thank you burger guy

Lmao

Thanks Hbbomberguy

Thank you Harris Bomberguy

Nice. Looking forward to the donut in the next one.

he was found out through a side account where he posted nudes that WERENT EVEN HIS. They were taken from a Grindr I think. He plagiarized nudes.

@@paranormeow the man cannot be honest to save his fucking life, or fake it in this case I guess.

​@@fdragon77fk the one thing he's been honest about is the contempt he feels towards W̶h̶i̶t̶e̶ women

A lot of people were wary of saying it just in case but I was about as confident he was alive as I was that I was alive.

@@paranormeow Honestly at this point it's just kinda funny. The dude can not help himself stealing from other people. From reviews and videos to nudes, none of it is original

NO SHIT LOL

Rochefoucauld actually stated this in his "Maxims", Harris did not make a pun there.

@@niklasc7743 I’m not saying that he was lying about that, I’m saying that the joke finally came to fruition in the perfect way, because even though the Bachelor didn’t really need to cite the person he was quoting (that’s just not a thing people tend to do) it’s funny to playfully get mad at the character for doing “plagiarism.”

@@zozzleberryfin1735 True. Misunderstood your comment.

I hate that I immediately recognized it. I never even played pathologic

That's what happened to James Somerton and it was only 2 hours in and people who are watching are still in the process on watching it. He quickly denied it by saying that it was old accusations that was already resolved (in his eyes). Of course after it finally finished he really had no defense and had to nuke his presence.

if that ever happened to me, if i were a content creator, i would fucking DIE

and you’re not in the first half

Cosmic horror

And then it turns out you're mentioned 40 minutes in as a tangential side to someone else he's exposing, and you feel alright, but then he says, "By the way, this other guy? We'll get back to him later!" The part about you starts at 2:35:07 and goes for 90 minutes.

It is these incredibly memorable lines that make Hbomb's long video-essays so immensely watchable.

Also a reference to the pathalogic video wherein he talks about his soul being trapped in said video essay

Man this video got around KZfaq lol

Kinda how null hypothesis works

That line is so good James Somerton might steal it and claim it as his own.

That is fairly typical of the misogynistic mindset, sadly enough.

It's just misogyny, it's very common with male homosexuals for a whole laundry list of both traumatic and vane motivations. He probably thinks so little of women that he doesn't care that, that's what he's doing.

I watched this video so often i just love that there are regularly nrw top comments So that i can read new stuff for my 14th warch

bro they do have it easier. Than _anyone_ You are literally crusading for them right now and don't even fuckn know it. Most demographics don't, in fact have an army of citizens protecting them from the basic social accountability the rest of society is held to.

@@SuperPhunThyme9 is it really easier to believe that queer people, a people that have been oppressed throughout most of recorded history, are now shadow puppeting society for their army so that they have it better than ANYONE else. OR the people that have held the dominant power throughout most of recent history have been making everyone else's lives worse for their own personal gain using their literal armies that they currently have right now

Yeah that part hit like a mack truck

I missed this part. Whos Patreon?

​@@Peapodzilla2:30:45 you'll get the info there.

@@Peapodzilla someone who subs to James Somerton's Patron found out that he literally stole her intellectual property

I actually gasped out loud.

Oh my god, I've watched this video so many times but never noticed that. That's so funny lol

One of the _best_ narrative choices of all time. "The X of all time" implies that it's mediocre, like how people described Mobius as "the movie ever/of all time". Not being hateful, just letting you know

@@hwelse i think that's how the original commenter intended it to sound

Yes! It’s also really funny in context too since it’s being said to Harlan Ellison. The man’s a legit great writer but he’s definitely prone to using 5 times more words than he needs to. That interviewer knew what they were doing.

2:16:56 "None of us were really aware-" _cut to hbomberguy_ "James is dimly aware what he's doing"

Same. It was disappointing especially since Ballon Boy and the one about the failed Cruise were quite good and now I'll always wonder if anything he ever did was original if I ever watch him again. His community containing a fair amount of antisemitism made it a lot easier for me to unsub personally though.

Even if he didn't address it, I'm pretty sure it's probably did a number on his collaborators (ie: OrdinaryThings, who even referenced this video in his 2023 recap)

​@@CrazyxEnigmato be fair while IH praised him a lot, one of his comment rub me in wrong way, like he admired that despite he believed in fringe science (like magnetism can control weather), he at least did not shy away in doing some testing himself. I mean sure but let me remind you that most that belief in similar fields, also done some experiments of their own but of course they either falsified the findings or misinterpreted the findings and still stuck on that kind of stuff. And I haven't checked on what the suit brought against him was but it seemed like IH framed it liked he was punished for making the hoax about his Son being in his baloon, but if that's the case surely it should be easy to get no guilty verdict since he just need to demonstrate that his belief was correct by testing if his balloon could theoretically lift his son. Again thanks to realizing the dogwhistle on his content, I tend to look back to his old analysis more critically.

I stopped watching him after that. It’s clear I liked what he was stealing rather than what he ads to it

yeah this honestly just really made me stop watching IH. Strange honestly, I don't even think that badly of it but I guess something in me just holds onto the fact that he just...ducked out and pretends like nothing happened that really made me just not want to watch the new videos.

Be sure to do stuff like mispronounce Somerton and just say the wrong word entirely here and there

just came up with a fantastic four hour long video idea for plagiarism

something came to my mind to produce a four hour long video speaking about plagiarism

I think I think i saw that one, actually. It was one of the many sources i used in my 4 hour long plagiarism documentary. There was this annoying stuff in the corner i had to blur out though

@@SylviaRustyFae Jamie Somérton

Thank you for this lovely comment! As a fellow university student, I wholeheartedly agrees

too true. And my sentences are so grammatically questionable and convoluted that it‘s clear ChatGPT didn‘t write them either lol

same lol

literally just turned in my 10 paged research paper 3 days ago and still feel it wasnt enough. Happy to know what I wrote was at least out of my own efforts update: my professor liked my paper so i passed the sem knowing ive done more for my own benefit than james somerton ever could 🎉🎊🥳

This! Like, I get all anxious about whether the sentence I wrote sounds maybe very slightly a bit like something else - I can't comprehend the audacity of these people!

