King Abz plagiarism

Recently I’ve been getting really deep into the lore of these games. I’ve purchased both volumes of the Omnibus and finished a few of the Karen Travis novels, the obvious next step for me is to look around youtube for deep dives and lore explanations for certain questions I have. King Abz seems to be at the forefront of that type of content; other than his youtube shorts I never decided to click on one of his videos. All of the videos are pretty straight to the point and are chock-full of information, but something seemed a bit off to me. Moments where he begins to change from an informational topic to a opinionated tangents felt a bit too different from one another. I simply just ignored it because it seems obvious that going off script will be less formal than an informative piece of text.

It wasn’t until I saw his youtube short about the Lancer Chainsaw Bayonet where I came to the realization that he plagiarizes. I didn’t want to write him off as a plagiarist entirely, so I began skimming through a ton of his Gears of War videos. There were many parts, often word for word, where Abz just rips straight from the Gears Wiki. Sometimes it’s a few sentences which isn’t the worst thing, but sometimes it’s entire paragraphs. If I wanted to look at this in good faith I could assume that he helped write a lot of the wiki, but I can’t find any evidence to support that.

It really irks me that he rips a ton of the information from the wiki and reads it word for word. He has a patreon so in a way he’s selling the idea that these are his own words and ideas. I see many people in the comments admiring how he articulates information, but those words aren’t his. I haven’t found a video where he acknowledges the Gears Wiki or links it as one of his sources, yet on his patreon he has a line talking about his long form content and his "narrative style".

"I know you may care most about my Gears of War content over the years as well as my long-form and narrative style. I really hope I can continue to provide content and entertain you for many years to come."

I respect the grind and love the Gears community, but I can't help that a portion of the community is being lied to in a way. He's never openly stated that these are his words (aside from the patreon bio) but as a viewer you're normally under the assumption that the uploader wrote the script unless told otherwise.

This isn't really a call to hate on the guy or get his channel shot down, I just want him to do better in the future.