So Dan from Game Grumps (aged 42) is getting cancelled for supposed grooming. I don't want to say he's not a groomer, because theres stuff about other alleged behavior that isnt detailed at all in it.

But like the story presented is that a 17 year old fan started messaging him. He thanks her for her support and wishes her a happy birthday when she turns 18 about a month later. Then nothing is shown until the fans 22 and they exchange some cringey sexts. Then apparently they fuck and he breaks things off. And everyone's calling this grooming, but like, that's not what grooming is? I donno, it just feels like people really have been stretching definitions of things for the last year like with that Alex Morse thing to take advantage of cancel culture. And it seems like it only causes people to ignore victims who are actually groomed.

  • spinachupper [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The parasocial effect is way too strong with him. His fans deny him being a Nazi even when he literally says he doesn't want immigrants cause they taint the gene pool.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      His videos were legitimately funny until he started hinting at being a massive fucking racist (which, to be fair, was pretty early on)

      • spinachupper [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I don't remember his videos doing that, the Nazi reveal was totally out of the blue.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I think he has a few jokes that were in hindsight pretty clearly racist, I don't feel like wading through his videos looking for evidence though