Awesome / H.Bomberguy

"What's most fascinating about this comment is that this is the closest I think I've ever seen someone come to admitting that they've lost. If I'd made even a minor error that was easy to debunk or respond to in my 30 minute long video, Paul would have done that, wouldn't he? He'd have gone in so hard on me! Just rough and uncensored! He'd have just gone to town on me with his SOY-ENCRUSTED TONGUE! But appears I owned him so hard with such bulletproof reasoning, that he daren't even mention me or my video directly, despite the fact that we have mutual friends, so I know he's seen the video, and I know it really pissed him off."

— Nice Try, Paul, the follow-up video to Soy Boys: A Measured Response

You might wonder how H.Bomberguy earned the respect of his peers. It turns out you don't need to look any further than these examples.

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• "Sherlock Is Garbage, And Here's Why" is a nearly two-hour analysis of the show's flaws in which he covers all four seasons and major character arcs in great detail, provides important background information on Steven Moffat's history as a showrunner, and gets to show off his extensive knowledge of the Sherlock Holmes literary canon. Regardless of their opinion about the series itself, most of H.Bomb's viewers agree that it is an extremely well-structured and compelling argument, and it remains one of the most popular videos on his channel by far.
  • This incredible bit in the ending where he tears into the way Moffat played his audience to keep them watching is brilliant, not only for standing up for the show's fans, but also for condemning the predatory writing style employed by the show:
    Harris: It's so easy to make fun of people for coming up with that [secret good fourth episode] theory. In fact, I've done that, and you should too! It's stupid - but it's honest. It's the truest expression of being told over and over that something was coming, it's gonna get good, there's a real secret thing going on in the background! All these people did was take that seriously, but in reality they were simply lied to.
• H.Bomb's fourth Soyboy video, where he takes on Paul Joseph Watson's justifying himself demonizing soy, claiming it makes men girly while selling supplements containing soy. After calling out Watson for avoiding mentioning H.Bomb's video directly, he points out Watson's claim that they needed soy to balance the Alpha-GPC is kind of bunk because a), the Alpha-GPC was too small a dose to have the effects Paul claimed it would, and that b) Alpha-GPC is usually derived from soy. He then goes on to mention that the more popular component of the supplement, phosphatidylserine, also came from soy. As his friend Shaun said, H.Bomb owned Paul so much that you could almost feel sorry for him.
• Playing Donkey Kong 64 to 101% completion for the charity Mermaids (a gender dysphoria support group in the UK), in defiance of Graham Linehan meddling with support for the charity, and raising way past his initial goal of $15,000 in six hours, making more than $40,000 for the charity in less than 24 hours, reaching $75,000 after 27 hours, and making nearly $350,000 in less than 60 hours. Guests during his livestream included Grant Kirkhope (the composer of and voice of Donkey Kong in DK64), who belted out the line "Trans rights, OK!" in the best DK voice he could at the chat's request; Stephanie Sterling, Chelsea Manning, John Romero, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Josh Sawyer. To cap things off, after the stream was over, Scottish parliament recognised his achievement with a motion. Not only did Mermaids get more money than what Linehan had tried to block, Linehan's career was ruined and he ended up being banned from Twitter and divorced by his wife due to his breakdown over trans people.
• His brief analysis of The Room (2003) in the Ctrl+Alt+Del video is one of the most in-depth reviews of the movie on the internet despite being barely five minutes long. Whereas most other reviews are primarily comedic and focus largely on surface-level criticisms (such as the poor acting, shoddy editing, the weirdness of Tommy Wiseau, etc.), H.Bomb actually makes a genuine effort to analyze the story's subtext, concluding that it (unintentionally) conveys a surprisingly powerful and accurate message about how toxic relationships can warp people's perceptions of themselves and their partners. As a result, he arguably gives a better review of The Room in five minutes than more popular people could in half-an-hour, which is even more impressive since it is only a small part in his larger argument about the socio-political implications of a seemingly unrelated webcomic.
• In "Vaccines: A Measured Response," H.Bomb does what most people on both sides of the vaccine debate haven't done (including, he is willing to admit, himself up to that point): he reads and analyzes Andrew Wakefield's original study, which was what jumpstarted the pushback against vaccines. And in doing so, he reveals that the study is even worse than opponents make it out to be. It's such a spectacularly comprehensive teardown of the fraudulent "study" and the context surrounding it (which includes grossly unethical practices, deliberately creating a fake medical condition to make money off of, and child abuse) that it makes the anti-vaccine side of the debate look even worse. H.Bomb also highlights the media's culpability in all of this, noting that the anti-vaccine movement wouldn't have become so big had the media done their due diligence and actually reported the study properly rather than take Wakefield at his word uncontested purely to draw in viewers.
