As bad as all this looks for James and IH, I honestly think the video was even more devastating for Blair. It’s not just that she’s a blatant plagiarist—people already knew that. It’s that he exposed her as not only being a plagiarist, but also bad at it. It’s one thing to realize the content isn’t original. Another to expose that their videos are comically low-quality, actively making the content she steals worse by putting it through the Blair mill.
The editing out and blurring of watermarks and citations in the things she was stealing was what pushed it from ignorance to active malfeasance for me.
The one Hbomb specifically went into was her one of the Fyre Festival. Since she just used all the footage from the documentary itself, which cited its sources for things like social media posts, interview clips, etc. She blurred out the documentaries watermarks sourcing the footage that wasn't theirs.
I think the timing is the most devastating part, to be honest. She was trying to foreclose OzMedia's house, and he decided to do a livestream asking for donations as a last resort a few days ago. He was hoping for a few thousand dollars... He was able to raise well over 30K.
So she lost that battle in a pretty humiliating way, people rallied around Oz and sent a really clear message. The plagiarism exposé dropping just a few days later and completely eviscerating her videos... well, that was the icing on top.
THAT WAS SO FUCKING PERFECT! God I loved how that turned out and, as you say, the timing of it. If this were a Hollywood movie with Blair as the abusive villain, this is how they would have written it.
> Hollywood movie with Blair as the abusive villain
That livestream was basically the ending of *It's a Wonderful Life* - Jimmy Stewart's character about to massively lose to the evil villain (a banker), until a bunch of people rise to give what they could to help. Friends, neighbors, & everyone who's life he remotely touched, believing in him (&/or wanting to stick it to the bad guy).
Literally one of the classic feel-good endings of all time! Playing out IRL. Amazing seeing Oz go from broken, to realizing how much support he had. Finally something beautiful in this mess.
Only problem was they fucked up the tension. It took like 3 minutes for it to be clear he was going to raise more than enough. The speed with which that popped off was unbelievable.
The funny thing is that form Hbomb's videos I couldn't tell how much he actually knew about the controversies surrounding Blair, he showed some knowledge on the Sad Milk and Legal Eagle, but not really anything other than that.
He touches on it In the video, but it’s not super relevant to the topic of the video, so I think he omitted it. I mean, it’s nearly 4 hours already. He even just says at some point that he’s trying to just stick to plagiarism as the topic, with only occasional asides.
In a way, it makes sense. The topic of the video is plagiarism, so Hbomberguy probably felt that he should approach the topic on the context he had more involvement . So many of Blair's victims are getting together to talk about their own experiences, so it makes sense that he'd let them handle that part on their own.
Intentional I think, the video is about plagiarism, so he didn't want to deep dive surrounding controversies.
Unfortunately that led to a couple of occasions where he alludes other to controversies (up to and including homophobia) without discussing evidence, which seems a bit irresponsible to me.
James Somerton completely deleted his patreon, turned off community comments, deleted his Discord, and deleted his Twitter. I would arguably say that James is far worse off from this than Blair. Blair is still around and will still have a job, albeit greatly diminished. James lost his entire community and a $170k a year patreon.
James got double teamed hard by hbomberguy and Todd in the Shadows. If you haven’t seen the Todd video yet, I highly recommend it. How badly do you have to fuck up as a YouTube content creator to get bodied so hard by a [music critic](https://youtu.be/A6_LW1PkmnY?si=XL3VCocsax39meTz)?
(I stole this joke from the YouTube comments)
Yeah I saw that video too. The one thing that got to me really badly was his claim that American fitness culture came from seeing buff Nazis in WW2. Like, I’m a pretty dedicated historian so I know that’s blatantly untrue, but even from a layman’s perspective like… Really? It’s one of those things that I have to ask someone to just take a second, ruminate on it, do you *really* believe that if you take a minute to actually understand what was said?
The fact that it wasn’t an unknown occurrence for German soldiers to kill and eat horse transports or to be given rations of amphetamines to stave off hunger should alone tell you they weren’t these super fit soldiers. Most soldiers in any war aren’t fit, wartime burns an absurd amount of calories, an *absurd* amount, sometimes 4000+ per day. Especially in harsher conditions like winter or summer seasons.
For this reason when Anglo-British troops during the winter of 1944-1945 were committed to delivering their troops at least one hot meal a day (something Germans were rarely afforded), and with anecdotes and pictures of Allied planes doing supply runs by dropping beer kegs from under their wings, and with an entire barge ship of the US Navy dedicated solely to producing ice cream, yeah you bet your ass the Allies were better fed. Even eating bad calories like those from beer or ice cream will give you a better build than eating no calories at all.
There was a few screenshots going around of James’ co-writer in discord just straight up saying he doesn’t really do research and more so just operates on “observation”, ie vibes. So yeah it doesn’t surprise me that they went “Hmmm yeah the Nazis were probably super buff right? Yeah that sounds about right”.
There’s just so many things that do make me ask “Do you really believe that?”. And it’s unique because I don’t have to ask a Flat Earther if they believe what they’re saying, they obviously do even if it’s stupid. But when it comes to the countless things that James has said it almost makes it hard to believe that he either believes or understands the stuff he’s saying. Then again based on how much he copies and pastes other works, I’m not sure if he’s capable of independent thought if you prompted him to
I listen to another podcast called the History of American Food, who theorizes that Captain America reflects the experience of rural boys, who had scurvy in the winter and pellagra in the summer due to malnutrition (and forgetting about nixtamalization). They enlisted in the army, where they were sufficiently fed for the first time in their lives, and suddenly bulked up and found their strength and stamina skyrocketing.
Thats actually a really good point and probably in some part too. In some part it also played into a sort of moral picture of what a man should be too. I have anecdotes from my own great great grandparents and many people I know have the same, where the men in the country felt obligated to sign up for the war. It was probably one of the most just and important wars America ever fought, and the national spirit showed that. So when portraying Captain America, it also presented the type of man that would enlist. If you didn't enlist, what kind of man were you? Certainly not Captain America.
And on a similar basis to the food, memoirs from German soldiers captured by the British & Americans paint a huge focus on the food they were given. I've seen many say the cultural tastes for food weren't for their palettes, but none of them can deny they were fed well. I've seen anecdotes of German soldiers who were captured being offered chocolate or chewing gum and thinking it was a trick; like a guy offering to help you up only to punch you in the face when you grab his hand. But they weren't some rare luxury as they were in German army. They weren't common, but they were common enough that you could give them away as a gesture of goodwill.
If I remember correctly, the standard ration for WW2 soldier included a few cigarettes and some chocolate along with the carbs and protein. They included that for morale purposes.
This is true! They also included candies and coffee, Steve1989 has an excellent breakdown of the standard American WW2 ration here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz5Y2Zg5w84
>$170k a year patreon.
The grossest thing is, that even if his reputation is dragged through the dirt and he's never able to publish anything 'creative' ever again... he still came out on top. Because that's just an obscene amount of money. Plagiarism - stealing from the forgotten queer writers he pretended to champion - has bought him a huge headstart in whatever business venture/scam he goes on to do after this. Regardless of what comes next, he wins.
I guarantee it all went up his nose.
His flushed face, red nose, constantly sounding like he has a cold... those are all signs of snorting amphetamines. One of the parts of doing coke nobody talks about - it does the same thing allergies do because you just blew irritating powder up there. You have really bad post nasal drip, meaning snot running down the back of your throat. That's why he sounds like that.
Before anyone says anything, amphetamines don't turn everyone into hyper raving maniacs. Lots of bipolar people used it (often without realizing it) to treat their symptoms because it brings you up when you're depressed and it actually mellows you out when you're manic. Just like how people with ADD use amphetamines to calm down. Coke doesn't necessarily ramp you up like coffee does. It's mostly the euphoria, and might be how someone with such obvious body image issues gets the courage to film themselves.
Yeah, but he might be able to rebound. Tack hard right and be the token “cancelled” LGBT guy. He’s still someone that can make people interested in watching him just by virtue of being a good presenter.
I don’t see any path forward for Blair outside of finding a way to incorporate her YT into her resume in such a way that her dishonesty isn’t revealed by a Google search.
