Boy done fucked up.
For those who don't know, Filip Miucin formerly worked at IGN, and was recently fired on accounts of plagiarising a small YouTuber's review for the game Dead Cells.
I felt bad for him, not because I didn't think he did was he was accused of (he totally, totally did), but because this is a relatively young guy, probably not far off my age, who basically torched his career. A career no one gets into without being passionate about the subject: video games. Something I myself am passionate about. Maybe too passionate, but that's another conversation entirely.
I also knew for a fact that the internet, being the place for scummy, horrid people, where going to be scummy and horrid, not just to him, but his family as well. I knew it, and I don't even get paid to right my shitty little game reviews. Miucin must have known this when he made his choice. He must have known the risks. But then he did it anyway. And got caught.
Like I said, boy done fucked up.
I've just been made aware of his... apology video(?), and watching it definitely left me with some feelings. Enough feeling to make me take to blogger and write about shit I care about despite no one else sharing that feeling.
The video was bad. Just plain bad. I could visibly see that the guy is upset. He knows he made a mistake. He knows he's going to be paying for this for a long, long time. He knows what he really should be saying... and yet, that's not what he did. Maybe he can't. Maybe he's been advised against it. Maybe he didn't have a friend look over the video and tell him...
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO."
He skirted around actually doing the thing that video should have been. He didn't really apologise to anyone. He didn't take responsibility for plagiarising. He took responsibility for being IGN's Nintendo editor. He didn't apologise to Boomstick Gaming, the YouTuber (who's name I don't know) Muicin ripped off. He said he has nothing but respect for Boomstick Gaming (which is good, I guess. You wouldn't want to rip off someone you don't respect).
His biggest cock up in my eyes is attacking (for lack of a better word) Jason Schreier of Kotaku, another video game news provider for writing a piece on relevant video game news: Miucin's plagiarism. Schreier also had another source providing another situation in which Miucin, once again, appeared to plagiarise another review for another game.
Schreier is someone I have a great deal of respect for. Hell, I bought his book for poops and giggles. He did his job with all the decency Miucin had owed to him, and Miucin threw it back in his face. Shame, maybe. He's been caught once already and it cost him his job. Evidence of him having done the same thing in the past doesn't help him resuscitate his dead career, I guess. If Miucin gets around to apologising to Schreier, I'll think better of him.
I really do feel for Miucin. I feel he's a guy who was plunged in the deep end without learning how to swim. People make mistakes, sure. I'm still dealing with some mistakes I've made in my life recently right now. Maybe that's why I pity the guy. The difference here though is most people make mistakes are manageable. People generally don't make mistakes that will haunt them to the end of their days. Mistakes that will compromise a career and a passion for something they love.
Miucin did. He really, really shouldn't have.
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