Hey, it’s your boy Joe Miasma here!
And I need to talk to you about something
that happened while I was putting the finishing
touches on my ‘You Wouldn’t Steal A Car’
video – one YouTuber, Cole Carrigann, accused
Austin McBroom of The Ace Family of raping
one of their friends.
Thing is though, Keemstar contacted the alleged
victim of the rape, and well… roll it.
That settles it, then.
Cole Carrigann lied about a rape to (apparently)
destroy the Ace Family and even worse, if
I’m hearing correctly, to extort money from
them.
But why am I telling you this?
This is the latest example of what is known
as ‘cancel culture’, where internet denizens
try to destroy the reputation of prominent
people (on YouTube, Instagram, Twitter etc.)
by bringing up their alleged ill actions and
causing a backlash against them.
But, this mentality of slashing and burning
the image of celebs solely based on allegations
needs to stop.
And in this video, I will show you whether
we should end the scourge of cancel culture.
Or in other words, is cancel culture a necessary
evil?
And before I get the inevitable rush of people
saying that “THEY WEREN’T CANCELED BECAUSE
THEY GAINED SOME OF THEIR BASE BACK etc.”
Well, that doesn’t matter – what matters
is that there was an attempt: at least that’s
my definition.
If you think differently to me, leave your
criticism in your comments below.
Here we go.
The first example of why cancel culture can
be bad is that of Zaptie – for those new
to the YouTube scene, he was a commentary
YouTuber in the vein of Pyrocynical.
However, there was an event that turned his
life on its head.
But we need some context – he ran a podcast
with Bionic Pig and Elvis The Alien (two other
commentators) called Hot Wet Soup.
Alright, that’s the context out of the way
– basically, that one fateful day, Zaptie
did not show up.
And in his place came...ImAllexx.
If you’ve been tuned in to the many videos
criticising him, you know where this is going.
He went and labelled Zap a “diagnosed sociopath”
based on a joke and even worse, later on,
he brought up accusations of pedophilia.
However, a little investigation showed that
these were unfounded and even worse, the rest
of the podcast did not even bother to correct
him – but not out of malice, since Elvis
The Alien eventually admitted that that episode
was based on bad information and wiped it
from existence.
If you want to learn more about the fiasco,
I found a series of videos from Nicholas DeOrio
to be quite interesting – I’ll link them
in the description.
If you’ve been subscribed to me these several
months, you know who I’m going to talk about
next – Jared Knaubenbauer, aka ProJared.
Basically, what happened was that he divorced
his ex-wife, Heidi O’Farrell, on Twitter
and Heidi replied back with very serious allegations
which included cheating and even worse, grooming
kids.
As you probably know, the backlash was massive
– Jared went into hiding for several months
and took a 400K hit in subs, but he broke
that silence with a video titled “YOU’VE
BEEN LIED TO” in which he explained his
side of the story and debunked a vast majority
of the accusations against him and as of now,
has gained back some of his subs and is nearing
900K.
But is it cancel culture?
While he has gained some of his fanbase back,
there are and always will be holdouts who
will believe that he has committed some crimes,
despite law enforcement investigating and
obviously not finding anything worthy.
And just something I’ve observed – most
of these holdouts are fond of social justice.
I’m not an expert on these matters, so I’ll
leave it to other people in the commentary
scene.
And the final case study of cancel culture
is the whole situation with Slazo – an Australian
commentator (g’day, mate).
One day, one of his former girlfriends published
a Twitlonger with very serious allegations,
which included being pressured into doing
sexual acts by him and him being emotionally
manipulative – like the ProJared situation,
most people believed her and there was a mass
exodus of subscribers from Slazo’s channel;
that is, until he responded in spectacular
fashion, releasing a video titled “my side”
debunking all of the accusations against him.
And you know what the funny part is?
It came out that the allegations were orchestrated
by many people, including – wait for it
– ImAllexx.
Man, I really need to make the video on him.
So after all this, what is my opinion on this?
I’ve heard tons of perspectives, ranging
from it being necessary to being something
everyone can do without.
I fall in the former category, but only with
the caveat of enough valid evidence being
presented against the person concerned – but
all too often, people are quick to presume
guilt based on unreliable evidence.
Basically, we should operate under the idea
that a person is innocent until proven guilty.
Anyways, that is the end of this video – if
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This has been your boy, Joe Miasma, reminding
you to have an awesome day or night, wherever
you are.
