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 <p>It has been five months since Hbomberguy released his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ">&quot;Plagiarism and You(Tube)&quot;</a> video essay on 2 December 2023, which <a href="https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/whats-up-with-hbomberguy-setting-off-a-youtube-plagiarism-scandal-the-internet-historian-and-james-somerton-controversies-explained">set off a YouTube plagiarism scandal</a>, with another YouTuber <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/hbomberguy-vs-james-somerton-plagiarism-scandal">James Somerton</a> being the main focus of Hbomberguy's video essay. I do not write this post to recap or rehash the entire James Somerton debacle. Instead, I want to talk about something personal related to one of James Somerton's videos — <strong>James Somerton had used one of my video game footage in one of his videos without crediting me or asking for my permission</strong>.</p>
-<p>On 5 November 2021, James Somerton released a video essay on his YouTube channel titled &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot;. As of this writing, the video has been made private, but Somerton's videos have been <a href="https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-public-records">archived on the Internet Archive</a>, so you can still watch &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot; directly <a href="https://ia601208.us.archive.org/34/items/james-somerton-public-records/Video%20Games%20and%20the%20Choice%20to%20be%20Gay.ia.mp4">on the Internet Archive</a>. Alternately, you can watch the video through one of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQNKEkrPEfI">Wayback Machine snapshots</a>.</p>
+<p>On 5 November 2021, James Somerton released a video essay on his YouTube channel titled &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot;. As of this writing, the video has been made private, but Somerton's videos have been archived on the Internet Archive with two playlists: <a href="https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03/">James Somerton youtube archive</a> and <a href="https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-public-records">James Somerton- Public Records</a>, so you can still watch &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot; directly on the Internet Archive in both the <a href="https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03/">Youtube archive</a> and the <a href="https://archive.org/download/james-somerton-public-records/Video%20Games%20and%20the%20Choice%20to%20be%20Gay.ia.mp4">Public Records</a> playlists. Alternately, you can watch the video through one of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQNKEkrPEfI">Wayback Machine snapshots</a>.</p>
 <p>I first discovered &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot; through a <cite>Dragon Age</cite> fan blog on Tumblr shortly after the video was published. The video piqued my interest because LGBTQ+ representation in video games is relevant to me as a queer, non-binary lesbian gamer, and the video games discussed in Somerton's video included <cite>Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic</cite>, <cite>Dragon Age</cite> and <cite>Mass Effect</cite>, which was also relevant to me since I used to be a huge fan of BioWare games. As a result, &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot; ended up being the first and only James Somerton video I have actually watched.</p>
 <p>Before finished watching it, one thing from &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot; that caught my attention was when Somerton talked about Juhani from <cite>Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic</cite>, who was the very first confirmed gay and lesbian character from both BioWare games and the entire <cite>Star Wars</cite> franchise, including the old Expended Universe, one of the <cite>Knights of the Old Republic</cite> (<cite>KotOR</cite>) footage shown on screen in the video included one of my <cite>KotOR</cite> footage about Juhani and her romance with the female player character.</p>
 <p>Specifically, the clip from Somerton's video at the timestamp from 12:09 to 12:13 was actually from my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQDmmRUx4E">5 March 2016 video footage of Juhani's love confession</a> with the <a href="https://deadlystream.com/files/file/772-juhani-romance-enhancement/">Juhani Romance Enhancement mod</a>, specifically at the timestamp <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQDmmRUx4E&amp;t=10s">0:10</a> to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQDmmRUx4E&amp;t=16s">0:16</a>.</p>
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 <p>I felt guilty about giving Somerton credit for Verity's takes about queer representation in video games, although I still firmly stand by what I said about the importance of supporting indie queer developers and their work instead of relying on mainstream video games for queer representation. I was not aware of Verity when I discovered Somerton's video in 2021, but I became aware of Verity and their YouTube channel in early 2023, after discovering their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBftW7FzOVI">&quot;The Consumerist Dystopia of Harry Potter&quot;</a> video, which I included and recommended in my <a href="/articles/anti-harry-potter-jk-rowling-masterlist/">Anti-Harry Potter and Anti-J. K. Rowling Masterlist</a>, so I recommend fellow queer gamers to check out Verity's &quot;Hοѡ Biѕeхυаlity Chaոɡeԁ Video Gaⅿes&quot; if you are interested in the topic of queer representation of video games.</p>
 <p>The final push for me to write this post, was seeing Verity crediting the source of the gameplay footage featured in &quot;Hοѡ Biѕeхυаlity Chaոɡeԁ Video Gaⅿes&quot;, as well as listening to them and their co-writer Ada Černoša talking about Somerton's lack of gameplay footage in &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot;, doubting the gameplay footage in the video are his own, and that recording gameplay footage take time and effort. This made Somerton's usage of my video game footage without credit leave a more sour taste in my mouth, enough that I decided to, at last, talk about this and confirm that James Somerton had indeed used someone else's gameplay footage without credit or permission, with I being at least one of that someone else.</p>
 <p>I do not expect anything from writing this post. James Somerton has destroyed his own reputation and internet career at this point without my help, so I merely just want to get Somerton's uncredited usage of my video game footage off my chest after being hesitant to bring it up since 2021.</p>
-<p><em>(Update, 17 May 2024: Replaced the links to my comparison video and Internet Archive's James Somerton video archive to ones with higher quality videos)</em></p>
+<p><em>(<strong>Update, 17 May 2024:</strong> Re-uploaded my comparison video for better quality, and updated links to Somerton's video on the Internet Archive)</em></p>
 
