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Hello, friends (and enemies)!

Here's how the Adobe video is going.

We've made quite a few changes to the early sections, but if you don't feel like re-watching too much, the really big changes start at around the 25 minute mark, where the new on-set shoot stuff starts coming in.

I'm really happy with these first 80 minutes, although watching this through to test it rendered properly, Kat and I made another 2 pages of notes for little changes.

'Making antitrust law fun' was a nice challenge, but the next, uhh, two hours don't require me to explain legal precedents or lawsuits quite as much, so editing and double-checking facts is going a lot smoother, so the rest of the video should be in a viewable state pretty quickly.

Thanks for the feedback on the previous version! When the whole thing is almost done I'm gonna come back and re-read all the comments on the drafts just to make sure I've thought of everything.

We're thinking of premiering the final version of the video in a movie theatre somewhere in California (since I can't leave until I'm sure we're done, and Kat lives here and she would be organizing it lol). We've worked on this one for so long it might be fun to make its completion feel like more of an event. Let us know if you think that would be interesting. Is it even a good idea to premiere a nearly-4-hour YouTube video like that? We'd have to do an intermission wouldn't we? Oh no.

I just ate 450 calories of M&Ms in about half a second. I tried to pour a few into my mouth from the packet so I didn't get my hands dirty, and I did it wrong and most of them fell in. I'm gonna walk in circles listening to the voiceover recordings for a few hours and then lie down.

-Harry

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Kaskodaka

I can't wait to watch!

Will

LETS GOOOOO

the AC

Seated!

Patrick

I'm a chumby developer trying to make flash apps in 2025 so I have to agree, they blackholed soooo much shit when flash died it was awful for the chumby

Kuba

If you did a premiere somewhere near Los Angeles I would be there so fast.

Jurei

Lolol, I just watched the first 25 minutes again yesterday, I’m so excited about this video!!!!

Braden Kerr

Absolutely come to California! I’ll make the trip.

theseerofdoom

Harris Bomberguy please screen in Houston also. I promise I will buy 10 tickets to make the cost like 5% worth it

Reese

I would LOVE to see it debut in a theater, but I'm on the East coast 😭

CJ Leemaster

I’d travel to watch it in theaters if I could make it happen, super cool idea.

jb

Definitely do a premiere screening at a cinema with a Q&A! And livestream it to Patreon for the rest of us

VenusianOne

hell yeah see y’all in ~7 months! maybe i’ll have enough saved to fly to california by the time it’s done 😈

Isaac Fehr

If it’s in LA, I’d definitely watch it in a theatre!

Dogboy

YIPPIE!!! I'm so sad I can't join for a cinema viewing cause I'm in Australia but I'll just have to have my own watch party with my friends, can't wait to see the finished product!

Alisdair Macpherson

I am unfortunately cursed with the disease of living in Britain so I wouldn't come to that screening but I think it's a super cool idea regardless you should do it!

Casey Gecko

would absolutely love a cinema premiere but besides the cost of travel, as i'm trans i literally can't enter the US rn (have had the sex on my passport changed — high likelihood of being turned away at the border). would be truly amazing if you did a second premiere anywhere in europe — i Will fly to be there if that happens, and i'm sure i'm not the only one

Rover Bernhard

I would love to watch this in person!!!! And meet you!

Maya

What I would have given to experience the plagiarism video twist in a theater

A. B. Stone

As much as I love your vids I am poor so there is no way in hell I'm making it to america - but if you could do a screening in london I would 100% come to that

Izzy Killeen

I'd love it if you screened the video in a theatre, just to collect data on what it's like to watch such a long but well constructed video essay in that environment. I think media length discourse is mostly bullshit, and a proxy for media *quality*, which you do not want for (unlike certain James Camerons I could mention), but I think watching one at the cinema would be quite challenging. I'd love to be proven wrong by the evidence though!

verminty

los angeles or somewhere in the oakland/san fran area would probably be your best bet as far as wanting good turnout goes. i do know in the bay area theres a couple little indie and even historical theaters that rent their space out for events! hell, im local in sacramento and i know of like 3 off the top of my head that do this stuff.

Babushi

And here I was, about to watch the newest episode of Taskmaster and you give me this wonderful option

Casey Gecko

(i'm not watching this preview as i'd like to watch the full cut when it releases fresh — i have no doubt it's great tho! i generally watch the very first preview and then wait for the final video, which in this case i'm looking forward to a lot!)

Evan Korbut

Can't help but notice frenemies and splenemies were not included smh 😔

Anthony Behnke

I’d love to see that on a big screen! Your videos are worthy of an in-house orchestra (they can do an overture and an intermission).

Spencer St. James

The California theater would be cool, but you *have* to accommodate my schedule, specifically. No, I don't know what that would be, yet, but I will be eternally bitter if I moved out of California between the last video and this one just to miss this opportunity

smaz ruby

if you do premiere it at a theatre, please livestream it! so us non-americans can watch along and also see any intro, q+a, intermission, etc.

Kelley Crist

I subscribed to this patreon for my boyfriend as he is absolutely in love with you and his comfort video is the Plagiarism video that he has probably contributed hundreds of views at this point. He got very excited at the idea of a California viewing as he read the post. Unfortunately, Fresno isn’t an ideal location to gather fans across the world to, so he wanted me to share that we would happily travel to get to see a viewing in theaters and show his support ❤️

Tantacrul

"Fell in", lolol.

Doctorjellybean

I would be so down to watch the video in California.

Stigcrafter

As cool as a cinematic Youtube premiere would be, as someone currently dealing with a big project and scope creep and the nightmare slippery slope of all that comes with, I would probably advise just pushing over the video finished line first before adding organising a whole event to the list Also escaping America before releasing the video just in case it does something that traps you may be a consideration too Although, I say all that as someone who hasn’t ever finished a big project like that and is Australian and therefore has no idea what’s happening in the US, so apologies if I’m totally wrong on both fronts

Heidi Moops

Is rapid ingestion of m&ms a better or worse energy spike than Carabao? This is purely hypothetical as I’m pretty sure Carabao would kill me if I looked at it the wrong way.

Denver

I love the idea of a showing in California! I live in California and I know at least one other person would be thrilled to see this!

ruffboiMags

My wife suggests a conference hall with low but not off lighting and maybe some sort of food and drink (cheap, pizza and sodas type or pre-made sandwiches) to make it feel a bit more like a party rather than a film since it's so long? Also you might be able to get away with not putting in an intermission that way. 😉

SuchaCaz

At 28:30 in the video, for 20 seconds, the audio source switches and sounds weird.

S

I have also seen the Plagarism video upwards of 30 times atp, I don’t think I’ve ever had a “comfort video” before or like ANY piece of media I have been able to rewatch so frequently, but that and the oof video have some magic juice that makes them somehow hit every single time

Kadisiyus Wyrd

I'd honestly fly out to Cali to see a screening of this video in full with some buddies

Coy Cadaver

1st implies there's a second. But if there were only 2 it would be part one. Bare minimum. 4 hour video. Could be longer but I'll take it. It's like he uploaded 32 8 minute videos. Now that's a consistent upload schedule.

Hbomb

It was windy! I kept switching (boom mic just offscreen, and lav mic under my coat) to pick the source which sounded better in the moment, but I'll see if I can clean up the better sounding one more.

Idkfuggg

California's pretty big, but us Southern Californians have completely unreasonable standards regarding how far we're willing to drive for events. So a screening is a guaranteed success here! I know myself and a few other people in the area who'd be willing and able to turn up for a screening, so I think you would see a solid amount of interest in something like that!

Alec Running

My only critique is you aren't premiering in MN!

odette

There is a little glitch on the screen at about 29:50, in case you weren't aware. Love the costume btw - can't wait for the full video < 3

Starry

Do the cali screening in norcal!!! I would love to come.

Meat Popsicle

Clearly doing it in the SF bay area would be the move here since that's where Adobe's from

catnepdotbiz

"Also escaping America before releasing the video just in case it does something that traps you may be a consideration too" Harris lives in the UK 😭

username here

If we can't convince them to come to Northern California we can throw our own premier. In all honesty I would probably travel to socal for this.

Retrotainment

Now I have two reasons to hate living so close to DC: 1) Proximity to Republicans 2) Missing out on the Premiere premiere 😂

Michael Llaneza

You should absolutely premier this in a theater. It's in California, but don't worry, I probably can't make it that night.

catnepdotbiz

Putting my vote in for LA since I live closest to there, it's packed as fuck but the bay area/sanfran/silicon valley (thematically fitting location) that people are also suggesting is much the same tbh. I would honestly still be willing to take a train 8 hours north to see this in theaters though. Wherever you decide to hold it in cali basically anyone who lives here has the ability to take the train at a minor monetary cost (mental cost of the journey, but a worthwhile one imo)

verminty

ah yes, splinter cell contingents of weird little essay fans infecting the rest of CA, we have arms all the way from Eureka to Fresno 💪

Landon

Instead of LA, you should premiere it in the florida panhandle, it’s way cooler trust me

Zaptross

Screening it in a theatre is a very cool idea, here’s hoping it goes smoothly wish I could attend.

S

Blessing in disguise, trust me you really don’t want to be here atm if you don’t have to be lol

ethrze

Do it in San Diego around Christmas you coward!

R. H. Killian

LA screening would be awesome!!! i would absolutely show up, since LA is just close enough for me to drive lmao

S

Have you seen “For-Profit (Creative) Software” from the channel EndVertex? I watched it a while ago and was totally blown away by how great it was, especially as it was seemingly the first video essay the channel has ever made. Considering the research that has gone into this video, and also just the type of things I imagine your algorithm tends to show you as a person of particular interests, I would guess you’ve probably seen it already, but wanted to mention it just in case, because it’s really fantastic and very relevant to this video’s topic. Here’s the link (hopefully links work here): https://youtu.be/I4mdMMu-3fc?si=w8FJBfqKwjnVztZr

RebeccaC

Not me over here trying to finish any assignments or anything

James King

I'd totally show up to a screening anywhere in the SF Bay Area. You could easily fill the Grand Lake in Oakland, the Roxie in SF, and a handful of others. SF and Oakland are the last bastion of truly indie theatres anywhere in the country.

Finley

Holy shit Kat did such a good job on the puppets!!

BigT

I would show up to a screening! That’s what normal people do right? Congregate and watch niche YouTube video essays in theaters?

SB

I'm in CA, I'll come to your opera-length youtube video premier! I'll wear the sweater I knit that says "why would i look for a relationship when the adobe licensing department is always willing to fuck me"

PeachBeach923

If you're doing an LA screening then take all the time you need editing king, I won't be there til January 😉😉

Neonstalgia

"Ooh, Hbomb, I love your videos even when I'm not interested in the topic! I'll watch anything you've made!" you FOOL. you keep releasing videos on topics I'm interested in!! I'll never know my true dedication!! 😭

M. C. T.

Hbomb is the only online video creator I know of who could say "here's the *first* one and a half hours of the new video, as a little sneak peak" and everyone thinks, yeah that sounds about right.

