I thought it was really touching to hear Clint talk about all the well wishes and tributes he received on behalf of the community and that it made him realize Josh did have real fans that genuinely cared about his well being. The people who bullied and harassed Josh were always a very vocal minority. I'm glad Clint was maybe able to find some peace with that.
he made parts of it relating to himself and his grieve of losing a child
I saw a lot of membership gifting tonight. It's not really what Clint wanted, but I guess all the money will be going to him. I suppose it's a good thing Clint didn't mess with the channel settings.
It was lovely. His comment saying to the effect "I wanted to tell more stories but the video would have been over 2 hours" indicates that he wants to tell more stories. Combined with his comments that he had no idea how many fans Cobra had... It must have been a shock to him after all the trole abuse to have such an outpouring of support. The sad irony is that the only place on the internet that had any semblance of positive regard for the boy was the evil Kiwi website. I only discovered the boy in late 2023 and it took me months of searching for an online comunitty that wasn't toxic. Every single comment I wrote that was positively inclined on the now deleted subreddit was downvoted into oblivion (I'm glad to see the new subreddit is actually positive). The forum rules and thread format here prevent the kind of toxicity that existed in that awful subreddit.
i made an iced pumpkin spice cherry chai latte. girly, just as jord would've wanted.
He knows. Or not. But sort of.
I don't think Clint would have ever come here. In the early days of my Cobra introduction I only came here out of desperation due to how fucked up the subreddit was. I was hesitant due to the sites reputation, but then I found the most positively inclined Cobra community that I had been missing all along. The irony.
He did make parts of it about the impact the troles had on his life, and that was needed context (18% btw), and prelude to the rest of the video. He explained how Cobra kept the family separate from his content because of the real world impact the troles were having on his life. Imagine having to explain to everyone you work with, considering the work Clint does, that if you tag him or reference him in work he's involved in, that it will draw unwanted attention from people who photoshoped him and his son having sex and distributed it around social media.
You are right. Actually, your backstory regarding this site kinda reflects mine. I guess I was more about expressing like a sort of wishful thinking that in some way the overall sentiment present in this thread might have reached him. Then again, I'm having these desperate daydreams about Cobes himself experiencing all the celebration and good stuff he has inspired in the last month. Sorry if I wasn't clear, I'm many drink combos in.
He had one hell of a difficult and unforgiving job making this work. People will continue to give him the usual bad dad, enabler, wanting-his-son-out-of-his life why-no-group-home shit, but fucking let them, it doesn't matter. He has proven his point, his feelings tonight. Said it a couple of times now, but best wishes to the Saunders family. I know it will get better for them, time has a way with that.
I get it, I've had that same kind of wishful thinking. Before learning about lolcow culture and 'not tapping the glass', I had strong feeling about reaching out to Cobra to try to help him (when I dropped in mid-stream to him drunk and upset about breaking his phone - at that time I had no idea that this was a recurring theme, I thought he dropped it or something). The more I learned the more it was apparent that any 'help' from the other side of the globe would likely be ineffective.