• "Plagiarism and You(Tube)":
  • H.Bomb highlights various "creators" on the platform that plagiarize the work of other people and the damages it can cause... before revealing that yes, he did have a breakdown again, but then worked BACKWARDS to show the damage plagiarism does, in order to create the atmosphere necessary to grasp the weight of the plagiarism committed by the real focus of the video:
    Harris: You know what's worse than stealing from established journalists, who, in the end, are doing okay?
    Stealing from small queer writers or creators from marginalized groups who weren't even paid for their work in the first place.
    Stealing from the writings of dead people who passed away doing the activism you PRETEND to do.
    Stealing from the very people who fund your videos. The people you claim to be defending.
    This video is about James Somerton.
  • Due to Somerton's habit of crying homophobia when others had previously tried calling him out, H.Bomb peppered references to his bisexuality throughout the first half of the video (e.g. calling Lukiepoo "the most fuckable twink", referring to himself as a "bear") before he explicitly states it when addressing this ploy.
    • In a hilarious and, frankly, disappointing moment of irony, James' few remaining supporters often point out Harris making it a point to call out his own bi-sexualism throughout the video. They make the assumption it is a way to justify his arguments as not being homophobic (due to himself being bisexual), completely missing that this is far from the first time Harris has admitted as much and that was the entire point of him pointing it out so many times to begin with.
  • He goes through several of Somerton's videos and uses incredibly simple methods (e.g. Googling lines of James's videos and finding where he ripped them off) and finds out that, in one particular video, "Society and Queer Horror", he wrote a transcript of every word James said and highlighted every section that James stole from other journalists. At least three-quarters of the transcript◊^note Image taken from Dan Olson gets highlighted and shows the eighteen journalists (most if not all of whom are LGBTQ themselves) whose work James uses as his own. H.Bomb then goes on to call out the various cheap tactics James uses in order to shift blame or obfuscate what he's doing, such as privatizing the videos before re-uploading them with claims of "missing a source" or claiming it's based on the particular writer or journalist he's ripping off when he's been called out; creating new lies later down the line and saying that his fellow writer, Nick Herrgott, does most of the writing and therefore setting him up as his fall guy should these accusations continue and get too big for him to deal with. Which is pretty much exactly what happened, as after H.Bomb posted the video, James proceeded to disable comments on his Youtube videos and community section of his channel and hid all of his social media accounts.
  • Special mention goes to where Harris does point out when exactly James does decide to write his own words instead of copying them nearly verbatim from other people: when he's being misogynistic or transphobic. In "The Troubling Thirst for Jeffrey Dahmer", James rails against the "white women" or "millennial teenager girls" who thirst over serial killers and murderers like Jeffrey Dahmer, claiming that since he mostly targeted gay men that made it easier for them to be attracted to him by ignoring the brutality of his actions since he didn't target women. This falls apart however when he says that women do the same thing with Ted Bundy, who did kill women, neglecting the fact that in the media depicting Ted Bundy that he's copying an article from, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile, he's played by Zac Efron, one of the most attractive actors in Hollywood, who the millennial teenage girls he's decrying were really thirsting about. He does this as an excuse to say that women only see their gay friends as disposable, which Harris immediately calls this out for the misogynistic rambling it is.
  • It goes even further than this, as James just outright makes up history (another thing he does with frequency) when he claims that queer women didn't face nearly the same amount of rejection and persecution queer men did, by using Radclyffe Hall as an example by claiming that they threw her case out and let her carry on her happy life. This ignores that fact that the complete opposite happened and that she was found guilty of obscenity and all copies of her book, The Well of Loneliness, the first piece of lesbian literature written in the English language, were ordered destroyed. He also misgenders two showrunners, ND Stevenson (who is trans masculine) and Rebecca Sugar (who is non-binary) when he claims that queer women have a better time representing themselves in Hollywood when compared to queer men. It reaches its apex when James slanders works like Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda as being written by straight women who have no understanding of the LGBTQ experience