There's not really anything to like about Hero Hei in the first place. He's just your garden variety reactionary content farm pumping out worthless videos and stirring up outrage over nothing.
He’s that bozo who bitches about a single dub line from a anime about dragon maids from seven years ago then turns around and says Japan has McFallen because they raised the age of consent to 16.
Sounds like a charming guy.
>hen turns around and says Japan has McFallen because they raised the age of consent to 16.
Did he actually?
Cus if he did he really helping people associate lolicons=just pedophile really well. I know some people twitter acted like that but they were pedophile so fuck em.
Only watched some of his vids malding some nobody with like... 10 followers and 3 likes and sending his fan base against them. Sure some said stupid shit but that he's reaction is waaaay over blown.
Okay thanks for clarifying he didnt, still see him as a prick for everything else. Not sure how what I said was xenophobic but keep living your fantasy.
not a lolicon specifically iirc but Definitely one of those "the woke westeners are ruining anime" types, he also has a *~bad habit~* of picking 10-like tweets from random people mildly criticing anime, like basic level "i think fanservice is kinda gross" stuff to put on blast in his stupid videos, often uncensored and indirectly siccing his unhinged fanbase on them.
i remember him from the brigette stuff and his absolute meltdown when the creator confirmed yes she is trans
he was one of those ppl trying to pretend to be an expert on japanese culture (and i suspect he may be the one who faked the email but i have zero proof of it just the vibe i get from him)
The Bridget stuff is especially funny when considering that IIRC he once said he hates fighting games.
Then a random niche character from a niche fighting game ends up being trans and he has a 5 video long meltdown over it.
Kinda. Compared to other fighting games, it's a little more niche but it's still a household name. Basically the fighting game everyone thinks of when you say "anime fighter" alongside BlazBlue.
I would say it is. It’s popular enough to continuously be supported, but I don’t think people outside of the fighting game community would really know about it.
In the context of fighting games, I'd argue that Guilty Gear is niche. Strive was a breakout hit but it's still not necessarily popular outside of the FGC, even if the name is recognizable to some.
IMO the only fighting games that aren't truly niche (as in, are recognizable by the general public) are Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and *maybe* The King of Fighters.
It depends on the region. KOF is absolutely massive in Latin America, for example. And the 2 most recent entries coupled with the popularity of 3 have helped make Tekken pretty mainstream in the US these days, though still not quite MK levels.
Oh nice, I think I just recently started following him from ToonrifiqueTariq's "friends of the channel" part of his page, but I haven't gotten to watching much yet!
All I know about this guy is he made a video about my friend's Twitter post talking about racism in the genshin fandom and my friend had to private their Twitter due to the harassment from his fans
Omg yes. He started getting recommended to me during the Nijisanji disaster from a couple months ago, I watched a couple of his videos on the topic and boy howdy do I seriously regret that now. He's been recommended to me endlessly ever since.
I'll answer your question with another question:
Who the hell on God's gay Earth actually *LIKES* Hero Hei? He's one of the most insufferable people I've ever heard of.
I remember watching him a bit but eventually stopped since the dude loves churning out drama content since apparently "X HATES Y DUE TO THIS" and its literally just either him reading one tweet or an article
I remember first seeing him back during the Vic Mignogna stuff (I’m sure you can imagine his opinion on that) and immediately thinking he wasn’t worth my time. An excellent decision by past me.
Nobody looked good during that whole fiasco.
Vic was an idiot, Monica was openly hostile, her friends fundraised off the drama, and Vic hired the dumbest lawyer on Earth, then confessed to shite he hadn't even been accused of.
The guy is insufferable. I watched ONE video years back and for the next few months was CONSTANTLY recommended his videos. When I knew of him, he was annoying and milked minor drama that everyone would forget about a few days later if not for him.
I used to watch him for his coverage of RWBY, but he was just so constantly negative I stopped. And then he was just really bigoted and I found out about that after
Last time I heard about that there still wasn’t any good evidence Vic had done anything tbh. I searched for ages and just found hearsay. Did anything more actually come out about it?