Hope you’re doing well!!❤️

@@kinsey7894 I am, this was years ago, but thank you!

yup. passive voice vs. active voice. it's really poor writing, too. "joe changed the lightbulb" vs. "the lightbulb was changed." "i threw your dead mom's porcelain music box against the wall" vs. "your music box broke." "we started arguing and i demanded to see your phone, and you wouldn't show me, so i beat the crap out of you" vs. "an altercation that arose from a verbal argument." like the fight was born spontaneously as opposed to an action that was taken. active voice claims the action in a very literal way, and it can be _deeply_ uncomfortable to have to describe things you're not proud of that way. i think a lot of people honestly don't realize they're doing that. i recently went through a phase where i watched a lot of circuit court cases, criminal misdemeanor cases, bond revocation hearings, sentencing hearings, parole hearings, etc. over the course of several months, i can think of 2 times the defendant/parole applicant used active voice and didn't externalize the blame at all. even when they're pleading guilty or trying to explain what they learned from victim awareness classes - they're physically in the process of admitting out loud to what they did - they still really struggle with it. they frequently try to share blame to make it easier on themselves. "i was in the wrong because i shouldn't have allowed myself to be in that situation." what situation? the one where your son had a super punchable face? it's a dance of evasiveness. it's "the incident." it's "what happened." it's "what we [my victim and i] did." it's "we were fighting. i agreed to take the blame because she's pregnant." they also like to frame the victim as being unreliable by including extraneous, unflattering details. combined with passive voice, this very successfully obfuscates the actor in the situation. "my wife and i were fighting because of her drinking problem." "we got into a fight because she was jealous of my coworker, she thinks i was flirting with her." this is _technically_ correct, so when their wife almost inevitably gets her hackles up about it, _she_ looks and feels like the unreasonable one. and in a reality where she _is_ the unreasonable one, she is the reason he was cited for a domestic assault, or whatever happened. (i'm thinking of a handful of specific cases, but women can be abusers and men can be victims. just for the record.) anyway! you were really insightful to realize that's what was happening - it's a word game - and i'm glad you got away from that person. you deserve control over your own reality.

I’ve also noticed another context in which that phrase applies: assault. Sexual or otherwise, you see a lot of language that reframes instances of assault as almost being a force of nature instead of a decision made by a person. This basically always leads to victim blaming in someway. “If you hadn’t worn that/walked there/gotten drunk/hung out with those people, then that wouldn’t have happened to you” no, what you mean to say is that “if I hadn’t done something wrong, then a person wouldn’t have made the decision to assault me” but you can’t say that because you don’t know if that’s true or not. People love to pretend that assault is predictable enough to avoid. Get flood insurance if you live in a tidal area. Dress modestly if you’re around men. One of these sentiments can help you avoid something tragic. The other is trying to convince you that somebody’s actions were done by magic.

You’re welcome

If he didn’t do anything wrong he would have tried to defend himself instead of pretending like it never happened

I think it is ironic how similar this is to that CNN video Internet Historian made then deleted. He criticized CNN for suing that redditor or whatever, but it turns out that was wrong. Then he takes the moral high ground and blasts them and being shocked that they didn’t give an apology. 😂 I guess he has the same moves when that tables are turned.

Same thing with Somerton. He keeps claiming that he simply forgot to credit people because of his ADHD (as if that’s a reasonable excuse to begin with) yet has spent years trying to hide his plagiarism and silence anyone who notices. That’s not the actions of someone who made an honest mistake; that’s someone who knows he did something wrong and is trying to cover it up.

I mean, he did do something wrong, but he also worked it out with the article author. So, yeah, he didn't start out doing the right thing but he/ his team did respond correctly.

​@@Kevin-jb2pvHow did he work it out with the original article's author? Honestly curious. Did he share the proceeds he made with the over million views that video got? Or did he just change it enough to pass plagiarism censors and that's it?

Besides, we all know Contrapoints is the one good lib.

the serfs has brain damage lol

oh my god I didn't even notice that LMAO

In the end credits, Legal Eagle is credited as "The Good Lib" and I died laughing.

I kept on thinking I was mishearing other people's voices till the credits lol. Tantacrul cameo made me loose it

"Ship of Thesaurus" makes this comment so much better

A++

I actually read that as "theseus" twice before I finally noticed the pun

​@@Demi_Purple I had to read the first reply twice over to notice the pun...😅

I'd give you money for this comment if I could

I’m sorry, WHAT?!

​@@amysteriousstranger1221 It's even more bonkers because it was right after he faked his own offing of himself

The internet is the best and worst invention the human race ever made

@@seanfrazee5146leaning to toward the dumbest

Idk if it's funnier or not that it turns out he even plagiarized his damn hole pics

Thing is in that particular case, he need to pay licensing fee too hence why he avoid crediting / asking for permission in the first place. IH knew full well doing the right thing would cost him money hence, the plagiarism.

@@dodixaber8968 I always enjoyed IH before the drama but it did always seem a teeny bit like he was up his own arse, I wondered if anything would come of it and surprise it did 😂 glad I’ve still got Let’s Game It Out as my favourite channel!

