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<a href="/blog/posts/2024-05-14-james-somerton-my-vide-game-footage/">
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James Somerton Used My Video Game Footage Without Credit or Permission | Blog
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<time>14 May 2024</time>
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<a href="/blog/posts/2024-05-14-james-somerton-my-vide-game-footage/">
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James Somerton Used My Video Game Footage Without Credit or Permission
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<time>14 May 2024</time>
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<p>James Somerton used one of my Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic footage in one of his videos without credit or permission.</p>
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<p>My childhood goal of beating A Bug's Life video game was finally fulfilled.</p>
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<a href="/blog/posts/2023-11-19-i-can-finally-game-on-a-solid-state-drive/">
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I Can Finally Game on a Solid-State Drive
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<time>19 November 2023</time>
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<p>I just got the solid-state drive (SSD) of my 5-year-old gaming laptop replaced with a new onw with a larger storage capacity.</p>
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I Can Finally Game on a Solid-State Drive
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<time>19 November 2023</time>
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<p>I just got the solid-state drive (SSD) of my 5-year-old gaming laptop replaced with a new onw with a larger storage capacity.</p>
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<a href="/blog/posts/2023-10-30-support-for-my-steam-review-of-a-summers-end/">
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<p>28th July 2023 marks my first birthday after the launch of this personal website.</p>
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<time>23 June 2023</time>
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<p>The HTML, CSS and JavaScript of my entire website have been rewritten in June 2023 to improve its layout.</p>
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<time>23 June 2023</time>
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<p>On a somewhat related note, I love the fact that this week is not only <a href="https://www.lesbianvisibilityweek.com/">Lesbian Visibility Week</a>, but also has two of my all-time favourite games, <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> and <cite>A Summer’s End — Hong Kong 1986</cite> (which I had also created a <a href="/shrines/asummersend">shrine</a> for), both of which happen to feature lesbian representation, celebrating their release anniversaries.</p>
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<p><strong>Happy Lesbian Visibility Day and Happy Birthday to <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite>!</strong></p>
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<ul class="blog__post--nextprev"><li>Previous Post: <a href="/blog/posts/2024-04-21-april-2024-leilukins-hub-overhaul-with-eleventy/">April 2024 Leilukin's Hub Overhaul with Eleventy</a></li>
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<ul class="blog__post--nextprev"><li>Previous Post: <a href="/blog/posts/2024-04-21-april-2024-leilukins-hub-overhaul-with-eleventy/">April 2024 Leilukin's Hub Overhaul with Eleventy</a></li><li>Next Post: <a href="/blog/posts/2024-05-14-james-somerton-my-vide-game-footage/">James Somerton Used My Video Game Footage Without Credit or Permission</a></li>
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<p>It has been five months since Hbomberguy released his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ">"Plagiarism and You(Tube)"</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, and I recommend watching Hbomberguy's video in full to understand the extent of Somerton's plagiarism. Instead, I want to talk about something personal related to the James Somerton scandal — <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>
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<p>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, Somerton's channel had disappeared from YouTube, but his videos have been <a href="https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03">archived on the Internet Archive</a>, so you can still watch "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" directly <a href="https://dn720001.ca.archive.org/0/items/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03/20211105%20TQNKEkrPEfI%20Video%20Games%20and%20the%20Choice%20to%20be%20Gay.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>
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<p>I first discovered "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" 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, "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" ended up being the first and only James Somerton video I have actually watched.</p>
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<p>Before finished watching it, one thing from "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" 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, 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>
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<p>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://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHl0ODFBR2pJLURxcXNxcWI3ZXRPaFgycFhLUXxBQ3Jtc0tudjNVQ0ctakdDM3YxYVB5eEt2Umo3Q2tLR2prQ2JMOWRlSDNjUnB1RFMzdU53LW1YX0dfRG84d1JnRjMzMHBKdG1VWl81VFlxNEkycm5DajZfLXNCQ3FnWHRWem80VXVDZ0ZwM09iLXdVdHF4ejFBWQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fdeadlystream.com%2Ffiles%2Ffile%2F772-juhani-romance-enhancement%2F&v=oFQDmmRUx4E">Juhani Romance Enhancement mod</a>, specifically at the timestamp <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQDmmRUx4E&t=10s">0:10</a> to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQDmmRUx4E&t=16s">0:16</a>. 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>. My video footage 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>
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<p>Here is a comparison between the clips from my original footage and Somerton's video respectively, proving the clip from Somerton's video was originally from my footage:</p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p>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:</p>
