jamessomerton

Raised Concerns

Firstly, I would like to thank all of you for supporting me in the first place.

However, it seems as if this channel has come under target from a significantly larger creator than myself and Nick. I know the majority of you were around last year when these accusations were first brought up; I have spoken to many of you privately and in live streams to explain the situation in detail. I am shocked to see that I was worth seemingly two hours of a four-hour video — especially when all of...

A New History Video

Hey everyone! I hope you're all having an awesome weekend.

I wanted to send out a message because I'd like to do another historical video, along the lines of "Pink Triangles," but I'm not totally sure what topic to dive into. So I thought I'd ask for suggestions!

What's a chapter in queer history that you'd like me to make a video about?

December Watch-A-Long

Hey everyone! 

I realized I hadn't sent out any notifications for the next watch-a-long, except on Discord so I figured I should actually do that lol. On Dec 2 we'll be watching the camp classic "Batman & Robin" to ring in the holidays. You can watch along with us on discord, via the link below. I feel like this is going to be a fun one lol.

We'll definitely try to record it for anyone who can't make it, but the success rate on that's been hit or miss. We're going to try ...

New Video Update

Hey everyone!

So there's a total clusterfuck going on with the next video. It's sponsored by a sex toy brand that requires us to show the toy in the video, but because said toy is shown, YouTube is rating the video to 18+. Problem #2 is that the brand will only pay us if the video hits 200k views within a month, which is kind of impossible when a video is 18+. So I'm currently in a nightmarish back and forth with them, and the agency that helps us get sponsors, about what to do. The spo...

Update

Hey everyone,

I know an update went out saying that a new video was available for early access but about 10 minutes after I sent that out, YouTube set the video to 18+. Currently in the process of uploading a few different versions of the video to see if I can get any version of it to be accepted by YouTube. As soon as I have one, I’ll be posting it again. I am so so sorry for the confusion. 😞

Topic Suggestion? Anyone? Bueller?

Hey everyone! Nick and I are planning on doing another discussion-type video this month and we want to cover something spicy. So we wanted to ask ya'll for some suggestions! What would you LOVE to hear us talk about that might be a bit controversial? Comment down below :-)

The Summer Hikaru Died - The Gay Horror Manga We Should All Be Reading

Hey everyone! With October just about over, we've got one more spooky video for you! This one's style is a bit different than we usually do so I hope you like it.

Rocky Horror Watch-A-Long

Hey everyone!

The Rocky Horror Watch-A-Long was a lot of fun! And somehow went off without any technical difficulties (shocker, I know). We even managed to record it for anyone who wasn't able to come hang out but might still want to watch.

The next Watch-A-Long is going to include an intermission, since we're going to be watching Kill Bill in its entirety. We haven't set a concrete date just yet (thinking Nov 4) but we'll let you know as soon as we do (With a scheduled event on t...

Watch-A-Long this weekend!

Join Nick and I for our next Patreon watch-a-long this weekend when we'll be watching, and interacting of course, with The Rocky Horror Picture Show!

Vampires, and the Gays That Love Them

New video, darlings!

The Real Revolution of Utena

Happy Friday, my lovely lovely patrons! We're finally ready to release this special Patreon video diving into Revolutionary Girl Utena, and what this iconic anime means today. I hope you like it! (for some reason the final 10 minunutes of the video got chopped off. Fixing it now!)

An old fashioned AMA? Yeah, let's go!

It's been over a year since Nick and I did an old fashioned AMA on the channel so let's do this thing again! Leave your questions down below, and you can watch the stream, next Friday at this link: https://youtube.com/live/WnD6641hzBE?feature=share

Teenage (Fever) Dream

Coming your way next week! 

NEW VIDEO!

It's Barbie time.

Sandman, Good Omens, and the exceptional empathy of Neil Gaiman

It seems like this one was delayed forever. I hope you like it :-)

Apartment Update

Hey everyone! 

I managed to lock down a new apartment! (since where I'm living now is leaking so bad that the bathroom door won't even shut because of water damage to the door frame). It's a bit more expensive, and the move is going to take a hit to my savings, but I won't be living in an ever expanding swamp with landlords that don't give a damn anymore! And I'll actually get to start focusing on videos again instead of being totally focused on how the house is falling apart aroun...

