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Jack hugging fans at PAX East <3

The sass is strong with this one

I’ve seen a lot of talk after the video I did today and I’m trying to get an overall picture as much as I can. Some people agree with my video, some really don’t and some agree with half of it. No one is wrong and I definitely appreciate the variety of opinions because as I said, I’m not right and I am open to discuss it further.

My main regret for this video was focusing too much on what Felix did and whether I agreed with it or not instead of elaborating on the media side of it all. I did this initially because I wanted to avoid the “youtubers vs the mainstream media” narrative that’s been going around but I can see now that that wasn’t a good idea. It made it seem like I was defending them more than Felix and I was throwing him under the bus. Absolutely not my intention. I think because I’m close friends with Felix that I thought I could criticise him a bit more and explain it to him if he disagreed but to the outside viewer this isn’t apparent and looks like I just blasted him instead in front of a lot of people. 

I do think there were some unethical practices at play with the media, a lot of misquoting and misrepresentation and then other articles taking that and doing their spin on it which muddied the waters more. As I said in my video, it got very messy. Also yeah, it’s a little strange that WSJ would focus on a youtuber making jokes (good or bad) rather than bigger real issues, as Felix put it “I expect it from The Sun maybe but not Wall Street Journal”. 

When I said “WSJ weren’t wrong to run the story” I meant that technically it’s in their rights to do whatever they want. I don’t have to agree with it however and some parts of it did feel a little overly critical of everything while other sections flat out lied about him. Some articles literally called him “Racist” which I mentioned I knew wasn’t true. 

I felt like most of this had been said by everyone else and better, so I made it a shorter talking point in my video which now I see wasn’t a good idea. It paints a picture that isn’t true. I think fear of backlash got to me a bit and I’m inexperienced tackling such large issues so I didn’t get specific. There’s no one right answer to everything but I’m not arrogant or stubborn enough to not listen to others on this and discuss it or even admit when I’m wrong. 

OH MY GOD IM SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THE PEOPLE SENDING MARK HATE BECAUSE OF HIS ‘RESPECT’ VIDEO.

DO YOU THINK MARK UPLOADED THAT JUST TO GET VIEWS? ARE YOU THAT NARROW-MINDED? IT JUST SHOWS THAT PEOPLE WHO HATE MARK FOR RESPECTING FELIX IN A PERSONAL LEVEL IS IMMATURE. 

NONE OF US KNOW FELIX PERSONALLY. BUT MARK DOES. HE JUST DEFENDED HIS FRIEND. BECAUSE HE KNOWS HOW MUCH OF A GOOD PERSON IS FELIX. 

for Sean.

I need to do more artwork for my uni portfolio so I made jack as an “kind of the last of us vibe character” I don’t know lol anyway

I hope you like it @therealjacksepticeye !