never see his videos. I only know because I asked him personally and he said was to lure in MAGA Republicans and then he promptly deleted his comment we had on matter 30--1 hour later.
Is this why Darian left the Nascar Weekly Podcast? The explanation by Eric and the others is that "He is leaving the podcast to focus more on his content." Maybe he's gonna address this and make better content without plagiarizing? 🤔
I remember when he said that Ricky Stenhouse’s 2019 season was atrocious because fastenal tried to take down his video about the 2018 season being bad. The video was called “The Fastenal Racing Curse”
I love how blocks everyone on twitter who calls him out on his bs after he said he’d “do better”. I used to like Darian and his content a lot, but it’s just sad to see him not care anymore.
@@Crussell04 yeah like imagine being in politics in general regardless if you are left and right lmao. Ryan’s a huge loser for that and a baby. I hope he stops making videos
Also you should call out MMCS for not only making NASCAR compilations out of laziness, but he’s been deleting those videos due to demonetization and re-upload them when he gets his monetizations back. His videos are so clickbaity with clickbait titles and thumbnails and re-uses the same clips over and over and cover and over again. He’s also lazy at responding to comments. He’s been very annoying for 2 years and he deserves to be called out for it to actually make actual effort videos like his documentary videos, stop motions, and NR2003 videos. His compilations are terrible and he’s just a greedy “content creator”. The worst part was that he had his channel deleted before and still made the same crap. I think he even a “NASCAR MOMENTS” channel to do the same thing.
@@bruhtrain01 the viewers just let him be. I don’t have a problem with Compilation videos as long as there’s some effort. He is just greedy on not only making money on other people’s videos, but takes them down when there’s no money and posts them again when he gets revenue back. That’s just so scummy and I don’t understand why he hasn’t been called out on it. I want to see him put effort on videos again. I’m not rooting for him to fail, but he’s choosing to be greedy in the laziest way possible. It’s a shame, he’s good at making effort videos, he’s just lazy and greedy.
@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT He was one of those prank channels from back in the day who would keep re-uploading the same videos over and over again when they hit their peak to try to get cheap views for profit. Similar to MMCS here, but on a much larger and scummier scale.
As someone who watches Darian, I will say, the plagarism is concerning. I think if he's able to come clean and cite his sources in future videos, that would be good. That's just in my opinion, though.
The worst part of his social media persona is when he gets into political topics. He had a meltdown on Twitter before the 2022 All Star Race because Greg Abbott was the honorary starter, he posted a terrible take of the overturning of Roe v Wade on Twitter, he gaslit the guy who hijacked Bubba's radio last year at the end of his video about it (JettMDK did something similar), and of course the Tanner Gray incident as you mentioned in the video. If he wants to be a true journalist, he not only needs to cite his sources but also stay neutral on controversial topics whether if he agrees with them or not.
In all fairness as a resident of Texas, getting Greg Abbott as the honorary starter is really scraping the bottom of the barrel 😂. Was nobody else in the entire state available to come to the track that day lol. Jest aside, as someone who originally wanted to be a journalist I agree about trying to stay as objective as possible when reporting on something.
I'd be really curious to know what BFM's "bad take" on the overturning Roe v Wade was, y'know the decision that has endangered many women's lives? Greg Abbott is not a good guy. And it sure sounds like you're implicitly defending the guy who told Wallace to "go back where he came from" I don't like BFM, to be clear. He's an unprofessional plagerist
@@jacobbolee7037 I am not. I’m just saying that although what that guy did was wrong, it is also wrong to label any Bubba haters as racists without proof. Most of Bubba’s haters actually like Rajah based on the reactions I’ve seen from his win.
I've been waiting for your video since I uploaded my take on the ordeal. This has all just been mounting and the standard was set the moment that HBomberGuy and JaguarGator9 uploaded videos talking about these problems. And it's time for people to speak out. Great video dude! 👍
Thanks for making this video. I have been watching his videos for years now and have been a nascar fan since 1998. I used to respect his work but now will never watch any of his videos. Keep up the good work
this isn’t related but what’s with these new NASCAR channels popping out of nowhere making video essays and stuff, it’s not the bot channels either it’s an invasion of these new youtubers throwing their videos out and somehow blowing up even though they’ve only been on the platform for a week or two, and they’ll always have some cookie cutter name like the daily (blank) or above the (blank) something like that.
@@thtautisticgamer Semi AI where the runner of channel gives an AI voice bot prompt of what the person running channel are going to have AI program say.
A bit of an update. BFM live-streamed yesterday giving people an update. While BFM took some blame for the incident, it wasn’t full blame he took. He still acted like people made a bigger deal out of it than necessary and called those who called him out trolls. He even has his mods time others out who called him out. The Arca stuff, though, I should mention that he did correct himself on the second video he made on Arca, now whether or not he had a conversation with Charlie Krall, I can’t make a judgement call on.
