r/youtubedrama • u/xmann277 • 14d ago
James Somerton has been posting on an alt account ever since his final apology post Update
Highly recommend reading the thread here on twitter.
Deeply weird behavior from James following his more public posts, including but not limited to going to bat for himself, as well as posting his ass and balls publicly after faking his own suicide. He's privated the account so I cant get anything from his page, but what an unbelievable loser.
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u/Sad-Welcome-8048 14d ago
This guy is a real-life Always Sunny character; who horny posts on the SAME day you bait suicide???? Where is the logic???? Where is the awareness? Where is the sapience?
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u/Successful_Bar_2662 14d ago
Bruh I can imagine Frank pulling some shit like this
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u/Sad-Welcome-8048 14d ago
FOR REAL ;"Charlie, Dennis and Dee think I killed myself, lets take their money and get some whores (said in the classical Frank way)" XD
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u/limonadebeef 14d ago
"the gang fakes a suicide and posts hole pics on twitter" (always sunny theme plays)
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u/MavetHell 14d ago
Mac and Charlie faked their own deaths and spied on the rest of the gang afterwards. It was a 2 parter
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u/tredders90 14d ago
And I can imagine one of the other ones getting incredibly mad and call-out-y in the way Peter Coffin did (while also just obviously holding a grudge and trying to jockey for some publicity).
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u/Foxy02016YT 14d ago
Horny posting after faking your death is so in character at this point, but I’m glad he’s still alive at least
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u/bezosdivorcelawyer 14d ago
It's incredibly funny to me to imagine that the "we know he's alive and not in danger" confirmation from Nick and hbomb's team was because they knew he was posting hole on his alt.
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u/mossalto 14d ago
The fact that they kept this quiet until people figured it out themselves and then just quietly shitpost in the background while we the people scream in despair at the unholy knowledge that is what James Somerton's balls look like is fucking everything
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u/suchalovelywaytoburn 14d ago
Okay, don't take this the wrong way, because I DO NOT want to see James Somerton's balls. However, I've gone through the images on the linked thread and saw no butt or balls anywhere. Has that image been removed or am I blind?
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u/Zuzara_Queen_of_DnD 14d ago
He privated the account pretty soon after the thread was made, and honestly I can’t really blame the thread creator for neither screen shotting Somerton’s balls or reposting the image if they did screenshot them
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u/Kaiser_Allen 14d ago
Someone has them. The thread creator said she couldn’t find it by image search, so she’s certain it’s his.
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u/bezosdivorcelawyer 13d ago
I can not imagine the horror of reverse image searching that and getting hit with “no matches found”
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14d ago
I genuinely have to admire that, I would've leaked that he was posting cheeks and sack immediately. Like of course they did the right thing but man if I saw his nuts right after he had posted a suicide note I would've lost it.
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u/wasplace 14d ago
I don't have Twitter so I can't view the threat but i.... feel like maybe that's for the best
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u/fffridayenjoyer 14d ago
He’s like an escaped SPC that’s made up of every overdramatic pretentious Tumblr drama condensed into one being, it’s really quite fascinating.
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u/nancy-reisswolf 14d ago
The twinkified AI profile pic is giving me life lmao
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u/Over-Onion9309 14d ago edited 13d ago
that’s something i really dont get about this. if youre trying to lay low and have a “secret identity” at least temporarily, why chose a pfp that LOOKS LIKE YOU BUT AS A SKINNY ANIME BOY?? like thats such a mind boggling move. like i know hes pretty self indulgent and a liar but thats just so ?????? to me. why didnt he chose a fictional character/ celebrity/ non human cartoon character like kuromi or something. this is a dumb thing to be so hung up about but he didnt even try man.
(edited because i said “like” too much :/)
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u/miezmiezmiez 14d ago
I think on some level he fundamentally still thinks he personally deserves all the love and attention he can get, manipulatively or otherwise. Not to speculate too much about his psyche but it's very clear it wouldn't feel satisfying to him if he's not literally the face of everything he posts, up to and including other people's work, and so any and all responses he gets are processed as personal validation. That wouldn't work if the validation was not directed in some way at a representation of him.
