A very good criticism of "Davey Wavey."

It's sad to see what he and his channel have turned into. I stumbled across him on youtube one day, back in 2006 or 2007. I was 14 at the time, and I loved watching his videos and reading his blog. I would refresh his blog several times every hour as I impatiently waited for a new entry. He was a normal human being, and a wonderful person. He was my guilty pleasure. My secret. I wasn't out yet, and I was brought up in a Catholic family. My paternal grandmother taught Sunday school for seventeen years. Being gay was completely out of the question. Davey Wavey helped me get over my first love, which became my first heartbreak. He spoke to me personally after I commented on his blog, and he helped a young gay boy get on with life. I was really hung up on this guy, and I couldn't get him out of my mind. At 14, we were destined to be together. He was my soul mate. For him to move away without me ever knowing for sure how he felt about me was soul crushing and world shattering. I'll always be grateful to Davey Wavey for helping me in that very confusing time, but I look at what his channel has become and it's kind of depressing. He's just so shallow and fake. It's hard to believe that this is the same person that used to put out such incredibly thoughtful and thought-provoking and deep blog posts. Ten years is certainly a long time, and I've changed a lot in that time, but to see such a drastic change... for the worse... is just disheartening. Maybe I'm looking back on the early years of his blog with the darkest rose-tinted glasses, but I remember some incredible posts in the beginning. I remember being a blog buddy, and I remember how important his artwork once was to him. He was a human being, and now he just seems like a caricature. It's a shame.

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