(dunk tank for the alt-right youtuber, not the OP who collected the information and posted it)

TLDR: 14/88 memes, Hitler's b'day memes, Tucker Carlson watch parties, and following Proud Boys and Libs of Tiktok.

Never was that big into Internet Historian, but I guess I'll remove the few videos I had in my watch later and tell youtube to stop recc'ing the channel now.

Whew. I guess you either go the idubbbz route and apologize/repent for all your past edginess and denounce that version of you and all the fans who still hold on to it or you become a nazi.

Well, there is a third option. You could be like H3 and seem all progressive and reformed till Israel starts genociding kids and then its "wat about hummus tho" and both-siding it till you've purged the leftist audience you were trying to build.

Can you tell I'm disappointed and still bitter?

  • rafflesia [she/her, doe/deer]
    hexbear
    105
    5 months ago

    Watched some random video of his a couple years ago and my hitler-detector went bonkers, glad to know it's calibrated well. I think what set me off wasn't even anything explicit but some kind of chanbrain phrasing/shibboleth that immediately made me uneasy. Good riddance another kkkrakkker down.

    • CarbonScored [any]
      hexbear
      21
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      I had the same, though it was a collaboration he did with JonTron where they just looked at pictures of foreign people and unironically called them stupid and dumb for being foreign. That was my first time seeing IH and it was enough to make me never want to see him again.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
    hexbear
    87
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    EVERY internet personality is a nazi until proven otherwise. Youtube is CHUD Hollywood

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
      hexbear
      40
      5 months ago

      lmao never thought of it that way but you're right. All the big chud names and burnouts that couldn't make it into Hollywood go to Youtube.

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      5
      5 months ago

      In the western world, where likely your economic base, if not privilege is based on Global South plunder, there will probably more subtle white supremacist-adjacent brainworms than usual

  • barrbaric [he/him]
    hexbear
    76
    5 months ago

    Yeah? Dude was obviously a 4chan chud, just look at his old videos.

    • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]
      hexbear
      54
      5 months ago

      Yeah, I mean you can say the exact same thing about Stonetoss. Stonetoss is a nazi and we all know it, but I doubt everybody that shares his comics is aware that he is a nazi. Having a list of evidence to show people is good.

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
    hexbear
    74
    5 months ago

    He was pretty openly alt-right adjacent earlier on. A friend of mine who eventually stopped talking to me because I asked him to cool it with the fash rhetoric recommended him to me, lol

  • @CrushKillDestroySwag
    hexbear
    74
    5 months ago

    Yeah he's 100% 4chan brained. He did do a little housecleaning for the sponsors though!

  • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
    hexbear
    67
    5 months ago

    Oh you didn't know? I knew immediately after watching his breakdown of that thing Shia Lebeouf did after Trump got elected.

    • LibsEatPoop [any]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      36
      5 months ago

      I've just seen a few vids here and there that YT recc'ed so I never caught any dogwhistles. Hope other internet animation comedians don't turn out to be bad (Jaiden, Casually Explained - I watch those two a lot).

        • Kiagz [she/her]
          hexbear
          12
          5 months ago

          Really hope not, but didn't she attend Pewdiepie's wedding? Idk what to make of that

          • booty [he/him]
            hexbear
            14
            5 months ago

            When did he get married? There was a period before he said the n-word on stream where he was basically just some children's gaming youtuber, just a guy, there wasn't really much of a reason to hate him if you didn't have some insight that 99% of people didn't

            • Kiagz [she/her]
              hexbear
              10
              5 months ago

              2019, so only like 2 years after the n-word incident, the fiverr video, etc.

          • manuallybreathing [comrade/them]
            hexbear
            8
            5 months ago

            I can't tell if this is a legitimate concern, but with this being so long ago, it feels to me that this would have been during the period where boyinaband was was doing some of their prolific colaborating, before all the context and drama came out, and from what I can see Jaiden's colab video only exists in reuploads (why do people do this)

            I wouldn't hold it against them personally, boyinaband is also a decade older than Jaiden which makes it feel even slimier imo

            I feel pretty similarly about Jaiden going to pewdipie's wedding or whatever

            i'm really tapped out of youtube drama now though so I might be missing a lot of context

  • windowlicker [she/her]
    hexbear
    66
    5 months ago

    this was so unsurprising, i knew this immediately after the bike lock fugitive video that justified the guy's doxxing because "lol he looks like soyboy cuck leftie beta nu male!"

  • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
    hexbear
    58
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    A shit ton of whites are Nazis. You just have to say the right thing about white people to get them to show themselves

    • @DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
      hexbear
      61
      5 months ago

      If you're white yourself you don't even need to say anything to them. They'll proudly show it off completely unprompted. And my (white) friends wonder why I don't try and make more (white) friends.

