Hmm not sure why they hate Masterverse so much but as a new collector, there is no way in he*l I can even find all my favorite figures in the other lines they are super rare! 😭 

I know everyone hates him but I can't help but feel bad for him. Imagine all that work it takes building up a channel and then it disappears in an instant.

It was probably Nefty’s House of Rants that nuked the Spector Creative YouTube channel. After all it’s Nefty’s fault for the demise of MattyCollector, according to Scott. So don’t put it past that Nefty person to have struck again

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I know everyone hates him but I can't help but feel bad for him. Imagine all that work it takes building up a channel and then it disappears in an instant.

Yea can't be human and not feel bad a little

Yep, never feel bad for someone else's misfortune. Hopefully he'll turn it around somehow. 

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It was probably Nefty’s House of Rants that nuked the Spector Creative YouTube channel. After all it’s Nefty’s fault for the demise of MattyCollector, according to Scott. So don’t put it past that Nefty person to have struck again

I am at a loss. Who is this Nefty person?

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Posted by: @crocobite

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It was probably Nefty’s House of Rants that nuked the Spector Creative YouTube channel. After all it’s Nefty’s fault for the demise of MattyCollector, according to Scott. So don’t put it past that Nefty person to have struck again

I am at a loss. Who is this Nefty person?

 

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Posted by: @asterstar

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I know everyone hates him but I can't help but feel bad for him. Imagine all that work it takes building up a channel and then it disappears in an instant.

Yea can't be human and not feel bad a little

 

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It was probably Nefty’s House of Rants that nuked the Spector Creative YouTube channel. After all it’s Nefty’s fault for the demise of MattyCollector, according to Scott. So don’t put it past that Nefty person to have struck again

I am at a loss. Who is this Nefty person?

 

he has this little blog called Nefty’s House of Rants that he does which is only seen by a handful of people and apparently he made complaints on his blog about Scott, MattyCollector, and Digital River back in the day. When the decision was made to scuttle MattyCollector, Scott posted on he-man.org that it was the negativity (he specifically mentioned only Nefty’s House of Rants) as the reason why Mattel executives pulled the plug on MattyCollector. 
He complained about Scott a lot, but his blog hardly got many views, so at the time at He-man.org it seemed hilarious that Scott would go out of his way to blame this Nefty person for MattyCollector’s demise.

 I just thought it would be funny if this seemingly all-powerful Nefty person was at it again to throw another wrench in Scott’s plans again, considering how preposterous it sounded back then. A little joke for the .orgers who are here now is all

Nefty is a blogger. Scott once blamed Nefty and his house of rants for being the reason that mattycollector failed. 

I bag on Scott alot and actually do feel sorry for him as a human being but at the same time I would say, "Time to do some soul searching and learn from mistakes of the past."

ETA. Sorry Croc beat me to the explanation. 

Most of the images in his slide shows were in the public domain... (although, he would use images with copyright printing all over them meaning he just used the "preview" image and didn't actually purchase said images...)

However, he used the Filmation He-Man intro, title card designs, and music. I don't know if Mattel actually gave him permission to do so, but I do remember Pixel Dan being asked to stop using MOTU music in his review videos in the early 2000's... so it could be a case of cease-and-desist..?

As others have mentioned, it's hard not to feel bad. I was a huge ToyGuru supporter during the Classics reign, and I wished him nothing but the best when he left Mattel. Unfortunately, that seemed to be the beginning of a downward spiral for Scott.

Here is a clip from someone who seems to know him talking about it:

Is sounds like some generic CR strike over some rather unimpressive looking Star Wars figure picture; not a strike from Mattel or such. Dunno; but even though I do not like SNs content I do not think it warrants the channel to be striked. Its not like he some life threatening extremist or something.

This video sheds some light on the subject of Scott's downfall.

I personally don't feel bad for him. He built a lot on his disdain for the current MOTU lines. He was arrogant and egotistical. He got what was coming to him.

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Most of the images in his slide shows were in the public domain... (although, he would use images with copyright printing all over them meaning he just used the "preview" image and didn't actually purchase said images...)

 

However, he used the Filmation He-Man intro, title card designs, and music. I don't know if Mattel actually gave him permission to do so, but I do remember Pixel Dan being asked to stop using MOTU music in his review videos in the early 2000's... so it could be a case of cease-and-desist..?

 

As others have mentioned, it's hard not to feel bad. I was a huge ToyGuru supporter during the Classics reign, and I wished him nothing but the best when he left Mattel. Unfortunately, that seemed to be the beginning of a downward spiral for Scott.

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Posted by: @ornclown

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Most of the images in his slide shows were in the public domain... (although, he would use images with copyright printing all over them meaning he just used the "preview" image and didn't actually purchase said images...)

 

However, he used the Filmation He-Man intro, title card designs, and music. I don't know if Mattel actually gave him permission to do so, but I do remember Pixel Dan being asked to stop using MOTU music in his review videos in the early 2000's... so it could be a case of cease-and-desist..?

 

As others have mentioned, it's hard not to feel bad. I was a huge ToyGuru supporter during the Classics reign, and I wished him nothing but the best when he left Mattel. Unfortunately, that seemed to be the beginning of a downward spiral for Scott.

Would that not be DreamWorks that would strike him for using Filmation property?

 

To my knowledge that is correct.

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Here is a clip from someone who seems to know him talking about it:

Is sounds like some generic CR strike over some rather unimpressive looking Star Wars figure picture; not a strike from Mattel or such. Dunno; but even though I do not like SNs content I do not think it warrants the channel to be striked. Its not like he some life threatening extremist or something.

