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Several videos tend to rehash plots from other videos with either the same structure or plot being used.


  • The most notable examples of this are "Rich Girl Mistreats Her Roommate" being a copy of "Spoiled Teen Disobeys the Law" in both instances the rich girls are spoiled entitled brats who abuse money and disregard value. One of their parents is too willing to given into them (in Spoiled Teen it's the dad, in Mistreats Roommate it's the mom) and during the restaurant scene both parents decide on cutting their spoiled daughters off and making them work to understand the value of money with both endings being the girls not wanting anything they wanted before.
  • Alongside being an Aesop Amnesia, "TikToker Uses Nerd for Views" is basically the same plot as "Nerd Throws Party Behind Parents' Back" with Nelson in both cases abandoning his friends when a small amount of popularity is presented to him and has to be hurt by the "False Friend" just to learn the lesson. Only in the case of "TikToker Uses Nerd for Views" it makes Nelson come off as a bad friend who very easily can turn against his friends if the situation to be popular becomes available to him. See "Unintentionally Unsympathetic" below.
  • "Ballerina Fat Shamed by Dancer" has the same plot as "Mean Girl Fat Shames Plus Size Dancer." While the former is more of an actual background for the leading protagonist in real life in a case of Reality Subtextnote , both plots involve a heavy sized female getting bullied by a single dancer in which the people leading the dancing call out said bullies, only for the bullies to be outdone by the protagonists in the end.
  • "Big Brother Hates his Little Bro" is just "Big Sister Hates Little Sister" where the older siblings start out as hostile and dismissive of their younger siblings and the person that's with them shares a similar experience with annoying siblings, but convince them to change due to a bad experience.
  • "Mom Treats Son Better Than Girl" follows the exact same story as "Protective Bro Spies on Sister," only with the former following an overprotective mother instead of an overprotective brother. Copied details include: both overprotective Villain Protagonists paying someone to follow their family member to get evidence proving they're dating someone, the antagonist learning everything was just part of a set-up for a surprise birthday party, the antagonist having a Heel Realization about how unduly overprotective they've been, and the teenage family member revealing she's actually dating someone else who the antagonist wasn't even suspicious of.
  • "Rich Girls Humiliate Snow Shoveler" is essentially a genderbent copy of "Rich Kid Makes Poor Kid Set Up Christmas Lights." Both feature a spoiled teenager bullying a fellow teen who works for their family. They eventually get caught by their parent, who admonishes them for their actions (and themselves for spoiling their child so much) before making them take over all the manual labor the person they were bullying had to do. Doing that, on top of finding out about their bullying victim's rough circumstances, gets the once spoiled teen to learn their lesson and make amends.
  • Dhar has used the "parent adopts a child of a different race, gets called out on it by a bigot, said bigot is swayed by the adoptive parent's life story" plot three separate times in about a year ("Lady Calls COPS On A Black Dad With A White Son", "White Dad Shamed for Black Son, What Happens Next Is Shocking", "Lady Calls Cop on a Black Mom With a White Kid, Instantly Regrets It"), with little variation in the plot and dialogue. The only difference between "Lady Calls Cop on a Black Dad With a White Son" is that the titular dad isn't revealed to have been friends with their adoptive child's parents/parent; he was just a man who wanted to adopt the boy after learning that he had been abused by his biological father.
  • Dhar Mann has also made a handful of videos focusing on someone being body shamed and then dumped by a partner ("Husband Abandons Overweight Wife", "Boyfriend Fat Shames Girlfriend", "Girlfriend Dumps Her Boyfriend for Being Too Short", and "Guy Dumps Girlfriend for Being Too Tall"). All of them play out the same way: the protagonist gets body shamed by their partner who eventually leaves them, the partner gets with someone else who doesn't treat them as well as the protagonist and they eventually break up, the partner runs into the protagonist and tries to get back together with them, only for the protagonist to reveal they're now with someone who accepts them as they are. Most also have the partner question the new partner if it bothers them that the protagonist has the flaw that they had a problem with, with the new partner responding with some variation of "it's what's on the inside that counts."