  • buh [any]
    hexbear
    56
    5 months ago

    anglo accent + le classy affect is a dead giveaway

  • Dickey_Butts [none/use name]
    hexbear
    53
    5 months ago

    There are so many of these "barely hiding their fash levels" YouTube commentary accounts. EmpLemon, Oki, Turkey Tom. Those are just off the top of my head.

    • Awoo [she/her]
      hexbear
      41
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      There are so many "barely hiding their fash levels" in television too. And newspaper media. Wherever there is media and money they're always around.

      Honestly actors are an outlier that the right uses to claim television and movies are "liberal" and that outlier seems to be because they were all weird drama/theatre kids.

    • KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]
      hexbear
      14
      5 months ago

      Admittedly I'd been watching a couple of Turkey Tom's videos recently and definitely got the hidden fash vibes off him. I don't even think it's anything he expressly said, it's just a vibe.

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      9
      5 months ago

      What's wrong with Oki?

      I recognize the rest, considering:

      Turkey Tom obviously had an anti-SJW stance in his video (eg. his video on a small concert regarding Negative EXP), and

      EmpLemon hating on current news entertainment media like Jimmy Kimmel

      But what makes Emp Lemon and Oki fash adjacent?

      • Esoteir [he/him]
        hexbear
        12
        5 months ago

        okay yeah googled it and emp lemon just haphazardly throws happy merchant memes into their videos cringe

        https://yewtu.be/watch?t=1674&v=oDKDavhYRAk

        https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uLTeMC81FV0&t=547s

      • Esoteir [he/him]
        hexbear
        10
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        emp lemon did the classic white dude complaining about the concept of privilege video https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fj1EvAMoTqI

        and the mac tonight video last year where they praise the alt-right for making the character unmarketable https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Jp35RSGt_Dg&t=1462

      • blakeus12 [he/him]
        hexbear
        5
        5 months ago

        wait what's wrong with hating on news entertainment media? didn't jimmy kimmel do blackface among a whole other slew of sleazy bigoted shit?

        • Esoteir [he/him]
          hexbear
          7
          5 months ago

          nothing wrong with that in particular, but they used the happy merchant meme in the jimmy kimmel video

          https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uLTeMC81FV0&t=547s

          also from the same video

          "because they genuinely believe that the color of your skin somehow makes you privileged. This toxic belief system is destroying Western civilization and it's seeping into some of the most powerful institutions of society. Some of these liberals certainly belong in an institution."

          • blakeus12 [he/him]
            hexbear
            7
            5 months ago

            oh. yeah, that makes sense.

            i never liked him to be honest, he has always been such a pessimistic twat about everything. and his video about know your meme where he keeps saying "normie" makes me want to [REDACTED]

  • TupamarosShakur [he/him]
    hexbear
    51
    5 months ago

    I guess you either go the idubbbz route and apologize/repent for all your past edginess and denounce that version of you and all the fans who still hold on to it or you become a nazi.

    Pretty much yeah. I enjoyed a number of his videos since it was sort of nostalgic to relive Kony 2012, fyre festival, leroy jenkins, some of that pre-gamergate 4chan stuff, but yeah I pegged him as a 4chan nazi immediately just based on what he chose to cover. idubbbz, joji, tyler the creator, earl sweatshirt - that's really the way to do it. Recognize you were wrong but also young, and move forward.

      • TupamarosShakur [he/him]
        hexbear
        23
        5 months ago

        yeah I was just naming people who I associate with edgy humor and "shock humor" who have drastically changed their images. Those 4 were the first 4 who came to mind

        • theposterformerlyknownasgood [she/her]
          hexbear
          15
          5 months ago

          Okay but Tyler The Creator didn't do shit to make up for his previous dickishness, he just came out as gay and everyone pretended nothing happened before that.

          • TupamarosShakur [he/him]
            hexbear
            3
            5 months ago

            tbh I don't know that much about him past his edgy era. I know he has apologized for some stuff though, so I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't change his opinions on things behind the scenes given how his music and image has changed over the years, but maybe not? I don't think earl has explicitly apologized for anything either outside of offhand suggestions that he regrets certain things, but it's pretty clear his opinions have made a complete 180 since EARL.

          • CrimsonSage [any]
            hexbear
            1
            5 months ago

            Yeah, but being ellgeebeetea means that you are as left as you can get and definitely not a nazi!

            • theposterformerlyknownasgood [she/her]
              hexbear
              6
              5 months ago

              Okay but Tyler The Creator isn't a nazi, he was a total dick. Those are different things. He isn't a white supremacist just because he was a misogynist or because he made fun of people with mental health problems.

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
    hexbear
    50
    5 months ago

    I honestly got pretty excited when he uploaded that Man in Cave video. I thought he was going to leave making videos about 4chan raids behind and talk about real history

    just-one-small-problem then this motherfucker came along last week and threw all that in the trash

    • @CrushKillDestroySwag
      hexbear
      6
      5 months ago

      So much effort went into it, too! The animation, the voice acting... if only he had gotten permission and been upfront about his video being an adaptation of an article, all of this could have been avoided.