#youtube drama

[book--wyrm]

do i really need to explain what this is about.

#hbomberguy #james somerton #youtube drama

[coffinwoodx]

like witnessing the french revolution beheadings firsthand in the 1800s

#LET THEM EAT CAKE #and the cake is original ideas #hbomberguy #james somerton #todd in the shadows #plagiarism #twitter #youtube #youtube drama #lgbtq #internet historian #illuminaughtii

[skygemspeaks]

youtuber drama is really something else

what do you MEAN she responded to child grooming allegations by filming a ten minute long ukelele song in ONE TAKE?

#colleen ballinger #cw child grooming #youtubers #youtube #youtube drama

[marcusbrutus]

It sucks how James Somerton was openly misogynistic for a number of years but no one really said anything until the hbomb video and plagiarism allegations. I’m glad hbomb brought it up because i feel like misogyny is very often overlooked in leftist spaces. I get the sense that misogyny isn’t viewed as that big of a deal compared to homophobia and racism because it doesn’t affect Real People (see: men). Hatred of women is not a joke and thousands of women are killed each year because of this hatred. Just because he’s gay doesn’t mean he gets a pass on his woman-hating.

#feminism #james somerton #youtube drama

[troythecatfish]

#james somerton #fd signifier #hbomberguy #youtube drama #drama #youtube content #youtube community #video essay #video essays #youtube comments

[siren-crown]

I've been thinking about the SSSniperwolf and Jacksfilms doxxing situation some more.

A lot of YouTubers who covered it said Jack went too far with how many videos he made parodying her content. Like?? That's the point. Sniperwolf does daily uploads of low effort reacts and Jack was copying that. Except he was showing how to make transformative reacts with things like Sniperwolf bingo. His channel JJJacksfilms is a direct parody of SSSniperwolf. Jack also never brought up Sniperwolf's past controversies or made things personal (Despite her being in an active lawsuit). He just focused critizing her reactions.

Also, SSSniperwolf was so dumb for escalating this to a crime. I don't even mean in the sense she was dumb for doing a crime, I mean in the sense she could have gotten out this react-gate pretty cleanly in the long run. These types of controversies have a life span for how long the public will support before they move on. If she just ignored Jack the momentum of his movement would eventually die out. She may take a few hits (apparently her views are going down) but she would not have been seriously effected in the long run. YouTube was probably never going to make big policy changes around react content. She could go back to doing her lazy reacts. Her doxxing Jack means this will follow her forever.

Now, I think the big reason why SSSniperwolf did escalate to doxxing is because Jacksfilms was effective. YouTube may not have been taking action, but small content creators were. In his recent videos more content creators were coming to him, asking him how to report their stolen content, and he walked them through it. Instead of letting her videos get claimed she edited the reported pieces out but this shortened her videos- making it so they don't qualify for ad revenue. I think this is what really got to her.

#woof this is the most i've typed in a while #sssniperwolf #jacksfilms #youtube #youtube drama #mine #text post

[tuurverheydepoetryandprose]

I must say I find it incredibly distasteful that some people are rewriting history to make Hbomb into a drama channel who always calls people out and hoped the harassment would happen. Before this, Harry had made 1 video exposing someone (a millionaire). The other videos were essays about games or wider issues. His older videos may have featured more mean-spirited stuff, but he has said many times he doesn’t like those videos.

This also ignores how Harry has been working hard to spotlight the people plagiarised and help them regain financial losses. He has only mentioned Somerton when asked. People mischaracterising his video as ‘malicious’ either disliked his work before and are looking for a moral superiority angle, or did not watch the entire video, have not seen the actual damage that Harry is trying to call attention to.

Once again, the internet is using a bad situation to justify their own choices as morally superior and mischaracterise people they already disliked.

I find that cynical and I think it borders on spreading misinformation, enflaming the situation.

It seems no matter what happens, people’s first priority is get one over on the people they dislike. I think it’s sad, and I think it’s incredibly malicious to distort a very volatile situation to do so.

