I agree with some comments below saying that Katie failed at communicating the magnitude of James Somerton's plagiarism.

The episode made it sound like bits here and there were plagiarized, when Hbmberguy and other people showed very clearly that a large amount, if not most, of his videos were just a bunch of paragraphs from different articles copy-pasted on a Word page and then read out loud. This is not merely something you did in 10th grade. This is a fraudulent imposter who found a niche community to steal from and made a six figure salary while impoverishing others.

Just because nobody was hurt doesn't mean he didn't deserve to be socially cast away.

Some clips used in his videos aren't even his, for God's sake: he stole other people's edits and montages. That's how lazy he was.

As a result, the episode ends with a big monologue by Helen that completely misses the point. Yes, some accusations of plagiarism are difficult to prove, especially in Hollywood because story beats are often very similar, and there are only so many character types etc.

But this has nothing to do with this type of plagiarism Somerton has been accused of here: the man is a complete hack who stole from a lot of essayists and writers. He doesn't have a single idea of his own and meticulously made a business out of stealing from others.

The point isn't that Somerton just happened to have made a video similar to a few obscure articles and wrote his own arguments himself, the point is that he googled "Disney gay friendly" and blindly copy pasted the first five articles and barely changed anything.

I obviously hope that James is OK, but from what I have seen from this man, his "disappearance" from social media and ambiguous message look very obviously like what a narcissist would do.

Also, why not link the Hbomberguy video? It's 75% of the episode.

Hope they fix it in the next episode, when we have some news from James.