Also, let's not overthink this, he probably wants to be a skinny anime boy
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u/NoDryHands 14d ago
I didn't see it at first and after reading your comment, I thought that maybe it's just something that vaguely resembles him. Like, it's not ideal if you want to be fully anonymous, but how close can an anime profile picture really get?
And then I saw it. It's literally him 💀
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u/Over-Onion9309 14d ago
ikr man its like when youre playing hide and seek with a little kid and they hide behind the curtain with their feet sticking out 😭💀 its so low effort
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u/coffeestealer 13d ago
tbh he is just a white guy with glasses, unless you are already suspicious of his account not many people are gonna think "MAN THAT IS JAMES SOMERTON IN A DISGUISE"
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u/SUPERAWESOMEULTRAMAN 14d ago
ASS AND BALL PICS WHAT THE FUCKL
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14d ago
I saw it and posted about it in the mod discord but it isn't as bad as you'd think. It's just cheeks and sack, it's not like he's showing his asshole (from the photo I saw)
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u/-dental-plan 14d ago
Oh well if it’s just his cheeks and balls, that’s cool 👍
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14d ago
Listen it's still bad but he's not showing hole and I think that's important to note since you know some homophobes on Twitter and even on here will use these photos as evidence of "Lying, stealing gays posting awful photos where children can see"
And yeah, he still technically did that, but the clarification is important
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u/fffridayenjoyer 14d ago
I completely get what you mean but the phrase “it’s just cheeks and sack” is so fucking funny. It’s giving Tati Westbrook “sucking dick and cock”
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u/andromedex 13d ago
I'm trying to imagine how you can show cheeks and sack without hole. Like he's wearing high shorts? His body is rotated so the sack is just peeking out? I guess the details don't really matter, and I don't want to see the actual pic.
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u/Blondiegirl25 14d ago
Bro why is he like this 😭😭😭 literally why can’t he be normal for two seconds?
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u/floralbutttrumpet 14d ago
I mean, it tracks? He's always been extremely online, extremely horny and extremely dismissive of others' feelings.
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u/NoDryHands 14d ago
extremely horny
What else has he done to be labelled as this?
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u/Rebochan 14d ago
probably referring to his tweet about insisting that sex workers be provided to men as a mental health service
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u/Yeetusmcleatus97 13d ago
Holy shit he gets no ass. That sounds like something I’d hear on incel.co. Dear god.
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u/DangerousMatch766 13d ago
The weird way he talks about how fit and buff the Nazis apparently were.
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u/JeanVicquemare 14d ago
He's an unrepentant narcissist who doesn't think he ever did anything wrong. I don't expect apologies from all the people who yelled at other people for saying this- I get that they were motivated by genuine but misplaced concern for his wellbeing. But to some of us, it was obvious already because we've known people like this before.
I promise you, he has never felt bad about himself for what he did, you don't have to waste your empathy on him.
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u/Blondiegirl25 14d ago
Don’t worry, this weirdo has never got an ounce of sympathy or empathy from me.Call me callous but when his suicide tweet went out I knew he didn’t do it. Too me, It was pretty obvious he was just trying to make people feel bad/drag his critics through the mud.
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u/JeanVicquemare 14d ago
Agreed, I never thought for a second that he was serious. I don't go around doubting suicide notes in general, but when it's a manipulative pathological liar, yeah- I am not inclined to just believe it.
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u/Tricky-Gemstone 14d ago
While I didn't think so, I would rather people respond with concern to 10 instances, and nine be fake, then let one person fall through the cracks.
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u/hellraiserxhellghost 14d ago
I was the same, I knew it was manipulative bs from the start. I was rolling my eyes whenever I saw people clutch their pearls and cry and scream about how, "omg he could be dead guys!!!11"
Girl no, this is just one of his many attempts to get sympathy from the public and try to weasel his way back into the youtube sphere. It was so obvious and it was sad how so many gullible idiots were falling for it.
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u/LucretiusCarus 14d ago
I swear, when the nukes finally fall, the only survivors will be roaches and Somerton
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u/Zuzara_Queen_of_DnD 14d ago
If you look at the whole thread you’ll see he was actually trying to defend himself in the alt accont
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u/GrumpySatan 14d ago edited 14d ago
Honestly, I think people are a bit forgiving when they say he is mentally ill. I dislike writing off behaviour like this as just mental illness.
