*the rise of Harley's puppy*
(Harley) Are you looking?
*adorable moment of Harley showing his puppy*
I think he's scared of the lights. Skeppy is a YouTuber I've discussed in
this channel once before now. Over allegations that he had scammed some of his artists. And
he's also someone I've worked with in the past as I did a thumbnail for him once-
doesn't really mean much I just- y'know, thought it was relevant... But Skeppy has found himself
in controversy, once again, that seemingly very quickly spiraled into allegations that
Skeppy was involved in some form of ab*se. Though, this claim lacks A LOT of evidence
to support it. This situation started when Skeppy tweeted, "In today's vid I will be
beating a girl." With him later clarifying, "In Bedwars". This was obviously a tasteless tweet,
that certain people didn't like because the joke was more offensive and edgy. And Skeppy tailors
his content towards a... less edgy audience to say the least, with a younger target demographic,
that was obviously not going to find a joke like this necessarily funny. While that
isn't necessarily Skeppy's fault, I do think maybe he should- in hindsight- have thought,
"Maybe this wouldn't go down well." Like previous tweets he's released
on his Twitter consisting of incredible statements like, "Call my girl PlayStation
'cause she's almost five." Yeah. Maybe- maybe not the best of tweets on- on a main
account with seventy thousand likes. Aside Skeppy going full Will Smith *small laugh*
...god. Oh my god- You can also beat...
the subscribe button! Okay that was a terrible joke... I'm so sorry.
Please, please- Oh no, I'm being canceled already-
I can already hear the tweets. You know what? Let's do an apology video right now.
*heavy rain sounds in the background* *big sigh* I've made a severe and
continuous lapse in my- my judgment. I'm here to show you my dog, in hopes that you
feel more sympathy for me. Like many other YouTubers who find themselves apologizing-
Buddy, I don't know what I'm going to do now, it's all over for me... Please forgive me? I'm
sorry to my wife, my kids, the children I have in my basement. OBVIOUSLY, people didn't necessarily
like Skeppy's tweet, considering his target demographic. And it found tweets like Stephanie's,
garnering attention. "Hey Skeppy I would love for you to explain to us how you think that joking
about beating a girl is funny. Like what makes it humorous? Please elaborate. What went through your
head? You do one video with a6d and instantly lose all sense of respect, huh?" And this seems to be
the genuine consensus amongst most of Skeppy's audience. That Skeppy had made this one video
with a6d, someone who's had controversy in his own right, and seemingly just lost all levels of
self-respect. And many other tweets were released in the same capacity like another Minecraft stan
who posted, "If you still support Skeppy please block me thanks!" A dramatic overreaction in
reality, these are two unfunny joking tweets. He didn't k*ll your whole family, for lack of a
better example. But it does make sense considering Skeppy's audience, that some people would hold
this view. A lot of people in the Minecraft community find themselves to have younger
audiences, that are often more amongst the "Cancel Culture" wave. Where, if you make any mistake in
your life- pretty much die. Which brings us on quite nicely to someone who posted a clip from a
Skeppy video from FOUR years ago, titled "10,000 Subscribers-" I can't believe I'm even saying
this where he said the f-slur. Which, surprisingly likely, isn't something he does on day to day, six
million subscribers later. But here's the clip, (Skeppy) I really appreciate these questions,
WHY AM I SUCH A F****T??
(Harley) And yes, probably wasn't his finest
statement. As someone who finds himself dating men,
I think I can speak for what most people are saying, probably take down this video.
But I think it speaks volumes that people are going
as far as to bring up clips from Skeppy videos
from four years ago to cancel him, as soon as he makes a bad joke on Twitter.
I, as someone in the minority group that supposed to
be offended, I'm not really offended.
Obviously the internet was very different around four years ago.
And I'm pretty sure Skeppy doesn't say this sort of thing day to day.