I’ve stopped watching anything he’s associated with, including Eric, Iceberg & Danny Bs weekly podcast. Dude is super immature, annoying and a plagiarist. It’s sad too, because I truly enjoy Eric, Iceberg and Danny B, but I’m not going to give any support to anything that directly impacts BFM.
@@likedislike5187 Interesting that they got rid of his points, I just thought they were still keeping track on his points but he wasn't there. That means he might really be leaving for good, unless he changes his content and comes back. Not sure.
@@RJLightning68exposed as a p@do back in like 2020-2021 and didn't acknowledge it and changed his channels name to NASCAR extra to avoid being called out again
The dude at 5:20 was a wannabe reporter who was notorious for reporting false information. His most recent one was reporting that the SHR hauler crashed going to phoenix.... on the I-10 E in texas... I wouldn't take his word on a lot of stuff.
Hah, so he was the one who coined the "Tiger Woods of NASCAR" way back then, sounds about right. I also like how he fails at plagiarism, like saying 21 degree banking when the article says 31 degree. You had one job, read, and you couldn't even do that correct
I once was watching a stream that BFM was a part of and I heard him say, after a wreck filled Truck race, "When did the Truck series become Arca with all the wrecking?"
I respect BFM as a UA-camr and as an individual. My big issue is that he is a lightning rod for controversy in the NASCAR and UA-cam community. There is a reason why I prefer Michael Murez, SlapShoes, and Iceberg. I never heard of them stealing quotes from articles and making a mockery of the NASCAR UA-cam community.
I never liked dealing with media of any sort for my 20 years driving. Except photographers... They're the cool ones. Darian needs a big dose of humble pie. That child doesnt quite understand there are much MUCH bigger and influential people in racing and racing media than him. One call can get you seriously blackballed... I would know. A close friend of mine is barred from media credentials for all World Racing Group sanctioned races...
*Fires open Wikipedia* Ctrl C + Ctrl V *insert the same insufferable outro for every video* "once again that'll do for another video, this has been black flags matter" profit
Makes sense why I’ve never liked his stuff. When you plagiarize and change words here and there, you run into the choppy, unappealing tone of his videos and the weird grammatical errors like “led them to selling off the race site” the awkwardness of that phrase because of the lack of adjustment for agreement is terrible and makes it obvious it’s plagiarized.
Honestly, he has started to being very annoying and I will tell that if you "plagiarize", you lose all creditably in making content. I found it stupid that he said that Sam Hornish Jr was a NASCAR Bust but hours later changed it to Cup Series Bust. I've started to dislike what he says because it's just stolen articles for a quick story.. PS: I didn't know you were No Context NASCAR on Twitter?
It’d be so easy to apologize for this crap. Because who actually gives a shit if you plagiarize Wikipedia or LA times? Just say you were wrong and put more effort into at least paraphrasing the passages. This could’ve all been avoided
@@Dougie1969 I understand trying to do outreach in that way but giving it to a guy like him is a waste and makes the program look bad. Like when a hot girl gets a ride in good equipment because she’s hot but can’t drive, it sets women in NASCAR back a decade every time.
6:18 I guess that NASCAR In-Season tournament video "NASCAR Fans need to calm down" video he recently made where he says that "The NBA In-Season Tournament was a success" was no coincidence because he's probably a LeBron fan. Regardless, the fact that he said that without mentioning that people had a problem with the Los Angeles Lakers winning the In-Season Tournament (they in my opinion shouldn't have won plus it should have been for teams that didn't make the NBA Playoffs) motivated me to find a video criticizing him. Lo and behold, I found you without even trying to. I also didn't know he plagiarized out in the open word for word bar for bar. Safe to say i will unsub from Darian/Black Flags Matter and The Iceberg.
@@v.k.rt.m.6030 He has collaborated with him, but the iceberg is great! And he doesn’t do any of the bad stuff BFM did. Unsubscribing from him just because he did a colab with BFM wouldn’t be fair
If you're Alex Bowman fan, Imagine that Darian Gilliam on Twitter calling my or your favorite driver Alex Bowman “the worst driver at Hendrick Motorsports ever for a reason." (Tbh Bowman made a dumb move at Darlington to block Suarez 3 times and both wreck) The entire NASCAR community and Bowman fans on Twitter roasted him. Then an ARCA driver Zachary Tinkle well said on his tweet 13:16 I said after that tweet: Jesus man, Darian has become unbearable and lost my respect after this. and now the entire Nascar community on Twitter once again has exposed Darian Gilliam has made plagiarism videos using Wikipedia. I cannot believe it.
