Another former forum guy here. The best way I can describe JewChew I mean YouChew is that it's basically proto-tumblr, and yes, that is before tumblr itself became a common fixture on our humble internet dailyspeak.
The forum's obsession over a video remixing fad that has been dead since 2009 isn't even the biggest problem with that place. Personally, I can't think of any other place that is more chock-full of bile and hatred than YouChew; the list compiled by Jumping Dwarf are only the tip of the iceberg as far as that soulless husk of an echo chamber is concerned.
In fact, most individuals within the youtube poop community, regardless of whether they're YC members or not, are less known for their video editing "talent" and more known for their obsessive hiveminding and phony sense of victimhood over the most mundane of things, but I'm getting way ahead of myself. For this post, I'll limit myself to just addressing YouChew.
Thank you so much,
@The Jumping Dwarf.
I honestly don't know why Rokto was banned, but I think it was because of his actions toward Ted, not because of any prior harassment. Rokto, Radock, and their cronies used to harass and raid people offsite, which is a bannable offense, and Rokto received no punishment. Ask Malkmusian/Liebermintz. He says that they raided his last.fm page and got away with it.
YC has a loooooooong history of burying harassment complaints against it's 'veterans' and mods and admins alike. Suffice to say, the forum has an irrational hatred of collective criticism of any kind, and even the higher ups won't hesitate to sissy fight each other as soon as they detect any sort of opinion dissent.
RepQuest is correct in stating that Rokto/Tom was only banned because he was power hungry. It's also worth mentioning that he also mocked Malk's long deceased mother during the same last.fm incident, and that Raddock has been consistently harassing the dude for the longest time as well.
For the sake of putting my two cents on the Oz topic, I'll just make it clear that Dopply was the one who kickstarted the whole mess by essentially hiring Oz to do the maintenance in the forum, and the staff essentially awarded Oz with admin as soon as the latter became YC's sugardaddy. That and Oz actually didn't have much to do with 'turning the members against each other' or whatever Orwellian excuse they currently have in place; that was entirely the staff and userbase' fault due to their consistent paranoia and a general sense of distrust and dysfunction that hasn't been and never will be sorted out.
Did I mention userbase? Yeah, just about most of them are lolcowzy enough to earn their own individual KiwiFarm threads, and that's still putting it lightly.
The gist of all of this is that YouChew is a collection of smaller, hugboxey cliques who are or were connected to the site in some form in another, and they all compete with each other to see which one is the biggest special snowflake. As far as I'm concerned, YC has long ceased to be about circlejerking about dated CD-i and DiC jokes. The remaining userbase is fixated on only feigning perpetual aggrievement at anything and anyone, and sadly, this also applies to at least half of the ex-members.
