User:Hijiri88

The Encyclopedia is, and always has been, a fraud.

There are a lot of reasons I am not as active on this site as I once was. The main one is that my current job and various IRL volunteering keeps me too busy. Another is a series of unpleasant experiences on this site between 2014 and 2019. But even though the ones responsible for the latter are mostly not around anymore, and even though the former doesn't apply every single day any more than it did in 2015 or 2018, I've come to a realization since 2021, and especially since Hbomberguy's most recent YouTube video as of February 2024. Writing content for Wikipedia just leaves one open to having the awkward awareness that one is being plagiarized by everyone all over the Internet but has no power to do anything about it or the credibility to be listened to when you point out that the plagiarists are misreading one's work. Saying "I wrote the Wikipedia article on the Nara Basin" doesn't give you credibility in online circles when you point out that a for-profit pseudo-academic publication was clearly copy-pasting from your work and clumsily/arbitrarily cutting words to cover their tracks.