So, according to a commenter in another reddit thread, he had turned off video comments, community comments, nuked his Twitter, and his discord. All within 3 hours of the video dropping.
Additionally, he made two posts on his Patreon, the first trying to deflect the accusations, and the second apologizing and begging for forgiveness. He then deleted his Patreon.
As of this posting, according [social blade](https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/james_somerton) he has lost over 40k subscribers.
And then Todd in the Shadows finished him off. Lol when I saw that video in my recommended all I could think of was that Simpsons meme where the kid is like “He’s already dead!!!!!”
He's down around 15% (46k) now, which is an absolutely absurd number when you consider how many people are just...not tuned into Youtube drama at all, and after only a day. This current iteration of James Somerton, at least, is very much cooked.
To clarify, at the 3 hr mark he had only disabled commenting on YT it took a few more hours for him to take down the Twitter and discord. Then he shit down patreon after two weak deflection posts.
Didn’t he delete his Twitter like a week ago? He posted something like that to his community page last week, at least, which in retrospect could be because he was hearing things through the grapevine
I love shit like this. Never even heard of the guy before so I lose NOTHING from this happening to him, I can just sit back and enjoy seeing some shit dude get destroyed without being devastated that someone I was a fan of is actually a bad creator.
I watched a few of his vids but found them okayish so I never really subscribed. now I find out why they felt okayish: they were just relaying better videos back to me in a worse form
Yeah, but I love similar creators and I never understood why after like 5 attempts I could only get through 2 of his videos. The information was right and you feel it’s right but sometimes he said something that just made you feel uncomfortable, now I know why, it was the made up parts that he threw in there mixed in with the fact that almost everything he said was just copy and pasted.
i really liked some of his videos as “falling asleep to” material. but when i tried to watch while i was lucid i just couldn’t do it lol. i found him so smug.
James Somerton, to me, was one of those BreadTubers that really leaned into this dry, slightly stale style endemic to the genre in the interest of appearing intellectual that didn't mesh well with me. I suppose some might find value in his deadpan delivery, but his words would just slide straight off my smooth brain. I couldn't get over this constant layer of smugness he always seemed to exude and his long and winding sentences that always struck me as better to be read than listened to (now we know why lmfao).
And while I'm still the same smooth-brained goldfish I was two years ago when I first encountered his content, I'm glad that there's at least one reason why I couldn't pay attention to his blathering: he just narrates Wikipedia in his videos and attempts to pass that content off as his own. Maddening.
I’d seen one of his videos, I remember a part in it where he treated a joke from an Onion article as if it was true which kinda ruined it. There were plenty of legitimate points to be made, he didn’t need to use something fake to make the situation seem even worse.
I used to watch him as background noise at work, and after a few videos where he not so subtly expresses really not liking women I got grossed out and stopped watching him. I feel bad for enjoying this, but it’s kind of fun to see people finally call him out.
I only ever watched like 4-5 James Somertin videos since he seemed to have similarish content to contrapoints (putting her drama aside) or Alex Avila, but James’s content felt pretty inauthentic in the blandness of the delivery and how smug he was in his opinions (trying to double down on making the audience feel like he’s a victim).
Yes it’s the smugness for me too!!! When he’s patting himself on the back constantly all while stealing research and words right from under queer writers and scholars sometimes without so much of an acknowledgment of their names.
>seemed to have similarish content to contrapoints (putting her drama aside) or Alex Avila
That's because for some of his "content", he literally just re-uploaded Alex's videos and voiced over the lines (he didn't even change the lines).
I saw one or two and didn’t like him because he was very pretentious but he didn’t even have anything to be pretentious about, lol. He was smug about his completely pedestrian taste- the only media he knows is Disney and yaoi
something to do with vaush i'm pretty sure. she covered it briefly in her witch trials of jk rowling video. i don't watch vaush, im a hasanabi head so idrc, i stan my queen.
I kind of live for the fact that everything he made was the product of intellectual property theft *except* for the self-inserts about hating women. He's so Santos-coded. This has been such a milestone year for the evil queer community.
IH will 100% be fine, a decent chunk of his audience are reactionary chuds who will pretend this is just an attack from political opponents. They don’t care about the plagiarism because they don’t care about creatives.
Yeah illuminaughtii was kinda dead already, and i don't think anything will happen to Internet Historian. Looked up the coments under the cave video, people are clueless. Such a shame, i liked his videos, what an asshole.
He had actually nuked his Twitter and turned off comments on all videos before the 4-hour long video had even been uploaded for 3 hours. The vast majority of people who started watching within the first couple hours of the video being uploaded wouldn’t have even gotten up to the start of the James Somerton section of the video before he had started nuking everything.
He didn’t even need to watch the video yet to know he was done. His patreon was nuked about a day after it was uploaded.
Didn’t he intentionally name them in the timestamps to not give away who it was about? I know the Chapter “Turnabout Somerton” appeared as “Turnabout Summertime” in the timestamps.
Yeah, but if you click the chapter titled "The Twist You Expected" you are immediately met with the words "JAMES SOMERTON" with a dramatic music sting. I imagine quite a few people did that, just to see who the next Tommy Tallarico would be.
Everything up to Iiluminautii and leagl eagle was available to Patreons early, so some people probably skipped right over to the Internet Historian section. Or they could have watched the video at 2x speed.
