How Penguinz0 Destroyed YouTube's Worst Content Thief

Brent Rivera's decade long career as an influencer has seen him commit countless crimes against the YouTube Community from blatantly stealing whole video ideas from crators to completely copying pasting his face over other viral thumbnails whilst this scumbaggery has garnered Brent Rivera over 30 million subscribers and 8 billion views it was only a matter of time before he did something so outrageous that penguin zero AKA Charlie was forced to not just call him out but demolish his reputation as well and now you look like an absolute fool and you've ruined your reputation even further Brent if

such a thing was even possible somehow your audience of children are actually being aware of this now which is the last thing I imagine you wanted to happen with the drama you're just doing all of the wrong things here you up you should have just moved on from it apologized for it and been done with it hi I'm the internet Anarchist I create weekly YouTube documentaries and today we'll be diving deep into the career of one of YouTube's largest Mr Beast clones and most hated creators in general Brent Riva we'll look at the controversies that

transformed His image from a standard children's entertainer to one of the most hated creators on the platform and examined why his attempts to cover things up only made it worse long before Brun to master staggering 30 million subscribers on YouTube he mostly made short comedy sketches on Vine which earned him over 8 million followers on the platform hey Lexi it's fake you're fake hey Mom what don't don't break Brent following the end of Vine in 2017 brentw moved completely to his at the time 3 million subscribers YouTube channel to continue publishing his viral comedy skits

whil Brent has always enjoyed viral success on every platform he's been on he has also faced numerous accusations of plagiarism and employing strange tactics to boost his viewership back in 2014 numerous users on Twitter would alleg that Brent was stealing video ideas from Tumblr and other sources why do girls like freak out of a Brent Rivera he isn't funny stealing all your Vines from Tumblr doesn't make someone funny Brent Rivera ain't creative at all shaking my head anyone can still tumble quotes and say them in 6 seconds as well as P.S Brent stop stealing ideas

from Tumblr you're not original while these tweets didn't include any evidence to back up their claims it was clear that there was an air of distrust around the authenticity of the content that made Brent popular people even coined a term in the Urban Dictionary to describe how Brent St jokes from other creators Brent rived it's when you steal a joke from Tumblr or Twitter and use it as your own the origin of the word comes from well-known Vina Brent Rivera because his recognition of stealing Tumblr posts and Twitter posts one of the earlier examples of

Brent stealing another Creator's video concept was his video titled things that make me mad from 2012 which was a direct copy of Wasabi Productions video of the same title oh I got to be but I'm so comfortable but I have to be but I'm so comfortable damn it when I get in bed and I decide that I have to pee crap I have to pee these elements of plagiarism would only become more striking in later years as Brent made the shift away from comedy sketches to challenge content from copying trendy thumbnails to taking whole video

ideas from other creators Brent was more than willing to undermine other community members for selfish Gams something that he was called out for numerous times Brent Rivera you are most likely to copy my thumbnails uh one of the biggest Awards of the night congratulations on that Brent wouldn't stop at just using other creators to get ahead as he frequently humiliated his family members and even his own sister for views it didn't matter what he had to do or who he had to steal from Brent would stop at nothing to grow his reach and revenue on

YouTube however Brent's under handed approach to content creation was about to cause him more harm than good on the 7th of February 2023 a Creator named Tyler olera posted a video titled Brent Rivera called the cops on me and as the title suggests the interaction between the two wasn't exactly a positive one that's Brent Rivera calling security and then the cops on me after I asked him this do you fake your videos no it all started when I was staying at The Shining hotel came out of my room and randomly found these two girls in

the hallway throughout the video Tyler showcased a number of hated interactions between him and Brent with the first being caused by a simple question aware that I was in the middle of a fake YouTube prank I wanted to see if Brent would admit it because we all know his videos are fake and he steals everyone's ideas I have a question for you you guys hire these people we don't know who who and unsurprisingly they made a cameo and Brent's newest video it's almost like they know each other you have a question yeah do you fake

