Ok so I know my two cents in the situation concerning skizz may not matter since I'm not trans but I still wanted to get this out there because if I'm being honest I hate how everything is going down right now. I am genderfluid so I can't say that him not saying trans rights didn't hurt a bit at the time but I got over it fairly quickly maybe because I feel like he's right in that he's shown that he supports the LGBTQ+ community time and time again by his actions or maybe because he'd worked so hard to create a place where people could be kind to each other and forget the harsh realities of our world and society. As much as we want our existence not to be "political" or "polarizing" the truth of the matter is that it is when it sure as fuck shouldn't be. I'm a hispanic afab genderfluid pansexual living in the USA south and the truth of the matter is that most 40+ year olds that support us don't even go as far to show their support like Skizz does. The fact that some of the fandom is calling to boycott him is just absolutely insane to me because why are you going to go out of your way to hurt someone who is a disabled ally, and yes he is disabled since he suffers from MS, and has expressed his fear over and over again about not making enough money for his family if he went full time content creator? He recently became a full-time content creator and just hit 200k subs on his main channel. You have a right to be mad, we all do, but to try and use tactics that are meant to be used on big time companies and such on someone like Skizzleman is absurd. By that logic Scar and other bigger more popular hermits should be boycotted because they love Disney and talk about Harry Potter. You can't pick and choose who you turn a blind eye too just because they're more popular or less known. If I'm not wrong Skizz lives in a red state so yeah he's a cis white male giving him more wiggle room than most but you guys have to realize he does have a family he has to protect and provide for. Skizz does not care what people think of him. He says this on multiple occasions but he sure as hell cares about his family and like it or not people have been killed for saying they support us.
As for the situation with his mods, we have to understand that those types of things take time. He's had those mods for a while with one being on his team for five years if I remember correctly, please correct me if I'm wrong, and can't be replaced overnight not to mention by now they're probably somewhat seen as friends. I don't think they've ever brought up their beliefs inside of streams or videos so maybe I'm crazy but I don't think that should be held against Skizz. He haired them to do a job and they did it pretty well despite their whack ass political beliefs. Yeah obviously he should fire them but damn give it a month or something don't go straight too killing the man before he can learn!
My 2 cents on Skizz as a trans, (not practicing) jewish person.
He stuck his foot in his mouth, and he’s right, as much as it sucks transness is a very charged thing nowadays and it’s perfectly within his right to not want to talk about it so he isn’t harassed over it. He’s apologized and said yes he agrees trans rights are human rights and that’s something he supports. Skizz is also pretty average for a liberal man in Arizona. In fact he’s a very average liberal guy overall. He’s also very new to fame.
Yes he might have maga mods but it’s fairly clear to me he didn’t choose them based on their political views and how they’re harmful. I have family members, and neighbors who I am still friendly with and still have a working relationship with because as shitty as it is, these people are still people who might have value to you or the job they are doing, entirely disconnected from their political beliefs. I have coworkers who I am at the very least acquaintances with who are maga, and I cannot control their beliefs so I still have a professional relationship with them. Yes it sucks how political the US is, yes it sucks that these people have a hateful rhetoric, but I don’t blame skizz for having these people there to do a job. I have had friends and coworkers who are maga and not known, or had to get over it so they wouldn’t find a way to fuck me up.
On that note I also can see why skizz might not remove them as moderators, these people will definitely try and find a way to absolutely wreck his career. I’m a person who doesn’t deal with nearly that much being in the public view and I’ve had maga people try to wreck my life over less even without knowing of my queerness. Along from this I haven’t seen people talk about chat messages that are anything maga hates being removed. These people, as shitty as they might be personally, are there doing a job.
Overall I think skizz is stuck between a rock and a hard place and there is a lot of nuance people aren’t seeing. It is well within people’s right to be upset, especially trans people and poc, however, I am sure there is a lot going on behind the scenes. Skizz has apologized for the harmful thing he said, and it’s been 2 days, it might take a long time to deal with these moderators in a successful way.
Everyone has their own right to be upset, but a lot of people are acting like this is the end of the world, or that skizz is a horrible person, not just what is likely the case: that he’s ignorant. He has plenty of friends and coworkers who can educate him on where he went wrong and he can deal with it accordingly. This is not something that needs to be blown way out of proportion.
So in my head, I was thinking that if Skizz wanted to show that he does indeed support the trans community then he should try and bring on one of his queer friends to talk about their experiences, or even bringing on Joe to listen to him talk about his sister coming out and supporting her.
