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 “So you see? Imitation is not always the sincerest form of flattery.”
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Note: This page is not about the channels themselves. Only their videos. Please do not add pointers about the people personally.
Dhar Mann clones are types of channels that revolve around copying videos from, you guessed it, Dhar Mann. They are apart of the feel-good life lesson genre that has been going on for a couple of years. While Dhar Mann videos have a more divided undeserved reception, the clones appear even more negatively received, even by Dhar Mann fans.
Examples
- Life Lessons With Luis
- Totally Studios
- Sameer Bhavnani
- Generation Hope
- Vid Chronicles
- DramatizeMe
- Ayden Mekus
- Tomorrow's Teachings
- ZVOID Studios
- The Beast Family
- D.C.’s Family
- SoulSnack
- Love XO
So You See... This Is Why They Are Not Telling Stories
- To get the elephant out of the room, the main problem with these channels is that they are blatant rip offs of Dhar Mann’s videos.
- The acting is atrocious, surpassing even the worst performances in Dhar Mann's videos, as it fluctuates between being excessively exaggerated and utterly monotonous.
- In many of Totally Studio's videos, there is a slight delay between dialogue exchanges, likely due to the scenes being filmed separately and then edited together.
- Being produced on such low budgets (especially Totally Studios), the cinematography is very shoddy and amateurish.
- Totally Studios employs green-screen backgrounds instead of actual sets. Speaking of which, the green-screen backgrounds appear painfully outdated and artificial.
- In Totally Studios' videos, it's common for some scenes to be filmed separately and later edited together, which becomes particularly noticeable when the characters don't always make direct eye contact during their interactions.
- Much like Dhar Mann’s videos, the videos in these channels attempt to be hip, cool and relevant.
- Similar to Dhar Mann, many of them contain unnecessary narration between scenes to extend the video's run time. Special mention goes to Totally Studios, whose videos feature narration between nearly every scene, and this narration is incredibly annoying and unnecessary.
- Like Dhar Mann, these channels claim to be family-friendly, despite the videos having mature themes, but they go even more so with there "family friendly" content than Dhar Mann, such as sexual harassment, domestic or child abuse, pedophilia, rape, incest, suicide, pornography, and even MURDERǃ Not helping is that they don't tackle these subjects seriously, making them look like jokes. Likewise, one video involved two people forcing a vegan to eat meat. Which gives out a bad moral saying that you should force someone to do something they don’t want to do and that they will eventually like it. The video gets more mean spirited as the guy who was tormented with the steak gives her some meat and jokes about the lady’s dog being inside of it when actually giving her vegan meat.
- While Dhar Mann has the “so bad it’s good” factor going for it, these videos are just straight-up bad. So bad to the point where they can get disturbing.
- One video that got deleted for obvious reasons had a teacher sexually harassing a student. It was so bad it got its own page here before YouTube finally took it off their site. Another one involved a teacher by the name of Mr. Shitoshi (Yes, that's his name) taking a dump on a kid’s homework! The reason why is because his father took a dump on his face 30 years earlier. The video has an even worse way of showing how getting revenge on someone is wrong. Even Dhar Mann would never go this far. In one of the worst videos, as said, it shows actual murder, as a woman cuts off her husband's oxygen tank! That is grimǃ
- Similar to Dhar Mann's videos, these videos feature unnecessary subtitles that cannot be disabled.
- Speaking of which, while the Dhar Mann shorts have occasional subtitle errors, these videos have a multitude of them, including some that are blatantly obvious and could have been readily fixed.
- Vid Chronicles has this membership subscription on YouTube for viewers to join and pay for, to watch their feature films (and videos before they are released to the general public), which is stupid and greedy. Notably, this impacts the free version of YouTube, not just YouTube Premium.
- Some videos are outright offensive. Life Lessons With Luis has a video titled “White Guy FORCES MUSLIM Girl to EAT PORK!!!” There are so many things wrong here and you do not have to be Muslim to know. First off, Muslims do not date. Second, her hijab is showing her ears and hair. Thirdly, steak fries are not made out of steak. Fourth, the Muslim girl is dating a non-Muslim (which is haram in two ways), and finally, the entire thing is just distasteful. Making a video on religious issues is very hard because you need to have full knowledge of the religion being targeted. Make mistakes and you get this.
- Sameer and Luis like to cameo themselves in a lot of their videos. At least Dhar Mann kept it to a minimum, but because the budget, production, and everything else is lower quality in these channels, it happens a lot more often, which feels lazy.
- False advertising and clickbait:
- One video had kids “copying Squid Game” in the title, but the actual video had nothing to do with the show at all. It was just kids taking turns paying each other to fight.
- "Kid FAKES Dying to SKIP School. Does He Get Caught?": the title suggests that the protagonist fakes his own death to avoid school, but in actuality, he lies about his grandfather's death as an excuse to skip.
- "FARTING GUY Stinks Up Airport and Kicked Off Plane. Surprise Ending": Contrary to what the title suggests, the protagonist also farts on the plane, not just at the airport. Additionally, instead of being kicked off the plane at the end, the plane is forced to make an emergency landing.
- The videos and channels are even self aware, such as in one of Luis' video where they shoehorn Dhar Mann for no reason.
- While Dhar Mann’s videos are bad, the problems with these channels makes said videos look like a masterpiece in comparison. Also, while Dhar Mann’s videos are considered to be “so bad, it’s good” by some, these channels’ videos are just straight up bad.
Redeeming Qualities
- There are occasional good videos here and there.
- Depending on your view, sometimes these channels can come off as unintentionally hilarious due to the horrible acting and writing, like Sameer Bhavnani and Life Lessons With Luis.
- Though rare, it could be likely these videos are intentionally bad, and that can be noticed. Though, it's obviously not a parody.
- Like Dhar Mann, a few of the actors are decent. In fact some of Dhar Mann’s actors are on these videos and sometimes vice versa (meaning that they later appeared on Dhar Mann).
- Out of all these clones, Vid Chronicles may be considered the best (despite their membership on films). This is because their camera angles and editing look more authentic. Plus, their videos are a lot more realistic compared to the other clones.
Reception
The clones, of course, got a very negative and nasty reception from viewers, though weirdly most comments of the videos do not seem to acknowledge this.
Trivia
- Some of these Dhar Mann clones originally had done original content on their older channels such as:
- Sameer Bhavnani: Originally known for his channel called To Catch a Cheater, but soon quit the channel in 2021 to move on to his own channel.
- Life Lessons With Luis: Originally also known for To Catch a Cheater.
- The Beast Familyː Originally another controversial family channel, like "The Royalty Family" or "Ryan's World".
- D.C.'s Familyː Another family channel turned Dhar Mann.
- Ayden Mekus is one of Dhar Mann's actors, in which his channel used to post original content. Once he was a part of Dhar Mann Studios, he started to copy his style of videos.
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