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<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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<p>That said, I did not bring up the fact that Somerton used my <cite>KotOR</cite> footage to my friend.</p>
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<p>As mentioned above, "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" was the first and only James Somerton video I have ever watched. I did not subscribe to Somerton's channel, nor did I have the time nor enough interest to watch any other Somerton's videos. No YouTubers I followed referenced Somerton's videos or were associated with him, and no one in my social media circles talked about him either. Therefore, after watching "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" in November 2021, Somerton simply went off of my radar until his plagiarism scandal broke out in December 2023.</p>
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<p>After the James Somerton's plagiarism scandal broke out, it was revealed that "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" plagiarised a paragraph of Robert Grosso's article <a href="https://techraptor.net/gaming/features/queer-characters-in-gaming-brief-history">"Queer Characters in Gaming - A Brief History"</a> on TechRaptor and ripped off Verily Ritchie's (also known as verilybitchie) video essay <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZGkxUTbDqw">"Hοѡ Biѕeхυаlity Chaոɡeԁ Video Gaⅿes"</a></p>
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<p>"Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" was not covered in Hbomberguy's "Plagiarism and You(Tube)" video, so I did not realise that Somerton's video essay about queer representation in video games was also largely built upon other queer creators' works without credit, until one day before I began to write this post, when I searched about the video myself and discovered the sources through the website <a href="https://tustin2121.github.io/James_Somerton_Transcripts/videos/TQNKEkrPEfI">James Somerton Transcripts</a>. This led to me watching Verily Ritchie's original video as well as listening to and reading their <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/james-somerton-3-94126743">Patreon post and podcast episode about Somerton ripping off their video</a>, realising that the main framework and talking points from Somerton's video as discussed with my Discord friend was actually from Verily's video.</p>
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<p>I felt guilty about giving Somerton credit for Verily's takes about queer representation in video games. I was not aware of Verily when I discovered Somerton's video in 2021, but I became aware of Verily and their YouTube channel in early 2023, after discovering their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBftW7FzOVI">"The Consumerist Dystopia of Harry Potter"</a> video, which I included and recommended checking out 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 Verily's "Hοѡ Biѕeхυаlity Chaոɡeԁ Video Gaⅿes" if you are interested in the topic of queer representation of video games.</p>
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<p>The final push for me to write this post, was seeing Verily crediting the sources of the gameplay footage featured in "Hοѡ Biѕeхυаlity Chaոɡeԁ Video Gaⅿes", as well as listening to them and Ada Černoša talking about Somerton's lack of gameplay footage in "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay", 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>
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<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 being it up since 2021,</p>
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<li>New blog post: <a href="/blog/posts/2024-05-14-james-somerton-my-vide-game-footage">James Somerton Used My Video Game Footage Without Credit or Permission</a>.</li>
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<li>For <a href="/projects/">my mods page</a>, adjusted the background width of the individual mods.</li>
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<h3 class="date-style">26 July 2023</h3>
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<li>Added a <a href="/shrines/">Shrines</a> page, with the first e-shrine on this website being <a href="/shrines/asummersend/">A Summer’s End — Hong Kong 1986</a>.</li>
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<h3 class="date-style">16 February 2023</h3>
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<li>Added a <a href="/shrines/">Shrines</a> page, with the first e-shrine on this website being <a href="/shrines/asummersend/">A Summer’s End — Hong Kong 1986</a>.</li>
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<li>Added my latest mod, Trask Ulgo Without Tutorials, to <a href="/projects/kotor1mods">my mods for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic</a> page.</li>
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||||
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<li>New blog post: <a href="https://leilukin.neocities.org/blog/posts/2024-05-14-james-somerton-my-vide-game-footage">James Somerton Used My Video Game Footage Without Credit or Permission</a>.</li>
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<title>James Somerton Used My Video Game Footage Without Credit or Permission | Blog</title>
|
||||
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|
||||
<content type="html"><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, and I recommend watching Hbomberguy's video in full to understand the extent of Somerton's plagiarism. Instead, I want to talk about something personal related to the James Somerton scandal — <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, Somerton's channel had disappeared from YouTube, but his videos have been <a href="https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03">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://dn720001.ca.archive.org/0/items/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03/20211105%20TQNKEkrPEfI%20Video%20Games%20and%20the%20Choice%20to%20be%20Gay.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>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, 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>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://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHl0ODFBR2pJLURxcXNxcWI3ZXRPaFgycFhLUXxBQ3Jtc0tudjNVQ0ctakdDM3YxYVB5eEt2Umo3Q2tLR2prQ2JMOWRlSDNjUnB1RFMzdU53LW1YX0dfRG84d1JnRjMzMHBKdG1VWl81VFlxNEkycm5DajZfLXNCQ3FnWHRWem80VXVDZ0ZwM09iLXdVdHF4ejFBWQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fdeadlystream.com%2Ffiles%2Ffile%2F772-juhani-romance-enhancement%2F&amp;v=oFQDmmRUx4E">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>. 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>. My video footage 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="https://leilukin.neocities.org/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>Here is a comparison between the clips from my original footage and Somerton's video respectively, proving the clip from Somerton's video was originally from my footage:</p>