your videos no do you fake your videos no my iPhone all right okay have fun guys I know what's going on here clearly Brent didn't find my question amusing so I walked back to my hotel room and prepared to go on my tour of the hotel we things would only get worse on their second confrontation we get that louder hey we're we're filming our thing you film yours okay let's not let's not be be disrespect okay well you guys [ __ ] talk on the iPhone though I don't appreciate the disrespect but what disrespect I

literally walked out of my hotel room and nearly had a heart attack why did you walk up to us like enter our space I I just paid $400 a night for the hotel what do you mean if we were normal guests that wo wo wo normal guest you think you're elevated Beyond an average human being you've ascended the human wait what are wait who are you on the third madeup however it seemed Brent had enough of the trolling and threatened to have Tyler kicked out of the hotel finish your video no oh we're not going

to be able to finish it that what do you mean I'm sorry they're going to come and get get you guys they're going to kick you out what do you mean we paid $375 bro I'm sorry I'm not as rich as you bro this is the third time harassing us don't harass who whoa whoa whoa you recorded me I'm recording you cuz you guys are coming up to every single second of the well we walked in we're on the same floor well he's coming now so I mean you guys are just going to have look

at the guy behind you it's like what do you mean who is that guy I have no clue listen this is our personal space and you're recording no you close the door and then you open a threat that Brent would later go through with as hotel security would come to escort Tyler off the premises came to us and said this get pack your stuff for sure um have close a compromise no no best dis p is on the way so you have until they get here for sure unfortunate after packing up our stuff security ushered

us out and then we met the police downstairs and they said this I appreciate both of you have been very cooperative and compliant with us and I appreciate you being reasonable about it for sure my apologies sorry all right well Brent Rivera my number one enemy right now you suck my balls from Brent's perspective he had won the confrontation by having Tyler kicked out but little did he know that this battle was far from over in the coming days Tyler's video would wreck up over 2 million views and reignite the previous hate the YouTube Community

had for Brent with comments reading this video just proves that not all people are nice behind the camera Brent should be ashamed the fact that Brent had to get law enforcement involved over Tyler walking to his room room and turning around seeing them recording him is so sad Brent is so twof faced as well as love how Brent is really confident because his subscriber count but the moment that dude gets in a fight with anyone it's pretty much over the drama would escalate so far that some of the largest commentary channels on the platform were

taking turns at roasting him for his childish Antics by the 11th of February 2024 Charly would catch wind of the controversy and mercilessly break down Brent's appalling Behavior so break down the situation briefly two YouTubers were staying at the same haunted hotel that they were using for Content but then it leads to a bit of Confrontation and then eventually just a truly sour relationship between them and there's a lot of big YouTubers involved here and It All Leads to this giant [ __ ] black hole of main character syndrome so they all get aggressive and

they all start filming each other so they're saying all their aggressive [ __ ] towards their camera about one another it's it's a big mess it's very goofy Charlie would then go on to dismantle Brent's facade of authentic content by pointing out that even the children rewatch his content know it's fake a fact that he would never admit this isn't important by any means but it's always so weird to me why someone like Brent will claim they don't fake their videos like even children don't care man you can just be honest you don't have to

lie like the he hired these two women to pretend to be like the little girls from the shining and he tries to play it off as like legitimate I guess for some reason which makes no [ __ ] sense at all this is just a nitpick it just it doesn't compute with me like why even bother lying about that no one's being fooled not even like an actual glue eating four-year-old like there's no shot you can just be honest Brent's tendency to put down others when he feels threatened was something Charlie would pick up and

rightfully call him out on but the way Brent handles it is atrocious he starts like shaming him for using an iPhone shaming their equipment uh one point someone on his team belittles his subscriber number like he couldn't have looked worse in this situation charie also noted how desperate Brent was to show off his wealth I don't know how people haven't realized that insulting someone's subscriber number Financial wellbeing and all of that is just an instant L like somehow people will still say some [ __ ] like that guy who said have fun with your 100

subscribers bud with their whole chest like they just let that [ __ ] rip not knowing or being completely oblivious to how awful that makes you look you lose the second you go there you look like an insufferable douchebag [ __ ] like just a [ __ ] pure colonostomy bag of a person like it's outrageous that people still do it like shaming him for using an iPhone insulting his uh his mics which they also bring up is everything is so weird Charlie's coverage of Brent's idiotic Behavior would Garner over 4 million views and have

