#yes this is about James Somerton

[marzipanandminutiae]

hot take: crying YouTuber apology videos are manipulative

crying while apologizing to someone in real life is a thing that happens. it's an emotional reaction you may be unable to control

chosing to film, edit, and post a video of yourself crying cannot be done in the heat of the moment. you want people to see your tears and feel bad for you

there's really no excuse for it, IMO. if you can't make the video without crying, do a text apology instead

[dhurrbyang]

this is why you never learn anything about history from a white man

[astromechs]

truly flooring that in an apology video about doing a plagiarism, the grand defense for anything is "oh i didn't write that" and throwing other people under the bus💀

[elrondsscribe]

You know what would be nice, sir?

Telling us at least some of the places you ripped content from so we can go read and watch ourselves

Paying the writers and creators you stole from

Disappearing from content creation and staying gone

Deactivating your Patreon permanently

That’s an apology we’d accept

God

[kumaclaws]

You ever see someone getting dogpiled on the internet and feel bad for them, only for them to release a really bad apology and proves that they haven’t (nor plan on) changing

[knownbyanothername]

i get wanting to forgive and let people do better but like,

i don't think it's unfair to go 'hard' on someone who had YEARS to fix his behavior and was extremely selfish and proceeded to have the most ghoulish fucked up takes about anyone who isn't him

and if anything 'going light' on him is part of what caused this. he'd cry crocodile tears and his audience believed it.

no i don't want him to die obviously but i think he's fairly getting heat for being... absolutely awful to his own community and stealing from people 'beneath him'

why the fuck would you extend a hand to a man where--if he had hindsight, he'd absolutely pin everything on his 'i can't plagiarize i just don't do research and assume' cowriter and wipe his hands of the matter.

if you gave him every opportunity in the world to own up and improve he probably wouldn't take it

[aro-bird]

What's up with controversial YouTubers constantly blaming ADHD for their rancid actions like... that's not how ADHD fucking works??? It could worsen some issues you have and even be the reason for some but it wouldn't make you a fucking asshole????

[dustteller]

Honestly, the most shocking part of the plagiarism accusations is not even the plagiarism itself. I knew people plagiarized stuff, even if I didn't know who. The most shocking part is sheer lack of opinions.

I don't understand. You are interested enough by a subject that you read so much material to plagiarize, but for some reason, during this entire process, you do not form A Thought? Not a single one? I have opinions about the shit the people in front of me in the plane are talking about! I can not imagine actively consuming a significant amount of content and not having three times as many opinions!!! What is your brain! Are you a lizard??? What the heck is going on up there?? Do you lack the joy of Pondering and Considering and Creating????? I kinda just thought those were inherent human traits!

[marshmellowtea]

ngl the hbomberguy video makes me wanna rewatch that brain games episode about how humans are hardwired to believe people they perceive as knowledgeable/authority figures, even when they're saying absurd shit

[dougielombax]

So he faked his own death and decided to deliver a eulogy at his own funeral.

For clout.

[tepli-mravenci]

Oh to have the time and energy (and equipment) to make multihour video essays about extremely niche topics

[4stary]

The annoying thing about being employed is that I have to be up at 6, but some shit apparently is going down with hbomberguy and James Somerton and my messy ass needs to know what’s up.

[blog--witch]

Went to go unsubscribe from James Somerton halfway through the hbomberguy video and the channel doesn’t exist anymore 😭😭😭 He’s completely removed everything from it even his profile picture lmfao I can’t stop laughing

[themidnightcircusshow]

Every new thing I learn about James Somerton's process just drives home how he almost (but really doesn't) knows what he's doing. Yes, of course you use the sources you read as a jumping off point. Of course you copy and paste the important sections into your outline document so you can reread them. That's why you put them in quotation marks.

[elrondsscribe]

SIR I BEG YOU

DO NOT RETURN TO VIDEO CREATION

[jelliegirl]

i refuse to interact with this post but if you uncritically put this shit on my dash without commentary i will unfollow you