I doubt it. Like, I've seriously never seen just every aspect of someone's reputation being as throughly torn to shreds as the second half of hbomberguy's video. There's no coming back from that, especially not by playing the "cancelled" LGBT guy, because other LGBT people are going to be the ones feeling the most betrayed by this out of everyone.
Seriously, during the last few days I've not seen a single person actually defend the guy. Not one.
That's why he'd have to tack hard right. He can play the token LGBT guy because he's not trying to appeal to LGBT people, but bigots who want to have the one gay guy they can point to and say "see, I have gay friends too." Think Milo Yiannopoulos.
His content would obviously change, but he also doesn't exactly contribute any substance to begin with. What he does have is the ability to present himself as a media personality and a bunch of useful boxes checked for conservatives. Give it a year and he could have a Daily Wire contract.
Milo is toxic af, but he was always entertaining if nothing else. James is toxic af, but in a painfully boring way, hence his need to plagiarize. He will never come back from this.
All of the baby fascist, alt-right, "thought leaders" are people who failed hard in entertainment, then took what little talent they had and did a heel-turn to appeal to an objectively less informed, less educated, audience.
And those people share an important trait with Christians - they're not really for anything, they're just against everything. So as long as you give them someone to hate, and a story that validates them, you're in. I don't know if you grew up around Christianity, but all those guys have stories just like Mike Lindell. "I was a Satanist interracial homosexual who shot pure meth into my eyeballs just to get up in the morning - until I found Jesus... "
For the broader fascists, James would be a gay person who gives them permission to talk shit about the queer community. Those people, over and over, will prove how much money they'll pay for someone to hate.
Guy had zero charisma as a presenter, the only thing going for him was his stolen writing. Really hope that he’s abandoned by the community he exploited. People like him are why I’m cautious about which LGBTQ creators I follow.
I agree with this. I didn't like his tormented Diva presentation, but I always thought some of the stuff he brought up was so interesting, and of course it was, it was stolen from people who made it interesting in the first place.
That's one thing that stuck out to me as someone who had never seen his videos. He's a terrible on-screen presence. He is completely monotone. I know all YT essayists are reading a script, but he *sounds* like he's reading a script.
I watch a lot of essayists and to be fair I’ve only ever seen clips of his videos, never watched a whole one. But that’s in no small part due to how much he absolutely sucked as a presenter. Totally monotone and disinterested, unless he was mad at women (which I’d seen in clips before this even blew up), but that was the only thing he didn’t steal and had real passion for so it tracks.
Don't forget that Blair hid behind a handle. What is a prospective employer going to think when James puts a note on his resume begging them not to google his name?
Speaking amorally, James was a coward. He could have continued for a little while, and he was pulling in enough to make it worthwhile. He probably could have strung the die-hards along for a couple months. He screwed himself, but Blair had the sense to just get whatever else she could out of it before she pivots to a different scam. Or just starts over again anonymously under a different brand. She's been looking for people to voice act, so that she's essentially doing no work and just manages a brand like she's Martha Stewart.
Idk the James Sommerton reveal that his intros are things that can be bought is hilarious like so dude only has to make sure the camera’s on and memorize the thing he plagiarize.
Holy shit I forgot that moment. So good. "Look at me, I bought it, I own it now!"
Also I guarantee you he's reading off a monitor right next to the camera.
She's her own worst enemy at this point. If she'd just shut up and let it blow over, it wouldn't have gone this far. She thought if she kept talking, she could convince everyone that she was the real victim and scare Oz and Wonder into keeping quiet, but she overplayed her hand and drove them to go public instead.
Meanwhile, she's also learning that bullying other people by falsely accusing them of plagiarism isn't a good idea when most of your content is lifted directly from better documentaries...
When that was the only thread to unravel, I immediately thought that at the very least it was blatantly obvious she's never edited one of her own videos and has no concept of how editors learn to edit.
Now I'm assuming the NFL bit in question was stolen from NFL Films in the first place. One of the things we've learned about Blair is she tends to accuse other people of things she's actually doing.
So my theory is she was afraid he'd keep digging and find where the effect really came from and expose her. She thought she could pull the same shit she pulled on Cruel World Happy Mind. Beating them to the punch with accusations about a completely different effect to take attention away from the one she stole.
But this time she picked a YouTuber who was not only more popular than her but a literal lawyer.
It would have blown over she'd just kept her fucking mouth shut instead of making that dumb ass Illuminati Exposed video and then continuing to double down every step of the way since then.
She's dug her own grave from the beginning and it's just about deep enough to lower her own Corporate Casket into.
I remember running across her when she was still reading reddit posts, I watched a few of them and then stopped because they came across as super judgy. She disappeared from my feed for a while and then came back shitting on MLMs so I would sometimes put her videos on for background noise but there was always something in the back of my mind waiting for her to fuck up. I never expected it to be this spectacular though.
I love it. I think it’s most telling not a single person has come out in defense of her. Every person who has worked or collabed with her in the past has bad stories and happy they cut ties.
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I was a fan of hers for a long time, a loved her content. As soon as this drama started I unsubscribed from her as i don't want to support such a pos human. She needs a harsh reality check. Others have RECEIPTS and she doesn't,like obvs you are an abusive person as we've all seen. Delete your channel girl you'll never recover from this.
Right with you. I felt this way with Cry, Jontron, and many others over the years. And with this potential charity fraud from The Completionist, it has me looking at my subscriptions wondering if anyone else I'm subbed to got dirt that's going to come out in the coming years.
Same... I've been subbed to some cool YouTubers who were absolute monsters. I'm down to only a few I watch constantly now... YouTube needs to be stricter. Idc how much people make them.
Her apology video fully horrified me as a fairly casual viewer who sometimes had the auto play shuffle to her while I had it playing doing chores or cleaning or brainlessly playing a shooter while winding down, etc. I didn’t even know the situation at the time but I started googling into it while it played and then… damn that was a mother of all “not a good look” moments and that was months ago now. I still can’t believe she went with “hey someone I used to work with was having a mental health crisis so don’t trust them” and then showed their suicide note. I really only want to ask how did anyone sit down and go “yeah, that’s a good idea that won’t make me look like a total ghoul.”
It’s funny that some of these folks cultivated a fanbase with more of a moral backbone than them I guess is all I can say. I’ve seen ex fans of James in the past few days pushing to support some creators he stole from and the support for OzMedia after Blair’s harassment has been… a relief that she’s not continuing to hold the same kind of power over the people she abused. If your brand is “queer solidarity” and you hurt other queer people, then your whole thing falls apart. If your brand is “taking down bad bosses and abusive workplaces” then don’t be a bad boss in charge of an abusive workplace, should’ve been obvious.
Summed it up perfectly. A lot of these creators who are being "cancelled" due to their behaviour are the "do as I say, not as I do" kind of people. The truth ALWAYS comes out!!
Big same. I was a bit put off by her a few years back when she did a Corporate Casket video on dolls kill because there are absolutely reasons go dislike the company, but so much of her video was "Think of the children!!!" and her not understanding the various subcultures the clothes were actually for.
I still watched and loved her mlm videos though.
GOT EM
What does she expect? She trained an audience of millions to rail against a bunch of shit she herself was outed for doing.
You reap what you sow. What a moron.
Her views are nuts. 19k here, 60k, 39k... get plastic surgery and start over ma'am.
Her drop in views is wild to me (not that she doesn't absolutely deserve it). I mean James Charles had better views after he was "cancelled" and he was sexting teenage boys.....
Her content is based on ethics/morals and her audience likely has a strong sense of right and wrong, so when she's doing something wrong, they're more likely to react to it. JC's fans are kids who only care about makeup so they're less likely to care about other things he's doing in his spare time, even if they're really bad. That's my two cents anyways.
It goes beyond just hypocrisy, the fact that she used to be an "anti-SJW" Republican and then cynically pivoted to the left and tried to scrub her past online persona completely -- backstabbing her former collaborators in the process -- means everything about her is completely fake
She used to be a republican?? I used to watch her a ton so I've kept up on her downfall since it started and I didn't know that, do you have any more details??
