I've been following Dankula and Bearing (and also TISM, which I used to enjoy) for ages and, while I knew about and agreed with TheQuartering's lolcow status, I've never really cared about the guy or his content. Sometimes a video of his would pop up in my YouTube homepage, and sometimes I'd watch and even enjoy it. After all, being a lolcow doesn't automatically make someone a source of universal laughter and derision; rational people can look at someone they dislike or feel contempt for and admit that, hey, the fat idiot is right for once, something something broken clock something something a day.
After catching up to his latest antics in this thread, anything Jeremy Hambly is getting blocked the next time it dares darken my YouTube feed.
Bearing is a total faggot for holding onto those incriminating DM's for weeks. He was more than happy to withhold a direct admission by Jer that he was going to become "the villain they accused him of being", but decided to expose it the instant Jer started screwing with his podcast.
I see it more as a "straw that broke the camel's back" moment. From his video on the situation, he clearly still saw Jer as a friend in (desperate) need of help despite the mess he was making of his life. So, there was no need to add fuel to the fire, specially when everyone already knew and had evidence that Jeremy was a flaggot on a downward spiral.
And then the drunk moron, who has been terminally online for some fifteen years and has a pretty good idea of how these things go, who knows deep in his fireball-swollen heart that he is a lolcow, and that lolcow watchers obsessively archive and analyze every single typo and sniffle, deletes the TISM channel. A channel that, dead and unprofitable as it was, was ultimately and clearly a passion project between friends who enjoyed each others' companies, and went out of their way to have that little bit of infrequent fun (other people have already touched on the timezone differences and the effort required to get all three online at the same time, not to mention things like Dank taking care of his then-newborn daughter). All of it to delay the inevitable mockery of the evil Kino Casino/leftists/<insert strawman here>; Jeremy deleted all of it (to no avail), years and years of joy, fun and banter built on friendship, unslept nights, annoyed wives and minor domestic attritions, in an alcoholic manic state, all so that Jersh couldn't have a bigger Quartering Section on the next MATI.
I'd be pissed and publish the DMs, too.