a KnockOn effect as more viewers and creators became aware of just how desperate he was to protect his fragile ego Brent and his crew insults the iPhone insults the amount of followers insults the setup also Brent and his crew let's not be disrespectful as well as I think the worst part is that Brent and his henchmen didn't even spend the night they left shortly after they just had to make sure Tyler couldn't stay before they left the ever growing hate for Brent would manifest in his video titled overnight in the world's weirdest hotels which got

an eye watering 1.2 million dislikes and an equally hostile comment section reading a YouTuber that actually makes real content versus a YouTuber that gets angry so easily because they got told the truth of what they make in the platform imagine getting caught in 4k by an iPhone as well as I looked this up just to see if the fight was in it and I generally have secondhand embarrassment for the people that actually watch this stuff unable to ignored the backlash Brent published a response that he hoped would turn the public opinion in his favor but

unfortunately it did the opposite if you recently saw a viral video of two YouTubers arguing in a hotel hallway well one of those YouTubers was me things quickly get taken out of context so here's the full picture also this isn't me defending the things that I said but more so giving you guys my perspective of what happened that night so right when I was about to pull a prank on my friends in a hotel this guy came up to me yelling and accused me of Faking the prank and I'm not saying all my pranks are

real but this one was we were just minding our own business filming a video so this was really frustrating given the amount of time energy and money we put into these videos to make great content for you guys and as the night went on he continued to approach us with his camera saying awful things about me my friends and my sister to try and get a rise out of me for his video at a certain point it bubbled up so much that I did what he wanted I stooped down to his level and I said

something that I should not have said go with your 100 subscribers Brent went on to claim that Tyler was the aggressor and stated he had no involvement in summoning security later on he came up and started filming again this time while we were on a tour his actions toward us and other guests on the tour caused the hotel staff not me to call security he was warned several times by the hotel staff to not only leave us but other guests and hotel staff alone and after several warnings the hotel chose to call the police to

get him escorted from the hotel anyways I am not proud of the way that I reacted at all nor am I Perfect all I can do is be real with you guys and admit that I could have handled it by not seeing anything and just walking away given the fact that Brent had left out key details and was clearly lying about what happened it was only a matter of time before Tyler made his response to the situation brt you're a liar here are the receipts also I'm on the toilet so I'll be quick line number

one right when I was about to pull a prank on my friends in a hotel this guy came up to me yelling and accused me of Faking the prank no we were half asleep in our hotel rooms my cameraman gets up goes into the hallway only to see these two ghost girls right outside our rooms keep in mind Brent places these girls on the opposite side of the hotel room floor we apparently share we easily could have avoided each other if you did not place your prank right outside our two hotel rooms on the opposite

side of the hotel floor we both were staying on Tyler continues by debunking Brent's misleading claims about being accused of making fake videos two this guy came up to me yelling and accused me of Faking the prank no one yelled at you or accused you of anything I simply walked up to you asked you if you knew the two girls who were at the end of the hallway you denied knowing them completely I walked up to them asked them if they knew you they were like maybe okay anyways so I walked up to you and

then you said do you fake your videos no do you fake your videos no he also touched on how Brent tried to gain sympathy from viewers by reminding them of the time and money he puts into making content by really frustrating given the amount of time energy and money we put into these videos to make great content we lost about $44,000 in flights hotel rooms and car rentals after you got us kied out so and your forb 30 under 30 so this hurts me a lot more than it should hurt you I imagine at the

end of the video Tyler recounts the events that led him to getting kicked out of the hotel Us and other guests on the tour caused the hotel staff not me to call security you literally called Security on us nonstop and in this clip you say going out you're going to get us kicked out you're that powerful we want out did you guys finish your video no oh we're not going to be able to finish it then what do you mean I'm sorry they're going to come and get get you guys they're going to kick you