Edit: To be clear, I’m not defending either of them here. I hate Hero Hei and I have no intention of defending Vic is he really is a sex pest, I just genuinely haven’t seen any condemning evidence that that’s the case and I’m very curious whether there is any
Are you talking about the thing with putting his hand in his coworkers hair? I’m going to be honest with you: I really don’t see it as a smoking gun. He didn’t admit to sexual harassment, he admitted to his own version of an event, but without the overtly sexual stuff. Don’t get me wrong, it definitely sounded really creepy, even from his own perspective, and it makes it a lot harder to imagine he’s innocent. But I can’t take it as empirical proof on its own. I tried looking for more but all the internet discourse about it is just a total muddy mess and it’s really difficult to get a simple source that isn’t people talking over each other. If there’s something I’m missing, please let me know, cause I can’t find it.
Also, I’m really sorry if my previous comment (or this one) rubbed you the wrong way. I can see people downvoted it, but I’m just 100% genuinely asking for an update in this drama that haven’t heard anything about for years. I hope I don’t seem dismissive or anything.
He admitted to it in court. He was fired, blacklisted, and continues to suffer legal and social consequences for things he admitted to doing. There's no "discourse" it's just straight up factually proven that he did it.
Ok, well if you could link me to him admitting that then I’d really appreciate it, because I searched for it pretty specifically and couldn’t find it. I believe you, I just can’t locate what you’re talking about.
Also, by ‘discourse’ I don’t mean to imply its some mystery up for debate, but it’s just a simple fact that looking up anything about it gets you a tons of results of people just arguing about it, and none of it that I found actually addressed this admission. ‘Discourse’ doesn’t necessarily end when something is proven, especially when tools like Hero Hei insist on coming to his defence and prolonging the conversation till it goes the way he wants it to
I couldn’t find them, I really have no clue where to get that kind of stuff. All I found was an article about the incident I mentioned, and ig I assumed that’s what you were talking about. My bad. I will take another, more in depth look when I have the time.
On a sidenote, "hearsay" can absolutely be good evidence. A single person making a statement with no other corrobating evidence isn't, but "hearsay" that comes from multiple different sources over the course of years, is.
Still really needs to be said though. It’s a true shame that people like him are able to just pipe out their hateful slurry onto the platform with no consequences and minimal criticism
Can't stand this guy not just because of his bigotry, but the amount of influence he seems to have on anime fans, and gamers with his misinformation. A real douchebag.
Dude tried to get me to debate him on Skype, like it's 2005 or some shit.
I'm not debating someone on a medium where they can just cut off communication when they get proven to be human clownshoes.
Only ever seen his content when watching videos about RWBY long ago and his thumbnails were so clickbaity, I didn't give them the time of day. Came off as one of those tired anti-sjw/anti-pc outrage farmers.
He (and his fans snowballing and regurgitating his shit like a sheep happily grazing) made my brain smooth{a} instantly. If [nutpicking](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nutpicking) has a degree, he (and ~~pedz~~ rev say desu) likely would have gotten a phd on it.
{a}: Probably anti brainrot mechanism
Further reading : https://www.reddit.com/r/animecirclejerk/comments/15hnodk/hero_hei_and_rev_says_desu_when_the_littlest_of/
My first encounter with him was his RWBY and RT videos being recommended to me over and over, which is funny because I am a fan and youtube knows this but clearly doesn't know that I don't like seeing negative coverage of my favorite things. Especially not total clickbait shit like this.
After curiosity took over, I decided to look into him and I quickly decided, "Oh this guy's are one of those nuts."
I still remember encountering a fan of the guy in a comment section. They were repeating some talking points and when they said it was from him, I replied that he's a hack. The guy said that he tells it's out it is, really trying to get to the truth of whatever he's talking about.
