I tried getting info about HBG and wanted to make sure some of it was useful, because it's clear I'd stumble upon biased sources, whether it's rightwing extremists or edgy trolls.
Because I wanted this to be looked at from an objective, unbiased prespective.
Since I'm the same kinda guy to bring up:
- MisterMetokur mocking people for thinking Amos Yee was being serious when he made a video about defending CP (And turned out he was when he was arrested)
- Jim Watkins, who owned 8chan, helping create QAnon before he got caught with CP
- Sam Hyde probably dating a 12 year old girl and the one person that tried to bring this up was a camerawoman that was kinda crazy, so nobody took her seriously
- The Sharty, who are probably even more racist and bigoted than /pol/, having one of them hack ChibiReviews by putting CP on his accounts and the response he got from the others like him were "at least use a VPN"
- Metokur himself interacted with Nick Fuentes, who also had ties to Ali Alexander, a far right guy that was accussed of sexual harrasment towards young boys
- In a Charlie Kirk stream he did, Metokur also went "lol look at those Leftists and Dems bringing up Epstein to try and make the right look bad"
So consider it a trigger warning if you will: Edgy jokes, racism, homophobia, sexism, transphobia, bigotry etc depending on the sources here.
I tried looking up on Twitter with searches like "Hbomberguy metokur" but I stumbled upon dead links and people mentioning specific stories I can't search.
But anyway, the best I could find:
https://archive.li/RijHf
https://archive.li/b4xhU
https://imgur.com/a/LEIid
This is probably where the "HBG was a dick to a victim of sexual assault and defended a creep" story comes from.
I might've mixed it with the Nyberg stuff, but this still doesn't make him look good.
On some YT videos, including Metokur because as of worst case scenario, I ended up digging his shit just in case there's nothing better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPQEO9eFv1M at 2:22 he shows what may be a section of the Metokur site dedicated to DeviantArt and at some point, he highlights HBG's name and brings up him setting up some YT block addon and he makes comments about how the two shared the same site and interests.
But this part seems short because HBG probably becames irrelevant in the rest of the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYx2YrOzm44 20:30 is the part about the Metokur site but at 25:07 sort of, HBG is brought up and MisterMetokur talks about him a bit.
Not much of use and probably worth ignoring but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPulY0hXL_o at 7:44 he talks about the history of Metokur and brings up HBG sometimes, but you barely get new info, honestly.
(Also this clip refers to some guy called James that apparently faked his suicide because he came back the next year after this clip was made; Still, you can tell Metokur was mocking a suicide he thought was real at the time).
Either way, somehow Metokur never brings up the Nyberg stuff, so all he does is bring up how HBG was part of the site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7J8H3Ja7ao 15 min video about Sarah Nyberg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNrUiDm6374 8 min sequel to the previous video.
(LeoPirate had his channel shut down and I recall he also did one on Valis77).
And because I ended up using Encyclopedia Dramatica as a ref:
https://edramatica.com/METOKUR
https://edramatica.com/Hbomberguy
(You could try CTRL + F keywords like "hbomb" or "meto" in either of them)
And KiwiFarms too:
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/hbomberguy-harry-harris-brewis-slazenger-rapemachine-whiteshaf.28433/ About HBG where Sarah is mentioned.
https://kiwifarms.st/threads/sarah-nyberg-srhbutts-sarah-butts-nicholas-nyberg.12213/ Nyberg.
https://edramatica.com/Sarah_Butts/ffshrine_chatlogs
Again, ED and KW have their own biases and shit, so expect them to still say edgy/bigoted things among what technically is evidence.
Goes back to what I said about how there should be an unbiased look at this.
https://archive.is/6tjAs HBG addressing being on Metokur.
I found it through someone that seems to be a fan of his but still says this:
https://x.com/DoorMan_BTW/status/1770706072657133889
"hey, so I recently noticed some accusations levied against you, and at first they seemed a little far fetched, but then I noticed you've got the term "metokur" banned, and then I noticed this"
"and, didn't you say something about trolls remorse?"
"Like, I am a fan of your work, but am I going to keep digging and find the n word? not that I'd normally care, it's just you seemed pretty self-righteous about it"
This is what I got so far because the rest I found are either dead links or stories I can't verify like bullying some girl and sending photos of her to her family.
Part of why I even did this is because of the fact that guys like him build an image of being morally righteous when they also erase their past in such a way, it's hard to believe they grew up.
In that plagiarism video, there's a part where he accuses IH of having troll's remorse, which really feels like he hopes his audience doesn't know about the Metokur past.
And in a way, he and others like him are probably lucky that the other side doesn't bring this up.
Not grifters like Grummz, not the insane Wojak spamming Sharty, not the generic 4chan screencap/greentext posting accounts like ShitpostRock, not guys on 4chan that use meme words like "tourist", not even MisterMetokur.
I can't even tell if it's because culture wars ruins your brain so much, it means someone can't even bring up the worst shit about their enemy or because maybe they want it to keep going.
Still, I hope this kinda helps and that someone else does something like this better than me, so I don't have to do it myself again.