@@dodixaber8968 would that have been the only way? profit sharing could be another way

@@dodixaber8968 paying the license fee to make a video adaptation and losing some of your money is a lot better in the long run than getting caught being a cowardly plagiarist and possibly losing your entire career

I mean it's full of false information and reports multiple incorrect historical facts so it really isn't

"Sometimes, I wish I could be more than just an accessory to these women." -Mephiles the Dark, Sonic 06 Snapcube Fandub

AINT NO FUCKING WAY WHEN WE SEEIN HIS GAMER PAD

​@@Toast-comMemphis Tennessee, you mean. And he's part lizard

​@@malachiatkinson7245 He's also vape smoke and contained in the perfect shape

“That just makes you a beta cuck…”

The way he is so fucking smug in his videos like “of course there’s quotes in it nyuhh” and without skipping a beat goes to this sad “if you want to unsubscribe from me for missing a source that’s okay 🥺” is insane

Yeah, like, tell us how you really feel, James

It's sad, too. I appreciate my gay friends because I can have safe, real friendships and community with them without the constant bs you get around the straights. So to realize just how deeply some of them still internalize misogyny has been hard. Some gay men still see women as sex objects, just sex objects they don't WANT and therefore worthless. Which is just the same way straight men treat women they aren't attracted to anyway. They aren't interested in a woman's perspective or opinion because it's not coming from someone they value in that way. I am lucky that a good number of my friends are still very cool people who have avoided this sort of energy, but I've definitely caught a lot of misogyny and misogynoir from some folks in the community.

@@jazwhoaskedforthiswait until you discover the racism within the queer community

i just love the adding of "white" in front of it as if it was a) believable in any way that he doesn't feel this way ab non white women too and b) that even if that were the case, it would somehow be less misogynistic? like dude you're also white don't appropriate genuine criticisms of poc people for your irrational hatred of women

I know it amazes me that he did so much better than the actual creators around him

​@@seanfrazee5146 producing a bunch to game the algorithm and covering topics that are relatively underexplored on youtube is one hell of a drug

And yet somehow he manages to mess up his color correction so badly it looks like he just got done crying in half of his videos.

This comment is art

Syndicate of evil Hb edition

And thus, the Credibility Restoration to End the Demonizing Ideologue Team was formed. Of course, before they ever managed to finish off their archenemy the team tore itself apart over leadership issues, because if there’s one thing the group had in common besides their galvanizing hatred for Harris Bomberguy… it was that they never learned how to properly share the C.R.E.D.I.T.

This has me in stitches right now I absolutely love it when KZfaq commenters come out with ACTUAL PROSE for a joke

@@PlumbumJelly Thank you. To be completely honest, I don’t remember writing this. It’s the end of the semester, so I might’ve been drunk when I wrote this cuz I passed all my classes. So thank you for your support.

It's also solet backwards!

Oh my god,I never noticed it😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮.😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

I bet he knew it already when he decided on making a company with that name

Ah, I hadn't clocked it!

AND it means "end" in Greek xD

I have my criticisms of SU, but I will always be grateful for Rebecca fighting so hard for a lesbian wedding. Same with TLOK and the hand holding scene with Korra and Asami.

exactly!

Yeah, dude was just playing oppression Olympics, it's hard to be part of the LGBTQIA + community, also, if he is going to play, trans people are always going to win, sadly.

somerton doesn’t understand this because he’s never believed in anything enough to fight for its realization.

And SU got its remaining episodes cut short because the crew stuck to their guns on the wedding, which is a big reason the shows ending had such rushed pacing. Insane to act like CN was just bending over to give them whatever they wanted.

He was in the original thumbail just less visible

I also find it kind of interesting how Internet Historian helps show who can get away with plagiarism and who can't. Channels like James Somerton who tried to act professional and scholarly or Blair who had courted a mostly progressive audience that cares about ethical practices and quality research got completely unexisted, while guys like Lukiepoo, Internet Historian or the dozens of content farms or alt-right propaganda outlets that have gotten aired out in the many plagiarism exposed videos that have come out after this have all just kind of kept chugging along. They all courted an audience that doesn't really care, Internet Historian's twitter followers seem to think that Harris is just part of a Jewish conspiracy to take him down, why would they care about plagiarism? You can just get away with plagiarism so long as you don't have fans who would care about it, they'll stand by you and act like it's no big deal.

Your point being?

​@@MeansofIntrigueIH isn't the main point of this video and no one watching really cared all that much about him. But then, because his fans all descended on this video with the intention of trying to drown out hbomberguy with shitty comments (which ended up being as effective as throwing a water balloon at a brick wall), now ih's face is in the thumbnail of a 20million viewed video. Hilarious cause and effect.

​@@shotgun6XIH fans need to be careful, if they keep it up IH will get "second half of the Hbomb video"-'d too lmao

Exactly, James showed off how he understands absolutely nothing about anime or Japanese entertainment in general, audiences included. The biggest demographic of people that consume m/m content is straight women. Fujoshi's aside there's just way more straight women then there are gay men and gay women, and very little straight men enjoy those stories. A ton of m/m stuff is created by straight women and Japanese media relies HEAVILY on merchandise to survive, and women have always been the ones to purchase more merch than men, so women have held up quite a lot of m/m content just by buying the merch. James can hate straight women all he wants, but I guarantee a huge amount of them gave him a platform, and he repaid them with sexism and a distaste of heterosexuality. Man wasn't grateful at all.

Yeah, someone needs to show James AO3. Cis, trans, femme, masc, androgyne, doesn't matter. We all love ourselves some g a y

​​@@purelysmetalnightcorehis vid on No. 6 seemed well structured (probably plagerized too), but then it went completely off the rails and ended up not explaining how his word spaghetti had anything to do with No. 6.