and just want to cash in on the queer community. He outright ignores that the author, Becky Albertalli, came out as bisexual in 2020 after receiving years of heavy backlash for this very same reason. James made the video "SHIPPING - The Good, The Bad, and the Thirsty" in 2022. When the author made a comment on the video and explained how hurt she feels by being excluded from the community she had at the time of writing the book secretly been a part of and calls him out for how poorly researched his work is, James took this as an opportunity to complain on his fan Discord by saying he never said she was straight and now refuses to talk about Love, Simon and instead vaguely mentions it as something he got ripped into for critiquing on Twitter. Never mind the fact that Albertalli didn't contact him on Twitter and only made that ONE comment on his video.
  • But what truly lands this video here is that, during the closing segment, Harris takes a moment to sit down and talk about how he doesn't feel right profiting from this video talking about other people profiting from other people's hard work. Especially seeing as how James Somerton was one of the largest growing gay "creators" on the platform, with Harris being bisexual himself, it's clear he takes what the man is doing very personally. So instead, he and his editor are going to do their best and make sure that they get the due payment they deserve by sending all of the proceeds from the video to them. Given the amount of people James Somerton has ripped off, many of them being LGBTQ themselves all the while complaining about how the works and writing of queer creators is erased, this just goes to show how willing Harris is to stand by his morals and how seriously he takes the topics he researches and makes content about.
  • An hour after the video dropped (which keep in mind is four hours long), James Somerton deleted his Patreon (after losing over 900 subscribers), issued a quick response claiming Harris was trying to bully him before issuing a vague apology (that he promptly deleted due to backlash) and going radio silent. Within days, he'd lost over twenty percent of his subscribers. Within a week, he had either deleted or privated everything from his channel: videos, community posts, even his own avatar and channel description. EVERYTHING, to the point that his channel, unless you go out of your way to use filters, now no longer shows up in a normal search. Let's say that again: in one week, James Somerton went from one of the most prestigious queer content creators on YouTube to gone from the internet. The people who said Hbomb would destroy his career were not joking.
    • Not only is the video four hours long - it takes two hours to even get to James Somerton! Harry destroyed him so thoroughly that most people wouldn't have even been AWARE of the stuff about James when he deleted his Patreon.
  • In the aftermath of the video (which has been out for a just a few days at the time of this writing), more people have come out of the wood work, having found even more stuff James ripped off by using Harris' methods. Also, Todd in the Shadows (breaking from his normal formula) posted his own long video about how James is just wrong or lying about a laundry list of things he's said in his videos (sometimes due to the plagiarism, sometimes not). During Todd's video, he takes a quick second to say H.Bomb's video is much better than his.
  • In talking about other creators on the site, Harris calls out Iilluminaughtii and Internet Historian for plagiarism.
    • Iilluminaughtii got an entirely separate video, in which Harris detailed how little effort that she puts into her videos, how she sidesteps accusations of plagiarism when called out on it, and how she gets basic facts incorrect despite reading directly from the sources she uses. Harris also calls her out for trying to sue LegalEagle over very basic things like using torn paper to represent quotes, saying that it was a Frivolous Lawsuit and noting that multiple creators do it.
    • Internet Historian got a section on his "Man in Cave" video, in which Internet Historian basically took his script wholesale from a Mental Floss article written by Lucas Reilly. When a copyright claim was made, Harris argues that Internet Historian used dubious methods to make it appear as if the copyright strike was frivolous (it wasn't), re-uploaded the video with a few changes, tried the same tactic when it got taken down again, re-wrote the script a third time (to the detriment of the quality of the video itself) before re-uploading it, then trying to get ahead of the accusations by releasing another video just a few days later so people would quickly forget about it.
    • Considering that these are not small channels, it shows the depths of the research and integrity that Harris used to make sure that people knew what was happening.
  • "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3" and "Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response", have (at the time of this writing) 9.5 million and 8 million views after a year or more of being out. This video reached over 8 million in seven days. About a month after its release, it became the most viewed video in his channel at around 15 million views, beating out 6 years of total views of '"Sherlock Is Garbage, And Here's Why".

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