In the video he says over a hundred strikes for photos, not just one lone photo. He uses that Ashoka pic as an example of the type of photos from the website, not as the only photo used by Scott. Because if this Junkman character had shown more than one picture as an example he could potentially get more than one strike against him from the website he’s referring to. After all he did say he would probably get A strike against him from that website for showing that little picture.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I came away from that video with the assumption that the website was claiming Scott was taking lots of pictures from that websites figure reviews, hence the over 100 strikes, not 100 strikes for the same single photo. And that this Junkman character, being a friend of Scott’s, was trying to play it down as no big deal. Which I agree, no big deal, but if it was over 100 times? Maybe not so much.

Considering just how many images Scott throws up on screen during his videos, one might wonder if he had been using that website as a one stop shop for many of those pictures he crams into each video.

If true, many may not feel it’s a big deal, but for the guy taking all those photos of his collection for his reviews, he might start to get annoyed by the 100th time without ever getting a shoutout for his time and effort taking all the photos, if Scott was just swooping in and copying & pasting over a hundred of the guy’s pictures that is.

 I have no idea how much of this is true or not, but one thing that I believe can give this scenario some credibility is that there has been instances of Scott trying to take credit for other people’s efforts before, this could be another example. Who knows for sure?

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Posted by: @lurker-man

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Here is a clip from someone who seems to know him talking about it:

Is sounds like some generic CR strike over some rather unimpressive looking Star Wars figure picture; not a strike from Mattel or such. Dunno; but even though I do not like SNs content I do not think it warrants the channel to be striked. Its not like he some life threatening extremist or something.

In the video he says over a hundred strikes for photos, not just one lone photo. He uses that Ashoka pic as an example of the type of photos from the website, not as the only photo used by Scott. Because if this Junkman character had shown more than one picture as an example he could potentially get more than one strike against him from the website he’s referring to. After all he did say he would probably get A strike against him from that website for showing that little picture.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I came away from that video with the assumption that the website was claiming Scott was taking lots of pictures from that websites figure reviews, hence the over 100 strikes, not 100 strikes for the same single photo. And that this Junkman character, being a friend of Scott’s, was trying to play it down as no big deal. Which I agree, no big deal, but if it was over 100 times? Maybe not so much.

Considering just how many images Scott throws up on screen during his videos, one might wonder if he had been using that website as a one stop shop for many of those pictures he crams into each video.

If true, many may not feel it’s a big deal, but for the guy taking all those photos of his collection for his reviews, he might start to get annoyed by the 100th time without ever getting a shoutout for his time and effort taking all the photos, if Scott was just swooping in and copying & pasting over a hundred of the guy’s pictures that is.

 I have no idea how much of this is true or not, but one thing that I believe can give this scenario some credibility is that there has been instances of Scott trying to take credit for other people’s efforts before, this could be another example. Who knows for sure?

 

 

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Posted by: @lurker-man

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Here is a clip from someone who seems to know him talking about it:

Is sounds like some generic CR strike over some rather unimpressive looking Star Wars figure picture; not a strike from Mattel or such. Dunno; but even though I do not like SNs content I do not think it warrants the channel to be striked. Its not like he some life threatening extremist or something.

In the video he says over a hundred strikes for photos, not just one lone photo. He uses that Ashoka pic as an example of the type of photos from the website, not as the only photo used by Scott. Because if this Junkman character had shown more than one picture as an example he could potentially get more than one strike against him from the website he’s referring to. After all he did say he would probably get A strike against him from that website for showing that little picture.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I came away from that video with the assumption that the website was claiming Scott was taking lots of pictures from that websites figure reviews, hence the over 100 strikes, not 100 strikes for the same single photo. And that this Junkman character, being a friend of Scott’s, was trying to play it down as no big deal. Which I agree, no big deal, but if it was over 100 times? Maybe not so much.

Considering just how many images Scott throws up on screen during his videos, one might wonder if he had been using that website as a one stop shop for many of those pictures he crams into each video.

If true, many may not feel it’s a big deal, but for the guy taking all those photos of his collection for his reviews, he might start to get annoyed by the 100th time without ever getting a shoutout for his time and effort taking all the photos, if Scott was just swooping in and copying & pasting over a hundred of the guy’s pictures that is.

 I have no idea how much of this is true or not, but one thing that I believe can give this scenario some credibility is that there has been instances of Scott trying to take credit for other people’s efforts before, this could be another example. Who knows for sure?

 

 

Scott used a TON of images from my site (probably hundreds) as well, with zero acknowledgement. I usually don't mind people using images from my site but I do ask people to reference the source (whether that's me or the sources I credit). I never reported him to YouTube, but I did find it annoying. I remember in particular his video about Classics Castle Grayskull just had one uncredited image after another from my site, like maybe 10 or 15 in a single video. His practice seems to have been to do a google image search and grab whatever was handy for his slideshows, never worrying about crediting the original source. One artist expressed some annoyance to me that his art was used without acknowledgement too. That example even worse because a single work of art involves many hours of work and creativity. There were a ton of images from the Fwoosh and similar review sites as well. 

I think most people who create content online are pretty good natured, but this was bound to happen eventually. Making a YouTube video requires more care with sources than something like a forum post. His videos reminded me of a forum post, where you just grab whatever handy image to illustrate your point. 

Nothing personal against Scott. Just credit those sources! 

Edit: I want to say that some of his videos seemed to copy graphics and/or music from old Pixel Dan videos as well. 

That adds a whole lot of context. Somehow I missed the hundreds of pics part (likely due to another of my failed attempts in appropriating the female talent of multitasking 😆 ).

Not sure how technical viable it is; but I still don't think nuking the entire channel is the right response as opposed to kinda close it up and tell him to fix it by respecting the sources.

He’s back. I wonder if he’ll learn anything from being put in time out for a couple days, or keep using even more of people’s pics and artwork?

Scott is back.