"with no effort to hide or protect the artist's name?"
Which is hilarious considering the original comic only had her 3 letter signature. That and the fact google image search is a thing
Why the actual fuck would anyone hide the name of an artist who posts their work specifically to spread their message and get as many eyes on their work as possible just because they're criticizing it rather than praising it?
The thing about making your career all about getting attention (because attention means people are more likely to pay for your work) is that you gotta take the good with the bad, you don't get to just turn it all off and hide under the covers when you fuck it all up.
Wait until this starts to blow over and Jess realizes that if she tries to brush it off with "everyone makes mistakes once in a while, let's learn from it and move on" she'll lose her only reason for hating on her favourite youtube targets.
The hardcore social justice crowd does not forgive any slip ups, no matter how innocent or long ago.
Also fuck me, these people who rail on and on about accepting each other and how everyone is important trying to justify hating a character that, in canon, has had three lines with nary a sour word in them being held up as a pillar of empathy and acceptance is mind boggling.
Calling him a skinhead and racist is just beyond reaching, and calling artists transphobic or hateful for literally making a comic where a guy just makes pleasant conversation with no mention of Jess or trans people is just really really weird.
The people lashing out clearly aren't thinking before they type or evaluating the situation in any way.
They're just angry because someone they perceive as a perpetual victim is facing consequences for posting their own hateful rhetoric and they have no real leg to stand on in the argument so they're just spewing every word in the Tumbler Thesaurus for "people who disagree with me" they can find without a single thought or possibly any real knowledge of their actual meaning.
Which is made even sadder by the fact that it lays bare the fact that these people clearly don't care about facts, logic or context, it's all just about siding with whoever has the most medals in the oppression olympics.
My god, what a sad and miserable lot they all are. I'd be exhausted being that angry and ignorant all the time.
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I like how we're starting the decade with "be compassionate" being labeled a thing for Nazzzys.
This is exactly what I mean. Who the heck said anything about siding with nazis or not holding hands with queers?
Dude literally just says he doesn't think
anyone deserves to get robbed.
What does that have to do with Pewdiepie"getting away" with anything? He wasn't being punished for that, his house was probably picked at random by a meth addict who saw all the shiny baubles in the window. There are no politics involved in that at all.
So where's the racism? Where's the homophobia? these guys are so desperate to find ANYTHING in this situation to be angry about that they're attempting to create a whole new narrative out of actually, literally nothing.
ON TOP OF THAT
The original comic doesn't say anything about him being racist, homophobic, transphobic or anything.
It says he's a rich dude bro and a douchebag.
Those are the descriptors Jess uses to justify reveling in his misfortune.
His social class, his gender and the fact that he's got a bro-y attitude. That's it guys, that's our context. You don't get to close your eyes and wish really really hard she had said he was a serial killer who targets black trans jewish sex workers.
edit 2: Okay all that made me seem angry, and by all means rate me as mad on the internet if you'd like, but I'm mostly just confused and the more and more I think about this the less it all makes sense.
I'm legit baffled that this is an actual thing in our reality right now.