As part of the fun at Eleph TV’s premiere week, Saturday Night Live He returned to fans for season 48 with a premiere that lost a few familiar faces to those who did They previously announced their exitsas well Currently busy elsewhere Cecily Strong. Although the guest host and Top Gun: Maverick Star Miles Teller and guest musician Kendrick Lamar kept fans entertained, and the episode sparked a flurry of imperfect headlines hanging on allegations that The “Charmin Bears” scene was copied directly The viral video “Toilet Paper Bears” created by online director Joel Haver. Now, the fan-favorite content creator has given his own response.
Those who watched SNLThe season 48 opening saw stars Keenan Thompson and more don large, vibrant blue bear suits, for a sketch centered around a teddy bear Teller with the goal of pursuing his dancing dreams rather than following the butt-scanning steps set by the family business. After people familiar with Joel Haver’s work took to social media to express their fist, Haver shared a video about the reaction to the Youtubeand offered a much more understanding approach than many others online, saying:
When it comes to stealing accusations, I always err on the side of chance. I think parallel thinking happens quite often. So I waited to see the drawing myself, and they posted it later in the night. I saw him. . . . It was very annoying. I was like, “Wow.” Usually when these things come up, I can see like, “Oh, it’s the same concept, but they took it in a different place.” Or it’s similar, but you can give them some leeway. But this one, was a little strange. I was like, “Wow, that’s very similar.”
Part of Haver’s point of view comes from being a smart guy and understanding the numbers game when it comes to producing comedy videos to enjoy online. There are currently thousands upon thousands of people on YouTube, TikTok, and more making multiple videos per week (or per day), so the law of averages says that not every video will be the most unique and original slice of genius. There is certainly a line between random similarities and confusingly close similarities.
And Joel Haver also grapples with the idea that he’s currently at some point in his career in the video industry where an incident like this, regardless of the veracity of the claims, doesn’t bother him as much as it would have been earlier. before he gets the most followers. He says he can see why the others who are still on the rise are upset about Emmy Award winning NBC series It is said they copied their work.
Since we may never have a smoke gun, or whatever the other way around, when it comes to drawing Charmin Bears, it’s probably easiest to let go of what was before, despite the fact that SNL He has been accused of plagiarism many times over the years, but not always with that kind of privacy. Havre seems to have let it pass for now, while taking comfort in the fact that he (and many others) think his “Toilet Paper Bears” drawing was the better of the two. He completed:
It is inevitable that they interfere. It is inevitable that you do something that has already been done. So when it comes to the Charmin Bears thing, there are a lot of coincidences that would have to line up to make it truly coincidental, but I don’t think it was malicious. It was either a subconscious borrowing from someone in the writer’s crew who saw my video, or it was a wild coincidence. Lots of people enjoyed my video. It got over a million views. I’m happy with it. I think the video turned out great. I like my delivery much better. I love how natural, weird, and dry versus the delivery of SNL, which is that they dance and it’s big and it’s louder than life.
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