Hey guys it's me Republic attack
Um, so, it's probably my last video
I came across a random goodbye video on YouTube now
Normally, I don't click on these as they are usually popular YouTubers saying goodbye as a clickbait title just for views
But the thumbnail had a really sincere emotional looking face on it. So I clicked on it, and to my dismay
It was a really honest. Goodbye with a really sad story to go with it
Republic attack is a small YouTube channel doing Star Wars
Dioramas in Lego and has been running his channel for 8 years
But this poor guy came home to find his car window had been smashed in and when he went inside his home
He found that his Legos had been stolen or destroyed
What is truly heinous about this crime is to get to the room full of Lego, they walked past
His Mac notebook computer and even cash which they did not steal
They did not want other tangible valuables in the house. They only wanted his Lego and as someone pointed out
They left one of the best LEGO models behind which is the USC Imperial shuttle in the corner of the room
after this all happened
The guy was devastated and very emotional and he felt there was no point continuing with his passion on YouTube anymore
So he made a goodbye video then and there and here was a small segment of it. Hey guys it's me republic attack
Hey guys it's me Republicattack
It's probably my last video I came back home like two hours ago and
Found like the car in the parking Being having the window destroyed
Then I found LEGO pieces all over the garden and the terrace
then I just found also broken windows and doors and
Finally, I saw also destroyed Legos just down the stairs
And I found
Some Lego a lot missing in my lego room so
And my creation
Was here gone totally destroyed
Fortunately for me I took a picture before departing for work because like I can be gone
for a lot of time or else because of my work I travel a lot so
they I don't know if it is he or she or even they but they just
ripped it, and the same for many of my sets, all
many ucs-2 many new sets including the millennium falcon which I don't had the occasion to build yet
And many other Lego's I was about to build
Many systems to so I'm just stopping Lego's and so
It's been
Great adventure
eight years and
fourteen years of collection, but now
Even with a lot of money, I can't rebuild that
And just not possible
my bricks gone like
they took bots, so I'm just stopping
I'm probably, I don't know what I'm going to do, but yeah, so it was pretty great to have you for me
eight years and inspiring other people doing also legos, I really enjoy that and
So thank you for following me for all those eight years and bye well I wishing you the best with your
Legos and just be careful because they're some
bastards out there
So, goodbye
Republic attack may be a small channel and only uploads a few videos a year
But in just one of these videos star wars infiltration
He says he spent 18 months and used 12,000 pieces of Lego to make that diorama
This guy does not make videos to make money off youtube as he does. Not monetize the videos with adverts
He does it for the love and passion of Legos
especially in a Star Wars theme
Now that was the sad part of the story
But here is the happy ending
when I found his goodbye video rebel attack had four thousand four hundred and forty five subscribers
And less than a thousand views per video
Since then his story has gotten around the YouTube community and he has exploded as of this video
He has now gotten over nineteen thousand subscribers and his total views for his channel has gone up over a million views
So people are coming to his channel
Subscribing and watching his videos and support
Now that would normally be enough to help this poor guy out as those views would make him money from YouTube
But as I said, he does not monetize his videos so he will not make one cent from all that effort
But one lego fan made him a GoFundMe page
Asking people to donate to this man in his channel
And so far as of this video people have donated over eighteen thousand dollars in one day from nearly 1000 people
If you were interested the link to the GoFundMe is in the About section below
This guy was not hurting anyone or competing against anyone on YouTube for views or subs
he was just a simple guy who has a huge passion for Lego and shares a video with everyone a few times a year and
Does not even ask for anything in return
Well, I am going to ask for something on his behalf
Let's all flood Lego with emails and tweets asking them to give this poor guy some free Lego
Also subscribe to his channel and watch some of his videos and leave some supporting comments
He might be down right now, but he's not out. Let's all help restore his faith back in humanity
Anyway, that's the end of this video. Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next time, bye-bye