#the hembo chronicles

[ursifors]

alright so hembo came back just to... say he's leaving... again? i'm gonna tear apart what he says in his video because honestly most of it is so fucking ridiculous i can't believe he just acts like this.

under a readmore because this shit was so much longer than it needed to be even with the parts i'm not mentioning.

[ID: I had a month to think this over and I've decided to bring the videos back, but I still plan to leave the community behind for many reasons. If you still want to hold onto your hate, then this video is not for you and I hope you find peace someday. Nothing anyone says here will stop me from leaving, I've done more than enough for others throughout the years. My time is better spent helping others.]

the first thing i noticed about this passage, which is the opening to his video, is that he says "nothing anyone says here will stop me from leaving" - it struck me as a bit funny because his tone, like he really truly believes anyone in this community is going to get on their knees and beg him to stay. bro WE shoved you out we don't WANT you to come back. also the way he says "i've done more than enough for others. but also my time is better spent helping others." i can't stop laughing he didn't proof read this at all did he.

[ID: I'm only doing this for the people who enjoyed the 6 years of effort. I volunteered about 10,000 hours of my free time helping others through laughter. The same kind of laughter that cheered me up and allowed me forget my troubles when I needed it most. ONce this video is uploaded. I'll take my time adding back any deleted videos if applicable. For those wondering why Ryan Haywood appears in older videos. It's cause I never had the time to go back and edit him out of 5 years worth of videos. But now I refuse to edit anything for the community again. Someone else can do it if they want to. I think most people forget that rooster teeth hasn't edited Ryan out either. So I don't know why anyone expects a single freelance editor to re-work years of content again when teh company has paid editors that did not.]

holy jesus fucking hell. first of all, why does he literally act like he is the only person out there who edits clips of content he didn't make together when i can literally name like 5 other channels off the top of my head who do the same. second of all, hembo, people expected you to edit out ryan BECAUSE this shit was what you did in your free time. the paid editors at rt kind of have their hands full, you know, editing the new fucking content they are constantly making. i wish they could work on going back through old content but thats YEARS of content and they are all working on the new stuff coming out daily. you however, could have easily posted "hey im gonna go back and edit out RH no new compilation videos for awhile bc this is important" for fuck sakes u were editing content that isnt even yours in your free time you're not some kind of god to the community get over yourself.

[ID: There were a few people who brought up another common what-about-ism as they made every possible excuse for justifying stealing just to protect their own. "What about all the times Geoff was a piece of shit in the past?" And my thought was okay? I have a lot more memories of him acknowledging he was an idiot than him making excuses for the stuff he did.]

wow that's super convenient of you to remember all the times geoff acknowledged what a dumb kid he was and not punish him at all for crimes he committed in the past! i wonder if we watch the same content because i mostly seem to just remember geoff laughing and saying "here is this insane thing i did as a kid which i am telling now as a story because i find it hilarious that i did this" and not really ever saying "i'm telling this story because i have grown as a person and would never do a crime ever as an adult." don't get me wrong i love geoff but hembo is so desperate to excuse any of the white cishet men of rtah for doing far far worse things and recounting them with glee it's actually pathetic.

[ID: I'm not sorry for making the "controversial video". Because I've got nothing to apologize for. I called out Ky for sounding like an asshole and I'm going to think you're an asshole if you unapologetically steal. The fact that she says she did it more than once leads me to think that she's okay with it. She then said it was "very funny" so again, you're an asshole.]

honestly it's pretty apparent with everything he's said that hembo truly just hates ky and is looking for a reason to justify it to everyone else. i literally cannot wrap my mind around the fact that every ah member has at one point or another said "hey i did this terrible thing when i was younger isn't it so hilarious" but of course hembo would never condemn anyone else... i wonder why? hmmmm. dear hembo stealing from giant corporations and the government is never wrong god bless ♡ also love that he's not sorry for trying to start some kind of purist crusade against ky with the platform he had (don't quote me on this but didn't he literally have more followers than her on twitter at the time of posting that video... yikes man! ur nuts!)