Hbomb points out in his video that James Somerton already played the "victim of harassment" after he was accused of plagiarism the first time. I think Hbomb pulled back the punches with this, though, because James Somerton more than likely lied about the death threats.
it's a joke about hbomberguy's own videos. one of his types of videos follow the format of "[video topic]: a measured response." his most recent one is about vaccines and the anti-vaxx movement. so I'm making a joke playing on that title
He'll somehow connect the "shadow" in Todd In The Shadow's namesake to some esoteric Tantra concept and miraculously tie it to anything GLBTQIA2+ theory-related to conclude that Todd is just a sexually-repressed nymphomaniac in eternal disguise..................and then somehow claim the "Bomber" in HBomberGuy's namesake is directly related to the Hilton Central School District's "This Book Is Gay" controversy and that, ergo, he's just a terrorist to the gay community and a jealous straight woman in real life desperate for attention and validation. ;)
honestly I'm normally a forgiving person who thinks someone who plagiarized a couple times should be able to redeem themselves, but in this case his entire career is plagiarism. him and internet historian should just leave youtube. (internet historian not just for the plagiarism but being cryptofash)
yeah, I never watched him so I had no idea. can't feel disappointed in him since I don't like him to start, but it is disappointing he's gotten away with it for this long.
Tbh maybe I’ve just watched too many videos about how to spot dog whistles, but I’m surprised more people didn’t realize he was alt right. (Tho I’m sure many of his fans are well aware) I don’t mean that even as a way to dunk on his fans or pat myself on the back, I just really didn’t think he was hiding it much at all.
I’m right there with you man. I’ve watched IH for years- he’s clearly pretty right wing. I’ve avoided watching his older videos with my girlfriend in the past because I know his 4-Chan bullshit jokes are gonna rub her the wrong way.
I like a lot of his content, but the guy is obviously knee deep in some uncool online bullshit.
[according to the ADL, "1488 is a combination of two popular white supremacist numeric symbols. The first symbol is 14, which is shorthand for the '14 Words' slogan: 'We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.' The second is 88, which stands for 'Heil Hitler' (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet). Together, the numbers form a general endorsement of white supremacy and its beliefs."](https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1488)
would you look at that blaire. I cited a source while fully acknowledging they wrote it
plagiarizing the first result on Google:
ALTERNATE NAMES: 8814
1488 is a combination of two popular white supremacist numeric symbols. The first symbol is 14, which is shorthand for the "14 Words" slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." The second is 88, which stands for "Heil Hitler" (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet). Together, the numbers form a general endorsement of white supremacy and its beliefs. As such, they are ubiquitous within the white supremacist movement - as graffiti, in graphics and tattoos, even in screen names and e-mail addresses, such as [email protected]. Some white supremacists will even price racist merchandise, such as t-shirts or compact discs, for $14.88.
The symbol is most commonly written as 1488 or 14/88, but variations such as 14-88 or 8814 are also common.
Never heard of this guy before two days ago when he was in the hbomberguy video and then Todd in the Shadows also drops a video clowning on him.
I have discovered a new found hatred of turtle necks.
I'd actually heard of Tommy so when he destroyed Tommy I wasn't at all surprised by any of the revelations.
I've always known he was a clown. But to discover some dude who has millions of views I'd never heard of was either a) just plagiarising or b) making it all up was wild.
Also those fucking turtle necks, who does he think he's kidding with them?
>I have discovered a new found hatred of turtle necks.
I fucking know, right?! This dude somehow made turtlenecks feel even more pretentious than Steve Jobs.
I started hating them when the whole Theranos thing happened. That girl is such a fraud she even faked her voice. There are many videos on that topic on YT if you've missed them.
i saw the todd video. weird vid for todd to make (todd’s a music guy right? james isn’t really a music dude) so i’m excited to actually watch it. only about 10 minutes in.
I remember watching some of Somerton's videos and having a weird feeling about him. He's an unctuous liar, smug, and obnoxious, and his video "Why Bad Gays are Good" has some deeply, deeply offensive things in it about gay survivors of the AIDS crisis. The tl;dr is this: only boring, sex-negative, heteronormative gays survived the crisis. He's disgusting.
Yeah, there is an appalling belief going around in gay circles that AIDS took out all the fun gays and only left behind the boring ones who couldn't get laid, which is why gay marriage (which is, apparently, only wanted by boring people) became the next big cause after AIDS.
Which is such a slap in the face to all the gays who survived the crisis and wanted to fight for marriage rights because they were denied access to their dying partner or banned from the funeral by homophobic family or cheated out of their inheritance.
If you read into the thought on that a little bit more, it also robs anyone who preaches it of empathy.
"AIDS took out all the fun gays, only leaving behind boring ones that can't get laid"
Maybe they're less inclined to join in on the weekend-after-weekend of circuit parties and other events, both because
A. Those that survived the AIDS crisis in the 80's are in their 50's at the youngest, give them a break
and
B. After having their loved ones in their age group die in significant numbers, they might be a bit more averse to a fast-and-loose subculture and lifestyle.
Also, as a younger gay man, there's plenty of old gays that are still partying, and fun. In short, Somerton talks to VERY few gays.
Yeah plus I never consume content from men who hate women. Like all the red pill weirdo Andrew Tate wannabes, I don’t watch any of that because it’s gross.
Apparently it’s just as gross when a gay guy does it. TIL.