|
||||
<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCuwNaOEZW8</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>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>
|
||||
<p>I also strongly agree with him about the importance of us LGBTQ+ gamers supporting indie queer developers and their work, instead of relying on mainstream video games (and mainstream media in general) for queer representation.</p>
|
||||
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|
||||
<p>That said, I did not bring up the fact that Somerton used my <cite>KotOR</cite> footage to my friend.</p>
|
||||
<p>As mentioned above, &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot; was the first and only James Somerton video I have ever watched. I did not subscribe to Somerton's channel, nor did I have the time nor enough interest to watch any other Somerton's videos. No YouTubers I followed referenced Somerton's videos or were associated with him, and no one in my social media circles talked about him either. Therefore, after watching &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot; in November 2021, Somerton simply went off of my radar until his plagiarism scandal broke out in December 2023.</p>
|
||||
<p>After the James Somerton's plagiarism scandal broke out, it was revealed that &quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot; plagiarised a paragraph of Robert Grosso's article <a href="https://techraptor.net/gaming/features/queer-characters-in-gaming-brief-history">&quot;Queer Characters in Gaming - A Brief History&quot;</a> on TechRaptor and ripped off Verily Ritchie's (also known as verilybitchie) video essay <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZGkxUTbDqw">&quot;Hοѡ Biѕeхυаlity Chaոɡeԁ Video Gaⅿes&quot;</a></p>
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||||
<p>&quot;Video Games and the Choice to be Gay&quot; was not covered in Hbomberguy's &quot;Plagiarism and You(Tube)&quot; video, so I did not realise that Somerton's video essay about queer representation in video games was also largely built upon other queer creators' works without credit, until one day before I began to write this post, when I searched about the video myself and discovered the sources through the website <a href="https://tustin2121.github.io/James_Somerton_Transcripts/videos/TQNKEkrPEfI">James Somerton Transcripts</a>. This led to me watching Verily Ritchie's original video as well as listening to and reading their <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/james-somerton-3-94126743">Patreon post and podcast episode about Somerton ripping off their video</a>, realising that the main framework and talking points from Somerton's video as discussed with my Discord friend was actually from Verily's video.</p>
|
||||
<p>I felt guilty about giving Somerton credit for Verily's takes about queer representation in video games. I was not aware of Verily when I discovered Somerton's video in 2021, but I became aware of Verily 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 checking out in my <a href="https://leilukin.neocities.org/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 Verily'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 Verily crediting the sources of the gameplay footage featured in &quot;Hοѡ Biѕeхυаlity Chaոɡeԁ Video Gaⅿes&quot;, as well as listening to them and 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>
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<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 being it up since 2021,</p>
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<li>New blog post: <a href="/blog/posts/2024-05-14-james-somerton-my-vide-game-footage">James Somerton Used My Video Game Footage Without Credit or Permission</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="/blog/posts/2024-03-06-i-received-a-lifetime-premium-membership-on-nexus-mods-for-free/">I Received a Lifetime Premium Membership on Nexus Mods for Free</a></li>
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articleTitle: James Somerton Used My Video Game Footage Without Credit or Permission
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desc: "James Somerton used one of my Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic footage in one of his videos without credit or permission."
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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, and I recommend watching Hbomberguy's video in full to understand the extent of Somerton's plagiarism. Instead, I want to talk about something personal related to the James Somerton scandal — **James Somerton had used one of my video game footage in one of his videos without crediting me or asking for my permission**.
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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, Somerton's channel had disappeared from YouTube, but his videos have been [archived on the Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03), so you can still watch "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" directly [on the Internet Archive](https://dn720001.ca.archive.org/0/items/james-somerton-youtube-2023-12-03/20211105%20TQNKEkrPEfI%20Video%20Games%20and%20the%20Choice%20to%20be%20Gay.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).
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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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Before finished watching it, one thing from "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" that caught my attention was when Somerton talked about Juhani from {% cite "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" %}, who was the very first confirmed gay and lesbian character from both BioWare games and the entire {% cite "Star Wars" %} franchise, including the old Expended Universe, the {% cite "Knights of the Old Republic" %} ({% cite "KotOR" %}) footage shown on screen in the video included one of my {% cite "KotOR" %} footage about Juhani and her romance with the female player character.
