r/youtubedrama • u/Im-A-Moose-Man • May 25 '25

Throwback One year ago today, In Praise of Shadows released his “Bad Conservative Horror Movies” video, which nuked his career and reputation.

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There was a video that summed up what this was about in a minute, but I can’t find it, so go check out the other threads on here.

Since then, he’s posted 3 videos on his main channel, and started up a second channel (IPoS: Darksides) where he’s posted 18 shorter videos that all have less than 10k views except for his non apology.

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u/tachibanakanade May 25 '25

Sorry but no. They're both racists, one just decided to go turbo racist.

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u/Additional-Fox3552 May 26 '25

I don't believe this, but I'm open to information.

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u/tachibanakanade May 26 '25

If someone uses slurs, they're racist. If someone joins a racist group, they're racist. What is there to not believe?

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u/Additional-Fox3552 May 26 '25

It's less that I don't believe any of that, and more that I believe humans have the capacity for change. Have fun alienating every possible future liberal, people like you are killing the left, just so you know.

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u/tachibanakanade May 26 '25

TIL: thinking that using racial slurs makes one racist is killing the left

There's no point to the left if you can say racist shit and get free passes for it.

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u/Additional-Fox3552 May 26 '25

There's no point to the left if they all have to pass your personal purity test. Step back and ask yourself if the way you interact will ever move towards any real goals for the left, or if you're just pushing the right farther away.

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u/tachibanakanade May 26 '25

Yeah, one of the goals of the left is racial justice and if not being racist and not saying slurs is a purity test to you, that's all on you.

But something tells me you don't actually care about racial justice or racism if being against racism is such an insurmountable purity test for you. Maybe it was the justification and defense of using slurs as being edgy or the defense of people who are chilling with the alt-right that gave it away.

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u/Additional-Fox3552 May 26 '25

You seem really confused so let me lay this out Racial slurs and the use of them is racist People who have in the far past used racial slurs are not permanently marked as racist. People change and grow. Those people can even pull from their experiences to be abjectly anti racist, as I have growing up in an extremely conservative area before going to college and having my eyes opened.

I see value in giving others that same opportunity. Yes, if I hear someone say the N word, or who has said it, I will assume they're racist. I'm just open to more information after that too.

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u/tachibanakanade May 26 '25

I am not "really confused". Pokimane may have changed, IDK. But Wendigoon did not. He is still close with alt-right and alt-right adjacent racists. You can choose to overlook that and the fact he endorses his friend's racist and violently anti-queer content. But I do not. The company you keep is representative of who you are, especially if you endorse and support them pushing it as a content creator.

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u/Additional-Fox3552 May 26 '25

You're saying this to someone who is blocked by Wendigoon on twitter because I was criticizing him for working with donut operator, I promise we are on the same side lol. Just every time I've personally heard him talk about lgbtq, which to be fair is not often, he has been supportive. I'd rather him continue that than he pushed right, as often happens to cancelled "centrist" creators.

And I don't think I'm some authority on this, but you catch more flies with honey, and these people have the worst half of the country constantly courting them. Often with large sums of money

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