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Bienvenidos a mi canal.
Soy D’Angelo, y hoy hablaremos de Badabun.
Except it’s going to be in English.
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So am I.
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Allow me to present the biggest YouTube channel you’ve never heard of: Badabun.
Unless of course, you have heard of them, in which case you already know that Badabun
is a mess.
But nobody in the commentary community calls them out for it because that mess is in Spanish.
But I am from San Antonio, so while I may not know Spanish, I don’t not know Spanish.
So I’m going to explain the situation because clearly I’m great at explaining things.
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So the first thing you need to know about Badabun is that their numbers are scary.
But not just their sub count.
42.8 million subscribers.
Apparently.
That’s larger than the entire population of Canada.
Just kidding.
Canada’s not real.
So if you think their sub count is weirdly high, go ahead and take a guess at how many
videos went up on their channel in the past week- 53.
They uploaded 53 videos in the past seven days.
That’s more videos than Actually Happened, Troom Troom, and WatchMojo posted this week.
Combined.
There are over 5,000 videos on their channel.
This isn’t a content farm, Badabun is a content ranch.
So with all that being said, you’ll never guess how many views they get.
Looking at the 53 videos from the past week, most of them have less than 100,000 views.
One of them only has 10,000?
They have 43 million subscribers!
I was really confused by these numbers, so I went to go look on Socialblade and oh nevermind
they get 6 million views a day.
But where are they coming from?
So I looked at their popular videos instead of their recent videos and bam. 40 million
views.
50 million views.
60 million views.
They have hundreds and hundreds of videos that have over 10 million views.
So the videos don’t do well but when the videos do well, the videos do well.
In fact, with over 15 billion total views on their channel, I found it a little weird
that I had never so much as heard of them.
I mean, had I heard of them?
Let’s see, I see a MrBeast Ripoff video; a video about sicknesses in China- I’m sure
that video has no misinformation whatsoever; a video about a speedrun.
Looks kinda fake.
Fake speedrun.
Wait, I do know these people.
I saw them in this video by Karl Jobst called “The Worst Fake Speedrun on YouTube”.
Uploaded earlier this year and racking up nearly 5 million views, the video just focused
on this one Badabun video and how the entire speedrun was faked and stolen from other creators.
But the comment section of that video is where I realized something more was going on.
“Badabun is the most hated YouTube company in Latin America”.
“On behalf of the Hispanic community, we are sorry you had to see their channel”.
“It makes me kind of happy to see them get hate internationally”.
So like . . . what did they do?
First of all, they bought their subscribers.
At least, that’s what people will tell you.
Now it’s pretty hard to prove in most cases that people bought followers, but you can
look for the warning signs.
Fast forward to the end of last year, and uh.
They lost over a million subscribers.
In a week.
The answer is yes.
They allegedly definitely bought subscribers.
I considered that it might have been a purge from YouTube, so I looked at a channel that
has a similar number of subscribers and nope.
Yep.
They bought them.
Now, with them having gotten over 15 billion views and all, Badabun definitely didn’t
buy all 42 million subscribers.
In fact, I really think they only bought a fraction of their subscribers.
But a fraction of 42 million is still over a million.
Imagine having a channel that big and still buying subs.
If I had 40 million subscribers, I would pay people to unsubscribe.
Like I love having 340,000 subscribers, I’ll love having a million.
Tomorrow.
I would love that.
But at the point where it’s enough subscribers to mobilize against another country . . . it's
a little weird.
So yeah they bought subs, whoop-di-do.
But unfortunately, I kinda just started with the least wrong thing that they did, as a
bit of a warmup.
Because they also abuse the copyright system to silence smaller creators.
“Smaller creators”.
They have 42 million subscribers, everyone’s a smaller creator.
And Badabun knows it.
They are the king of copyright strikes.
It’s to the point where if someone gets a copyright strike on their channel, people
might actually joke around like.
“Oop.
It might have been Badabun”.
Like it’s funny, but then when you think about it it’s like- why hasn’t YouTube
done anything about this?
Now it’s hard to find information and proof about this on YouTube, because, and I know
this may surprise you, but Badabun copyright strikes videos about Badabun copyright striking
videos.
But I found proof and I’m going to show it in . . . this video.
You might want to finish watching this pretty quickly.
