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<div id="hYyq_hzIIKI" class="eleventy-plugin-youtube-embed" style="position:relative;width:100%;padding-top: 56.25%;"><iframe style="position:absolute;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" title="Embedded YouTube video" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hYyq_hzIIKI" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<p>I immediately recognised my clip through the appearance of the female player character and her outfit, which was from the <a href="https://deadlystream.com/files/file/90-segan-wyndh-jedi-armor/">Segan Wyndh Jedi Armor mod</a>. Furthermore, there are not many videos about Juhani's romance out there, so the player character's appearance, which can vary depending on how the player customises their character in the character creator or with mods, in Somerton's video only stood out to me even more. My footage of Juhani's love confession was part of my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5z8DZr8LSLHZkdhBxGadvvaHlolKa-Vd">Juhani romance and conversation video series</a>, to compliment my <a href="/shrines/starwarskotor/guides/kotor-juhani-romance-guide/">Juhani romance guide</a>, which I am still proud to say is <em>the</em> most comprehensive guide about Juhani's romance on the internet.</p>
<p>To be honest, even back then, I was already a little disappointed that James Somerton used my footage in his video without a single word about the clip's source, both in the video itself and the video description, nor had Somerton ever reached out to me about using my footage in his video (on a related note, Somerton and I never had any direct interactions). I do not own the intellectual property of <cite>Star Wars</cite> or <cite>KotOR</cite>, but capturing video game footage requires one to actually play through the game, which takes time, especially role-playing games like <cite>KotOR</cite>. In addition, I had spent a great deal of effort on promoting Juhani's romance, including writing a guide and recording video footage about it because Juhani's romance is also infamous for being buggy and tricky to successfully complete, to the extent many <cite>KotOR</cite> fans were not even aware that Juhani can actually be romanced by the (female) player character.</p>
<p>However, I did not dare to say a word about Somerton's usage of my Juhani romance footage, because Somerton was already a fairly popular YouTuber with 138K subscribers by the time the video was released (at least according to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211105165815/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQNKEkrPEfI">Wayback Machine snapshot of the video at the time</a>), while I do not even consider myself a YouTuber, since <a href="https://www.youtube.com/Leilukin">my YouTube channel</a> only consists of video game footage I recorded myself without commentary. I did not bring up Somerton's usage of my Juhani romance footage because I did not want to come across as trying to start a drama or gain attention. I also tried to look at the positives by considering it an honour that at least my Juhani romance videos get noticed by a popular YouTuber.</p>
<p>However, I did not dare to say a word about Somerton's usage of my Juhani romance footage, because Somerton was already a fairly popular YouTuber with 138K subscribers by the time the video was released (at least according to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211105165815/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQNKEkrPEfI">Wayback Machine snapshot of the video on 5 November 2021</a>), while I do not even consider myself a YouTuber, since <a href="https://www.youtube.com/Leilukin">my YouTube channel</a> only consists of video game footage I recorded myself without commentary. I did not bring up Somerton's usage of my Juhani romance footage because I did not want to come across as trying to start a drama or gain attention. I also tried to look at the positives by considering it an honour that at least my Juhani romance videos get noticed by a popular YouTuber.</p>
<p>As for Somerton's &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot; video itself, my initial thoughts after watching were that it was an interesting take on queer representation in Video games. I elaborated my thoughts when I shared the video with a friend:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Your mileage may vary on his opinions on certain individual examples from BioWare games that he brought up, and I cannot comment on Hades and The Last of Us 2 because I've never played them, but I very much agree with his main points about how LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream video games tend to be superficial and shallow because major game companies want their games to appeal as many people as possible, thus they're still unwilling to take too much risk so they won't offend the gamer bros too much. Honestly, this is how I feel about BioWare's games in general, despite BioWare's reputation as a progressive game company, especially when it comes to queer representation. I would give BioWare the benefit of the doubt for Juhani because she was the first confirmed queer character in both BioWare games and Star Wars, but when it comes to BioWare's original IPs, they could have done better.</p>

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<subtitle>Leilukin&#39;s personal website.</subtitle>
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<link href="https://leilukin.neocities.org"/>
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&lt;p&gt;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYyq_hzIIKI&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I immediately recognised my clip through the appearance of the female player character and her outfit, which was from the &lt;a href=&quot;https://deadlystream.com/files/file/90-segan-wyndh-jedi-armor/&quot;&gt;Segan Wyndh Jedi Armor mod&lt;/a&gt;. Furthermore, there are not many videos about Juhani&#39;s romance out there, so the player character&#39;s appearance, which can vary depending on how the player customises their character in the character creator or with mods, in Somerton&#39;s video only stood out to me even more. My footage of Juhani&#39;s love confession was part of my &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5z8DZr8LSLHZkdhBxGadvvaHlolKa-Vd&quot;&gt;Juhani romance and conversation video series&lt;/a&gt;, to compliment my &lt;a href=&quot;https://leilukin.neocities.org/shrines/starwarskotor/guides/kotor-juhani-romance-guide/&quot;&gt;Juhani romance guide&lt;/a&gt;, which I am still proud to say is &lt;em&gt;the&lt;/em&gt; most comprehensive guide about Juhani&#39;s romance on the internet.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To be honest, even back then, I was already a little disappointed that James Somerton used my footage in his video without a single word about the clip&#39;s source, both in the video itself and the video description, nor had Somerton ever reached out to me about using my footage in his video (on a related note, Somerton and I never had any direct interactions). I do not own the intellectual property of &lt;cite&gt;Star Wars&lt;/cite&gt; or &lt;cite&gt;KotOR&lt;/cite&gt;, but capturing video game footage requires one to actually play through the game, which takes time, especially role-playing games like &lt;cite&gt;KotOR&lt;/cite&gt;. In addition, I had spent a great deal of effort on promoting Juhani&#39;s romance, including writing a guide and recording video footage about it because Juhani&#39;s romance is also infamous for being buggy and tricky to successfully complete, to the extent many &lt;cite&gt;KotOR&lt;/cite&gt; fans were not even aware that Juhani can actually be romanced by the (female) player character.