pro tip: Pay attention to when people cry as they apologize It's very clear throughout James Somerton's apology that his sadness mostly comes from his career being over, rather than genuine shame for the harm he caused

Watched the whole thing. It was horrible. He gives no credit to the people he stole from, gives hardly any context for people uninformed on the drama, spends 34 minutes saying, "I'll do better next time.", and just keeps trying to get sympathy by talking about unrelated topics.

Oh no I can’t make thousands of dollars from lying & misogyny anymore & have to get a real job! Let’s hope he doesn’t realize he’s the kind of cis white gay RWNJ orgs would love to have as a token.

Yeah this strikes me as insincere. A lot of talk about his career and not enough about what he actually did.

Ah yes, the ol' apology and career mourning combo. Classic move, James Somerton. 🙄

You didn't like "making: videos dude. You liked hearing the sound of your own voice and getting celebrated for other peoples hard work.

ofc he liked making videos: he put in little effort, stole most of his content from other queer writers and historians, passed it off as his own, and got the credit for covering those topics while also making $$ off the viewers 🙃

where's the turtleneck i repeat WHERE'S THE TURTLENECK

Does he seriously have a "Dang, I liked making videos" part of his apology?

He truly plagiarized the “I’m sorry you felt that way” non-apology now, huh?

"I really liked making videos." I mean. how would you know? You didn't actually make any.