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(I say fence-sitting to be generous)

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...shifting about on her feet in the middle of a living room like a five year old who needs a wee doing a "so anyway here's Wonderwall".

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Not me going on the profile of her who's been furiously fence-sitting about What We Should Do About YouTube Rapist #597326 and if you scroll back far enough she's got an obligatory "guys... I don't Just look pretty and play games... I also Play Guitar 😏" and it's just her...

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Thank you, was looking for this one. Still makes me giggle

gormless tomfool bea 💗💜💙 @beesmygod.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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we just checked in on the cats via the cams we put up and babybel is literally gaining powers

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Sorry, to clarify - I (and the vast majority of his other fans) initially assumed he had done everything he was accused of, that's why it was so infuriating when it turned out the accusations hadn't been made in good faith. I did not intend to make it sound like he couldn't have done it based on xyz

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The person they were going after was autistic and a person of colour (admittedly very white passing, he's half-Mexican, palest person in the family) and literally every suggestion they might be bullying this dude for being autistic was met with "but the accusers autistic as well! And trans!!!"

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Jean-Paul Blartre: Mall Cop @oldpappythomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've literally seen people in Geller's little circle of YouTube friends demand Complete And Total Life Ruination (disguised as compassionate concern about "straight male behaviour") for other YouTubers based on harassment allegations by one of them that turned out to be highly exaggerated

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Who knew restorative justice for sexual assault was making video essays about video games

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And I know how this makes me sound but literally that was likely the main reason why everyone started making up absolute bullshit about him being "dangerous" and "creepy" that turned out to be a load of nothing. Also he's autistic so they probably thought he deserved it for being annoying 🫠

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Most of us initially believed the accusations. It fucking broke me, to me he was one of the only good men out there. I spent an entire day in a disassociative fugue. You can imagine how I felt when it turned out it was a load of BS from a load of people jealous he had more subs than them

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-when he laid out and addressed every accusation and gave full, VERY PERSONAL context for why his brains a bit weird about sex (greyace due to trauma) her fans and friends still called him a no good liar sex pest. She's white, he's half-Mexican. Tl;dr this stuff is just point scoring to these people

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... he knew it was weird but he had untreated psychotic depression, he contacted BetterHelp and they told him it was a normal coping mechanism. She consented then withdrew and he apologised. Then she brought it up publicly months later to "cancel" him and spread every fake rumour made up about him-

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These same people spent literal months a few years ago screaming and hand-wringing about a Youtuber I've followed since I was 15 because one of them wormed their way into his social circle to find dirt on him (she has a history of doing this) and he started roleplaying with her about shoes...

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r/youtubedrama/breadtubers delenda est

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Breadtubers don't actually care about abuse and the credibility of abuse allegations and just use it as a form of point-scoring and in/out-group policing and bullying? Well, knock me down with a fucking feather!!!!!!!!

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I know in my heart of hearts this isn't the case, this is our sad reality, but atp I'm convinced "leftist" YouTube/gaming journos are a psyop. Yeah, some weird shoe convos are enough to warrant harassing a guy + his fans for months but if a guy's a literal rapist and "one of ours" he's baby.

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alice @gateaumon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is it bad that I think this would go hard as fuck as a tattoo

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That is, if it even happened (and if he made it up because he knew the other yanks would unquestioningly swallow it anyway, that's even worse). I walked away from shouting at/blocking some of them for their comments still feeling like I was the bad guy and getting upset over nothing

alice @gateaumon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's okay though, he's a *leftist* he can't act like the typical entitled ignorant American tourist by (BY HIS OWN ADMISSION) going into a tiny corner shop in the middle of nowhere and then acting delightfully bemused that the poor old lady running the place doesn't know what peanut butter is

alice @gateaumon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sorry for late reply but I've just seen this and I'm not at all surprised at who you're quoting. I threw a bit of a tantrum over on the other place because he wrote this big long thread about how he couldn't find peanut butter in a UK corner shop and the other yanks were being insufferable

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alice @gateaumon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Your retired boomer neighbors when they haven't strimmed the hedge in the past three seconds (their gardeners were last at the property three entire days ago)