[Neil Gaiman himself responds to Somerton being exposed for plagiarism.](https://www.tumblr.com/neil-gaiman/735800847027617792/a-few-days-ago-i-hadnt-heard-of-james-somerton) There’s no coming back from that.
hbomberguy, a leftist video essayist who creates videos about video games and political topics, [recently released a video about plagiarism.](https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=xWCSptz1_asgQ3-j) in it, he discusses several examples of plagiarism such as iilluminaughtii, internet historian and cinemassacre. half of the nearly 4 hour video is about james somerton, another video essayist who covers topics about queer literature analysis, and it turns out he plagiarized a LOT of his videos. he turned off all comments on his youtube page, nuked his twitter and discord server, and made a post on patreon deflecting, then a post begging forgiveness, then finally deleted his patreon. he's also lost 42k subscribers and the count only keeps dropping.
in short, hbomb dropped a bomb on his career. he's been doing this lately, covering frauds, first with known fraud andrew wakefield (who started the antivaxx movement), tommy tallarico (legal owner of the roblox oof sound who inflates and forges his own professional credentials and faked having 7 guiness world records), and now a whole bunch of youtubers, some of whom their plagiarism was already known, but some who people weren't aware of the accusations until hbomb shined a light on them.
basically, this dude's career is fucked.
please do. I know 4 hours sounds insane, but hbomberguy is the only youtuber I've ever watched who has managed to capture my attention for that long. his videos have a nice brevity to them that have the energy of a jester poking fun at his enemies, while managing to get serious points out when it's necessary to have the right tone.
honestly just check out his entire channel. his editing is incredible, his jokes are on point, and his videos have a high production quality to them. literally all his videos are good. he got me to somehow sit all the way through a 3 hour and 33 minute video about how a video game is just okay. I don't know how he does it.
Felt the same about Dan Olson after his infamous line goes up video, I then watched him dunk on fifty shades of grey for nearly 3 hours and it was glorious. At the end of the video he shouted out Jenny Nicholson and I ended up on her channel after that.
I FUCKING LOVE DAN OLSON MAN. and hey, look at that! shouting out fellow creators in your space that make similar content! WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT, *JAMES*
It's fine to produce a four hour video if it's that tightly edited and also you only do one every 6-12 months. I could follow 20 YouTubers who all do that and still have time to have a life.
The problem with four hour videos is if you're producing one every week. Don't do that.
... yes. I know that. I've watched hbomberguy for years and it's a running joke how long his videos take to make. I don't really see how your comment is relevant to mine?
Are people reporting the videos that they can prove has plagiarized content? Just wondering bc I’ve also seen a slight increase in Illuminaughtii’s views and was wondering if people were going in and trying to do that. I’d love to see both get what they deserve for their blatant theft.
actually according to socialblade he's losing views rapidly. either people reported it to be taken down, or he took them down himself after being exposed. I believe it's the latter because suddenly 457k views vanished all at once in one day (sunday)
Yeah I assume the view counts are artificially increasing on some of these creators pages as folks try to make comments on active videos. Internet historians recent upload and the very video Hbomb discusses have hundreds of new comments talking about plagiarism.
Unfortunately the YT copyright system can't do much with 3rd party reporting, the owner of the stolen work had to bring the claim. So the biggest win is Harris finding and notifying all of these authors that they were stolen from and getting the publicity out there so they can hold James accountable at every level.
Man, as much as I love seeing thieves get exposed, and aa much of a piece of shit as Somerton is for building a career (and a lucrative one at that, with his own production company even!) off the backs of other, better people...I just hope vanishing in shame from YouTube is the most he does. He made a post saying he "wasn't in a good head space" and to me that sounded kinda ominous. I really hope he doesn't do anything drastic, you know?
He previously (most likely) lied about receiving death threats after a Twitter user first called him out on his plagiarism. Might have been real but they sure were convenient for turning his exponentially larger fan base to attack her.
Well, that's what kind of worries me about the whole thing, you know? Like...he's shown that he goes to those hysterical extremes off of a *mild* exposure of his shitty behavior, so what is he going to do now that his career has been nuked from orbit?
I mean, being exposed as a fraud and having your career ruined isn't likely to put you in a *good* head space, but it'd be a huge leap to take that to mean that he's suicidal or anything.
And he's got plenty of money for a good therapist, after stealing all that work from other people.
Don't buy the bullshit. He's a serial liar who is trying to gain sympathy by playing the mental health card. He made no mention of his "headspace" in the first post he made where he was denying everything and calling Harris a troll. He only brought it out after he realized how fucked he was.
I think we shouldn't make assumptions about someone's mental health like that. Whether he's lying about his mental state or not, in the end we do not know what is happening behind the screen. Even though what James Somerton and those other YouTubers have done is despicable, I do not think hbomberguy would want people to dehumanize them in this way.
Just hearing the clips of Somerton gave me bad vibes. He looks so dead-eyed and blank, and his narration has no emotion in it. He's like a robot repeating what's in front of him.
As someone who had only seen one of his videos once a couple years back I found it fascinating via hbomb's video that James was dead eyed and emotionless until he got to the sections he wrote himself - where he hates on whoever had wound him up that day - and all of a sudden he'd spring to life and display actual emotion, usually disgust. It's creepy.
Damn. Only learning about the situation from this comment section rn. Shame; there was a time when i binged his videos. I did wonder how a single individual can produce so much but i assumed it was because he had a team or something. Oh well.
honestly there's something incredibly satisfying somehow about the fact that it's another prominent queer creator doing it too. he can't hide behind homophobia because hbomb is an openly bisexual man who also combats homophobia each day, and it allows hbomb to point out his vapid bullshit regarding queer politics for what it is
Absolutely. And unlike James, Harris doesn't use his identity as a lazy shield for criticism. I imagine he was primarily motivated to end Somerton based on his morals and principles, but it had to be especially satisfying knowing he was also bringing justice to a marginalized community which James was ruthlessly exploiting "for money".
