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Harry Brewis[a] (born 19 September 1992), better known asHbomberguy, is a BritishYouTuber andTwitch streamer.[6] Brewis producesvideo essays on a variety of topics such as film, television, and video games; often combining them with arguments fromleft-wing political and economic positions.[7][8] He has created videos aimed at debunkingconspiracy theories and responding toright-wing andantifeminist arguments.[9]
Brewis started the Hbomberguy YouTube channel on 28 May 2006.[18] As of June 2025, the channel has over 1.8 million subscribers.[18] He also uploads his videos on the online streaming serviceNebula.[19]
Brewis's videos often take the format of shortdocumentaries, with him talking directly to the camera on a particular topic interspersed with comedic sketches and gags.[20] He consults with experts and fact-checkers for his videos to ensure their factual accuracy.[21] Some of the most popular videos on his channel are hisA Measured Response series, which features Brewis critiquing figures such asflat Earth conspiracy theorists,pickup artists,anti-vaxxers, and content creators who believe soy makes men feminine and use the termsoy boy.[9][21] Due to his videos debunking right-wing andalt-right ideas, Brewis has commonly been described as a part ofBreadTube, an informal network of left-leaning YouTubers;[20][22] however, he does not associate himself with the term.[23] Like other YouTube channels under the BreadTube label, Brewis's political content mirrors the presentation of popular non-political content creators such as pop-culture essayists and gaming YouTubers.[22]
Along with his political analysis andMeasured Response series, Brewis has been producing long-form media reviews and video essays on a number of topics, such as television, film,internet culture and video games.[24] In July 2020, Brewis released a video criticising the American web seriesRWBY. Prior to its release, Brewis attempted to upload the video and found it automatically blocked by YouTube'sContent ID system. Brewis opted to extensively re-edit the video to circumvent this automated detection and hire a lawyer to review the content in order to ensure it complied withfair use prior to publication.[25] In an essay criticising the Content ID system, theElectronic Frontier Foundation highlighted Brewis's difficulty as an example of how they believed Content ID "undermines" the intent of fair use.[26]
In November 2022, Brewis published "ROBLOX_OOF.mp3", a video essay which documented many of the high-profile claims thatTommy Tallarico had made concerning his career, including being the creator of the sound effect at the heart of hisRoblox legal dispute, hisGuinness World Records, and being the first American to work on theSonic the Hedgehog franchise, and concluded many were either exaggerations or knowingly false.[27][28]
From 18 to 21 January 2019, Brewis continually livestreamed to raise money for Britishtransgender charity organisationMermaids. In this stream, he aimed to completeDonkey Kong 64 while finding all possible collectable items and did so in 57 hours and 48 minutes.[29] Mermaids had been designated funding by theBritish National Lottery, but the funding was withheld and put under review after criticism by comedy writer and anti-transgender activistGraham Linehan and others.[30] This inspired Brewis to stream in support of the charity.
The livestream garnered attention and praise.[36][37][35]The Guardian called it "an antidote to the worst of gaming culture",[9] and it was praised in a motion lodged in theScottish Parliament byGreen Party co-convenorPatrick Harvie.[38] In July 2019, the LGBT magazineAttitude recognised the livestream by honoring Brewis with an Attitude Pride Award.[39] Mermaids thanked Brewis for the livestream on their Twitter account.[40][41][42]
On 2 December 2023, Brewis uploaded a nearly four-hour video essay titled "Plagiarism and You(Tube)", in which he discussedplagiarism and presented accusations and evidence of plagiarism against YouTubersFilip Miucin,Cinemassacre, iilluminaughtii, Internet Historian, and James Somerton.[43][44] The second half of the video focuses exclusively on Somerton, whom Brewis accuses of expansive plagiarism, as well as appropriating content from various other queer writers andcontent creators.[45][46][2]The Celluloid Closet, a 1996 film based onthe book of the same name byVito Russo, andTinker Belles and Evil Queens, a 2000 book bySean Griffin, were among the works Somerton was accused of plagiarizing, in part or in whole, across at least 26 of his videos.[45][47]
In addition to the plagiarism accusations, another YouTuber,Todd in the Shadows, released a separate video soon after Brewis's where he fact-checked Somerton and debunked claims he made about queer culture and other topics.[45][46]
In response, Somerton removed all of his videos from public view and deactivated hisTwitter andPatreon accounts.[48][49][50][11] He removed the website for his film studio, Telos, which was scrutinised by Brewis for raising funds without producing any films.[47] Somerton released anapology video, which was widely criticised.[51] In his video, Somerton said he would continue his career, and he re-opened hisPatreon account without notifying his patrons. This raised concerns about individuals being charged without their knowledge.[51] Somerton removed the apology video a few hours after it was uploaded and closed his Patreon a second time.[51][52]
Brewis has been praised by critics for his YouTube channel's format and commentary.[7][53] His 2017 video onVHS, which was produced in collaboration with video essayist and podcaster Shannon Strucci,[54] was praised byTenEighty Magazine as an excellent "deep-dive" into the topic.[55] His video analysis of theCtrl+Alt+Del comic "Loss" has received critical acclaim: it was selected byPolygon as one of the ten best video essays of 2018 and was nominated three times in theSight & Sound collection of 2018's most outstanding videographic criticism, with British film critic and filmmakerCharlie Shackleton stating: "The reliably great H. Bomberguy pushed the YouTube video essay into new territory with thisMatryoshka doll of an upload: a layered critique of the gaming webcomicCtrl+Alt+Del,Tommy Wiseau's bad-taste classicThe Room and the YouTube video essay itself. To cap it all off, it's a horror movie".[56][57]
Brewis'sClimate Denial: A Measured Response was nominated forSight & Sound's 2019 list of the best video essays of the year, with Strucci saying: "this is the hardest I have ever laughed at any video essay ... and the humor and energy Harris[a] brings to his work without sacrificing sincerity or depth of research is, as far as I am concerned, unparalleled".[54]
^abBrewis's first name is sometimes erroneously reported as "Harris".[1][2][3][4] Brewis attributes this to his habit of jokingly referring to himself as "Harris Bomberguy" in his videos.[5]
^Brewis, Harry (12 February 2018).Soy Boy Diet Aftermath. Event occurs at 1:00. Retrieved24 December 2023.Back when I was an IT engineer
^Brewis, Harry (21 October 2017).Hbomberguy's 100K Q&A!. Event occurs at 19:29. Retrieved5 January 2024.I started doing animations for the School of Life on their YouTube channel
^abAvissar, Ariel; DiGravio, Will; Lee, Grace, eds. (14 January 2020)."The best video essays of 2019".Sight & Sound. British Film Institute. Retrieved29 January 2024.
^Brewis, Harry (23 December 2020).The War on Christmas: A Measured Response. Event occurs at 16:44.Archived from the original on 15 September 2022. Retrieved22 February 2022 – viaYouTube.Since the 2010s, there has been decisively more nonreligious people in Britain than Christians even. Most of these people still celebrate Christian traditions, they're a common part of English culture.I'm an atheist, and I still celebrate Christmas.
^Brewis, Harry (8 June 2017).ELECTIONWATCH 2017. Retrieved3 April 2024 – via YouTube.
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