Quite serendipity-ish I recently rewatched hbombs video so this is a nice companion piece for me to watch.
Firstly, his main excuse for stealing was “ I am a cis, white guy who can’t speak to the experience of poor innocent, didn’t do nothing wrong trans people so I needed to “use” their words otherwise they wouldn’t listen to me and I did a bad job giving credit”.
James also says that he got someone locked up for saying “go Kermit die” on a YouTube commment. X to doubt and this Jessi character is smart to ask for proof because no way that happened.
James then blames YouTube for making him popular, he was apologizing for not promoting queer creators, but then sort of just blames YouTube, saying that YouTube would only promote him because he is white. What fucking YouTube is he on?
I’ve noticed constantly a pattern that he will apologize for something. The apology sounds pretty good, but then immediately caveat it with “but I actually didn’t do anything wrong, because blah blah blah”. Like an example he gave was the evil queens video where he said he got permission from the author. However, I’m pretty sure that the video was already done and out in the public and then he asked after the fact when people noticed it.
Holy fuck, he then goes into a lovely excuse onion where he talks about the head injury, (to his credit, he does admit that’s a piss, poor excuse), but also that his mom recently gotten a cancer diagnosis, and he also recently got diagnosed with ADHD.
I think he starts throwing his writing partner Nick under the bus. Because he gives a bunch of reasons for why his stuff was plagiarized, but he says after his mom died he didn’t write anything, and it was all written by his partner. If you remember the h, bomber guy video, his partner was supposed to be the one who probably didn’t plagiarize anything because he came from academia and, hbomb couldn’t find any proof that his writing was plagiarized, but lots of evidence that James is writing was plagiarized.
And of course, it wouldn’t be a queer YouTuber video without talking about how he totes for real tried to kill himself guys no for real totes, and even though he says that somebody went to his house to harass him when he was in the hospital this guy miraculously never got caught by police, but the anonymous YouTuber did… yer…
It’s extremely transparent what’s happening here. James has essentially rested on his laurels for as long as he can but now I’m sure the money is starting to dry up and he’s afraid that the YouTube channel will become completely defunct and delisted from the algorithm.
He wants to say sorry, give out some money to the people he admits plagiarized, but then just go back to making videos again, and hopefully pull his channel out of this nose dive because if he can’t save this YouTube channel, he is done. The YouTube comments, however, do warm the cockles of my heart, because there are actually pretty savage and quite funny to read.
“Bro I bet you will make a bomb ass quarter pounder with cheese at McD’s”
A comment I read that’s pretty observant was “ there are so many cuts in this ‘apology’ video that it hurts.”