Akilah Hughes deserves a nomination, purely on the grounds of being an arrogant moron. I’m sure most of you haven’t a clue who the fuck she is, so allow me to enlighten you.
Akilah Hughes is a YouTuber who goes by the handle “Akilah Obviously”. Obviously. Back in 2016, prior to the US election, Akilah released a video in which she laid out her reasons for believing that Hillary Clinton would win.
Shortly after that, Carl Benjamin, AKA Sargon of Akkad used an edited clip of her video in one of his own and I’ve forgotten the title of it. He didn’t say anything in the video, he showed the clip.
Obviously, this prompted Akilah Obviously to hit him with a copyright strike, which Sargon appealed under fair use rules. Akilah then decided that she was going to sue Sargon, and this is where shit gets real. And in case anyone is interested, a Montreal based lawyer and YouTuber called Viva Frei has been following the case. He explains it better than me.
From early on in the case, it was pretty evident that Sargon was, in fact, in the right. In fact, at a meeting attended by his lawyers, the Judge in the case and Akilah and her lawyers, both the Judge and her legal team advised her that Sargon HAD acted under entirely appropriately under fair use laws, and that she was highly unlikely to win. She ignored the advice, prompting her legal team to quit, because nobody likes to lose. With her second legal team, she offered to let Sargon settle the case for $46,000 US. He said no.
Fast forward to earlier this year, and Akilah did indeed lose the case. Sargon subsequently sued her for legal fees, and he has recently won. From the very start of this story, Akilah has been on YouTube and Twitter, bragging that she was going to bankrupt Sargon, take him for $100,000, that she didn’t care if his kids ended up living in the street, she was getting a big Christmas present, she even called him a white supremacist. She also tried to claim that because he had crowdfunded over $100,000 to pay his legal fees, she shouldn’t have to pay the $36,000 he was claiming. Sargon won. He doesn’t expect to get the money, it was intended purely to teach her a lesson.
Apparently, she hasn’t learned that lesson, because she’s been tweeting like a motherfucker, including encouraging her followers to vote for more left leaning judges, because the judge involved in her case clearly wasn’t.
It’s almost a certainty that the judge was fully aware of the tweets and videos she put out over the last four years, and they have not looked good. That’s the lesson. If you sue a fellow YouTuber, don’t make public statements bragging about how you’re going to bankrupt someone. Especially while the case is ongoing, and you have little to no chance of winning.
Nominated by: Quick Draw McGraw


