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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.~~ Thinking about it, bully isn't the right term here.
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.FWIW I don’t disagree with you, especially on the second paragraph. The direction of punching feels unavoidably lopsided.
But… Somerton and his fans had harassed and silenced others when called out for this type of behavior before. The only real difference here is that HBomb is big enough that isn’t feasible to whine and shout the criticism away. Plus all the evidence!
That's a great point too and does sway me a bit to feeling better about this all. Just feels like a huge bummer. But maybe it's a huge bummer that James needed to turn it around and be better.