Someone posted a meme to the subreddit of James photoshopped over Colleen Ballinger called "poisonous rumor locomotive"

It's especially funny to see a joke The Hard Times did 18 hours ago in the comments section of a plagiarism video

Mobius Fun, it’s my birthday today. Play in the bouncy castle in Farbanti.

03:27:30 is this like the 3rd or 4th time Hbomb has randomly brought up a fictional white women victimization campaign? and weirdly including it as a joke when mentioning one of the few black creators in the space is peak white privilege and ignorance. What happened with Lindsey Ellis was bad hbomb we know you're angry about it but that doesn't give you the go-ahead to create this narrative that white women are under attack by queer and BIPOC liberals online it's disgusting.

​​@@billmurphy6199I'm losing my mind, how fucking deep does this plagiarism rabbit hole goes

That was especially egregious. Like, I have never seen a single episode of Merlin, but I was on Tumblr in the 2010s, so I'm vaguely familiar with its broad strokes. I can't imagine anyone who did any kind of looking into the show to make that kind of mistake

Imagine you were watching that livestream at the time as a fan and thinking he was talking about Arthur, the children's cartoon

@@fishtank39 right lol never watched the show either but grew up on tumblr seeing fangirls of it and even I know how ridiculous it is to have called it Arthur

Also, calling it “Arthur” could make people confuse it for the kids PBS show, lol.

That jumped out to me too.

Oh yeah. So the fallout of what happened was James faked an unaliving attempt *twice* and then rebranded. And before you ask: yes, his rebranded videos are also plagiarized.

@@crazyinsane500holy shit what an asshole :D i was genuinely worried for him but nahhhh

@@crazyinsane500 Let's be fair, there's not really any evidence it was fake besides the fact Somerton has lied so often in the past. So it's possible attempted and didn't succeed or stopped at the last minute. Still, he definitely should he held accountable for his plagiarism. The healthiest outcome here is for James to stop looking for validation on the internet and go to therapy.

​@@littlefieryone2825 turns out there is ample evidence it was fake! and he was defending himself on alts the day of it. ugh

@@corihatfield with alts to boot that I got in a fight with one

What is this about?

@@danijelmilosevic3565apparently james posted a picture of his balls online, make of that what you will

​@@danijelmilosevic3565while he posted his unalive message on X, he was creating another fake account called The Achilles Boy which he was using to argue with hbomberguy fans about how James Somerton did nothing wrong etc etc. he then posted a pic of his sclong there later on. all of this while hbomberguy team and fans were trying to do wellness check on him because of his unalive note. he's insane.

​@@danijelmilosevic3565and his yt channel is now gone, for good hopefully

​​@@danijelmilosevic3565Jim Somerton did a very bad apology and people are making fun of him for it and also he showed his private parts

delicious

Glad to see his former fans aren't putting up with his bullshit anymore.

Let's gooo another career successfully ruined by our guy of the hbombs

He seems to have lost ~6K subscribers so far, if Social Blade is reliable

That post has now been deleted and a new one is up saying he is sorry and taking a moment before responding.

well, do you?!

This is one of those questions that give you an existencial crisis, both for the question and why it was asked

Lol

Well shit, that's going to be my reply to everything now.

Destroyed with facts and logic

Plus he goes "he's emothatic. he's shmertt" while reading that passage and its so fuckinf dumb

what's the timestamp?

@@FuzzyQue. 2:29

What an amazing detail

it's blurry but you can see the cave boardgame in the background too

It's probably plagiarized

what a huge snub to "most fuckable twink"

what is?@@SomeMaoriDude

@@Sorreltail768 The quote mentioned above

I think calling Lukiepoo “the most fuckable twink,” might’ve been an even better line

"But where did the mistaken weight for the rock come from!?" lol ... I am genuinely curious though. Dear hbomberguy, please make a follow up video if you find out, thanks.

​@@SnakebitSTIif you convert pounds (the currency, not weight) to dollars, you get 33. This is information that I definitely found out myself and didn't plagiarise from another comment that I can't find anymore.

Didn’t ask + hbomber steals my content so he can get more money and views..

​@@ville__Did he steal the milk your father was looking for too?

@@ville__ The only content you have is is posting that repeatedly lol

I sincerely hope IH actually had bought up stock photos of him before he used his likeness for the face of his channel.

Go away, James.

Now you’ve got me imagining an AVGN-lexicon version of James Somerton’s rants about being used as an accessory by straight women

The Nerd has lost it lately

He's the ancient koi fish who, upon waking from its long slumber, shakes the Earth, ends a fraudster's career, and further breaks that one section of wall.

He is also nonbinary and gay

​@@crookedgamer7183When you refer to someone who is non-binary, you don't usually refer them with "he" unless it's what they prefer. Also, he's bi not gay

Most accurate description I've ever read

It's like the modern day content cop and I'm here for it

Underrated comment

My farts are better than hbomberguy’s farts 💨

@@p-__i will piss in your petrol tank

​@@p-__how do these bots not realise that they're just helping hbomberguy get more engagement with their spam

​@@dhruvtukadiya My guy please don't respond to the bots

Jes Tom: "I made this." James Somerton: "You made this." *Jes Tom leaves* James Somerton: "I made this."

As a Chinese trans person it really upsets me. I grew up up with Mulan, it was the story that lead me to a window of a home I never knew as I’m adopted. Mulan is my big sibling, “reflection” is like my coming out song but unlike Mulan I don’t think I’ll get a happy ending of acceptance. This man is so horrible, and hides behind being “one of us” against bigots. I LIVE WITH A BIGOT, a man who’s said he’d kill me if I come out as trans! And now he’s talking over some of us in some weird disgusting hierarchy within a place that’s suppose to be our safe space to be equal. People who plagiarize from what I’ve seen are disgustingly arrogant and steal from those they see as lesser. I can only come to one conclusion.

