The FunkyFrogbait discourse is disgusting
I've looked through the comments of the Funkyfrogbait response video (I don't care what you say that was NOT an apology) and why is everyone genuinely rewriting canon rn?
'Oh Funky said they were genuinely apologetic for their actions and were trying to educate themselves'
B#tch where!?!? They didn't not say sorry once in that video or at least until halfway through and it wasn't even acknowledging the negative effects of their comments on the marginalized group their comments had been impacting!
Who uses the phrase 'I am incentivized to do nothing right now' when making an apology which I believe that video is not!
This bigotry is literally filling every space of the internet with multiple people spamming the 'it's a nothingburger' rhetoric in literally every criticism of the video and the comments itself and frankly it's pissing me off.
I *liked* Funkyfrogbait I was elated when I found out they had a gaming channel because there were so few good gamers that I liked but they are literally promoting bigotry with their response I would argue it's actually more hostile than Gooseworks or Michael Kovach and Ashley's apologies because at least they pretended to be sorry while FunkyFrogbait is acting from a place of 'I understand the game and I know I'm going to lose' when the game isn't even rigged against them.
Their follow count hasn't even dropped no mass unfollowing, no super viral posts that criticized their actions they are literally an example of why cancel culture doesn't truly exist. They are going scotch free while so many creators and commenters are being attacked for being rightfully upset.
Not once in the video did Funky said they intended to change because from their perspective they didn't do anything that garnered change, they'd simply said the wrong thing at the wrong time that their reaction had unintended consequences but that didn't reflect anything on them.
They didn't apologize once in the video for what resulted because of their actions, they didn't acknowledge that more marginalized voices would be harmed by their fanbase rushing to support them, they didn't even try and have the decency knowing popular they are to tell their fanbase not to meaninglessly attack people while defending them because they believe it wouldn't 'attacking' it would be supporting.
Now I am not saying that Funky is willfully evil, I am saying that they are willfully ignorant and find it surprising how they weren't able to take any meaningful criticism out of the backlash. They said they wouldn't take hate campaigns as meaningful criticisms but truly what meaningful criticism did Funky take from the situation? They aren't taking time to reflect on their internal biases, they didn't acknowledge the harm that will and has been brought upon marginalized communities who are justified in voicing their criticisms and they never once addressed any part of the 'criticisms' that may hold value in their perspective.
Funkyfrogbat only reiterated what everyone was saying that they were ignorant of the situation which their 'haters' acknowledged, that they had spoke with limited information, and that they were likely speaking from personal experience or vitriol on the topic of cancel cuture.
They spent half the video saying that which everyone basically already knew. People or at least the majority weren't saying that Funky was openly racist that they had some evil agenda against black people, they were saying that they were quick to defend Gooseworks when they didn't have the proper information, that they didn't take something as serious as racism allegations seriously being willfully ignorant and labelling it a hate train and that they had been a hypocrite when saying people who spread misinformation were just as bad as the people who started them when Funky themselves spoke misinformation!
Funky didn't need to be cancelled they just needed to reflect but they didn't have the decency to even do that acting self righteous and like they were the peak of morality.
Funky's reaction and response is really disappointing I liked their content how they approached certain issues and topics and how they acknowledged they were growing from just simple commentary into something more meaningful I was upset when they made that rant on stream but I had hoped at the very least that they would acknowledge what they did was wrong and try to improve.
This felt like the second annual creator purge for me that these TADC controversies are really bringing out the true colors of people in a time where doing racist things is no longer even worth a 'cancellation'.
And I know exactly what sparked this.
I might make a more in depth post about this later I actually started writing something the day I found out about the controversy before the response video from Funky and had started writing my thoughts. I might make the post into a two section thing reflecting my thoughts before and after the response.