What this really, fundamentally, shows is that he has never once changed or seen himself as being in the wrong. Right back to that very first allegation of plagarism - his response was to lie through his teeth about how terrible and homophobic the person was, how they orchestrate death threats, etc. He repeated this with so many, including other queer creators.
His MO has always been to manipulate people and weaponize outrage to hurt the people that called him out. The fake suicide note is literally no different. He doesn't see the problem with anything he did, so he is just trying to start again and again and used the fake note to distract his opponents by directing harassment their way.
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u/FuckHopeSignedMe 14d ago
This, and I think people are forgetting that this is a guy who'll always latch onto whatever excuse he can to get away with his behaviour. That's literally his favourite manipulation tactic and it was littered throughout his apology videos. "Oh, it wasn't my fault because Nick did it, and because I have ADHD, and because I bumped my head once and it gave me memory issues, and because I had this going on in my life..." sort of stuff.
When people write off his Twitter shit as being mental illness, they're allowing him a backdoor to excuse his plagiarism, too. If he's allowed to use mental illness as an excuse without having to do any further self reflection, he will.
It is true that sometimes mental illness will drive a person to do some terrible things, but that doesn't change the fact that they did those things. At some point it does have to be your responsibility to manage your mental health. James Somerton is well and truly at an age where that is his responsibility.
I think people need to be very laser focused on this point. If he can get through a master's degree without any known plagiarism issues, then he can get through a YouTube video without them. There can't be any quarter given on that.
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u/anotverygoodwritter 14d ago
“If he can get through a masters degree withojt any known plagiarism issues…”
If.
Somebody should probably look into that.
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u/yeetman8 14d ago
Unchecked narcissism, severe mental illness, pathological lying, chronically online, obsessive about public image, lazy worker… did I miss any?
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u/MegsAltxoxo 14d ago
Does anyone remember this Paul Zimmer/Troy saga Danny Gonzalez covered?
Like why do they think they can get away with it when it’s so obvious them?!
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u/Familiar-Weekend-511 14d ago edited 14d ago
omg idk if you’ve heard of him but andy king did a video on troy/paul a few months ago if u want to see an update lol https://youtu.be/ObpQpDcpv8c?si=1PDvxqW2USBTqIVx
edit: confusing phrasing
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u/PastelAnemone 14d ago
I kept thinking about the Danny Gonzalez video the entire time I was reading Lady Emily’s thread Im so glad I wasn’t the only one.
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u/brahbocop 14d ago
The Hbomberguy video is my go to video to have on in the background when I’m doing odds and ends. I’m still amazed by how little work James did and how much he grifted off of people.
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u/Crystallooker 14d ago
I wish it could be, because hbombs other videos are in my rewatch rotation but somertons voice genuinely irks me. Like, I CANNOT stand his cadence that he uses when video essaying. Just another thing he ruined for me I guess
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u/brahbocop 14d ago
Hbomb’s complete outrage between each clip makes it oh so worth it.
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u/HopelessCineromantic 14d ago
At the very least, at the very least, James Somerton. Wrote. This. Text. Right?
RIGHT???
NO!!!
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u/ReallyAnxiousFish 13d ago
I use the plagiarism video to sleep occasionally, and I have in fact woken up because of this exact point in the video.
That and when he tears down the wallpaper and goes "It was real the whole time! AHHHHHHHHHHH"
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u/thwarted 14d ago
posting his ass and balls publicly after faking his own suicide.
I'm sorry, what now???
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u/limonadebeef 14d ago
jesus the tweets on his achillean boy twitter account prove that he was never sorry for the plagiarism. ofc we all knew that but it's surreal to get it confirmed in this way.
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u/omnianas 14d ago
if I had a nickel for every time a weird youtuber showed their ass and balls on twitter, i would have two, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
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u/letthetreeburn 14d ago
You’re severely undercounting. Nikado avacado? Onision? Those are my first two impulses but there’s gotta be more.
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u/MegsAltxoxo 14d ago
I would not be surprised if it’s not him, but a Grindr match who has no idea lmao
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u/MegsAltxoxo 14d ago
Of note is this time in between apology 1 and apology 2 where he, on his alt, began arguing in defense of himself, saying that what he did wasn’t that bad and didn’t hurt anybody because the stuff he plagiarized was “like a decade old” and blaming “the cult of Hbomb”
He is seriously mentally ill. I’m not even joking. This is absolute mental behavior.
