{"id":87999,"date":"2022-10-05T18:35:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/youtuber-joel-haver-addresses-claims-snl-stole-his-sketch\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T18:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:35:06","slug":"youtuber-joel-haver-addresses-claims-snl-stole-his-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/youtuber-joel-haver-addresses-claims-snl-stole-his-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTuber Joel Haver addresses claims &#8216;SNL&#8217; stole his sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>He&#8217;s attempting to wipe the slate clean. <\/p>\n<p>YouTube creator Joel Haver, 24, responded to Tuesday that \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d allegedly stole his animated sketch featuring the Charmin bears that he shared on his channel earlier this summer, reports Entertainment Weekly. <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSNL\u201d sketch in question features the episode&#8217;s guest host Miles Teller and cast members Kenan Thompson, Heidi Gardner, Bowen Yang and Punkie Johnson as the butt-wiping Charmin toilet-paper mascots.  In the sketch, Teller tells his father that he no longer wants to be in the family business and wants to follow his true passion: dance. <\/p>\n<p>Haver called the parallels to his video \u201cpretty alarming\u201d but chalked up any similarities to \u201cwild coincidence.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to these stealing accusations, I always err on the side of coincidence,\u201d Haver said in his response video.  \u201cI think parallel thinking does happen more often than not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to the Charmin bears thing, there&#8217;s a lot of coincidences that would have to line up to make it truly a coincidence, but I don&#8217;t think it was malicious.  It was either a subconscious borrowing from somebody on their writers&#8217; staff who saw my video, or it was a wild coincidence,\u201d continued Haver. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Haver&#8217;s original animated video was posted on his YouTube channel earlier this summer. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/Joel Haver<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/toilet-paper-bears-36.jpg?resize=1024%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Haver -- who has nearly 1 million subscribers on YouTube -- says he isn't particularly bothered by that alleged theft. \" class=\"wp-image-24129892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/toilet-paper-bears-36.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/toilet-paper-bears-36.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/toilet-paper-bears-36.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Haver \u2014 who has nearly 1.7 million subscribers on YouTube \u2014 said he isn&#8217;t particularly bothered by the resemblance to his video.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Saturday Night Live<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/toilet-paper-bears-34-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Haver has called the parallels to his video &quot;&quot;pretty alarming&quot; but chalked up any similarities to &quot;wild coincidence.&quot; \" class=\"wp-image-24129919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/toilet-paper-bears-34-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/toilet-paper-bears-34-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/toilet-paper-bears-34-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Haver has called the parallels to his video \u201cpretty alarming\u201d but chalked up any similarities to \u201cwild coincidence.\u201d <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/Joel Haver<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Toilet Paper Bears\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IMKW-ifxikE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Post has reached out to both Haver and NBC for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Haver, who has nearly 1.7 million subscribers on YouTube and whose original video, \u201cToilet Paper Bears,\u201d has nearly three times more views than the \u201cSNL\u201d sketch, said he isn&#8217;t particularly bothered by the resemblance to his video. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I still was a smaller creator, which I was for a long time, I could see it rubbing me the wrong way and me being a little more likely to believe they did steal it,\u201d said Haver. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to recognize I&#8217;m in a position to not be bothered by it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s attempting to wipe the slate clean. YouTube creator Joel Haver, 24, responded to Tuesday that \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d allegedly stole his animated sketch featuring the Charmin bears that he shared on his channel earlier this summer, reports Entertainment Weekly. The \u201cSNL\u201d sketch in question features the episode&#8217;s guest host Miles Teller and cast members &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/youtuber-joel-haver-addresses-claims-snl-stole-his-sketch\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">YouTuber Joel Haver addresses claims &#8216;SNL&#8217; stole his sketch<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[12209,109,12986,28256,371,29127,853],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":87991,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/an-snl-charmin-bears-sketch-has-become-bizarrely-controversial\/","url_meta":{"origin":87999,"position":0},"title":"An SNL Charmin Bears sketch has become bizarrely controversial","date":"October 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Miles Teller and Kenan Thompson in SNL's \u201cCharmin Bears\u201d screenshot: Saturday Night Live\/NBCUniversalSaturday Night Live has a masterful knack for making headlines for any reason other than producing good sketches, and last weekend's Miles Teller-led premiere was no exception. 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