Still, I think the way this usually works is that people just choose not to enforce their copyright when they say "you can use my stuff". You can't really lose it unless you put all your stuff under creative commons or something.

Oh OBVIOUSLY it's a really bad look. But I'm legitimately asking, just because Ethan says he's letting people use his content and then goes back on his word, does that actually help the people he's suing?

Does that actually hold up in court? Like, can you actually completely waive your copyright by just saying so in a video? Or is he just going to argue he was joking or whatever and never signed anything legally binding?

Yeah, I'm just a dude that loves vaginas and supports equal rights for everyone. Bring me all of your hate.

Elon Musk is a BFR (plausible deniability)

It's a joke based on this classic

Northernlion erasure

Does he know about little known author Thomas Hobbes? He made some similar observations a while back but I think the two came to different conclusions...