Laughing at one weird bald misogynist
"Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?" - Blight
Did I mention that they have a pet skull...hmm, no I doubt that helps either.
Perhaps they enjoy scotch and cigars as well, maybe that'll... Ah, never mind.
Uhh, let's see, Oh! They sold their merch on their friends' website, which included books that were blatantly plagiarizing Roosh V!
Hang on that doesn't narrow it down either.
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At half the video I knew the main culprit was about to be revealed, then he put the "contrapoints" lighting and I was like please don't be contra, and he starts talking about how that person was stealing from smaller lgbtq creators and I was oh fuck, is contra, but then it was actually that guy I didn't even knew existed and was a relief.
Given the amount of time between Contra videos, I would be really surprised if she was plagiarizing
I was also thinking Contra was involved, but when he pulled out the lighting I thought it was something someone had done to her. I'm very glad it just turned out to be Somerton, who failed the sniff test the first time he was recommended to me by the algorithm.
Looks like some people don't get the meme here. The first domino refers to the first hbomb video against aurini. Please don't make me explain the joke
If you're gonna make jokes about niche internet personalities in public you're gonna have to get used to explaining the joke.
For that you will have to check the video :) https://youtu.be/yDp3cB5fHXQ?si=Aa0qGYL2Uzy0AbiW
Oh that! Loved that video haha
Your wording made it sound like hbg was the one losing 3 channels, not the one who killed them, so I was confused at first too
I don't know what this is about, appreciate the contribution nonetheless
been terribly out of the loop lately
Hbomberguy, after doing a video that deleted Tommy Tallarico by exposing a career of lies (even getting one of his world records removed in the process of research alone), put out a video discussing plagiarism where he, with receipts, showed Internet Historian, Illuminaughtii, and James Somerton conducted significant plagiarism. All 3 fan bases went feral over it. Somerton deleted his socials and lost a shitload of his patreon money and IH's fans are having a Normal One.
Somerton was the main focus of the video. He's a gay man who created a series of video essays that are basically all entirely plagiarized word for word from dozens of other queer creators, pretty much straight up stealing money from them. Hbomb has dedicated all the revenue he makes from this video to be split between everyone somerton stole from, which hilariously includes Wikipedia.
I used to watch illuminaughti but don't want to watch a 4 hour video about youtube plagiarism to find out what happened. Can you give me a quick summary?
Multiple times she made videos that were just word-for-word reading out the transcript of a documentary, even going so far as using the documentary footage as background imagery, without crediting the original at all. She also avoided youtube copyright detection by putting filters over such footage. Honestly I'm less upset about the plagiarism (which is bad, no doubt) and more just at the outright clownishness of literally copy-pasting somebody else's work.
Using a pirate link as a source from one of the documentaries is pretty based tho.
https://youtu.be/AQyLTE066YQ?si=3TdffinFqg52BvjO
Seems the illuminaughtii thing started before hbomberguy.
damn, stuff like this makes me glad that I don't follow internet "discourse" any more
In this case it's not really discourse so much as plagiarizing minority voices and directly profiting off them. Hbomb describes how a Somerton patreon subscriber discovered him reading her own essay back at her uncredited. She was paying him to steal from her.
Dude's also a misogynist. When he isn't stealing people's words his original contributions frequently attack white women, and he'll also misgender creators that he feels are "as bad as" women so he can attack them through the same lens.
I feel like in discourse you need two sides and nobody is on this dude's side.
get your point, I just can't be bothered with internet personalities.
The world is a horrible place, ik. I'm trying to change it irl rather than waste my energy online
I knew of the first two because their videos were everywhere and Illuminaughtii was sort of in the breadtube sphere. Never heard of James Somerton and it seems like I wasn't missing anything.