[ID: Some focused on the crime being a victimless crime. True, the store will survive, most employees wont give a shit, and the amount stolen was probably insignificant, but I'm still going to think you're an asshole. I don't care if you stole a beer or a piece of gum. What bothered me was her childish attitude. Admittedly, I overreacted, but I'd also say that the community response was a bit of an overreaction too. More on that later.]

while i'm glad he can admit he overreacted he immediately follows it with basically "but also so did everyone else and i didn't do anything wrong ♡" dude shut the fuck up. honestly this entire video is just him being like "i'm leaving don't beg me to return it won't work and also i wasn't wrong and i still hate ky" annoying ass just leave already.

[ID: The community is way too hostile and toxic towards anyone they don't like. Even towards the people who had legitimate criticism like audio levels. The community tore those commenters to shreds for daring to complain. I saw the company response was to make a shirt design of a blown-out audio wave that the community tried to provide as proof. I saw people state the website was crashin ga lot when they launched a new version and the community response was along the lines of "then leave if it's so bad."]

see this is interesting to me because while i do agree that SOME of the time people can get overzealous with telling others to fuck off, you have to take a step back and look at why. people who were saying "whoa boy i think ky's mic is a touch loud! any way we can fix her audio set up?" well that's fine! that's polite! and actually constructive! but that is not what most people were doing. most people were saying "i hate ky she ruins videos she's too loud i hate screaming despite being an achievement hunter fan who loves michael wah wah boo hoo" so of course the community clapped back to that????? like what is so hard to understand about constructive comments vs straight up hate?

[ID: It seems like the community is always ready to jump on any chance to dogpile on anyone who dares to say something they don't agree with. So I'm not surprised at how many people were pissed off beyond reason. That reaction was predictable, but I still found it a little sad to see how many people made excuse for stealing. I remember one excuse is the $100 charge that a university may charge for stolen goods.I probably got charged the same during my time in college. I still wouldn't use that as an excuse to steal 25 muffins or some shit.]

good for you hembo can everyone please give a fucking standing ovation to our perfect little angel who would never ever STEAL, the worse sin of all! shocked he didn't say ky should get a hand cut off because that's how they used to punish thieves back in the day since this man's way of thinking is fucking archaic. so glad he didnt ever feel stuck between a rock and a hard place as a starving college student since he wouldn't ever steal food he probably would have rathered died then take an innocent giant corporation's candy bars :(

[ID: I judged Ky for her words and actions. I judged her for who she is, not what she is. I even offered a way to make things right. It's wasn't hard. Just say that it's wrong to steal, something so basic. She could still admit this now, but that's for her to decide if it's worth saying. I think at the time she posted a generic "I'm not perfect" and "I will always reflect and try to do better." Which I found funny cause it still ignored her stealing story with a fortune cookie style catch all statement about self reflection. Is it really that hard to address something stupid you said in the past?]

this. this right here. this paragraph basically boils it all down to what his real intentions and feelings are. he judged ky for something she did as a broke college student, and then for the way she decided to tell the story. despite not upholding any other ah member to the same insane standard. despite not knowing shit about ky's personal life. despite ky literally not owing him anything. and then ky went above and beyond and did make a statement about still learning and growing as a person. but that wasn't good enough for him, but i don't think anything would have been. no matter how ky had reacted to this entire shitfest, i truly believe hembo would have found some way to belittle her regardless. because he doesn't like her. plain and simple.

[ID: For those jumping to conclusions and want to make this about race or gender, I know you're wrong. I've been discriminated against and felt alone my entire life. I know what racism looks like, sounds like, and feels like. If you disagree then don't worry, I'm still leaving and we'll both agree that the other's opinion is wrong and none of this will matter over time anyways. I don't understand why people had such strong opinions when most of you don't even know my background or name.]

i'm white so i consulted @kingpattillo, who is black, about this passage.

me: mostly i just wanted to say that in my opinion this doesn't hold up because he may know what racism specifically towards asian people looks like as that's what he faces but he does not know what racism towards black people is like because he doesn't experience it. and that he's trying to act like he can't be racist against black people just because he himself isnt white or whatever.

