TGWTG Nostalgia Chick / Lindsay Ellis / TheDudette - aka Hotdogs in face girl

I'm pretty sure these are linked.

Lindsey gave Jill her first step up onto the internet in 2013 on Stuff You Like as Sursum Ursa (hosted on Chez Apocalypse). Eventually it travelled across to Channel Apocalypse after Lindsey retired Nostalgia Chick.

In 2018, after Jill came out and said that trans activists shouldn't beat up elderly ladies and bepenised rapists shouldn't be put in women's prisons and children shouldn't be given experimental puberty blockers, Lindsey did not cancel her straight away.

Seeing Tom get dogpiled despite literally not knowing anything about this and being completely non-problematic or political meant she probably got scared of backlash. Potentially she even got some blowback after telling Tom to delete the video. So I'd guess she panicked and decided to quit the internet.
 
This was going to be a YouTube video, but I just don’t have it in me to invite that kind of scrutiny, to be the last in the sick, sad line of YouTubers who get all weepy on camera and cry about how they just can’t do this anymore, boo hoo hoo.
You're doing that right now you dumb hole.

The worst thing about this whole year is that I can’t even admit this trauma because of all the rhetorical devices people have already come up with to dismiss it. That centering my own pain is evidence of me “not listening” (does it occur to these people that you can listen, and disagree with other people’s conclusions?)
These people don’t see how similar these talking points are to the same Boomer, bootstrap parenting style that I thought most of us had agreed was abusive
And who's fucking fault was that? It's funny to see her complain about those same "rhetorical devices" she helped popularize for it now to be an issue when used on her.
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Also, how many times do you think shes been told she was doing the same shit religious people do? I know she didn't say religious, but I'm 99% sure she is referring to them because that's who these people often complain about whenever they discuss those horrible boomer parents back in the days when society was more sensible.

“believing victims”
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I reread the 2015 essay “Hot Allostatic Load” for the first time in years last night, and I could not stop crying. Even reading some of these passages now, I can’t stop crying.
I bring your attention back to my first point.

I can’t stop crying. This was written from the perspective of a trans femme and discusses some rhetorical devices used to demonize trans women specifically, which obviously does not apply to me, but some of it is spot on:
Shit you, and people like you, have been doing for years. Yes it absolutely applies to you.

The Isabel Fall case is almost a textbook example about how online mobbing harms people, and how the people who participate in these mobs never engage in any self-reflection
There's this neat invention called a mirror. Try looking into one.

My initial plan was to leave YouTube for Nebula, but I realize now that this is only entrenching myself in a more intimate form of harm rather than the broad, buckshot kind that YouTube invites. I won’t go into detail (not right now, anyway), but I can’t do video content for them either. I can’t make content period. I just can’t do this anymore. There is no healing as long as there is attachment to the thing that makes you suffer, and the thing in this case is being in the public eye at all.
And stay out.

But all I know now is that being in the public eye at all is a losing game, and I regret all of it. I regret every time I’ve ever stood up for anyone - it always backfires. I regret every time I pushed back against something unjust - it was always just used to hurt me. I regret every time I ever stood up for myself - I never did it “correctly.” I regret every time I showed any vulnerability - just more ammunition to be used against me later. I regret every time I ever tried to play the game with peers and colleagues - they will drop you the second you aren't popular on Twitter anymore. It’s all hollow and brittle, and if there is one thing I have learned this year it is how eminently expendable I am. The good, progressive cis, straight, wealthy white men keep on trucking and coming out on top because deep down, they know that the systems they profess to stand against ultimately exist to benefit them.
What I wanted to hear. They actually regret something. But only after they were pushed in the shit themselves. Always justifiable when they do it but never when it happens to them. Even then, she still blames the usual boogyman. I don't think the "The good, progressive cis, straight, wealthy white men" are the ones to blame here. It was her fan base she herself cultivated and the people she associated with. Most who would not be categorized as cis, straight, and white or even wealthy. It's frustrating that Lindsey can't get this though her head and just admit she is a terrible person who surrounded herself with terrible people.

Hope your new year is better than this.
Hope your's is shit, lol.
 
gg no re

also lol hotdog face
This whole situation truly is a certified
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This despicable hag deserves every scrap of this, and more.

Ellis and her autistic supporters were the ones that repeatedly, throughout 2014 and beyond, massive forced politicization of every platform they were in contact with, most notably Channel Awesome, and forced them - let me repeat this - forced them - through accusations, leveraging pressure, and straight-out intimidation - to back the political horses they chose, or face the possibility of being pressured out. Parts of the #ChangeTheChannel campaign were specifically brought about by this happening, and the significant downturn in CA content directly connected to so many of them going full-bore into Twitter sperging and political pandering was a direct consequence of them doing this.

They were a major contributing factor in everything from Spoony's self-destruction to the cover up of JewWario's sex offenses.

To writ: Ellis' goons specifically had a hand in killing every single platform they were remotely attached to that wanted to do anything but sperg about politics. They actively made shit worse. They were, at the time, involved in shit significantly more heinous than any harassment they claimed to whine about to demonetize and shut down voices that pushed for not giving a shit, let alone ones who believed in opposition viewpoints. They cultured an audience specifically so they could weaponize it, and when the rabid shitheads they cultured inevitably came for them, as everyone warned them it would, for years of real time, their response was to whine and play the victim. Not once was there a scrap of remorse for the awful, awful shit they had done in the name of their "cause," not once was there an acknowledgement that this had been entirely due to their own actions, or that anything they had ever done had been wrong.

Ellis and her supporters were - and still are - fucking poison. They have never accomplished anything but destroying anything they come into contact with, and it's poetic justice that she self-destructed. Good fucking riddance.
 
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