i was trying to be tactful, respectful, and understanding by posting this thread for ppl to ask questions abt our beautiful hexbear. i didnt get any questions.
it took 4 hours for Ada, their admin, to respond. she locked the thread shortly after responding
her reply above was disheartening, as she seemed willing to work with us previously. equating ableism to a dunk tank post is just vile. and claiming the transphobia in 196 is “a specific event that occurred around a month ago” proves she didnt read any of our concerns. i didnt know abt that event, im sure most of us here dont. our concerns are rooted in the chasers of 196 (non-trans ppl who fetishize trans ppl). someone replied to her saying we were “concern-trolling”. is it that unbelievable that we care abt not having bigotry in the same space as us. i want to grab some of these users by the shoulders, shake them, and yell, “WE ARE BEING GENUINE. WE ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT PROVIDING A SAFE, SUPPORTIVE SPACE FOR ALL PEOPLE, AND YOUR COMMUNITY IS ALIENATING TRANS AND DISABLED PEOPLE!!”
responses were not very positive of us
they think this is a bit! lol, lmao even! this whole thing has me 
this chain of comments particularly upset me
“its a troll”. my pronouns are right next to my name, and “it” isnt one of them (even tho thats 100% a valid pronoun to prefer)
this one had me fully 
and the cherry on top warranted its own post https://hexbear.net/post/373453
I feel like such a fogey. I'm assuming Vaush is some sort of internet personality? I get search hits for a YouTuber.
From memory he’s a pedo.
pedo, chaser, racist, imperialism apologist. i could go on
yeah, youtuber - "anarcho-Bidenist" with an extremely toxic fanbase and infamous for being a pedo, a chaser, and racist. straight up defends saying the n-word. we normally don't allow discussion of his stuff because giving him attention or brain space is a mistake but it's relevant in the context of the 196 community
Also chased a Black youtuber(Professor Flowers) off the platform by slandering her as a genocide apologist, and utterly refuses to differentiate between white nationalism, regressive Black nationalism(the kind of horseshit that say, the Black Hebrew Israelites peddle), and actually revolutionary Black nationalism.
She still makes videos, but yeah that's probably one of the worst things he's done besides threaten to r*pe someone.
I feel so bad for her, not only did she have to deal with all the debatebro fuckery, but apparently she also keeps getting shit from other POC or just other leftists being shitheads in general
I think he also did actual sex pest stuff, but that was under his other name before he rebranded to escape the accusations.
from my understanding it was all online no? Not that it makes redeemable, but I don't think he's actually physically harassed anyone in person from what we know (wouldn't put it past him of course)
I thought the incident that made him rebrand was in real life, but I might be confusing him for someone else.
I think the person he harassed was Poppy, is that who you're thinking of?
His fucking NATOpedia page never even mentions the incident or that he had any other pseudonym.
Looking at a few sources (including the Destiny sub, please forgive me), it appears that it wasn't in-person but it was multiple victims and he defends his actions
see I didn't even know there were multiple, but I did know the he never apologized to Poppy and even threatened her after he gave a non-apology
Eesh. It's so bizarre to me the online personalities, that people will then claim to be followers of, and even attach a cutesy name to. It's like saying, "Yeah, I'm Savillain. Yeah, I'm a Cosbologist."
it's the commoditization of identity - corporate brands wanted people to identify with them so there was a mass push towards that, especially with advertising. with social media, "influencers" began capitalizing on parasocial relationships with their fandom as well as cultivating brand identity. the post-structuralist critiques are fairly interesting on this front.
I just wanna go back to when it took reasonable technical investment to platform on the internet. I had such high hopes for accessibility.
capitalism, baybee. takes unmitigated goods and turns them into ash in our mouths.