Duke86fan

i am legally required to say i love the muppet inclusion in this

Mark

What the fuck is a horse and why does it have a mouth

Tadeo D'Oria

Love it so far! I hope in some of the remaining two hours you mention community-driven open source alternatives. I'm a professional 3D artist who makes a point of only using open source software (Blender, Inkscape, Gimp) and teach other people about them as alternatives. I used to use Adobe and Autodesk software, but I was receiving such a terrible product that about 15-ish years ago I abandoned that whole ecosystem for good. It's obviously not perfect, but the alternatives are very strong in their fields and ironically receive faster and better updates these days, its just that they have 0 marketing budget because their objective is not to generate profit. Also, I can't believe Bork isn't more well known, what an evil evil person.

zeebot

i'm in the SF south bay so i can tell you that everyone here hates adobe! you could play this in the theater right next to their big ass office :)

Verena Becker

Movie theater premiere sounds like a really fun event, though I do SO not have the funds or time to travel halfway across the country. Don't mind me, I'll just be sitting over here grumbling to myself about it. Also, as someone who just finished a 62 oz jar of peanut m&ms - you'll need to work a lot harder to impress me with your accidental m&m gluttony.

Kat

Yes!! EndVertex is incredible!

Corbin Neuhauser

So is the remaining 4 hours just taking on capitalism directly.

Spencer Uli

Me and my partner would absolutely drive from Oregon to come see it! Also plz do another sonic video, I’m like 30% sure you said you’d do that at some point

Tetrad / TesseractMedia

I would love to see a premiere of this! Would it be the LA area? SD? SF? Please don’t be in Sacramento.

Jenny He

PLEASE DO A PREMIER IN CALIFORNIA!!! Sincerely, someone who lives kinda in the middle of the state and is ready to go places!

Imri

DO THE MOVIE PREMIERE!!!!!!! But give us notice so I can save up 😭💚

Samuel Fout

"Well here's a video about software" jokes on you that's my exact fetish

Stigcrafter

he mentions in the post he’s in the US and can’t leave until it’s done lol, that’s the whole reason they’re thinking of it

Olivia

"if you don't feel like re-watching too much-"; imma stop you right there while I go hit play

JHXC

I might actually leave the east coast for the first time ever just to go to this theatre premiere lol

Lieutenant Donkey

is that a cheeky little tommy tallerico reference around 6 minutes 40? and the 360p wiki wiki wild wild west joke lives on at ~57 minutes! lmao great video so far, can't wait for the rest.

Connor Kelly-Eiding

California resident here. Get out of Temecula before it's too late.

Isaac Madsen

I'd take Amtrak from Salt Lake to San Francisco (and down to LA if I must) if you do a movie premiere. One of my best friends is from Temecula (If I recall correctly, he called it one of the most boring places on Earth), so this is going to be a fun send to him once it's done.

PoloniumT

I wish I lived closer so I could go to such a premier. That’d be awesome.

Dylan Oonk

since the last time you posted on patreon, the american federal government shut down and you post on the day after it reopens? i'm getting suspicious...

Lance Manly

This is the meanest video yet! I hope it gets meaner, because I fucking hate all these people.

Veronica Reeves

Loving this so far! An in-person premiere sounds very fun! I hope everyone in attendance has a great time. At 41:50 there's a glitch in the transition from the store interior to the LensCrafters exterior

CodeTako

Loving the video thus far. I really think that after a company gets big enough it should be forced into becoming a public benefit company or something like that so it's legally required to consider the needs of its customers and society at large. With great power comes great responsibility and all that.

Alis

Just want to mention that I really will watch anything you make as you are a super funny, you also make me care about whatever you make so even if you made a vid about the complex dynamics of paint drying that is 6 hours long, buddy you better believe I am popping some popcorn and clearing my weekend.

Robert Kupper

At 31:45 you say the price of cool edit pro increased by $50, but the text on the screen shows a $70 price hike. (Unsure if someone else posted this.)

zeebot

"Ooh, Hbomb, I love your videos even when I'm not interested in the topic! I'll watch anything you've made!" i'm literally a tantacrul subscriber who works in tech, this is the shit i live for

Dihuh

Personally would buy a ticket for me and my husband to watch in an person premiere! That would be a blast haha.

Ash Gabrielle

I am loving how this video is edited so far. Very snappy and comedic, lots of good energy to set off the rage at these companies

Lottie Cole

I don’t know if i’ve missed something, but you said in the ‘guess if this is something adobe made’ section “I’ve already told you about Macromedia” that isn’t in the video?

megurinegabriel

I think at 26:00 it would be a great place to do like a dramatic chapter title card or something - I got so lost at that point because I did not process the sentence about going there before the cut to the new section, and I honestly assumed I'd not been paying attention and missed a scene/topic change haha

Stephanie

Having now learned who these puppets are I'm even more impressed Adam Savage correctly guessed one!

BatsyBunny

I'd absolutely buy tickets to a theater screening!

Anita Karsa

Can we have a UK screening too? Anybody with me?

MadCashew Nutjob

Well, learning about Software wasn’t on my bingo card, but here I am.

Milly Massy

It's in the first five-ish minutes, he mentions that Adobe didn't make Flash, Macromedia did :)

acerousTabellary

This video looks fantastic so far. I can't wait for youtube's algorithms to directly suppress this information.

Orestria

I'm not prewatching nor doI live in the same hemisphere as california but thank for the critical m&ms information that made me cackle after a long week at work :D

Sauwercraud

I am surprised that you did not include a clip of James Lee Animations Adobe Videos 😊 Great work and Freehand MX forever! ❤️

Matthew Smith

If you do have a screening, an intermission about halfway through would probably be advisable. You could trundle round with an usherette tray offering to pour M&Ms directly into your patrons' faces.

David Meyer

I would kill to see the full thing in a theatre, too had i have to live in Germany

David Meyer

Actually scratch that i love living in Germany fuck US and A

Giant Squid of Anger

Can't wait for you to get more into Monopoly lore :D At 43:05 there is something at the bottom of the screen? If it is supposed to be there, then I guess I can't make out what it is supposed to be.

Nikki

Premiering the idea in a cinema would be pretty epic, but also pretty expensive. Either you're paying up and losing a relevant amount of income for something you've worked on for two years, or you ask people to pay up and restrict access to a portion of the audience who can afford to spend on something like that.

Tamara Macadam

What I find most impressive about the Microsoft deal is that it was so messed up that some people are still incredibly angry about it to this day: http://toastytech.com/evil/ (warning: eyestrain)

Aischa

It is, in the introduction.

Aki

I hope Kat's ankle is recovering well! Glad to see no further injury reports in this update! 😊

jb

have you considered using the Essential Sound tool? i think i have a tutorial somewhere

CERNDoughnut

HYPE I'm so excited to watch at lunch

thequeerquartz

those commercials veiled as tutorials totally killed my drive to learn photoshop btw, im a little younger than you so the real tutorials had already been buried by the time my nascent teen fingers first started wanting to learn how to use computer programs like photoshop. Overt ime with more updates and acquisitions these programs go from being specialized to being these huge motherships of features, and without proper guides it felt impossible to get in and learn early on. I'm sure other people my age figured it out! I was just easily discouraged and then distracted away from learning, i wonder how many more people would have learned if the ecosystem felt more genuine.

Stephen

Can’t help but notice that in Hbomb’s videos there seems to be a running theme of people getting shot, execution style. Should I be worried?

Devin

I am a graphic designer. This video demonstrates that you have a fundamental ignorance of my profession and my industry. Patronage withdrawn.

Raymond McCarthy

The catering bit was cringey. Loved the rest of it though

pixearles

Great so far, really looking forward to the finished film!

Reece Chaplin

Hello Hbomberguy, i have just played vampire the masquarade because you mentioned it in a video, it was good. I am glad i played it i played as malkavian.

Alex

I kind of wish you'd do a get together with your fans here in the UK after the launch of the video as a little celebration! Do YouTubers still do get togethers like that?

C

Have a screening at Alamo Drafthouse Mountain View! In the heart of Silicon Valley. You can rent for a private event. the Alamo Drafthouse in SF is beautiful too. I saw the nearly 8 hour OJ: Made in America documentary there, so , yeah it’s set up well for long films.

C

The Roxie is a great suggestion

Alex Corbeil

Had to google KOL because I wasn't sure what it meant and then I got sad. Also Muppet Bork is really good. That is a very good muppet of a really really bad dude

Benjamin Storm

This is great but will the full video tell us how to fix this? Its fine if it doesn't I just need to prepare my depression addled brain for a 4 hour video about how everything still sucks

Daelf Derechef

aahhh quark! QUARK!! I HAVE A QUESTION. when i worked in stuff that needed xpress or indesign, in the 00s, i haaaated xpress because it needed a *physical verification key* (and i was. not warned. that this key taking one of the very limited usb ports of the computer was *absolutely necessary*. so got very confused that xpress didn't work anymore when i removed it to plug something i really needed.) … what that super frequent at the time? i have no idea how to look it up, because *gestures at how google is broken now* so if anyone knows… (also, brian my adhd brain insists that it miiiight be relevant? idk.)

Retro Rabbit Hole

Hey HBomb, while I doubt this part of the video needs more pork, it might be worth mentioning that IBM allowing Microsoft to eat their lunch was directly because at the TIME IBM was terrified of being anti-trusted. They were a functional monopoly in the mainframe markets and were very, very careful about not crossing any lines. They got sued in US vs IBM as well and managed to "win" by the skin of their teeth because they had already proactively started to unbundle their products. This is what made using Microsoft to create DOS (the operating system for the original IBM PC, you probably know this, but maybe not everyone who might be reading this) really attractive to IBM. This allowed them to continue their "unbundling". And, ironically, to an extent this had the desired effect. As in, competition emerged in the PC *hardware* market, because competitors could buy DOS from Microsoft. However like they did with Netscape, they also murderized Digital Research, the makers of CP/M, the operating system that they cribbed to make DOS. (It's more complex than that, Microsoft bought the rights to a piece of software that cribbed CP/M it's a whole thing, but this is close enough). Because "everyone" needed DOS, this then let them make Windows which ran on top of DOS at the time, incompatible with Digital Research's DOS (called DR-DOS) which killed that competitor. It is very funny that Microsoft got to become the horrifying corporation it is today because IBM was trying very hard to convince the US government it they were the good bois.

gojostherapist

I’m so excited for this omg! You’ve blessed us Bbomberguy!

Anya Brandon

It was a bit depressing to read about a potential premiere in California as a British fan ngl. I would love a UK equivalent, even if it was down South.

Aimee Thorne

As someone who went all in on Flash with Actionscript for interface design in a long ago bad career decision, thanks for channeling the anger.

OHDEEGEE

I need 4 more hours please

Lisa Haves

Really liking this so far, though I feel like the editing in the live-action skits could be tightened up. The pace of the comedy is a little lethargic, and kinda jarring against the quicker pace of the animated sections. Also agree with another commenter that the transition to the hotel would benefit from a title card of some kind of section break to really hammer home the impact. Can't wait to see the rest of it!

Gabriel Guedez

A single tear just rolled down my leg 💔

Pagefire

Love it. I can already see where the Toy Story stuff is going but I'm open to being surprised. Only feedback: Not a big fan of the close-up of shit on the ground during the Monopoly (game) section. Even if someone wasn't eating during your videos, that could throw someone off. So I'd say censor it or use a different B-roll

Siggy Sigwald

I'm still watching but are there any mentions to opensource, gpl, creative commons and / or the many opensource tools available for video / audio / image / 3D creation and editing? After a good anticorp rant I'm kinda hoping there is some mention of the people actively working to free people from corporations. There's also something to say about the forums and communities around them. The many how-tos that fuel the quick sharing of knowledge....