@@trebien21 I can't tell if you're trying to be funny or making a thinly veiled mockery of trans people.

@@trebien21 Oh so you're a dickhead. Got it.

​​@@trebien21 As a bisexual man who has beaten the first five Wario ( *WA HA HA* ) Land games, quit being cringe, or I will completely derail this reply section to being about *WARIO, WA HA HA*

Mf got a plush by doing nothing

Question: Why'd you take it?

That's absolutely hilarious lol. I would have taken it too, just for kicks.

Ah me too!! I'm glad I'm not the only one hahaha!

That’s a really great insight! I usually rewatch the Spider-Verse movies to help with my imposter syndrome, but they haven’t been that much help lately.

I have a feeling being gay is his whole identity and has nothing interesting about him.

You sure? Check again.

And you have a disco elysium profile picture so you are already a gigachad, love

@@tobyriecke3972 James Somerton

He technically didn’t deleted it (he purged everything from it) but he might as well have

Brilliant stuff fr 😂

@@arnahunas4048He’s gonna try casually come back in future like nothing ever happened

Totally read that in Hbombs voice 😂

Also the hole pics were stolen 🙃

@@ConradTwigs AND THE HOLE PICS WERE STOLEN!!!

That’s the funniest shit I ever read.

Or getting a separate video on a second obscure channel.

You‘d be not even the main prize! People just want to get past you to get to the interesting stuff!

first I wasn't not sure, but it turns out that this is actually a good comment

yeah! if you see this, hbo: it's never felt like a weird phrase to me at all, even used so frequently. it comes off as a natural expressive hallmark of your style. (if you'll let me cook) it gives the impression you're just passively observing and drawing connections along with us as you present info, always returning the personal reaction to the public story unfolding; you leave your agency in the way you investigate and uncover info, and the way you reflect on the implications of people's behaviour, but you let the facts and patterns of people's behaviour just 'turn out'. I think people sometimes overemphasise style, when most of us are really craving substance, idk. I often ramble insufferably (as above) and I get that as a public creator you're concerned with being easy to parse, but the real quality of good writing is being able to convey your perspective in a connected way. hbomb comes off as a real conscientious, careful guy and that goes a long way imo. hm, makes me think, though - about the genre of 'video essays'. they don't generally have very good writing... obviously there are loads of dogshit video essayists, but even the 'good' (imo) ones aren't great at making cogent, connected points and theses. they're more loosely connected interesting observations and incomplete explorations; fodder for you to idly absorb. the tropes everyone makes fun of are exactly to do with this lol. careful composition that's reluctant to just make a clear point.

This is a gold star comment.

hbomberguy wasn't lying That it really do turns out

People dont think it be like it is but it do

This comment rules

The "stop, he's already dead!" Meme comes to mind.

It's certainly thorough.

this comment goes so fucking hard

Or a few Guinness World Records.

How

@@JaJaBi Some Internet Historian fans adamantly defend his blatant plagiarism, dismissing how wrong it is. It just feels yucky to see him steal other people's work and how others don't care about his lack of integrity.

@@JoJo-dj1hj He did nothing wrong. Plagiarism is a fake problem for IP kulaks

LMAO

@@rockoman100 You can't just steal someone else's work, make more money off of it than they ever did, and then pretend you've committed a victimless crime against against a wealthy IP owner.

I imagine, if confronted, he would either downplay the past (it wasn't that bad, women exaggerate) or focus on how things have improved and contend that women no longer suffer challenges.

@@ErinBanneret That’s just straightforwardly conservative BS.

Genuine sociopath behavior, gradually developing a relationship with someone he always intended to ruin if things got hot. Watching him deliberately set Nick up whenever plagiarism was mentioned is chilling. I’m deeply glad HBomb went out of his way to show that Nick was going to be scapegoated so Somerton doesn’t get to play that card and Nick doesn’t get his career ruined.

@@naten1570 I'm glad this video is getting as much attention as it is, him & others must be held accountable. It is not simply about plagiarism, these people are beyond toxic - dangerous even

The way he was always so darkly, eerily lit in his videos seems very fitting in retrospect.

I'm surprised how fast he turned off comments and deleted his social media.

​@@Skelath lol he took the flight response instead of coming up with one. far easier than writing an explanation, i suppose.

he's doing the contraponts bit but without a single shred of irony. Huh.. I wonder if he intentionally tried to rip that off without getting the joke

I guess you could almost call it... borderline experimental.

@@3ln2xnope it's been confirmed that he didn't

@3ln2x the rumor has been all over the internet, so it must be true, right?

​@@el_fuckoI....clapped?

+2 Joke

"Since there's no ending quote mark, everything after this is part of my quote. -€Randall Munroe

No no, she *does* write new words of her own in. Exactly 5 entire words per script! Usually “and” or “the” or “but.”

She's like that kid at the playground who keeps making up new rules as she goes along just to win

For real tho!

"All methods of plagiarism are equally bad...but some methods are more equally bad than others."

​@@szatan9717"Nuh uh, I'm wearing anti-canceling underwear, you can't call me out" - Blair probably

It was me. I was just so angry at. Uh. Gamers

My favorite comment

​@@JonathanSicoligaming racists

​@@JonathanSicoliis it because they're going woke and shoving the woke agenda down your throat?

It's always the straight white women!

LITERALLY LMAO I can’t wait for when he releases a video about Minecraft and it turns into why PopularMMO’s went to jail or something lmao

Anybody knows what joke that got stolen from him he was talking about??

@@Pllayer064 Probably one of the ones he stole from Stuart Lee lol

​@@visionvampire1910 What happened with him?

