#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????

[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

[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

[jelliegirl]

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

[blodeuweddschild]

I understand that many people are simply explaining in what capacity they knew about certain YouTubers, but can we stop adding little caveats (where you mention that you didn’t really watch the youtuber that much really I swear like 2 videos a year or something idk I promise I wasn’t that interested) when it’s dug up that the youtuber is a cunt because some people just sound like they feel guilty and are trying to get rid of that guilt in any way they can even when there’s no reason they need to feel guilty

[elrondsscribe]

SIR I BEG YOU

DO NOT RETURN TO VIDEO CREATION

[irlwakko]

I love all the dunking on James Somerton but I don’t think we’ve focused enough on all his lesbophobic rhetoric because the things he says are genuinely so astoundingly ahistorical and insensitive and it infuriates me that he was allowed to get away with it so long.

He literally said lesbians didn’t face police violence on the same scale as gay men when that’s just demonstrably untrue. Lesbians, ESPECIALLY butch, GNC, and trans lesbians, faced MASSIVE amounts of police violence AND STILL DO and if he gave a single shit about like. Women as people. Or even just LGBT history in general as he so proclaims to care about, he would know that. I’m going to start beating people to death with copies of Stone Butch Blues until they fucking listen

And I’d really love to know which fucking planet he lives on where lesbians apparently have all this great representation, and where we as lesbians are allowed to write our own stories, because I’m really not seeing that pretty much anywhere in mainstream media. I’m still seeing lesbians portrayed in stereotypical or fetishistic ways, and that’s when I see us portrayed at all. And yes cartoons are great and fine but there is so painfully little lesbian representation written by lesbians geared primarily towards adults.

But at this point, the wider community’s general lack of a reaction to lesbophobia in their ranks disappoints but doesn’t surprise me. It’s sad and somewhat astonishing that he’s escaped accountability for his lesbophobic comments up to this point, but again, not surprising. We need to stop letting our community, especially people like James Somerton who get held up as voices for the community, get away with lesbophobia.

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Okay for real though can we also talk about internet historian and illuminaughtii?? Cause both those channels also suck and deserve at least a little of the vitriol Mr. Somerton is currently receiving. Illuminaughtii positioned herself as like an expert on bad businesses and exposing mlms and stuff, and internet historian makes dreck that appeals mostly to edgy teenage boys who think saying slurs is funny. The fact that both of them were also just ripping off other people’s work to make such desperately mid content is a little funny ngl. I hope this video tanks both their YouTube careers too.

EDIT: yes I am now aware that Blair’s channel has already tanked as a result of the dramas that unfolded a few months ago while Hbomb was working on this video (1 mil subscriber count but averaging 20k views a video nowadays. Brutal), but let’s still hope internet historian’s follows suit. Everyone has latched onto the James Somerton centerpiece, but internet historian has a Huge platform (and also sucks).

It would be extremely lame if the guy who got his audience by posting 4chan edgelord bait and anti-sjw cringe and is now pretending to be a respectable channel has the only career that survives this exposé.