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The clip from Somerton's video at the timestamp from 12:09 to 12:13 was actually from my [5 March 2016 video footage of Juhani's love confession](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQDmmRUx4E) with the [Juhani Romance Enhancement mod](https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHl0ODFBR2pJLURxcXNxcWI3ZXRPaFgycFhLUXxBQ3Jtc0tudjNVQ0ctakdDM3YxYVB5eEt2Umo3Q2tLR2prQ2JMOWRlSDNjUnB1RFMzdU53LW1YX0dfRG84d1JnRjMzMHBKdG1VWl81VFlxNEkycm5DajZfLXNCQ3FnWHRWem80VXVDZ0ZwM09iLXdVdHF4ejFBWQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fdeadlystream.com%2Ffiles%2Ffile%2F772-juhani-romance-enhancement%2F&v=oFQDmmRUx4E), specifically at the timestamp [0:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQDmmRUx4E&t=10s) to [0:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQDmmRUx4E&t=16s). I immediately recognised my clip through the appearance of the female player character and her outfit, which was from the [Segan Wyndh Jedi Armor mod](https://deadlystream.com/files/file/90-segan-wyndh-jedi-armor/). My video footage was part of my [Juhani romance and conversation video series](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5z8DZr8LSLHZkdhBxGadvvaHlolKa-Vd), to compliment my [Juhani romance guide](/shrines/starwarskotor/guides/kotor-juhani-romance-guide/), which I am still proud to say is *the* most comprehensive guide about Juhani's romance on the internet.
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Here is a comparison between the clips from my original footage and Somerton's video respectively, proving the clip from Somerton's video was originally from my footage:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCuwNaOEZW8
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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.
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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.
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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:
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> 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.
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> I also strongly agree with him about the importance of us LGBTQ+ gamers supporting indie queer developers and their work, instead of relying on mainstream video games (and mainstream media in general) for queer representation.
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That said, I did not bring up the fact that Somerton used my {% cite "KotOR" %} footage to my friend.
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As mentioned above, "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" was the first and only James Somerton video I have ever watched. I did not subscribe to Somerton's channel, nor did I have the time nor enough interest to watch any other Somerton's videos. No YouTubers I followed referenced Somerton's videos or were associated with him, and no one in my social media circles talked about him either. Therefore, after watching "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" in November 2021, Somerton simply went off of my radar until his plagiarism scandal broke out in December 2023.
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After the James Somerton's plagiarism scandal broke out, it was revealed that "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" plagiarised a paragraph of Robert Grosso's article ["Queer Characters in Gaming - A Brief History"](https://techraptor.net/gaming/features/queer-characters-in-gaming-brief-history) on TechRaptor and ripped off Verily Ritchie's (also known as verilybitchie) video essay ["Hοѡ Biѕeхυаlity Chaոɡeԁ Video Gaⅿes"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZGkxUTbDqw)
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"Video Games and the Choice to be Gay" was not covered in Hbomberguy's "Plagiarism and You(Tube)" video, so I did not realise that Somerton's video essay about queer representation in video games was also largely built upon other queer creators' works without credit, until one day before I began to write this post, when I searched about the video myself and discovered the sources through the website [James Somerton Transcripts](https://tustin2121.github.io/James_Somerton_Transcripts/videos/TQNKEkrPEfI). This led to me watching Verily Ritchie's original video as well as listening to and reading their [Patreon post and podcast episode about Somerton ripping off their video](https://www.patreon.com/posts/james-somerton-3-94126743), realising that the main framework and talking points from Somerton's video as discussed with my Discord friend was actually from Verily's video.
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I felt guilty about giving Somerton credit for Verily's takes about queer representation in video games. I was not aware of Verily when I discovered Somerton's video in 2021, but I became aware of Verily and their YouTube channel in early 2023, after discovering their ["The Consumerist Dystopia of Harry Potter"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBftW7FzOVI) video, which I included and recommended checking out in my [Anti-Harry Potter and Anti-J. K. Rowling Masterlist](/articles/anti-harry-potter-jk-rowling-masterlist/), so I recommend fellow queer gamers to check out Verily's "Hοѡ Biѕeхυаlity Chaոɡeԁ Video Gaⅿes" if you are interested in the topic of queer representation of video games.
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The final push for me to write this post, was seeing Verily crediting the sources of the gameplay footage featured in "Hοѡ Biѕeхυаlity Chaոɡeԁ Video Gaⅿes", as well as listening to them and Ada Černoša talking about Somerton's lack of gameplay footage in "Video Games and the Choice to be Gay", 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.
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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 being it up since 2021,
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* New blog post: [James Somerton Used My Video Game Footage Without Credit or Permission](/blog/posts/2024-05-14-james-somerton-my-vide-game-footage).
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