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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, 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>
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<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&t=10s">0:10</a> to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFQDmmRUx4E&t=16s">0:16</a>.</p>
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<p>Here is a back-to-back 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>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>
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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 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>
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