this is actively going to kill me i swear to god i knew this video was going to be nuts but i didn't realize it would be so personal because i fucking researched all this myself
for those who didn't know cuz i haven't talked about this: my senior thesis for my undergrad was on sociology, fandom, and identity, which required a lot of research on camp, queerness, and sociological patterns
so i have read. so much of these books. literally before they mentioned The BOOK i saw the video title and went "huh that sounds like tinkerbelles and--" and then screamed like five minutes later
his patreon got nuked and the last post on it was something like 'i would explain what happened but i'm in a dark emotional place right now and i'm sorry i lost your trust'
YEAH it was like hbomberguy: Here is all the shit he plagiarized - or at least everything I can find proof for which is such a huge amount it casts doubt on everything we haven't found a source for Todd in the shadows: not all of it is plagiarized, here's another two hours detailing 50 outright lies he's stated as fact, too! that's his original work!
We may be rapidly approaching the point where youtube contains more original work about James Somerton's plagiarism than it does original work by James Somerton.
> not that he's sorry for what he did, that he 'lost your trust'
hbomberguy: Here is all the shit he plagiarized - or at least everything I can find proof for which is such a huge amount it casts doubt on everything we haven't found a source for
Todd in the shadows: not all of it is plagiarized, here's another two hours detailing 50 outright lies he's stated as fact, too! that's his original work!