THE SOFLO FACEBOOK RANT

'Wow, Ethan. Great moves! Keep it up, proud of you.' Most of you are probably already familiar with the famous trickster, prankster and trickster SoFloAntonio. He's been one of our favorite memes for a long time, probably over a year ago, when he made one of the big jokes about him in the malls: when he would go to the malls and ask the girls if they were going to have sexual relations. , uh, this New Year. ANTONIO: 'Sorry! How old is he? ' ANTONIO: 'This- this man here, he's kind of single...' ANTONIO: '...he doesn't have any girls for tonight.

You below?' Now, SoFlo isn't just known for making shitty videos. His fame probably comes from his Facebook page, which is the most notorious and prolific "filibuster," also known as "stealing other people's content and posting it on Facebook." Most people consider this world to run on currency, and SoFlo has stated that it is not the currency, but the "dots of the Internet," that dictate the free market. Now, he was browsing Facebook, a couple of nights ago. and I went to check our parody page, 'Soflobro', that we did about SoFloAntonio's escapades on Facebook, and sure enough, wouldn't you know it, it was gone.

My favorite part of that process was that we received no notification, no message, not even an option to appeal; It just disappeared. Zippo-zango, bingo-bango, bob is your baby uncle. 88,000 likes. In fact, even more than our Facebook page, ironically or, not ironically, I don't know which. But anyway, that... that's dead now. Our baby is already dead. And let's take a moment to bow our heads in reverence at the death of a great meme here, so... just give me a second. “This is definitely me, sitting in my chair,” “working on my computer, in an intro before the SoFloAntonio video.” ANTONIO: 'What's up guys, SoFloAntonio?

I'm here with...' 'I'm not going to lie, this is me sitting on the toilet,' 'doing a SoFlo intro to a SoFlo video.' "I won't lie about it." 'Did I make this video? Is this original? ANTONIO: 'I wrote it down. What did you choose? '' ANTONIO: 'What's going on guys, SoFloAntonio? I'm here with PrankInvasion...' Now I want to say, 'whatever', you know? The grieving process... it hurts, you have to carry the pain with you, and you know, you carry it everywhere you go, but... you move on with your life. But I noticed... ...a day later, browsing Facebook, that SoFlo, the real SoFlo, not our parody page, was showing up on... my feed.

And I say to myself, 'That's strange,' because I've certainly never liked the SoFlo page, I have more respect for my own life: I'm 30, too young to die of cancer! Then I go to Hila's page. And wouldn't you know it, she liked it too. How odd. I go to the subreddit, our h3h3 subreddit, I see a post: 'Hey, someone suddenly liked the SoFlo page, but they know they didn't like it before?' Increasingly rarer. And now, here you can see, it's not just a conspiracy theory. 850 likes: 'If you previously liked Soflobro on Facebook, the page has been removed.' "You will now have automatically liked the actual SoFlo page as well." This isn't a conspiracy: they actually shut down our SoFlo hating parody page and moved all the likes to SoFlo.

In a broad act of justice. And let me thank you, Facebook, for finally putting your foot down on people who steal content, like Soflobro. That wasn't right. And thanks for supporting Facebook Pages that matter, like SoFloAntonio. Because people who like Soflobro are bound to like SoFlo, and that was a very classy touch on your part, Facebook, and thank you so much for taking care of those people. You know, SoFlo used to brag about how he played chess while everyone else played checkers, and I finally understand what he meant, you know? They checkmated me so hard. It's a great irony.

That we worked so hard to build this parody brand, and then they shut it down. I can live with the 'closed'. I saw it coming, really. But the fact that they moved all the likes to the actual SoFlo page, without telling anyone, without telling us! It just shows, you know, how committed Facebook is to really combating... the copyright issue. But wait. It gets even better, guys. Let's revisit SoFlo's page and see, you know, since he got a lot of pressure, he and Facebook - Facebook made press releases about how they're committed to fixing the freebooting problem, for people who steal videos and upload them, no.

