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hbomb also included a playlist of smaller queer creators that i've really enjoyed!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRGz5EMig3r2ZDgeGzwUlSz-PzF-L1Xu1

I mean.

Not to mention the rampant misogyny.

I think the Todd in the Shadows video was the nail in the coffin. He might’ve been able to slither back by saying he didn’t realize he was attributing incorrectly (like Internet Historian fans are screaming), but he can’t come back from outright lying the times he wasn’t plagiarizing.

It's very relevant. One of the big points in the hbomberguy video is that James was known as a prominent voice in the LGBT community, and he blatantly plagiarized other LGBT creators that might have otherwise gained a larger following themselves

It's core to Hbomberguy's video, really. The guy tried to make himself the gay YouTuber by ripping off other queer content producers, and as a persecuted community that's had to deal with a forever of social erasure, that's a whole lot extra shitty.

I think it's a little relevant. He's a gay focused YouTuber, in that he talked about gay topics in media, supposedly championing gay voices, while at the same time silencing those same gay voices, stealing their content and claiming it as his own.

For wanting to help the gay community, he really did a lot to hurt the community and help himself. All he had to do is give credit to the people he quoted, but when confronted with accusations, he would claim he's being silenced as a gay creator rather than admit the truth, and his followers would attack the accusers on his behalf, thinking he's being genuine.

His channel was about LGBT issues, so it's actually relevant. It's a reasonable concern and the source material is a four hour long breadtube thing bordering on self-parody, so I don't mind responding to this one.

It’s posted on lgbtqnation. I’m pretty sure that for their audience it’s incredibly fucking relevant.

Read the damn article 😐

It's more than relevant. It's pivotal to the whole ordeal.

Ita an article from a website called lgbtqnation so its not that surprising. Also the guy stole a lot from queer people and was a misogynist.

Yes, very relevant.

I guess him being gay isn't exactly important. The important thing is that the content that he stole was mostly about LGBTQ media studies. So "gayness" is relevant, but strictly speaking his gayness is not.

Edit: I would also note that if the headline writer was just adding "gay" to be incendiary, the writer could have said "Gay youtuber taken down by bi youtuber" but that would needlessly putting in the "bi" label. The "gay youtuber" is "writing" about gay stuff.

Lgbtqnation really needs a new proofreader. I hear James Somerset is looking for... no, I mean... fuck

Him being gay is actually very relevant because he was profiting off of queer authors' works without attribution while proporting to support their cause. His whole shtick was being gay and analyising media through a gay/lgbtq+ lens. The title highlights the hypocrisy.

Also this is an lgbtq+ focused publication so such a classification isn't unusual.

It's relevant to the article you virtue-signalling dumbass

He's not just a youtuber who's gay. He is a gay youtuber. He is a gay youtuber who's gay. No one would watch a gay youtuber who's straight.

Nope. He was making six figures a year off other people’s hard work.

Somerton has a bit of a history of weaponizing his fans to attack anyone bringing up issues by painting them as homophobic and attacking a gay man. Hbomberguy made a point of bringing up his own bisexuality in his video before he even brought up Somerton as a way a kneecapping that before it could start.

It's actually very important to this discussion. He ripped off a bunch of LGBT+ ppl while promoting himself as one.

Likely to highlight this wasn't a homophobic incident.

He made a statement, yes. https://www.ntherrgott.com/responseto