It’s a damn shame that Darian has done plagiarism while being part of the “NASCAR Media”. I’m guilty of plagiarism in my early works of Racing Stories, but at least I don’t “work” for the actual professional media stuff I do to videos for fun and I love to share my passion for racing. (EDIT: and yes I’ve gotten better with researches and gave credit. I forgot to mention that) Darian can either be a real man and “media worker” and own up to his plagiarist and learn from it, or he can hide like a coward, plagiarize, and continue to ruin his credibility. This is an embarrassing look for the Motorsports Community in general since he’s the only UA-camr (and NASCAR Weekly Podcast gang) to expand racing videos that isn’t NASCAR.
yeah i mean, being a nascar fan is mainly community. so its really sucks when one of the biggest channels is just an plagiarized audiobook for nascar stuff
@@DroMeetsPhoto He’s almost exactly like BFM, extremely low effort content, and whines constantly even though he gets to go to about half the races each year.
@@anemicroyalty8764 eh that's your opinion then really. I enjoy his videos & post race streams. I'll admit that may make me biased in his favor (he's the 1 out of the 4 NWP guys whose content I consume the most of). If he's plagiarising or doing unethical things to create content that's one thing. If you just dislike him as a content creator or a person then you have absolutely every right to by all means; but I personally don't think he deserves a call out video for what you just listed. Either way we're all entitled to our opinions so I'm not faulting you for yours. Thanks for the quick response though 🤙🏻
This isn't something I take pride in mentioning, but Darian isn't the only Content Creator on YT for NASCAR who is completely out of control and unhinged And to that, all I will say is this: Rajah Caruth supported a Racist Meme at My ExPeNsE
Haven't watched the video yet but I'm always disappointed when one of his videos draws me in with the title/subject matter and then it just ends up being a boring 11 minute crash compilation
Honestly, checks out. After watching the NWP, you can tell the guy doesn’t know how to talk. Was the worst part. Loud…obnoxious, and would talk over the others. Knows NASCAR just not professional
Darian has some potential to become a decent creator but when you force yourself to create weekly videos without proper research and writing is where the quality will suffer. Should've take more time to at least create a decent video.
BFM acting like he singlehandedly got Jason Jacoby sent to prison is one of the funniest things he ever did
Austin Ogonoski was the one who first exposed Jason Jacoby but BFM just jumped on the bandwagon.
@@LOLRacing06austin is a transphobe and doesn’t deserve any credit
Ironically, he kind of did.
My YT channel is very small and I approached BFM wondering if he could get the saga to more eyes.
There are enough industry types who watch his content that could push things along a little further.
A few NASCAR teams held security briefings about him; I personally was contacted by JRM.
Some viewers saw the videos and took it upon themselves to documente Jacoby's threats/stalking for a few months.
When the police started reaching out, they were floored at how organized everything was and it was relatively easy for them to understand the synopsis of the situation.
@@AustinOgonoski 'My YT channel is very small'
I wonder what degenerate shit you did to make that happen...
Met the dude at IRP last year and he seems like a nice guy in person, shame his ego gets the best of him online
I don’t doubt that he’s a nice person with a good heart, just wish he reflected that online.
@@ThatNOSGuyi do think hes just being semi-serious when he says his outrageous comments and usually take it with a grain of salt
@@housesports000
Ehhhh...at that point you're treading a fine line between being some attention whore like where he flexed about meeting an engagement quota after getting banned by the ARCA garage for being a clown and just being Stephen A Smith. S1ap and Elly mostly get away with it because their stuff is so high effort and wacky, but all BFG really does is read statistics
The biggest joke BFM made was him saying "NASCAR UA-camrs will be in the Hall of Fame" and he acts like this constantly
If that were to happen, BFM wouldn't even be allowed on the ballot
I'd rather Michael Mrucz, and ByteBlox on the NASCAR Hall of Fame ballot over BFM, and I'm still building my Ro-Racing UA-cam viewership tbh....
But, UA-cam is gonna be UA-cam. 🤷♂️
@@StevenWatters not michael mcchicken
@@StevenWatters Mrucz and RealRadMan are the best 2.
@@Crussell04realradman?!
He can’t name 90% of the current cup series drivers….
100% agree with what Nathan said. Met Darian twice, 2021 COTA and 23 Nashville. Both times he was super nice and I could tell he was really happy to see fans recognize him, but man. He’s fallen off a cliff. I wish him the best, cause it’s clear he has the passion for the sport, but at some point, you get enough chances.
I thought this video was satire. I didn’t know BFM actually did this stuff
IKR? So did I.
I thought it would have been an April's Fools video, but it was published April 2nd. Had no idea Darian did this stuff.
@@rocksreviewsreactions337 literally my thought process because I saw Darren’s April fools f1 vid so I was like, this guy must be joking. Then I saw a couple more vids and went “hol up”
I said this before in another video talking about this, but the issues with Darian go much further than just plagiarism
Because it's been stated by a driver in the ARCA Series that Darian has been Blacklisted from having Garage Access at every track that ARCA holds races at for his blatantly false statement that NASCAR bought out ARCA due to "Financial Trouble" even though that isn't the case
And Darian has even been blacklisted from having garage access from several tracks by NASCAR as well so that goes to prove that the people in the industry know who he is and (largely) do not trust him.