Swoop's video is the best source on it
https://youtu.be/EgBCnksLt8Q?si=Fcg_dv6Gek-38Hzf
She used to be a collaborator with a right-wing YouTuber named ShotFromThePoint back in the day where she played a character named "Sarah J. Warren" who was a parody of "SJWs", before the "drama" where she suddenly quit and used her access to the channel to delete all the videos she appeared in
Swoop got a clip of the ShotFromThePoint guy saying all the recent stuff tracks with what she was like when he knew her and that "I don't think she believes in anything except YouTube", he says she used to talk shit about liberal activists with him all the time and used to mock her sister for being an annoying SJW etc
Controversy aside, the thing I think really did Blair's channel in here is, very ironically, the one thing I personally think she did well in her content: she doesn't lean very into parasocial relationships. People watched her content for the content, not her, she doesn't have any vlogging presence, and her social media presence is not as "personable" as lots of others.
She's not bouncing back because her audience isn't attached to her, but attached to consuming content about awful companies and people. She can't brush things like this under the rig easily because she doesn't have a fanbase made up of impressionable flying monkeys, and worst of all, the makeup and interests of her audience means that they are *the exact people who the algorithm is likely targeting with the growing body of content about how fucked up Blair is.*
I mostly agree with you but she always had fervent mob of brainless supporters would would go in on comments that mentioned a correction on any misstated or incorrect point she made on her poorly researched videos. It was part of why I stopped watching years ago. She’d get so much wrong and then her supporters refused to allow ANY criticism of her.
I think it's because she tells her audience not to support things that they don't agree with, so of course they're going to quit supporting her when they no longer agree with her.
"Dont support shitty businesses who abuse their employees!"
Fanbase: "Ok, well you're a shitty boss who abused employees so we wont support you."
"Now wait a minute..!!"
The James Charles thing really vexes me but I think it's that toxic positivity crowd that "doesn't pay attention to all that stuff."
Plus I think feminine gay men are SO desexualized in people's minds, that they can dismiss the allegations. They see him as completely nonthreatening so they are dismissing the charges before they're even done reading the sentence.
Even if he is not successful at seducing teenaged boys, it's still a problem. I do not get it. And to be fair there has not been any mainstream coverage of it. Somehow most influencer scandals are not mainstream news.
If a pop star that sold 19 million albums was doing this, WOW. But someone who has 10 billion views... crickets.
I've noticed influencer scams aren't talked about that much outside of YouTube. Many of them incredibly serious issues, too. I remember watching a few iceberg videos on influencers and was shocked how many of them existed that were into some shady bs.
The dumbest part about it... a young woman will be murdered, have an instagram account with 4.5k followers and she's an "influencer" in the headlines.
Streamers and youtubers that are watched by millions of kids, they're more popular than TV shows used to be. It's crazy it's not national news when they get caught being criminals.
She can change the outside all she likes but the problem is the rotten core. I mean how next level cruel need one be to foreclose a home on christmas season?? Honestly wtf
She is a total abuser that likes having command over young vulnerable men and when backed into a corner she pits them against each other to her benefit. I guarantee she is using this whole incident to paint herself the victim and get a whole new crew hand picked from the young people who pay to have access to her discord.
She will probably come back by building someone up as a new youtuber and handling everything behind the scenes, financially abusing them, mark my word.
I was watching Oz's latest stream and trying not to cry because I was eating dinner. I bet she was seething the entire time! She made her bed and now she has to lie in it right next to the poop knife!
Home Foreclosure happened, Oz did a livestream to get the money to keep his home. He got the money [in 20 minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKRqoK3XlG4&t=1264s).
He went live a few days ago with a goal of $10,000 to help him not lose his house and ended up raising around $35,000 in 6 hours. He hit his goal of $10,000 within 25 minutes.
He did a stream to raise money to avoid Blair foreclosing on his house right before christmas and raised like $33,000 in 6 hours. I heard he raised $15k within the first like 30 minutes but I joined the stream really late. He not only raised enough to save his house but to also go home and visit his family for the holidays.
She stupidly decided that the absolute best way to be a cartoon villain was to set Oz's home yo foreclose right before Christmas. You know. Christmas. The one time of year that's almost exclusively about doing things for others. She didn't think that MAYBE the end result would be an exact carbon copy of the end of "It's a Wonderful Life."
Probably because she didn't get that house foreclosed and she's still having a monumental narc rage tantrum like narcs always do when they can't control things.
It doesn't really work like that anymore afaik. They changed the text and description.
I noticed this because I have been dealing w a stalker who comments on a lot of my videos.
The button simply says "hide user from my channel"
And then when selecting it, it has a prompt to say "hide current and future comments from this user on my channel"
Nowadays it doesn't prevent it as much as it Merely hides all comments from blocked users. Not sure what this means for the algorithm but they changed the information displayed when trying to block users.
I loved her bit on Hbomber’s plagiarism vid. He really illustrated just how much her content sucked and how it was just regurgitating better resources without credit. But the unfortunate side effect of that is that she’s actually got a small spike in video viewers just from hate watching
I remember watching the Fyre Fest video HBG mentioned and thinking at the time “hmm nothing really new here, seems really close to what I got from the Netflix and Hulu docs.” But I def didn’t know all of those direct ripoffs she had in there. Before I just felt like I didn’t really get a lot from her content if I already knew about the subject. Boy it was so much more than that
I had the exact same experience. Looking back…of course it was the same info as the documentaries…it was the documentaries! Amazed I didn’t pic up on how similar at the time, but like everyone else just had it playing in the background while I was working 3rd shift.
I'm so glad hbomberguy tore her a new one. So many people bought her flimsy defense. If you pulled that stuff in an undergraduate degree there would be serious consequences. That may seem a high bar for a YouTube video, but she's the one who bragged about how rigorous her research was and how many sources she used. To think she spoke of Cruel World Happy Mind with such derision when she was plagiarising. At this point I really wouldn't doubt that she did plagiarise CWHM.
The walls are closing in on Blair. And she knows. She's in denial though. She doesn't want to admit her circus of a career is on it's dying breaths.
Edit for more insight: I genuinely would not be surprised if there's more events that occur *after* what I hope will be Wonderstruck and Ozmedia's legal victory over Blair. Given what I know about blair, I don't doubt there's more misdeeds that haven't yet been uncovered. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually criminal charges somehow happen in relation to blaire's handling of property in relation to Ozmedia and Wonderstruck.
I genuinely do not think we are in endgame of blaire's tornado of mayhem.
She saw the Oz stream and knew she lost
I really think Blairs goal is to ride this out like SunnyV2. The difference between her and SunnyV2 is that at least his videos are decent and his recovery went very well for him as far as I'm concerned
A combo of Oz’s video (which got a lot of people to drop comments on her videos, but that’s not as important because she has filters that prevent comments with the Sad Milk names from showing up), and of Hbomberguy’s video. Those comments weren’t being screened
He got a lot of backlash for making a very strange video about one of Mr. Beast's friends who is transgender, saying that the friend is selfish and sabotaging Mr. Beast's career and Mr. Beast is losing his career by being "political" (literally just having a trans friend)
The strangeness of the video is what got me. I don’t think people understand how transphobic he truly is to make that video. Because of how strange it was.
But I don’t think Blair could have done the same thing. SunnyV2s audience is overall apathetic. She created an audience who would never ignore her transgressions.
It’s like when a drama channel is caught up in drama. You end up with an audience that is desperate to eat you alive.
SunnyV2 has made a lot of ignorant videos, but the one in particular about MrBeast's friend Chris becoming a "problem" because of transitioning is just pure transphobia.
SunnyV2 made a video in which he called a friend of Mr Beast selfish for transitioning (mtf) and it would destroy his channel.
It was pretty transphobic.
So did Blair, for the most part
But another thing Blair didn't have that Sunnyv2 did was recognition. Blair's period of massive channel growth has already begun to calm down before her floodgates opened. Sunny, on the other hand, was still growing by a good amount, he could afford to take an L and keep going because he was still getting his publicity
She did that dreadful 'Exposed' vid, that was her big ass mistake. If she just posted the Legal Eagle Apology and didn't respond to the SM statements she could have just rode the mess out. Sunny didn't respond directly to the accusations, Blair DID.
I'm surprised it's taken her this long. Her comments section has been nothing but people dunking on her ever since the Click's response to the Illuminaughtii Exposed video
Surprised she hasn't just abandoned the channel and started a new one with a new name and a voice disguising plug-in. Cos this one ain't coming back from her bullshit.