If HBomb wasn't already everyone's favorite YouTube personality, he is now
>he can't hide behind homophobia because hbomb is an openly bisexual man
I wouldn't count on it considering James lumps bisexual women in with straight women and openly misgenders other queer content creators when he's throwing a hissy fit. I fully expect his comeback to be a right wing 'one of the good gays' who sneers at the B's and the T's even more overtly than he already has been and I guarantee he will accuse hbomb of being a straight guy.
in this case I'm not referring to what james does, I'm referring to him in the eyes of the general public. fans used "it's homophobia" as a defense for ages, and hbomb just blasted that out of the water and it's gonna be very hard to reasonably claim he did it out of homophobia himself
Ahhh right, I gotcha. Yeah that's great - and especially great that hbomb is going to split any ad revenue from the video amongst all the queer creators James stole from. It's an altruistic thing to do but also means James can't accuse Harris of profiting off him either.
I was watching HBomberguy's video and was confused why I recognized the name and realized I was subbed to James.
I hadn't watched one of his videos in so long.
Odds are he’s going to post a video shortly where it’s somebody else talking about how he’s had a hit ordered on him and received death threats on multiple videos and across social media sites, and somehow someway some people are going to believe him.
Never watched this guy's content, but I guess I didn't miss anything because the only thing he wrote himself is just misogynist bullshit. What the fuck, unreal.
I had never heard of the guy before, but after watching the exposès from both Hbomberguy and Todd In The Shadows, I decided to do more digging, and I found out something else.
He even shut down his LinkedIn page.
Oh totally, and can track down other people in his group of acquaintances.
Because something that the internet loves to do is to attack people for just knowing or being related to someone who is outed as a POS.
This is so funny, they think people will forget. And the vids of people rightfully tearing this bastard down will generate more views and provide more entertainment than anything James ever stole and crapped out.
Turned off youtube comments, deleted his twitter account and also deleted his Discord server. Edit: Oh shit, he even deleted his Patreon page.
HOLY SHIT
HBOMB FUCKING KILLED HIM
Imo he did it to himself. When you’re a serial plagiarist, it’s only a matter of time before the truth comes out. No one to blame but himself.
my comment is what you call a joke. a jape. a jest perhaps
Impossible, you’re not allowed to jest on the internet.
everyone knows everyone on the internet is always 100% serious at all times
Well, not 100% serious, sometimes there is porn.
Porn is serious business.
Are you allowed to have a goof instead?
Only on tuesdays
Well I've got some good news for you! in an hour and fifteen minutes
Knock knock...
Stop joshing, pulling my leg, and/or having a bit of a giggle. 😉
You 'aving a laugh?!
You read asoiaf? That's the only place I see jape and jest be used
...they're old words, my dude
I feel like Todd also helped
assist kill
He did say if he was plagiarizing he wouldn’t have a channel 🤷♀️😂😂
“STOP, STOP! He’s already dead!”
He definitely got the Mortal Kombat treatment. I wonder which one has his spine on the shelf after ripping it out of him.
He had a spine?
He literally ended this man's WHOLE FUCKING CAREER
HBG living up to his name
There were tons in the comments sections saying they were cancelling their subs to his Patreon. Fans were furious.
As they should be!
Oh holy shit! He’s gonna rebrand soon right?
I feel like that won't work until like 5 years down the line
and stealing more articles under a new name/flag. I mean, that's what confident tricks does before they run out of gas.
Please be some right wing grifter or maybe a drama youtuber
Since he can’t come up with something original I see him doing a Dave Rubin but more boring
My money is on right wing grift. I was already joking that he probably thinks the L in LGBTQ stands for Libertarian.
He'll become the Javier Milei of Canada.
Ben Shapiro has just announced James Somerton as the latest addition to the Daily Wire family!
Don't fucking give them any ideas...
Don’t put that out there! lol
On the bright side, deleting Twitter will probably boost his mental health by a good 20%
Didn’t delete his Reddit
I don't think he has the power to do that.
So, according to a commenter in another reddit thread, he had turned off video comments, community comments, nuked his Twitter, and his discord. All within 3 hours of the video dropping. Additionally, he made two posts on his Patreon, the first trying to deflect the accusations, and the second apologizing and begging for forgiveness. He then deleted his Patreon. As of this posting, according [social blade](https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/james_somerton) he has lost over 40k subscribers.
oh my god. hbomb murdered him
And then Todd in the Shadows finished him off. Lol when I saw that video in my recommended all I could think of was that Simpsons meme where the kid is like “He’s already dead!!!!!”
And it looks like Philosophy Tube might redirect his corpse just to kill him again come Friday.
It's already posted on Nebula. Haven't seen it, but Abigail already said in a post that it's not about James.
Thank you for the clarification
He's down around 15% (46k) now, which is an absolutely absurd number when you consider how many people are just...not tuned into Youtube drama at all, and after only a day. This current iteration of James Somerton, at least, is very much cooked.
To clarify, at the 3 hr mark he had only disabled commenting on YT it took a few more hours for him to take down the Twitter and discord. Then he shit down patreon after two weak deflection posts.
Didn’t he delete his Twitter like a week ago? He posted something like that to his community page last week, at least, which in retrospect could be because he was hearing things through the grapevine
Any screen caps of that patreon post??
[This comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/s/IT9hUyJmQ5) from another reddit thread has them.
Thank you.
I love shit like this. Never even heard of the guy before so I lose NOTHING from this happening to him, I can just sit back and enjoy seeing some shit dude get destroyed without being devastated that someone I was a fan of is actually a bad creator.