Ok I know the ARCA part is true but is there any source regarding the NASCAR part? Don't remember him being blacklisted from some NASCAR tracks garages...but if true then deserved.
I throw a little shade because he was heavily associated with Jason Jacoby for a while.
Let's not forget the time he and some of the other UA-cam guys got media passes to a race and all Darian did was walk around and try to get drivers to rub a Buddha statue's belly for "luck"
In my honest eyes, Darian is just the worst person... 1. I can bet he's a Bubba fan, that's pretty obvious and 2. He's not only been the worst at stealing shit but, he's also been posting "Oh here's another Darian Gilliam jinx" like my guy, it's getting very fucking old when we're trying to watch some good racing, and you're ruining these races, seen it multiple times on Twitter, this should honestly stop man. It's fucking ridiculous.
Oh so he's a liar too huh? Looks like he's a plagiarizer AND a liar.
The timing on this was interesting because I started making NASCAR videos just before he first got called out, so I've been careful to cite my sources whenever I need to do research.
I checked out your videos. They’re pretty solid, you should definitely talk about some different racing topics though.
@@Eeeeethan09 I'm kinda tied to my everything you need to know series for the time being, but I've got some other video ideas for off weeks and when tracks start repeating.
Really hopes this video takes off, BFM needs to either make a change or leave youtube completely
Agreed
Most of us actually agree with this statement tbh...
UA-cam should either ban BFM, or the companies that BFM stole this shit from should actually sue him, or cops should arrest him.
Either way, he's mainly a NASCAR UA-cam Bust imo, no cap.
@@StevenWatters NASCAR and Indy Bust.
@@StevenWattersArrested for plagiarism? Okay, chill out dude.
@@StevenWattersyou had me until COPS?! Are you 10? Wtfff 😂🤦♂️
I had absolutely zero idea that he plagiarized in his videos. I barely even noticed. If only he cited his sources… If only.
Me either…
Here is a hole’s reference
If only if only the woodpecker sighs
"NASCAR Busts:"
my dirty ahh mind 💀😭
Boy hell naw
Nahh☠️🙏😭
Man why you gotta have a video of Kasey Kahne spinning out on a loop in the backdrop
2 words for why
Kasey Kahne
That’s why. Enough said
Lol
I was a fan of BFM, until I left a comment of criticism and the guy put me on blast on his Twitter account. If you are a content creator, you represent your brand. You can't just act like a middle-schooler on social media. He can have a redemption arc, but he really needs to be more professional on his social media sites if he wants to be taken seriously.
I bet he’ll want this taken down dudes a clown 🤡🤡
Nah, that's insulting clowns of the Ronald McDonald and Joker varieties.
@@trevortuominen8233Krusty the Klown is also an acceptable clown.
@@Aaron-ce2yq Bozo the Clown too.
@@Aaron-ce2yq Don't forget Pennywise 😂
@@trevortuominen8233 Homie Da Clown from In living Color.
NASCAR certainly doesn't need to be giving out media credentials to plagiarists. This reflects on them, too.
Mainly whoever owns Pheonix or is it Las Vegas raceway gives out more and more passes and you see who is going to said place in media even ones like The Iceberg or Eric Estep are avoiding Media here because some dim person is doing what Black Flags Matters is doing or people in media trying to make motorsports look bad so they can take credit for taking down a whole industry of motor sports they see as a waste of resources.
Or better yet don’t give any UA-camr media passes or VIP passes because they’re a UA-camr.
@@nikhook9430 Yes unless person is willing to sign a waiver of rules and regulations saying what a media person can and cannot say/do like other media have to follow.
Very well made video. I will admit I made some mistakes addressing this situation in the past but I hope that he takes the time to do some reflection and improve as a person.
After how he treated you 4 years ago, I don't really see that happening
@@MotorsportsFan17 How about not ruining the most mature comment here
I thought this was going to be a meme video because of the NASCAR Busts thing in the title, but damn I didn't know BFM was like this.
BFM is a joke. Thank you for posting this.
I seriously hope this guy doesn't get 100k subs on his channel. He literally doesnt deserve. It also baffles me that Eric and the Iceberg allow him to be on their podcast every wednesday.
Darian started the podcast, he can't be removed sadly.
It baffles me how Eric even has 200k. He's the AEW mark of NASCAR. Feeds in the BS and somehow NASCAR is convinced he speaks for all NASCAR fans.
@@Tylnorton Eric is a nice guy but good lord the dude is definitely WAY to easy on NASCAR.
@@DrSamwpepper I like watching Eric's videos, but he is such a meatrider towards the bad things that has hurt NASCAR. He is WAY too SOFT on them.
I would love to see him harsh and critical, but not in a cussing or yelling way, obviously.
I hope he gets 100k.
i love seeing autists get mad like this
I used to be a fan of his. But he's become a massive attention seeker who loves to start drama on twitter. Being apart of that fox segment prior to the Atlanta race last year took his ego to another level.