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             <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;It has been five months since Hbomberguy released his &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Plagiarism and You(Tube)&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; video essay on 2 December 2023, which &lt;a href=&quot;https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/whats-up-with-hbomberguy-setting-off-a-youtube-plagiarism-scandal-the-internet-historian-and-james-somerton-controversies-explained&quot;&gt;set off a YouTube plagiarism scandal&lt;/a&gt;, with another YouTuber &lt;a href=&quot;https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/hbomberguy-vs-james-somerton-plagiarism-scandal&quot;&gt;James Somerton&lt;/a&gt; being the main focus of Hbomberguy&#39;s video essay. I do not write this post to recap or rehash the entire James Somerton debacle. Instead, I want to talk about something personal related to one of James Somerton&#39;s videos — &lt;strong&gt;James Somerton had used one of my video game footage in one of his videos without crediting me or asking for my permission&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;On 5 November 2021, James Somerton released a video essay on his YouTube channel titled &amp;quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&amp;quot;. As of this writing, the video has been made private, but Somerton&#39;s videos have been &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-public-records&quot;&gt;archived on the Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;, so you can still watch &amp;quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&amp;quot; directly &lt;a href=&quot;https://ia601208.us.archive.org/34/items/james-somerton-public-records/Video%20Games%20and%20the%20Choice%20to%20be%20Gay.ia.mp4&quot;&gt;on the Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;. Alternately, you can watch the video through one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQNKEkrPEfI&quot;&gt;Wayback Machine snapshots&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;On 5 November 2021, James Somerton released a video essay on his YouTube channel titled &amp;quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&amp;quot;. As of this writing, the video has been made private, but Somerton&#39;s videos have been archived on the Internet Archive with two playlists: &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03/&quot;&gt;James Somerton youtube archive&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-public-records&quot;&gt;James Somerton- Public Records&lt;/a&gt;, so you can still watch &amp;quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&amp;quot; directly on the Internet Archive in both the &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03/&quot;&gt;Youtube archive&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/download/james-somerton-public-records/Video%20Games%20and%20the%20Choice%20to%20be%20Gay.ia.mp4&quot;&gt;Public Records&lt;/a&gt; playlists. Alternately, you can watch the video through one of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQNKEkrPEfI&quot;&gt;Wayback Machine snapshots&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;I first discovered &amp;quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&amp;quot; through a &lt;cite&gt;Dragon Age&lt;/cite&gt; fan blog on Tumblr shortly after the video was published. The video piqued my interest because LGBTQ+ representation in video games is relevant to me as a queer, non-binary lesbian gamer, and the video games discussed in Somerton&#39;s video included &lt;cite&gt;Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic&lt;/cite&gt;, &lt;cite&gt;Dragon Age&lt;/cite&gt; and &lt;cite&gt;Mass Effect&lt;/cite&gt;, which was also relevant to me since I used to be a huge fan of BioWare games. As a result, &amp;quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&amp;quot; ended up being the first and only James Somerton video I have actually watched.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Before finished watching it, one thing from &amp;quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&amp;quot; that caught my attention was when Somerton talked about Juhani from &lt;cite&gt;Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic&lt;/cite&gt;, who was the very first confirmed gay and lesbian character from both BioWare games and the entire &lt;cite&gt;Star Wars&lt;/cite&gt; franchise, including the old Expended Universe, one of the &lt;cite&gt;Knights of the Old Republic&lt;/cite&gt; (&lt;cite&gt;KotOR&lt;/cite&gt;) footage shown on screen in the video included one of my &lt;cite&gt;KotOR&lt;/cite&gt; footage about Juhani and her romance with the female player character.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Specifically, the clip from Somerton&#39;s video at the timestamp from 12:09 to 12:13 was actually from my &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQDmmRUx4E&quot;&gt;5 March 2016 video footage of Juhani&#39;s love confession&lt;/a&gt; with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://deadlystream.com/files/file/772-juhani-romance-enhancement/&quot;&gt;Juhani Romance Enhancement mod&lt;/a&gt;, specifically at the timestamp &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQDmmRUx4E&amp;amp;t=10s&quot;&gt;0:10&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQDmmRUx4E&amp;amp;t=16s&quot;&gt;0:16&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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 &lt;p&gt;I felt guilty about giving Somerton credit for Verity&#39;s takes about queer representation in video games, although I still firmly stand by what I said about the importance of supporting indie queer developers and their work instead of relying on mainstream video games for queer representation. I was not aware of Verity when I discovered Somerton&#39;s video in 2021, but I became aware of Verity and their YouTube channel in early 2023, after discovering their &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBftW7FzOVI&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The Consumerist Dystopia of Harry Potter&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; video, which I included and recommended in my &lt;a href=&quot;https://leilukin.neocities.org/articles/anti-harry-potter-jk-rowling-masterlist/&quot;&gt;Anti-Harry Potter and Anti-J. K. Rowling Masterlist&lt;/a&gt;, so I recommend fellow queer gamers to check out Verity&#39;s &amp;quot;Hοѡ Biѕeхυаlity Chaոɡeԁ Video Gaⅿes&amp;quot; if you are interested in the topic of queer representation of video games.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;The final push for me to write this post, was seeing Verity crediting the source of the gameplay footage featured in &amp;quot;Hοѡ Biѕeхυаlity Chaոɡeԁ Video Gaⅿes&amp;quot;, as well as listening to them and their co-writer Ada Černoša talking about Somerton&#39;s lack of gameplay footage in &amp;quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&amp;quot;, doubting the gameplay footage in the video are his own, and that recording gameplay footage take time and effort. This made Somerton&#39;s usage of my video game footage without credit leave a more sour taste in my mouth, enough that I decided to, at last, talk about this and confirm that James Somerton had indeed used someone else&#39;s gameplay footage without credit or permission, with I being at least one of that someone else.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;I do not expect anything from writing this post. James Somerton has destroyed his own reputation and internet career at this point without my help, so I merely just want to get Somerton&#39;s uncredited usage of my video game footage off my chest after being hesitant to bring it up since 2021.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(Update, 17 May 2024: Replaced the links to my comparison video and Internet Archive&#39;s James Somerton video archive to ones with higher quality videos)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;Update, 17 May 2024:&lt;/strong&gt; Re-uploaded my comparison video for better quality, and updated links to Somerton&#39;s video on the Internet Archive)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 It has been five months since Hbomberguy released his ["Plagiarism and You(Tube)"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ) video essay on 2 December 2023, which [set off a YouTube plagiarism scandal](https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/whats-up-with-hbomberguy-setting-off-a-youtube-plagiarism-scandal-the-internet-historian-and-james-somerton-controversies-explained), with another YouTuber [James Somerton](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/hbomberguy-vs-james-somerton-plagiarism-scandal) being the main focus of Hbomberguy's video essay. I do not write this post to recap or rehash the entire James Somerton debacle. Instead, I want to talk about something personal related to one of James Somerton's videos — **James Somerton had used one of my video game footage in one of his videos without crediting me or asking for my permission**.
 