So it really is yet another nail in the coffin with the recent clip. For context, (I believe for the imp and skizz patreon) they streamed before Cleo's interview to hear what questions the community wanted to them to ask. When asked about Cleo's pronouns Impulse tries to politely say it's divisive (divisive for who exactly?) but Skizz them grumbles "Nah, not doing that" and immediately changes subject when asked.
So yeah... maybe that idea is already out the window which is a shame because listening to these experiences would actually be very interesting and educational
Edit: It's pretty early for me right now, but I want to clarify that Impulse has now apologised for his poor choice in wording and it's so gratifying to see not just his own response but how we who are affected by this have responded with love and support <3
prefacing with i am trans (nonbinary) and have been for several years, i am queer, i was an avid watcher of skizz from the beginning of s10 to the start of the situation. if that isn’t enough to realize there is still an issues, i dont know what is.
crazy how docm77, twitch streamer, youtuber, hermit of seven season can talk about trans rights for FOURTY MINUTES!!
while skizzleman can’t even SAY trans rights.
doc has 1.04 million subscribers on youtube and 167.2 thousand followers on twitch. skizz has less in both categories. zombie cleo, also known for being an outspoken hermit about queer things, has more twitch and YouTube followers/subscribers than skizz.
saying trans rights is not rent lowering shots. you know what is? having maga moderation and giving a questionable apology to the trans community.
If I was zombiecleo, I would be so disappointed to learn that my friend skizzleman refused to say trans rights because he is a “vibes channel”. In my video today I discuss the rising apolitical nature some hermits are taking on. If you’re also frustrated by this or the skizz trans rights situation I recommend checking it out.
The Dream of Joining Hermitcraft [Hermitcraft Applications Analysis]
blocking after i send this but your dni is pretty tone deaf all things considered. i really liked your style so i’m kinda sad
CW: The Skizz Controversy, if it makes uncomfortable, please scroll /gen
I’m sorry, and it will be promptly removed. That was in my bio way before the controversy began and I just forgot it was even there to be honest.
What Skizz said hurt, I know, but he also explained himself in the comments of the vod: and to me it feels truly sincere. He did explicitly stated he does support trans rights and to be honest said in a more wordy way said trans rights are humans rights. Now, as for the MAGA and racist mods? They shouldn’t be mods. It’s shown how those ideas impact their job as they stirred up the chat after the original dono was read. (From what I remember)
This is all to say, I am in a slightly gray area on the topic, however I will remove that from my Tumblr bio to not make anyone else feel as they are not supported here. You always will be. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
I won’t stop drawing Skizzleman though because of this. His apology/explanation is enough for me: however I won’t join a stream until the icky mods are gone.
Update Aug 27 '25: He fired the mods and said some related stuff on stream. Check it out if you want.
[Old]Update: Skizzleman's youtube subs used to be public and included lots of far right assholes. And he's mentioned listening to Joe Rogan's podcast.
[That's the summary there, you can stop reading if that's all you need to know, the rest of this is just some details and me expressing my feelings. At length.]
So after I made my last reblog I went back to #skizz situation and, well, turns out in 2021 Skizz's youtube subs were public? And he subscribed to far right assholes? YEAH IT'S GREAT.
Like Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro and Prageru (and oann, zeducation, steven crowder, timcast, and anthony brian logan).
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! What a fool am I, what assumptions I made. I assumed Skizz was at least left of center, but grew up in the 90s and learned including *everyone* is a virtue. (Like I did!)
This isn't that. This isn't "being friends with people you disagree with", it's not even "putting people who hate them in positions of power over your fans". It's not being willing to tell us the truth about how we don't matter, it's accepting the support and profiting from and living off people he wouldn't stand up for in the most minor way. Of course he thinks "trans rights!" is political, because he thinks it's politics, not human rights. As he reportedly said on his podcast this week, he doesn't care what anyone thinks.
Skizzleman does not care what you think.
Skizzleman does not care if his friends might want you dead.
He's deep in red america and he's not your friend.
Skizz does not care about you.