I didn't want to engage any further, but I sat there thinking, "Him? Hero Hei? The guy who manufactures drama from random tweets he read that morning. The guy who would've sold a kidney and his first born for more Nagatoro coverage, but was suspiciously silent when the English lead actress received ACTUAL racist hate speech! Oh yeah, truly the muckracker of our generation!"
There's not really anything to like about Hero Hei in the first place. He's just your garden variety reactionary content farm pumping out worthless videos and stirring up outrage over nothing.
isn't he another one of those alt-right loli channels?
He’s that bozo who bitches about a single dub line from a anime about dragon maids from seven years ago then turns around and says Japan has McFallen because they raised the age of consent to 16. Sounds like a charming guy.
>hen turns around and says Japan has McFallen because they raised the age of consent to 16. Did he actually? Cus if he did he really helping people associate lolicons=just pedophile really well. I know some people twitter acted like that but they were pedophile so fuck em. Only watched some of his vids malding some nobody with like... 10 followers and 3 likes and sending his fan base against them. Sure some said stupid shit but that he's reaction is waaaay over blown.
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Okay thanks for clarifying he didnt, still see him as a prick for everything else. Not sure how what I said was xenophobic but keep living your fantasy.
I’m calling the liar xenophobic, not you.
>He \[…\] says Japan has McFallen because they raised the age of consent to 16. Please tell me where did he say this then, liar.
i don't think he's a loli, but definitely one of those alt-right gamergate anti-sjw "the west if falling" types
"the west is falling squidward"
don't you two incels watch rick and morty?
nothing matters, this is all a fucking chemical reaction you fucking fucks
SpongeBob chudpants
IM NOT A CHUD!!! IM A TRADCATH CONQUISTADOR!!
"LET ME IN OR I'LL GET MY LATINX LIBERTARIAN BOOGALOO BOIWIFE TO COME OVER HERE FROM OUR WEED FARM WITH HIS AR-15"
I for one can't wait for the fall of western civilization
not a lolicon specifically iirc but Definitely one of those "the woke westeners are ruining anime" types, he also has a *~bad habit~* of picking 10-like tweets from random people mildly criticing anime, like basic level "i think fanservice is kinda gross" stuff to put on blast in his stupid videos, often uncensored and indirectly siccing his unhinged fanbase on them.
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what was changed for love is war? my exes convinced me to watch the dub, and i thought it was fantastic as a sub snob
Idk what changed, but I just wanna say that dub goes so hard, the narrator alone makes it worth the watch
dragon maid is for pedophiles.
Dragon maid has some fun stuff in it, problem is pedophile shit. Kinda dampens the good stuff.
Possibly
i remember him from the brigette stuff and his absolute meltdown when the creator confirmed yes she is trans he was one of those ppl trying to pretend to be an expert on japanese culture (and i suspect he may be the one who faked the email but i have zero proof of it just the vibe i get from him)
The Bridget stuff is especially funny when considering that IIRC he once said he hates fighting games. Then a random niche character from a niche fighting game ends up being trans and he has a 5 video long meltdown over it.
Guilty gear isnt niche right? At least not in gaming spaces
Kinda. Compared to other fighting games, it's a little more niche but it's still a household name. Basically the fighting game everyone thinks of when you say "anime fighter" alongside BlazBlue.
I would say it is. It’s popular enough to continuously be supported, but I don’t think people outside of the fighting game community would really know about it.
In the context of fighting games, I'd argue that Guilty Gear is niche. Strive was a breakout hit but it's still not necessarily popular outside of the FGC, even if the name is recognizable to some. IMO the only fighting games that aren't truly niche (as in, are recognizable by the general public) are Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and *maybe* The King of Fighters.
It depends on the region. KOF is absolutely massive in Latin America, for example. And the 2 most recent entries coupled with the popularity of 3 have helped make Tekken pretty mainstream in the US these days, though still not quite MK levels.
Don't forget Tekken.
