Simon Whistler is a parasitic knob. I own and operate a website where I have been researching and writing original non-fiction content for almost 20 years, and Simon used to do paid voice work for me, narrating my writings for podcasts and audio books. Everything seemed to be on the up-and-up, but one day I discovered that he had quietly started making videos for a site that was systematically borderline plagiarizing my writings. Then he started multiple other YouTube channels where he covered the same topics he had recorded for my site, often with striking similarities.
To date there are well over 100 of his videos that appear to be "inspired" by my content. For example:
Me, 2008: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-third-reichs-diabolical-...
Simon, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mP4RQ783lk
Me, 2005: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-man-who-was-a-dwarf-and-...
Simon, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpdMolMlDzw
The list goes on and on. I've been writing online long enough that I've been poached and plagiarized six ways from Sunday, but no one else has come close to leeching so long and systematically as this unoriginal, abject freeloader. Simon Whistler is downright seaward.