Plagiarism and You(Tube)
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Published 2023-12-02
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Chapters:
0:00:00 Intro
0:05:09 Filip
0:27:57 Cinemassacre
0:42:59 Iilluminaughtii
1:04:06 YouTube Content Mills
1:11:41 The LegalEagle Debacle
1:25:34 Cave Story
1:49:59 The Twist You Expected
2:15:11 The Celluloid Closet
2:21:57 It Got Worse
2:34:24 HE'S STILL DOING IT
2:41:49 Shouldn't Need To Do This
2:50:31 Attack on Attack on Titan
2:58:15 Does He Know?
3:04:45 He Started A Film Studio
3:09:14 The Nightmare
3:17:00 Turnabout Summertime
3:20:01 The Cost
3:29:47 Conclusion
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All Comments (21)
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Second channel video HERE (finally): https://youtu.be/403eGkWv4MA
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"If I was plagiarizing people all the time, I wouldn't... have a YouTube channel." - James Somerton, guy who no longer has a YouTube channel
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I suddenly have a great idea for a four hour long video on plagiarism
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Mankind has learned to fear the second half of an HBomberguy video.
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It’s absolutely insane to me how drastically Somerton’s tone shifts when he’s talking about women. The way he goes from the Snooty College Professor voice to sounding so vindictive and angry would be comedic if it wasn’t so damn disturbing. Literal cartoon villain behavior.
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I used to be subscribed to James Somerton. During one of the few times he admitted that he "accidentally" plagiarized a chapter from a book, I wrote a comment wondering how exactly someone accidentally copies an entire chapter without realizing it. I will never forget what happened next. One of his fans replied to me and asked, "What? Do you want to spank his willy?" I think about that comment often.
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"What teenage girl did this to you in highschool James, and why are you inserting fanfiction about her into an article you stole instead of going to therapy?" is easily my favourite quote of this entire video
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it's still fucking wild to me how james unironically did the "they dont treat you like a friend, they treat you like an item" speech from the snapcube 06 dub
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There’s something funny to me about all the internet historian fans insisting he didn’t do anything wrong. Because you know who DOES think he did something wrong? Internet Historian! If he thought what he was doing wasn’t a big deal he wouldn’t have tried to hide it as hard as he did, he would have just owned it.
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The bit where Somerton is basically setting up his co-writer to take the fall for plagiarism allegations made me go from "this guy's an asshole" to "this guy is actually evil".
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Imagine being caught plagiarizing by a guy who half-assedly listened to your video while he was building an ikea bookshelf. Beautiful.
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There's a line in here that really sticks with me: "when someone tries to use language to imply what they did happened by magic, they make it pretty clear they're trying to deceive you." I keep coming back to it because someone speaking to me like that was the switch that flipped in my brain and made me realize I was in an abusive relationship. I know that's kind of heavy for the comment section, but it's been echoing in my brain since I first heard it. Really hit home. Anyway, thanks
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"Women see gay men as disposable" No James, you see gay women as disposable. But you have it so much worse than us, right?
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Ah yes, "If I replace all the words, is it really plagiarism?" the infamous Ship of Thesaurus argument
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"Also, delete your channel." and then he DID
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This made me go read that article that internet historian copied. It was an amazing telling of the story and so tragic at the end I genuinely cried. Lucas Riley truly is an amazing writer.
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The existential dread and horror of being held accountable by getting secondhalfofthevideo'd by hbomb
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James Somerton has the power to do the funniest thing in the world by making an apology video entirely plagiarized from other bad apology videos.
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this video was amazing for my mental health, because no matter how shitty i'm feeling and how strong the imposter syndrome is, i can at least look into the mirror and say with 110% confidence that i'm not james somerton
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Honestly linking a pirated video in your list of sources is such a hilarious move
