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From: Helen Chong <119173961+helenclx@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2024 22:27:49 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Use direct video link for Somerton's video game video in the
 YouTube archive

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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 As of this writing, the video has been made private, but Somerton's videos have been archived on the Internet Archive with two playlists: [James Somerton youtube archive](https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03/) and [James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).
+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 As of this writing, the video has been made private, but Somerton's videos have been archived on the Internet Archive with two playlists: [James Somerton youtube archive](https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03/) and [James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/download/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03/20211105%20TQNKEkrPEfI%20Video%20Games%20and%20the%20Choice%20to%20be%20Gay.mp4) 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.