@@durnsidh6483 just the whole spiral he went on after him and Jen broke up, alcoholism and getting arrested and such. Didn’t mean an it as an actual example, but certainly the type of thing he’d deep dive into lol

A good lesson taught poorly is worse than not being taught at all. A bad lesson taught well does more harm still.

Hah like they would put in that much effort

My farts are better than hbomberguy’s farts 💨

@@Pedro_Larroza I’m guessing these “friends” didn’t stay around long after?

Or it is their version of Paper Towns, so they will know when someone plagiarizes them, because if Illuminati is an example, they REALLY don’t like people stealing the things they stole.

Exactly. Even if you (JS) don’t have whatever writing handbook you had to buy for school still in a box somewhere, you know it exists. Heck, you know citations are a thing because they are the things you would have to delete when copying Wikipedia articles into your script.

Heck, it isn't uncommon for it to be a thing in high school either. And the very fact that one knows the phrase 'citing a reference' means knowing in broad strokes about the concept and thus what to google, if nothing else.

​​​@@PhotonBeastI learned about and was told that bad stuff would happen if you plagiarized in middle school, hell in the 6th goddamn grade. Granted, it was a very light sort of "If you plagiarize you can get in legal trouble and lose money" in a very simplified way for 12 year olds, but *still*, c'mon man it aint hard to understand

Yup. This was all in my very first required class.

It was drilled into me in high school English. Granted, I took AP English, but still...

🤝

Spill the tea, what's up on X? I ain't going over there to check myself.

@@MoonShadowWolfe After he tried to make everyone believe he killed him self, it was revealed he didn't and he has made a new twitter and has been hornyposting on it for this whole duration.

@@MoonShadowWolfe he hornyposted like 30 minutes on an alt after his “suicide note” dropped. He has also been caught using a fucking anime filter to hide his face on tik tok. He then got bold and used his actual face, where he then got clowned off the internet again. He has also been caught using alts to try and put all the blame on nick. (who tbf isn’t exactly innocent but he’s more lazy than a thief.) He apparently also posted his ass and balls on another alt or something. (haven’t seen it myself.) The dude is a mega narcissist who can’t ever seem to just know when to fuck off and get a regular job. He keeps thinking that eventually everyone will forget and he can just go back.

I’m pretty sure there is more, but that’s all I remember.

the classic gambit: "is this guy super insightful, or does he just have a commonwealth accent?"

would that even come close to working? how did he come up with that idea?

@@jangamecuber Because he remembers hearing the cat sand is acidic....Legit reminds me of the rober that doused himself with lemon juice to become invisible because he heard thats what is used to make invisible ink

wait what srsly??? i just finished this video and know no follow up

@@sylvan-dreams He deleted everything and ran the day after this video came out.

​@@glyph1869 In his apology video that just came out, he says he wants to bring it back. 🍿🍿🍿

​@@cadekachelmeier7251 I hope he gets flooded with copyright claims

@@cadekachelmeier7251Lol. Lmao

I don't get this hate though. He's saying IH stole the article and reworded, but also that IH got stuff wrong even though it was in the thing IH was stealing from. Doesn't make sense. But I think this is heating up, one of these two may fall

the author might not be the rights holder, it’s probably the media company he’d contributed the material to; can’t see it happening

Visiting the video now, it seems the video does link the article as its source. Was it added recently or was it always there?

@@ry4nmasterKeep watching this video to find out!

it got added after a while.

Hbomberguys videos are really good for observing english language and expanding your vocabulary

That really sucks, sorry that happened :(

@@KateCat420 Thank you! It doesn’t bother me anymore, but it was really lame when it happened.

If there's anything to take away from this whole thing, is that original art and honest creativity are insanely important things to come by, so I really hope that didn't discourage you from acting on your creativity going forward, whether it be in your writing or otherwise

Anyone got the Patreon posts? Or is able to at least paraphrase them? Just curious!

@@attackofveganpotatoes1074 I have the second one still open in a tab, first one was deleted before I had the chance to see it live but can be found floating around in tumblr at least if you happen to use that. Anyway, the second post goes as follows: " Hi everyone. I wanted to say that I’m very sorry. I’m in a terrible headspace right now so I don’t want to post anything too long because I don’t know where my brain will lead me. But I will say something more extensive once I’ve prepared myself emotionally. I know people want an immediate, detailed response but I’ve never found immediate responses to anything to be as fair and honest as they could be. Always more driven more by emotion than anything else. I will say more soon, though. But for now, I want to apologize. I’m heartbroken that I’ve lost your trust and just hope that someday, with a lot of work, I can get it back. " full credit to Mr. Somerton here, assuming he didn't plagiarize that too

@@attackofveganpotatoes1074 First one basically said Harry was trudging up old drama for clout and that the community is stronger than this. Patrons saw through that one. The second post admitted that he'd made some "mistakes", and that he'd be able to win everyone's trust back. They saw through that one also.

​@@66Rosesif you somehow werent convinced James is willfully manipulative after watching the video, his responses sure sealed it.

Thank you for this update. I was really interested in the reaction and response to this

Don't forget the expulsion of George Santos from the US House of Representatives

As if I needed more reason to be thrilled about that fucking GHOUL finally biting it

I listen to a podcasts called Behind the Bastards that talks about the very worst people of history and I like it a lot, but going there and being the show it is you just know the people there are the scum of the earth, it's not a slow discovery with a twist like hbomb's videos, but still fun to me. Most have one or two parts. Kissinger has SIX parts. So I went to their reddit sub the day Kissinger died and I was not disappointed lol fuck that guy

It's kind of funny since the whole reason it's so long is because he keeps playing clips in full, instead of just summarizing them

​@@14ElmStreet28He needs to post the clips in full, to make an example out of them. He's criticizing Blair for not showing his full tweet video after all, if he turned around and went "Oh btw Internet Historian copied a whole article just trust me I won't show clips just trust me bro" he'd be a hypocrite

My "favorite" is how Hirohiko Araki is hellbent on making sure nobody sees any of the Jojo OVAs. Unfortunately it does a great disservice to all the people that originally adapted Part 3, including the late great Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, Paranoia Agent, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika) who directed the episode where Dio pursues Kakyoin and Joseph. Forget the OVAs of Parts 1 and 2 tho, because Araki made sure they never saw the light of day outside of the theaters they screened in.

