I Fact-Checked The Worst Video Essayist On YouTube

A partial debunking of every false claim in fraudulent YouTuber James Somerton’s videos.

Timecodes by user @6ViolinRed
0:00 – Introduction
3:45 – 1. Gay porn invented Skype
4:45 – 2. J.K. Rowling once said you could magically gender-transition at Hogwarts
5:50 – 3. The reason Hitler murdered Ernst Rohm is because he was fat
6:56 – 4. England had a homophobic propaganda campaign against Italian tourism because Italy was turning their kids gay
9:44 – 5. Disney stole from gay charities
10:34 – 6. Marvel Comics writer Allan Heinberg did a PR blitz to force his editors to let him write gay characters
13:22 – Bonus Claim: Michael Bendis also wasn’t allowed to write gay characters
14:51 – 7. Jeffrey Dahmer inspired violent hate mobs
16:47 – 8. The SS was “teeming with homosexuals”
17:19 – Bonus Claim: The Hitler Youth was also run by homosexuals
18:35 – 9. There was a big outrage about the gay sex scenes in “Red, White & Royal Blue”
25:38 – 10. The life and death of gay porn star Joey Stefano
29:54 – 11. Tolkien was “nearly laughed out of” Oxford because LTOR was “soft”
30:58 – 12. The record box office for a recent Chinese blockbuster was obviously faked
33:46 – 13. Disney cynically exploited Howard Ashman’s death
36:46 – 14. “Rocky Horror” saved 20th Century Fox
37:40 – 15. “Legend of Korra” was moved to streaming because it was too gay for television
39:10 – 16. “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was controversial because any kissing or touching was taboo lyrical content
40:11 – 17. Weird Dahmer fangirls are shipping him with his first victim
42:20 – 18. Disney CEO Bob Iger has a strong pro-gay rights record
46:12 – Bonus Claim: Bob Iger wouldn’t let Valkyrie be gay in “Thor: Ragnarok”
46:50 – 19. The origin of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s “Good Omens”
48:20 – 20. “Yuri on Ice” was censored because of its time slot
49:35 – 21. The case against lesbian author Radclyffe Hall was thrown out because men were uncomfortable talking about lesbianism
50:24 – 22. The Nazis invented our current body standards
55:49 – Brief tangent about co-writer Nick
59:31 – 23. NAMBLA appropriated images from Disney’s “Aladdin”
1:00:54 – 24. ’90s gay rights activists weren’t fighting against employment discrimination
1:04:29 – 25. China keeps jacking up their cut of the profits from imported Hollywood movies
1:05:49 – 26. Disney princesses are marketed to funerals
1:06:50 – 27. Dying AIDS patients kept a “Beauty and the Beast” rose by their beds
1:08:04 – 28. Bob Iger was working on the DCEU because he hates Bob Chapek
1:09:39 – 29. Major industries spend most of their budget buying and burying new technology
1:10:54 – 30. Pirates were philanthropists
1:14:24 – 31. The gay panic trial of John Parisie
1:18:55 – 32. Stan lee loves this Scarlet Witch moment
1:20:33 – 33. Janelle Monae came out because you didn’t understand “Pynk”
1:25:16 – 34. European peasants were paranoid about their friends and neighbors being vampires
1:29:27 – 35. The Hitchcock Thing
1:32:43 – Bonus Claim A: Katharine Hepburn didn’t believe gay people existed
1:33:53 – Bonus Claim B: There was a deleted dickpic subplot in “Birds of Prey”
1:35:08 – Bonus Claim C: J.K. Rowling says Draco is pro-trans
1:35:42 – Conclusion

Written by Todd in the Shadows