out without you calling security we would not have gotten kicked out if there were 12 of us like your crew maybe that wouldn't have been the case they chose the easier option of kicking us out versus you and your 10-man crew belittling another Creator and getting them kicked out of a hotel they paid for was one thing but trying to twist the story to make yourself look like the victim was a whole different ball game Brent didn't have the best reputation on YouTube to begin with and now that viewers had the chance to see how

populous and dishonest he was it seemed his reputation that truly hits rock bottom but sadly this was only the beginning of Brent against the YouTube Community as Brent was trying to mitigate the controversy that he was already in he was already creating another as he began copyright striking other smaller YouTubers who criticized him the first was a Creator by the name of rth Brent Rivera What the fu are you doing now you're sending me copyright strikes why all you 10 mil plus Tik tokers such fingies I don't know if you sent the strike directly or

your management did but my videos are fair use I didn't steal your content I directly talked over it thus making it my video Bren remove theing strike you don't want to be breaking the law now do you or does your hurt little fing feelings feel bad [ __ ] loser unfortunately this wouldn't be the last time Brent faly struck a fellow Creator on the 20th of February 2023 a YouTuber by the name of dumpy uploaded a video titled Brent Rivera wants to delete my channel in which he detailed an ongoing copyright situation involving Brent I

really hope the situation does not progress if it does I will be making an update video letting you guys know what's going on that was me about 3 hours ago in a frenzy because I had a community guidelines warning my very first offense because of content made on Brent Rivera as I was editing the video I was frantically checking my email waiting to see a response from my appeal to the community guidelines violation when all of a sudden around 4:00 a.m. I received this email copyright takeown request received for your YouTube video I said whoa

what is going on I sent some screenshots out and I basically just stated yo this guy's abusing the copyright system because my videos fall under fair use dumpy then went on to share screenshots of Brent's Shady attempt to take down videos that were critical of him my YouTube video was re-uploaded by another user uh no it wasn't my video was transformative I made a whole video of my own work out of your content reacting to it picking it apart and you said where does the content appear the entire video he went after not one but

two of my YouTube videos and then there's all this mumbo jumbo I'm going to censor this even though I feel like I don't even have to but basically it just says if you lie and you misrepresent what actually happened you can result in the termination of his YouTube channel he literally signed that and did it anyways and blatantly lied and I guarantee you there will be no repercussions for his actions for all the underhanded things Brent has done abusing the copyright system was one of the most cruel Brent wanted to end the career of a

fellow creator for no other reason than he felt his ego was bruised and the way he went about it was equally as horrible Brent stated the following in his copyright claim how much of your copyrighted work is used most of the video were my original video from my YouTube channel no other original content from the Creator was shown how is the market for your original work affected by this use it affects it negatively fortunately for dumpy YouTube decided not to go through with Brent's claims however dumpy wasn't out of the woods yet as he later

received a community guidelines violation for a stream in which he reacted to Brent's content while dumpy wasn't directly accusing Brent of reporting his channel he did ask Brent to respond by posting his report history and I don't just want to blindly come on here and accuse you Brent of reporting my videos because that's kind of insane but based on how you've acted in the past I would not put it past you and if you are doing this you just got to you got to chill out bro like you're playing with people's livelihood you're breaking the

law by abusing copyright and trying to take down Tyler ala's video he made on you like it's just come on bro you you cannot do that once again Brent had unknowingly put himself in yet another controversy but this time it wasn't about getting someone kicked out of a hotel it was trying to get a smaller crat kicked off the platform by abusing the copyright system and everyone on YouTube was calling him out for it in less than 2 weeks Brent had turned the entire platform against him twice and similar to the first time he only

responded once he had sufficient backlash and that was in ample Supply the following day Charlie would once again give his opinion on Brent's bad behavior by educating him on just how damaging misusing the copyright system truly is on YouTube there's an Unwritten rule that when violated it ruins your image forever it causes is a reparable damage to your reputation and there's really not much you can ever do to get back in the good graces of the platform that is abusing the copyright takedown system and unfortunately a massive YouTuber today took a bite out of that

