Most people who've been interested in VALORANT Lore must have heard of LEO.

He's a pretty big channel who started off making VALORANT memes,but eventually shifted to making lore videos on VALORANT. There's a lot of information I want to share regarding the title, I'll get right into it.

Exhibit A: Content Theft

The original incident that prompted me to make this thread. I had uploaded a video on Astra's lore which didn't do very well. Cue LEO, uploading a video on Astra around a week after I uploaded mine. Here are some absurd similiarities I noticed in our videos.

my script (ignore the typos, it's to help the tts pronounce shit correctly)

LEO's subtitles

Regardless of the fact that he's blatantly copied my script word to word, he also never credited dozens of other sources (including all the artwork he rips off for cheap thumbnails and editing) used until his video on Omen's lore. LEO did respond later when I reached out to him, and included my video link in the credits.

lore video previous to omen's

I'm 100% sure there's a lot more that he fails to credit people for, but the first incident was what made me realize how blatant his theft was. Even when he does credit people, it's so unintuitively hidden in the description under a great wall of text that I doubt anyone ever notices.

great wall of text.

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Exhibit B: Misinformation

Neither Douglas nor Clayton are female names lmfao

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Just how? Where's the damn proof?

Ever since LEO started giving credit, I've had the oppurtunity to take a look at how reliable his sources/ research are. His videos involve stitching together reddit theories based off of voicelines in a haphazard manner.

reddit non canon moment

Exhibit C: Tag Abuse

I think it's pretty obvious how 90% of these tags are irrelevant to the content he's uploading. This particular set of tags are used on every video of his.

All in all, LEO's a decent person. He responded to me in a cordial manner and engages with his audience well. But his content is built on other people's ideas, which is quite an issue of content theft. I hope he will recognize this post and take the steps needed to make sure intellectual property is given credit when due in an appropriate manner.