This YouTuber Is HORRIBLE

Ugh, the ol' YouTuber gets caught being an asshole or a horrible person trend. It just continues. There are lots of examples of this, of YouTubers or content creators from whatever platform being exposed for something bad, I guess thinking that they're above the law and are above the law because they have a platform. The whole Chris slash Ava Marie Tyson situation is the latest big one, Mr. Beast's friend. But anyway, I'm not here to discuss any predators, but I am discussing a different kind of evil. Zach Campbell is the latest example of this kind of internet drama, a baseball fan slash YouTuber who a lot of you may be familiar with. He's famous and in many cases infamous for being a ball hawk, which are basically people who make it their life's mission at baseball games to get baseballs, and that shouldn't fully be looked at as a negative thing. Just like with anything, there are good ball hawks who are fair and don't necessarily take balls from children, or whatever bad thing you can be as a ball hawk, and there are bad ball hawks who do all of that and more. So only subscribe to this channel if my logo scares you. For the record, I'm not going to run with the narrative that Zach Campbell has trampled over or pushed kids for baseballs, which is something that's been said many times on the internet. I've never seen that. There's never been any proof of that as far as I've seen, and I do believe some are just exaggerating in this case. The first time I and a lot of other people discovered Zach Campbell was when he caught A-Rod's 3,000th career hit, a home run that he initially refused to give to A-Rod, left the ballpark with it, and eventually decided to give it to him in a press conference. From there, I found his YouTube channel and realized, as anyone else would when you look at his channel for 5 seconds, this is this guy's entire life, collecting baseballs. He's collected over 12,000 baseballs over the years at games, with many of them being milestone ones or significant ones like A-Rod's 3,000th hit and Mike Trout's first ever hit. This dude somehow is a magnet to so many different balls through the years, it's insane. He just recently got his 100th career home run ball, and this is how he did it. Now, a lot of people may look at this and say it's so silly and he should get a job, and I would agree with you if this wasn't actually his job, which it is. At the end of the day, if you have the ability to make money doing what most would consider a hobby, do it. What I'm doing right now would be considered a hobby. I talk about baseball for a living because of you watching this. I don't take a single second of that for granted, and I mean that, but it's a quote-unquote hobby that I've been able to turn into a quote-unquote job that doesn't feel like a job. So in the case of Hample, going to ballparks around the country and world collecting baseballs is what he's been able to make a living off of, so good for him, as long as it makes him happy. But despite this being his job, that doesn't mean you can't take things too far, which Hample definitely has. Back in 2016, the Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins played the first game to be played in an active military base. It was played in Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Hample was there and got 11 baseballs during the game. Seems innocent, right? But here's the issue. He wasn't allowed to be there. Not many people were. Tickets to the game were only given out to Department of Defense members, MLB employees, and were non-transferable. If tickets were given away, even if there was no money exchange, spectators could be removed from the ballpark and face repercussions. Yet, Hample, of course not a veteran, still somehow found a way in. But it gets worse. A Tinder account run by Hample was discovered and showed that he was willing to pay as much The account also said, After getting deservingly crushed on the internet for this, Hample released a whole apology that I won't read. But to sum it up, he tried to say he did nothing wrong because he was allowed in with the military friend he was with and nobody really asked any questions. But ended the statement by calling himself idiotic, basically saying he regretted that he didn't, and donated $100 for every baseball he got during the game. So $1,100 to amvets.org. That was a big thing Hample did, a big controversial thing. Hample has just continued to get both hate and love by fans over the years. Aaron Judge famously robbed a home run Hample was about to catch during a playoff game. Hample ended up with a home run from Cedric Mullins that everyone pushed for him to give to content creator AJ aka Little Man, who is at that game and has become known as the Mullins guy. You gotta give it to AJ, you gotta go find him down there, come on. Give it to AJ? AJ, the Mullins kid. The Mullins kid? I don't know the Mullins kid. Mullins guy. Oh. I'm the Mullins guy tonight. Hample said no, later said that he had no idea who AJ was, which is fair. If he actually didn't know who Little Man is, why would he give the ball to some random fan he was with? He was probably confused. And after coming up with another Cedric Mullins home run ball a week later at Yankee Stadium, because of course he did, Hample posted a video saying he would give it to him. So alright, that's good, whatever, that has a happy ending. But this newest situation regarding Hample is the worst, in fact, it's downright evil. A YouTuber called Pesky Talk recently put out a video about Zach Hample titled Baseball's Most Hated Fan, the Zach Hample story which covers a lot. Now this video didn't have any lies, it didn't say anything extreme, in fact, it even highlighted the good Hample has done along with the bat. Like the money he's given to youth baseball, there was nothing defaming about Hample. Yet despite all of this being the case, Hample decided to take something and blow it even more than it needed to be. What he did was file a copyright strike claim on the video which removes it, and forces the channel to do copyright school before he can upload again. There are several cases of YouTubers abusing the copyright strike system and using it to silence others. Now let me make something clear, I am in no way a perfect person, I am far from it. I am weird and crazy just like everyone else, but I will never be against people voicing their opinions no matter what it is as long as it isn't lies. I've had at least one or two videos made about me in the past, negative ones. People hate on me all the time, but I will forever fight for those people to have the same right to voice those negative opinions of me as the ones who voice positive ones. Because the most important part of being a human being is the right to free speech. It begins with that, and you as a human have no right to tell me or anyone what we can say as long as it's opinionated or the truth. There's only one being above that can do that. If PeskyTalksVideo accused Hample of having children locked in his basement or something, that would obviously be different. But nothing said in the video was based on lies. Hample quite literally tried to take the video down and strike this guy's channel. In other words, he tried to censor him, and he did, simply because he didn't like what he said about him. That is an incredibly dangerous and downright immorally bad way of thinking. And rightfully so, Hample got called out for this, and eventually decided to remove the strike claim from the video, and so thankfully everything is fine now with PeskyTalksChannel and the video is back up. And Hample still hasn't really fully taken responsibility or apologized for blatantly being in the wrong here. That is asinine. Now, the last thing I want to do is gang up on somebody and really paint them as a bad person. I feel like so many people live to do that, on the internet especially, and it's just weird. Like, the people who would rather follow other people to take down someone who's successful rather than make something of themselves, I've never had the desire to do that. I'm a big advocate against that, and I've defended Hample on several things, mostly just not paying much attention to him rather than giving in to a lot of the hate that's thrown his way. But I cannot do that this time. Once you get a god complex and decide that you think you can silence others, you're no longer a person I can defend. Because the fact of the matter is, anyone who does this, anyone who attempts to silence you no matter who you are, is your enemy. What Zack Hample is saying by his action here, is that he is above you and has the right to take away anything you say about him even if based in facts. According to Zack John Un, who's almost 50 years old by the way, so you'd assume he'd know better, you are beneath him, and he is allowed to decide what you're allowed to say. Not you. You don't have that freedom, according to him. That's who this person is, and I felt it was important to discuss what happened. Let me know your thoughts and thank you for watching.