A Measured Response
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What I should have said in December. https://www.patreon.com/Jamessomertonx

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  • SSJ2Marx
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    4 months ago

    I wish there was an alternate universe I could peer into where Somerton just ignored the accusations and kept rolling like it didn't happen. I have a hypothesis that less than 10% of any given YouTube creator's audience is actually plugged into "the discourse", and that that is a viable tactic for most content creators who get into any kind of hot water.

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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      4 months ago

      Illuminaughty keep posting a 20min video a week, so there's your proof that ignoring the plagiarism accusation and just keeping pumping up Wikipedia articles read througs is the way to go.

      • DengistDonnieDarko [none/use name]
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        4 months ago

        The funniest part about this is that she turned off the comments of her videos, but also her quality control is absolute dogshit so one has a ~5 minute section that is completely silent. And nobody can tell her because she disabled the comments.

        https://x.com/Hbomberguy/status/1740637288886084070?s=20

      • SSJ2Marx
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        4 months ago

        Hmm, her views and patreon supporters both dropped off hard though. But she still has sponsors on all of her most recent videos - if she's still getting decent sponsorship offers based on her 1.2M subscriber count, then that's a point for me - but if her earnings have dropped off a cliff like her views have, then that's a point against my hypothesis. Or maybe she can keep posting through the current slump and rebuild her audience?