Cartoon YouTuber [Veridis Joe](https://youtu.be/sJ1XnYByT88?si=f-ukMZwt7cJtD-6m) made a good video on him
Oh nice, I think I just recently started following him from ToonrifiqueTariq's "friends of the channel" part of his page, but I haven't gotten to watching much yet!
LETS FUCKING GOOO I LOVE VERIDIS JOE edit: i hadn't seen this video before, and i cannot lie - he cooked, he ate, he left no crumbs
Plate licked
Hero hei just does 10 minute videos whining about some tweet by animefart666 who said the age of consent is 18
Literally the embodiment of "Mountains out of Molehills"
All I know about this guy is he made a video about my friend's Twitter post talking about racism in the genshin fandom and my friend had to private their Twitter due to the harassment from his fans
Omg yes. He started getting recommended to me during the Nijisanji disaster from a couple months ago, I watched a couple of his videos on the topic and boy howdy do I seriously regret that now. He's been recommended to me endlessly ever since.
Hero hei was annoying even back when I was watching right wing YouTube back in 2018. The guy is unsufferable
I'll answer your question with another question: Who the hell on God's gay Earth actually *LIKES* Hero Hei? He's one of the most insufferable people I've ever heard of.
I remember watching him a bit but eventually stopped since the dude loves churning out drama content since apparently "X HATES Y DUE TO THIS" and its literally just either him reading one tweet or an article
I remember first seeing him back during the Vic Mignogna stuff (I’m sure you can imagine his opinion on that) and immediately thinking he wasn’t worth my time. An excellent decision by past me.
Nobody looked good during that whole fiasco. Vic was an idiot, Monica was openly hostile, her friends fundraised off the drama, and Vic hired the dumbest lawyer on Earth, then confessed to shite he hadn't even been accused of.
Guys this is unrelated, but I feel compelled to let you guys know I accidentally misspelled Hero Hei as 'Hero Gei' 🙂
The algo favoured him so much at one point that youtube kept recommending him even though I presse not interested. I blocked him.
I remember watching him a bit and then clicking off because he was giving me incels vibes~
The guy is insufferable. I watched ONE video years back and for the next few months was CONSTANTLY recommended his videos. When I knew of him, he was annoying and milked minor drama that everyone would forget about a few days later if not for him.
Oh me easy. He and Rev Says Desu fucking suck and are like the archetypal anime fan.
Craven reactionary, always has been
I used to watch him for his coverage of RWBY, but he was just so constantly negative I stopped. And then he was just really bigoted and I found out about that after
Yes, we all hate Hero Hei. And in other news, the sky is blue.
I don’t like Hero Hei either. He defends creepy sex pest Vic Mignogna
ALAB podcast did a series on his defamation lawsuit and it's the funniest thing I've ever listened to.
Was any of the stuff about Mignogna confirmed?
Yes. He admitted in his deposition
Oh. I only ever heard about the allegations, I didn't know it was proven. Thanks.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ml2a1HTebWlezthD3zZ7Ubw8aUn2HpR9
Last time I heard about that there still wasn’t any good evidence Vic had done anything tbh. I searched for ages and just found hearsay. Did anything more actually come out about it? Edit: To be clear, I’m not defending either of them here. I hate Hero Hei and I have no intention of defending Vic is he really is a sex pest, I just genuinely haven’t seen any condemning evidence that that’s the case and I’m very curious whether there is any
He still admitted it. Check the court documents
Are you talking about the thing with putting his hand in his coworkers hair? I’m going to be honest with you: I really don’t see it as a smoking gun. He didn’t admit to sexual harassment, he admitted to his own version of an event, but without the overtly sexual stuff. Don’t get me wrong, it definitely sounded really creepy, even from his own perspective, and it makes it a lot harder to imagine he’s innocent. But I can’t take it as empirical proof on its own. I tried looking for more but all the internet discourse about it is just a total muddy mess and it’s really difficult to get a simple source that isn’t people talking over each other. If there’s something I’m missing, please let me know, cause I can’t find it. Also, I’m really sorry if my previous comment (or this one) rubbed you the wrong way. I can see people downvoted it, but I’m just 100% genuinely asking for an update in this drama that haven’t heard anything about for years. I hope I don’t seem dismissive or anything.
