There’s a YouTuber I used to watch, CinnamonToastKen. It was pretty good, family friendly fun of him and his buddy just making fun of reality shows and stuff. One of those shows was this TLC thing called “G*psy Brides”, which is about Romani people acting like rednecks and that being funny for some reason. It was at this point, that I began to realize that neither Ken nor any of the commenters realized that the G word is a genuine slur. That wasn’t the dealbreaker though, that came later when he said in an aside during a video that he was told by someone that it was, indeed, an ethnic slur.
So Ken’s response to this was bewilderment and his immediate assumption was that this wasn’t a real thing and just another instance of “people being offended for others.” So he decided to ask his community if it was really a slur and to leave an explanation in the comments. Because, y’know, that’s somehow easier than just googling it. He ended up hearting a comment that gave a childish oversimplification of the issue that ultimately said “Some people feel that way but most don’t care”
To this day I feel disgusted that instead of taking the L about his accidental racism, he just assumed it was a made up issue and then chose the one comment that protrayed it as some trivial thing. I guess I should’ve known he wasn’t on the up and up when half his videos were collabs with Pewdiepie.
Yea I used to like JonTron(I still love the old vids) but omg in his subscribed channels he had like “New Discourses” it’s literally just ‘InTeLLeCtUaL CoNsErVaTiVeS’ calling Marxists Groomers or pedophiles and Woke CRT blah blah fucking blah. Bunch of bullshit and now I hate him(again his early vids still bring me back, but I never recommend him to others or check new videos) I hate that YouTube is so reactionary. They don’t even hide it, they let Peterson and Kirk and Shapiro just litter the internet with toxic crap and when leftists unload content, they get 18+‘ed or demonotized
I looked them up and scrolled their channel, most of their content is far from family friendly and they’re friends with Pewdiepie. So this is exactly the kind of behaviour I’d expect, just a white man on the internet.
Yeah, it’s funny. After this event I went back through their stuff and the Matrix was revealed, suddenly I saw a lot more faults than before.
Paper Will had some really interesting videos about niche topics, then just had to ride the anti-DPRK propaganda wave hitting YouTube and made a disgusting, poorly-researched culturally insensitive video about DPRK performance arts, especially from children. Accusing the government of forcing these people to be on stage, comments full of hyper-scrutinizing the “fear in their eyes”, etc. Super disappointing and I left him a comment saying so, he just “hearted” it.
Illuminaughti, who often brings corporate sins to the spotlight, also rode this wave and made a similarly disgusting video.
Nick Crowley, horror and true crime YouTuber, has been on this weird spree of presenting national liberation movements as “scary cults” and parroting shit about the DPRK and China.
I feel you. I’m sick of seeing YouTubers I like fall like that.
I just used to watch Barnaby Dixon, a puppeteer on YouTube. His channel was wholesome and decently big, he was even a guest on Adam Savage’s Tested channel a few years ago. But then he started doing some interviews, and one time he interviewed a transphobe about children transitioning. When people were pointing out how awful this choice was, and how wrong and harmful everything the guest had said was, he just replied to the transphobes and ignored all criticism. So these days I stay away from pretty much all channels unless they are explicitly trans allies.
