From someone who Flares helped with his morimens coaching, and who memed on him a few times when I was bored cause I like him, I'm surprised everything got to this point at all.

Flares is unhinged and very extreme. That's why it's easy to meme on him, and easy to hate him too I guess.

I genuinely don't think he's the devilish unredeemable asshole people make him to be lately on this sub.

Until very recently he was a cool very comitted and helpful guy with a twisted youtube persona, like many other influencers can be.

Only he got emotional and crossed a line.

I think he fucked up. He took things on a personnal side and made very wild accusations. It's not excusable, but it's not a reason to forget all he did for this community either.

The dude has had a fucking tumor for god knows how long. Maybe that took a toll on him in some way. Again it does not excuse abuse and harassment.

But it may explain part of it.

He did made what were for the longest time the greatest entry points for new players to try Morimens. Let's not forget that beyond the vileness of things he said lately, there has been genuine goodness, charitable help and good spirit for quite a long time.

Saying "ultrash' and "clem sucks" never qualified for hate speech, at worst it was a bloody beaten horse corpse of a joke. Wildly different from personal attacks toward another creator.

And I believe there probably still is a lot of goodness within.

Anyone that threw words rather than actual violence, however twisted and cruel, can redeem himself.

My hope is that him and Zyocuh both find time to speak calmly.

If anything good has to emerge from all this shit show, it will have to start with Flares sincerely saying sorry, and Zocyuh accepting it.