twomad

I was one of those 10 people he let in, we lived together in 2019 through 2020 in Vancouver. This was his peak on YouTube and we all looked up to him in that house, we had the best memories I can't stress enough. He would always screen me his videos before posting, asking if he should make any changes, never needed to. Not once, he was talented, a born entertainer. He will not be remembered for that, he let his declining mental health and drugs take over, I wanted to be there for him because I considered him one of my closest friends but he started to scare me, as did anyone who spent time with him, sometimes he'd show off a totally disturbed side. One time, I woke up with him standing at the foot of my bed staring at me in the middle of the night, I said "Day"? and he threw pizza on my carpet and walked out. It was a running joke that he has schizophrenia, until I realized he was being totally serious. He never learned how to respect or empathize with people, despite his evident intelligence from the countless hours of conversation, he was literally clueless when it came to understanding someone's feelings. But, the sentiment online absolutely breaks my heart for his family, his little brother who he cared about deeply. The lack of compassion from the internet is honestly on the level of the shit he's accused of, really sickening to see while grieving. I was on Discord with him less than a week before he died, I feel like I could have helped him, but I know how unlikely it would have been that it would have made a difference, he was stubborn but always for some reason listened to me. I had influence on his life but the pain he caused others made it harder to be there for him. I'm totally conflicted with emotions, but at the end of the day I lost someone close to me, his family lost their son, brother. He had so much potential, had he just had some help. Nothing but devastating. RIP Muudea

A video of pure honesty for a man who drowned in internet irony is probably the best send off one could possibly give.

It seems like Twomad lived an extremely fucking sad life.

'I tried to get twomad on OMAD and now he's nomad' God what a fucking bar

Greg providing emotionally honest and poignant thoughts on Twomad as a mini-case study on the internet's capacity to alienate and atomize people in promoting and rewarding unhealthy behaviors and people in the comments are making jokes about it. God fucking damn it.

Twomad - a man who has hidden his misery under a 1000 layers of irony

i really appreciated the nuance of this video

Real. Real. and real. "Don't think you're too good to know people, to love people." Honestly incredible takeaway from this. It's tragic what happened. Thank you for being so candid on this

Mental health advocates on twitter when the person who struggles with mental health acts crazy:

Sometimes jREG feels like the one sane man in the mental asylum that is the internet.

Post-mortem twomad happened to be a master chef at showing me how disgusting and two-faced alot of people nowadays really are.

While I absolutely DON'T condone anything twomad has allegedly done the past few years with all of the accustaions, still, it was the internet that enabled him and now the internet celebrates his death. That's kind of messed up.

I dont think what twomad did was ok but its pretty clear he needed serious help which never came. The fact that people gleefully dehumanize the guy after the fact is pretty disgusting

Twomad would probably laugh his ass off if he knew how he would go offline lmao Jesus Christ of Nazareth is King! Holy and blessed is his name

I think it's hilarious how people online are simoultaniously making mental health a bigger topic than ever but are now laughing at a 23-year-old dying in such a horrific manner. Instead of wishing he had gotten better, owed up to his mistakes, found a new way to live and make a positive impact on the world, people are instead celebrating him dying. It would appear that redemption and becoming a better man are concepts of the past. "If you do something wrong, you should just die" - Twitter, probably.

2:48 "He started identifying as Light Yagami from Death Note" very dramatically ironic considering how that series ends

If Jreg died while playing overwatch i would definitely NOT make memes about it

Just wanted to say thank you for what you're doing, Greg. I was stuck in the "lone wolf, introverted, don't need community" trap for about two years. The art you've created on the subject has been influential in shifting my mindset. I realized that community was a gaping hole inside of me that I desperately needed to fill. It's not easy, but I'm trying to take steps to know and love the people around me. Who knows if I would have turned out like Twomad. I'm so grateful I'll probably never know.

Twomad was a complex person who struggled with mental health issues, and it's important to remember that behind the memes and jokes was a real person with real struggles. Rest in peace.

I'm really glad you made this video, because I think it sends a message that needs to be said. Wishing bad upon flawed people isn't a virtue. So many people wish to empathize with the mentally ill on paper, but they fail to realize that the reality of mental illness is often ugly, often self destructive, often destructive to those around them - there's a reason that the mentally ill are in every society on earth throughout all of human history ostracized in the societies they live in, and it's not just because of blind bigotry from those around them, it's because extending empathy toward people that hurt you as well as themselves is difficult. It takes a lot of practice, a lot of understanding, and a whole lot of intentional effort - but we're better people when we're able to do that. You don't have to applaud everything twomad did in his life and with his platform and fame to mourn his death, or at the very least to not outright celebrate it. People contain multitudes, and we need to get better at leaving room for that when it comes to our analysis of people. Anyway, great and necessary video, and given the current temperature around twomad, not one that's easy to make. I appreciate you for making it.