-On 5 November 2021, James Somerton released a video essay on his YouTube channel titled "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay". As of this writing, the video has been made private, but Somerton's videos have been [archived on the Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-public-records), so you can still watch "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" directly [on the Internet Archive](https://ia601208.us.archive.org/34/items/james-somerton-public-records/Video%20Games%20and%20the%20Choice%20to%20be%20Gay.ia.mp4). Alternately, you can watch the video through one of the [Wayback Machine snapshots](https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQNKEkrPEfI).
+On 5 November 2021, James Somerton released a video essay on his YouTube channel titled "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay". As of this writing, the video has been made private, but Somerton's videos have been archived on the Internet Archive with two playlists: [James Somerton youtube archive](https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03/) and [James Somerton- Public Records](https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-public-records), so you can still watch "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" directly on the Internet Archive in both the [Youtube archive](https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03/) and the [Public Records](https://archive.org/download/james-somerton-public-records/Video%20Games%20and%20the%20Choice%20to%20be%20Gay.ia.mp4) playlists. Alternately, you can watch the video through one of the [Wayback Machine snapshots](https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQNKEkrPEfI).
 
 I first discovered "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" through a {% cite "Dragon Age" %} fan blog on Tumblr shortly after the video was published. The video piqued my interest because LGBTQ+ representation in video games is relevant to me as a queer, non-binary lesbian gamer, and the video games discussed in Somerton's video included {% cite "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" %}, {% cite "Dragon Age" %} and {% cite "Mass Effect" %}, which was also relevant to me since I used to be a huge fan of BioWare games. As a result, "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" ended up being the first and only James Somerton video I have actually watched.
 
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 I do not expect anything from writing this post. James Somerton has destroyed his own reputation and internet career at this point without my help, so I merely just want to get Somerton's uncredited usage of my video game footage off my chest after being hesitant to bring it up since 2021.
 
-*(Update, 17 May 2024: Replaced the links to my comparison video and Internet Archive's James Somerton video archive to ones with higher quality videos)*
+*(**Update, 17 May 2024:** Re-uploaded my comparison video for better quality, and updated links to Somerton's video on the Internet Archive)*