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, I did not dare to say a word about Somerton&#39;s usage of my Juhani romance footage, because Somerton was already a fairly popular YouTuber with 138K subscribers by the time the video was released (at least according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20211105165815/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQNKEkrPEfI&quot;&gt;Wayback Machine snapshot of the video at the time&lt;/a&gt;), while I do not even consider myself a YouTuber, since &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/Leilukin&quot;&gt;my YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt; only consists of video game footage I recorded myself without commentary. I did not bring up Somerton&#39;s usage of my Juhani romance footage because I did not want to come across as trying to start a drama or gain attention. I also tried to look at the positives by considering it an honour that at least my Juhani romance videos get noticed by a popular YouTuber.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, I did not dare to say a word about Somerton&#39;s usage of my Juhani romance footage, because Somerton was already a fairly popular YouTuber with 138K subscribers by the time the video was released (at least according to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://web.archive.org/web/20211105165815/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQNKEkrPEfI&quot;&gt;Wayback Machine snapshot of the video on 5 November 2021&lt;/a&gt;), while I do not even consider myself a YouTuber, since &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/Leilukin&quot;&gt;my YouTube channel&lt;/a&gt; only consists of video game footage I recorded myself without commentary. I did not bring up Somerton&#39;s usage of my Juhani romance footage because I did not want to come across as trying to start a drama or gain attention. I also tried to look at the positives by considering it an honour that at least my Juhani romance videos get noticed by a popular YouTuber.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As for Somerton&#39;s &amp;quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&amp;quot; video itself, my initial thoughts after watching were that it was an interesting take on queer representation in Video games. I elaborated my thoughts when I shared the video with a friend:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Your mileage may vary on his opinions on certain individual examples from BioWare games that he brought up, and I cannot comment on Hades and The Last of Us 2 because I&#39;ve never played them, but I very much agree with his main points about how LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream video games tend to be superficial and shallow because major game companies want their games to appeal as many people as possible, thus they&#39;re still unwilling to take too much risk so they won&#39;t offend the gamer bros too much. Honestly, this is how I feel about BioWare&#39;s games in general, despite BioWare&#39;s reputation as a progressive game company, especially when it comes to queer representation. I would give BioWare the benefit of the doubt for Juhani because she was the first confirmed queer character in both BioWare games and Star Wars, but when it comes to BioWare&#39;s original IPs, they could have done better.&lt;/p&gt;

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To be honest, even back then, I was already a little disappointed that James Somerton used my footage in his video without a single word about the clip's source, both in the video itself and the video description, nor had Somerton ever reached out to me about using my footage in his video (on a related note, Somerton and I never had any direct interactions). I do not own the intellectual property of {% cite "Star Wars" %} or {% cite "KotOR" %}, but capturing video game footage requires one to actually play through the game, which takes time, especially role-playing games like {% cite "KotOR" %}. In addition, I had spent a great deal of effort on promoting Juhani's romance, including writing a guide and recording video footage about it because Juhani's romance is also infamous for being buggy and tricky to successfully complete, to the extent many {% cite "KotOR" %} fans were not even aware that Juhani can actually be romanced by the (female) player character.
However, I did not dare to say a word about Somerton's usage of my Juhani romance footage, because Somerton was already a fairly popular YouTuber with 138K subscribers by the time the video was released (at least according to the [Wayback Machine snapshot of the video at the time](https://web.archive.org/web/20211105165815/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQNKEkrPEfI)), while I do not even consider myself a YouTuber, since [my YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/Leilukin) only consists of video game footage I recorded myself without commentary. I did not bring up Somerton's usage of my Juhani romance footage because I did not want to come across as trying to start a drama or gain attention. I also tried to look at the positives by considering it an honour that at least my Juhani romance videos get noticed by a popular YouTuber.
However, I did not dare to say a word about Somerton's usage of my Juhani romance footage, because Somerton was already a fairly popular YouTuber with 138K subscribers by the time the video was released (at least according to the [Wayback Machine snapshot of the video on 5 November 2021](https://web.archive.org/web/20211105165815/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQNKEkrPEfI)), while I do not even consider myself a YouTuber, since [my YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/Leilukin) only consists of video game footage I recorded myself without commentary. I did not bring up Somerton's usage of my Juhani romance footage because I did not want to come across as trying to start a drama or gain attention. I also tried to look at the positives by considering it an honour that at least my Juhani romance videos get noticed by a popular YouTuber.
As for Somerton's "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" video itself, my initial thoughts after watching were that it was an interesting take on queer representation in Video games. I elaborated my thoughts when I shared the video with a friend:
> Your mileage may vary on his opinions on certain individual examples from BioWare games that he brought up, and I cannot comment on Hades and The Last of Us 2 because I've never played them, but I very much agree with his main points about how LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream video games tend to be superficial and shallow because major game companies want their games to appeal as many people as possible, thus they're still unwilling to take too much risk so they won't offend the gamer bros too much. Honestly, this is how I feel about BioWare's games in general, despite BioWare's reputation as a progressive game company, especially when it comes to queer representation. I would give BioWare the benefit of the doubt for Juhani because she was the first confirmed queer character in both BioWare games and Star Wars, but when it comes to BioWare's original IPs, they could have done better.