forbidden fruit his name is Brent Rivera censoring other creators because they were critical of you only worsens the problem and it was obvious that Brent didn't understand thankfully Charlie was there to Enlighten him so let me let me walk you through how this thing usually goes when a YouTuber makes the decision to go nuclear and start filing these kind of takedown requests the whole Community turns against them people [ __ ] hate that for good reason that's the lowest [ __ ] you could sync to just stop being a little [ __ ] and accept

that not everyone's going to like you and when you do some dumb embarrassing [ __ ] because your ego bubbles over and you embarrass yourself people are going to make fun of you for it that's the circle of life baby that's nature that's that's the way God made this world and yeah and the cyberspace as well you know I bet even you know the Lord was on an ALT account kind of laughing about what you did here cuz you looked real stupid during it it point I'm making is you just move on from it you

don't do this when you do copyright abuse Shenanigans it is always like sticking your head into a beehive you are the only one who gets hurt but you are just too focused on the potential sweetness in that Hive delving DEA Chie highlighted how poorly brintly filled out the takedown request and remarked on how barebones the context was that he provided and how is the market for your original work affected by this use it affects it negatively that right there is the biggest tip off for me that flips on the light bulb in my head that

tells me Brent Rivera likely filed this because no self-respecting third-party company that does this professionally on behalf of creators would ever answer that question like that it's a very concise answer but it also doesn't even answer the question the question is how is the marketree original work affected and his response was it affects it negatively that's like how a child would answer it I know Burt Rivera makes videos for children but it seems like he also has the brain of one too he's stuck in like third grade you're supposed to explain your reasoning so it

affects it negatively but how why like what exactly is this doing to encroach on you and your original content how is it stealing from you or ruining your content and he just gives like [ __ ] five words here continuing down that route wasn't doing Brent any favors if he hoped for any chance of redemption his best bet would be to stop his cause of action altogether somehow your audience of children are actually being aware of this now which is the last thing I imagine you wanted to happen with the drama you're just doing all

of the wrong things here you [ __ ] up you should have just moved on from it apologized for it and been done with it you made a terrible response to this whole thing trying to give context to it where even in that you make yourself look stupid like you just you played this terribly you played yourself and you look dumb uh luckily dumpy's Channel I don't think is going to get deleted or get in any hot water from this situation so that's good but it is really frustrating to see yet another big Creator like

Brent Rivera try and bully people around by abusing the copyright systems on the platform that have been broken for a long time that's always going to be a big [ __ ] you from me by the 22nd of February 2023 dumpy released a video titled he messaged me which served as both an update on the situation and as a call out for Bren for lies in the DMs he sent me the same exact message on Twitter and Instagram but let me show you the Twitter version of it hey man I saw your video and I

let my YouTube rep know to retract all the copyright requests I also let my team know not to copyright your vids moving forward as of today as of February 21st I still have the copyright claim on my video basically what all this means is that Brent doesn't get the money I don't get the money even though I made a fair use video Brent fsly claim the video this is also the same video that he tried to get taken down but YouTube Saved Me despite how positive and friendly he sounded Brent had done nothing to retract

his copyright claims or harassment reports he made on YouTube to make matters worse Brent would try to manipulate the narrative Again by leaving a super thanks in the comments that read $400 in the meantime while the copyright request is being retracted here's something to help again sorry about that bro TT dumpy replied with I don't you accept your apology these takedowns were given to me 48 hours ago and you've done this to two other creators that I know of I hope you understand the severity of what you've done and tell you willingly lied to YouTube

for whatever reason to attempt having my livelihood taken away from me on the 23rd of February 2023 Charlie would upload a video titled this drama had a happy ending where during the video Charlie pointed out Brent's blatant dishonesty when addressing the situation and made it clear that no one bought into his shell attempts at reconciliation but I do want to mention that second paragraph where he talks about like dumpy's grind and how he's like proud of it happy to see it and you know wishing him nothing but the best in it to me that just

reads very insincere and phony that seems like very corporate PR speak because his whole grind and everything you had a huge issue with because it was at your expense so why are you going to pretend like you actually really appreciate it and admire it like just be honest like it just doesn't seem honest at all there's no reason they put up a put up a facade you can just be like bro your videos [ __ ] hurt my feelings I overreacted yeah is what it is I'm releasing it now I see this is a big