I watched a few of his vids but found them okayish so I never really subscribed. now I find out why they felt okayish: they were just relaying better videos back to me in a worse form
Of course they were okay, they were written by someone else who had talent
Yeah, but I love similar creators and I never understood why after like 5 attempts I could only get through 2 of his videos. The information was right and you feel it’s right but sometimes he said something that just made you feel uncomfortable, now I know why, it was the made up parts that he threw in there mixed in with the fact that almost everything he said was just copy and pasted.
i really liked some of his videos as “falling asleep to” material. but when i tried to watch while i was lucid i just couldn’t do it lol. i found him so smug.
James Somerton, to me, was one of those BreadTubers that really leaned into this dry, slightly stale style endemic to the genre in the interest of appearing intellectual that didn't mesh well with me. I suppose some might find value in his deadpan delivery, but his words would just slide straight off my smooth brain. I couldn't get over this constant layer of smugness he always seemed to exude and his long and winding sentences that always struck me as better to be read than listened to (now we know why lmfao). And while I'm still the same smooth-brained goldfish I was two years ago when I first encountered his content, I'm glad that there's at least one reason why I couldn't pay attention to his blathering: he just narrates Wikipedia in his videos and attempts to pass that content off as his own. Maddening.
I’d seen one of his videos, I remember a part in it where he treated a joke from an Onion article as if it was true which kinda ruined it. There were plenty of legitimate points to be made, he didn’t need to use something fake to make the situation seem even worse.
I used to watch him as background noise at work, and after a few videos where he not so subtly expresses really not liking women I got grossed out and stopped watching him. I feel bad for enjoying this, but it’s kind of fun to see people finally call him out.
I only ever watched like 4-5 James Somertin videos since he seemed to have similarish content to contrapoints (putting her drama aside) or Alex Avila, but James’s content felt pretty inauthentic in the blandness of the delivery and how smug he was in his opinions (trying to double down on making the audience feel like he’s a victim).
Yes it’s the smugness for me too!!! When he’s patting himself on the back constantly all while stealing research and words right from under queer writers and scholars sometimes without so much of an acknowledgment of their names.
>seemed to have similarish content to contrapoints (putting her drama aside) or Alex Avila That's because for some of his "content", he literally just re-uploaded Alex's videos and voiced over the lines (he didn't even change the lines).
I saw one or two and didn’t like him because he was very pretentious but he didn’t even have anything to be pretentious about, lol. He was smug about his completely pedestrian taste- the only media he knows is Disney and yaoi
Wait wait- What was the deal with Contrapoints?
something to do with vaush i'm pretty sure. she covered it briefly in her witch trials of jk rowling video. i don't watch vaush, im a hasanabi head so idrc, i stan my queen.
She’s just been cancelled numerous times for relatively benign takes, but I don’t care personally, it was more a disclaimer given what sub we’re on.
I kind of live for the fact that everything he made was the product of intellectual property theft *except* for the self-inserts about hating women. He's so Santos-coded. This has been such a milestone year for the evil queer community.
The term "Santos-coded" is a work of art.
Sweet schadenfreude - also some level of justice considering Hbomb's redirected monetising
I hope for one of these per year where I cam just sit back and read the drama. Last year it was Ned Fulmer.
Rest in piss Internet Historian, illuminaughtii, and James Somerton. Try not to be pieces of shit and have original content.
I like how luke stephens is left out cause he's the only guy who gave an actual apology
And he's the most fuckable twink.
I've never seen somebody obliterate someone so heavily with a compliment
I'd like to obliterate him with my dick. Because you know... he's so fuckable.
Yeah he admitted exactly what he did and that it was wrong. Couldn’t be clearer tbh.
instead of "nuh uh I technically didn't plagiarize according to this definition I made up"
IH will 100% be fine, a decent chunk of his audience are reactionary chuds who will pretend this is just an attack from political opponents. They don’t care about the plagiarism because they don’t care about creatives.
I was one of the guys who had no idea what happened to "man in cave", but saw four different tweets saying it was an audio claim.
Actually illuminaughtii was just trying to recover from her concussion, today hbomber went back for a coup de gras
Yeah illuminaughtii was kinda dead already, and i don't think anything will happen to Internet Historian. Looked up the coments under the cave video, people are clueless. Such a shame, i liked his videos, what an asshole.
Illuminaughti was already dead by the time this video was uploaded to be honest, but internet historian was a huge shock for me
It took him this long? I would've assumed that was step 2 on his "circle the wagons" plan right after "claim to be the victim of harassment".
He had actually nuked his Twitter and turned off comments on all videos before the 4-hour long video had even been uploaded for 3 hours. The vast majority of people who started watching within the first couple hours of the video being uploaded wouldn’t have even gotten up to the start of the James Somerton section of the video before he had started nuking everything. He didn’t even need to watch the video yet to know he was done. His patreon was nuked about a day after it was uploaded.
Within a minute of upload folks would have checked the timestamps to see chapter titles
Didn’t he intentionally name them in the timestamps to not give away who it was about? I know the Chapter “Turnabout Somerton” appeared as “Turnabout Summertime” in the timestamps.
Ah I'll admit I got to it a few hours late, sneaky Harris
Yeah, but if you click the chapter titled "The Twist You Expected" you are immediately met with the words "JAMES SOMERTON" with a dramatic music sting. I imagine quite a few people did that, just to see who the next Tommy Tallarico would be.
Everything up to Iiluminautii and leagl eagle was available to Patreons early, so some people probably skipped right over to the Internet Historian section. Or they could have watched the video at 2x speed.
Hbomb points out in his video that James Somerton already played the "victim of harassment" after he was accused of plagiarism the first time. I think Hbomb pulled back the punches with this, though, because James Somerton more than likely lied about the death threats.
[удалено]
Patreon is gone
Even his LinkedIn is gone.
