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people really just saw one thing and didn't bother to dive deeper and actually do some research on how he's actually like, innit.
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.
New Update on HBomb94 Discourse!!!
CW: p*dophilia mention, sexualization of minors, misinformation
H has started streaming tonight to address the current situation. He’s apologized to the viewers and agreed that the things that he’s said was wrong. He was making that bad joke out of his experience with the Cube SMP and how he and his friends would make jokes out of weird shippy stuff like that. He also said that he’s reached out to both Tommy and Wilbur and apologized to both of them, to which they’ve accepted his apology.
He’s also addressed his defending of Minx, stating that he was simply defending her from toxic fans, and he didn’t know that she was (supposedly) racist. He said that she was a good friend and from his POV of their relationship, she was also a good person.
He also apologized for saying that he disliked tone indicators, stating that his personal perspective of tone indicators has always been of people using /j to tell him he was old or other similar jabs. That was why his view on them was negative. However he acknowledged that what he said was generalizing, and apologized for that, too. He also spent some time looking up tone indicator caards per chat’s instruction to find out more about them. Note that there was a generational issue where he wasn’t used to how younger people today communicated, and chat helpfully pointed that out to him too.
However! Twitter’s level of speech comprehension is abysmally low, and has started another hate train towards H especially after H said, within the context of people accusing him to be sexualizing Tommy and being a p*do, that he was 100% not attracted to men and minors. Twitter right now is once again twisting his words to mean that he was assuming all MLM were p*dos, which was untrue. The outrage spread even further when Dream reached out and donated 100 subs as support.
During the entirety of H’s apology, not once did he get defensive and mad, and instead took criticism from chat to heart and accepted that what he did was wrong. Please do not spread any more hate towards him and don’t jump on hate trains on twitter, as he has handled the situation very maturely.
He’s currently playing Vault Hunters on stream, and is expecting himself to be completely knocked out tonight and maybe the next few days due to his second Covid shot.
BASED ON MY LIKES HOW !@??@?@?
If you watch a anime about dragon girl maids you’ve hit rock bottom I’m not sorry for u
Tinfoil hat moment but I swear this ‘omg evil SWERFs!!!” nonsense is a psy op bankrolled by the sex industry because in what world is “I think it’s okay for 60 year old men to buy sex from 18 year olds struggling to afford their next meal :)” something you can say with a goddamn straight face.
fandoms act like pedophiles don’t watch tv, read books, or use the internet. “fiction vs reality” all you want but predators consume content that aligns with their interests. real, actual predators ship adults with minors, possess child porn of both real kids and fictional ones, read stories that show csa in a positive light, etc.
like I can see a predator watching how y'all justify minor / adult ships and feeling validated. they don’t just enact violence outside of the internet. they are real people who consume media just like you and me. those of you who ship children with adults share a space with actual predators
it’s also wild to me that y'all don’t think a pedophile could ever be an artist or writer. I guarantee you they are content creators you enjoy on social media. you’re giving them a space to safely express their interests and you validate their inclination to hurt real children when you promote “hebephilia” as healthy. every time you say “the technical definition of pedophilia is 13 years old and younger”, some adult freak feels better about being attracted to a 14 year old. saved by the bell huh!
you’re harboring actual predators, making them feel great about themselves, giving them a platform in fandom & the ability to harass minors into silence with that platform. it isn’t just desensitizing kids, it’s also desensitizing predators
just like white people felt justified in thinking of black people as all sorts of stereotypes (monkeys, mammies, pickanninies, unintelligent, biologically predisposed to being enslaved, etc) thanks to racist cartoons, justifying pedophilia in fiction is a gateway to them excusing harmful behavior in real life and actually doing it. if that should bother you
Lmaooooooo also probably works for Biden
Ya know what fucking sucks?
The MAP “pride” flag has a really pretty color scheme
But it’s fucking DISGUSTING
“Age is just a number” means senior citizens can still find love.
“Age is just a number” means middle-aged people can still find love.
“Age is just a number” means 30+ people can still find love.
“Age is just a number” is not an excuse to be a pedophile.
Nothing is an excuse to be a pedophile.
So don’t.
Just don’t.
so since i'm not seeing anything about this on my dash:
A law passed in Hungary that basically makes being LGBTQ+ illegal in public. And that in the context of an anti-pedophilia law. You're not allowed to talk to children and teens up to the age of 18 about LGBTQ+ things "in order to protect the children".
So basically wherever a child can hear you or see you, or read things, it's illegal to show signs of LGBTQ+ related things. And let's be fucking honest cause that's basically everywhere.
You're not even allowed to hold hands with your same sex partner in public, because children could see it. You're not allowed to dress like your preferred gender, you're not even allowed to basically be transgender.
you're not allowed to exist as the person you are.
How can you help, you ask?
here's a link to Háttér (the largest Hungarian LGBTQ+ organisation) where you can donate to help LGBTQ+ people in Hungary