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Quickly addressing the current HBomb94 Discourse on Twitter

CW: mentions of p*dophilia, sexualization of minors

So recently there’s been a rise of call-outs against HBomb94 for supposedly shipping a minor with an adult (Tommy and Wilbur), which was taken out of context from a very old clip of him reacting to one of SAD-ist’s animation. This wave of hate was created when H replied to Minx’s tweet about GeorgeNotFound’s stans being toxic in her comment section.

For this context, H was making an inside joke with Minx, and then calling out stan twitter for being toxic and infantilizing George, who was an adult and could handle himself if there was discourse between him and Minx. In this situation, H was not wrong in pointing out what the fans were doing (among other things like calling him and Minx very sexist things and saying that he was defending a friend of a racist, which is an entirely different discourse H didn’t involve himself in).

Back to HBomb’s discourse, you can find the main post in question here, included with the clip and transcript.

I’ve been watching HBomb94 before the events of this stream. He’s the type of guy to be fandom-savvy enough to call out on weird things that fans tend to do. That’s what he was doing there in the clip. However, there’s a context that was missing from the entire post: HBomb’s chat during that stream.

When H brought up the topic of people making weird fanfictions, and admittedly it was phrased wrong, most of chat immediately assumed that it was shipping, and caused H to quickly become confused, hence the discussion of Tommy being a minor. Once again I’d like to remind you (as I was there in chat) that H was just pointing out the weird thing. Never once did he say that it was okay. In fact, when chat started getting weird, H quickly called them out on that and scolded them for doing so.

However, taken out of the context of the chat, and shown towards people who’s never watched H to know enough about how he talks, his way of thinking, and his sense of humor, twitter quickly caught fire and started cancelling him left and right, calling him a p*do among other things. That in itself is strange, because out of all the times he’s interacted with younger people on stream, he’s been very respectful and always makes sure to create a boundary between him and them. Even in his catmaid bits where he plays a perverted character, when a minor enters the call, he always make sure to set boundaries and not say anything bad.

I am not defending what H has said specifically in that clip. The way he’s phrased it also made me uncomfortable, but I knew at that point that there was no malicious intention behind it, and that it was very much a mistake that was done in poor taste. Twitter is blowing it out of proportions and forgive me to admit this, as a fan and also a creator who works with H, who has otherwise been an upstanding creator and community member, it’s heartbreaking and frustrating.

I cannot pick a fight with twitter and win, but I know fans on tumblr are more sensible than this. I wrote this post here for a reason, and that I want to let you know that if you, individually, are affected by this and made to feel uncomfortable, it’s within your rights to feel so and to disengage, because your feelings are valid. However, I also want you to know that the sudden hate towards H was unwarranted, and he doesn’t deserve to be called horrible things for something that has happened only once and was never repeated. HBomb94 is not a p*dophile, and he’s never encouraged the sexualization of minors.