James Somerton was making $170,000 a year with nearly 6 million views and 267,000 subscribers on YouTube, until…

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    1 year ago

    It isn’t. Plagiarism is plagiarism. It’s maybe relevant that that’s what his content was about, but the plagiarism accusation has nothing to do with them being gay

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      1 year ago

      Yeah but it has to do with the fact that he makes and plagiarizes LGBztQ content, specifically

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        1 year ago

        I know that, but the commenter asked a different question. Being gay was not relevant to them getting caught plagiarizing content.

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          It’s fairly important because of the type of content that he is plagiarizing. Personal details can often relate and be important to the type of content that people make (or steal).