  • "Teacher With Dwarfism is Made Fun Of" is basically a retread of "TikTok Famous Teen Kicked Out of Office." Both focus on a woman being hired by a struggling place of business to help them get back on their feet. The woman's unconventional methods earn her reprimand from an aggressively judgmental employee at the business. But when the newcomer's methods end up saving the business, the employee has a Heel–Face Turn and comes to respect her new co-worker's methods. Both videos even have Katherine Norland and Riki Yvette Westmoreland playing the judgmental employee and her boss respectively.
  • "Businessman Won't Serve to Lesbians" is essentially an unofficial LGBTQ+ reboot of "Greedy Boss Cheats his Customers." Both focus on an employee objecting to their hostile boss's unethical practices, which eventually culminates in them quitting their job to start their own business. Each protagonist starts out strong, only to hit a rough patch soon after opening their business, at which point their former boss shows up to gloat about being right. Both scenes even contain near-identical exchanges where: the boss says the protagonist won't be able to get their old job back due to being replaced, the employees says they'd "rather be homeless" than work for their cruel bosses again, and the boss sarcastically says that remark "hurt their feelings" before mocking their former employee further. Later on, some happenstance results in the employee achieving great success while their old boss's business flounders, with each video ending with the boss arrogantly storming after being told off by their former employee.
  • “Little Sis Blackmails Big Bro” is a genderbent copy of “Older Bro Blackmails His Little Sister”, except that the plotline is the opposite. It involves the sibling threatening to exploit another sibling for their bad grades. They ended up getting rebuked by their mother for their actions. Although they are not entirely off the hook, they eventually have learned their lesson in the end.
  • The high school videos involving an Alpha Bitch bullying another girl (ranging from an overweight girl, a girl with Down Syndrome, and a wheelchair bound girl) all seem to involve the Alpha Bitch interested in a boy, bullying the other girl, and then after the Aesop, the boy turns down the Alpha Bitch in favor of the victim.
  • The videos "Poor Girl Shamed For Her School Lunch", "Poor STUDENT SHAMED For OLD CLOTHES", and "10-Year-Old ONLY BUYS Designer, She Instantly Regrets It" all involve a spoiled rich kid bullying a poor kid by flaunting the better aspects of their life in which the poor kids have it worse, only for the parent to catch or learn of them them bullying the poor kid and as a result, take away all of the privileges they flaunted throughout the video to teach them a lesson. This ends up getting the rich kid bullied and shunned by their friends, leading to them apologizing and subsequently becoming friends with the poor kid.
  • "EVIL FOSTER MOM Won't Feed Child, She Lives to Regret It" recycles the premise of "Evil Foster Care Mother Mistreats Kid, Lives To Regret It" with a few changes. While both videos have Katherine Norland portray the birth mother, this one takes place during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, swaps Rayna for a teenage boy, and adds a foster sister.
  • Many videos involve a spoiled teenager who abuses money and disregards value while also bullying another kid for being poor, working a menial job, and/or supposedly not doing said job right for whatever petty reason they can find (believing the jobs to be easy), only for their parents to witness their maltreatment and spoiled attitudes and decide to teach them a lesson by cutting off or threatening to cut off their privileges and forcing them to work the same job as the poor kid. The spoiled teen then experiences the just how hard the poor kid has it in their job as they face long hours, high rush demands, bullying from their peers and even their friends, rude and irascible customers blaming them for things beyond their control, and low pay and tips (the latter caused by said customers stiffing them for what they perceive as poor service). In all, the spoiled teen finally sees how the poor kid has it and how hard the job truly is, and ends up apologizing to and possibly becoming friends with them.
  • Several videos involve men becoming consumed by their success and consequently cheating on their loyal wives with younger women. The women unexpectedly catch their husbands cheating and confront them, reminding them that they were the ones who played a big part in their success, primarily by standing by them and keeping them focused and grounded back when they had nothing. However, the men brush this off and claim that "all successful men cheat" and that their wives shouldn't have expected them to stay the same after making it. The confrontation ends with the wives leaving heartbroken and the couples divorce off-screen, leaving the men to continue on with their new girlfriends. However, the new girlfriends prove to be bad influences, as instead of keeping the men focused and grounded like their ex-wives had done, they persuade their men to use their success to neglect their responsibilities by drinking, partying, and spending their money on expensive belongings, trips, dinners, etc. for them. This gradually causes the men to lose their success, after which their new girlfriends dump them. Sometime later, the men unexpectedly run into their ex-wives and after some catching up, admit that they were wrong and ask for another chance, only to learn that the women have moved on and made their own success and/or found love with someone else. The women then walk off with their success and/or new partners, leaving the men alone and deeply regretful over their choices.
