Hey so I'm gonna be real with you right now Today's video was supposed to be an Ask Video
Full of fun and puns and positivity, but that can't happen right now.
That would be doing a great disservice to all of the discussion from all of my friends
and all of the members of the community talking about something that hits incredibly close
to home for me. It'd be incredibly disingenuous of me and
that's not who I am. I can't do that.
So today I'm uploading and I'm talking to you nonscripted just off the top of my head
video about Sexual abuse on YouTube
And if you're triggered by anything involving sexual abuse please be warned this video is
full of stuff like that. And if you have no clue what I'm talking about
at any time, please there's a link in the description that's called "The Masterpost."
There's a lotta information about YouTubers that've had sexual abuse with fans, with other
human beings, and a lotta other stuff that I think you should look at.
So without further adieu, let's jump into it.
Back in March is when most of this had exploded for me
because I'd been making videos for 4 or 5 years now and one of the YouTubers that I've
always looked up to has been Alex Day. Alex Day was someone who I started watching
when I started watching YouTube. He's someone who I bought a ukulele for, and
I learned a lot of this songs. And then as it turns out, is a sexual abuser.
He's manipulated human beings into having sex with him.
He is a very manipulative human being that I don't want anything to do with anymore and
neither does most of the community. He's now just bad, bad, keep away.
It hurt though. I was working, and it was so hard to focus
because someone who I looked up to so much, ya know, was now this bad person.
And it's like, wow, what a poor judge of character I have.
But it's like one of those things when someone has a disease.
You have this mindset that everyone has that you don't wanna mention which is, "phew at
least I don't have that." or "oof, at least no one I know has that personally."
So Alex Day for me was someone I looked up to who has completely fallen because he is
disgusting and that is not something that should be acceptable, sexual abuse at all
in this community. So it's a good thing he's gone.
However, last week, it got a little closer to home.
There's been a lot of other sexual abuse things happening. Like I said, in the masterpost,
but this past week a YouTuber by the name of Sam Pepper uploaded prank videos of him
pinching people's butts which is incredibly bad. It's sexual abuse. It's bad. It's sexual
harassment as well, and it shouldn't be tolerated.
And then, a lot of cases have come out about him actually raping someone which is vile,
disgusting. This hit bad because every time I've ever seen Sam Pepper, he has complimented
me; he's been nice to me; he invites me to his parties.
So it's mind-blowing that someone that I could've been friends with, that I've been nice to,
could have the potential to do this vile act to another breathing human being and have
such disrespect for someone else.
And that hit me. That hit me hard. And that was about as far as I thought I would
have to go in terms of into myself to see how bad a judge of character am I, watching
people like that, partying with people like that.
And then a situation has happened yesterday.
I'm at my friend's house. We're gonna film some videos.
We're going out to get food, and then the conversation changes.
It changes, because one of the people in the car who I considered a very close friend,
was just outed as someone who sexually abuses people.
And this hit me to the point where... Like when Sam happened, when Alex happened...
I make jokes about it in a way that let's people know I don't support this, and I do
say it's unacceptable to sexually abuse people.
But to have it hit so close when you're friends with someone, next to someone, someone that
you've considered a friend.
Jason VeeOneEye
I'm not hiding names.
And I mean, we discussed it, we watched the video. I came to him again; I said "What else
do I not know about you?"
Because to be honest, there've been a lot of people who've been tweeting and saying
things such as, like "his friends knew all along" and all this other stuff.
And the thing is, a lot of people have heard rumours. We've all heard rumours about everyone.
And I, it's a flaw, like to view the best in people.
And people had come to me saying they'd heard things about my friend Jason.
And so what do I do?
I go to Jason about this, and I ask him. This was the day of Digifest, it was before
he went to America, and I had heard something from someone pretty reliable.
And I came up to him and I said "Hey, why are you going to America?"
And he was just like "Just because." Not because of any other reason?
No He lied to me.
I've also brought other rumours that I'd heard about him to him because I wanna know.
I wouldn't be friends with someone like that. And I've brought these to him and he has denied
them to my face He's denied them to my face, and now that
it's true. It's here.
I've defended him in videos. I've had someone shove a microphone in my
face under duress saying "do you know about these allegations?"
And I'd heard rumours of course. Everyone has.
It's not my place to just shout out rumours. But I had talked, to him.
I talked to my friend. I'm loyal to my friend.
And he told me that it didn't happen. So I stood up for him during that video.
I told that guy "NO! That's not true. Jason would never do that." He's my friend. I couldn't
be friends with someone like that. But that's what happened.
If you didn't know, like I said, there's a post below; it involved underage sex, and
there's a lot of it.
And it hurts. And it's one of those things where it's like
"oh no, woe is me."
I'm not a fucking victim.
I'm just friends with someone that hurt people.
And I don't really know what else to say with this video except that it hurts to know that
I was friends with someone that did all these things to other humans that I also considered
friends. Because so many of the people that are coming out with stories are people that
I knew of.
And it's just upsetting that I didn't do anything. Because I didn't know.
Because I trusted him. And that's about it really.
If you didn't know about any of this sexual abuse stuff, it's happening, it needs to stop,
there's a power struggle, and please just continue the discussion in the description,
in the comments, on YouTube in general.
If you've been affected by any YouTuber, make a video, make a post, talk about it, go to
the police if it's important, please.
Because this is not supposed to be something that just happens in a community of friendly
people.
So that's it, I don't know what else to say. I'm out of words.
I know this wasn't the best video on the topic; I didn't discuss about anything to fix it,
but this is just as honest as I can be about the subject.
I've disassociated myself with everyone that's been involved, and I hope that you do the
same.
If you know anyone affected, please, please go to the police or do something or talk about
it because it's important.
Thanks for watching. I'm so sorry.
Have a nice day.