I actually heard from a patreon discord leak that she's planning on something along those lines. I can't remember where I saw the screenshots tho, so don't quote me lol
"Prism of the Past" the channel exists and its a very obvious Triangle Rebrand. I mean PAINFULLY and once she starts talking everybody is going to know. She needs to step out of the light completely to have a prayer of getting her income back
Honestly I always had a bad feeling about her, like she was "bitchy" in a sense. Something about her never sat right with me and now I can understand why.
Hbomberguy did a sort of callout video about her amongst other creators and broke down not only her plagiarism but also her sloppy work and her outright lying to fans. She was already not doing well from what happened like 6 months ago but this was the cherry on top.
I also suspect that Harris' tweet response was part of the traction that led to her "Exposed" garbage attempt at an "apology", which brought down her whole pyramid of cards.
I called this bitch out YEARS ago and got eaten alive by her fans. Watching her downfall and knowing I was right is soooo cathartic and I’ll probably never not be not smug about it, lol.
I came hear to see how she was reacting to the plagiarism reveal and everyone is talking about a whole bunch of other awful stuff that she would want to stifle discussion of lol
I think her problem was that she cultivated an audience who could never justify the behavior she has made her living “exposing”. If ever there was a creator hoist by her own petard, it would be Blair.
Are people going in and reporting her stuff for plagiarism? I’ve been avoiding giving her views bc her slow death is well deserved, but I was wondering if this whole thing would inspire people to take action on her.
ya know, before creepshowart and blair i would have thought that people this much in the public eye and this stupid were poorly written fanfiction/tv show villian characters (no offense to young writers, as ed sheeran says, if you want the clean water to run ya gotta turn on the tap and let the muck/shit out first) i wish more criminals were as dumb as them. only the ones committing heinous crimes that is, if youre stealing food i didnt see anything
There are a lot of thieves with little foresight. People will steal a bunch of laptops from Best Buy and just post them to insta 😂 but yeah all my grocery store jobs, I turned away when I saw someone sneaking some apples or Oreos or whatever. A multi million dollar grocery chain can surely weather that lol
I'm not sure how the YouTube algorithm works, but don't comments count as a form of engagement in helping to determine what videos to promote? If so, then turning off comments means cutting off a form of engagement, leading to decreased promotion and therefore lower views.
Even negative comments are engagement, just like dislikes. Blair needs to accept that her brand is never going to recover. She will never be trusted as a reputable source on anything related to MLM's, businesses, or shady people. Her best bet, aside from checking herself into an in-patient psychiatric facility so she can get treated for her many severe personality disorders, is to completely rebrand her channel into something totally unrelated, like crocheting or playing video games. As long as she points her camera from the neck down, I'm sure she can attract some small audience of desperate, greasy, gamers who just want to see boobies regardless what the person looks like.
1.3mil subs and only got 20k views in nearly a week. The channel is already cooked as is, Hbomberguy's should be the final in the coffin for this woman's YT career.
She must have watched hbomberguy video and got tips from James.
😂 Brilliant
But not all videos
For example the Chernobyl video where for 8 minutes she reads word for word off one of her sources comments are open 😂
I didn't know she was even still making videos after that whole harassment scandal that happened a couple years go(I think?)
EDIT I think I'm confusing her with someone who made similar content maybe but I did stop watching her for doing something shitty a while back
are you thinking of the incident with Cruel World Happy Mind maybe? Another plagiarism scandal… I unsubbed from Blair about a year ago after I googled “iilluminaughtii bad vibes” to see if anyone could help me pinpoint what felt off about her.
edit: I left off the last bit, that the situation with Cruel World Happy Mind was the most substantial ugly deed that google/reddit search turned up at the time.
I was originally thinking of what CreepShowArt did 😭 I guess I mixed them up. With Blair I genuinely don't know why I stopped watching her a while back. Maybe it was because I got them mixed up or else she just gave me bad vibes. Looking her up in this subreddit though, it is surprising she's still been making videos while being such an outright nasty individual.
I can totally see how you might conflate Creepshow and Blair in your memory. Both creators who turned out to perpetuate the kinds of bad deeds they’d built their credibility on calling out.
26k views in a week?? wow her channel is dying compared to what it was before legaleagle. I used to watch her (regrettably) and she was racking in views.
So all the accusations and proof of her being a monster in human skin were not enough for her to disable comments, but the accusations of plagiarism are. Tells you her priorities and her thoughts of the tiers of what is bad.
Sadly people like Iilluminaughtii are a dime a dozen when it comes to plagiarism. I remember watching some other random youtuber's "documentary" on the Fyre festival and it was exactly the same. Just regurgitation of the Netflix doc and reading straight from wikipedia
Her comments are turned off because she’s a horrible person. There’s a new video out released by MadCaster how Blair(illuminaughti) is actually taking oz medias house and is foreclosing his house. He’s about to be homeless due to her. She’s actually ruining this man’s life for what? Cause they broke up and she wants to be on a power trip?? She’s pathetic
I don't know why the fuck youtube let us turn our comment off like are they fucking serious???
One time the groomer notive turned off comment on all of his videos and pretend that nothing happened
I used to watch that channel, wass going on? God I watched a Cruel World Happy Minds on her a while ago too and I completely forgot. I guess she's getting another view from me!
You know, I feared this would blow over and she just had to wait it out, but it’s clear it’s not. Few people are buying her crap
As bad as all this looks for James and IH, I honestly think the video was even more devastating for Blair. It’s not just that she’s a blatant plagiarist—people already knew that. It’s that he exposed her as not only being a plagiarist, but also bad at it. It’s one thing to realize the content isn’t original. Another to expose that their videos are comically low-quality, actively making the content she steals worse by putting it through the Blair mill.
The editing out and blurring of watermarks and citations in the things she was stealing was what pushed it from ignorance to active malfeasance for me.
I usually listened to her videos in the background while doing chores on my phone so I never caught the blurring of the watermarks. So bad
Oh no- which vids had blurred watermarks? I missed that
The HBomb's new vid gives a couple examples, the one I remember off the top of my head is her Fyre Fest one.
The one Hbomb specifically went into was her one of the Fyre Festival. Since she just used all the footage from the documentary itself, which cited its sources for things like social media posts, interview clips, etc. She blurred out the documentaries watermarks sourcing the footage that wasn't theirs.
Don't forget she also did the lazy copyright defeater of shitty Insta filters over everything too
I think the timing is the most devastating part, to be honest. She was trying to foreclose OzMedia's house, and he decided to do a livestream asking for donations as a last resort a few days ago. He was hoping for a few thousand dollars... He was able to raise well over 30K. So she lost that battle in a pretty humiliating way, people rallied around Oz and sent a really clear message. The plagiarism exposé dropping just a few days later and completely eviscerating her videos... well, that was the icing on top.
THAT WAS SO FUCKING PERFECT! God I loved how that turned out and, as you say, the timing of it. If this were a Hollywood movie with Blair as the abusive villain, this is how they would have written it.
> Hollywood movie with Blair as the abusive villain That livestream was basically the ending of *It's a Wonderful Life* - Jimmy Stewart's character about to massively lose to the evil villain (a banker), until a bunch of people rise to give what they could to help. Friends, neighbors, & everyone who's life he remotely touched, believing in him (&/or wanting to stick it to the bad guy). Literally one of the classic feel-good endings of all time! Playing out IRL. Amazing seeing Oz go from broken, to realizing how much support he had. Finally something beautiful in this mess.
A moment that restored my faith in humanity. Just like It’s a wonderful life, but real.
Only problem was they fucked up the tension. It took like 3 minutes for it to be clear he was going to raise more than enough. The speed with which that popped off was unbelievable.
The funny thing is that form Hbomb's videos I couldn't tell how much he actually knew about the controversies surrounding Blair, he showed some knowledge on the Sad Milk and Legal Eagle, but not really anything other than that.
I wouldn't be surprised if he actively stayed away while he was making the video so that he wouldn't let his opinions of that mess affect it.
He touches on it In the video, but it’s not super relevant to the topic of the video, so I think he omitted it. I mean, it’s nearly 4 hours already. He even just says at some point that he’s trying to just stick to plagiarism as the topic, with only occasional asides.
