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