I Fact-Checked The Worst Video Essayist On YouTube

I Fact-Checked The Worst Video Essayist On YouTube with tags todd in the shadows, todd's pop song reviews, pop music review, james somerton, todd in the shadows james somerton, james somerton fact check, james somerton plagiarism

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