#hbomb #hbomberguy #james somerton #plagiarism #youtube #YouTube drama

[ace-t-rex-in-space]

I haven't posted about YouTuber drama in so long but the thing with Ned is insane

He cheated on his wife with multiple women

Alexandria from Food Babies was his side chick at work

Ned said in Zach's podcast "Guilty Pleasures" that his favorite movie was 50 Shades of Gray (I'm adding this because it's a really disgusting piece of info paired with him cheating on his wife with a co-worker)

Alex's fiance broke off their engagement (honestly, good for him)

Ariel removed "wife" from her blog

Kwesi was also doing some shit at the party where the picture of Ned and Alex together was taken and went viral on Reddit

Try Guys now have to do a massive rebrand of their entire company

They have to remove Ned legally from the company as well as buy him out so he's no longer financially involved.

More fans are coming forward about their uncomfortable encounters with Ned, which is going to lead to people questioning how much the other Try Guys knew about Ned's flirting with other woman while they were doing shows.

What's going to happen with the Try Guys more recent projects (No Recipe Road Trip) and their newest content they announce before Ned started becoming less and less prominent in videos

Food babies is done unless YB can find a new co-star

Alex was also removed from the company (quieter then Ned was, but there are tweets about her no longer returning)

With Eugene not being as active because of his own projects, the The Try Guys may need to find a replacement personality for Ned, which also means they need to hire new people in general.

You Can Sit With Us Podcast will be without Ariel (If she divorces Ned she needs to stay quiet on social so she can get full custody of the kids, if they were to talk shit about Ned or bring up the cheating that can be used against her so she gets less custody of the boys)

#try guys #the try guys #ned fulmer #ariel fulmer #youtube drama

[larsthefishoil]

As I'm actively reflecting on the new hbomberguy video, but more specifically James Somerton, certain things are clicking into place with resounding clarity.

I've watched Somerton's videos for years. At first I thought he was kinda overly dramatic, and had outdated stances on how little lgbtq+ was seen in modern day. He always seemed to talk like we are still living in the danger of the 80s with staight/cis people's apathy and hatred. In truth the phobias have just shifted in how they present and things have genuinely improved in a sense.

But the thing that is actually getting to me rn is the misogyny thing. I think he actually injected really shitty thoughts into my brain that I absorbed like a fucking kitchen sponge. He's protectiveness over queer people but specifically gay men from "prevented white women" actually got to me. For over a year, I was walking around occasionally thinking about how "women are sneaking BL manga into their bedrooms and grotesquely drooling."- im not citing someone theres quoteation marks cause its a dumb thought. But i thought this because that's how bad Somerton made it seem.

But the thing that got me out of that head space was this video by talistheintrovert.

https://youtube.com/@talistheintrovert?si=vmpEa_TPP2UE9eQk - here's the link to her homepage on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/08pCrSBw5EY?si=bECaT_xC16IfN5TI - vid about Good Omens

https://youtu.be/zzSlRZhS_qY?si=unQzSbCQUaTqhSbv - Heartstopper vs. Only Friends

sorry for the ugly link I'm on mobile.

I forget their pronouns so I'm using they/them but I might be wrong. I watched a lot of their videos all at once, so a lot of their ideas interlinked between videos to connect points. But they frequently talked about how straight and queer people interact with queer media and the complexities that unfold. Their underlying message was always that an individual's sexuality doesn't matter when interacting with media when it comes to gatekeeping who gets to appreciate queer content. Still most people consuming are queer people, but straight cis people also benefit and that's okay, it's great even.

Talistheintrovert shooed away icky feelings of straight women fetishizing queer men, which was a fear I got from James Somerton!

Idk this is a long post, but hbomberguy's ending soliloquy about trying to find happiness kinda reminds me of the many countless queer YouTube channels- big and small. Most of us aren't clawing for the position of top dog and like Somerton and seem a lot happier dispit of everything going on nowadays.

Anyways, stay safe, be accepting, and cite your sources or else hbomberguy will have to crawl out of whatever hole he hides in for the better part of each year and make a five hour long video about you :/

#hbomberguy #james somerton #youtube drama #misogny #shout out to dashcon somehow getting mentioned in the plagiarism video???

[webdig]

this isnt really related to this blog, but last night James Somerton released an apology video, and it was so bad that he immediately took it down.

So I uploaded it to archive.org. Eat shit James.

Watch it here.

#upload #james somerton #hbomberguy #youtube drama #youtube #plagiarism #lgbt

[dasavvyexpert]

Are people really defending this run-of-the-mill anti-woke YouTuber just because Illymation wanted him reported for his reaction video to ‘Perks of Being the Fat Kid’??

