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u/Better-Court5671 3d ago
I hope somehow Matt feels what you wrote here, Bam. This was beautifully written.
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u/Ok_Respond_9608 3d ago
We all know he won’t. If the police done their job he should have been safe in a jail cell at least. Allowing a mental ill person to be naked and drunk with a firearm , falls on the police department. Sad but so much more could be done for this man that simply wasn’t .
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u/Proof-Industry7094 2d ago
I had no idea that was the situation. Poor Matt.
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u/Ok_Respond_9608 2d ago
Just doing the mods work here “ be nice “ don’t talk about all the short comings and how they failed this man .
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u/existentialcrises99 3d ago
Beautifully written ♥️ Bam’s a good writer and it’s nice to see he’s used those skills to curate a statement on the families behalf. I don’t know about anyone else but seeing this and reading about who Matt was makes me all the sadder for how much of a loss he is to the world.
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u/Fickle-Expression-97 3d ago
Truly this came from the deepest part of the soul, they really wanted him to be sober, believe me this wasn’t the outcome anyone wanted.
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u/ElectronicBee5697 2d ago edited 2d ago
To those who want to judge the family and siblings…. From the outside, we only know what we know, or think we know, about this family. We have not directly lived their experiences and efforts nor do we know what we don’t know about the details of their specific struggles.
Many people have never had a sibling suffer from addiction and mental illness, spiral down to the lowest of lows, and then die by suicide. Sadly, I have walked that walk with my brother, all the way to that same ending. Also, many of us who have walked this walk with our own families may still have our own resentment, anger, and pain clouding our judgment and impacting what we say publicly here.
I hope you can understand that you truly do not understand something like this until you have lived it. Families are not standing on the outside with some magic power to fix everything. You can love someone, beg them, support them, fight for them, and still not be able to save them if they are not willing or able to fully help themselves.
Mental illness and addiction are absolutely brutal. They are killers. And the family left behind already carries more pain than most people will ever understand.
Blaming and belittling the siblings and parents from the outside is cruel and judgmental.
Have some compassion. Also, it helps to understand that none of us truly know the daily reality, dynamics, struggles and efforts of all that this whole family has tried and been through.
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u/aavalos129 3d ago
Cause I need to watch things die From a distance Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies You all need it too, don't lie
The universe is hostile, so impersonal Devour to survive, so it is, so it's always been We all feed on tragedy It's like blood to a vampire Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies Much better you than I
Watching a man break on YouTube was hard im so sorry Matt you were one of us💔
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u/PeckerHeads 3d ago
Now THAT is how a loving family member should respond. Not posting a link to sell a product in every “grieving” video made while promoting their social medias….
RIP Matt, may you be remembered for all the good you’ve done. I hope the family are able to have some privacy, and hopefully some can grieve without worrying about the number of views of their videos.
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u/Best_Luck_3031 3d ago
Crazy how now It’s RIP Matt but he was constantly being slandered and joked about. Dont make sense to me lol
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u/sandbug05 2d ago
I've been thinking that myself.. All the horrible comments on his lives, mocking comments on here, etc and now suddenly it's full of "he'll be missed" and "he was always my favorite". I'm NOT saying this tragedy was anyone's fault, but my gosh I'm sure all that vitriol did nothing positive for his mental health. And he read it all, at least what was on his YouTube.. Heart breaking
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u/jeffersdelight656 3d ago
Some who know me would say that I too am somewhat of a wordsmith. I still like to crack open a dusty old thesaurus, and use vocabulary that might sound foreign! But I cannot imagine using that particular skill set due to a sibling's passing. And I cannot imagine how painful this was for Bam. And I absolutely cannot imagine being able to top how this young man beautifully and poetically honored his brother who has traveled beyond.
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u/KittenFace25 3d ago edited 3d ago
Wait, what??? He died??!
I hadn't heard until I saw this thread. What a shame. RIP.
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u/cheapy_thecheapskate 2d ago
This absolutely breaks my heart. Atleast his soul is now free of the suffering he was enduring.
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u/RazzleRizzle 3d ago
Where was all this when he was alive 😂 grifters gonna posture and pretend they didn’t isolate their own family member and let him go down the rabbit hole of drug and alcohol abuse on his own while homeless and ostracized from the family. Queue the woe is me we always loved him never stopped loving him we just had to distance ourselves because it was best for the Brown ™️©️ brand
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u/ren_is_here_ 3d ago
Wow! Where's the empathy? I feel sad for you. You're just a miserable person. I hope you heal and find peace.
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u/RazzleRizzle 3d ago
My empathy lies solely with Matt who suffered more than anyone should have had to. Sorry I cannot care about those who turned their back on this guy because it was best for business
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u/Substantial_Jelly_58 3d ago
Leave these people alone,WTH. They just lost a family member with a very complex dynamic.