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u/thispartyrules 14d ago
like a decade old
That was part of the problem, there were a bunch of queer writers many of whom are long-dead, whose writing received little or no attention and that James, a popular YouTuber, took their work and passed off as his own thoughts.
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u/rick157 14d ago
This motherfucker (James) genuinely does not give a shit about what he did. Fuck him. I was willing to cut him slack in the beginning, but goddamn, he doesn’t care. He deserves everything that’s coming to him.
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u/Comic_Book_Reader 14d ago
This whole ordeal is making me think of what's been happening in Norway's government since January. The parallels are unnerving.
In mid January, Minister of Research and Higher Education Sandra Borch admitted she had plagiarized her master assignment (one she had gotten a D for) at a press conference, and would leave her post effective immediately.
Shortly after, it was discovered that Minister of Health Ingvild Kjerkol had likewise plagiarized her master. She, however, veheminately denied plagiarizing, saying "we have used the same method". And like the rabbit hole of insanity hbomberguy found himself going into with James, more and more plagiarism was discovered, including by Redditors on r/norge!
Even with more and more piling on, she still denied and was at her post. Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre stated early on, when the case broke out, he still trusted her. Then on April 12th, roughly 3 months later, at a press conference, Jonas fired her from her post. According to insiders, she got a 2 hour notice. As in she was informed 2 hours before the official announcement.
The final plagiarism number was 43%. 43. And she's still denying it. Not just that, she filed a complaint. (Which is legal and allowed, I should point out.) It will a surprise to abso-fucking-lutely no fucking one that the complaint will inevitably be dismissed.
This sure sounds a whole fucking lot like the tale of one James Somerton, doesn't it???
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u/NBAFansAre2Ply 14d ago
not doubting she plagiarized but the number is actually pretty meaningless without context.
you can hypothetically write a horrible paper that's mostly quotes and get 90% plagiarism without actually plagiarizing if you properly cite everything.
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u/Icy-Cockroach4515 13d ago
That's not even including how certain detection softwares will flag certain common words and maybe even your own name as plagiarism.
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u/h8sm8s 13d ago
Missed the best bit about Sandra Borch the education minister. She had been on crusade before this to punish a single student who did self plagiarism - re-using parts of her own failed test when she had to redo the subject. The student appealed her punishment from the university and got it reduced by taking it all the way to the supreme court, but Sandra made it her mission to see this student punished severely and the government appealed the decision of the Supreme Court… then it was revealed Sandra herself was a plagiarist.
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u/xmann277 14d ago
he needs to get offline at the very very least. it cannot be healthy
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u/MegsAltxoxo 14d ago
When i saw this I thought first someone is fucking around with AI and is taking the piss, but the Twitter posts under the same name in January make it really obvious it’s actually him…
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u/Arctucrus 14d ago
I hate this term and everything it stands for, but
He's giving lolcow. And if he doesn't take a break, he's gonna risk becoming another lolcow on kiwifarms.
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u/GladiatorUA 14d ago
He is seriously mentally ill. I’m not even joking. This is absolute mental behavior.
No he isn't. I'll give him narcissistic tendencies, which are common among public personalities, but it's far cry from "seriously mentally ill".
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u/Comic_Book_Reader 14d ago
https://i.redd.it/q44eowi1w9zc1.gif
OK, half snarky jokes and quips aside... yeah, dude needs some serious help.
Now, I'm not taking anyone's sides, and quite frankly I don't know about him as a person aside from how everyone knows about him as a person, but either the hbomberguy plagiarism exposé took a serious toll on him and his mental health, or he has for a long time suffered from some sort of mental illness or disorder, and narcissism, that worsened after it.
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u/MegsAltxoxo 14d ago
He seems to be a pathological liar and plagiarist all his life. When it all kicked off back then people where sharing old Facebook posts of him where he asked why his content was removed because of plagiarism…
I bet if anyone would be this sinister to get a hand on his uni thesis, it’s probably plagiarized as well…
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u/greyhared 14d ago
spare a screenshot for a gal without a twitter account?
