James Somerset was making $170,000 a year with nearly 6 million views and 267,000 subscribers on YouTube, until…

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    When Hbomberguy goes after you, you know you are in big trouble.

    I still can’t believe I watched a “3 hour” video essay on plagiarism and its worth every minute.

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      I’m so out of the loop I have no idea who any of these people are or why I should care. Or if I should. What is even going on?

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        So basically, James Somerton stole literally all of his content from other queer creators while positioning himself as the de-facto queer creator to support. And by “all his content”, it really means all his content. Every. Single. Thought. Was plagiarized from someone else’s writing. And the extremely few that didn’t revealed that James Somerton is a crazy misogynist Nazi-loving lesbophobic transphobe.

        Basically, he’s a massive piece of shit who’s comically evil to a mind-numbing degree.

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        You should care if you follow any YouTube creators. It is the biggest topic right now on YouTube. Everyone is affected because lazy creators and content farms stealing other people’s work is such a big problem on YouTube.

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          “any YouTube creator” is a stretch. The video called out a few people, and I can imagine that quite a few more vlog style YouTubers are guilty of it. But the vast majority of channels I follow either properly cite their sources or don’t need to, because they present original work.

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        Essentially, Hbomberguy dug up every skeleton on this guy’s closet and went to town on them, identifying and tracking down most, if not all of the original authors of the works this fucker plagiarized. And the internet blew the video sky high, which made a lot of eyes turn to this guy’s actions, in the wrong way (for him).

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        Hbomberguy is a popular YouTuber who recently released a video on plagiarism on YouTube. You can watch it here. I haven’t watched it myself yet, but I’m assuming the person in the article is someone he calls out in his video

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          Like half of the video is about this douche, he’s the post-reveal topic if your familiar with hbomb’s style

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        I also didn’t know the guy. This is the first video, nay movie I watched of him. Found it randomly in Nebula. And somehow was lured in to watch the whole 3 hours.

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          Definitely watch his OOF.mp3 video if you liked the style, it was last year’s release

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        Todd in the Shadows went a little deeper on that. Mostly saying they were so fit and sexy that they inspired American fitness culture. Which is just not true.

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        He made an erroneous claim in one of his videos that the main reason for people enlisting to WW2 from the US were because the Nazis had “hot and sexy bodies”

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        It’s mostly covered in ToddfromtheShadow’s, who happened to choose actual violence and dispute as many claims as possible. Some of the things that came up is that:

        • He thinks that all the gays who died in the Aids pandemic were the cool ones and that the boring ones didn’t do anything but focus on the boring rights, like the very cornerstones of the Civil Rights movements. The specific statement is also a directly plagiarized statement that came from someone who was mostly aiming it at artists because she liked to start shit.
        • He seems to really like nazis to the point of making shit up about how the Nazis are the reason why Amercians enlisted in WW2 (for those who don’t know, America did not have a large enough enlistment and most GIs were conscripted soldiers) and proposing fringe theories about why we designed our body building programs in first place.
        • He despises women and transpeople. When he isn’t plagiarizing (and therefore going off script) he goes on entire tangents about why women are the reason why Dalmar and Bundy get away with their crimes, and he stills massive amount of his work from transpeople. He also likes to deal in my personal favorite, Bi Erasure.
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    Okay, but what about the profits he raked?

    170k is an insulting amount of money to be “earned”. Retribution is needed.

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      Finders keepers… he clearly outsmarted everyone else who didn’t do the same he did, so unless someone sues him… it’s how these things work, right?

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        Next step is starting to appear in right wing spaces to say you were “canceled” by the left to start the next phase of the grift.

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          oooh. we should take bets on this. i would guess it’s his business plan for 2024, so i expect to see him making a public appearance sometime in january.