Dude I literally just subscribed to your channel today, and I have a habit of reading through this videos new comments. I think I had a heart attack.

Hello being of paper.

I enjoy your work very much. I am grateful you do what you do.

yeah that must happen when making 6hr videos on NK propaganda... (also keep up the great work that video got me through multiple homework assingments and a round of battlefield 1, loved every second)

hope he sees this, bless yahs

I'm genuinely so sorry for your book, you were directly stolen from and used for profit and I can't begin to muster up the words for why that's wrong. Currently going through a rough patch, financially, but I'd very much like to read Tinker Belles and Evil Queens when I can. I'd love to hear your insight, from you. Here's hoping this changes how we engage with media.

I did in fact order your book because of this video, it looked really interesting

Hi as a transwoman I love seeing queer authors get recognition. Thank you! And thank you for posting this here! It's nice to see that we queer people aren't alone! Also I might possibly order your book but I already have a lot to read. Regardless I'm glad that these authors are getting recognition! At the least this is a good reading list!

​@@DroolRockwormHis book did, which did not fall upon this earth fully formed.

was literally thinking this myself

*whispered* absolutely... DE-STROYYYYYYEEEEEEEEDDDDD

LMAO

There some gay guys who are quite comfortable being mysoginist bc theyre gay (like they justify being a mysoginist bc theyre are gay. They just dont say it straight out)

It almost feels like he's bitter about women taking all the "good men" from him Idk if that's actually the case but it just feels way too bitter to not be personal

But... it DOES pay well. James Somerton has made tons of money doing exactly this and while his income as tanked, he still has all the money from the "glory days".

Fr, I sometimes find myself at work, in the middle of a call, with no idea whatsoever of what the content of the call was but having created a new character with a fully fleshed backstory

This is such a good observation! I was kind of feeling this myself but wasnt sure how to put it into words. They're both creators that would occasionally pop up in my recommendations and I'd watch a bit of their stuff, but was never really interested or impressed enough to actively watch anything else of theirs. You can definitely feel their lack of actual passion in their "craft".

This is so freaking interesting to read because I went through the exact same thing I subscribed to Illuminaughty cause I found out about her through one topic and the click but never managed to finish one of her videos, and I found Somerton because I basically wanted more contrapoints content and got a little bored from it when I realized that wasn't quite what I would get, but I could never put my finger on why their videos never resonated with me, always attributed it to my ADHD...

@@sailorncho I had basically the same arc as you! Subbed to James Somerton for about a year and I noticed I was only watching the videos about halfway before moving on. I assumed it was my ADHD but looking back, it’s odd that I assumed that when far longer videos have held my attention the entire time, and I usually go back to videos that were genuinely compelling. I feel like when creators are actually passionate about what they’re talking about, they’ll relay the information in a way where they replicate the emotions they felt while discovering every facet of information. The creators that plagiarize, on the other hand, are more focused on the way that THEY look as writers.

I made a similar comment about Iiliminaughtii. At first I thought it would be interesting content to listen to while working on stuff, but then it just seemed so impersonal. I'm not saying I felt the lack of engagement, it just seemed pretty flat to me.

Literally same. I'd tried a few Illumi vids just as they popped up on play next (usually after me watching creators like Atrocity Guide), and despite it being similar, interesting content, I just found the delivery so dry and the video feeling weirdly stilted in comparison to similar content. Meanwhile I subbed to James after watching a few vids of his a year or so back, i found the content pretty interesting, but every time I tried to go back to his vids after the first few, I had the same problem again; the videos felt weird, and his delivery was dry and weirdly over dramatic, like he was trying to add something that wasn't there. I especially didn't like some of the side comments he made (like the misogyny and weird jabs at lesbians), funny to learn that was the only content he wrote himself. Figures. Real proof right there that reading content that's not your own, ie audiobooks, is a genuinely hard skill and the creatives who can do it successfully are skilled as all heck.

Honestly his delivery is what makes it more apparent it IS stolen. It's the kind of delivery you get from someone who is reading something out loud for the first time, without ever having seen the words... yet he claimed to be the one writing said words! No one would read their own work in such a stilted and emotionless manner when they claim to have such passion for the subjects they're discussing.

​@gamma626 also you can tell it's written for an article and not to be read aloud. It doesn't flow right. I always found his videos clunky in a way I couldn't put my finger on, but I think that's it

@@NeonNecropolis92 same, his videos started feeling more performative over time to me and lost interest in keeping up, this video shocked how bad behind the scenes actually are and dropped subscription.

I hadn’t watched the second half of the video yet when I first read your comment and almost asked “what about the Angry Video Game Nerd’s delivery is dramatic?” Haha

@@gamma626 I don't mind people reading out articles loud without adding personal emotions to them. True crime and documentary videos absolutely should do that, just acknowledge you're reading existing work, it's like an audiobook that isn't overacted this way.

I'm sure their mothers would be very proud.

I imagine it would be kinda like putting a live microphone directly in front of the speaker it's connected to and cranking the volume, then leaving it to feed back for a long time. It would be ear grating and horrible, but maybe in an interesting way if you can stand to listen.

divide by zero error

Dude, be careful. That's how you start the Sinister Six!