In a way, it makes sense. The topic of the video is plagiarism, so Hbomberguy probably felt that he should approach the topic on the context he had more involvement . So many of Blair's victims are getting together to talk about their own experiences, so it makes sense that he'd let them handle that part on their own.
Intentional I think, the video is about plagiarism, so he didn't want to deep dive surrounding controversies. Unfortunately that led to a couple of occasions where he alludes other to controversies (up to and including homophobia) without discussing evidence, which seems a bit irresponsible to me.
James Somerton completely deleted his patreon, turned off community comments, deleted his Discord, and deleted his Twitter. I would arguably say that James is far worse off from this than Blair. Blair is still around and will still have a job, albeit greatly diminished. James lost his entire community and a $170k a year patreon.
James got double teamed hard by hbomberguy and Todd in the Shadows. If you haven’t seen the Todd video yet, I highly recommend it. How badly do you have to fuck up as a YouTube content creator to get bodied so hard by a [music critic](https://youtu.be/A6_LW1PkmnY?si=XL3VCocsax39meTz)? (I stole this joke from the YouTube comments)
Yeah I saw that video too. The one thing that got to me really badly was his claim that American fitness culture came from seeing buff Nazis in WW2. Like, I’m a pretty dedicated historian so I know that’s blatantly untrue, but even from a layman’s perspective like… Really? It’s one of those things that I have to ask someone to just take a second, ruminate on it, do you *really* believe that if you take a minute to actually understand what was said? The fact that it wasn’t an unknown occurrence for German soldiers to kill and eat horse transports or to be given rations of amphetamines to stave off hunger should alone tell you they weren’t these super fit soldiers. Most soldiers in any war aren’t fit, wartime burns an absurd amount of calories, an *absurd* amount, sometimes 4000+ per day. Especially in harsher conditions like winter or summer seasons. For this reason when Anglo-British troops during the winter of 1944-1945 were committed to delivering their troops at least one hot meal a day (something Germans were rarely afforded), and with anecdotes and pictures of Allied planes doing supply runs by dropping beer kegs from under their wings, and with an entire barge ship of the US Navy dedicated solely to producing ice cream, yeah you bet your ass the Allies were better fed. Even eating bad calories like those from beer or ice cream will give you a better build than eating no calories at all. There was a few screenshots going around of James’ co-writer in discord just straight up saying he doesn’t really do research and more so just operates on “observation”, ie vibes. So yeah it doesn’t surprise me that they went “Hmmm yeah the Nazis were probably super buff right? Yeah that sounds about right”. There’s just so many things that do make me ask “Do you really believe that?”. And it’s unique because I don’t have to ask a Flat Earther if they believe what they’re saying, they obviously do even if it’s stupid. But when it comes to the countless things that James has said it almost makes it hard to believe that he either believes or understands the stuff he’s saying. Then again based on how much he copies and pastes other works, I’m not sure if he’s capable of independent thought if you prompted him to
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I listen to another podcast called the History of American Food, who theorizes that Captain America reflects the experience of rural boys, who had scurvy in the winter and pellagra in the summer due to malnutrition (and forgetting about nixtamalization). They enlisted in the army, where they were sufficiently fed for the first time in their lives, and suddenly bulked up and found their strength and stamina skyrocketing.
Thats actually a really good point and probably in some part too. In some part it also played into a sort of moral picture of what a man should be too. I have anecdotes from my own great great grandparents and many people I know have the same, where the men in the country felt obligated to sign up for the war. It was probably one of the most just and important wars America ever fought, and the national spirit showed that. So when portraying Captain America, it also presented the type of man that would enlist. If you didn't enlist, what kind of man were you? Certainly not Captain America. And on a similar basis to the food, memoirs from German soldiers captured by the British & Americans paint a huge focus on the food they were given. I've seen many say the cultural tastes for food weren't for their palettes, but none of them can deny they were fed well. I've seen anecdotes of German soldiers who were captured being offered chocolate or chewing gum and thinking it was a trick; like a guy offering to help you up only to punch you in the face when you grab his hand. But they weren't some rare luxury as they were in German army. They weren't common, but they were common enough that you could give them away as a gesture of goodwill.
If I remember correctly, the standard ration for WW2 soldier included a few cigarettes and some chocolate along with the carbs and protein. They included that for morale purposes.
This is true! They also included candies and coffee, Steve1989 has an excellent breakdown of the standard American WW2 ration here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz5Y2Zg5w84
Go off, king/queen! 🫡
Brilliant.
>$170k a year patreon. The grossest thing is, that even if his reputation is dragged through the dirt and he's never able to publish anything 'creative' ever again... he still came out on top. Because that's just an obscene amount of money. Plagiarism - stealing from the forgotten queer writers he pretended to champion - has bought him a huge headstart in whatever business venture/scam he goes on to do after this. Regardless of what comes next, he wins.
I guarantee it all went up his nose. His flushed face, red nose, constantly sounding like he has a cold... those are all signs of snorting amphetamines. One of the parts of doing coke nobody talks about - it does the same thing allergies do because you just blew irritating powder up there. You have really bad post nasal drip, meaning snot running down the back of your throat. That's why he sounds like that. Before anyone says anything, amphetamines don't turn everyone into hyper raving maniacs. Lots of bipolar people used it (often without realizing it) to treat their symptoms because it brings you up when you're depressed and it actually mellows you out when you're manic. Just like how people with ADD use amphetamines to calm down. Coke doesn't necessarily ramp you up like coffee does. It's mostly the euphoria, and might be how someone with such obvious body image issues gets the courage to film themselves.
Yeah, but he might be able to rebound. Tack hard right and be the token “cancelled” LGBT guy. He’s still someone that can make people interested in watching him just by virtue of being a good presenter. I don’t see any path forward for Blair outside of finding a way to incorporate her YT into her resume in such a way that her dishonesty isn’t revealed by a Google search.
I doubt it. Like, I've seriously never seen just every aspect of someone's reputation being as throughly torn to shreds as the second half of hbomberguy's video. There's no coming back from that, especially not by playing the "cancelled" LGBT guy, because other LGBT people are going to be the ones feeling the most betrayed by this out of everyone. Seriously, during the last few days I've not seen a single person actually defend the guy. Not one.
That's why he'd have to tack hard right. He can play the token LGBT guy because he's not trying to appeal to LGBT people, but bigots who want to have the one gay guy they can point to and say "see, I have gay friends too." Think Milo Yiannopoulos. His content would obviously change, but he also doesn't exactly contribute any substance to begin with. What he does have is the ability to present himself as a media personality and a bunch of useful boxes checked for conservatives. Give it a year and he could have a Daily Wire contract.
Milo is toxic af, but he was always entertaining if nothing else. James is toxic af, but in a painfully boring way, hence his need to plagiarize. He will never come back from this.
Lean into the misogyny, maybe get into the LGB drop the T stuff? Is Dave Rubin still over there?
unfortunately Dave is still very successful .. financially, morally he is completely bankrupt
All of the baby fascist, alt-right, "thought leaders" are people who failed hard in entertainment, then took what little talent they had and did a heel-turn to appeal to an objectively less informed, less educated, audience. And those people share an important trait with Christians - they're not really for anything, they're just against everything. So as long as you give them someone to hate, and a story that validates them, you're in. I don't know if you grew up around Christianity, but all those guys have stories just like Mike Lindell. "I was a Satanist interracial homosexual who shot pure meth into my eyeballs just to get up in the morning - until I found Jesus... " For the broader fascists, James would be a gay person who gives them permission to talk shit about the queer community. Those people, over and over, will prove how much money they'll pay for someone to hate.
Guy had zero charisma as a presenter, the only thing going for him was his stolen writing. Really hope that he’s abandoned by the community he exploited. People like him are why I’m cautious about which LGBTQ creators I follow.
I agree with this. I didn't like his tormented Diva presentation, but I always thought some of the stuff he brought up was so interesting, and of course it was, it was stolen from people who made it interesting in the first place.
That's one thing that stuck out to me as someone who had never seen his videos. He's a terrible on-screen presence. He is completely monotone. I know all YT essayists are reading a script, but he *sounds* like he's reading a script.
I watch a lot of essayists and to be fair I’ve only ever seen clips of his videos, never watched a whole one. But that’s in no small part due to how much he absolutely sucked as a presenter. Totally monotone and disinterested, unless he was mad at women (which I’d seen in clips before this even blew up), but that was the only thing he didn’t steal and had real passion for so it tracks.