I understand why Skeppy would release an apology for something like this,
because I'm sure some of his audience are just going to be offended by it. Though I
personally don't really feel it to be something that bad. Bringing up tweets and old posts from
someone from several years ago as a way of getting mad at them always seems, to me,
to be over the top and dramatic. It's a way of getting your social
media validation points from dragging up old controversy that's long since been resolved,
or opinions that many people no longer hold. Though on the topic of Skeppy's joke tweets,
Skeppy did actually respond with TWO apologies. The first of which, being in the form of an update
to one of his video descriptions that read the following, "Also I figure I should put this here;
regarding my private tweet if you saw it. I was originally going to title my video the same as
this video. And didn't think much more of it, just tweeted the same thing to hype up the video!
I didn't perceive it in any negative way though I know it was poor taste
after looking back just meant it as Bedwars, so I quickly added that." And while I don't really
agree with him saying that he did it just to, "hype up the video". I'm pretty confident he did
it because he thought it was funny. I'm glad he at least addressed it instead of just ignoring it,
because obviously that wouldn't be great for his audience and would- and would probably cause
him to get "cancelled". Ugh... Such a buzzword nowadays. Everyone's like you get "cancelled" for
this "cancelled" for that. In reality, it's like five tweets with a thousand likes that say they
don't like the fact that you did this. Obviously, this apology didn't get seen by many people and it
led to Skeppy making another apology in one of his videos, where he says the following, (Skeppy) "Why
did you tweet that yesterday?" I deleted the tweet because I genuinely did not mean any disrespect
toward anyone in any way whatsoever. If you know me even a little bit, that's not who I am. And if
you have no idea what I'm talking about, basically I tweeted out this title I used as a video. And I
basically dug my own grave on Twitter, long story short. It's completely my fault, I know that now.
And it was just absolutely unnecessary, but I genuinely did not mean it in any sort of
negative way. And I take it back, if I still can. I just want to say I'm genuinely so sorry, and you
don't have to forgive me and I'm sorry if you lost respect for me over me tweeting it again. It was
completely pointless. I've literally had the worst day ever, I did not eat anything. I have been
overthinking A LOT. I re-titled the video, but I realized that was probably even more stupid, so
I've decided to just delete the video as a whole. (Harley) Honestly, I think this was the best way
he could have addressed this situation. Saying that he was wrong, that he took down the video
with the title. That he didn't really think people were gonna take it the way they did. And
it really shows that he talked about how he's struggled to eat for the whole day because of
this controversy. I see a lot of YouTubers find themselves in that situation, and it's one of the
big things that people don't discuss about content creation. Many creators, when they find themselves
in controversy like this, genuinely struggle to deal with it and they find themselves dealing with
some sort of stress or anxiety that causes them to struggle with eating a lot of stress sleeping.
That sort of thing- it is quite worrying the way social media affects people and how easy it is
for people to be lambasted on social media for, in my opinion, quite harmless jokes. I get that some
people didn't find it funny and I agree it wasn't funny. But was the backlash really as justified as
people want to make it? No. Does Skeppy deserve to get tweets saying, "if you support him block me"?
Not reall. He's not a predator or some other form of genuine scumbag. He's just a Minecraft YouTuber
who made an edgy tweet. But then people bring up more valid criticisms, like the fact that Skeppy
had monetized this Q&A discussing this topic and he'd left it in the video as one small section
instead of just a genuine apology across the whole of the video. Which wouldn't necessarily
be too bad if it wasn't his only response to the situation, but obviously, people brought up the
fact that he'd monetize this video and as such, some people said he should donate the money from
this video to charity. Which I think is fair. And Skeppy replied saying he's done it. So good! You'd
think this is where the situation revolving around the Will Smith of Minecraft would end,
*Harley really close to the mic, loud and echoey* But obviously it didn't.