  • "Racist Mom Calls Cops on Neighbors" on the Dhar Mann bonus channel is practically a beat-for-beat remake of "Mom Calls Cops on Mexican Neighbors", right down to the damn near verbatim dialogue. Both episodes start with the titular mom (named Janet in the former and Candace in the latter) looking at her prize possession (a watch in the former and a car in the latter; both expensive), and sees the neighbor (named Clayton in the former and Hector in the latter) moving in. They introduce themselves and the mom assumes the neighbor is just the renter, not the homeowner. The mom then tries to introduce herself to the white mover, believing him to be the homeowner, but the neighbor says they aren't while also giving them a large tip. Later on the mom's son asks to use the object to impress his date that night which the mom turns down immediately. The mom then confronts the neighbor who is holding a house warming party with his friends and accuses them of causing a disturbance, calling the friends his "gang". Later that night, she wakes up and the object is stolen. She immediately calls the police on the neighbor as she believes he took it as he expressed interest in it earlier. The neighbor reveals his successful occupation (a jeweler in the former and a car dealer in the latter) and that he owns 5 of the largest businesses of their respective fields in the state to the point that the mom could've bought the object from there. It's revealed the son stole the object, somehow damaging it while on his date, and the mom catches him trying to sneak back into the house, believing her to be asleep. The mom then notices the damage and punishes the son, screaming at him to get in the house and that he is in big trouble, and the video ends with the mom saying sorry to the neighbor for judging him as the police leave, and the neighbor accepts and offers his card to the mom, offering to fix the object at one of his shops, to which she happily accepts. There are some differences, such as Hector's invitees being his cousins Juan, Francisco, and Jesus and their occupations are revealed (Juan owns the largest steakhouse business in the state, Francisco owns the largest agave plant in Mexico, and Jesus manufactures his own tequila, all of whom are even more successfully than Hector) while Clayton's invitees are merely his friends and we don't find out their occupations, Candace thinking Hector, Juan, Francisco, and Jesus are a mechanic, a taco maker, a farmer, and a liquor store employee respectively, and the watch being a gift from Janet for her husband who'll be back from a business trip the next day, but the videos are pretty much the exact same story.
  • “Student Vandalizes Principal’s Car” is a twisted remake of “Principal Suspends Smart Student”. Both feature a main character getting accused of suspicious activities and refusing to take accountability for their actions, that is until a witness is actually a hidden antagonist. They ended up getting told off by the principal for trying to ruin the person's life while the principal apologized to the victim for not believing them earlier. The true enemy who was responsible for this fiasco presumably ended up getting suspended or even expelled for their malicious crimes.
  • "Step Dad Abandons Amputee Son" Is basically a retread of "Dad Abandons Daughter In A Coma". Both involve a father who pushes their child too hard and both end up getting a near-Career-Ending Injury (In the case of the Daughter, a rare disease). Both fathers also ultimately turn out to only be in it for the money that their future child could potentially have and brings them back into training, uncaring of their condition. When they suffer from their condition again, The father, Unable to mooch off of any success they could have now, abandons The mother and child. The child in both videos recover however and both end up training for their futures (Soccer for the Son and Olympics for the daughter) in their own volition with their mother on their sides. The father even tries to return in both videos to greedily win their child back, only to be rejected. Also in both videos, The child is rejected Pizza at the beginning in favor of more training and by the end, they and their mother get Pizza after a good game.
  • A few videos with the moral "appreciate what you have" involve a poor parent getting shamed by a rich parent over various aspects the rich person has and does for their child, usually ending with the poor parent's child being a complete saint and the rich parent's child being a complete brat.
  • Many of the Dhar Mann Bonus episodes more or less reuse the same plot here and there with occasional changes.

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