I'll see you fuckers next week when "Durr Plant" is a fucking meme.
[from clip] "Durr Plant!" [IHE] You know I was joking, right?
I didn't actually want it to become a real meme.
I hate memes!
*Local Forecast ~Elevator~ fades in as IHE audibly types and clicks*
[clip] Durr Plant!
*Local Forecast ~Elevator~ plays*
So I've accidentally created the very thing I hate the most.
And I'm sure this video is only going to perpetuate and escalate the spread at
this point, but whatever I don't even care anymore.
Also, I've got another piece of drama, and a very large channel in particular to roast for
some slimy behavior on their behalf that relates to me, but more on that in a bit
my meme lovers! *Punch and squeak sound effects*
So in my video I made about...um...let's just call it
"Crikey Cameron!" (I'm not risking even mentioning it at this point because, dude,
it's not even worth it.) I made a joke comparing popular memes like
"Crikey Cameron" to making a video of me pointing my finger at a potted Peace Lily
and screaming
"durr plant". [clip] Durr Plant! [IHE] It was a reductive cynical anti-meme
that I assumed would only exist as a one-off joke highlighting
how pointless and driveling meme trends can be
But [pitched down] boy was I wrong! [normal voice] 'Cause, of course with the web being a regurgitative mess of
people desperate for attention and validation that it is, almost immediately it
spread across the internet and now has an official Know Your Meme page. Does that
mean it's a verified meme now? I really have no idea how this dumb shit works.
Someone then posted the clip on my most hated website of all time:
Vine, and it now has well over 100k loops
Well done you dummies. [Clip] Durr plant! Durr! Durr plant!
Durr! Durr plant! Durr!
The sad part is I expect there are plenty of people who have seen the "durr plant" meme
and find it funny for the exact same reasons people find "Crikey Cameron" funny,
because funny voice! Random!
[clips of various Durr Plant meme videos]
Without context there's no substance to it at all!
[being drowned out by the voice clip] Why am I even trying to explain this anyway? None of you are actually listening to the words I've said.
["Durr Plant" clips almost completely drown out IHE's voice]
["Durr Plant" clip]
Someone even went as far as to make a reddit page dedicated to Durr Plant.
Look... are you kidding me? They have streams of discussions where every single
comment ends with "Durr Plant"!
[The "Durr" part of the clip plays as each arrow points to the comments]
Of course along with that, a bunch of people have made their own videos about
the plant of Durr, [clip] which parody memes so much that they actually become
memes themselves. [a "cover" of Durr Plant] When does irony get such a pessimistic point
that, in and of itself, it becomes its own meme?
What the hell is even happening anymore!? [another "cover" of Durr Plant]
Some guy even went as far as to make a Durr Plant t-shirt, put on this crazy hat and pull
around a little cart with a bunch of Durr plants in them
What have I done?
[Remix where the Durr Plant clip is spliced in]
I've been racking my brain trying to think of ways to shut down this meme for
good, and I think I have the answer!
it's time to call upon the help of Unrelated-Copyright-Claiming-Wizard
(Who's-Most-Definitely-Not-A-Reference-To-Something-I'm-Legally-Not-Allowed-To-Talk-About)
[Not-Merlin] Yes, my master? [IHE] Yeah, do me a favor and go and shut down every video with
Durr Plant in it, will you? It's my very very valuable intellectual property that belongs to me.
How dare they use my funny and hilarious meme that I created! [Not-Merlin] I'm on it right away!
Copyright Claimius Durr Plantius [Windows error sound and fart noise]
Copyright Claimius Durr Plantius [Different Windows error sound and fart noise]
Copyright Claimius Durr Plantius [Boom and fart noise]
Thanks, totally-not-reference-you-should-look-into wizard, for helping me out with that one!
I really needed the four dollars all those videos collectively made to buy a pizza. [splat noise]
Also, I guess durr plant is very valuable intellectual property.
[IHE sniffs and burps tentatively]
[Not-Merlin] If you ever need me to abuse my power on anyone else, feel free to hit me up, baby!
[IHE] Will do, you fucking cunt.
But I may be needing your powers much sooner than expected, because dumb
internet drama in five... four.... three... two...
This just in: talentless hack blatantly steals the already unfunny Durr Plant joke!
I've never really considered myself funny enough to warrant stealing from
which makes the following even more insulting to me.
OK, so this is really confusing because I don't know who's to blame here for
stealing my shit. Because the video on Shane Dawson's channel hosted by someone
called Destery in a video titled "SAM PEPPER APOLOGY"
and the video could have easily been written by some fraud who gets paid to
shamble together videos such as this one.
So, I really- I really do not know who is to blame here, but they've very obviously
ripped me off!
take a look: [IHE: Am I just too old for this shit?!] [Destery: Like, maybe I'm just too old for this]
[D: shit, and it's just going over my head] [A: ...but to me I see no difference in something like]
[A: this and say for example...] [D: To me, I see no difference in something like this than,]
[D: say for example...] [A: I placed a potted plant in the middle of a room and then pointed at it]
[A: and just went "Durr plant!"] [D: ...like if I went outside and pointed out a tree and was like...]
[D: Wow, Tree! Woah... Wow, Tree!]
[A: Like, that's not an exaggeration: that is precisely what this shit is]
[D: Like, that's not an exaggeration: that's exactly what the shit is] [repeated slowly to emphasize nigh-verbatim plagiarism]
I feel like this is far *far* too similar to be able to claim that this is just a coincidence.
Like, while I was watching my material being read back to me in terrible
jump-cut delivery with no charisma at all, I was trying to think of ways that
this could be by accident, but everything he says in the video is exactly the way
I said it pretty much verbatim.
I don't understand why talentless joke thieves go to the energy to find other people's jokes,
straight up steal them word for word, make it worse and less funny in every
way, and even have it make no sense sometimes too.
Like, why would he say "am I too old for this"? [clip of Destery saying that]
...when this guy looks like the exact demographic
who should be enjoying the subject in question? It only kinda worked
for me, because you don't know how old I am or what I look like.
If I was showing my face, I wouldn't have said that, because it would be dumb and make no
sense and make me look like a massive asshole!
Whoever was in charge of this video made the conscious decision to change it
from a potted plant to a tree,
but they couldn't be bothered to change the rest of
what I said because I guess they don't care...
...and that would require effort and maybe a speck of initiative or creativity.
If this was some small-fry channel, I wouldn't really give as much of a shit
but it's the fact that it's Shane Dawson's channel. I guess Dawson is buds with
The Gabbie Show, who was also a dirty joke thief. I'll put a link to some evidence of
that in the description so you can check it out for yourself.
Like, no matter who's responsible,
Shane Dawson should be embarrassed for hosting and promoting this shit and this
guy Destery should also be embarrassed for hoodwinking and presenting my
purposely unfunny joke that was highlighting how terrible jokes like
"Crikey Cameron" are! You know, I was hoping to go at least one more month without
another piece of drama. But here we are!
...Crikey
[IHE repeating Durr Plant again and again]