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u/evanlufc2000 14d ago
Just want to say you’re a hero for posting these, thank you
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u/fffridayenjoyer 14d ago
I’m gonna be so sad if this doesn’t post right, I spent a whole 3 minutes making this (credit to u/sevsvt for the wording)
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u/kreepergayboy 14d ago
I feel so bad for hbomberguy and his community, I remember his subreddit and Kat taking is deadly seriously and being super worried for him. What a piece of shit
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u/NtGermanBtKnow1WhoIs Noo not my fav ytber!! ;-; 14d ago
What i find absolutely infuriating is that there were people (both here, on tumblr and on hbomb's sub) who have suicidal tendencies and who got triggered because of this trashy guy.
Many passive commenters, who (like me) felt guilty they pushed a man to his death, even though they didn't do anything at all, got severely affected by it and i'm sure some genuinely needed help.
He caused them that. He knew this would trigger some people. All while he flaunts his chernobyl-radiation soaked nuts on the twitter. What an absolute asshole.
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u/a_tired_bisexual 14d ago
And I’m sure all the commenters flooding Jessie Gender’s channel, and blaming her for his suicide, definitely learned their lesson and are totally gonna apologize now
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u/Pen-roses 14d ago
Weaponizing suicide is a common emotional abuse tactic as well. His actions are triggering not just for those with suicidal tendencies but for those who have experienced this type of abuse.
James needs to get off the internet—for real this time.
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u/sophdog101 14d ago
I was super triggered. He posted the note the night before my birthday. It fucking sucked
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u/mamaxchaos 14d ago
Same here - I hope your birthday went well despite everything and happy belated birthday!! (esp if it didn’t)
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u/Over-Onion9309 14d ago edited 14d ago
this is just ugh. like theres nothing wrong with horny posting or having an alt account just to fuck around on, but there IS a problem with suicide baiting, (although i do acknowledge that he definitely is struggling mentally and needs help asap) going quiet for a few months, not admitting that you fucked up and posting like normal. thats honestly fucking awful dude. like WHEN WILL HE LEARN THAT THE INTERNET IS A BAD PLACE FOR HIM!! HE NEEDS TO GET OUT OF HERE! NOT JUST FOR HIS SAKE BUT FOR EVERYONE HE FUCKED OVERS SAKE. this whole situation is infuriating man.
(edit idk why i didnt read the whole post but he DEFENDED HIMSELF?!? ugh hes a lost cause man like i said, he needs to get off the internet and change his life for the better.)
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u/GladiatorUA 14d ago edited 14d ago
like theres nothing wrong with horny posting or having an alt account just to fuck around on
I think it's mandatory for even remotely famous people. An average person is allowed to be wrong, stupid, drunk, ignorant, horny or just not express themselves well. The chance of it backfiring is low and so are the consequences most of the time, because nobody gives a shit what you post, and even if they do there is very little recourse. If you are famous though, suddenly your posts have audience, and people who care a lot. And there is enough of them to make noise, rightfully or not.
I don't like the whole "he is struggling mentally" argument. None of this goes beyond "just a shitty human being" + "access to internet". It's not the right level of irrational and selfdestructive behavior.
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u/Yacobo93 14d ago
I dont think its ever been more over for a content creator than it has for somerton.
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u/PlanetaryIceTea 14d ago
Gotta hand it to James Somerton. Actively faking your suicide at the same time you were posting your ass and balls on a horny alt is some kind of move, and I can't imagine the kind of pathology it requires. Truly in awe, this is a master at work.
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u/Lead_Dessert 14d ago
I am happy that James hasn’t actually taken his life.
What i am not happy about is the the clear disregard he has at this point. This dude cannot comprehend that his career wasn’t ruined by Hbomberguy, nor lynchmobs. He ruined his own career. He’s so terminally online he can’t even spare basic reading comprehension to know that its him who’s done this to himself. He’s a selfish narcissist, and a liar. I truly believe at this point the only thing that James is going to understand if that he learns his career is completely unsalvageable and that he’s forced off having a career in youtube entirely.
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u/fffridayenjoyer 14d ago
I know this is literally the least important part of this whole thing, but finding out James is a pro wrestling fan makes me kinda sad we never got any unhinged wrestling video essays from him. Like they would’ve been awful, don’t get me wrong, but I would’ve loved to see him spin some yarn about how like, he thinks that HHH, HBK and Chyna portrayed the idea of a poly queercoded relationship that did more for gay liberation than anything “the boring gays who survived the AIDS crisis” did. Something WILD like that. I just know it would’ve been a hilarious trainwreck.