Instant subscribe. You did your work. You were thorough. And you felt the need to do this because every other attempt failed.
If this is the quality you can make on your first upload. I cant wait what you will do in the future.
I don't care if the quality isn't on par with other bigger channels. The facts and sources make it proper. And the quality will come with every upload.
Keep it up. And i hope this takes off. (With 22k views it already kinda goes.)
He legit makes me want to make professional videos, already toying around with a few ideas, nothing concrete yet but yeah, he’s such a Wikipedia merchant and he’s such a wuss when helpful and genuine criticism is given to him.
do it, stop pussyfooting around it and do it.
damn the way it comes back full circle at the end wow
Great video. You should look into Depressed Ginger. Super similar situation. Man made his living plagiarizing articles on Wikipedia word-for-word, then double downed on it when called out, and even refused to acknowledge it or called it a hit piece. Absolutely sickening.
Yeah his content is bad but I feel like if you get on to him enough he may end it. So I feel it’s best to let him be
And Deperessed Ginger Has lately been doing more and more political crap where he is basically reading poles done basically wording his videos as if he wants Trump to win but is doing a bait and switch in video in hopes of getting people to watch who are MAGA Trump fans but every sport has been boycott by the most hardcore of MAGA crowed who need to see race his year will be closer win or loss or ether side then any race in history or a blowout for Democrats depending on some rulings and changes forced by some states if they get done in time, so they will never see his videos. I only know because I asked him personally and he said was to lure in MAGA Republicans and then he promptly deleted his comment we had on matter 30--1 hour later.
And somehow I keep watching him😂he knows how to get me to hit click on his vids
Is this why Darian left the Nascar Weekly Podcast? The explanation by Eric and the others is that "He is leaving the podcast to focus more on his content." Maybe he's gonna address this and make better content without plagiarizing? 🤔
wait, BFM left the NWP officially?
@@migokblee
I mean, he hasn't been there the last few weeks, so not really sure.
He left and isn’t coming back to NWP
I remember when he said that Ricky Stenhouse’s 2019 season was atrocious because fastenal tried to take down his video about the 2018 season being bad.
The video was called “The Fastenal Racing Curse”
2:23 For me his biggest crime in those 10 seconds is the way he pronounced “basilar”
Hbomberguy really unknowingly started a trend of calling out these scumbags
Bro just spawned and cooked the greatest video of all time
Keep it up
No way😂 beef in the nascar YT community is somethin I never thought I'd see
I love how blocks everyone on twitter who calls him out on his bs after he said he’d “do better”. I used to like Darian and his content a lot, but it’s just sad to see him not care anymore.
all I can say is that karma will go around
Who woulda thought that Ryan Holman wouldn't even be in the top 10 worst people in the fandom.
Well I think he is up there as one of the worst people out there
Ryan Holman is still a garbage hardcore liberal coward and crybaby
It was fun triggering woke Ryan Holman
@@Crussell04 yeah like imagine being in politics in general regardless if you are left and right lmao.
Ryan’s a huge loser for that and a baby. I hope he stops making videos
@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT I lean far right and enjoy triggering lefties likes ryan.
Also you should call out MMCS for not only making NASCAR compilations out of laziness, but he’s been deleting those videos due to demonetization and re-upload them when he gets his monetizations back. His videos are so clickbaity with clickbait titles and thumbnails and re-uses the same clips over and over and cover and over again. He’s also lazy at responding to comments.
He’s been very annoying for 2 years and he deserves to be called out for it to actually make actual effort videos like his documentary videos, stop motions, and NR2003 videos. His compilations are terrible and he’s just a greedy “content creator”.
The worst part was that he had his channel deleted before and still made the same crap. I think he even a “NASCAR MOMENTS” channel to do the same thing.
What's worse is when they talk over them. I have no problem with Compilation videos but his are repetitive.
@@bruhtrain01 the viewers just let him be.
I don’t have a problem with Compilation videos as long as there’s some effort. He is just greedy on not only making money on other people’s videos, but takes them down when there’s no money and posts them again when he gets revenue back. That’s just so scummy and I don’t understand why he hasn’t been called out on it.
I want to see him put effort on videos again. I’m not rooting for him to fail, but he’s choosing to be greedy in the laziest way possible.
It’s a shame, he’s good at making effort videos, he’s just lazy and greedy.
@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YTSo he basically pulled a SoFloAntonio? Yeah that's kind of scummy 😐
@@HeathNation2465 a who now?
@@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT He was one of those prank channels from back in the day who would keep re-uploading the same videos over and over again when they hit their peak to try to get cheap views for profit. Similar to MMCS here, but on a much larger and scummier scale.
I personally blame his English teacher for passing him
As someone who watches Darian, I will say, the plagarism is concerning. I think if he's able to come clean and cite his sources in future videos, that would be good. That's just in my opinion, though.
Surprisingly not uncommon. Count Dankula is another that just reads Wikipedia articles.