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u/DryPossession9766 3d ago
They spent 1000s of rehab multiple times , even on legal when he was in trouble for SA. Id delete this, you have no right to spew hate and lies. A family member cant stop someones addiction they tried for a decade. Shame on you
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u/RazzleRizzle 2d ago
Buddy what? My dad was an alcoholic who abused me until I was 13 and able to fight back. My mom is a drug addict who the police had to commit to an institution twice. I left home at 16 and chose to live on couches and floors of friends houses while balancing school and work until I could get my own place. My siblings are all addicts and junkies who have collectively spent 30+ years in prison. Tell me more about my experience with addiction and those with a mental illness
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u/ElectronicBee5697 2d ago
Given what you just shared, I hope you can understand better than most how complicated pain, mental illness, addiction, and family dynamics can be. That is exactly why compassion matters here.
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u/sandbug05 2d ago
You really can't understand why someone would need to distance themselves from all that then? Even with your lived experience?
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u/Mysterious-Laugh-923 3d ago
Exactly 💯😅 and if you think Bam wrote this, then I understand your sympathy for the guy, even though he just posted a couple of days ago that he doesn't want to talk about Matt and he has given up on him. 🙄
I have great sadness for the passing of Matt. I had always hoped he would find his way in this messed up world we live in today. I'm so sad he lost his battle 💔🕊️
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u/RazzleRizzle 3d ago
Agreed with you on that, Matt is at peace finally and that’s the only thing that really matters in my eyes right now based on the treatment he received while suffering through the darkest times.
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u/DryPossession9766 3d ago
The over a decade of multiple trips to rehab. Lawyers for his sa stuff, endless support and love and he still chose that? You cant continue to help someone who unfortunately didnt want to help himself. Its sad. His mama would have let him come home at any time.
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u/Commercial-Crazy-156 3d ago
I don't agree with all the stuff the family has/is doing but at the same time I have watched people I love go down a similar path and sometimes you do have to eventually let them figure it out on their own. It is not due to lack of love or empathy for the person. You can take a person to rehab yes but if they don't stay time and time again are you going to keep doing it? They have to want to change. I lost my best friend last year due to addiction struggles and domestic violence where she ended up taking her life.. Was there more that could have been done, yes. Did she want help, no. At some point you do have to let them figure it out sadly. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. A family member of mine it took them two prison stints and then having a kid with an addict to eventually wake him up and clean up to get custody of his kid to get him to turn his life around. Not everyone can find a ray of hope in the world. Now for Matt, I feel he could have been on the brink of turning it around and it's sad that he couldn't find the help he needed. But you never know when the last time is going to be the last time. I worry about the hate Matt got and his family is getting sending more of them down this same path. It's a sad situation all around. We need to do better for each other.
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u/thehumanvirusttv 3d ago
This is the best comment right here. We can give someone we love everything they need to better themselves but doesn’t mean they will choose it. Drugs mess with your thinking and yeah the family maybe could have done more but he’s been like this for how long? A decade almost now? If not longer. I’m sure the brown family had used all options
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u/Ok_Respond_9608 3d ago
The family aside , the police if they would have done thier job he’d at least be safe in jail cell. Allowing metal ill person , drunk in a park naked in any part of America would have been arrested . At the very least someone should took his firearm away. We all have family and friends that go through this .. my best friend was slumped over standing up in the street looking like some zombie until picked up and took him to a rehab.
Bonus grift for the family , sue the police department. This falls on them as much as the family tbh.
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u/thehumanvirusttv 3d ago
That is not true at all unfortunately. My fiancées sister has lost 2 kids to their father ones now lost both parents to drug/alcohol addiction. We drove her to rehab 6 times now 4 across the country so she couldn’t just leave and find dope but she did anyway. We moved her from Michigan to Nevada to Florida to Cali for the last 3 and she’s just leave. You can’t make someone get clean unfortunately they have to want to do. (Coming from a previous norco addict) I had to want to get clean not just for my kids but for myself so I can live longer for my kids. Some people just don’t care. Not saying Matt was that way but I’m sure the browns would have slowly let him back in the family if he did prove he was clean and got back on the straight and narrow. The family probably just got over the lies of “I’m sober” or “I’m not high right now” or the lies for money. It’s sad he felt that he was that alone he had to take his own life. But I understand what the brown family has done cutting him off,not just for publicity but to lessen the stress on the family of waking up to calls at 3am thinking it’s gonna be the call they just received.
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u/Beautiful_Staff8773 3d ago
Bam jokes about writing bad poetry but he really proved himself here, what a statement. RIP Matt, gone but never forgotten.