SRS If you think this is bad, you guys should see some of the stuff that happens on the vlogging community. This will be a long comment, mostly because I want to bitch (LMFAO SORRY GUYS I JUST FEEL PASSIONATELY ABOUT THIS) but also because this is semi-related and shows how bad things have gotten. This girl I've been watching since 2014 started years ago as a weight-loss channel that turned into a vlogging channel with some makeup thrown in, and sometimes she would talk about weight-loss. She has gained substantial weight since she started her channel, but it's very obvious that she has mental illnesses that are hindering her ability to lose weight. She's been made fun of so much that she's afraid to go to doctors to actually get help, because she doesn't want them to make fun of her. There are probably at least 100 channels that take her content and re-upload it, then add in animal noises or actually just Photoshop her as a cow or hippo. They change her name to include "Fat" or "Ham" or "Beanbag" because she thought a man called her a "beanbag" one day because of her size.
It's frustrating to watch her feed into the trolls by giving them what they want by posting binging videos, but she cannot work and YouTube is the only income they have at this point. Fucked up situation, but as someone who once needed money to live and couldn't find a job, I can relate to the panic of trying to do anything just to be able to survive. She lives in the same area, less than an hour, from where I lived in the states, so I know the cost of living and the markups that are insane there because you're an hour away from the nearest actual town. She is so socially stunted by being shut-in for years that you can tell even talking about big social functions affects her. As someone who has mental illnesses, and who is overweight, I've always felt drawn to her because I catch glimpses of myself in this girl. The anxiety, the self-hatred, etc. all just hits close to home, so it bothers me when 99.9% of her comments are people telling her she's doing great on her way to greet Death for Christmas. They tell her they can't wait to see how they fit her into a casket, they tell her they'll donate to her funeral fund, and stuff that's worse than that.
Thankfully, today someone posted on YouTube that a ton of hate-channels about her had been deleted. I spent about thirty minutes yesterday reporting a bunch of channels and comments, and two of the ones that were removed I directly contacted YT about because they had been blatantly harassing not only this girl, but ANY of her viewers that posted positive comments or encouragement. These same channels are the ones who have started saying that she isn't an actual lesbian, and is just saying she is because only women could find her attractive at this point.
I'm hoping that by YT doing this to these channels, that other channels will soon follow, and not just in the weigh-loss/vlogging community, but also the beauty community, too. I know it was ~thirty minutes~ spent reporting these channels, but if that's all I have to spend to help this girl get a little less hate, I'm okay with that. Call me a narc, call me pathetic, but nobody deserves the amount of hate this girl gets on a daily basis. She posted a picture to Instagram of her a couple hundred pounds lighter, from before her mental illnesses floated to the surface, saying, "I hate myself," and disabled comments. People went to her channel and started polls and discussions about if she would finally "do the deed" and fix herself for the last, and final time. Fuck them, man. Fuck them so hard.
Also, I wanted to add that I didn't want to directly name her because while she does talk about makeup A LOT, she's not a popular beau-tuber, so I just left out her name. I hope that's okay.