The worst part of his social media persona is when he gets into political topics. He had a meltdown on Twitter before the 2022 All Star Race because Greg Abbott was the honorary starter, he posted a terrible take of the overturning of Roe v Wade on Twitter, he gaslit the guy who hijacked Bubba's radio last year at the end of his video about it (JettMDK did something similar), and of course the Tanner Gray incident as you mentioned in the video. If he wants to be a true journalist, he not only needs to cite his sources but also stay neutral on controversial topics whether if he agrees with them or not.
In all fairness as a resident of Texas, getting Greg Abbott as the honorary starter is really scraping the bottom of the barrel 😂. Was nobody else in the entire state available to come to the track that day lol. Jest aside, as someone who originally wanted to be a journalist I agree about trying to stay as objective as possible when reporting on something.
I'd be really curious to know what BFM's "bad take" on the overturning Roe v Wade was, y'know the decision that has endangered many women's lives? Greg Abbott is not a good guy. And it sure sounds like you're implicitly defending the guy who told Wallace to "go back where he came from"
I don't like BFM, to be clear. He's an unprofessional plagerist
Are you defending the guy who hijacked Bubba Wallace's radio and told him to "go back to where he came from"?
@@jacobbolee7037 I am not. I’m just saying that although what that guy did was wrong, it is also wrong to label any Bubba haters as racists without proof. Most of Bubba’s haters actually like Rajah based on the reactions I’ve seen from his win.
All of those political takes are 100% on point. Not everyone is a weirdo who wants to control women’s bodies.
I've been waiting for your video since I uploaded my take on the ordeal. This has all just been mounting and the standard was set the moment that HBomberGuy and JaguarGator9 uploaded videos talking about these problems. And it's time for people to speak out. Great video dude! 👍
Honestly I find it hard how sourcing your material will allow the reporters to allow you to keep the video if you read off the whole article
Thanks for making this video. I have been watching his videos for years now and have been a nascar fan since 1998. I used to respect his work but now will never watch any of his videos. Keep up the good work
My guess is he thinks it's easier to get caught w/out citing video sources rather than text sources.
He’s a clown and has been for years, hope he stops doing this kinda stuff because his channel has potential
I unsubscribed from Black Flags Matter, and subscribed to you.
Somebody finally had the balls to make this video
this isn’t related but what’s with these new NASCAR channels popping out of nowhere making video essays and stuff, it’s not the bot channels either it’s an invasion of these new youtubers throwing their videos out and somehow blowing up even though they’ve only been on the platform for a week or two, and they’ll always have some cookie cutter name like the daily (blank) or above the (blank) something like that.
It's ai I believe, its been happening in f1 too
@@thtautisticgamer Semi AI where the runner of channel gives an AI voice bot prompt of what the person running channel are going to have AI program say.
I promoted this video on a Twitter account with 5k+ followers, not sure about those other channels though.
@@ThatNOSGuy all fine i just don’t use twitter
Glad someone is finally talking about this
This video is fantastic work. Great job on helping people see what he's actually like.
A bit of an update. BFM live-streamed yesterday giving people an update. While BFM took some blame for the incident, it wasn’t full blame he took. He still acted like people made a bigger deal out of it than necessary and called those who called him out trolls. He even has his mods time others out who called him out. The Arca stuff, though, I should mention that he did correct himself on the second video he made on Arca, now whether or not he had a conversation with Charlie Krall, I can’t make a judgement call on.
Also forgot to mention (it’s only fair I mention this), according to BFM he didn’t get his credentials revoked, he claims that’s inaccurate.
@@ic3manhe should have lost those credentials.
I did not know this thx u beasi was watching him for years and i didn't even notice now i will look at his videos noe in a different light thank u
Ice cold detective work you did the absolute right thing such a shame that guy
I’ve stopped watching anything he’s associated with, including Eric, Iceberg & Danny Bs weekly podcast. Dude is super immature, annoying and a plagiarist. It’s sad too, because I truly enjoy Eric, Iceberg and Danny B, but I’m not going to give any support to anything that directly impacts BFM.
I think they may have removed him from the show. He hasn't been on the past 2 weeks. They don't even keep track of his pick points.
@@likedislike5187
Interesting that they got rid of his points, I just thought they were still keeping track on his points but he wasn't there. That means he might really be leaving for good, unless he changes his content and comes back. Not sure.
@@rocksreviewsreactions337 I mean, I'm not sure they just haven't given us. His picks the past 2 weeks.
Glad you made this, I’ve had issues with him for years
He got so annoying on their podcast that I stopped watching or listening to it. This helped me with my decision
His most recent video is also obviously plagiarized, it’s about hornish jr and the entire first 2 minutes is the early life section on Wikipedia
Darian's really out here trying to get into an hbomberguy video
shouldve put "UA-cam Busts: Black Flags Matter
Maybe I’m just too hungover. But your mic quality kinda bothers me.