They don't want this to happen, they are passionate about it... There are many very nice things to say. I mean, I really appreciate them saying those nice things; They even wrote them in nice letters and put them on the Internet for people to read! Did you write that and let people read it? Boy, you are very sincere, Facebook. So let's see what happens, what's new in the world of SoFlo and Facebook freebooting. Look at this video. 7.7 million views, not bad. 'DE:'...what the hell is this? 'G-T-H-T-J-T-K-T'? What type of page is that? What, you guys don't know about 'Gthtjtkt'?

Everyone's favorite Facebook page, man! One of the best brands ever created! Such a memorable name. Let's see them, man. That's so attractive... oh... What a great icon. THAT is compelling. The classic "no one is home" icon. Let's take a look. Wow, SoFlo managed to find a page with 670 likes. Man, that guy does the research on him, huh? He moves. They have... publications that look exactly like SoFlo? Wow, these guys are copying SoFlo's style, or wait? Is it... uh... ...SoFlo itself? So what I think is happening here is that SoFlo sets up these dummy Facebook pages so they can post videos without getting anyone's permission.

So all it does is copy a video from whoever it wants, from whoever doesn't give it permission, refuses to give it permission, can't get permission, or if it just wants to be a jerk and steal your video. And then you just boot up the video and give credit to the dummy page. Like, 'Oh, I just found it on this page; If anyone scammed him, it was THIS page here.' I like to think of it as "Facebook as money laundering." And then you just share it. It's just... it's shit, on a higher level. It's a shit post through a shit post, it's a shit start.

And he doesn't even hide the format: it is literally, unmistakably his. '#Gthtjtkt' - oh! That's a real page! I mean, it's a good effort, SoFlo, but try to try to hide it a little next time, call it like... ...'EXTREMELY-FloBro'. You can call it 'Soflobro', in fact that name is already available. Actually, that would be the biggest bastardization of that name. You should steal that, SoFlo, make it 'Soflobro', and that would be the ultimate checkmate for me, if you use it to promote your other shitty page. So this is what is happening on Facebook now. They were cute with that.

Now, guys, this is already annoying enough, but let me... ...annoy you more, if I can. And believe me, I can. I've heard rumors, which I'm almost sure are true, that SoFlo is one of the first pages selected by Facebook to test their monetization system. It hasn't been announced, no one knows what's happening, but SoFlo is...getting PAID right now. Now, some of you may have heard that they were developing a monetization program for Facebook videos. And they plan to release it this year. It works very similar to how YouTube works. They get 55% of the advertising revenue.

I ran the numbers here: In your last 12 videos, you've received 80 million views, okay? Now, if he gets paid $2 per 1,000 views, which I think is a pretty fair estimate, I mean, from what I know... that means he's earned, in his last 12 videos, $160,000... ...from stealing other people's videos and, well, that's okay, because it gives them credit. Dude, it got you 700 likes on Facebook. For 10 million views, you should suck his dick, you should thank him! They choose, among all their Facebook pages (it is rumored), SoFlo, to test its monetization. The most notorious filibuster and video thief. They're like, 'Hey, kid, who's getting all the shit from the community for stealing people's videos?' "Hey kid, he doesn't post anything but other people's videos." "Hey, you... we want to give you money." 'We want YOU to be the one...' '...to lead this movement.' "And we want SoFlo to be the moral center of that world," "he is the beacon of light on the hill, which will lead the Internet to greater freedom." You know, one of my favorite analogies for this whole situation is how the Pirate Bay guys have been hunted all over the world, and hunted like fucking Osama bin Laden, okay?

And they didn't even steal anything! They hosted links to other content. Mark Zuckerberger, SoFlo, they are literally stealing people's videos - they host Facebook, and they steal and PROFIT from people's videos, and nothing, no one gives a damn, no one even talks about it. I mean, where is the justice? Where is justice in the world? And now they're paying people like SoFlo (allegedly, according to rumors) to steal people's videos! Where is the justice in this? I don't understand. In conclusion, SoFlo, you can save your energy, like last time, and not send me an email threatening to sue us.

So we would appreciate it if you skipped that whole part of the process. Anyway, see you at the chessboard, SoFlo. Thank you all for watching, I appreciate it.