KSCHatch

I continue to refrain from watching until this is done and I am so excited.

Resident DJ Precht

Ngl when u started with the different scaling methods across adobe products i was reduced to shouting “PREACH”

lostsheep

Montreal reference only makes sense if the Montreal tax subsidy section of the deus ex video was in the final cut, thats said we got nice indie theatres here in french canada probably cheaper to rent as well…

Andrea Cervantes

On sale on the merch table outside the cinema: I survived HBomberguy's latest 4-hour descend into madness.

Noodledoodlemacaroodle

Have you considered splitting up your videos in parts? Don't get me wrong! I like your long video essays. But my "normie" friends doesn't seem to appreciate me suggesting them watch a video that could be half a workday 😅

Sooz Kempner

It is fucking fascinating and I can't believe I have spent £1500 on Adobe for the past 5 years I hate this I hate it so much I can never stop paying it haha

FiveBam

Love the idea of the a live theater premier!

Tadeo D'Oria

Sure, but Canva is still a for-profit corporation, and Affinity is proprietary software. Nothing is stopping them from going the same route as Adobe in the future and, as the video points out, changing the interface or incorporating AI or how the license works. That's not the case with open-source solutions because the community is always able to take the code and create their own fork with tweaks if there's a demand for it; which has happened with Gimp and Blender for example.

WishMakers

If I remember correctly that was originally part of the very pitch of the video, but it got turned into *its own* video to make sure that this one ever actually airs. Admittedly, I am extremely looking forward to the follow up on open source. It's really important.

ghostdunk

isn't the whole point of M&Ms that they don't get your hands dirty? melt in your mouth not in your hand?

tmbabe13

No greeting for splenemies? :( LOVE the video; excellent work as always. As far as minor technical blips go, the audio changes in a weird way between cuts around 28:30 (not sure that's fixable given I assume it has to do with being on location? But I've no experience in that; I thought I'd mention it just in case), and the screen flickers oddly on the "1982" card around 29:50. Forgot this was the patreon "just the first half" cut and when it abruptly cut off went !!!!! hey!!!!

Annika Ellis

Kat's Muppets are fantastic, I hope they feature in every single video from now on

Winmax

Loving casheir

Sid

Isn't Lizzie Magie (creator of the Landlord's Game) a Georgist which while vaguely similar to socialism in some respects I think might be a bit disrespectful to her as over simplifying how she politically identified herself. Maybe she identifies herself as a socialist somewhere but as far as I can tell she strongly considered herself a Georgist not a socialist.

mr. mouse

you've probably already noted this, but at 1:13:17 the vo says 160 million and the screen shows 160,000 (unless im misreading the screen in which case nevermind) <3

RatPicsOnly

DO IT IN NYC SO I CAN GO

PinDaGreat

The chocolate doesn't melt in your hands, but the coating will still leave behind a bit of sticky residue. Sugar is sticky, so any candy you eat with your hands will make them dirty

PinDaGreat

I'm really excited for this video. I was anticipating it last year when it was supposed to be out in December and could've come out the same day as my gastric sleeve surgery as far as I knew. Now I've lost over 150lbs, started hrt after years of wanting it, and have improved my mental health and social life substantially. It's really made me think about how far I've come, seeing more updates on this video. I'm excited for the full release

Joseph Torres

your life sounds kickass, and I'm happy everything seems to be going well!

Birch

"i'm partnered with a dobie" just sounds more fun and refreshing, and it gets you and your new dog outside on walks

Catherine Fox

If I can get away from work for a little trip, I’d love to see a hbomb video in a theater

zetryfie

If it's in the bay, I'd love to go to a premiere.

Boring Keith

It'd be cool to "two nickels" seeing video essayists in theaters this year!

ball gobbler

'i wonder if that'll come up later, what do you think?' *feeling of rising dread*

Aaron Nemoyten

Same. I’m in the Bay Area and I’d love to go to a big HBomberguy meetup / premiere! Might even try to drag my wife to it!

RebeccaC

Who is the guy who fell off the chair (or maybe the chair broke?) while in the old western town? Hbomber didnt react at all

nekomusumeninaritai

Perhaps he could do a “movies in the park” style screening with a projector? I'm not quite sure what the logistics would be, aside from getting a projector and probably a permit…

sdomi

hey hbomb. the MS-DOS 5 cover you used at 00:57:05 is some freak outlier OEM version (and I can ONLY find this cover in one ebay auction, plus absolutely zero mentions elsewhere). first, thanks for the rabbithole; second, you may want to change it for a more generic cover :3

Daniel K Esperson

It's comforting to know I am not the only person who has gone insane spectating investor capitalism ruining all of our lives.

Ziede

Love the video! Wanted to mention for the sake of accuracy that at 1:10:05, you say, "In 2020, the Biden administration..." and that Biden took office in 2021. I'm unfamiliar with this lawsuit, so it may have been in 2021, but if it took place in 2020, it happened under Trump 1.

Quiz Kid Donnie Sith

(at around 9:30) Have you really been working on his video for so long that people used to "type it in a search" instead of asking an AI agent? Unrelated, I can't express how much joy the Bork muppet and its, shall we say, origin story gives me.

Jess Neale

1:11:35 - "closest you can get to the horses mouth"?!... so you admit it. Horses ARE real?

Kevin Rivers

Feedback from my wife: “I like it and I don’t care about software”

nekomusumeninaritai

I wonder why the EU never tried to break up some of these monopolies. I heard that the UK had to give permission for the M$/ABK merger, and the EU sometimes fines companies like Google, but I've never heard of them breaking one up. Obviously you need some leverage, but the EU has that. Is it bc of some weird trade rule, or imperialism, or just that the US has better laws (that some judges decided to neuter), or maybe something else?

Chris Huff

I might want to sell some some of my RSUs before the full video drops.

Aidory Gregan

I would watch this in a theater so hard. I don't live in Cali anymore (though I'll be back in June), but I WILL fly over to watch this.

Sam

Note the slide also says "(in thousands)", so it is 160,000 thousands, or 160 million.

Mimosa

I’m so happy to see Luxottica catching strays!! You start saying this video is my final test but so far you’ve only been going to town on all the guys on my “evil companies I’m held hostage by” as an architect who also does archviz, wears glasses and loved flash games….

Eric Lundquist

Love the video so far! Big caveat though: at 1:10:06 you talk about the Biden administration in 2020 investigating Zuck. In 2020, Biden was not the president. Trump was president through all of the year 2020, and Biden was inaugurated in 2021. I haven't researched when this testimony was made, so I don't know which is correct, but if this did occur in 2020, it was during the Trump administration. If it occurred during Biden's administration then it couldn't have been before January 20th 2021. Not the main point, but could be worth a fix.

Kyle

Fantastic first chunk - shout outs to research and production. Also, thank you for the takedown of Bork. Fuck that guy forever, for real. In addition to everything cited, his “Borked” Supreme Court nomination led Mitch McConnell to craft his long-term right-wing judge-packing scheme, with all the fuckery that’s yielded. Yuck. PBS Frontline has a wonderful / woeful investigation on this topic called “Supreme Revenge” for anyone interested. Also, would love to attend a movie theater premiere! I’d need to travel, but worth it to celebrate the team’s accomplishments in person (alongside other Hbomberguy fans). Shout outs online, hand shakes in person.

Paulrubens

That was great! truly a promising start

eefay

i am also a graphic designer. is this comment real or

zetryfie

The Roxie was my first thought too. It would be perfect for this kind of thing.

Lucero

i would sell a kidney for you to premiere a youtube video in NYC 😔

Lana J

I'll sell mine too so Hbomb can't say no

SulaMoon

I'm so excited for this hahaha

Olly

You are right that stopping people from learning with advertorials has a negative effect. Advertorials which sell you the product but don't teach you anything are counterproductive in the long run. If a beginner cannot learn how to do a task, because of the flood of sponsored stuff drowning out the real tutorials, they are more likely to give up.

Damion reeves

Adobe bit echoing over itself is very clever and still just a bit annoying, perfect

Olly

If cleaning up the source doesn't work, my ear also hears a difference in bass and treble between the clips if that helps, you could use environmental location sounds to mask over the two parts before and after 28:30. To do this you use a recording of ambient sound from the location recording, e.g. any audio you have from filming there that's free of dialogue. Then you mix one ambient sound over the audio of the two clips. When it works, and it doesn't always work, it tricks the mind into thinking the audio is one continuous piece. (TV shows do this all the time. It's always worth recording a decent length of ambient location sound for this purpose, much like filming a green screen in a location, as it makes matching audio later a little easier)

Olly

1:01:20 Win 11 upgrade warning reference a bit out of date already, perhaps re-voice with what HAS happened in the past tense (kinda nitpicky, not world ending) Everything else is tight, well edited and nicely paced.

Daniel Gordon

the bork muppet makes this even more peak omg

Morgan Ashwin

I love the puppet so much, his plush stare as he looks upon his works despairing gives me life. Also IDK if this is an intentional thing but i noticed the use of the word psychotic in two places and it did feel strange

Joe G

My guys back

LukeZaz

I do actually have a critique: The Robert Bork puppet gives me Waluigi vibes, which I think is very unfair to Waluigi, who's obviously far more upstanding and ethical than Bork. Please fix.

LukeZaz

Kidding, obviously. Puppets are genuinely fantastic and I love them. Only actual note I have on this off the top of my head is that the audio quality at 45:41 is noticeably worse, but that's about it. It's great stuff!

Anarch Ion

I assumed that was an intentional bit to come back to the audio sliders mentioned earlier and how he never learned how to make audio segments match because the "tutorial" video he watched was secretly a commercial. Might be reading too much into it?

Anarch Ion

So far my only real criticism, if you can call it that, is that free and open source software is not mentioned as a real alternative to commercial software. They are community owned and cannot be taken away. Also, if you don't like that a setting was changed you can change it back.

Leigh

I would absolutely love to go to a movie theater premiere of this video (LA please!!!) that sounds so fun

LukeZaz

As a gag idea that'd work, but this comes in a little over 19 minutes after the audio sliders were last mentioned insofar as I can tell, which'd be a little late for a joke that subtle

Anarch Ion

Not for Harreton Splimby!

Sierra Clibourne

It would be so cool if you were able to premier it in a smaller theater! i'm biased towards my local Frida Cinema in santa ana since they're a nonprofit art house theater :) No idea if they'd have the room in the schedule but it would be cool to try!

Aprril

Not a serious critique, but you accidentally made a reference to horses (‘the horses mouth’) which is pretty strange considering that horses aren’t real.

DrKiIlgood

Im not going to la but portland oregon has a bunch of little indie theaters you could probably do a premier at that I would definitely go to

Iain Shepherd

If you do the Adobe Premiere Please call it the “Adobe Premiere” and get the right logo and word mark &etc. corps are very fussy about having their identity accurately presented

Wakelyn

hbomb, do you think spirit halloween is named "spirit of halloween"? do you not have spirit halloween in britain?

