This is a sequel to this poll

EDIT: since i realize yall havent watched everything here like i have, here's all of them in a completely random order.

EDIT 2: commentary on the results

I think Todd in the Shadows is also a good example of how long it can take to put out videos, if you're researching / writing / producing them yourselves:

One a month? One every three months? It takes time to do all this.

If someone is dropping a weekly hour-long commentary video that isn't just them podcast-ranting about too many gays, they either work with a team, or are stealing.

And if they work with a team, they should credit them, so we know whose art or words are a part of this.

Sarah Z does it like this.

Jenny Nicholson does two huge videos a year, because I'm pretty sure she does them all herself. This content takes MONTHS to put together.

If you like a non-corporate channel and they're dropping slick videos daily or weekly, that's a red flag. You should probably narrow your eyes at where this content is coming from.

...Or they just don't sleep and use hard stimulants. But that also makes the content suspect, in its own ways.

You're not an unsupervised 11 year old. Be more mindful about what you're consuming. Stop generating revenue for dipshits who don't want real jobs.

"HEY I DON'T CARE IT IS JUST CONTENT I'M TIRED AND -- "

You can either stand against the dystopia, or get eaten by it. Grow the fuck up.

I love you Jenny Nicholson I love you Sarah Z I love you Contrapoints I love you hbomberguy I love you Quinton Reviews I love you Quinn Curio I love you CJ the X

In case James Somerton tries to release a second manipulative apology video, here's some stuff I haven't seen shared on Tumblr. In the initial wake of HBomberguy's video release on December 3, Somerton made the following post to Patreon that was quickly deleted:

Here he dismisses Plagiarism and You(tube) as "not bringing up anything new since the last time he was accused of plagiarism" and tries to pull the same victim card as before when he complained that a "big creator was unfairly targeting him." This is a rehash of previous controversies and criticisms he's received such as when he went after Nebula for "not wanting to platform him because he's queer (lol wut)" in 2022 and lashing out at Dan Olson on Twitter when Dan called him out for the Patreon shit in April 2023 (James begged his viewers to support him on Patreon because he claimed to be in dire financial straights and then bought a $5k+ camera). The man is very versed in DARVO.

The Ace Couple, a pair of Asexual podcasters (who you should totally listen to btw) detailed the Nebula debacle in a recent episode, as well as their own interaction with Somerton as financial backers of his film project who disagreed with the content of one of his videos. The issue? Aside from the shenanigans with Telos, the Indiegogo film studio the Ace Couple backed, Somerton had said in a video that asexual people don't get sent to conversion therapy, which is categorically not true. Naturally, he resorted to his tried and true tactic of accusing the Ace Couple of attacking him.

He then released a second statement later in the evening of the release of Hbomberguy's video:

All of this on top of him subtly throwing his cowriter under the bus for it in his apology video! Statements like, "I'm not trying to throw Nick under the bus" don't work when you also say things like, "things that weren't true I didn't write or believe made it into the videos!" What other conclusion are viewers supposed to make about shit like 'American soldiers lusting after Nazi bodies' and the snarking misogyny that can't be traced back to a source other than Nick wrote it? Somerton is using Nick as a fall guy and trying to gaslight everyone into thinking he's not and it's transparent and pathetic.

The man absolutely does not deserve another chance and any claims he makes that he is seeking money to reimburse the queer creators he erased by plagiarizing their work should not be trusted. The guy has zero credibility, don't give him the benefit of the doubt.

I left a critical review of Hades on Steam and got a strongly worded email from Jenny Nicholson.

Evermore Park is uniquely brain infecting bc everyone who hears about it starts thinking of ways it could be "fixed", and normally that kind of armchair design would be fantasy nonsense, but in this case all of those suggestions from randos online are infinitely better and more sensible than the actual fantasy nonsense the CEO tried to do. It's always just "yeah that would've been smarter than spending all your money on real tombstones"

I was talking to a professor on the train home this week and asked her if she was reading anything interesting, and among the things she listed she said, “A book by a german book reviewer from the 1800s; I’m unfamiliar with everything he’s reviewing, but he has such a captivating style,” and I KNOW we all joke about online needing a 1-4 hour long video essay on a topic we know nothing about on a piece of media we will never consume and we think that sounds ridiculous but IT’S SO NOT!!!! THAT’S STYLE BABY!!!! if someone’s style of speaking captivates you and entertains you, that in itself is entertaining and FUN AND GOOD!!!!! this weird little experience, it isn’t a lonely internet one, however much it might feel like that in our little echo chamber. others do the same thing, not everything has to be engaged with on an intellectual level, not everything has to be an essay or a debate, sometimes things can just be STYLE BABY!!!!

Love the chaotic energy of Jenny Nicholson going from regular length youtube commentary videos of like 20 to 30 minutes, to posting hours long videos about increasingly obscure topics. Yes, I absolutely DO want nearly four hours worth of her thoughts on a small struggling theme park. The best YouTuber, truly.

The outfits of Jenny Nicholson in Evermore: The Theme Park That Wasn't

2007, fanfiction writer: I do not own the characters or this world or anything this is just for fun pls don’t sue me >.<

2022, youtube video essayist: ✨allegedly✨

1) Never work for "exposure."

2) Never agree to be uncredited by someone who claims your work as their own.

3) Never agree to do volunteer work for a for-profit company.

4) Never surrender rights to your fanfic content to the IP owners who offer to promote you, or threaten to sue you.

Every time you do one of these things, you are partially responsible for falling wages and the undercutting of labor protections.

I understand you are desperate and excited. But They know that too, and they are using it to rip you off to make a rich person even richer.

Be tough, be suspicious, and respect yourself enough to demand more.

(options are from her 5 most popular videos)

I hope the new resurgence of the hunger games means they will consider doing a film adaptation of trapped in a island with josh hutcherson

Happy good Friday everyone

Jesus look behind you there’s a train coming oh no He has AirPods in He can’t hear us oh my God-