Biography
Harry Brewis, who publishes as Hbomberguy, is a British YouTube creator whose channel was created in May 2006 and which had 1.88 million subscribers as of September 2026.
The Charity Stream
The scholarly account of BreadTube opens with him. In January 2019, Brewis livestreamed the video game Donkey Kong 64 for around fifty hours to raise money for a transgender charity, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dropped by. Kuznetsov and Ismangil describe this as “the first big intersection of BreadTube with ‘real-world’ political figures, the first major instance of it being propelled outside the confines of its digital origins.”
That is a precise and unusual claim to be able to cite: a specific moment at which a YouTube subculture and elected politics touched, identified in a peer-reviewed paper rather than asserted.
The Format
The same paper treats Hbomberguy as one of four channels central to BreadTube, and classifies his work as the “response video” — a form in which a particular talking point is explained, analysed and rebutted. The example they give is his “A Measured Response” series, which addressed climate change denial as propagated on popular right-wing YouTube channels.
Digital Political Impact
- One of the four channels the scholarly literature treats as constituting BreadTube, and the one associated with the rebuttal format rather than the explanatory essay
- Hosted the event that the same literature identifies as the point where the subculture first intersected with elected politicians
- Demonstrated the charity livestream as a political form — fifty hours of a video game, raising money for a cause, drawing a member of Congress
What Is Not Established Here
Removed in the citation audit: his birth year; the claim that the channel has been “active with original content from 2013 onward”; and the description of his subject range beyond what the cited paper covers. The channel’s creation date of 28 May 2006 and its subscriber count are first-party platform metadata as displayed on 1 September 2026.
Sources
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Kuznetsov, D. & Ismangil, M. (2020). YouTube as Praxis? On BreadTube and the Digital Propagation of Socialist Thought. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 18(1), 204-218. Peer-reviewed study of BreadTube. Source for Hbomberguy being one of the four channels the authors treat as central to it, alongside ContraPoints, Philosophy Tube and Shaun, selected as the largest channels whose videos are frequently discussed in those communities; for the paper's classification of his output as the 'response video', which explains and rebuts a specific talking point, exemplified by the 'A Measured Response' series tackling climate change denial on popular right-wing YouTube channels; and for the paper's opening: in January 2019 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared at an event Harry Brewis hosted, raising money for a transgender charity by livestreaming Donkey Kong 64 for around 50 hours — which the authors describe as 'the first big intersection of BreadTube with "real-world" political figures'.
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YouTube. hbomberguy — YouTube channel. First-party channel metadata retrieved 2026-09-01: channel created 28 May 2006, 1.88 million subscribers, channel ID UCIPqOTYW439-5hUz6r3U1fA. The subscriber figure is what the platform displayed on that date, not an independent audit.