You know what really gets under my skin about this? Not the video itself, the video is fucking lame. But all the people talking about how "mature" they are now, especially Idubbbz himself. Okay, they want to act like not saying no no words and simping for the dudes that caused 9/11 makes you a better person. Fine. But even then, in their mangled sense of the world, do you know who still shows more "maturity?" Joji. He doesn't sit around having gay little slap fights. "Maturity" would have been never making a content cop again in the first place. It would have been privately messaging Ethan if you really cared that much about the dude and talking things out, where an audience could never hear it.
Not making Content Cop soured people to him, but going back to it burned him. He would have honestly been the tiniestbit more respectable if he said "that's the old me, that's in the past." And stuck to it. But he did, and it was the ultimate declaration of weakness. Hesaid to the world "I have nothing, and I know I am nothing without who I was. I need the man I used to be back. I need the world and the power and the life I used to be." Like a homeless man selling the last piece of jewelery he has. But what he had was an image, not gold, and an image neglected rots like wood. So even in this last, desperate act, he failed. And nothing could be more humiliating.