This whole thing is wild.

I honestly can’t fully feel good about HBomberGuy’s video. While it was important to point out a prominent plagiarist. While HBomberGuy always starts off his videos as “don’t attack this person.” Realistically his fans always seem to show up and bash on the person he’s exposing or attacking. He’s kind of being a bully. I mean, a bully with a decent reason, but still a bully.

Content Warning: Mental Health, Suicide.

My biggest concern is that James Somerton doesn’t seem like the most stable person, admitting he just got out of the hospital. Taking that in good faith it could mean that this event drove him to do something to put himself in there. I question if Hbomber’s next video might cause someone to take their own life. Someone who can’t handle the influx of hate from a community much bigger than theirs. James Somerton only had 330 subs, a 4th of what Hbomerguy has. You are then dealing with an influx of people that is potentially as big as your community all angry at you. Many people have taken their own lives or attempted to because of these exact reasons. Maybe I don’t see it but it doesn’t feel like Hbomberguy is considering this as a factor in his videos.

This is the most radical centrist take I’ve heard yet. The idea that exposing immoral acts is worse than the acts.

I’m not saying that at all. I’m just saying I can’t feel good about the video. It needed to be done in some way but I am not sure it’s the right way.

I believe that you don’t realize that you are saying that. But you accidentally are. The individual in question targeted and attacked people, smaller creators, that correctly called him out in the past. He abused his weight to hurt people with full knowledge of what he was doing. He plagiarized dozens of people. He scammed thousands of people. He lied to hundreds of thousands of people.

And you’re saying he got bullied by Harris. You are (likely unintentionally) implying that many of his victims individual feelings of betrayal are somehow not their own and less valid than the scammers’ stated feelings.

Even re-reading what I said, I don’t feel like I come off implying that at all. There needs to be room for conversation on how to handle the situation without saying that the victim’s feelings are less valid than the attacker’s. If there is a better way to word what I wrote to focus on that then please let me know.

I think TheRtRevKaiser said it best “This last video felt like watching somebody’s life being dismantled […] honestly the whole thing just kind of made me feel sad, I didn’t get much satisfaction out of it.” and that’s exactly what I was trying to convey.