Popular gay YouTuber deletes online presence after video accuses him of rampant plagiarism

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Popular gay YouTuber deletes online presence after video accuses him of rampant plagiarism
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James Somerton was making $170,000 a year with nearly 6 million views and 267,000 subscribers on YouTube, until...

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

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

It’s relevant to why a publication called “LGBTQ Nation” would want to cover this story.

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).