Plagiarism and You(Tube)

Second channel video HERE (finally): https://youtu.be/403eGkWv4MA

I suddenly have a great idea for a four hour long video on plagiarism

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.

You did actually ruin Internet Historian for me since he seems to have never brought it up or apologized. Thank you and damn you lol

Imagine, you're an online content creator, someone you know sends you a YouTube link, "OMG you're in this video" you click on it, it's an hbomber guy video, it's 4 hours long

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.

It really bothers me that Somerton implies Stevenson and Sugar had it easier when producing hits like Steven Universe and She-Ra, particularly SU, given that it's pretty well documented that Sugar and crew had to fight tooth and nail to actually get their representation in explicitly whilst being actively censored, expressing that Cartoon Network was "[holding them] to the standards of extremely bigoted countries". Edits were made to the show to change the gender of a female coded character (Ruby) to male so it wouldn't be gay in certain broadcasts. These aren't people who were just allowed to do what they want with their representation; Sugar has gone on record saying they were willing to lose the show for good if it meant they could broadcast a lesbian wedding, and would walk away themselves if they couldn't. They risked it all because they believed in what they were showing. SU is far from flawless, but it made such massive leaps for representation in children's media. Downplaying that as something they just were uniquely granted by the powers that be because lesbians is utterly ridiculous.

“I didn’t think YouTube videos could have souls but now I’ve experienced ones that don’t” is such an incredible line and so accurately describes such a specific feeling lmao

3:37:32 I JUST REALIZED, THE PATHOLOGIC VIDEO WAS RELEASED FOUR YEARS AGO, HE SAID HE WAS GONNA USE THAT BACHELOR QUOTE IN A FUTURE VIDEO AND PRETEND IT WAS FROM A REAL PERSON, AND HE USED IT HERE TO MAKE A JOKE ABOUT PLAGIARISM. THE SEEDS OF THIS JOKE WERE PLANTED A MILLENIA BEFORE OUR TIME.

"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

To be fair to Blare, she was very busy abusing her boyfriend and collaborators.

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.

Hbom exposed a guy so hard he faked his own death about it, only to have an alt account defend himself and eventually just reveal he's still alive. What a wild journey

Ah yes, "If I replace all the words, is it really plagiarism?" the infamous Ship of Thesaurus argument

Every single subject in this video is the epitome of “Why would I need to take an ethics class? I’m a business major”

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

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.

Citing a pirating website as a source is the best thing I've ever seen

Catching James having the AreTheyGay video on his timeline is the most actual detective work BBC Sherlock has ever been involved with.

Opening a nearly 4 hour essay with a quote that includes the sentence "Tell us the story, briefly." is definitely one of the narrative choices of all time.