[edit: after i wrote the rest of this post i searched "joe rogan skizz" on tumblr and found a post from 2024 saying Skizz has admitted to listening to the Joe Rogan podcast! I'm particularly sensitive to that one. (I am upset with my brother every day of my life for playing that for my niblings. My 10yo nephew randomly said we should kill Biden at a family party. Joe Rogan is not okay.) ]
Anyway, I found the links to 2021 posts about Skizz's *many* far right youtube subs in an ask on this blog. I was going to screenshot them all but I don't want to do that to personal posts that had very few notes, one of which asked for no reblogs, so I'm doing summary and screenshotting a big hc blog.
From what I can gather, in 2021, someone noticed what channels he was subscribed to and found a lot of far right bullshit. People talked about it on tumblr, shared some of the channels in posts and replies, and said "go look for yourself"[1]. He privated his youtube subs and made no statement[2] disavowing those views or anything to say that isn't part of who he is.
Skizz never disavowed the far right and he is still platforming publicly MAGA people.
(As someone who was an angry adult long before 2021, I want it to be clear that wasn't before the far right went mainstream and very bad. We knew those people were dangerous at least back in 2016. It wasn't subtle.)
The biggest post I could find about this was from the @hermitcraftheadcanons blog, which takes submissions about, well, hermitcraft head canons and has multiple mods, two of who were quoted in the 2021 post. The blog announced they were no longer accepting non-hermits, for multiple reasons but specifically for Skizz.
This is (part of) what they posted in 2021:
That's what I've got.
I'm not telling anyone what to do besides "don't harass people on tumblr for posts four years ago". Don't do that!
If you don't care if people hang out with and platform MAGA people, who are likely less extreme than what they watch on youtube, I literally do not have the energy to care. Do with this information what you will. (If this hurts you, I'm truly sorry. Caring about non-fictional people is dangerous, I can't imagine how I would feel if this was one of my blorbos. Be kind to yourself.)
But me? I'm fucking disgusted. I daydream about telling off my MAGA family members, I am not giving a pass to someone who isn't my friend and who made sure to emphasize this week, weeks after this all went down, how much he doesn't care about anyone's opinion or "being told what to do".
I know some people see not caring about other people's opinions as a virtue. I do not. Especially men in positions of power in any community, especially especially if the community is based around them!
The people in power are the ones who should care the most about what other people think.
I would be shocked if there was any hope of Skizz doing anything because some [whatever he would call us] told him to.
Finally: I have more to say that is about how terrible people find each other through "just a joke" but it's not about Skizz, so I'm tossing it under a cut, along with the footnotes:
So we found out about Skizz's mods, and I looked through some twitter screenshots until I felt uncomfortable. I hoped, but I really really worried, cause who people's friends are, the people they choose to be with not just friendly coworkers, says a lot about them. Because here's the thing about people hanging out with shitty people, often turns out... gestures heads toward any friends groups of abusers you know. I'm only talking about politics with Skizz, not anything else, but it is the same social process.
I was reblogging about "just a joke" last night. It's how people test the waters, to see who laughs at jokes about bigotry and terrible things I won't name here. And someone like me says "ugh wtf" and their friends defend them and I distance myself, and everybody who stood with the shithead has a fun little bond, whether they are aware of it or not. "Just a joke" is how nasty people find each other, to hang out and support each other's bigotry and abuse, support each other in building up power structures to abuse, things like that. In some cases, start bringing them to your favorite bar and see if they want to be a white supremacist too. It 's NOT a coincidence when abusers and bigots hang out. It's never every single person they know, don't immediately cancel every abuser/bigot's friends, but be fucking wary.
Footnotes about skizz in 2021
[1] I have found no screenshots but a mod investigated it and said no more Skizz, and enough people treated this as public information that it would a wild conspiracy theory to say everyone made it up.
[2] someone claimed to have talked to him in twitter dms but wouldn't even screenshot it. ""I talked to him in DMs on Twitter. He wants to keep all this as private as possible so I won't be posting screenshots, but he confirmed he didn't realize how extreme their views were, that he's not a bigot, and that he just likes to follow news sources on all sides.""
Sure, screenshots can be faked, but you're not even giving us that? If this conversation happened, I don't care! Meaningless!
To be clear I’m not saying to boycott Skizz or cancel him or whatever word you want to use. I’m saying I, as a trans person, no longer feel welcome in his community with the knowledge that he has MAGA people moderating for him, and thus I personally will no longer be supporting him. You can do what you want, I guess, but you can’t police how people feel about this.
If you think I’m a dick because I’m not choosing to be where I’m not welcome, or where someone would happily feed me to wolves for the sake of being a “safe space for everyone”, feel free to block me.
