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James Somerset was making $170,000 a year with nearly 6 million views and 267,000 subscribers on YouTube, until...

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[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 45 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not just plagiarism, he was also a Nazi fetishist.

[–] kboy101222@lemm.ee 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I must have missed this part of hbomb's video...

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 49 points 9 months ago

Todd in the Shadows went a little deeper on that. Mostly saying they were so fit and sexy that they inspired American fitness culture. Which is just not true.

[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He made an erroneous claim in one of his videos that the main reason for people enlisting to WW2 from the US were because the Nazis had "hot and sexy bodies"

[–] Hisnitch@beehaw.org 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's mostly covered in ToddfromtheShadow's, who happened to choose actual violence and dispute as many claims as possible. Some of the things that came up is that:

  • He thinks that all the gays who died in the Aids pandemic were the cool ones and that the boring ones didn't do anything but focus on the boring rights, like the very cornerstones of the Civil Rights movements. The specific statement is also a directly plagiarized statement that came from someone who was mostly aiming it at artists because she liked to start shit.
  • He seems to really like nazis to the point of making shit up about how the Nazis are the reason why Amercians enlisted in WW2 (for those who don't know, America did not have a large enough enlistment and most GIs were conscripted soldiers) and proposing fringe theories about why we designed our body building programs in first place.
  • He despises women and transpeople. When he isn't plagiarizing (and therefore going off script) he goes on entire tangents about why women are the reason why Dalmar and Bundy get away with their crimes, and he stills massive amount of his work from transpeople. He also likes to deal in my personal favorite, Bi Erasure.
[–] kboy101222@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

God damn, I need to finish watching that video