First off, we have the channel El Chapucero, run by Nacho Rodriguez.
So this Nacho guy has 1 million subscribers, which is of course a lot, but not a giant
channel by any means.
According to him, Badabun removed one of his videos that they didn’t like and gave his
entire channel a copyright strike.
And he had the screenshot to back it up.
Now, that’s the only concrete fact I saw regarding Nacho.
In fact, the whole thing is like a drama situation that I don’t want to bring into this video.
Basically he and some guy who may or may not work for Badabun were beefing, and it resulted
in this strike.
So whether or not Nacho was right or wrong in his video, you can’t just go around removing
peoples’ videos that you don’t agree with.
The next concrete evidence I have surrounds the YouTuber Wismichu.
Now his channel seems a lot more normal than El Chapucero, and a lot bigger.
10 million subscribers on YouTube.
And Badabun still took down his video.
It looks like he has this series kinda like what I’m trying to do in this video, where
he makes commentary videos that are about real situations.
So here he is tweeting a link to a video he made about Badabun, but when I follow that
link?
It’s gone.
This is when I started to realize the scale of Badabun’s wrongdoings.
And nobody’s talking about this!
In English.
A lot of people are talking about it in Spanish.
Now, good thing for Wismichu, he was able to re-upload the video to his second channel,
and he even made a follow-up video that’s still there, but still.
Then, just when I thought this was the craziest this channel could get, they went after a
channel with 17 million subscribers.
17 million.
It’s this channel called Tu Cosmopolis, and according to them, Badabun didn’t just
strike them once, but twice.
One more and your entire channel gets taken down.
Tu Cosmopolis uploaded a video about it, which is still there.
And that video does have over 5 million views, but relatively speaking, that’s not that
many at all.
I think it’s safe to say that the vast majority of people on YouTube have no idea that the
biggest Spanish language channel is misusing the copyright system to bully all the other
Spanish-language channels.
But now you know.
So that does raise one final question for me.
What content are they claiming?
Like what is it on Badabun’s channel that is worth fighting tooth and nail over.
//TITLE: THE CONTENT It’s not even Badabun’s own content.
That’s right, one of the biggest channels on YouTube steals other people’s content.
Now, to be sure, Badabun “makes” the videos, but a lot of these videos are remakes.
One of the biggest examples is from a YouTube animator named Conoce a Arnold.
He has a video called “what if you were buried alive”, and that video has . . . 8
million views?
Okay wait.
I might steal his video too.
But no, Badabun uploads this pathetic recreation of his video.
It’s the really the saddest thing to watch.
Just a frame-by-frame ripoff of one person’s work by a giant company.
And on top of that, he has 8 million views.
And they got more than that.
There’s other cases of that happening on their channel, but even when it’s their
“original content” it’s still very derivative.
They have a series that’s a blatant MrBeast rip-off featuring this guy, except this guy
doesn’t even have half the camera presence of MrBeast.
And that’s saying a lot.
This guy is like MrBeast but if MrBeast made everyone around him uncomfortable.
Including the viewers.
They remake entire video concepts from him.
They have this other series that’s just a rip-off of TheRichest, where they just look
at the most expensive items owned by celebrities.
They even have one about Kobe Bryant’s most expensive items, which makes me feel weird.
There’s nothing wrong with the video but the timing of the video is definitely wrong.
They have a Troom Troom rip-off where they just . . . rip-off Troom Troom, that one’s
pretty self-explanatory.
I mean the thing is, making videos similar to that of another creator isn’t usually
copying.
But when you’re uploading over 50 videos a week all in different genres, you’re definitely
just copying everyone.
Also their editing style is unwatchable.
If I see one more zoom.
If I hear one more woosh.
I’m not going to lie to you, the copyright strikes were disappointing, but the editing
is just plain unforgivable.
So now, you too have been cursed with the story of Badabun.
And the moral of that story is subscribe to my second channel, it’s linked down below.
I upload much more frequently there, and while they may not be as fancy as this video, at
Ieast I’m not stealing other people’s content and using the copyright system to
silence people.
En inglés.
Anyway, looks like I’ve gotten ten minutes of content out of this, so leave a like, tell
me what you think, and subscribe if you haven’t already.
Thank you for watching and a big thank you to my 340,000 subscribers.
Okay bye.