HBomberguy

Dan has pointed out the NFT crash around the release of his video is coincidental, but not random.

Crypto always has a minor crash in Q1 of a given year, as the influx of new money from the holidays dies out suddenly. Dan mentioned he specifically aimed to release his video to coincide with that. NFTs had already been on the downswing before Dan's video came out, with a lot of high profile projects and big company announcing forays into NFT then backing out - Dan even lists some in his video. Add the cost of living spike which made investing into ape Jpeg an even more dicey prospect when money's getting tight. Several crypto exchanges dying around them, the collapse of FTX and the arrest of SBF the month before the video came out all primed the downfall of NF Ts by the time Dan's video came out.

Seems to be a confirmation that James is alive and is physically okay, at least.

Hopefully this will be the last of it.

Maybe he'll take this second chance at life to do some introspection.

So, what's your favorite Hbomberguy video that starts out as one thing and then he pulls the rug out under the viewer and turns out it's a whole different rabbithole? You know, like how the plagiarism video was just establishing the case for taking Somerton to task.

My personal favorite is the flat Earth video, where it turns out Dan was really doing a Q Anon video the whole time.^note Okay, sorry. Had to go meta there, couldn't resist. Serious answer for Hbomb is the Somerton switcharoo, but the webcomics where it pivots to using CAD to criticize popular webcomics was a nice touch.

...Oh my God, how have I not seen that comic vid yet after all this time, I should fix it right away.

Edited by dRoy on May 3rd 2024 at 1:37:12 AM

The OOF sound effect leading into an ever-deeper rabbithole regarding Talarico was a fun one. At first it's just an innocuous dive into the origins of a little sound effect in Roblox, only for the madness that is Tommy "The Tank Engine" Talarico to unravel Harry's sanity with each new bend and twist into Talarico's bizarre and tacky mindset.

To a lesser degree, his anti vaxx video does the same thing, slowly unraveling the general BS Andrew Wakefield got up to

I gotta say, the James Somerton reveal was really well done because of the build up. I knew for a while Illuminaughtii was under his crosshair but then the surprise of how Internet Historian did plagairism had me reeling in despair, because I had been watchinf a bunch of their retelling videos cause they present them in funny ways. And so when they revealed the big bad was about Somerton, I was like..."who?" I had never heard of this guy in my entire life, but thanks to the way hbomb set up his video using the more well known peoples various examples of trickery and bs, he made James look lile the Final Boss of the entire discussion. In short, from someone i never heard of for someone i learned to discuss over the last hour and a half of his presentation

I had never heard of Somerton before either, and I'm kind of glad I never watched any of Somerton's videos before HBomberguy did his piece on him.

I had heard of the other people mentioned before Somerton, and I'm glad I had already made the decision to not watch any of Internet Historian's videos, since some of them had been giving me red flags about the guy.

I vaguely recall clicking on a James Somerton video some time before Hbomberguy's video, but I gave up on it pretty quickly because of how dull and uninteresting I found Somerton's delivery to be.

My experience with Illuminati was similar.

As tends to happen when a youtuber's primary goal is to Produce Content™ with quantity far over quality.

Edited by Chortleous on May 3rd 2024 at 5:55:44 AM

Hbomberguy had a cameo in Caddicarus' latest video (at around 1:00:43) where he "exposes" Caddy's many crimes.