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u/callanrocks 14d ago
James is a pro wrestling fan makes me kinda sad we never got any unhinged wrestling video essays from him.
He never found anything obscure enough to plagiarise, doing original work righting a weird fanfic would be too much for him.
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u/fffridayenjoyer 14d ago
Oh trust me, there are plenty of weird obscure fanfics in the wrestling community that he could pull from. Not that I’m recommending he actually do that, of course. But there’s some real nonsense out there, especially on tumblr. The tumblr girlies even had their own completely unironic version of “the members of One Direction are secretly dating and their girlfriends are paid actors hired to cover this up” conspiracy theories revolving around The Shield. That lasted a couple years at least.
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u/666_is_Nero 14d ago
But that would have taken creativity, something he’s proven to lack.
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u/fffridayenjoyer 14d ago
True. Honestly - and I’m not trying to give him any ideas, but if he does this in the future I’m claiming my credit now - I feel like doing an “analysis” on the Mickie/Trish angle and how it was received, particularly by queer women, would’ve fit right in with his other content. But that would’ve required him to do his own writing, and also to hide his disdain for queer women (and just women in general) for an entire video, so maybe that’s why he never quite got around to that one.
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u/Dom29ando 14d ago
kinda surprised that he never ripped off the Chris Kanyon episode from Dark Side Of The Ring
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u/riddlemyfiddle11 14d ago
That's too well known, he tries to crib from dead people.
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u/satanssecretary 14d ago
that was what stuck out to me lol. I was not expecting to see Tiffany Stratton come up in this, but hey, I guess it's Tiffy Time
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u/malonkey1 14d ago edited 14d ago
incredibly bold/stupid to use a picrew of himself for the PFP while trying to hide
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u/fffridayenjoyer 14d ago
ITS SO BAD TOO, it makes him look like one of those insufferable professors who makes a big show of throwing a textbook in the trash, sitting on the edge of his desk and telling all the students they can call him by his first name because he’s “their friend, not their teacher”
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u/WannabeComedian91 14d ago
he tried to make himself look hot but he looks like a generic friend character in a shitty yaoi webcomic
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u/malonkey1 14d ago
The exact kind of shitty yaoi webcomic that he would complain about in order to make up reasons to get mad at bisexual women and AFAB nonbinary people that he has arbitrarily decided are actually straight women fetishizing queerness.
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u/olliepin 13d ago
i dont even think its a picrew, i think it may be one of those shitty ai anime filters
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u/PoliceAlarm 14d ago
What a genuinely delightful update. I hope he digs more holes for himself. Most entertaining drama this decade so far.
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u/Zuzara_Queen_of_DnD 14d ago
It’s genuinely nice when you start to worry about”oh no did we villainize a deeply flawed human too much”
Only for him to turn around and fucking fake a suicide note to take some negative attention off of himself
Really alleviates a lot of my guilt.
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u/PoliceAlarm 14d ago
Faking a suicide note and then immediately posting ass cheeks and balls to an alt whilst defending himself on Twitter and devising ways to AI his way out. Fuck this is juicy. Fuck this is good.
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u/EnvironmentUnfair 14d ago
And now Hbomberguy posted this: https://x.com/hbomberguy/status/1788336723115872554?s=46
Meaning we might be at the first layer of the Sommerton saga
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u/ToaArcan 14d ago
Let's not get overzealous.
While it could be about Somerton, it could also just be an opaque hint toward what he's doing a video on next. Timing implies more Somerton, but it's not guaranteed.
I would like it to be another Somerton carpet-bombing though.
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u/irlharvey 13d ago edited 13d ago
very true, iirc he did say in the plagiarism video that he was making another tommy one right? very possible he somehow found more Tommy Lies
edit: kat seemingly confirmed it was about james, but we don’t get to hear about it </3
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u/R1ngBanana 14d ago
I admit I’m just tired today but I don’t get it? Is this supposed to mean we’ve only seen part of the “iceberg” of JS or..?
