First Post Back (More of an angry vent than anything);
Heh... I’ll admit, what I’m about to say is purely out of me being sick and tired of being quiet, and it may be all over the place along with missing bits of information per each person I mention that I only may or may not know about/forget to mention, but I don’t care;
I’ve been staying off of a lot of sites lately either than YouTube, Discord and TikTok (half because I can, and the other half is that I’m tired of hearing drama), but I’m going to say something about the drama I’ve heard going around about some YouTubers throughout the fandoms that I’m a part of. Yes, this will make me lose followers, and I guarantee that I’ll get hate for it, but it’s merely my thoughts and opinions on certain things and people, so no one has to come after me for simply speaking my mind. You’re all free to disagree with anything or everything I say, but the second anyone sends me vulgar asks/direct messages saying how “I’m wrong for feeling the way I do”, anything along the lines of “Actually, this happened, you need to not defend this person because of it”, or even reblogging this entire post in itself saying stuff like “This person clearly doesn’t know what they’re talking about”, or “You’re completely wrong for feeling this way, here’s a massive list as to why”? You will be blocked. As I’ve said, this is merely my thoughts and opinions on this matter, I’m not looking for a challenge, I’m not attacking any one person in particular, and I’m not looking to be educated on the matter. Over time my opinion could change (I do research things), but as of this moment, this is what I have to say (TRIGGER WARNINGS; MENTIONS OF PEOPLE BEING TOLD TO COMMIT SUICIDE, DEATH THREATS, AND CERTAIN TERMS THAT MAY OFFEND PEOPLE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED);
The number of YouTubers that are getting cancelled NEEDS TO STOP. Cancel Culture itself NEEDS TO STOP. It’s not cool/funny, nor is it okay to cancel someone because people want clout or whatever proper term that's used for them about getting attention. Not only that, but hearing that people are saying horrible things to YouTubers, dragging them into drama that they don’t even have anything to do with to begin with, and even telling said YouTubers to kill themselves? THAT IS DEFINITELY NOT OKAY WHATSOEVER, NO MATTER WHAT THEY’VE DONE! The numbers are on the rise, and it’s pissing me off to no extent to see the names that pop up.
To name a few off the top of my head (all of them obviously haven’t been told the exact same things, and some accusations/things that have been said aren’t as bad as others, but still);
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Dreamwastaken. I absolutely adore and respect this man (as a fan, of course). I’ve seen so many accusations against him, including being accused of cheating in many of the games he plays, calling him a horrible person, calling him a hacker, almost too many things that I care to talk about, but the most recent accusations placed against him by a woman and her sister (I believe it was her sister) on stream (I won’t speak their names), accusing him, his fandom, and his followers of being toxic just to take the heat off of her saying slurs within her own stream, accusing him of talking to minors (part of his fan base is minors because of the amount of Minecraft he plays), accusing him of queer-baiting with his best friend (he and Georgenotfound literally just play flirt because they’re close enough and comfortable enough to do such things with one another, what’s wrong with that?), interrogating him relentlessly and forcing him to state a sexuality despite saying in the past that he wishes to remain unlabeled, interrupting him and making fun of his ADHD, and her subscriber-only chat telling him to kill himself? NONE OF THAT IS OKAY! People thinking “Oh, Dream does a lot of Minecraft stuff, make him the head of the entire Minecraft fandom as a whole and accuse him of not being able to keep his friends or toxic viewers in check”, that’s not okay, either! Dream is only responsible for himself, not his friends, and he sure as HELL isn’t responsible for what any of his viewers/followers say, cruel or not!
Not only that, but forcing him to state his sexuality? What is WRONG with people?! Forcing someone to come out is 100% NOT OKAY! As far as I’m concerned? He’s still unlabeled, and he will remain as such until he ISN’T backed into a corner and forced to say what he is like he did the other night (when I post this). If or when he wishes to state his sexuality, and if or when he is comfortable enough to do such a thing, then he will, it’s as simple as that!
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JSchlatt. I don’t know a whole lot about this man, but I’ve been following him for a little while, and from what I’ve seen and heard, he makes a lot of crude jokes- some racist, which I don’t necessarily agree with myself, but I don’t go out of my way to try and cut him down because of it, I personally just watch content with him in it and ignore some of the jokes he makes- and I’ve heard about his video titles and the pictures he uses for his videos, but does that necessarily mean that he needs to be cancelled? It’s not like he’s going out of his way to be offensive. That’s just how the man is, people need to realize that. He’s genuinely a nice person, he’s just very blunt with what he says, and he isn’t afraid to make jokes that he himself finds funny alongside his friends.
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Karl Jacobs. I’ve only been following him for a small while, but I still don’t understand why people are trying to cancel him. He hasn’t done anything wrong, and from the one clip I’ve seen of him with someone stating ‘there goes another person I thought I could trust not to do anything bad’, he wasn’t even doing anything bad? Yes, I’m still getting information about everything, so I may change my words in the future, but as of right now, I’m not going to.
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Fundy. A few weeks ago (when I post this), he made a video that had a few highly inappropriate things within it, and while I’m not defending him for said video, people sent him death threats because of it. THAT’S NOT OKAY. He apologized for it, and while I haven’t seen any hate towards him since, that doesn’t mean that it’s not there simply because I myself don’t see it.
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Mini Ladd. This is a person that I was wasn’t going to talk about due to people still not being comfortable at the very mention of his name, but I’ll say what I have to say anyways;
Am I aware of everything he was accused of? Yes, I am. Have I seen his apology videos? Yes, I have. Am I saying that he shouldn’t have been cancelled? No, not necessarily, but it still makes me feel sick to hear all the horrible things people say about him. Do I still follow this man on the internet? Yes, I do. Wanna know why? It’s simple; I don’t hate him. I can’t find it in myself to hate him, but I haven’t fully forgiven him for what he’s done yet, and I won’t until he actually shows that he’s turning himself around. Personally, I believe people can change, but that’s my own optimistic thought process. Maybe he will, maybe he won’t, but I’m willing to remain neutral until given a reason to think otherwise. About the only thing I will truly defend him about, though? Is people telling him to kill himself. People have every right to be angry at him for what he did, yes, but telling ANYONE to kill themselves is not okay, no matter what they’ve done. It’s sickening, and it needs to stop.
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That’s all I’m going to say for now. There’s SO many more that I could talk about, but those are the few that I wanted to talk about when I post this. As I stated above, my opinion could change over time, but as of this very moment, that’s how I feel about the situation of the youtubers I spoke of above.
Also, I understand that not everyone is toxic towards the people I mentioned above. I’m not saying that every single person is, I’m simply stating the drama part of everything I’ve heard as of late of everyone I mentioned above, nothing more, nothing less.
