#illuminatii

The situation only truly started when she decided to accuse Legal Eagle of stealing her teams editing style. The style being a highlighting effect and a torn piece of paper to display text. Two things that are so common with their video format that I'm 70% sure they copied it from 60 minutes. In response to a backlash she received from this, as well as the milkmen deciding to post some of their experiences with her on the podcast she decided to post a video addressing everything. The information she put in the video was sometimes debunked with the same screenshot.

According to the Click she tried to turn a situation with a sex offender in his discord server into a reason to push him away from everyone. He provided receipts that proved that the whole discord situation began and was resolved while he was asleep at 3 AM. The Click also had to point out some hypocracy on her part involving a certain word that he hasn't used in years and that she allegedly still uses. Speaking of allegedly, she had an alt account called doobyshmertz that would harrass Click and One Topic.

Wonderstruck had to tackle a hell of a lot more as he was accussed of being a lazy worker, neglectful towards his dog, being a squatter, and destroying the car he was buying off of illuminatii. According to Wonderstruck though, he was hardly given any work, Oz Media confirmed that he actually spoils the hell out of his dog, was living rent free because Oz who owned the house at the time allowed it and he actively did what he could to earn his keep. Also the car situation, the damage was minor at worst, and the mess was because he was living in the car because of how toxic things got in the house for him.

Oz went through hell. He's currently working on what might be the biggest and most damning video on the matter. Illuminatii seems to be scared of something in it because of the legal issues she's putting him through. What we do know is that they dated and while living together she turned his house into a dump, emotionally and fiscally abused him and put him into such a dire situation that she can snap her fingers and ruin his life. Which allegedly she's working on just that. She currently has the ability to foreclose on his own house due to a legal situation that he was coerced into doing. Ethically it is horrible, but legally she's in the clear and is looking to foreclose just before Christmas this year. He is very much in the thick of it and the situation is very much taking its toll on him.

Now about the state of her channel. During this whole thing she briefly tried to rally her fans in a sort of cult of personality sort of way. Here's the issue though, her videos gave her an audience that is critical of this sort of behavior and also sensitive to the methods she's used over the years. All resulting in her views dropping and her channel just silently uploading new videos while she pretends nothing is wrong. As of right now her videos are struggling to break 20k views while previously they regularly got over 100k and her most popular getting millions. She was even forced out of a different podcast called the Leftist Mafia because they started finding the milkmen's videos.

To make things clear, it was all the original milkmen who came out against Illuminatii, all corroborating each other's claims, all with consistency. The only one who hasn't made a video on the matter is Salty the Alien, but he was in One Topic's video on the situation. Even former employees are coming out against her. In an effort to silence them, she started filing lawsuits that were made public. In her efforts to defeat her enemies she failed to realize that she set her own fields on fire.

Now for the opinion section. I feel very much inclined to believe everyone except Illuminatii. During this situation old dramas she was involved in started showing their ugly heads, including when she tried to send a mob against a pregnant woman, her abuse towards another ex boyfriend, as well as with a different collaboration channel that she was a part of.

I remember seeing her Illuminatii exposed video when this started. I thought that something just wasn't right. My suspicion was proven right as everything started rolling in. I once respected what I perceived as her journalistic integrity, her tenacity to go for the truth and to expose corporations and people as they truly were. She built up this persona of being a respectable person who stuck to her morals, only to show that she wasn't too different from the people who made it onto her channel.

In this case it's not exactly traditional plagiarism because the sources are technically cited in the description, unlabeled. There are also a lot of opportunities to cite everything in the video with the source video as it plays, but the watermarks were often either blurred or cropped out. She often read out quotes word for word, the most egregious example Harris cited was the Brian Deer documentary on the study Andrew Wakefield performed that was the starting pistol for the modern antivax movement. Brian Deer's work was the only thing that actually was sourced in that video. Granted he is the expert on this exact situation, Deer was the one who brought down Wakefield. However; the citations were padded through citing individual people who were interviewed for Brian Deer's documentary.

In my previous post on Illuminatii I mentioned how I respected her for her journalistic integrity and her knack for research. Turns out she just lazily cobbled together videos in what I can confidently call a content farm. The only difference between her and other farmers is that she actually put a face behind it and as I mentioned before, gravely misjudged her audience.

Then there was a surprise appearance for a creator who I was subscribed to. James Somerton, a queer creator who focused on queer representation and themes, who was the main show for Hbomberguy's four hour epic. Illuminatii looked lazy for her lack of citations, but dear god, it would have been easier on James if he did just cite all his sources.

While Harris was breaking down one of Somerton's videos he determined that 90% was lifted from other sources, only half of which made it into the source document. At one point one of his sources that he plagiarized was subscribed to his patreon, key word was. This was a damning video, most of the works were lifted almost word for word with only minor changes, the things that weren't plagiarized ended up being either wrong, misogynistic, or both. At some point Somerton hired a writer to help and based on the comparisons Harris made of their writings, it's only Somerton that has an issue with writing his own work. Yes people have noticed, a lot. Somerton just covers his tracks when and accusation crops up. Usually by deleting and re-uploading a video, or addressing the allegations denying them, but often changing the story of how he came upon the information. Surely the time spent on damage control is just not worth it.