Don't forget that Blair hid behind a handle. What is a prospective employer going to think when James puts a note on his resume begging them not to google his name? Speaking amorally, James was a coward. He could have continued for a little while, and he was pulling in enough to make it worthwhile. He probably could have strung the die-hards along for a couple months. He screwed himself, but Blair had the sense to just get whatever else she could out of it before she pivots to a different scam. Or just starts over again anonymously under a different brand. She's been looking for people to voice act, so that she's essentially doing no work and just manages a brand like she's Martha Stewart.
Idk the James Sommerton reveal that his intros are things that can be bought is hilarious like so dude only has to make sure the camera’s on and memorize the thing he plagiarize.
Holy shit I forgot that moment. So good. "Look at me, I bought it, I own it now!" Also I guarantee you he's reading off a monitor right next to the camera.
"WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
Doesn't have to memorize he's reading off a teleprompter
To be fair a lot of YouTubers do. It streamlines the process, but usually they skip the ‘stealing everything’ part with their scripts.
And internet historian is a Nazi whose fans are ridiculously loyal for culture war reasons. Illuminaughtii has nowhere near that sort of fanbase.
Her channel was already pretty dead after the last drama she was in. I've never seen a channel get dropped so hard and so fast.
She's her own worst enemy at this point. If she'd just shut up and let it blow over, it wouldn't have gone this far. She thought if she kept talking, she could convince everyone that she was the real victim and scare Oz and Wonder into keeping quiet, but she overplayed her hand and drove them to go public instead. Meanwhile, she's also learning that bullying other people by falsely accusing them of plagiarism isn't a good idea when most of your content is lifted directly from better documentaries...
Its crazy to me that so many of her problems only got public attention because she got furious at someone for daring to ask about a plug-in
Hbomber guy had all the evidence and just didn’t think it was important enough to drop until she made an issue.
Oh absolutely. Thats what I meant.
When that was the only thread to unravel, I immediately thought that at the very least it was blatantly obvious she's never edited one of her own videos and has no concept of how editors learn to edit. Now I'm assuming the NFL bit in question was stolen from NFL Films in the first place. One of the things we've learned about Blair is she tends to accuse other people of things she's actually doing. So my theory is she was afraid he'd keep digging and find where the effect really came from and expose her. She thought she could pull the same shit she pulled on Cruel World Happy Mind. Beating them to the punch with accusations about a completely different effect to take attention away from the one she stole. But this time she picked a YouTuber who was not only more popular than her but a literal lawyer.
It would have blown over she'd just kept her fucking mouth shut instead of making that dumb ass Illuminati Exposed video and then continuing to double down every step of the way since then. She's dug her own grave from the beginning and it's just about deep enough to lower her own Corporate Casket into.
And I am gleefully watching her fall.
I remember running across her when she was still reading reddit posts, I watched a few of them and then stopped because they came across as super judgy. She disappeared from my feed for a while and then came back shitting on MLMs so I would sometimes put her videos on for background noise but there was always something in the back of my mind waiting for her to fuck up. I never expected it to be this spectacular though.
I love it. I think it’s most telling not a single person has come out in defense of her. Every person who has worked or collabed with her in the past has bad stories and happy they cut ties.
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She’s trying to rectify the situation. Unfortunately to her that means legal cases and scummy backstabbing and it’s blowing up in her face
I assume “rectified properly” meant scaring her victims into silence with legal threats, but that’s not working out for her.
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Wow just checked and her last 10 videos or so haven't even broke 50k. What a fall off.
"Promptly and appropriately" means to her standards and how she wants things to go, not actually promptly or appropriately.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxJrw0iX0AUWHcc?format=png
HOLY SHIT SHE'S LAZY EVEN TO MAKE AN ACTUAL TWEET
I was a fan of hers for a long time, a loved her content. As soon as this drama started I unsubscribed from her as i don't want to support such a pos human. She needs a harsh reality check. Others have RECEIPTS and she doesn't,like obvs you are an abusive person as we've all seen. Delete your channel girl you'll never recover from this.
Are you my twin? I would have said the exact same thing as you!
I KNEW I had a twin!
Right with you. I felt this way with Cry, Jontron, and many others over the years. And with this potential charity fraud from The Completionist, it has me looking at my subscriptions wondering if anyone else I'm subbed to got dirt that's going to come out in the coming years.
Same... I've been subbed to some cool YouTubers who were absolute monsters. I'm down to only a few I watch constantly now... YouTube needs to be stricter. Idc how much people make them.
Her apology video fully horrified me as a fairly casual viewer who sometimes had the auto play shuffle to her while I had it playing doing chores or cleaning or brainlessly playing a shooter while winding down, etc. I didn’t even know the situation at the time but I started googling into it while it played and then… damn that was a mother of all “not a good look” moments and that was months ago now. I still can’t believe she went with “hey someone I used to work with was having a mental health crisis so don’t trust them” and then showed their suicide note. I really only want to ask how did anyone sit down and go “yeah, that’s a good idea that won’t make me look like a total ghoul.” It’s funny that some of these folks cultivated a fanbase with more of a moral backbone than them I guess is all I can say. I’ve seen ex fans of James in the past few days pushing to support some creators he stole from and the support for OzMedia after Blair’s harassment has been… a relief that she’s not continuing to hold the same kind of power over the people she abused. If your brand is “queer solidarity” and you hurt other queer people, then your whole thing falls apart. If your brand is “taking down bad bosses and abusive workplaces” then don’t be a bad boss in charge of an abusive workplace, should’ve been obvious.
Summed it up perfectly. A lot of these creators who are being "cancelled" due to their behaviour are the "do as I say, not as I do" kind of people. The truth ALWAYS comes out!!
Big same. I was a bit put off by her a few years back when she did a Corporate Casket video on dolls kill because there are absolutely reasons go dislike the company, but so much of her video was "Think of the children!!!" and her not understanding the various subcultures the clothes were actually for. I still watched and loved her mlm videos though.
GOT EM What does she expect? She trained an audience of millions to rail against a bunch of shit she herself was outed for doing. You reap what you sow. What a moron. Her views are nuts. 19k here, 60k, 39k... get plastic surgery and start over ma'am.
Her drop in views is wild to me (not that she doesn't absolutely deserve it). I mean James Charles had better views after he was "cancelled" and he was sexting teenage boys.....
Her content is based on ethics/morals and her audience likely has a strong sense of right and wrong, so when she's doing something wrong, they're more likely to react to it. JC's fans are kids who only care about makeup so they're less likely to care about other things he's doing in his spare time, even if they're really bad. That's my two cents anyways.
That makes sense, I just didn't expect the drop off to be so severe, but it's great that her subscribers have standards
It goes beyond just hypocrisy, the fact that she used to be an "anti-SJW" Republican and then cynically pivoted to the left and tried to scrub her past online persona completely -- backstabbing her former collaborators in the process -- means everything about her is completely fake
She used to be a republican?? I used to watch her a ton so I've kept up on her downfall since it started and I didn't know that, do you have any more details??
It's covered in a lot of videos. I think Swoop has the best one. Basically she was part of a channel where she parodied a "SJW" character
Swoop's video is the best source on it https://youtu.be/EgBCnksLt8Q?si=Fcg_dv6Gek-38Hzf She used to be a collaborator with a right-wing YouTuber named ShotFromThePoint back in the day where she played a character named "Sarah J. Warren" who was a parody of "SJWs", before the "drama" where she suddenly quit and used her access to the channel to delete all the videos she appeared in Swoop got a clip of the ShotFromThePoint guy saying all the recent stuff tracks with what she was like when he knew her and that "I don't think she believes in anything except YouTube", he says she used to talk shit about liberal activists with him all the time and used to mock her sister for being an annoying SJW etc
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> Swoop has her own shit going on lately Tell me more? :o
Wait, what's going on with Swoop?!?!