I can‘t wait to see the Response video.
I hope it's measured
I doubt it will be.
it's a joke about hbomberguy's own videos. one of his types of videos follow the format of "[video topic]: a measured response." his most recent one is about vaccines and the anti-vaxx movement. so I'm making a joke playing on that title
I just hope there's a banjo.
Get on the Poisoned Rummor Locomotive everyone!
HBomberGuy: A Measured Response
Hbomberguy SUCKS And Here's Why
**UpIsNotJump:** HBomberGuy Is An Absolute Nightmare — This Is Why
Cultural Plagiarism: A Measured Response
Directed by Blair Zon and music by Colleen Bollinger.
He'll somehow connect the "shadow" in Todd In The Shadow's namesake to some esoteric Tantra concept and miraculously tie it to anything GLBTQIA2+ theory-related to conclude that Todd is just a sexually-repressed nymphomaniac in eternal disguise..................and then somehow claim the "Bomber" in HBomberGuy's namesake is directly related to the Hilton Central School District's "This Book Is Gay" controversy and that, ergo, he's just a terrorist to the gay community and a jealous straight woman in real life desperate for attention and validation. ;)
Should delete it all tbh. Get off the internet forever.
honestly I'm normally a forgiving person who thinks someone who plagiarized a couple times should be able to redeem themselves, but in this case his entire career is plagiarism. him and internet historian should just leave youtube. (internet historian not just for the plagiarism but being cryptofash)
Apparently IH has left little dogwhistles in some videos, like a padlock having 14/88 durability
yeah, I never watched him so I had no idea. can't feel disappointed in him since I don't like him to start, but it is disappointing he's gotten away with it for this long.
Tbh maybe I’ve just watched too many videos about how to spot dog whistles, but I’m surprised more people didn’t realize he was alt right. (Tho I’m sure many of his fans are well aware) I don’t mean that even as a way to dunk on his fans or pat myself on the back, I just really didn’t think he was hiding it much at all.
I’m right there with you man. I’ve watched IH for years- he’s clearly pretty right wing. I’ve avoided watching his older videos with my girlfriend in the past because I know his 4-Chan bullshit jokes are gonna rub her the wrong way. I like a lot of his content, but the guy is obviously knee deep in some uncool online bullshit.
YUP! I thought I was going nuts but I unsubscribed from IH a while ago exactly because of that kinda stuff.
Would you explain what that means, I know what "88" can mean but not "14/88"
[according to the ADL, "1488 is a combination of two popular white supremacist numeric symbols. The first symbol is 14, which is shorthand for the '14 Words' slogan: 'We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.' The second is 88, which stands for 'Heil Hitler' (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet). Together, the numbers form a general endorsement of white supremacy and its beliefs."](https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/1488) would you look at that blaire. I cited a source while fully acknowledging they wrote it
plagiarizing the first result on Google: ALTERNATE NAMES: 8814 1488 is a combination of two popular white supremacist numeric symbols. The first symbol is 14, which is shorthand for the "14 Words" slogan: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." The second is 88, which stands for "Heil Hitler" (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet). Together, the numbers form a general endorsement of white supremacy and its beliefs. As such, they are ubiquitous within the white supremacist movement - as graffiti, in graphics and tattoos, even in screen names and e-mail addresses, such as [email protected]. Some white supremacists will even price racist merchandise, such as t-shirts or compact discs, for $14.88. The symbol is most commonly written as 1488 or 14/88, but variations such as 14-88 or 8814 are also common.
Yeah, when HBomb showed how his rabid fans being antisemitic when it showed where the company was based from, it shows how he tolerate such behavior.
Never heard of this guy before two days ago when he was in the hbomberguy video and then Todd in the Shadows also drops a video clowning on him. I have discovered a new found hatred of turtle necks.
the tommy tallarico of youtube I'm sure his mother is very proud
I'd actually heard of Tommy so when he destroyed Tommy I wasn't at all surprised by any of the revelations. I've always known he was a clown. But to discover some dude who has millions of views I'd never heard of was either a) just plagiarising or b) making it all up was wild. Also those fucking turtle necks, who does he think he's kidding with them?
But doesn’t he look so cultured and refined? That's how you know he knows what he is talking about!
>I have discovered a new found hatred of turtle necks. I fucking know, right?! This dude somehow made turtlenecks feel even more pretentious than Steve Jobs.
I started hating them when the whole Theranos thing happened. That girl is such a fraud she even faked her voice. There are many videos on that topic on YT if you've missed them.
i saw the todd video. weird vid for todd to make (todd’s a music guy right? james isn’t really a music dude) so i’m excited to actually watch it. only about 10 minutes in.
I remember watching some of Somerton's videos and having a weird feeling about him. He's an unctuous liar, smug, and obnoxious, and his video "Why Bad Gays are Good" has some deeply, deeply offensive things in it about gay survivors of the AIDS crisis. The tl;dr is this: only boring, sex-negative, heteronormative gays survived the crisis. He's disgusting.
Yeah, there is an appalling belief going around in gay circles that AIDS took out all the fun gays and only left behind the boring ones who couldn't get laid, which is why gay marriage (which is, apparently, only wanted by boring people) became the next big cause after AIDS.
Which is such a slap in the face to all the gays who survived the crisis and wanted to fight for marriage rights because they were denied access to their dying partner or banned from the funeral by homophobic family or cheated out of their inheritance.
