So because her co-creator did Blackface, that's somehow everyone else's fault?
I can't even begin to understand what she could even be responding to or how any of this adds up. Something about Brandon Rogers' fiasco going by her emphasizing black fans and that is the most recently dug up controversy.
But somehow that's "the hatedom" and not the consequences of anyone's own actions? And somehow she makes it all about herself?
I can't help but laugh at the absurdity of these posts. She sounds like Trump when the reporter read out the statements made about him being a rapist pedophile. Just.... What reality is this?
From what I understand, no one is being told how they should feel. A white fan posted Brandon's "apology video" and I can kind of see how that could be a powder keg in the realm of the internet. I could see how some people out there could interpret the situation as a white person telling black people to calm down because "he already apologized".
Though based on what that "apology" was which never actually said any variation of "I'm sorry", I get why people in the comments would be pissed off. Presenting a podcast of him not taking any accountability, offloading it onto his community and not even saying what it was he did and why it wasn't okay isn't really an apology. And saying that being offensive isn't good comedy does not satisfy any part of an apology.
But my personal grievance is the assumption that this is just what everyone did and this was super popular in 2008. Blackface has never been a "mistake". 2008 was not some other time or place where we thought that was acceptable humor. The only people who thought Blackface was a legitimate form of comedy in the 2000s are the same people asking why race has to be a part of everything today.
I just don't get how any of that is about the "Hatedom" when you could simply just address it like an adult?
It's really night and day to see how Michael and Ashley handled controversy in the same vein with very respectful statements taking ownership of the situation and clearly laying out what they did and why it wasn't okay.
And then you see Medrano throwing a straight up tantrum over it getting shared more than she is over the fact that it is hurting anyone. She says that everyone's feelings are valid, but also this is all the Haters' fault because they shared it?
Personally, even though I was raised in an exceptionally racist community, my mother would have been horrified at blackface. This is a woman who lived by the motto "Not all Black people are N-words, but all N-words are black people." And even she taught me that black face was unacceptable.
So, no, this isn't how the world was.
You have to remember that the Internet itself was significantly smaller. Not everyone had Internet at home, in fact the minority had internet for recreation. There were whole countries that didn't have Internet at all that we are in regular contact with today.
And the people who had accessible internet in the 2000s were people with money, predominately white suburban boys in the United States. Those same white suburban boys being the white men who made misogyny popular and tried bullying women out of the gamer community. The same white suburban boys who feel like minorities took their futures away by asking for equal rights.
Additionally, most people mistakenly think creators like Shane Dawson were very popular, but the most popular Youtuber at the time was Lucas Cruikshank, who never did Blackface on camera and post it to the internet.
Because we weren't cave men. You had to be at least comfortably middle class to have Internet at home. In 2007, only 57% of white households had home internet because broadband was prohibitively expensive for most people. Meanwhile only 40-43% of black and Hispanic households had home internet.
To try and put this in perspective: in 2008 the population of the United States was around 304, 094,000 people.
67% of that number was non-hispanic whites, coming out to around 199,500,000 people. Only 57% of that number had internet. Meaning, out of the entire United States, only about 113,715,000 white people had internet.
Just a hair over 100 million white people had home internet in 2008.
The black population in the United States at that time: 12.2%. The 40-43% internet adoption looks like a decent number on the surface until you realize how statistics work. So out of the 37 million people that made up the national black community, only around 16 million had internet.
16 million (black) compared to 113 million (white) and you start to see where the breakdown is. It isn't about what the world or people back then thought was acceptable humor, it was about who you were trying to impress. And the people you appealed to wearing blackface and making explicitly racist jokes about minorities were the demographic majority.
We never thought Blackface was acceptable or "edgy". The people who deemed it as such are the same ones saying that people today can't take a joke while being openly misogynistic and racist today.
If your go-to excuse is to claim this was "normal", you are validating the MAGA world view that they once used to rule the world.
Just saying.