Calum

Left a comment on the video but I'll leave it here too! I have a few thoughts and I hope they don’t come across as negative. Certainly not a defence of capitalism or monopolies (lol), more just observations from someone who works in this space but is maybe a bit more optimistic about how much the internet and software has levelled the playing field for creatives. My main criticism is whether the opening conceit of the video feels a little... dated? Setting aside Adobe’s business practices or the US antitrust issues, the opening complaints seems to be built on the idea that Adobe is sweeping up essential creative software, putting them behind paywalls, or shutting them down entirely (Flash being the obvious and damaging example) and thus making the ability to create, share and experiment for artists and creatives more and more difficult these days. But IS that really the case? Is Adobe actually as powerful or dominant today as you suggest? You get the impression watching this that Adobe is tightening its grip on the video editing space and sucking the air out of the room when it comes to creatives. But in reality Premiere is losing market share hand over fist to competitors. DaVinci Resolve, which is a superior product in many (most) areas and completely free at the base level, is becoming more and more popular among amateurs and pros. Premiere is also losing massively to younger creatives. With smartphone editing becoming the norm, CapCut and similar apps dominate mobile editing. Adobe barely features in that space. Even Final Cut, while paid, is still a one off traditional style software purchase. Twenty years ago the idea that anyone could download Hollywood grade colour grading software for literally nothing would have been absurd. In the 1990s or early 2000s you would have paid thousands to get access to anything close to the level of kit your phone and a few basic free apps now offer. If we broaden this beyond video editing I think my point still holds true. Imagine telling someone twenty years ago that a fully animated feature like Flow (2024) could be created entirely in a free (and open source!) piece of software like blender? Or that you could download Unreal Engine, a AAA game engine, for no cost unless your game earns real money? Add to that GIMP, Linux, Reaper, Krita, Inkscape, Godot. The list of professional grade free tools is enormous and the don't seem to be shrinking, if anything they seem to be getting more powerful and competitive. Small, open source projects seem to be more nimble and able to create features adobe and big companies take years to implement. You mention Amazon taking over the book industry. Fair enough. But self publishing has given writers access to an industry that used to be completely sealed off. Hugh Howey built a huge audience through KDP. Colleen Hoover started as a self published author and is now one of the best selling writers in the world. There's more independent book stores in America than ever (if a recent vlogbrothers video is correct). Have we simply traded one kind of monopoly for another? The old book world was an inaccessible boys’ club with a maze of gatekeepers and dodgy contracts that were more exploitative than the music industry. Today's monopoly is centred around Amazon, but it's hard to argue it's not more open than ever to ordinary writers. And you yourself are a good example of how different things are now. You mention "Adobe giving profits to shareholders rather than people whop actually work for a living" (sorry I might be paraphrasing), but none of the problems with Premiere or Adobe or Google stop you from actually owning your work. You say "in 2025 filmmaking is for rich people again" but I'd be lying if I said I didn't roll my eyes at that line. You can shoot a feature length movie on a phone, edit and grade it in DaVinci Resolve, animate in Blender, design graphics in Photopea or Krita, and publish it for free on YouTube. If the algorithm is kind, you can even make tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds and the rights remain entirely yours. At no point do you have to hand anything over to a big media company. All of that process is easier to do today rather than harder - surely that's reflected in just how many indie creators there are out there? I haven't even mentioned them but maybe Podcasts might be the clearest example of all this. Screw YouTube, you don't even need a platform! A completely decentralised system where some of the biggest shows out there are now among the most influential pieces of media we have and possibly all pieced together on Audacity or something. That level of independence simply wasn’t possible thirty years ago. If anything, I think the growing scale of software companies providing creative tools is a reflection of how they are no longer making niche software for media outlets and production houses. They're now making software for literally anyone and literally anyone can make a career from it. Because of that, I’m not sure the video’s opening argument really really rings all that true. It feels more like something that would have made sense around 2012 or 2014. The creative world now feels more decentralised than ever. Not to say I disagree with what I assume is the larger point of the video, I don't know anything about American antitrust laws, but the opening argument threw me off a bit. Sorry for the long comment! I say all that as someone who never uses any free software, I'm completely swallowed up in Adobe and too lazy to learn all the amazing free software out there!

Calum

we don't, no.

VAdaPEGA

Funny considering how BrawlInTheFamily's Waluigi had been compared to Kermit so often, they did a song dedicated to it and illustrated a Waluigi puppet

Alice Fern

This is incredible! I can't wait for the full release. Live viewing seems like a brilliant idea, just sucks I'll be stuck on terf island.

With Quiet Eyes

2 things: 1. I vote intermission because I like intermissions, and I think it'd be funny. 2. 56:40 you say "pause for concern" which sounds not quite right to me?

Ian Magoo

No notes, this is absolutely fantastic. I'll absolutely drive down to California for an opening screening.

josh ward

Genocide supporter spotted

Kat

I read the fact-check you linked and it didn’t seem like it debunked the essence of what the original article was getting at while quibbling a bit about details that seem like misdirection from the point of the article. Because I was confused at why the fact-check was so poorly written and, let’s be honest, grasping at straws, I looked up honestreporting.com. It is clear they deceptively don’t present themselves as a pro-Israel advocacy group. If you have other more credible sources I’m happy to look at them, but what you linked appears to be propaganda.

Kat

Stay tuned!!!!

Kat

We have a colleague Erik, who does Internet Comment Etiquette, help film at the western set and gave him some dumb Easter egg cameos. Amazingly, the chair ACTUALLY broke when he sat down on it (thank god he didn’t get injured, unlike me 🥲)

Kat

It’s depressing when you add it all together…

Kat

We think about this a lot. None of MY normie friends watch multi-hour videos!

ghostdunk

The whole time watching this, I was wondering about actual competitors like Lyft or Inkscape. Do Lyft and Uber just collude with pricing? Does Adobe worry about free alternatives like Inkscape?

Kat

Oh shit you just reminded me we have shittons of merch in my garage that Nebula sent to us when their warehouse was full of more valuable merch. They will definitely be at the premiere if we can make it happen!

Kat

Harry loves to leave little jokes in for the OGs

Kat

We’ll definitely be throwing some open source stuff in there since there will probably be more eyes on this than the open source video, but yes it’s been split into multiple videos!

Kat

Would it be an Hbomb video if there wasn’t a little sliver of hope and positivity at the end?

Kat

Harry and I have a bet about if he took the KOL explanation out of the video and you’re making me think I’ve earned myself five bucks when we rewatch it.

Kat

Absolutely this needs to happen at some point soon!

Kat

Wait till we get to network effects and interoperability!! Lyft and uber are still the only game in town and they have a mutual interest in keeping prices up overall. If one of them died I’m sure it would get much worse!

Pavalineox

I would fly across the country just for a movie theatre premiere

Quitpayload

First of all, apologies in advance for the ridiculously long comment. I left a rather mean comment on the first 35 minutes post. I felt like an asshole writing that, and there are parts of it that reading it now make me uncomfortable. That being said, I stand by that comment despite the misgivings that I have towards it. I'm saying this because unfortunately I have more mean things to say, and I wanted to preface the fact that it truly doesn't bring me joy to bring these things up, but I feel that it's necessary to say them. There's also an elephant in the room that I bring up. It's not really related to your current video, but I think that it's important to bring it up. I also want to repeat what I said in an earlier comment. That I sent you a PM a while ago and I implore you to read it. I don't want to say what I said in it publically. I know that you probably have a backlog of PMs, and in my experience Patreons interface is kind of horrible to use, so If you can't find the message or anything I'd be happy to send it again. I didn't expect you to actually respond to my comment, and I just wanted to say that I really appreciated it. Now for things actually related to the video. I'm really liking the video so far, and I think that you've succeeded in making a potentially really boring topic really fun and interesting. The whole section about Bork was fucking wild, and I really like the puppet too. Small piece of criticism before I get to the pain. In the first 35 minutes preview video, in the section where you talk about sponsors, theres a bit where you talk about how you've spoken to other youtubers about sponsorships and that most of them don't like doing them. I actually went through that first video and got the timestamps for the part I'm referring to: 17:32 - 18:46 I'm bringing this up because that whole bit is absent from this recent video, and I think it would be a mistake to remove that segment from the final video. I found it really informative and insightful, and I hope that you bring it back for the final video. Okay. Are you ready for the pain? The segments that you shot in america are quite impressive, unfortunately, assuming that these segments are representative of what we'll see in the final video, I don't think that they were worth making, and were largely a waste of time and effort that could have been better used on other parts of the video, or in getting the video made sooner. From what I can gather from your posts, the process of making this part of the video was massively time consuming, potentially adding months to the production time of the video. When I look at any of the live action scenes you filmed, I can't help but wonder how many months these scenes added to the production time. I don't dislike them, far from it. I just think that for the effort that you clearly put into making them they just don't add that much to the video. They feel to me like they were made more to flex the fact that you have the money and resources to do this kind of thing than to actually make the video better. Even if the final video shows you did more in America, I struggle to see how your america trip improves the video enough for it to justify the incredibly long delay in videos. Let me put it this way. In your Scanline video about directors cuts, you talked about Raising Arizona, and how while the directors cut of the movie is technically better than the theatrical version, the changes are so small that it ultimately isn't really worth it. I look at this video in a similar way. The shot in America segments technically do improve the video, but as a whole, they amount to a couple of minutes of comedy footage in what could prove to be a video approaching four hours long, and I don't think that they are worth the months it likely delayed the video by. I'm really sorry to say all this, but I'm worried that the recent upload schedule is going to become a new normal for your channel, and I really don't want that to happen. That's all I have to say about that, now for the elephant in the room. Several years ago, you had a stretch goal on your patreon (A feature which patreon has since removed). For one of these stretch goals you stated that if your patreon reached a certain milestone, then you would make a video, or possibly multiple videos defending the Star Wars Prequels. I don't remember specifically what this milestone was, but I remember this patreon milestone being reached, and I remember you acknowledging it on twitter, but as far as I can tell, in the years following this, you've made no acknowledgement or comments about this planned video. I don't remember exactly when this milestone was reached, but I'm amost certain it was pre-COVID. I have conflicting feelings on this. On one hand I'm not all that interested in watching a video made by you about the Star Wars Prequels, and I don't like the idea of you making a video simply because you feel pressured to do so. But on the other hand, I think that it's extremely problematic that you promised a video as a reward for people financially supporting you, and then never made that video, and seemingly haven't even acknowleded that video either. You've publically talked about a bunch of ideas for videos that you ultimately never made, and I don't really have an issue with that. The difference with the Star Wars video is that you suggested that as basically the carrot on the end of the stick in exchange for financially supporting you. I don't really know what to do other than bring this up. I think that it would suck if you spent months or years working on a video that you didn't really care about. It would suck for viewers too, as the time you spend working on this imaginary video is time you could have spent on a video you actually care about, and is more likely to be good. But on the other hand, there potentially are people who financially supported you because you promised to make a specific video, which you never made or even mentioned again. And even if these people don't exist, it is messed up to promise a video as a reward for reaching a patreon milestone, only to never make it. I want to repeat that it doesn't bring me joy to say any of this, and I swear I do really like your content, despite the nature of the comments I've made on your Patreon, but I don't see anyone else really talking about this stuff, which I think is problematic. Thanks for reading. Also, fuck Adobe.

Alex

Omg it's Kat Yessss please make it happen, I'll even help out if I can!