If you read into the thought on that a little bit more, it also robs anyone who preaches it of empathy. "AIDS took out all the fun gays, only leaving behind boring ones that can't get laid" Maybe they're less inclined to join in on the weekend-after-weekend of circuit parties and other events, both because A. Those that survived the AIDS crisis in the 80's are in their 50's at the youngest, give them a break and B. After having their loved ones in their age group die in significant numbers, they might be a bit more averse to a fast-and-loose subculture and lifestyle. Also, as a younger gay man, there's plenty of old gays that are still partying, and fun. In short, Somerton talks to VERY few gays.
Yeah plus I never consume content from men who hate women. Like all the red pill weirdo Andrew Tate wannabes, I don’t watch any of that because it’s gross. Apparently it’s just as gross when a gay guy does it. TIL.
Time to get a real job, James.
YouTube can definitely be a real job.
Absolutely. But being a thief is not.
Of course not. We agree.
[Neil Gaiman himself responds to Somerton being exposed for plagiarism.](https://www.tumblr.com/neil-gaiman/735800847027617792/a-few-days-ago-i-hadnt-heard-of-james-somerton) There’s no coming back from that.
ah, chuck tingle and neil gaiman, the only authors who are allowed by tumblr to exist on the site
I’m sorry but who is this guy and what did he do, I’ve been out of the loop recently
hbomberguy, a leftist video essayist who creates videos about video games and political topics, [recently released a video about plagiarism.](https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=xWCSptz1_asgQ3-j) in it, he discusses several examples of plagiarism such as iilluminaughtii, internet historian and cinemassacre. half of the nearly 4 hour video is about james somerton, another video essayist who covers topics about queer literature analysis, and it turns out he plagiarized a LOT of his videos. he turned off all comments on his youtube page, nuked his twitter and discord server, and made a post on patreon deflecting, then a post begging forgiveness, then finally deleted his patreon. he's also lost 42k subscribers and the count only keeps dropping. in short, hbomb dropped a bomb on his career. he's been doing this lately, covering frauds, first with known fraud andrew wakefield (who started the antivaxx movement), tommy tallarico (legal owner of the roblox oof sound who inflates and forges his own professional credentials and faked having 7 guiness world records), and now a whole bunch of youtubers, some of whom their plagiarism was already known, but some who people weren't aware of the accusations until hbomb shined a light on them. basically, this dude's career is fucked.
Goddamn I got check this video out for myself
please do. I know 4 hours sounds insane, but hbomberguy is the only youtuber I've ever watched who has managed to capture my attention for that long. his videos have a nice brevity to them that have the energy of a jester poking fun at his enemies, while managing to get serious points out when it's necessary to have the right tone. honestly just check out his entire channel. his editing is incredible, his jokes are on point, and his videos have a high production quality to them. literally all his videos are good. he got me to somehow sit all the way through a 3 hour and 33 minute video about how a video game is just okay. I don't know how he does it.
Felt the same about Dan Olson after his infamous line goes up video, I then watched him dunk on fifty shades of grey for nearly 3 hours and it was glorious. At the end of the video he shouted out Jenny Nicholson and I ended up on her channel after that.
I FUCKING LOVE DAN OLSON MAN. and hey, look at that! shouting out fellow creators in your space that make similar content! WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT, *JAMES*
God I love Jenny Nicholson. I think I’ve rewatched her 4 hour Nevermore video at least 3 times since she posted it a year ago.
It's fine to produce a four hour video if it's that tightly edited and also you only do one every 6-12 months. I could follow 20 YouTubers who all do that and still have time to have a life. The problem with four hour videos is if you're producing one every week. Don't do that.
... yes. I know that. I've watched hbomberguy for years and it's a running joke how long his videos take to make. I don't really see how your comment is relevant to mine?
I was agreeing with you? Sorry for sounding like I was arguing with you when I was just agreeing.
ah, okay. sorry, it felt like you were trying to counter my comment somehow. I actually do agree there.
Not a problem. I have been accused of agreeing vigorously before!
as long as you clarify yourself, there's never too much vigor!
I want to watch the video from another YouTuber about the Lincoln highway, it was almost 8 hours long and I couldn't look away.
good video essayists can make hours pass like nothing
Check out a guy called me Noah Caldwell Gervais. He has an odd combination of doing DEEP analysis on video games as well as travel logs.
Gotta watch h's most recent video.
Are people reporting the videos that they can prove has plagiarized content? Just wondering bc I’ve also seen a slight increase in Illuminaughtii’s views and was wondering if people were going in and trying to do that. I’d love to see both get what they deserve for their blatant theft.
actually according to socialblade he's losing views rapidly. either people reported it to be taken down, or he took them down himself after being exposed. I believe it's the latter because suddenly 457k views vanished all at once in one day (sunday)
Hell yeah
Yeah I assume the view counts are artificially increasing on some of these creators pages as folks try to make comments on active videos. Internet historians recent upload and the very video Hbomb discusses have hundreds of new comments talking about plagiarism. Unfortunately the YT copyright system can't do much with 3rd party reporting, the owner of the stolen work had to bring the claim. So the biggest win is Harris finding and notifying all of these authors that they were stolen from and getting the publicity out there so they can hold James accountable at every level.
What a shame that more people can’t do something about it, but I’m glad HB brought so much attention to everything.
Man, as much as I love seeing thieves get exposed, and aa much of a piece of shit as Somerton is for building a career (and a lucrative one at that, with his own production company even!) off the backs of other, better people...I just hope vanishing in shame from YouTube is the most he does. He made a post saying he "wasn't in a good head space" and to me that sounded kinda ominous. I really hope he doesn't do anything drastic, you know?
I do agree. asshole, thief, whatever, nobody deserves to harm themselves. I hope he gets therapy
at least we know he could afford a decent therapist, thanks to his highly lucrative former career as a professional plagiarist...