#illymation #think before you sleep #youtube animators #anti woke #youtube drama #fat shaming #fucking grifters #across the spiderverse

[thegoodplacey]

Hey so after watching the Todd in the Shadows video (and of course the hbomberguy video) about James Somerton and listening to all the incorrect information that was found... is James Somerton getting his made up facts from tumblr discourse and misinformation? Is that his secret "source"? Because all of these things were starting to sound very familiar

Obviously I can't prove this but since James doesn't source his shit why should I?

Anyways James if you're on here get off and stop believing what people say on the destiel and lies website

#Todd in the Shadows #James Somerton #hbomberguy #video essays #youtube #youtubers #youtube drama

[multiversemittens]

The weirdest James Somerton take that nobody has talked about yet is 'The reason art was so bad in the 80s is because all the good artists were gay and dying of AIDS'.

#first of all not all good artists are gay #second of all i think it's more because studios were pushing media to sell toys #thirdly there is a tonne of great art from the 80s so what are you even talking about #james somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #youtube drama

[silvermoon424]

*crawls out from underneath the rock I've been living under*

Wait, James Somerton did WHAT??? Internet Historian did WHAT??? Man, I knew I should have watched that hbomberguy video when it got uploaded.

(if y'all are curious basically there's a HUGE scandal going on right now with plagiarism accusations. James Somerton, a queer essayist I subbed to and liked, is apparently a HUGE fucking plagiarist who also makes shit up. Internet Historian and a bunch of other people also got called out for plagiarism in a 4 hour video by hbomberguy)

#my issue with Somerton is not so much just that he plagiarizes #but that he plagiarizes from queer women while also apparently being misogynistic #hbomberguy #james somerton #youtube drama #internet drama

[marcusbrutus]

you guys i had good intentions when i plagiarized 🥺👉👈 I’m literally trying to use my white cis privilege by uplifting other LGBT authors by taking their work and passing it as my own and giving them no credit. I’m trying to raise awareness you guys. stop being so mean I’m LITERALLY neurodivergent. 🥺 acab amiright fellow leftists

#james somerton #youtube drama

[theacecouple]

omg, your podcast episode on Somerton is exploding on youtube. How are you guys handling it? I've followed you for a while and it's wild to see a video suddenly get 80k views when it was impressive for the prior posts to break 1000. Hopefully nothing but good things come of it, but I imagine it's overwhelming!

Overwhelming, YES!

Thank you so much for asking and checking in. We're over 120k now and that's just on YouTube! We've also spiked in several charts on the podcast platforms these last couple of weeks. We actually charted in our 50th country! An exciting achievement, but honestly not the way we wanted it.

We've received an abundance of emails, DMs, comments, etc, and some of them are COMPLETELY ABSURD! Some people have made fun of us or reveled in the fact that we lost money, basically blaming us for not being smarter. Got a really goofy message basically saying we have the ideology of....terrorists?? But the most common criticism we've seen is basically making the "reverse-racism" argument that we're weird, horrible people for pointing out that James Somerton is a cis white guy. So, y'know, that's fun -_-

But despite all this, we've received an overwhelming amount of love and support! The positive far outweighs the negative. And to our surprise and delight, we've only seen 3 acephobic comments directed at us and/or the community so far. One of those comments was the good-ol' trifecta of acephobia, transphobia, and ableist, go figure, but given how big our episode got, this is PROGRESS! We don't recall ever seeing anything Ace-related to get this much attention but receive this little hate.

We watched the apology video and despite it being an objectively bad apology video...we're a little messed up and very concerned about the implication that James attempted to take his own life. Then he deleted the video, and never sent the promised email to Telos supporters. We, of course, have our own thoughts, feelings, frustrations, and even unique observations that were never mentioned in the original episode, but for now we've decided to keep these to ourselves.

We genuinely hope for his healing, and after this week's episode, we are unlikely to ever speak about him publicly again.

#ace #asexual #asexuality #ace community #asexual community #lgbtqia #james somerton #hbomberguy #the ace couple #the ace couple podcast #James Somerton apology #podcast #podcasting #podcaster #youtube #youtube drama #acephobia #aphobia