Deegcakes

I am deeply enjoying the video, and to see that the main character of powerwash simulator and powerwash simulator 2 is rachel the intern

Theodora

I will truly watch anything you produce. Also, this is perfectly timed with my own Adobe frustrations. And besides, it’s just a good, solid critique of unregulated capitalism and why we should all hate it.

Ian Magoo

Literally had this exact thought.

Quitpayload

Sorry, I thought I had said everything I wanted to say, but when I posted the above comment I had only watched the video once. I was rewatching the video and I noticed something that honestly kind of broke my brain. I should probably wait until morning before I say anything else, but I want to get all of this down while it's fresh in my mind. Firstly, theres a section where you acknowledge how pointless it was to film in California. Watching you acknowledge this fact seemingly as a joke while knowing this this likely caused a significant delay in the videos release was very frustrating. This annoyed me, but it's not the part of the video that broke my brain. This is: In the live action segments where you're talking indoors and wearing that cowboy outfit, the audio is pretty bad. There's a noticable echo, and in certain shots there's a dull droning sound in the background, as if you're filming next to a fridge or something. It sounds kind of like you're recording the audio on the cameras onboard microphone. I would say that this is something you would criticise about another youtuber, but you actually have criticised some of your own older videos for having bad audio. The only thing I can think of that would make this okay is that you have better audio of the same takes, but aren't using them here because it's only a preview video and still a work in progress, not the final version. If what I said in the above sentence isn't the case, then I take back what I said in my previous comment where I said that the video is technically better with the filmed in America bits. I think that the video is worse than it would have been if you hadn't gone to America and just filmed with your usual setup. It's extremely frustrating knowing that the video got delayed by an unclear amount of time so that you could film parts that I believe make the video worse.

Stares Blankly

At 1:01:30, I think it would be a lost opportunity to not give a bit of a wink at that date Edit: Right after, when it zooms out to reveal Epstein - there is a chance to make a...particularly edgy joke about two on-screen subjects being shot down as the article's date rolls over to the next day

Stares Blankly

1:06:42 Are y'all...gonna address that "CASHEIR" sign? Or is that not a gag? Edit: 1:15:11 Opportunity for a "YoutUBERs" joke

Penny Veline

As a Californian I would Love to see it in a theater!!!

DrKiIlgood

It's wild to me how we're now in the part of capitalism where corporations are actively trying to get bought now. Activision blizzard wanted to get bought by Microsoft, and ea and ubisoft have been courting buyers for years now. If only I knew more about more consequential industries lmao.

Kat

It’s just the sign they had there and it gets me every time I see it lmao

Kat

Hahahahahha

Violetta Haun

I'd kill to go to an hbomb video premieeeeeeere!!! (it's a great idea that should be how any of your videos come out, on an unrelated note, please work on your next epos in Berlin)

Mirror Joel

If you ever need someone else to check your legal precedents for a video, I'm admitted in New York, the Second Circuit, pro hac in NJ, and pending in Ontario.

NumberedMonk

The future is going to think the Outer World's critique of late-stage capitalism is a bit hyperbolic, but no, no, if anything, it's a little too on the nose. We're in the bad timeline, but at least we get excellent Hbomb videos at least once annually lol

Francis

Yay! This is great - looking forward to the rest (and to watching this bit again - I watched it at work so it didn't have my full attention)

Dor Oh.

Thank you for responding like a human being, I appreciate the effort and I’ll take the time to find some better articles and share it here

StrawhatTheyThem

hello i'm new here! i really like the video so far! i'm curious if there will be (further) discussion of adobe enshittifying all their products through unnecessary genAI "integration," (i know it was mentioned once early one) especially since their products are heavily relied upon by artists who are getting the shit end of the forced-genAI-integration hype

Ryan Wright

Yeah same! I'd totally show up to a theater premier of this

Charming Charms

I am not that good at creating media but my beautiful husband is and in his opinion: the first half is a bit repetitive, we hear that adobe keeps buying stuff for 30m, however the second part is great 10/10 no complaints

Kat

We might be covered with that but send me an email! Contact@hbomb.zone

Liam Skoda

The Bork muppet is amazing.

craig cox

My only suggestion is to zoom in the frame of you pretending itsna green screen. Currently the whole set is in view so the impact isnt as big as you likely want. No onr was fooled that you werent there, but it really helps the gag

Ennis Jackson

This video made me want to call my representatives and learn Blender, so I think it's coming along nicely.

StrawhatTheyThem

okay... so the question is are hbomb and kat planning to talk about genAI enshittification as a result of monopolization? (if they are not, they certainly don't have to! i am asking because it's a thing i care about a lot as an artist, so i'm curious to know :) )

Dahra Hodosh !! ☆

if yall were to do a premier in a theater in the socal/los angeles area i would 1000% go!!

Stefan Wilde

Hey i would watch a live screening in Odense, Denmark if you can swing that! also i am a software engineer and architect and i love software stuff and i was entertained!

Stefan Wilde

i have just been informed that my local arthouse theater allows booking a screen, so uh. i guess i'll go figure out what that costs

ToastCrossDimensions

Loving the video so far! Noticed a minor visual bug at 29:52, where some black boxes pop up for a split second.

MaskMeh

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! You're doing the lord's work bomby boi! One microscopic critique I would make is at 26:00 exactly, the cut is like one second away from perfect timing. That's it, keep having fun!

Peter Galassi

Long time adobe user, recently quit them. Love the video as usual. Adobe is the worst and so emblematic of everything wrong with corporations today. Does anyone else feel like this whole problem is part of just an insane response to piracy? Everyone used to love adobe, Photoshop and InDesign were those amazing programs you got to use on a Mac G3 in newspaper class! Then the high speed internet came along and everyone pirated adobe. And so many creators grew up with pirated adobe that they just plain kept pirating it even after they were making a real income. Then adobe LOST THEIR DAMN MINDS and created the subscription dystopia that we live in today. It totally sucks. And, like almost everything involving the internet, we’re all also complicit in creating perfect pot for which this stew to boil.

GnomesWorstEnemy

Great video! It reminds me of something I saw about Elon Musk not actually inventing anything, only buying up everything and everyone. Learning that really helped discredit him. It made him seem like even more if a loser. I think its the same thing with adobe in this video

lazarusinashes

Not criticism but today a judge ruled that Meta did not violate antitrust laws with buying Instagram. I obviously don't think that's true. But maybe it's something worth mentioning?

Sammie Auburn

I would ABSOLUTELY come to a movie theater premier, yes please!

Aischa

How the hell do you know that the video got delayed by HBomb filming in America, as opposed to, you know, the things he said delayed the video, i.e. Kat's car crash etc.

Quitpayload

Replying to Aischa I was referring to the process of Hbomb acquiring a Visa to work in the US, which he did say in an earlier update was a big reason for the delay in the new video. Since he felt he needed to film in the US, he had to get a Visa, delaying the video, so by extension, his filming in the US caused a big part of the delay.

Ash

It's worth addressing. Especially since the past few main channel videos have been directly about creator accountability lmao. People can cancel patreon at any time including you and me but as it stands that's a lot of money going in for videos coming at exponentially slower rates.

messilymoonlit

i still haven’t updated adobe flash on my computer and it asks to be updated every time i turn my computer on

Downright Autistic Medieval Wizard

incredible video! I straight up have to take a break and think about things after this. I really wish I could edit the bork section down into something I can throw into peoples faces when they spew "free market" slosh at me.

Kat

Yup! And people wonder why the video keeps getting delayed lol

Lynn Short

Dude just finished your first installment and I love all of it. I love that you touched on The Landlord’s Game.

Daniel Thewes

At 36:30, you say "mid 2000s". Was that supposed to be "mid 2010s"? To my recollection, smartphones only really became big after 2010.

Anita Karsa

I always think of the free market and capitalism in terms of fitting a model. You have your goal (or loss/cost function), i.e. what you want your model to achieve, and you also have your optimisation method, i.e. how your model gets to that point. I think capitalism is a great optimisation method if we set the goal properly. E.g. if the cost function is OVERALL human suffering and we just let everyone come up with inventive ways of reducing that, that's a great way of making the world a better place. The issue is, the cost function is local to each individual / company. They are not optimising for overall good, just their own good (understandably), often at the price of reducing overall good by creating externalities (e.g. if a chemical plant makes a lot of money by producing a really useful material but they dump a bunch of lethal poison in the nearby river as part of the process, the overall good is very much very negative even if the company profits from this). Regulations are supposed to introduce the cost of these externalities into their cost functions and align their goals with the greater good of society. If these are actually enforced, they would be optimising for the right thing and we would actually benefit from their success. This is why I want to punch everyone who claims that the government shouldn't be meddling in the free market. It's literally their job to set the goal of the free market for it to be beneficial to society.

Anita Karsa

It REALLY irks me when they remove a useful functionality. They went out of their way, put time, money, and energy into making their product worse. Why? Maybe it's because most people don't care about or need that functionality? This can't be the answer every single time though.

BscalE

Eric!!!

Princess Emmeline

i for one will be upset if there is premiere that i cant attend >:(

Giant Robot Scorpion

Oh man. A 4 hour HBomberguy video premiere, right in my backyard? I would have to have a very good reason apart from a depleted social battery to not attend. I dealy hope this does happen. (I am LA local; I think I remember seeing somewhere that Kat is based in SoCal, so this would just be a gift to me if this pans out)

landon

a great companion to this topic is EndVertex’s video “for profit (creative) software”. they approach it from a 3d art/animation angle but still touch on old internet and how much we need to DESTROY abode.

Nick Papageorgio

Watched this on Tuesday. Adobe purchased another company for $1.9B on Wednesday.

George

I've managed to watch the two video previews on heavily delayed trains. I think Adobe would be pleased given the context...

Jordan Cochrane

I hope you touch on their evil pricing. They automatically signed me up for another year of CC when I forgot to cancel and then wanted to charge me an extortionate cancellation fee. To get out of it, I had to sign up for a different new contract with them and then immediately cancel it. Gone back to cs6. Fuck it, I'm too old to learn a new program.

Spencer Levy

Monopolies eventually become stupid, because now the consumer has 2 choices. 1. Buy shit at an obscene price and watch as the company who bought it sends it to the shredder. 2. Do this totally illegal thing that really isn't inforced, but you (as the consumer) would never do that. Just think of the investors.

Josh Grey

It's crazy how a video that is 80 minutes long just flies by.

Terrag404

SponserBlock has become a necessary extension for watching YouTube now with the infestation of sponsored products.

Ben Christianson

The muppets are an inspired choice, expertly crafted, and I would die for them.

John

I think I remember you mentioned the "Open Source" section of the video became big enough to be a seperate video. We all know what happens when something becomes a "seperate video" haha, but I really hope open source will at least get a mention in this one. An Hbomberguy shoutout to open source in a four hour video about the problems with the biggest proprietary softwares could be one of the best things to happen to open source software in years.

Jas Huff

Love the "casheir" misspelling in the background lol

Sean Sinclair

Is that Big Money Salvia I spy at the end of the video?

