Since I'm someone who actually watches both Leafy and H3, I'm gonna give a bit of context here for people who this will be their first impression of the guy. Bit of a long post here, so saddle up if you're going beyond this point:

If you go on to his twitter like I've seen a few folk here doing, and you see shit like "If you dont have positive vibes, kill your self", you should know that all of those kinds of tweets are channel memes. IE "Positive Vibes" is a joke that came about after he made a remark in a video about how he hates the whole fake attitude of "nothing but positivity" that some people put on. Ever since, he regularly makes the joke that everything he does is all about spreading positive vibes, in the same cheeky way that he himself has stated he hates.

Similarly, he started jokingly talking about killing himself after he started getting basic small internet celebrity harassment and death threats, since he's the kind of person who isn't bothered in the slightest by cyber harassment, and can easily manage by just ignoring mean comments or getting off the internet when someone tries to provoke him.

I started watching his stuff about two months ago, right when he started to really blow up. At that point, the majority of his content was actually "stories", where he would recant tales of the days when he used a lot of drugs, goofy shit that happened to him in school, or just weird shit that happened to him in his young adult life.

The thing that is sad is that when he first started doing his "roasts", it was very much like Ethan was referring to in his rant. The things that he roasted were all things that were genuinely "off", creepy, or involved people doing something that was just downright not cool. It was only a more recent development that he really started aiming for people who could be deemed "Cringey" by the internet, and I think that is largely in part to the toxicity that has overtaken his fanbase. A lot of the videos that he has ended up roasting of late are stuff that was sent to him by his fans that he otherwise would likely not have ever found or cared about.

And that's sort of the point I want to make. Leafy is only about 22, he himself is still pretty much a kid. A lot of people who are "kids" to Ethan, are more like peers to Leafy, and the end result is that mocking them, especially since Leafy largely makes a point that his roasts are not meant to be taken seriously, is likely more akin to chuckling at the weird kid in school to him. Similarly, when Leafy makes fun of younger kids, like preteens akin to Matty B, to him it likely isn't anything more than "Making fun of the next generation", the same way a lot of teenagers and young adults complain about how the stuff that the generation behind them likes is "lame" or doesn't make any sense.

That doesn't excuse his behavior in recent circumstances, but I just think is a factor that really should be considered if you're going to make direct character judgments. It should also be stated that prior to this point, Leafy has gone well out of his way to not make fun of people who have conditions like Autism, even making a joke out of it where he would regularly remark that he's afraid to make fun of people in the background or outside of the main focus of some videos or the sort who are doing something off or strange, because they could turn out to be autistic and it would just make him look like an irredeemable asshole. Go figure.

What I think happened in this case is that Leafy's channel just grew way too fast and wound up overwhelming him. He blew up at an obscene rate and felt obligated to continue pleasing his new and growing audience, making videos faster and faster to ensure he can keep up with the demand, which invariably lead to a big, big mistake. I don't think Leafy knew Tommy had autism. If he had, I don't think Leafy would have made a video about him. I imagine he looked at Tommy, a person who was likely about his age, acting in a way that without that context would come off as somewhat grandstanding, and thought it was cheeky enough to do a roast of. I expect that when Leafy discovers his mistake (Which he probably already has, by now), he'll feel about like the entire situation has painted him to look like: a complete and utter asshole, and he'll probably try to make amends.

And hey, if he doesn't and he turns out to actually be a complete prick about it? Well, at the very least this will be one subscriber he'll lose. I just think that before people start jumping in his shit, at least give him a chance to come out and apologize and maybe try to make amends.

As someone who really liked his old content I hope that this whole thing, especially being called out by Ethan, will cause him to tone it back a bit and move away from the roasts, back towards the stuff that he was making before, or if he continues to focus on roasts, at the very least taking a page from Ethan and making sure that the people he decides to spotlight in a video are the types that genuinely deserve it. Hopefully he also takes a lesson away from this about the power having such a huge audience gives you, regardless of if you want it or not.