I've seen a lot of takes about the Hbomb video - here's a link; he's also done some similar works criticizing Allen Wakefield (accidentally instigated the prime anti-vax movement while trying to scam people) and Tommy Tallerico (similar vein to The Video, of plagiarism/credit theft).
I've also enjoyed some of his teardown videos, but my real favorites are his Why FNV Is Genius (and Here's Why) and Pathologic Is Genius (And Here's Why), which lead me to buying and playing (some of) Pathologic 2.
One thing worthy of note is that he specifically requests that nobody start a witch hunt over the subjects of his videos. He is an opinionated person and his righteous indignation is very entertaining, but I've never seen him seriously suggest people harass any real human beings. Suggestions to do so after watching the video have been made by the viewers and are explicitly condemned by Hbomb himself in the video. Just saying.
But more to the point is how he ends the video: he decides to cap it off with a reel of suggested viewing for people who create the kinds of things Somerton allegedly made himself, focusing on queer creators.
Here's the playlist linked in the video description:
I don't doubt other people have shared this already, but it hasn't crossed my dash, so I thought I'd give it a mention. It's a really nice way to end a video that, while focusing on informing the viewers and warning people of potential scammers essentially, does have a negative tone at times because he is, well, tearing into someone's monumental career of plagiarism.
The playlist links to videos by Alexander Avila (who was himself plagiarized by Somerton), Matt Baume, Lady Emily, verilybitchie, RickiHirsh, Shanspeare, Khadija Mbowe, hazel, Herby Revolus, Maggie Mae Fish, Kaz Rowe, Kat Blaque, Lily Alexandre, max teeth, drapetomania, Kameno -o, Lola Sebastian, Princess Weekers, CJ The X, Jennie Geist, Mia Mulder, Nick DiRamio, Sarah Z, Rowan Ellis, and finally Maven of the Eventide.
(I have chosen to spare my wrists and sanity by not hyperlinking those names because the playlist is literally right there.)
Fun facts: this list, which apparently also has nonbinary and trans artists on it, contains 0 names I am already familiar with. I don't spend a lot of time on Youtube outside of very specific needs, but this still makes for a good opportunity for me to familiarize myself with work from others in the community.
Anyways, I just think that's an extremely cool way to end a four-hour-video that, while extremely entertaining, is a bit of a down to watch and realize how easily extremely unmotivated people are stealing others' work and making bank off of it. That's all I had to say, goodnight.
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Some funny business from the MCC 22 Aqua Axolotls!
-Scar saying he might dislike PKT more than snakes, and Hbomb correcting him that he's terrified of both
-Hbomb and Scar making fun of Grian for having to make a thumbnail
"What a Youtuber." -Hbomb
-Hbomb wearing a Hawaiian shirt in real life
-Grian asking if Scar was asking Jellie to open the door, and just concernedly replying "Oh dear."
-Grian being very self aware that starting his stream one (1) second early is very very good for him
-An update about Nana from Ghana, with her giving "rich blessings" and asking everyone to come to Ghana, and Grian showing several pictures of the school they helped raise money for!
-The entire team shading Grian for not unmuting until they're like, 10 seconds into the decision dome
-Grian grumbling he does not like BB, and Scar reassuring him "it's okay, Hawkeye's here."
-Everyone interrogating Scar about the state of his technology
-MeltDown is here and I'm terrified.
-Scar yelling at Grian to "Get out of the melty room!!"
-Grian running off from the rest of the team like a child without a leash
"I feel like I've got nothing to lose, so this MCC I'm going crazy." -Grian
-False vanishing through the floor in front of Scar
-Grian and Hbomb being the last survivors in their team and just chilling on a block together
-False telling Scar to use the heater, heater Scar, you're right there-!, in MD
-False figuring out to use the heaters as an extra block to climb up like a freaking genius
-"Okay, I'm starting to understand this game now that we're on the last round!" -Grian
-Scar being the resident bow connoisseur
-Grian being an absolute feral little freak and going after Green immediately
-Grian screaming "Scar noooo!" as he fell down into the lava and Scar calling him a "sweet angel"
-Grian calling surviving and getting coins "the barn strategy" and Scar correcting him that it's "the right strategy"
-Scar saying MD is more fun is SOT and everyone telling him to slow down now, you might upset someone who's listening
-Scar saying he can't "intimidate the other team with his abs"
-Scar concluding that watching Top Gun improves your performance and Grian replying that "yeaaaah, he totally watched it last night"
-Hbomb telling Grian that a pro tip for Minecraft is turning off bobbing completely, and Grian saying he likes the bobbing though!