I don’t personally mind it
Lewis Flockton/NASCAR-Xtra video next? Regarding what he did to some underage fans hence his hiatus and name change?
Wait what happened to Lewis Flockton??
@@RJLightning68 He sexted minors on snapchat. When he was caught he stopped posting for a while and then came back with a nes name "NASCAR-Xtra"
@@RJLightning68exposed as a p@do back in like 2020-2021 and didn't acknowledge it and changed his channels name to NASCAR extra to avoid being called out again
I know this chanel was made for this subject, but you should really consider making more videos about Nascar this was really good
I’ve been thinking about, I might in the future!
The dude at 5:20 was a wannabe reporter who was notorious for reporting false information. His most recent one was reporting that the SHR hauler crashed going to phoenix.... on the I-10 E in texas... I wouldn't take his word on a lot of stuff.
I guess that's why he always sounds like he's reading a script
I genuinely didn’t know he did this and it’s a shame since he was such a inspiration for me
Surprised critically online children like shmeeve aren’t here trying to defend BFM ngl
Or that loser Daniel Baldwin or whatever his name is
Hah, so he was the one who coined the "Tiger Woods of NASCAR" way back then, sounds about right.
I also like how he fails at plagiarism, like saying 21 degree banking when the article says 31 degree. You had one job, read, and you couldn't even do that correct
Yes, and he even keeps spelling errors in on his own reading of articles too.
BFM is a clown but nobody can legitimately claim ownership of information that can be infinitely copied
He has that lethargic UA-cam nasal voice and i just cannot hang with that
I once was watching a stream that BFM was a part of and I heard him say, after a wreck filled Truck race, "When did the Truck series become Arca with all the wrecking?"
I got blocked by him on Twitter. I guess he doesn't want people mentioning this
This explains why his narration is so stunted and unnatural.
I respect BFM as a UA-camr and as an individual. My big issue is that he is a lightning rod for controversy in the NASCAR and UA-cam community.
There is a reason why I prefer Michael Murez, SlapShoes, and Iceberg. I never heard of them stealing quotes from articles and making a mockery of the NASCAR UA-cam community.
I really enjoy his content and he seems to be a chill guy so I hope he changes, he should at least credit the articles used.
I never liked dealing with media of any sort for my 20 years driving. Except photographers... They're the cool ones.
Darian needs a big dose of humble pie. That child doesnt quite understand there are much MUCH bigger and influential people in racing and racing media than him. One call can get you seriously blackballed...
I would know. A close friend of mine is barred from media credentials for all World Racing Group sanctioned races...
*Fires open Wikipedia*
Ctrl C + Ctrl V
*insert the same insufferable outro for every video*
"once again that'll do for another video, this has been black flags matter"
profit
literally Josh Revell too
The 4 dislikes are probably from Darian, Iceberg, DannyB and Eric Estepp aka his inner circlejerk
The 4 fraudsters
@@Crussell04 how are any of the other 3 fraudsters? 🤔
Makes sense why I’ve never liked his stuff. When you plagiarize and change words here and there, you run into the choppy, unappealing tone of his videos and the weird grammatical errors like “led them to selling off the race site” the awkwardness of that phrase because of the lack of adjustment for agreement is terrible and makes it obvious it’s plagiarized.
Honestly, he has started to being very annoying and I will tell that if you "plagiarize", you lose all creditably in making content.
I found it stupid that he said that Sam Hornish Jr was a NASCAR Bust but hours later changed it to Cup Series Bust.
I've started to dislike what he says because it's just stolen articles for a quick story..
PS: I didn't know you were No Context NASCAR on Twitter?
I mean... he isn't the only that'd probably do this. I'm honestly tired of drama like this.
Black flags matter as a yt name gives me Andrew Tate vibes. Incredibly cringe for 2024.
It’d be so easy to apologize for this crap. Because who actually gives a shit if you plagiarize Wikipedia or LA times?
Just say you were wrong and put more effort into at least paraphrasing the passages. This could’ve all been avoided
Idk why they gave him a media pass, there’s plenty of black fans that would love to actually try journalism rather than read Wikipedia and be an idiot
Why would it matter what color they are ?
@@Dougie1969 you don’t think that’s how he got it in the first place? What journalism has qualified him for it?
@@Tunda2
That's exactly my point also.
Color just shouldn't matter.
Of whoever.
Should be what the person has for talent.
@@Dougie1969 I understand trying to do outreach in that way but giving it to a guy like him is a waste and makes the program look bad. Like when a hot girl gets a ride in good equipment because she’s hot but can’t drive, it sets women in NASCAR back a decade every time.
@@Tunda2
I agree 100%
VERY UNPROFESSIONAL, DARIAN
Really well made video! Thanks for covering this
Bro I can taste the salt from the title, welcome to almost all of YT bro lol
Hope this becomes a series it'd be really refreshing
I already disliked him for his username alone. Now, like bruh. Why does anyone watch him?