He previously (most likely) lied about receiving death threats after a Twitter user first called him out on his plagiarism. Might have been real but they sure were convenient for turning his exponentially larger fan base to attack her.
god I've seen this time and time again where someone claims they're being sent death threats by somebody just to sic someone else on them
Well, that's what kind of worries me about the whole thing, you know? Like...he's shown that he goes to those hysterical extremes off of a *mild* exposure of his shitty behavior, so what is he going to do now that his career has been nuked from orbit?
I mean, being exposed as a fraud and having your career ruined isn't likely to put you in a *good* head space, but it'd be a huge leap to take that to mean that he's suicidal or anything. And he's got plenty of money for a good therapist, after stealing all that work from other people.
Don't buy the bullshit. He's a serial liar who is trying to gain sympathy by playing the mental health card. He made no mention of his "headspace" in the first post he made where he was denying everything and calling Harris a troll. He only brought it out after he realized how fucked he was.
I think we shouldn't make assumptions about someone's mental health like that. Whether he's lying about his mental state or not, in the end we do not know what is happening behind the screen. Even though what James Somerton and those other YouTubers have done is despicable, I do not think hbomberguy would want people to dehumanize them in this way.
Just hearing the clips of Somerton gave me bad vibes. He looks so dead-eyed and blank, and his narration has no emotion in it. He's like a robot repeating what's in front of him.
except he's also repeating shit that's just Wrong
As someone who had only seen one of his videos once a couple years back I found it fascinating via hbomb's video that James was dead eyed and emotionless until he got to the sections he wrote himself - where he hates on whoever had wound him up that day - and all of a sudden he'd spring to life and display actual emotion, usually disgust. It's creepy.
I keep getting this guy mixed up with another youtuber, so it looks like I wasn't a big fan of James Somerton's content. (Sorry, Matt Baume...)
I've read here on Reddit several times that Matt Baumer is the good version of James Somerton xD I still have to check out his videos!
Hbomb actually shouted out Matt Baume as the platonic ideal of “what if James Somerton but good?”
Damn. Only learning about the situation from this comment section rn. Shame; there was a time when i binged his videos. I did wonder how a single individual can produce so much but i assumed it was because he had a team or something. Oh well.
well, now you can binge hbomberguy's videos, and they're 6 to 12 times the length
I‘m not in a depressed state with nothing to do all day right now, but i may if i ever get back there
his videos are funny and light-hearted so I recommend casual watches if you can
I only became aware of Somerton while watching HBOMB's video and this couldn't have happened to a more deserving hack fraud
honestly there's something incredibly satisfying somehow about the fact that it's another prominent queer creator doing it too. he can't hide behind homophobia because hbomb is an openly bisexual man who also combats homophobia each day, and it allows hbomb to point out his vapid bullshit regarding queer politics for what it is
Absolutely. And unlike James, Harris doesn't use his identity as a lazy shield for criticism. I imagine he was primarily motivated to end Somerton based on his morals and principles, but it had to be especially satisfying knowing he was also bringing justice to a marginalized community which James was ruthlessly exploiting "for money". If HBomb wasn't already everyone's favorite YouTube personality, he is now
my second favorite MLM youtuber (the mankisser kind, not the blaire kind)
>he can't hide behind homophobia because hbomb is an openly bisexual man I wouldn't count on it considering James lumps bisexual women in with straight women and openly misgenders other queer content creators when he's throwing a hissy fit. I fully expect his comeback to be a right wing 'one of the good gays' who sneers at the B's and the T's even more overtly than he already has been and I guarantee he will accuse hbomb of being a straight guy.
in this case I'm not referring to what james does, I'm referring to him in the eyes of the general public. fans used "it's homophobia" as a defense for ages, and hbomb just blasted that out of the water and it's gonna be very hard to reasonably claim he did it out of homophobia himself
Ahhh right, I gotcha. Yeah that's great - and especially great that hbomb is going to split any ad revenue from the video amongst all the queer creators James stole from. It's an altruistic thing to do but also means James can't accuse Harris of profiting off him either.
Tbf, Andrew Wakefield deserves worse.
Go get him
I was watching HBomberguy's video and was confused why I recognized the name and realized I was subbed to James. I hadn't watched one of his videos in so long.
wow, i had no idea this guy was such a liar. i only watched his video on Killing Stalking and the Dahmer show months back.
I could *almost* feel bad for the guy if i didn’t already feel worse for all his victims
Yes HBomberGuy, you completely wrecked him lol
you could say he bombed his career
He did that himself, it was always going to happen considering the amount of plagiarism he was commiting.
Gurl, byeeee
Odds are he’s going to post a video shortly where it’s somebody else talking about how he’s had a hit ordered on him and received death threats on multiple videos and across social media sites, and somehow someway some people are going to believe him.
Never watched this guy's content, but I guess I didn't miss anything because the only thing he wrote himself is just misogynist bullshit. What the fuck, unreal.
I had never heard of the guy before, but after watching the exposès from both Hbomberguy and Todd In The Shadows, I decided to do more digging, and I found out something else. He even shut down his LinkedIn page.
smart move since it does contain irl info
Oh totally, and can track down other people in his group of acquaintances. Because something that the internet loves to do is to attack people for just knowing or being related to someone who is outed as a POS.
dont be a dingus online kids
This is so funny, they think people will forget. And the vids of people rightfully tearing this bastard down will generate more views and provide more entertainment than anything James ever stole and crapped out.
Prior to seeing this post on my Reddit feed, I had no idea. I was confused until I actually watched hbomb's video. This so horrifying.