"My immersion!" -Grian
-Grian somehow ending up saying "there's gotta be someone out there who likes that" in response to vomit. "Someone who's like, 'nice'."
And everyone just letting that. sit. in the air.
"I didn't know how to respond to that." -Hbomb
-Scar asking if they can talk about Star Wars to boost his confidence in PKT
-Grian saying the H in Hbomb stands for Hermit
"I revealed today that the name Hbomb94 for the last 16 years was a long con to join Hermitcraft, and you guys can't turn me away because now I own Hermitcraft." -Hbomb
-Grian mentioning that the other day he said "y'all" and getting the immediate response of that being incredibly cursed and to never do that again
-Grian calling out to repeatedly rotate and False crying out "what does rotate even mean??"
-Scar telling Hbomb he'll be his bodyguard against Cub
-Hbomb saying it's "the moment of my life!" when he caught Dream in 10 seconds
-Scar saying Tommy's "a bit of wizard, leaping and swooping like that"
-Scar saying he's "lasted two seconds longer this time" and Hbomb telling him "baby steps"
-Scar falling and dying directly after he jubilantly yelled "PARKOUR CHAMPIONS!"
-"Normally I'm holding Pete's legs together, and keeping him back, but now he's been set free." -Grian about Pete's team being in first place
-Hbomb dunking Pink because "screw Pink!"
-Grian voting for RSR and Scar telling him that's good "Top Gun energy"
-Scar admiring Quig's birthday hat and Hbomb saying "the NoxCrew is too nice to him, we need to take him down a peg. We need to beat him up."
-False and Hbomb talking about becoming dolphins 🐬
-False calling Scar out for just standing there when the RSR round started, and Scar replying he was "working out my issues!"
-Grian and Scar getting into top 10 in RSR and Scar saying "this is what we do in Hermitcraft."
-Hbomb saying he punched Tubbo in the face and he deserved it
-Grian saying he has a "mind like a goldfish".
-Hbomb taking the floor out from False and causing her to die, and then falling afterwards and False yelling "Karma!"
-Scar calling Big Beans an S Tier
-Scar saying he hopes Pete wins, and everyone immediately going no! he's had enough wins already!
-Grian asking Scar how many wins he's had, and Scar saying "multiple in my dreams".
"My mom tells me I'm a winner every day!" -Scar
"It must be true!" -False
-Scar calling out to the Mega Chicken that the HITW section is KFC
"They'll cut you up and turn you into chicken nuggets! Save yourself!"
-Hbomb lamenting that he hasn't been opening Pokemon cards, and Grian immediately asking what set? what set?
"I've had to stop opening cards. I don't know what to do with all my spare ones." -Grian
"Keep them for your happiness." -Hbomb
-"Nooo, goodbye gentlemen!" -Scar while falling in HITW
-"Oh, 32nd, that makes me upset to my chest hair." -Grian
-Scar thanking Shubble for dying because now he won't be last
-Hbomb seeing the exclamation mark wall and saying "it's yelling at me!"
-If I had a nickel for each time Hbomb got a coin balance involving 69, and Grian replied "nice", I'd have two nickels, which is just a little bit cursed
-"It upsets me that Timmy is doing well. He lost our team SOT last time and I am haven't forgiven him." -Grian
-"I'm completely fine. I haven't been failing at all." -False
-False predicting Scar's Curse will ensure that one player will always be in 40th, and this time it's her turn
"I know how to fix this. I'm putting my Genshin outfit on." -False, who does not play Genshin, and only has this outfit because her team lost a tournament
-Hbomb asking if False is drinking water or wine today, and False replying she's drinking squash (juice)
"Yes, I'm a little kid." -False
-Scar seeing the error of his ways and finally pronouncing gong correctly
-Scar getting on the Ace Race leaderboard on the practice server, which then sparked his leaderboard obsession
-"I could never hate you." -Grian to Hbomb
"I could change that." -Hbomb
-Grian seeing the Space Race map name being written backwards and delightedly saying "I like! That's my kind of humor."
-"I had some really good moments mixed in with catastrophic mistakes." -Grian
-Everyone celebrating NOT LAST SCAR in Ace Race
-False realizing that "wait, didn't Scar get a really good time on the practice server?" and everyone immediately saying don't shame him, don't rub it in...