Aw shit, he just uploaded an hour ago
6:18 I guess that NASCAR In-Season tournament video "NASCAR Fans need to calm down" video he recently made where he says that "The NBA In-Season Tournament was a success" was no coincidence because he's probably a LeBron fan. Regardless, the fact that he said that without mentioning that people had a problem with the Los Angeles Lakers winning the In-Season Tournament (they in my opinion shouldn't have won plus it should have been for teams that didn't make the NBA Playoffs) motivated me to find a video criticizing him. Lo and behold, I found you without even trying to.
I also didn't know he plagiarized out in the open word for word bar for bar.
Safe to say i will unsub from Darian/Black Flags Matter and The Iceberg.
Wait, why the iceberg?
@@InsaneCelery238 i swore i thought he collabed with that guy, might be misremembering though.
@@v.k.rt.m.6030 He has collaborated with him, but the iceberg is great! And he doesn’t do any of the bad stuff BFM did. Unsubscribing from him just because he did a colab with BFM wouldn’t be fair
He's continuing to do it
If you're Alex Bowman fan, Imagine that Darian Gilliam on Twitter calling my or your favorite driver Alex Bowman “the worst driver at Hendrick Motorsports ever for a reason." (Tbh Bowman made a dumb move at Darlington to block Suarez 3 times and both wreck) The entire NASCAR community and Bowman fans on Twitter roasted him. Then an ARCA driver Zachary Tinkle well said on his tweet 13:16
I said after that tweet: Jesus man, Darian has become unbearable and lost my respect after this. and now the entire Nascar community on Twitter once again has exposed Darian Gilliam has made plagiarism videos using Wikipedia. I cannot believe it.
Very unprofessional, Darian!
I’m a Truex fan and his video on his 2017 championship literally is just all his stage wins from fox and nbc and it makes me so mad
Well it’s not like I’m going to read a Wikipedia article about a random terrible nascar driver 💀💀
It’s a damn shame that Darian has done plagiarism while being part of the “NASCAR Media”.
I’m guilty of plagiarism in my early works of Racing Stories, but at least I don’t “work” for the actual professional media stuff I do to videos for fun and I love to share my passion for racing. (EDIT: and yes I’ve gotten better with researches and gave credit. I forgot to mention that)
Darian can either be a real man and “media worker” and own up to his plagiarist and learn from it, or he can hide like a coward, plagiarize, and continue to ruin his credibility.
This is an embarrassing look for the Motorsports Community in general since he’s the only UA-camr (and NASCAR Weekly Podcast gang) to expand racing videos that isn’t NASCAR.
yeah i mean, being a nascar fan is mainly community. so its really sucks when one of the biggest channels is just an plagiarized audiobook for nascar stuff
Great work! Can we get one on Iceberg next?
No, Estepp.
What does the Iceberg do that is potentially unethical? 🤔
@@DroMeetsPhoto He’s almost exactly like BFM, extremely low effort content, and whines constantly even though he gets to go to about half the races each year.
@@anemicroyalty8764 eh that's your opinion then really. I enjoy his videos & post race streams. I'll admit that may make me biased in his favor (he's the 1 out of the 4 NWP guys whose content I consume the most of). If he's plagiarising or doing unethical things to create content that's one thing. If you just dislike him as a content creator or a person then you have absolutely every right to by all means; but I personally don't think he deserves a call out video for what you just listed. Either way we're all entitled to our opinions so I'm not faulting you for yours. Thanks for the quick response though 🤙🏻
@@Tylnorton
Why Eric? He's the one of the pioneers of Nascar UA-cam content and has really good videos.
This isn't something I take pride in mentioning, but Darian isn't the only Content Creator on YT for NASCAR who is completely out of control and unhinged
And to that, all I will say is this: Rajah Caruth supported a Racist Meme at My ExPeNsE
"that woman is a clown"
-Rajah Caruth
*A few hours later*
Rajah: *wins*
That day was peak cinema.
@@DrSamwpepper Not a Rajah fan but that was... chef's kiss
I searched for & watched that video after seeing your comment.. holy shit wtf even was that 💀
@@DroMeetsPhoto I'm sorry you had to suffer from watching that.
nah, y'all are just targeting black people at this point.
Haven't watched the video yet but I'm always disappointed when one of his videos draws me in with the title/subject matter and then it just ends up being a boring 11 minute crash compilation
I haven't seen him on the weekly show with Iceberg, DannyB and Eric, I'm guessing they didn't like the negative look
16:25 that's the biggest plot twist i've ever seen
Darian supposedly now works as the motorsports journalist for CNN (just kidding)
Honestly, checks out. After watching the NWP, you can tell the guy doesn’t know how to talk. Was the worst part. Loud…obnoxious, and would talk over the others. Knows NASCAR just not professional
Darian has some potential to become a decent creator but when you force yourself to create weekly videos without proper research and writing is where the quality will suffer. Should've take more time to at least create a decent video.