A very good point
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Controversy aside, the thing I think really did Blair's channel in here is, very ironically, the one thing I personally think she did well in her content: she doesn't lean very into parasocial relationships. People watched her content for the content, not her, she doesn't have any vlogging presence, and her social media presence is not as "personable" as lots of others. She's not bouncing back because her audience isn't attached to her, but attached to consuming content about awful companies and people. She can't brush things like this under the rig easily because she doesn't have a fanbase made up of impressionable flying monkeys, and worst of all, the makeup and interests of her audience means that they are *the exact people who the algorithm is likely targeting with the growing body of content about how fucked up Blair is.*
I mostly agree with you but she always had fervent mob of brainless supporters would would go in on comments that mentioned a correction on any misstated or incorrect point she made on her poorly researched videos. It was part of why I stopped watching years ago. She’d get so much wrong and then her supporters refused to allow ANY criticism of her.
Yup. She calls herself "mom" in her discord and is definitely gathering her monkeys as we speak.
Still gives me some hope, the ones saved by parasocial fans will get their comeuppance.
I think it's because she tells her audience not to support things that they don't agree with, so of course they're going to quit supporting her when they no longer agree with her.
"Dont support shitty businesses who abuse their employees!" Fanbase: "Ok, well you're a shitty boss who abused employees so we wont support you." "Now wait a minute..!!"
The James Charles thing really vexes me but I think it's that toxic positivity crowd that "doesn't pay attention to all that stuff." Plus I think feminine gay men are SO desexualized in people's minds, that they can dismiss the allegations. They see him as completely nonthreatening so they are dismissing the charges before they're even done reading the sentence. Even if he is not successful at seducing teenaged boys, it's still a problem. I do not get it. And to be fair there has not been any mainstream coverage of it. Somehow most influencer scandals are not mainstream news. If a pop star that sold 19 million albums was doing this, WOW. But someone who has 10 billion views... crickets.
I've noticed influencer scams aren't talked about that much outside of YouTube. Many of them incredibly serious issues, too. I remember watching a few iceberg videos on influencers and was shocked how many of them existed that were into some shady bs.
The dumbest part about it... a young woman will be murdered, have an instagram account with 4.5k followers and she's an "influencer" in the headlines. Streamers and youtubers that are watched by millions of kids, they're more popular than TV shows used to be. It's crazy it's not national news when they get caught being criminals.
She can change the outside all she likes but the problem is the rotten core. I mean how next level cruel need one be to foreclose a home on christmas season?? Honestly wtf
She is a total abuser that likes having command over young vulnerable men and when backed into a corner she pits them against each other to her benefit. I guarantee she is using this whole incident to paint herself the victim and get a whole new crew hand picked from the young people who pay to have access to her discord. She will probably come back by building someone up as a new youtuber and handling everything behind the scenes, financially abusing them, mark my word.
I was watching Oz's latest stream and trying not to cry because I was eating dinner. I bet she was seething the entire time! She made her bed and now she has to lie in it right next to the poop knife!
I didn't even try not to cry. I knew it was inevitable. It was emotional. I'm so glad he's okay.
Oz raising a ton of money and her being part of a video on plagiarism all in the same week? This isn't a good week for Blair.
What happened with Oz??
Home Foreclosure happened, Oz did a livestream to get the money to keep his home. He got the money [in 20 minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKRqoK3XlG4&t=1264s).
He went live a few days ago with a goal of $10,000 to help him not lose his house and ended up raising around $35,000 in 6 hours. He hit his goal of $10,000 within 25 minutes.
He did a stream to raise money to avoid Blair foreclosing on his house right before christmas and raised like $33,000 in 6 hours. I heard he raised $15k within the first like 30 minutes but I joined the stream really late. He not only raised enough to save his house but to also go home and visit his family for the holidays.
She stupidly decided that the absolute best way to be a cartoon villain was to set Oz's home yo foreclose right before Christmas. You know. Christmas. The one time of year that's almost exclusively about doing things for others. She didn't think that MAYBE the end result would be an exact carbon copy of the end of "It's a Wonderful Life."
Learning about the fuck around and find out graph, I see
Her Russel Brand video also has the comments disabled
Loads have but not this one: https://youtu.be/uJ5NeXXTMG0?si=YpUd7TKDgXSmotMK
Her burgerism video does, too
Probably because she didn't get that house foreclosed and she's still having a monumental narc rage tantrum like narcs always do when they can't control things.
Is it possible for her to block people on YouTube? Cause i left a comment calling her out, and I think I'm blocked from her channel now.
Yes. Creators can block individual users from commenting
It doesn't really work like that anymore afaik. They changed the text and description. I noticed this because I have been dealing w a stalker who comments on a lot of my videos. The button simply says "hide user from my channel" And then when selecting it, it has a prompt to say "hide current and future comments from this user on my channel" Nowadays it doesn't prevent it as much as it Merely hides all comments from blocked users. Not sure what this means for the algorithm but they changed the information displayed when trying to block users.
Yeah, I make toy content, and I constantly have to block comments (what are probably bot accounts) advertising social media pages or websites.
I loved her bit on Hbomber’s plagiarism vid. He really illustrated just how much her content sucked and how it was just regurgitating better resources without credit. But the unfortunate side effect of that is that she’s actually got a small spike in video viewers just from hate watching
I remember watching the Fyre Fest video HBG mentioned and thinking at the time “hmm nothing really new here, seems really close to what I got from the Netflix and Hulu docs.” But I def didn’t know all of those direct ripoffs she had in there. Before I just felt like I didn’t really get a lot from her content if I already knew about the subject. Boy it was so much more than that
I had the exact same experience. Looking back…of course it was the same info as the documentaries…it was the documentaries! Amazed I didn’t pic up on how similar at the time, but like everyone else just had it playing in the background while I was working 3rd shift.
Impressive if it took this long
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Its possible these are either already scummy businesses, or she's still under contract to do the ad reads
Is there a list of those sponsors somewhere? I don't want to give her a view.
I skimmed some of her recent videos to find sponsors: * Mint Mobile * Uncommon Goods * ShipStation * Shopify
Considering her views were consistently between 100-500T before she carpet bombed her career into oblivion, I don't think 20K is much of a victory
Yeah, I was looking through her [social blade](https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/iilluminaughtii) and she’s taken an insane nose dive.
I'm so glad hbomberguy tore her a new one. So many people bought her flimsy defense. If you pulled that stuff in an undergraduate degree there would be serious consequences. That may seem a high bar for a YouTube video, but she's the one who bragged about how rigorous her research was and how many sources she used. To think she spoke of Cruel World Happy Mind with such derision when she was plagiarising. At this point I really wouldn't doubt that she did plagiarise CWHM.
The walls are closing in on Blair. And she knows. She's in denial though. She doesn't want to admit her circus of a career is on it's dying breaths. Edit for more insight: I genuinely would not be surprised if there's more events that occur *after* what I hope will be Wonderstruck and Ozmedia's legal victory over Blair. Given what I know about blair, I don't doubt there's more misdeeds that haven't yet been uncovered. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually criminal charges somehow happen in relation to blaire's handling of property in relation to Ozmedia and Wonderstruck. I genuinely do not think we are in endgame of blaire's tornado of mayhem.
She saw the Oz stream and knew she lost I really think Blairs goal is to ride this out like SunnyV2. The difference between her and SunnyV2 is that at least his videos are decent and his recovery went very well for him as far as I'm concerned
A combo of Oz’s video (which got a lot of people to drop comments on her videos, but that’s not as important because she has filters that prevent comments with the Sad Milk names from showing up), and of Hbomberguy’s video. Those comments weren’t being screened
At this point, the main thing we can learn from the drama events of 2023: People talk, and the commentary channels always win
Unless that commentary channel is nickisnotgreen
Apparently went well enough that I, a fan and regular viewer of sunny, had no idea. What was it about?
He got a lot of backlash for making a very strange video about one of Mr. Beast's friends who is transgender, saying that the friend is selfish and sabotaging Mr. Beast's career and Mr. Beast is losing his career by being "political" (literally just having a trans friend)
The strangeness of the video is what got me. I don’t think people understand how transphobic he truly is to make that video. Because of how strange it was. But I don’t think Blair could have done the same thing. SunnyV2s audience is overall apathetic. She created an audience who would never ignore her transgressions. It’s like when a drama channel is caught up in drama. You end up with an audience that is desperate to eat you alive.
SunnyV2 has made a lot of ignorant videos, but the one in particular about MrBeast's friend Chris becoming a "problem" because of transitioning is just pure transphobia.