Update

Hey everyone,

I'm really sorry for the delays on the Sandman/Good Omens video. First Nick was in bad shape, and now my place is leaking from everywhere it possibly can. It's gotten so bad in the bathroom that the ceilings actually starting to fall apart.

And now it's leaking in the room where I have my editing computer so I moved the computer to the kitchen table. I'm looking into if I can break my lease because the landlord isn't exactly being prompt with repairs, and...

Upcoming video essay

Hey there everyone,

Nick and I had planned on releasing our latest Patron goal video this weekend (looking at the queerness in The Sandman and Good Omens) but Nick's had a bit of a health emergency. Nothing too serious! He's not dying or anything but it's enough that I'd like to give him some time before jumping back into production. So unfortunately we won't be able to have the video out at the time we promised. We're both really really sorry for the delay, and hope we haven't let you ...

New Video Format?

Hey there everyone!

Hope you all had an awesome weekend.

I've been watching a Patreon-exclusive video series from another YouTuber lately and I've been thinking I might want to do something like that. Basically make opinion-based videos just for Patreon, that you all would vote on! As well as the podcasts and the normal YouTube videos we'll still be putting out. These would be less heavily written, and more opinion/experience based. A video a month.

(Can you tell taking some...

(NEW PODCAST) Going In Raw Episode 1 - NIMONA

Let's talk about the delightfully crazy and delightfully queer Netflix animated movie "Nimona"

Why Straight Creators Fail Queer Stories

*Deep breath*

Okay. Let's talk about RENT.

Voting Time!

Wow you guys really came through with suggestions for movies for Nick and I to watch/discuss on the new podcast.

I went through them all and picked out all the ones that at least one of us haven't seen, or we both haven't seen in a long time. Now it's voting time! You can vote at the link below for which movies you want to hear us talk about. Pick as many as you want! The ones with the most votes will be the ones we talk about first.

New Podcast Format

Hey there everyone!

I hope you've all had an awesome weekend, especially for those of you who had a long weekend. 

I wanted to let everyone know that Nick and I are working on a new Patreon-exclusive podcast format called "Going In Raw" where Nick and I will watch a movie we've never seen before, as voted on by you folks, and record our conversation about it right after watching it. 

But instead of starting off by giving you a list of movies to choose from, I wante...

Next Patreon Watch-A-Long

Hey everyone! Nick and I are planning our next Patreon Watch-a-long party and so I wanted to check in and see which movie you want to watch with us!

Patreon Goals

Hey everyone!

Since Patreon recently got rid of the Goals feature on the platform, I just wanted to let everyone know that we're still keeping track of the goals we hit, and we'll also continue to keep track of future goals as well. You can find them all down below. Feel free to suggest other ones as well!

- The fantastical Queerness of "The Sandman" and "Good Omens" (OUT NOW!)

- The Real Revolution of Utena (OUT NOW!)

NEW VIDEO: The Problem With Pride

Here's a new video for your viewing... pleasure? Maybe it's a pleasure lol. Comes out publicly later on June. Hope you enjoy!

And thank you all for being patrons. Really. You're all amazing. <3

NEW VIDEO: The Subtle Art of Fascist Pageantry

Hey everyone! 

Here's the last video for May (takes a deep breath). I'm really proud of this one so I hope you like it! It's currently in a copyright fight so it might need to be changed before going live next weekend but THIS is the version I'd like people to see so I thought you should see it as is. Hopefully the claims will get dropped and I won't need to change anything. Fingers crossed!

When Hollywood Came Out of the Closet

Another new video! This one is super early since it won't be released until June.

Patreon is getting rid of Goals

Hey there everyone,

So Patreon is getting rid of the goals feature for some reason. So I just wanted to let you know that I'll be keeping track of them myself so we don't miss stuff like the Evangelion video, or maybe even the Sherlock video if we manage to hit 4000.

How The "Bury Your Gays" Trope Began

New video alert!

Let's have a look at where the "bury your gays" trope began.

Spoiler Alert: It was LONG before Tumblr was a thing.

This one should go public either Wednesday or Thursday.