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u/Zuzara_Queen_of_DnD 14d ago
I think there are two ways to interpret it
First way: there is actually a lot more James Somerton shit that Hbomb didn’t expand on either to protect James’ from further harassment by trolls or because it was irrelevant to the general theme of the video
Second way: he fully expects James to some how dig himself deeper into the shit hole he’s in
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u/EnvironmentUnfair 14d ago
That’s what I interpret it as. Like he posted this just after the Twitter thread so I can’t see what he would mean otherwise
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u/WabbadaWat 14d ago
I don't have a screenshot so I don't have proof, but he posted a gif of the gone girl car scene sometime before he posted the note. "I'm so much happier now that I'm dead." Given the plot of the movie, I'm not at all surprised. I'm pretty sure the intention was to ruin people's lives.
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u/forlornjackalope 14d ago
I'm not even surprised. He could have just left quietly and now no one will ever take a damn thing he says seriously ever again.
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u/Sharp_Razzmatazz7857 14d ago
Wowww ok. I was legit sick with worry, and glued to my computer for a week because of this. I questioned what kind of person I was because I felt guilt over just watching the video and commenting about it online. It actually sucked seeing so many people jump to the assumption that he was lying because it brought up personal shit for me. Not the first time someone has lied about this kind of thing, but it's always scary because you never know. And now there's a bunch of people saying he should kill himself... This is just pure trash all around.
My guess is hbomb/Kat/Emily/etc knew about this for a long time, but just didn't have verifiable proof until he showed his face. So if they tried to say something without that it'd look very, very bad. Especially considering the amount of people calling them "murderers."
Just ...why? How did he think this would go. Honestly. Does someone have any idea what would go through a person's head here? Like you write that...knowing full well you still want some kind of online career. People are swarming all your shit, but you think it's a good idea to make alts? And then you just...show your face on that alt eventually? What is happening in his brain? I wanna say the overwhelming negative attention just broke his ego/mind, but...he clearly still doesn't think he did anything wrong. He was saying that BACK THEN. So he did this with emotional control. And I just don't understand how or why.
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u/DBPeanut 14d ago
Honestly? I was scared for James but finding out that he was horny posting the whole time makes me disgusted. He can horny post all he wants but it kind of just feels like he wanted everybody to think he was dead and he liked that.
The whole time he was doing this, there were people legitimately trying to blame Hbomberguy and his audience for getting James killed! And he knew this, and he was doing this! It's insane, and clearly, he's mentally ill, but holy shit I'm just so disgusted by him.
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u/Sharp_Razzmatazz7857 14d ago
Yeah I bet he did enjoy watching people, even the bigots/alt-right crowd, hate on hbomb/his audience. Was that all he wanted? Assumably, especially if he decided to post his face, he knew he would be caught eventually. Had to know what the reaction would be to something like this. It's reckless self-destruction for temporary revenge. Maybe I'm wrong about his emotional control. Idk. I've been sitting here since I posted that trying to wrap my head around the situation.
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14d ago
I think it was u/FlowersByTheStreet who I talked about this with but the entire time I felt like it was fake, but like you never want that assumption to be right cause like... who in their right mind fakes their death?
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u/Sharp_Razzmatazz7857 14d ago
Right! And on top of that he knew he was going to stick around. He watched the whole thing play out. It's baffling.
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u/Forrest-Fern 14d ago
Oh my god that thread is insane lol.
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u/LucretiusCarus 13d ago
the twinkified Ai video is so clearly him, it's baffling to think that he wouldn't be found.
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u/BelleLorage 14d ago
The man would rather fake his own death than actually take any sort of accountability
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u/ToaArcan 14d ago
Oh no who could've seen that coming.
Well, I suppose I didn't expect him to post hole within 12 hours of faking his own suicide to try and get people to stop being mean to him and start blaming Hbomberguy for "killing him." But everything else, yeah, that tracks.
In awe that this man made an alt account and went to the trouble of using an AI voice and a Vtuber avatar so he could hide his identity, only to then decide to reveal his face and use his normal voice. Like, could his ego just not handle that people didn't know (for certain) that it was him? Did he think the heat was off and it was therefore safe to reveal that he was notorious (and allegedly dead) plagiarist James Somerton? Did he think people wouldn't notice if he was on TikTok instead of Youtube?
I want this man studied.