[ __ ] up a big blunder and that'd be a lot more respectable than trying to put on this like bro you're a [ __ ] grinder you're out there nuts to butts and you're doing it big that [ __ ] is so [ __ ] lit and I know you're going to keep doing big things I so proud of you actually I'm so [ __ ] proud of you Pat him on the ass like that's just it's not genuine whether brench realizes it or not his gummy censorship tactics were truly what caused the massive

wave of backlash against him and will forever leave Asain on what was left of his reputation there's not really a whole lot you can do to make dumpy like you or just like forgive that it's just a matter of moving on from it you are doing the right thing which everyone will appreciate you are walking back on this [ __ ] here with these takedown requests that is good but I just don't think there's a whole lot you can do to earn anyone's trust back or view you positively it's something that you'll have to prove

over a long period of time if you actually learned anything from this whole situation he says that him and his team responded too emotionally to it which he's absolutely right on but this is an option that should have never been considered in the first place obviously in addition to his misuse of the copyright system Brent was determined to cover his tracks by blatantly lying to not just his viewers and other creators but YouTube as well prented all this under the guise of preventing others from infringing on his copyrighted material however ironically Brent has and continues

to shamelessly steal content from other creators despite being aled for plagiarism in the past Brent hasn't changed his ways in the slightest and arguably has gotten worse for example Brent's video titled the world's shortest woman versus tallest man was a direct replica of a video from YouTube at KY wakasa the first thing you'll notice about Brent's version is the fact that the thumbnail is eerily similar to Kell's however the similarities don't stop there as Brent liberally borrows Kelly's entire script you see the order of events in Kell's video goes from meeting jod and giving her

some oversized merch oh maybe it's too big uh-oh too big that's funny or the hoodie too thank you and asking her some spicy questions who is your celebrity crush to taking her shopping find a nice outfit and finally going to an amusement park together constructing the amusement park as we come in this is sick and really scared the timeline in Brent's version is exactly the same beat for beat giving her merch okay so we actually have a gift for you so this is relatable merch that might be too big you think that F good thing

we got a smaller and asking her some spicy questions who's your celebrity crush me me I am shopping that's pretty big oh my God anything you want it's On's credit card the cheese puffs yeah yeah and finally amusement park are you going to float away Brent's tendency to steal ideas isn't limited to his long form content as a short from content is ripped straight from smaller creators I've got a notebook and I'm going to go to a fancy restaurant and act like a food critic want to see if they treat me any differently after getting

seated I quickly whipped out the notebook for the waiter to see right away I was receiving looks left and right it the first few items and after taking some pictures and giving it a few minutes I whipped out the note they started to bring me out my first few courses and let me tell you it was so delicious that I had to take notes back and forth and I start to notice a big shift the manager comes up to my table gives me his card with his personal cell phone number and tells me to give

him a call whenever I need a Reser and then they gave me complimentary champagne and to top it all off they comped the entire meal someone special pick up your and the manager let me know to come back anytime even his latest video titled I built a secret Starbucks you'd never find this is a Shameless copy of an upload from The Stokes twins once viewers caught on to this they made sure to show their disapproval with over 80,000 dislikes Brent has since changed the video as thumbnail to cover up his mistake but once again this

was only due to the massive backlash he received notice the pattern here Brent started his career on YouTube by stealing from other creators and when that wasn't enough he turned to sexualizing his own sister for easy views the platform and following he has today wasn't built on his own skill or creativity but rather on the backs of the countless creators he has plagiarized despite all of this Brent still tries to present himself as an authentic and original Creator whenever Brent is confronted with the truth behind his career he defaults to either belittling or censoring them

as seen with his interaction with Tyler and dumpy once that failed he resulted to making bold-faced lies the community easily saw through disrespecting and disregarding the community that gave you a career you currently enjoy is never a good idea and Brent has learned this lesson the hard way but despite that his channel seems to be doing completely fine most likely due to the dozens of children that still watch him an example of a YouTuber who had his career completely destroyed however is Will beur click the video on