it is interesting that they found a groove with personal/medical stories after the 2018 incident like even phil going to the hospital for his colonoscopy in 2020 and the glue incident were all revealed after they had happened/were completely wrapped up. and then of course phil didn't acknowledge his chronic health issues until people wouldn't stop commenting on how he was off in 2021 and even then he wasn't giving updates for months at a time (when yeah if it had happened in 2018 he probably would have made an amazingphil video about all the different tests he had)i guess the 2024 ass bleeding was traumatic enough for them to feel the need to comment on it in the mukbang before they shared the story. i'm sure they were still processing all of it (understandably!!!!) and maybe it's easier to acknowledge the elephant even if you're the only people who can see it