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On the 18th of August, we received a letter from fern. Forty questions, seven days to answer. On the 2nd of September, they published a film about us. This is the answer. Every document in it is public. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 00:00 — The Letter 01:39 — Who Owns fern 09:32 — The One Example 14:44 — The Same Test, Run on Them 20:11 — Whose Money 24:09 — The Loan, and What Was Pledged 27:37 — Twenty-Seven Million Dollars 29:21 — The Thumbnails 35:30 — So What Is a Copy? 38:02 — So What Was the Investigation? 41:50 — The Person 44:28 — The One Fair Question 53:24 — Why Us ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE EVIDENCE Full source list — 122 sources, numbered in the order they appear, with archive copies and dates checked: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wm66c5wrkKMW-RK8kyQGNF9a1seXfNmSdpq9GOcf9KA/edit?usp=sharing Thumbnail comparisons — 10 pairs, with dates, view counts and the number of days between them: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uGRbN9gYddOEoeLVNCUzlKhsoCJcB8HFNUy-Jr9-C7w/edit?usp=sharing Dataset — every fern video checked: title matches, topic verdicts: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YOyvQe8cWOlqaK9ejDC95GhKSa_yF3wUCy9ZVI-vHHg/edit?usp=sharing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ METHOD We compared titles, topics, dates and thumbnails. We did not compare scripts, except for the one video they accused us of copying — both scripts went through Copyleaks, and the report is in the sources. All dates were read off the video pages, not off search results. All company figures come from Companies House and the Dutch KVK register. Where a calculation is ours and not theirs, we say so in the film. We watched 17 of fern's 138 films. There are 121 we didn't open. If we got something wrong, tell us and we'll correct it here. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CORRECTIONS TO OUR OWN FILM Our video "The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz" contains three errors, documented in full under that video: 1. The figure of 1,750,000 stands without the modern estimate beside it. Historians now put it at around 1.1 million murdered at Auschwitz, out of roughly 1.3 million deported. 2. A scene shows prisoners burning a pile of toys. It did not happen in that form. 3. "No one ever escaped to tell the world" is incorrect. Witold Pilecki escaped in April 1943. Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum — auschwitz.org ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MORE FROM LUME Join our Discord community: /discord Watch our movie channel: /@lumz-cinema Our production studio: https://lume-studio.ai/ Advertising & Business Inquiries: collaboration@lumz.ai ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #fern #Lume #YouTube #AI #Documentary