erlande: ah, so it's my turn to tear him apart, huh? yeah, give me a minute, because his take is uh. oof there may be typos, and it's almost 3am, so excuse me is anything is unclear

the one thing he said that i agree with is the racism he mentioned experiencing is unjustifiable. no doubt about that. every person of color has negative experiences in everyday life because of their skin, and therefore, can relate to each other because of some of those said experiences. you know, overlap and shit.

however, ky is specifically black and a woman, and hembo can't relate to that because he is neither of those things, so he can't fully understand what ky specifically goes through. he can empathize to an extent, but the reason why i, and many, MANY other black fans and members of AH, are so pissed off at him is because of the hypocrisy and inconsistency with his comments

[ID: I didn't have any sense of community growing up. I was born in a small town with no other asians and got bullied a lot, but that never stopped me from trying to be a good person. When I started looking into careers. My parents weren't supportive of my decisions. My very first dream was to be a hero. I know helping others gives me a sense of fulfillment and purpose. Just seeing others happy makes me happy in return. So I ran the idea to my parents that I wanted to be a fire fighter or police officer. They both screamed at me no. They explained that they didn't come into this country to have their son die or be killed. Thinking about that now, I can understand their concern. I'd probably be one of the first ones to put myself in a dangerous situation if it meant saving a life. Instead of dying a hero they wanted me to be safe and happy.

I thought it would hurt to just leave 6 years of work behind, but I felt like a weight was lifted after closing ll the doors. Mot of the community didn't know much about me to begin with o it made the disconnect even easier. I've got more important work to do in animal care and it fulfills my very first dream, to be a hero. The amount of effort and care I put directly impacts the lives of the animals I help and in it also impacts the lives of the people they touch. I can see how much I'm helping others rather than rehashing Youtube videos for strangers.]

fucking shocker the guy who lost his fucking marbles and destroyed his reputation in this community overnight because of his absolute hatred of stealing and how a black woman stole one time, wanted to be a cop. also has an insane hero complex. idk why he even included this like waxing poetic about how good of a person you are doesn't actually MAKE you a good person you freak.

it kind of blows my mind that he genuinely thought he was doing something like so amazing for the community just by making compilation videos like i'm not bashing the practice i love watching those kind of videos but. he's acting like he's the fucking second coming of christ for doing so and it's so WEIRD? also huge red flag to me that he doesn't seem to have any actual friends in the community? like idk if this is just me but leaving this community would be hard for and on me because i have so many friends i made here and losing that common interest would suck ass. but he's just like yeah its sooooo easy to leave and go help animals goodbye. like genuinely what a racist weirdoooo.

[averymcrgan]

not some people in the comment section of Hembo's new video actually thanking him and saying how much they are going to miss him.

like, dude made the decision to go after Ky and be a racist asshole, made the decision to throw a hissy fit and delete all of his videos that he spent so much time on, made the decision to play the victim when he was so far from being one. he decided to call Ky out expecting that the community would stand behind him and when we didn't his ego couldn't handle that. so I hope he knows that while 10 people are thanking him, there are so, so many more that are happy to see his ass gone.

[monarchisms]

I go to work then come home and open Tumblr only to immediately see that hembo is being a racist fuckhead... Anyways rip dude you wont be missed (talking about hembo)

rip bozo

...anyways, stan phoenixedits, spike seagull, allie kitaguchi, and craig visnovec. you guys can add more suggestions and alternatives for editors in the community, if you want <3

[ursifors]

my favorite thing about that statement was when hembo listed all of the reasons her actions didn't hurt anyone (store's losses were minimal, it will survive, employees didn't care and weren't negatively impacted) and was still like "BUT. it was the most heinous crime ever committed in all of history." like? hello??

it's so clear he's just a racist asshole who doesn't like ky and genuinely tried to sic an entire community onto her. truly abhorrent.

RIGHT his argument is literally like

[ursifors]

Dude can I ask a question cause I don’t like the Hembo guy I think he’s an asshole but I legit don’t understand where the he’s a racist thing came from maybe I missed something I saw the original Reddit post about him being an ass to and about Ky but I don’t recall any mention of race, is this an assumption or general consensus or proven fact?