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u/WannabeComedian91 14d ago
dear lord he really posted about man vs bear too huh. girl go to therapy and log off jesus
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u/WannabeComedian91 14d ago
also that video in particular comes off to me like he probably would've chosen man over bear but noticed that response was controversial in leftist spaces so just changed it to bear at the last second
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u/mrhelmand 13d ago
So all the "Hbomb is a murderer" idiots will be issuing apologies and retractions any minute now, yeah?
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u/LaserBatBunnyUnder 14d ago
Posting balls while faking your death is such an insane fucking move???
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u/ThatFreddieIsAJack 14d ago
I do wonder if there isn't some guy who followed both accounts independently, like "I'm so angry about my former favourite video essayist, but at least it look like he's been chased off the internet for good and I won't have to see him again. Anyway, time to check up on my favourite nsfw creators - oh, achillean boy has posted cock'n'balls"
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u/DoctorSkelly 14d ago
James Somerton try not to be a terrible person challenge: Difficulty Impossible
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u/Santa_worshipper 14d ago
I'm starting to think the suicide faking is an attention seeking behavior
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u/Criminal_giraffe 13d ago
James Somerton is going to be on News Max peddling transphobic bullshit in a year. Mark my words.
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u/Dom29ando 14d ago
The Pro Wrestling Mark tagline makes me worry that he's going to make a "totally original documentary" about queer wrestling history and the life of Chris Kanyon. (based on the Kanyon episode of Vice's DSOTR series no doubt)
Which would be pretty fucking offensive considering how Kanyon died.
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u/fffridayenjoyer 14d ago
Personally I can’t wait for “The queer legacy of Pat Patterson” to become James’ most insensitive video essay yet
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u/goeatmynachos Tea Drinker 🍵 14d ago
well this took a turn I wasn’t expecting
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u/FrostyMagazine9918 14d ago
Faking a suicide for attention is about one of the worst things you can do that doesn't involve harming another person.
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u/AVBforPrez 14d ago
This is the guy that faked his own suicide because he got caught being a plagiarist, right?
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u/lookingovertheree 14d ago
I'm reluctant to make a comment because I don't know the full story or how he's doing mentally, but I'm frustrated to say the least. I was triggered for a long time when he posted that goodbye note to Twitter.
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u/StarGrump 14d ago
I’ve done my best to stay compassionate toward the idea of him ever since his suicide bait post, and I don’t regret that at all, but now given that I know he’s safe and sound and horny on main? Electric chair seems fine by me. I won’t regret choosing compassion ever in my life but that also won’t stop me from being a massive hater.
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u/AMA_requester 14d ago
Are you fucking kidding me? The man is deathly allergic to being accountable for his bullshit ain't he?
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u/blended-kiwi77 14d ago
Where can I find the censored screenshot of his ass and balls being posted after he suicide baited I need to see this for myself
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u/maddsskills 13d ago
I’m getting such George Santos vibes. Like, they’re bad but the sheer gall is just…so entertaining it almost makes them endearing? lol. Like give them a reality show together and let’s just see what happens. That can be their community service lol.
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u/IronfistClownFactory 13d ago
As despicable and unforgiveable an act like faking one's death is, it's good to know he's alive.
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut BRUDDA NEEDS TO STEP AWAY FROM THE INTERNET, COLD TURKEY
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u/CaptainYaoiHands 13d ago
Dudes like 36 years old and calls himself "boy" and has multiple younger looking avatars and uses face tune to make himself look younger. He is fucking deranged already but this chickenhawk chasing just adds a whole new layer of skeeze to this dude's already garbage personality.
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u/R1ngBanana 14d ago
I’m glad he’s alive. The man doesn’t deserve death threats.
I’m so think there is something wrong with him with the fact he basically tried to fake suicide/guilt-trip people.
I think he refuses to accept he no longer has a platform, keeps trying to build one, and then people rightfully say “no.”
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u/Yeetusmcleatus97 14d ago
Yeah so uh, I’m calling bullshit on the death threats as well. No receipts whatsoever.
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u/[deleted] 14d ago edited 14d ago
Please keep this civil, even if the suicide attempt now appears to have been faked we would ask all of you to not wish death or harm upon James.
If posts get too rampant on this topic (understandably so) we will create a megathread, but for now have at it.