They kiss😳

Oh thank god I thought it was just me

My farts are better than hbomberguy’s farts 💨

I'm still waiting for the video where he makes a doughnut (if you don't know what I mean stick around after the credits)

One of my favorite things about this video is the shot at 2:30 when Harry sets down a copy of Analog on top of some other books, those books foreshadowing the instances of plagiarism he'll be talking about

​@@maddieS117 oh man I didn't notice that, that's so good

when i become a zoologist, and if i discover a new parasitic species, im plagiarising this comment.

He'd never think of something that original

TOOT TOOT Toxic Gossip Train pulling into the station yet again!

​​@@surpriseandterror9698i was JUST going to say that I hope it includes a ukulele 😂

"I'm not a plagiarist, I'm just an archivist!"

he has a second channel called gays behaving badly and the comments are still open.

Being a landlord is very time consuming, she barely had the time to not do plagiarism

God forbid women have hobbies /s

@@Sugarman96not her being a landlord too… the more i learn about this woman the worse it gets 😭

fr@@singulariteas

@@singulariteas i could tell instantly from her voice, they all have the same soulless, disconnected, anti-social drawl. i could perceive more empathy in the sound of a dial-up modem. EDIT: I understand having a dynamic and/or monotone voice doesn't correlate with empathy, but I never said she had a "monotone" voice, and never would have used that word, for the exact reasons people are apparently upset about ("soulless, disconnected, anti-social drawl" is an extremely specific kind of monotone, if anything, but in my mind a landlord voice isn't even necessarily monotone) ..I'm on the spectrum somewhere myself, not all of us have "monotone" voices - me thinking she sounds like a landlord really shouldn't be taken as an attack on fellow neurodivergents... I know a few that not only don't have monotone voices, but are fantastic orators.

Not sure if it's better or worse that most business majors (not sure where he graduated from) actually do take ethics classes as part of the degree program.

@@Terratops474im convinced they use them to get around actually using ethics

​@@DeathbatOfSpadeswe do

I dunno, maybe if they paid attention in high school English, they may have caught enough to be less shit.

@@Terratops474 Lots engineers do as well, but then the Department will basically be financed by the Military Industrial Complex anyway.

​@@capnmnemooh, a new development

​@@capnmnemoWith photoshopped images of his videos to make them look better might I add

Idk shit about filmmaking and the lighting is still pissing me off lmao

I have been thinking this since the video came out in December. It's either Argento or sterile dystopia, with no in-between.

oh, i read the _crap_ out of this. i think he doesn't understand what makes certain types of lighting work. it's like that ebert quote about the guy who overused the dutch angle, "he's learned from better films that sometimes directors tilt their cameras, but he has not learned why."

I think "disinterested" is the best adjective you could use to describe Somerton's voice. I've now watched this video at least five times, and my biggest takeaway about Somerton is he sounds so profoundly disinterested and non-passionate about what he presents in his videos. He sounds far more engaged in the livestream clips, which wouldn't take much. Why would I watch a video made by someone who didn't care about what they were making?

@@jaduspeaks4754 That's the word, thank you!

I plagiarized a poem about fish in elementary school and got an A. Still learned not to do it by middle school

In Denmark before submitting any high school exam you literally have to sign a legal document stating that this is all your original work and that you agree to be expelled if it isn't.

For me it was in 2nd grade on a report about some kind of flower. Now I am ass about my citations

I met people who were upperclassmen in college who didn't understand that if they did not include in-text citations (which are VERY EASY TO INCLUDE, *especially* in APA style), they were effectively plagiarizing. The amount of peer-reviewing I did where that was an issue was astounding.

Same here. I was in 2nd grade and for my essay I just copied a portion of a Crash Bandicoot 1 walkthrough. lmao

💀😭

his mother ought to be very proud

Many more have done far less...

(also that's the one part that we know for sure Joey did)

I mean, I really don't want to defend Tommy Tallarico, but at least he actually owned oof sound. He also owned Guinness records. (although he fabricated titles for all awards) James never REALLY owned anything in videos that made him famous. It was all stolen.

If you watch on a computer, you can also drag captions around on the screen just by clicking on them! Not a lot of people know that, but if you are watching and it's an issue on a different video, you can move it on your own :)

Oh, he finally deleted his channel?

​@@leileyaravencroftNot quite, the channel still technically remains, but it's been wiped of everything except its name. No videos, no community tab notes, not even a profile picture. I think he's also deleted or made private pretty much every bit of the rest of his online presence as well.

Ah, nature is healing

A man of his word!

​@@Ehh.....well, someone's words anyway.

"Rules for thee and not for me" as they say

Projection seems to be quite common among people who have a habit of knowingly doing shitty things

@@larissabrglum3856 Because they think everyone else is like them

Often people are the most critical of others what they think of themselves. Projecting.

Blair being so cutthroat about Cruel World Happy Mind's bashful approach addressing potential plagiarism brought to her by a viewer was clearly not an authentic response but making an example of her because she knew she would not be the last.

Hilariously incompetent

unfortunately a rare illuminaughti W

​@@iphoneShothandit's actually pretty based because not everyone that wants to see the source materials wants to pay for a Hulu subscription

oh my god blair is on another level of making $hitty "documentaries". I love this material, love you Sir Harris

The fact that she did that is peak comedy

Lel true

@@geekzombie8795 he is gay because he hates women that is true

Who said that?

​​@@chud-of4ybnobody, its a meme

@@chud-of4yb I'm not sure a gay man ever said that, but "political lesbianism" is a thing in radical feminism and basically boils down to "I'm a lesbian because I hate men."

I know. His style usually is to cut the video into sections about specific topics. His writing style is. “Here is a thing Here is why that thing happened Here is my opinion on that thing Next topic” Then he suddenly shifts to a narrative video that is incredibly well written and has an emotional story.