#James Somerton

[tubapun]

BECAUSE CITING SOURCES KILLED MY GRANDMA, OKAY?

[toomuchtortuga]

I’m sorry if this is how you found out

[bloodybellycomb]

[getrope1]

You cant make this shit up

[prokopetz]

I don't always agree with the decisions of Wikipedia's volunteer editors, but having learned that their decision on how to handle the James Somerton situation was to deem him non-notable and turn his article into a redirect to a brief writeup of Hbomberguy's plagiarism investigation – well, like I said, this may not be a good decision, but in context it's an extremely funny one.

[thelastfriendly]

So as it turns out James Somerton did in fact fake his suicide note, and did a bunch of other stuff in the meantime

[teslafactory]

[aplpaca]

i know nothing about youtuber whatsoever. every time someone talks about a popular youtuber it feels like theyre conjuring a dude from thin air. hearing about youtuber drama is like seeing everyone spontaneously pull a guy out of their hat and start beating him to death with hammers

[wolfnanaki]

The swiftness and brutality of Hbomberguy’s complete evisceration of James Somerton’s career cannot be overstated.

[mindofthemage]

This shit is heartbreaking.

Hopefully they're able to sue him and win, not only so they get some of the money they deserve, but also so that the newest noteworthy win in a plagiarism lawsuit isn't from the 80s.

Edit: His patreon is back so now its time to cancel your membership!

Edit 2: Seems like the patreon is gone again

[book--wyrm]

do i really need to explain what this is about.

[sluttypatrickstar]

did he forget that we could, like, fact check

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

So what we're NOT gonna do when James Somerton inevitably starts releasing new videos is hatewatch them, okay? Because a view is still a view whether or not it was watched with rage and disdain in your heart, you KNOW they'll be monetized, and at this point I'm sure he's doing this precisely TO bait in hatewatchers

Don't fund his comeback arc. Let him fade into obscurity like he deserves

[sapphia]

im crying imagining his face when he realised this

[sylviii]

a second video essay has hit the james somerton

[castellankurze]

Okay.

You fucked up.

But look on the bright side.

At least you didn't "youtube essayist releases a 4-hour video on plagiarism and half of it is dedicated to exposing your channel, followed a day later by another youtuber releasing a 1-hour-40 minute video about the lies you just made up, and there's almost no overlap between the two" level fuck up.