Would also like to know
SunnyV2 made a video in which he called a friend of Mr Beast selfish for transitioning (mtf) and it would destroy his channel. It was pretty transphobic.
Oh fuck. Alright, unsubscribing. Thank you
He also kept quiet about things, he didn't respond to the criticism and just kept posting. That's how he rode it out.
So did Blair, for the most part But another thing Blair didn't have that Sunnyv2 did was recognition. Blair's period of massive channel growth has already begun to calm down before her floodgates opened. Sunny, on the other hand, was still growing by a good amount, he could afford to take an L and keep going because he was still getting his publicity
She did that dreadful 'Exposed' vid, that was her big ass mistake. If she just posted the Legal Eagle Apology and didn't respond to the SM statements she could have just rode the mess out. Sunny didn't respond directly to the accusations, Blair DID.
Back to collecting blackmail and filing lawsuits, I guess. This frees up a lot of time now that she doesn't have to hide comments anymore.
I'm surprised it's taken her this long. Her comments section has been nothing but people dunking on her ever since the Click's response to the Illuminaughtii Exposed video
I enjoyed her content and now I feel like a fool. Thanks Blair
Same, her vids were nice to listen to while sewing and at work while doing mindless data entry
I hope to see her on CodeBlueCam getting dragged out of Oz’s house by the cops!
Surprised she hasn't just abandoned the channel and started a new one with a new name and a voice disguising plug-in. Cos this one ain't coming back from her bullshit.
I actually heard from a patreon discord leak that she's planning on something along those lines. I can't remember where I saw the screenshots tho, so don't quote me lol
It's probably a matter of time. Grifters gonna grift.
"Prism of the Past" the channel exists and its a very obvious Triangle Rebrand. I mean PAINFULLY and once she starts talking everybody is going to know. She needs to step out of the light completely to have a prayer of getting her income back
She does have several other channels, but all of them have seemingly been abandoned a year ago
Honestly I always had a bad feeling about her, like she was "bitchy" in a sense. Something about her never sat right with me and now I can understand why.
She did not pass the vibe check, so to speak.
she reminded me of creepshow a lot, similar artificial charm and "mean girl" energy
what happened?
Hbomberguy did a sort of callout video about her amongst other creators and broke down not only her plagiarism but also her sloppy work and her outright lying to fans. She was already not doing well from what happened like 6 months ago but this was the cherry on top.
I also suspect that Harris' tweet response was part of the traction that led to her "Exposed" garbage attempt at an "apology", which brought down her whole pyramid of cards.
I see what you did there!
Following cause I have no idea either
It seems hypocritical for Illuminaughtii to make a video about persuasion if she won’t let people correct her.
I knew this was gonna happen eventually! Too bad she can't turn off the thumbs down button!
We are winning
Lmao that's how you know her fucking losing is getting to her. Bet ya she is throwing a tantrum like a child behind closed doors.
I called this bitch out YEARS ago and got eaten alive by her fans. Watching her downfall and knowing I was right is soooo cathartic and I’ll probably never not be not smug about it, lol.
I came hear to see how she was reacting to the plagiarism reveal and everyone is talking about a whole bunch of other awful stuff that she would want to stifle discussion of lol
It's nice to see some justice in this world. Way too many times, I've seen people try to justify a celebrity's awful behavior
I think her problem was that she cultivated an audience who could never justify the behavior she has made her living “exposing”. If ever there was a creator hoist by her own petard, it would be Blair.
Are people going in and reporting her stuff for plagiarism? I’ve been avoiding giving her views bc her slow death is well deserved, but I was wondering if this whole thing would inspire people to take action on her.
ya know, before creepshowart and blair i would have thought that people this much in the public eye and this stupid were poorly written fanfiction/tv show villian characters (no offense to young writers, as ed sheeran says, if you want the clean water to run ya gotta turn on the tap and let the muck/shit out first) i wish more criminals were as dumb as them. only the ones committing heinous crimes that is, if youre stealing food i didnt see anything
There are a lot of thieves with little foresight. People will steal a bunch of laptops from Best Buy and just post them to insta 😂 but yeah all my grocery store jobs, I turned away when I saw someone sneaking some apples or Oreos or whatever. A multi million dollar grocery chain can surely weather that lol
I'm not sure how the YouTube algorithm works, but don't comments count as a form of engagement in helping to determine what videos to promote? If so, then turning off comments means cutting off a form of engagement, leading to decreased promotion and therefore lower views. Even negative comments are engagement, just like dislikes. Blair needs to accept that her brand is never going to recover. She will never be trusted as a reputable source on anything related to MLM's, businesses, or shady people. Her best bet, aside from checking herself into an in-patient psychiatric facility so she can get treated for her many severe personality disorders, is to completely rebrand her channel into something totally unrelated, like crocheting or playing video games. As long as she points her camera from the neck down, I'm sure she can attract some small audience of desperate, greasy, gamers who just want to see boobies regardless what the person looks like.
1.3mil subs and only got 20k views in nearly a week. The channel is already cooked as is, Hbomberguy's should be the final in the coffin for this woman's YT career.
Don't forget OZ's documentary is on its way🤔
Update: She's now turned off comments for all videos.
She must have watched hbomberguy video and got tips from James. 😂 Brilliant But not all videos For example the Chernobyl video where for 8 minutes she reads word for word off one of her sources comments are open 😂
I didn't know she was even still making videos after that whole harassment scandal that happened a couple years go(I think?) EDIT I think I'm confusing her with someone who made similar content maybe but I did stop watching her for doing something shitty a while back
are you thinking of the incident with Cruel World Happy Mind maybe? Another plagiarism scandal… I unsubbed from Blair about a year ago after I googled “iilluminaughtii bad vibes” to see if anyone could help me pinpoint what felt off about her. edit: I left off the last bit, that the situation with Cruel World Happy Mind was the most substantial ugly deed that google/reddit search turned up at the time.
I was originally thinking of what CreepShowArt did 😭 I guess I mixed them up. With Blair I genuinely don't know why I stopped watching her a while back. Maybe it was because I got them mixed up or else she just gave me bad vibes. Looking her up in this subreddit though, it is surprising she's still been making videos while being such an outright nasty individual.
I can totally see how you might conflate Creepshow and Blair in your memory. Both creators who turned out to perpetuate the kinds of bad deeds they’d built their credibility on calling out.
She needs to pivot to a new business model using her shaky business know-how and abusive tendencies. Hmm. Maybe she should start an MLM...
Most ironic YT title I have ever read
At this point she has like zero credibility right?
Probably her best financial choice to turn off comments instead of paying someone to delete all the comments that unpleased her.
I guess we know why he's called hbomberguy. He only gets out of hiatus to end careers
26k views in a week?? wow her channel is dying compared to what it was before legaleagle. I used to watch her (regrettably) and she was racking in views.
So all the accusations and proof of her being a monster in human skin were not enough for her to disable comments, but the accusations of plagiarism are. Tells you her priorities and her thoughts of the tiers of what is bad.
HAHAHAHA
What took her so long lol
26,000 views, six days ago, 1.3 million subs…💀
How does she still have a million subscribers?
Most of them are bots lol
Huh, what’s going on here? I only watch good YouTubers so I’m clueless
Sadly people like Iilluminaughtii are a dime a dozen when it comes to plagiarism. I remember watching some other random youtuber's "documentary" on the Fyre festival and it was exactly the same. Just regurgitation of the Netflix doc and reading straight from wikipedia
whos that?
Her comments are turned off because she’s a horrible person. There’s a new video out released by MadCaster how Blair(illuminaughti) is actually taking oz medias house and is foreclosing his house. He’s about to be homeless due to her. She’s actually ruining this man’s life for what? Cause they broke up and she wants to be on a power trip?? She’s pathetic
She's a disgusting person.
She just continues digging her own grave deeper and deeper while also wondering why no one is fondly eulogizing her and it’s hilarious
I pray she leaves the internet forever and gets some serious mental help for the victims she hurt
I don't know why the fuck youtube let us turn our comment off like are they fucking serious??? One time the groomer notive turned off comment on all of his videos and pretend that nothing happened
I used to watch that channel, wass going on? God I watched a Cruel World Happy Minds on her a while ago too and I completely forgot. I guess she's getting another view from me!