NumberedMonk

Why yes this is the third time I've watched this in its entirety since it released. DON'T JUDGE ME. Good video essays are getting harder and harder to come by these days

William Robertson

Unsolicited feedback on the AT&T thing: Unlike potential monopolies that had been broken up in, say, Tobacco, Steel, and Aluminum, the basic deal was that AT&T would be allowed to be a monopoly (over some things -- the government didnt like that they extended their monopoly into other sectors) BUT they had to be very heavily regulated by the FCC and provide universal service. Built into the national system were cross-subsidies between long distance and "basic access" service: long distance prices (which were mostly paid by businesses) were kept high so that local prices (which were mostly paid by individuals) could stay low. This in fact was one of the reasons Reagan and his buddies were eager to break up AT&T -- the system was, in effect, a tax on businesses to subsidies telephone access by individuals. Free market economists hated this, they were like "if people are willing to pay more for local service, they should be charged more and businesses should be charged less for long distance." See The Bell System Divestiture/Deregulation and the Efficiency of the Operating Companies, The American Economic Review, Vol. 83, No. 2 (1999). Not meant to be a comment on the quality of your video or research (which is amazing as always). tl;dr: if it's ever hard to explain why Reagan did something, the answer is ALWAYS somehow that it was good for business.

wet_poptart

Turns out the new video has been taking so long because he’s actually using it to write Capital, Volume IV

Ryan Spargo

Sorry, skip the first 25 minutes? I shan't, sir. Drip feed me repeat content.

Quitpayload

Apologies again for the comments length. I really don't intend for them to get this long. Replying to IDoDabble. If you're wondering why I say who I'm relying to in any comment I type, it's because I'm not sure whether or not Patreons comment system arranges comments in a coherent way. Functionality wise, Patreon really is a terrible site. Now, to the actual reply. I get that, and I am absolutely not against spending time and effort to do something that doesn't really add to the video, and to experiment. But I also think that it's a balancing act. He's making videos for an audience. He even acknowledes in his previous video that online video production is a real industry woth a lot of money behind it. And right now we're less than two weeks away from it being two years since the last public video, and I think that at some point Hbomb and his team needed to sit down and decide if the America section was really worth making. Just to be clear, I really like the video so far. The audio issue I mentioned isn't THAT much of an issue. It's just painful that we're less than two weeks shy of two years since the last public video, in which he heavily implied that he'd be uploading more frequently. Knowing that part of those two years were spent making what I think was a very questionable artistic decision that I believe the video is slightly worse off for is incredibly frustrating. And again, I'm open to being surprised. Maybe whatever he does in the rest of the video will be spectacular enough to have made the wait worth it, I just can't think of what that might be. I have reason to believe that the shot in America segments delayed the video by around 6 months. In the interest of keeping this comment as short as possible I won't go into my reasons for thinking this, but if anyone wants to know, then I'd be happy to post a follow up. I promise if I do, it won't be insanely long. I decided to go through the video and do some math. 20 minutes and 4 seconds. That's the amount of video there is out of 1 hour and 19 minutes that was filmed in America. And more than half of that footage is just Hbomb standing or sitting in front of the camera and talking about the topic, 11 minutes and 58 seconds. If we don't include that time and just count the 'skit' parts of the shot in America footage, then there is 8 minutes and 7 seconds of shot in America footage. I know it's all subjective and impossible to truly put a value on this kind of thing, but I personally don't think that this amount of content was worth waiting almost 2 years for a new video. I struggle to picture what the final video could look like to make it worth it. And when I see the comments saying that it was worth the wait, I really question how much thought they gave to what we're actually getting for how long this video ultimately takes to make. Again I think it's a balancing act between what Hbomb wants to make, and putting out a video at a reasonable time. I really liked the puppets and I think that they're the good side of this balancing act. I'm sure that making them was probably time consuming and probably led to some delay, I just can't imagine that they actually delayed the video by that much. Also I think that they actually add to the video, while I think that the America parts make the video worse. I think that the America parts are the bad part if this balancing act, where Hbomb fell off the imaginary tightrope in this metaphor That said, if it turned out that the puppets delayed the video by several months, then I would probably say that they weren't worth it either. In case anyone takes issue with what I'm saying, and thinks that he should be able to take all the time that he needs, I would like to again say that even he has pointed out that video production is a business. These aren't just fun videos that he's putting together in his spare time. They're professional productions that require a team and a budget, and at least some of his viewers are paying for videos. If you're reading this comment then you're one of those people. So I think it should be scrutinised what he's doing with his time and whether or not it's worth it. One last thing. I think that it's also a balancing act for the audience to decide what they take issue with. I'm skeptical that people who think this video was worth waiting almost 2 years for have actually given much thought to what they're getting for the time and money they're spending on it. But if you have given it thought, and truly believe that it's worth the wait, then I can't say you're wrong. Again, it's subjective. I also think that it's very possible that audiences could be unreasonable in what they say about the video. I think that for all I've said, I've been pretty reasonable. My core feeling are that the video is very very good, but that it's not good enough for the almost 2 years it's taken to make, and that one of the things you did to make it took far too much time and made the video worse. I should probably think of a better way to end this comment, I'm going to post it before I think of more to say and double the comments length. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Kat

I know what you mean lmao, we’re definitely doing a foss shoutout at the very least

Bran Mac Muffin

I was going to correct you based on vibes, but after checking - you're right. We had 'Flash-lite' on the Symbian phones pre-iPhone and Android, but they, iPhone and Android were tech-niche before 2010. Mass adoption started as Android prices fell and iPhone got more features, maybe 2010-2012? 2010, Jobs did his open letter 'Thoughts on Flash' which effectively killed Flash on mobile.

Wallet Thrower

Thanks for the preview, and your amazing work, team :)

Wallet Thrower

Minor audio bug: the shot beginning at 28:30 has crisper-sounding audio than the shots on either side of it.

A mysterious benefactor

Love the coverage as usual. This topic often fades into the background a bit because of how timid regulators get and highlighting it is important. I would appreciate a little clarification being included (I think YT's term is info-card?) when calling The Landlord's Game and Elizabeth Magie socialist. The shorthand definitely strengthens presentation of the point, but her political project as far as I know didn't quite extend to stopping the extraction of surplus value from wage labourers which I feel is more central to that naming than the extraction of land rents - indeed, the game itself calls the once-per-cycle income space "Labor applied to Land produces Wages".

Johan Falkenjack

EDIT: Before telling me "Duh, that is what the whole video is about" or whatever, know that this was as much for therapeutic reasons as for actually wanting to know the answer. I'm putting off watching this so I can watch the whole video when it is released, but I felt I had to ask: Is Adobe's and Microsoft's refusal to co-operate with others about the ECMAScript standards for the JavaScript programming language covered? When they essentially put the kibosh on the development of JavaScript for 15 (!) years? Officially they argued that the suggested additions were "too radical". In reality, a more competent web scripting language that was both free and based on an open standard would threaten the profitability Flash and Silverlight, respectively. This was especially egregious on the part of Adobe since ActionScript, the language Flash apps were coded in, was essentially ECMAScript plus those same additions they refused to allow into the actual standard and thus into JavaScript. This might sound like a small and mostly petty thing, both on their end and on the end of those of us still going on about it. However, this was 15 years (1999-2015) of cementing bad practices that now can't really be changed without breaking the web. When they initially dug their heels in, JavaScript was only 4 years old and was still more or less just the tech demo Brendan Eich wrote over 10 (probably very coke-fueled) days back in 1995. Given that JavaScript is that one language most programmers have to deal with regularly, however reluctantly, it actually matters quite a lot to IT workers and should matter to anyone using the web. To be fair, both Flash and Silverlight were discontinued within 5 years of Adobe and Microsoft finally releasing the brake pedal on ECMAScript. I guess they knew that their oligopoly status was the only thing making those products viable.

Milo

Watching this while using adobe at work i hope she doesn't crash on me ....

MagicRainbowKitties

Only 10 minutes in and I am feeling deep emotional catharsis from this as a film student. NO ADOBE I DO NOT WANT TO USE YOUR BULLSHIT FEATURE I JUST WANT THINGS TO SOUND GOOD

DemoWebster22

Assuming the video ends with a “here’s some alternatives if you don’t wanna support something terrible” section like the plagiarism video, for art and animation specifically I’d recommend Krita since it is open source, free (though you can still donate to them), and ran by independent artists. Also the features are similar to photoshop so it’s easy to move over to it.

KATEY SHEPPY

yayyyy omg please do a movie theater premiere! sounds so fun

chunguschungus

Please Please Please title the video, “The Bork Mind Virus & You”

Alexander Stewart

2/10 not enough Marxism yet fr though this is looking great, looking forward to seeing it in full and hopefully make adobe bleed a bit

Loreydoor

is part 2 going to be; Why Valve is actually bad and Steam needs to die

JJ McGuckin

This video is about STALKER Clear Sky... Finally

Charlie Jenkins

9:06 haha sucks to be you, we really WILL watch anything you make!

Benjamin Storm

Will this be out for Christmas? Not this year's 2026 obviously

King Othius

Oh the ending segment is foreshadowing isn't it. This isn't a video about Adobe. PLOT TWIST; It's a video about James Somer- no I mean PLOT TWIST; it's a video about LAND LORDS and the RENT INDUSTRY

HUND miau

tbh, that is kinda my genuine criticism. Like, if people come away from the video wishing for more free market or market-regulation reforms, thats bad.

Morgan

Biased but if it was showing at the Princes Charles Cinema in London I’d be there

Quinn

Doesn’t canva currently have 51% market share?

Fading Into Obscurity

I would come to a premiere! Would love to see one in NYC as well

Levi Kessler

I like the Spirit Halloweenl/yellow shirt joke but I think where it's currently placed interrupts the software list too much, it isn't beneficial to the edu nor the tainment. I don't know where the best spot to put it would be, maybe at the very end of chapter one, but maybe there's an even better spot I'm missing

Humphrey Shotton

Loved the video so far! It’s also an interesting thought that Microsoft’s monopoly over web browsers and the stagnation of IE6 because of it was probably part of the reason Flash became so popular. A lot of what Flash did well are now part of web standards but the massive time without browser innovations until Firefox and Chrome probably led to addons like Flash and Java filling in the gaps

Joe crutwell

Can we get an equivalent Northern England theatre release too 🥺

RedCat Studio

"yeah i've always been like this" is just my absolute favorite, i am SO EXCITED for the full vid! LOVE LOVE LOVE the topic!!!

Joe crutwell

I thought the woody/acquisition thing was leading to a "You've got a FreeHand in me" joke. 😅

Bruno Damacena

Now I feel the final video is gonna take even longer since Netflix bought the entire Warner Bros

Adventuress

Very excited for this one!

Eluterio Blanco

One thing that you should know is that YouTube now has a feature where it shows if a video was edited in premiere pro.

Maddie's Minis

You can't search for files on Photoshop anymore and it's literally the dumbest thing they have ever done. Why on earth would you not be able to type in the file name and pull it up on the cloud. I know you have the technology for it Adobe YOU HAD IT LAST MONTH

john langson

Have you seen that monopoly scene in Heretic?

jehjehrocket

on everyones soul we are ALL gonna partner with adobe !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dan Wright

Incredible stuff, cant wait to see the rest!

Ainna

I forgot that it was just a snippet of the video that I went out of full screen to click the like button and saw I was on Patreon. I can't wait for the full video!

rene beijer

Pray to Nasdaq we get more soon!

faye

since I can’t attend anything in California due to living on an island (australia) i will instead have to host a premiere of the new video in my living room to about 5 of my friends who care about this as much as i do. can’t wait !!