I mean he picked a real weird hill to die on especially when there’s a ton of stories about what the others have done in their youths which is arguably worse any how i do understand why f your not comfortable answering but I just thought someone could help me understand

oh man idk if i'm the person to fight this battle but here we go:

the fact that he is holding ky, a black woman, to an insane standard of lawfulness that he refused to hold any of the white achievement hunter members to. geoff, a white man, has happily told stories about his youth he thought were funny about stealing and stalking and doing actually dangerous things that could have harmed himself or others, not to mention things burnie or michael or jack (who went to jAIL once) or jeremy have recounted doing.

but hembo decided that was all fine and forgivable because he decided they felt bad about it but that ky didn't. he demonized ky for stealing a candy bar in college, and then laughed off michael and others for saying they did similar things. all of the reasons and excuses he gives for this fall through and it's because there aren't any reasons or excuses to hate ky for doing something that you don't hate other people for doing.

racism isn't always "i hate this person because they are x skin color", you don't have to announce it or talk about race at all for your actions or words to still be rooted in racism.

[ursifors]

Hm Hembo whining about how selfless he has been for six years when I believe he was also paid by Ray to do HIS monthly highlights for a year or more. I believe he feels quite entitled and like he has some ownership over the content he manipulates because it’s been mentioned in AH/RT videos in the past. But mostly, fuck that guy

oh i didn't know that about ray, though i did read on reddit i think that hembo used to bitch about RTAH not hiring him to edit even though he threw his entire life away to edit clips of other peoples content!!!!! so apparently he's always been entitled and an asshole.

and yeah you're right, he has put himself on this pedestal while the rest of us are just like dude.... ur not special.

[ursifors]

This response to the new hembozo video is the best thing to come out of this whole thing (besides the whole kicking out a racist bit)

WAIT THIS IS HILARIOUS PLEASER JLDAFJLDASJ

hembo probably: oceans eleven is a horror movie

[ursifors]

So basically that update was "I'm still racist, you all suck, I'm still out of here."

yeah with a large dose of making himself out to be the victim and demonizing the community for every daring to disagree with his views

[ursifors]

Honestly, it's hard to think that Hembo never stole anything in their life. Watched a movie or tv show online without paying a subscription, downloaded any music etc..

right? but i don't think he holds himself or anyone to the standard he was holding ky to.

[monarchisms]

God I wish YouTube didn't hide Thumbs Down so everyone could see how ratio'd he's getting

i have good news for you, peter!

using this browser extension i just found, i was able to re-enable the number shown for dislikes. for those of you on mobile, this is what the ratio currently looks like:

[monarchisms]

so...i haven't really been following the drama, but someone said that Ky only stole a candy bar? and that's what the hembo guy is pissy about??

didnt michael steal cable?? and do way more questionable shit?? but hembo didnt mention any of that...but its also totally not a race/gender issue either /s

(not trying to cancel michael or anything btw just using his old behavior to bring up hembo is a fuckin idiot)

it was some reese's cups, but yeah lol

i never talked about this bit because i just found out about it a few days ago, but i might as well share it now.

for those of you who don't know, ky got her bachelor's degree from hofstra university. several past and present students who have attended the school have talked about taking stuff from the student center without paying, and how the school didn't give a shit.

apparently, hofstra has a $100 charge on each student's yearly tuition for potential stolen goods, regardless of whether or not a student steps foot in the student center. with this technicality, ky already paid for that candy because the school kinda expects students to steal from their stores and shit.

so, not only is it morally okay, it's also legal, and in my opinion, ky can be as prideful as she wants because hofstra already took a ton of money from her just for attending.

[monarchisms]

i tried to find it but couldnt quite place it but the geoff one did become an rtaa. i might binge em tomorrow to try and find it. did see the arson rtaa for geoff, and michael selling porn he ripped onto VHS. this man really waited to just be racist

to save you the trouble, i'll add the videos here!

this is the hit and run rtaa [timestamp here]:

this is the arson rtaa:

and this is the vhs rtaa:

i watched the last rtaa the day it aired, so i was able to find it immediately. i'm not as sure about the other two, so if they aren't the videos you mentioned, just let me know :)