Yet it was the fact that fans were thinking Beanus was theirs which sort of pissed me off.
They've also belatedly added a link to Digi's original video, which I appreciate, albeit with the disclaimer that Simon had just dressed up as the character "For Halloween".
which Simon did, after Bouphe got involved (though he'd already linked to our new Beanus merch on Redbubble, for which I'm grateful). I tweeted at Simon and Yogscast to give us a link and maybe retweet our original video. kind of unfair? Not least because - judging from comments - a lot of their fans had seemed to have missed the whole "Beanus is the intellectual property of Mr Biffo" comments, and took it as given that he was their character. The first I knew is when people on Twitter told me about it.īouphe, a fan of Digi, general good egg, and part of the Yogscast team, kindly posted links back to Digi in the chat, but when the Twitch stream was uploaded - probably automatically - in its entirety to YouTube, there was no link to the Digi YouTube channel or. Regrettably, I'd not been contacted about any of it beforehand. And they kind of did mention me a couple of times in the two-and-a-half-hour stream, albeit in a sort of bare minimum, throwaway fashion, I felt.Ĭertainly throwaway next to the presence of Simon-dressed-as-Beanus throughout the entire stream, during which his stupid catchphrases and characterisation were used wholesale, including during a moment where he was involved in a nod to their sponsor.
I sort of wrongly assumed they'd give ample shout-outs to the original source of Beanus. They're a huge network - Digi is dwarfed by their millions of viewers - and I found it flattering. I can't be arsed with drama, and last night some of you will be aware that I found myself in the middle of a load of it.īasically, here's what happened: a couple of days ago, the folk on Yogscast did a live stream in which one of them, Simon, chose to portray that absurd new Digitiser character Beanus.
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