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One of our cats is a little goblin who loves to sniff anything stinky and then do the flehmen response (except he's just a house cat so he just goes :v), and he loves my dad... and my dad only showers once a week and tends to smell a bit musty... I think that's why he likes him so much :')

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lions and tigers and other big cats will eat fruit and plants if they're really, REALLY hungry, much like how starving humans will eat grass - neither us or the big cats will be able to digest it as we weren't built that way, but maddening hunger will drive us to at least try it

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...or especially stinky to them, because their little brains have evolved to go "stinky=tasty delicious food? meat?". This is why they tend to go after any food that smells, like bread or cheese. One of my dad's old coworkers had a cat that loved a hot bowl of peas! He'd waft the steam with his paw.

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The carnivore/herbivore thing is more of a tendency that they've adapted to via evolution rather than an absolute rule. Cats are obligate carnivores because they're specially adapted to eat and digest meat (e.g. no molars) but this same tendency also makes them go for food that's stinky...

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They like the smell of the yeast (and butter if it's got butter or oil in)

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If you say shit like "crotch goblins" I immediately don't like you

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I don't like kids that much either but I admit that it's because I wasn't shown much patience as a child growing up (mum initially didn't want kids) some of them will admit this and that's why they're sick of being pressured into having kids (fair) but then blame all children for this bc it's easy.

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I like how "childfree" types present themselves as vaguely left wing but love to do a lot of social-conservative-style convenient forgetting and libertarian-style "I want to live in a world where absolutely none of this is ever my business" just so they can avoid admitting that children are people

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If anything, over reliance on AI just tells me they're incompetent. I know small business owners have a bit of a reputation for main character syndrome but they really don't realise how many of us have suffered with working for companies that have gambled their profits on AI tech and lost

It's weird, I don't think I've ever seen a small food business go under because they provide actual photos of the food, even if it's badly photographed. I've even ordered from places that don't have any pictures, it's not hard to get a light box instead of paying AI to make a false representation

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"it makes everything look like the raw camera footage from the set because of the 60fps frame rate, I was trying to watch ET and it just looked like I was watching some kids in a room pretending to be siblings who were hiding an alien" "??? What d'you mean??? There's nowt wrong with it."

They don't notice motion smoothing on televisions, either - boomer auntie and uncle have it either switched on by default or it just came with smoothing as he's a huge united fan and I made a complaint that it was hard to watch films because it broke the immersion and they were perplexed

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Especially pertinent in the UK press, because this country likes nothing more than sticking its fingers in its ears and pretending our entrenched class system isn't still a VERY real thing

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I love how all these people think you just apply for PIP and go "weh weh weh I have AuDHD" and they go "oh okay here's £600 a month go crazy go stupid". I didn't get SHIT from applying! They outright told me "oh okay well you don't seem that disabled, bye, signed Anonymous Office Manager"

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It's always "hahahahaha you lot like gays and Muslims but Muslims throw gays off roofs!!!! Put that in your pipe and smoke it!!!!!!!!" and I imagine there was probably very similar rhetoric pre-9/11 like "you right-on types fight for blacks/Chinese people/Jews and they HATE each other lmao"

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alice @gateaumon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right wingers are always like "you lefties fight for this group of people and this group of people but one group hates the other and sometimes kills them hahahahaha you fools, you idiots" and I really don't get why they think it's funny other than they think it's funny when lefties care

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Yes, I would give Sheeta a Highlands Scottish accent (Musca probably from Edinburgh), yes I am aware this would make people be like "lmao there's Welsh and Scottish in this, what is this Xenoblade Chronicles 2?" not realising Pazu's town is based on places in the Welsh Valleys

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alice @gateaumon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Society if we had enough resources in the British anime industry to do full regionally accented UK english dubs and we had a Laputa dub with Actual Welsh Pazu

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alice @gateaumon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I haven't seen that SOAD one and I'm actually physically crying. incredible shot and chaser (Also everyone keeps applying that tweet to post-Plastic Beach content but I feel 99% certain the gorillaz tweet is the rap section of All Alone + Albarn singing on November Has Come)