Puzzled Potter

I watched this for the first time two days before Netflix announced their purchase of Warner Bros. Thanks Bork, I hate it.

ST-HUGS

"...are as close as you can get to the horse's mouth" what's a horse????? Some kind of dog?

Dacvak

Looking forward to the 2 1/2 hour amendment to this video about Netflix buying Warner Bros.

Ahmed Haracic

I'm doing all i can to stop myself from watching this right away, so how far is the video from being done? When should we expect it 🙏

Nikolai Brandenhoff

Hbomber installing linux and using ssh is incoming :) must be

Caroline Royce - Art & Design ✸

Hbomb, I have long watched your videos despite not being familiar with the subjects and finally my faith has been rewarded. As a graphic designer who lives in Adobe prison, I am very interested in a video about software…. Very interested.

Mark Biernacki

Probably more when you consider they just bought Affinity

Sora Kalden

Hi Harry! You've inspired me to also create high effort well-researched content and I've been working on my first serious video for a few weeks now! Do you have any advice for writing a really good video script? Or resources I can study from? For context, the video I'm making is titled "will AI really destroy our education?" and is planned to start off by showing the growing concern people have of how AI is negatively affecting education with rampant cheating but builds up to and concludes with the fact that we've had decades of scientific research in psychology showing how broken it already was and exactly how to fix it, and the fix also happens to be fully ro use towards AI. So if we're able to share and act on the solution as educators collectively, this can even turn out to be a great thing long term, the catalyst we needed to wake up and actually change the long broken education system (for context I also studied Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon so I have biases and luxuries that people who go to good schools do, but I think my point stands despite that)

Ansh Tarafder

I would be over the moon if you did a premiere in a theater, i would totally go to that

Mike Payne

It doesn't have to work, it just has to be your only option. I bet making it harder for people to find their own images means they're more likely to generate one with AI or buy a stock image or something. It'll be something horrific like that.

Nick Noir

as a full time video editor, this is therapeutic

Isaac Walker

i have been a fan of yours for about 5-6 years now, but i think you are my single favourite content creator, your videos have gotten me through all of the tough points over the last few years so thank you

Numptaloid

how does it even fucking know that?

kookie

Can you make it 3 for 3 and this video actually ends Adobe? I mean, no pressure :p

Mocharaid

I kinda hope he drops it on Christmas Day, it would be a lovely gift. :)

Piers Haslam

"Who owns a yellow shirt?" **I look down at the yellow shirt I'm wearing**

peachycliodhna

I often mock my dog with "bork, bork, bork" when she's especially loud and now after seeing this I don't think she'll ever forgive me. She’s refused to look at me for the past hour. Love the theatre idea! Excited to see the conclusion and what you all end up doing with the old timey Temecula town. Also damn…uhh…I think I too, may have gone a bit insane now that I know of…the crimes. The many, many crimes. Crimes…overwhelming. So, uh…any cool open source software suggestions? Anyone?

eruhachi

I don't wanna get spoiled, but I'm STOKED for a video on adobe

William Roots

Is that Erik dressed as a Cowboy?? Internet Comment Etiquette! Greetings students 😊

Davwid

Hey, at the 28:30 mark the audio gets randomly louder than anything else so you might wanna lower the audio unless its the point that it does that

Simon Creaner

There are 2 really serious issues with this video so far that it doesn't look like anyone else has pointed out: 1. Missed opportunity to say "My son is also named Robert Bork" at 55:15 2. Failure to visit the Temecula gift shop to purchase a "Bork" licence plate Otherwise it's looking pretty good

BLP

Have you seen the EndVertex youtube video on the same topic: "For-Profit (Creative) Software"?

David Kelly

He left a comment on that video that has ~11,000 likes, so yes!

Olivia Malone

Watched this after leaving home, where my mother who is a music teacher and musical director was complaining about how avid have turned Sibelius into a subscription model and she’s furious she can’t just use her old copy, because the new one is literally no different and in some places WORSE

Michael

Hello I am swedish and I approve of this bork.

Miraz

Jan 2026 - I have been a avid viewer of Hbomb guy for... 2 years. I began following him in 2023 with the Roblox video. Then 3 moths later the YouTube Plagiarism video releases. You realize that if any current YTer released videos you were interested in it'd be Hbomberguy. Alas, It has been 2 years since any new vids have been posted onto YouTube... and you'll admit you've grown antsy. And then one day you click on the Hbomberguy Pathologic(*1) video and reply to a comment. The commenter also missed Hbomb guy uploads, in which I replied saying that the legend himself(*2) is currently working on a Adobe video (which me and my irl friend are v excited about). The commenter I replied to thanked me for sharing the info but there was another commenter who replied to me, providing me a depper understanding in which I knew I needed to subscribe to the Patreon. I need this video and I need it NOW. (1) HBombs Pathologic Video is my fav bedtime story. (2) The information I shared was revealed in Hbombs episode of Jacksfilms Series "The questions get worse.

RinleyCoyote

Am I allowed to comment here that it's morally correct to sail the high seas yohoho style for adobe products because it is.

Moxie Monroe

This is awesome Harry. Can't wait to see the rest!

JM

My thoughts during the history of Adobe (c. 30:30) - If Hbomb were to create a backer video exploring the history of digital fonts, I would absolutely watch the crap out of that... Also, I absolutely LOVE Kat's puppets and want to see them in more videos in future :D

banduliinu

41:18 hoooly fuck I did not know it was that bad.

Calliope Borden

The second half of this is 100% the AI takedown/rabbit hole isn't it? Now, the systems don't just choose to be expensive and bad for profit, it's a very fact of their existence

Bryce Davis

Wow, this video is shaping up to be amazing. Also, on a possibly related note, after learning about how everything in my country is even worse than I thought, I'm feeling very sad.

m0sifer

My only note. And it's important. Is to replace every single mention of "buy adobe software" with "rent adobe software".

luk

hearing the name of this software takes me back. i remember using sibelius to write compositions for my piano lessons. they used let you buy it for $800

Mark Biernacki

The secret history of font piracy by Linus Boman is really good, but he has quite a bit of content about fonts. I think struthless has also made a video about font history that's good.

Patholochick

Must-not-watch. Must-resist-until-it-goes-live. Must-endure-uncertainty.

Patholochick

This is funny because I live in Argentina and we are in the same clusterfuck.

JM

Definitely going to be checking those out - thanks!

Nicole Song

engrossing. why did it end

Patholochick

Can any of you Hbomberfans strap me down to a chair till the YouTube premiere? Thanks in advance! ❤

NotQuiteApex

apparently adobe JUST announced that adobe animate is being discontinued on march 1st.

SparkyDJM1

I came back to this video as soon as I heard the news.

Schizmo

Can't wait to see how much longer the video is now that this debacle has transpired

coral

i have some bad news

Oltanya

today all of my settings got automatically changed back to opening documents with adobe again. And as I sat there, changing the defaults back, trying to remember where the relevant setting in adobe acrobat was (that for some reason I also have to change to stop it being the default. Who does that. Why would anyone do that?) I thought of this video. and here I am again.

joJ

entropy has comedic timing

bumblebeeberry

very curious to see how the death of animate will wind up factoring into this

MicrowaveOvens

This video is more necessary than ever now that they are fully killing Animate

Boring Keith

Well the facts of this video just got updated lol

Kevin Bloo

Btw, Adobe pays their influencers shit compared to their competitors. You should talk to graphic design YouTuber Elliotisacoolguy about it. He talks a bit about it on his podcast Kelliot

Johnny Josefsen

Damn, if this drops soon it'll be huge. Suddenly very topical.

Natalia M

I came here to check if someone already said it. I hope addressing Adobe's soulless murder of Animate (formerly Flash) won't require any giant rewrite that will postpone this video further. We need it to be out out as soon as possible.

Ceren K

I LOVEEEE HMBOMBERGUY!!!!

Sydney Melson

o hbomberguy, now in our most desperate time of need, i call upon you to smite our enemies! may the weight of their sins collapse this empire of suffering

SpadesThicc

Inb4 Hbomb declares an additional month delay in order to work Adobe's latest BS with Animate into the script

Adrian Theisen

I’ve been watching for a decade at this point (Jesus Christ), but I haven’t subscribed to the Patreon in a while (world’s in shambles). Decided to pop back in, see what you’ve been up to, maybe supply myself with some premium background noise while I work—using Adobe’s cesspool of software, of course, because I’m a “creative professional” (fuck my stupid life) and they’ve had me in chains since I was a teenager. The rush of vicious adrenaline I experienced when I realized that THIS is what you’d been working on all this time could have sent me into battle Couldn’t have asked for a better topic to angrily graphic design to. I would give anything to be free, lmao

Ahmed Haracic

Comparing the rate of hbomberguy video progress and the rate of Adobe's enshittification, this video will never come out

Astromanaught

I was going to say the same thing. Can we do one of those betting market things to bet on this vid coming out before the heat death of the universe?

bluetybloop

I honestly don’t think this needs to be 4 hours. Maybe another 30 minutes describing the impact of adobe’s monopoly and you’re good

Calliope Borden

So um Adobe just tried to axe Adobe Animate. The video probably just gained another 30 minutes

Guðni Nathan

That pivot is known as the “hbomberguy moment”

Patholochick

It has been 3 months. I can't take it anymore. I'll watch it.

Michael Rice

I can't wait until the finished 8 hours of this video is released, so that I can watch it all repeatedly hundreds of times. I've already watched this cut at least 2 dozen times, and will likely watch it many more times until the full video is out. A few notes: - The violent jokes are funny in isolation, but are also a bit front loaded. I personally stopped finding them funny by the joke about shooting Andrew Kramer. I feel like there are too many similar jokes for the first 10 minutes. - AT&T was regulated for a long time, which lead to multiple world changing innovations at Bell Labs. Brian Kernighan has given many talks/interviews that discuss the unique environment of Bell Labs that created our modern world. As soon as those regulations were removed, they immediately started acting anticompetitively, which is what lead to their breakup. - Microsoft famously had an entire strategy known as the 3 Es; Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. By the release of Internet Explorer, they had already successfully used this strategy several times. The browser issue was the straw that broke the camels back. A few more points of clarification regarding Internet Explorer: They didn't make it more difficult to install competing browsers. It was the same process as installing any other software. However, IE was already installed and was very tightly integrated with Windows itself, which no other browser was capable of replicating. It also used internal APIs that weren't available to third party app developers. What's interesting to consider is that every Operating System available today includes a free Web Browser, and the thought of paying for a browser is a completely foreign concept. With the benefit of hindsight a question comes to mind: Was this specific example another instance of Microsoft acting anticompetitively as they had clearly done before, or was it instead an innovation that shaped the web as we know it today?

Patholochick

Never knew about the EEE... Nice piece of info.

Michael Rice

Thank you for the compliment! That is really only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Microsoft's sins. There's the whole IBM/DOS deal that severely snubbed Gary Killdall and was incredibly underhanded to Seattle Computer Products, only for Microsoft to screw over IBM many times over as well. File and memory compression, F#, their multiple attempts to thwart Java, ActiveX, and probably more that I'm forgetting at the moment.

