- Joined
- Jul 7, 2023
All of these people are insane and you should just be happy to watch them cannibalize themselves. Ethan is the very definition of a crybully, people only give him a pass for it because his detractors are even more insane and because they have a hate boner for Hasan.Ethan has always been a duplicitous opportunistic piece of shit and he shouldn't complain about being treated the same way he's treated others, fully agree on that, but at the same time he's never thrown Ian under the bus, even when it would've been convenient to do so. Of course that's because Ian was loyal, and you have to wonder if he would've been as good of a friend if Ian hadn't followed in his footsteps and accidentally pissed him off earlier on. But that's just fanfiction and what actually happened is that Ethan has been charitable to Ian specifically and Ian should've been more appreciative of that. He's justified in acting indignant in this isolated case.
From the very start Ethan has been a copycat. His old videos were just him ripping off Tim and Eric and prime MDE. Both Ethan and Heidecker (and even Sam Hyde as well to some extent) losing that ability to just laugh at absurd shit without some le super deep sociopolitical message or grift is what’s lead to their downfalls.Also, fuck Tim Heidecker while I'm at it, because Ethan is basically larping as him.
Also, Tim Heidecker was never even that offensive. Granted, I’ve only ever watched the old Tim and Eric shows (Great Job! and Check It Out), but even then I feel like the most edgy thing in a lot of those was gore and you could also make the argument for ableism because so many of the characters were clearly meant to be either intellectually disabled or were played by actors who were actually disabled themselves.