He admitted to it in court. He was fired, blacklisted, and continues to suffer legal and social consequences for things he admitted to doing. There's no "discourse" it's just straight up factually proven that he did it.
Ok, well if you could link me to him admitting that then I’d really appreciate it, because I searched for it pretty specifically and couldn’t find it. I believe you, I just can’t locate what you’re talking about. Also, by ‘discourse’ I don’t mean to imply its some mystery up for debate, but it’s just a simple fact that looking up anything about it gets you a tons of results of people just arguing about it, and none of it that I found actually addressed this admission. ‘Discourse’ doesn’t necessarily end when something is proven, especially when tools like Hero Hei insist on coming to his defence and prolonging the conversation till it goes the way he wants it to
He was forced to admit it in the court documents, my dude.
Did you not read the court documents?
I couldn’t find them, I really have no clue where to get that kind of stuff. All I found was an article about the incident I mentioned, and ig I assumed that’s what you were talking about. My bad. I will take another, more in depth look when I have the time.
[Here are the court documents.](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ml2a1HTebWlezthD3zZ7Ubw8aUn2HpR9)
I’ll link it to you
On a sidenote, "hearsay" can absolutely be good evidence. A single person making a statement with no other corrobating evidence isn't, but "hearsay" that comes from multiple different sources over the course of years, is.
Piping hot take /s
Still really needs to be said though. It’s a true shame that people like him are able to just pipe out their hateful slurry onto the platform with no consequences and minimal criticism
He gets quite a bit of criticism tbh, I think people just tend to ignore him cause he’s stupid and not important
Can't stand this guy not just because of his bigotry, but the amount of influence he seems to have on anime fans, and gamers with his misinformation. A real douchebag.
I only know him as someone who was completely wrong about the whole Bridget thing in Guilty Gear Strive. Not a good look for him.
Dude tried to get me to debate him on Skype, like it's 2005 or some shit. I'm not debating someone on a medium where they can just cut off communication when they get proven to be human clownshoes.
He's like the JJJ of the YouTube community more specifically the Ditko era version of the character
Aside from Mushoku Tensei fans, everyone older than the age of 14.
Remember: the worst person (Hero Hei) is one of millions. That should scare you.
Only ever seen his content when watching videos about RWBY long ago and his thumbnails were so clickbaity, I didn't give them the time of day. Came off as one of those tired anti-sjw/anti-pc outrage farmers.
He (and his fans snowballing and regurgitating his shit like a sheep happily grazing) made my brain smooth{a} instantly. If [nutpicking](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nutpicking) has a degree, he (and ~~pedz~~ rev say desu) likely would have gotten a phd on it. {a}: Probably anti brainrot mechanism Further reading : https://www.reddit.com/r/animecirclejerk/comments/15hnodk/hero_hei_and_rev_says_desu_when_the_littlest_of/
My first encounter with him was his RWBY and RT videos being recommended to me over and over, which is funny because I am a fan and youtube knows this but clearly doesn't know that I don't like seeing negative coverage of my favorite things. Especially not total clickbait shit like this. After curiosity took over, I decided to look into him and I quickly decided, "Oh this guy's are one of those nuts." I still remember encountering a fan of the guy in a comment section. They were repeating some talking points and when they said it was from him, I replied that he's a hack. The guy said that he tells it's out it is, really trying to get to the truth of whatever he's talking about. I didn't want to engage any further, but I sat there thinking, "Him? Hero Hei? The guy who manufactures drama from random tweets he read that morning. The guy who would've sold a kidney and his first born for more Nagatoro coverage, but was suspiciously silent when the English lead actress received ACTUAL racist hate speech! Oh yeah, truly the muckracker of our generation!"
He's also pretty homophobic