Skeppy found himself forced to respond to an entire thread, alleging Skeppy was involved
in some form of ab*se against the person tweeting. This burner account posts, "When I was a child,
Skeppy ab*sed me. When I was 7, I lived in Toronto with my brother, who was 12. My parents weren't
around much and I wanted attention. My brother told me he could give me attention if I showed
him my body. I was a child and I didn't know it was wrong so I did. Zak was good friends with
my brother and he'd come over unannounced at times. He walked in on my brother committing
disgraceful acts upon me. And joined in. He would commit a plethora of acts without my consent for
three years. He did what he wanted whenever he wanted. He attacked me and threatened me not to
tell anyone." How do I read this in a way that isn't absolutely grotesque and makes me wanna
vomit? I'm not even gonna read this next tweet because it's got extremely graphic detail within
it. They then go on to say, "When he found out I was involved in self-h*rm, he said I was doing it
for attention. He would ass*ult me and force me to bleed. And when I was on the ground, he would
commit more disgraceful acts upon me. We moved to Florida when I was 11 and it finally ended. But he
started stalking me he would call me constantly. I didn't have a cell phone so I couldn't block him,
and it wasn't until I was 15 that he finally left me alone to focus on streaming. I don't
have any evidence, it was almost 11 years ago that this all happened and I did my best to bury
everything. But when I saw that video and I heard his scream, I knew it was him. You can choose not
to believe me but this is my story. This is what Zak put me through." Obviously this alleges very
graphic disgraceful claims that, if true, would be quite concerning. Though there is absolutely
no evidence to confirm these claims and after this, Skeppy responded alongside other YouTubers,
this thread was entirely deleted, with the account all but left to rot. Skeppy replied,
"This is absolutely ridiculous. I have never laid a finger on anyone, ever. More than half of your
story does not align with my upbringing and I seriously cannot believe the extent some people
will go to to bring others down. This is complete slander and defamation." With BadBoyHalo saying,
"Making false allegations against someone is disgusting. Having gone through that myself I'm so
sorry you have to deal with this Skeppy. Shame on this person and shame on the people who helped to
spread this false allegation which only continues to hurt real victims and stop them from getting
help." And the situation BadBoyHalo is referencing is one I previously discussed in this channel,
where someone alleged very similar claims against BadBoyHalo. With similarly a lack of evidence,
that similarly was deleted, alongside the account being deleted after BadBoyHalo responded. This
seems to be a trend in the Minecraft community, with people just making claims about YouTubers
and it's- it's gross. It's gross that people make these claims without evidence, seemingly,
in disingenuous and slanderous ways. Though, I don't want to go full-on and say this claim
is untrue. There is no evidence and Skeppy has replied, seemingly, refuting it. Though,
it is still up to your own opinion as to how you take the thread. I personally find it to
be questionable, due to its lack of evidence and the fact it was deleted after attention was
brought to it. Though Antfrost would also reply to this thread saying, "Disgusting behavior,
using a very serious allegation there is ALREADY stigmatized and stressful for victims to come
forward about as a way to attack someone and attempt to ruin their reputation is repulsive.
This only hurts victims and makes it harder to open up about this." Something I genuinely agree
with, in the event that this thread is a lie. Making up false allegations in this capacity, does
make it harder for real victims to come forward and makes people believe that if they do come
forward about these events, they'll only be met with backlash. Which to an extent, is sadly still
true. There are people that just h*rass victims for the sake of it. It's something that I've seen
in many situations I've discussed on this channel. Though I think Skeppy's response really is the
best response to this situation. That the situation doesn't align with his upbringing and he finds it
to be complete slander and defamation. In which case, I believe Skeppy should take this legally.
Because this claim is very extreme and I wouldn't personally want to claim like this attached to
my name and would take it further if I had to. So the fact this tweet was deleted, means that likely
nothing more will come off of this. And the fact it was posted by a burner account, means it would
be likely very hard to find who made this post and take any action against them. With that being
said though, if this video did inform you on this situation, feel free to subscribe to the channel
to help me reach 100k. And feel free to check out my Twitch, which I recently made as I'm aiming for
a thousand followers in the next few weeks. Thank you for all the support! I'll see you next time. peace!
*Harley's outro music playing*