-"Grian, I need a gong." -Scar
"I put it away already!" -Grian
"I need. a gong." -Scar
-The mega chicken swap being gloriously chaotic
-"Hold down W! Just go! Always forward! Kick ass! Take names!" -Hbomb's advice for BB and life
-Hbomb asking Scar to activate Hawkeye mode and Scar replying "YES".
"He's been waiting for you to say that his entire life." -Grian
-Scar calling Hbomb "HBeam" and Griab immediately decreeing that nickname is going to stay (man loves his nicknames)
-Grian killing a couple players in BB and screaming "FINALLY I HAVE SOMETHING FOR MY SECOND CHANNEL!"
-Aqua and Purple fighting it out and False just sneaking in, filling the wool, and getting the win
-The team using Grian's run straight in approach for good and succeeding in the strat to send him in and then have Scar sneakily wool rush
-Grian and Scar celebrating the wins while False desires more kills
-"I think we might have made the other teams angry, which is a good thing. Psychological warfare." -Scar
-Everyone recognizing that Jojo is crACkEd
-"My whole goal here is to make you proud, H." -Scar about SOT
-"Can I ask something real quick? Why's the chat calling me Sand Daddy?" -Sand Daddy Scar
-Scar giving regular reports that "This is your local Sand Daddy reporting, we have 60 seconds left!"
-"There's a pillager in the water!" -False
"Oh, that's my buddy, we're just chilling." -Scar
-"Scar are you ready to take this sand delivery?" -Grian
"Oh, I'm ready, take it to Daddy...sorry I made that weird." -Scar
-Grian getting the redstone puzzle first try!
-"I'm always upset. That's my secret." -Hbomb
-Hbomb trying to stay inside the red tunnel and Grian going down the blue tunnel then Scar saying they only have 50 seconds left and Grian just found the blue vault and H and Grian racing back with sand while the timer went down to 10 seconds and the 10 second count down booming throughout the labyrinth but Grian got lost. H gets the sand in just in time but it's still counting down. Grian finally escapes the tunnel and gets the sand in with less than 10 seconds left and I'm left dead on the floor
-"I got 31st! Sorry, I have a thing about the number 31 this MCC, apparently." -False
-"What the audience needs to know is that we're all friends, we're all good, but in Sands of Time it all goes out of the window." -Grian
-"My chat was getting very upset at me because I took off my chestplate in order to show off my abs." -Scar, preceding the rest of the team absolutely losing their minds at him
-The mega chicken swap wrecking chaos in the last round, the players splitting into either BM or TGGTOS, Wilbur being indecisive in choosing and Scar trying to tempt him into BM with his abs
-"You'll always be our Build Mart manager." -Scar to Grian o7
-Tubbo throwing Scar off the map and everyone calling him evil
"Can we box him in and crush him on this map?" -Scar
-Everyone rooting for Tina in the honey map
-"For a brief shining moment I was first. Then a door closed in front of me, and I was like aww." -Scar
-"I need Fruity B." -Grian
-Scar admiring the little crown on the plane in the TGTTOS map
-Everyone understanding that yes, every single player will be cheering on Captain Sparklez. Pink needs to win.
-"I almost called them Pink Flamingos. I thought they had a really long neck for a second." -False
-False and Grian tsking at H for rooting for Red
"You don't need to be different!" -Grian
-"Right in the shnoot!" -Grian after Dream was shot
-Grian and Scar yelling at Pink to say "Hot guy!" when they shoot
-"Oh, it is Captain on Captain violence!" -Hbomb
-Hbomb starts opening up Pokemon cards and Grian starts eating his yogurt
"What should I do?" -False
"What do you have on your desk?" -Hbomb
-Grian sending Hbomb a Very Cool Card over Discord because H is the only one who'd understand
-H commentating on the normalization of streamers eating in stream
-Grian and Hbomb editing the script to include Captain Sparklez getting the final shot in the final round and getting the ultimate win
-Martyn is now the MCC player who's gone the longest without getting a single win
-"Everyone will remember where they were the day that Captain got his first win!" -Hbomb
-"Aww, bless his little cotton socks!" -Grian about Captain Sparklez
-Sparklez getting a lil Jerry next to him on the podium and Scar saying now he has to win, so he can get a little Jellie neighboring with Jerry
-"You know when you were watching Dream's POV and you were telling me not to do any of that? I was nodding, and I was like yeah I'm gonna do that." -Grian to Hbomb
"I'm gonna be honest, when you went into the blue vault, I thought you were dead." -Hbomb
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