Colin Tougas

I finally got around to watching this and this is so perfectly in line with my MBA Strategy course that I really wish I could share it with my entire cohort. Acquisitions are not a new thing and every company wants to be a monopoly and will do everything that is either not illegal or lightly penalized to do it (unless they have some sort of... ethics?). The final conglomerate corporation will never be as good for the consumer as the individual companies were. They always sell the acquisition as a form of synergy but it's more like... there doesn't seem to be a word for the opposite of synergy... antergy? The sum of the whole is worse than the sum of the individual corporations. Another good example of this trend is General Electric (Poor old Thomas Edison) during the Jack Welch era. He was named Manager (CEO) of the Century and his claim to fame was innumberable acquisitions but each acquisition is really costly, you generally overpay for a company (lawyers and accountants being the top cost drivers along with the premium prices to buy out shareholder) during an acquisition so if you want your quaterly statements looking good you need to keep on acquiring companies. He was such a good manager that when he retired and the next CEO took over and didn't continue the acquisition trend the company slowly collapsed under its massive debt until 2024 where it lost all but it's most profitable services and split into three smaller companies. Yay! Anyways, I'm looking forward to sharing the video when it is complete.

Colin Tougas

Also, the podcast Acquisition is a really good source of stories. They don't seem to have much spite or apprehension about the big corporations but their history of Nintendo (which include Atari) and Sega are really interesting!

Hareruya

You did not actually catch me by surprise with the green screen fake-out because I knew you had travelled to the US given your interview with Jacksfilms. I am not even sure if it was the same trip, but I just knew international travel was on the table. I do appreciate the clarification we are not friends. Genuinely, I am really glad you are curbing parasocial relationships before they become an issue.

Alexia

I'm a creative in this space and if the past 2 years have taught me anything it's that corporate greed knows no bounds. I'm a computer animation student and I fully believe it's one of the only degrees where just paying for the software would be more expensive than paying for university and letting them sort out your institutional access. I need to use 7-8 different pieces of software in any given 3 month period and might jump into some extra ones from time to time for specific tasks. When I graduate, buying all of these subscriptions individually is going to bankrupt me. The worst offenders are autodesk and adobe, but autodesk is definitely the worse one in my eyes. i hate having to use maya for my projects, but despite that i learned it to a great extent. I'm expecting them to discontinue it at some point in the next 5 years with how things are going but i have to learn it anyway. we're discouraged from learning blender and for good reason as most companies don't use it. to get autodesk maya you have to pay 2000+ gbp a year last i checked. and that's just one program. I need a whole suite of them from different software providers. maya, zbrush, substance designer, substance painter, marvelous designer, speedtree, after effects, nuke, topogun, and there's more that I'm forgetting. I need ALL of these for my work. The cheapest one is topogun which was 130 gbp for a perpetual license. The whole software landscape for creatives is just fucked, man. Sorry if this was a bit incoherent I just woke up from a migraine nap.

Alexia

adobe is not the only offender. personally I'm hoping at least 30 minutes are dedicated to the fuckery that is autodesk

Alexia

enlightened comment right here

Alexia

I'm being genuine btw not sarcastic it could genuinely pivot to disney

Nagarath

That cliffhanger tho

Rin's supercool patreon

When I was in university for game development, I was taught to use a very useful program called substance. It was very convenient because the software included a completely free version for students. When adobe bought it some time later, they massacred the program, made a specific suite for it that forced you into buying stuff you didnt like, and completely removed the student version. They can go die in a ditch.

Water Reed

I'm sure other people have mentioned it, but at 43:04 a tiny.. grey Herobrine? appears at the bottom of the screen for a few seconds, and I think it's unintentional

uvaballfan

You think you know him? You think you've got him all figured out?

Elliott Goods

i’d go to a four hour premiere of this video!!

flurus

Bro wrote an entire book

Roxiel Luna

death of a salesman averages at about 30,000 words total and you wrote 33,397 words

stupidmachine

From what I've read so far, (and wow there is alot to read, how do you the time to write this?) there is alot of good arguments here, but it kinda feels like you just transcribed your every thought, no filter, rather than make a short, well thought-out argument that encapsulates your entire idea in the least amount of words possible. I know it's hard seeing people staying ignorant, blocking out all noise they deem weird or extra, but, from my experience, sometimes it's asking too much of the reader to, just because you put in alot of effort, that they also have to exert extra effort to try and understand your writing when they could be doing anything else. If you don't present a case that is structured, and well formed, people have the right to dismiss it, even if the ideas are solid, and worth a discussion in this damned hellscape. Again, it's interesting reading your thoughts and, if paced, could be something special indeed.

Kat

Hey, thanks so much for the extensive feedback! I can’t guarantee we’ll be able to read the whole thing (I know I’m a slow reader at least) but please send this in an email to contact@hbomb.zone! It seems like this comment is making it harder to read the comments on desktop.

Kat

It doesn’t look like we got your email about the discord, but we did receive the one you just sent! The only issue I can see is that it seems to load your whole comment on desktop (making it harder to read the rest of the comments), so it might be good to delete it for usability’s sake! Don’t let people’s replies to your comment get to you :)

Sammy

I'm bringing this up in my microeconomics class when we get back from spring break. We're in the free market unit and it feels very relevant. That class makes me want to eat rocks so this will actually make it fun I hope

Riley

Kat did an amazing job on the puppets! I think she should make an hbomb puppet and give the channel to him

Dave Jones

*SPOILER* Oh god, the end reveal!! Very much hoping my long standing take of “Homes Under The Hammer ruined the first-time-buyer market” makes a cameo appearance.

LesBeans

So two things have made this video take multiple years: Adobe keep doing evil insane shit. AND They had to get the likeness rights from Borks family to make the Bork muppet (and also make the puppet).

LesBeans

Will Part 2 be released when we actually guilotine the CEO of adobe?

Ronald

I came to patreon to see what hbomb had done so far on the topic, I'd heard he was working on this, because a bunch of other adobe flash hate vids started cropping up on YT, and I realized H doesn't really upload on YouTube, so I'm gonna watch this and then go watch everyone else's on the tube to see if they were sniping his patreon for ideas. In post- I'M SPARTACUS!...... NO I'M SPARTACUS!.....NO I PARTNERED WITH ADOBE!......NO I PARTNERED WITH ADOBE!......

Spencer M.

He'll upload it to youtube when it's done.

PeachBeach923

Obviously you're very passionate about the topic but I honestly think this could remain in your emails, it takes up a LOT of space on the reply section. Or honestly you can keep it in your drive, or make a video with your own thoughts!

Disappointed Bear

Hello! I am here months later, asking "WHEN CAN I SEE THE REST" [positive] [respectful] [no rush] [take your time] [I shall always be here patiently waiting I just lean into the demand for the bit]

Ronald

Oh I know, but large channels like Internet anarchist are still being caught after the plagiarism splash, but it doesn't seem to really slow them down somehow. It's been really disheartening watching all of it over in the States.

Justin Pearson

I'd get a huge kick out of seeing the premier on the big screen!

Kaitlyn Langley

As someone who is one month away from a library science masters degree with specialization in obsolete media and digitization, Adobe is maybe my number one enemy. Also as someone who has to edit old 16mm film every day because the march of time cannot be stopped and film degrades, I recommend switching to DaVinci Resolve from Premier. You can do alot with the free version, but the paid version is 300 american dollars for a lifetime license.

Iain Shepherd

Still unsure whether to watch this, or whether to hold on for the final product including the inevitable reveal that the entire thing was actually about Nigerian goat-herders

FilthyJasmineTea

Oh boy… DaVinci Resolve going after the long in the tooth lightroom is gonna require an revision now…

Ollie

I do have to say, its very funny that as a Davinci user myself, I look and laugh at Adobe on basically a daily basis

Brooke Hubsch

I ask this with a very vested interest: what happens with the Bork Muppet after the full video is released?

Aarón Martín Dionis

Hi Harry. Just wanted to say: thank you for your videos and love you!

sapphicjoys

apparently hbomb on youtube is not enough for me because i’ve come back to this “snippet” three time already since becoming a patron 2 weeks ago. i am so ready for the official upload

Elleden

Oh, I just noticed an error at 1:10:05 Hbomb says: "In 2020, when the Biden administration finally decided to..." Biden wasn't the president in 2020. He was elected then, but didn't enter office until 2021.

werewargs (randy)

i really like the godzilla roar mixed in with the adobe chainsaw chomping bit lol. do you think that's an original sentence i feel like it might be

Naureen Bokhari

I literally joined the Patreon to watch your videos <3

Naureen Bokhari

I remember when they tried to buy Figma and a product designer, my friends and I were truly scared of that...

Eric Roels

Imagine my surprise seeing Big Money Salvia City himself playing The Landlord's Game at the end there

tomtardy

stop using proprietory software?

tomtardy

and find tutorials that are actually tutorials, sorry to sound dismissive and the actual content of the video wasn't lost on me. It's that the solution seems to be to endure the pain and find software that is actually free.

Siggy Sigwald

Rewatching this to try and manage the cravings and I decided hbomberguy is chaotic neutral.

CloudsPoopRainbowTurds

I was like oh shit, was I tricked, have I seen any of these adobe ad tutorials before?... after about 10 seconds I remembered I use davinci

Ropetupa

Can't wait for corpos ignoring the fallout of this.

A suspicious impostor

A note about pixels: they're not really colored boxes. It probably doesn't matter, but it'll make a few little computer science math nerds very very mad and they will say stuff like "A Pixel Is Not A Little Square, A Pixel Is Not A Little Square, A Pixel Is Not A Little Square!" (actual paper title by pixar co-founder alvy ray smith, also very informative if you like this shit: https://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf )

jasonuity

I really need to rewatch the movie Anti Trust sometime…

Dragonhid3r

I think this might be your best yet.

m0sifer

this joke is rapidly turning true

Claraby

I remember working on my Halloween sweater while watching this last year, a sweater that I clearly didn't finish on time. So now that I'm casting on for Halloween 2026, well in advance of October, I had a hankering to rewatch this. But the timeline is probably still very tight because this time, I'm doing an ambitious ruffled dress. Is this a metaphor in any way? Can I finish this year's sweater in time? Is redemption possible? Or am I doomed to fall into the same morass of delays again

RazielMartelus96

My only comment is I feel, whilst bork absoloutly borked the economy and ability to bust monopolise, I think him coming out of retirement to sue Microsoft is actually something that shows a tragedy of Bork. He wasn't malicious... he was naive. He truly believed that monopolies would actually get punished if they did crimes, even if restrictons and the power to stop them earlier were lifted. Thats why he came out of retirement... Microsoft was going to be the shining example that proved his world view right... He was prove wrong in the worst possible way. He was a terrible right wing guy with horrid views, but it shows that some people like that truly believe they are the hero. The "it is morally good, trust me" wasnt an act. He had genuinely convinced himself this would be fine and was a good idea. He was an idiot, and he was wrong. And I, random Internet patron who has 0 authority or ability to influence my own cat, let alone Harris "I cant make documentaries without a twist that makes my audience look like the silly fools they are" bombadier, believe that its a shame that perspective of bork isnt explored. (But please for the love of god if this postpones the full release by another 6 months... you better give me credit, I WANT THEM TO KNOW IT WAS ME!!!!)

Emily Jayne Peters

Omg cool crossover, I love internet comment etiquette!