So, I have never done this before...
Jul. 6th, 2019 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyofleithian...but if you're wondering why exactly I wrote what I did for the "Unreliable Narrator" prompt, this is why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0qChcV0w7M
I'm just really disappointed in Brad Jones. I think disappointed was putting it mildly when I first watched the video; I got fucking enraged. And then sad. I guess now that I've watched the video in its entirety, I'm just really disappointed. Nymja, who writes for the Reylo fandom -- and who I followed because of her KOTOR fics -- had a beautiful phrase in her fic "Freedom Shall Carry Me" about how someone has to care to be disappointed. She might have been writing for Reylo, but that's a fucking mood, dudette. I guess the reason that that line seems so appropriate now is that when I was eighteen years old, I thought Brad Jones was a god. I didn't know he'd pull the shit he did later, naturally. But I cared. Fucking hell shit I cared. Then I just naturally kind of outgrew him, and then...this happened.
For those of you not in the know, the #ChangetheChannel movement started last year, and it exposed some genuinely horrifying stuff going on at Channel Awesome, up to and including sexual assault and grooming. When Brad found out about all that? He fucking laughed. That's what I can't forgive him for, the fact he laughed about it. Went on Double Toasted and just thought the whole thing, the whole goddamn thing, was the most hilarious thing ever. And then went on to blame Alison Pregler (a.k.a. Obscurus Lupa) for harassment by others she had absolutely jackshit to do with. And the piece de resistance -- he went on to outright gaslight the public about certain things, including accusing #ChangetheChannel of swatting his father-in-law's funeral, as well as lying about things his wife said to make the backlash that they both got seem unfair. (The Wounded Gazelle Gambit, basically)
I just can't. I remember putting on his videos when I had sleep issues. I remember listening to Radiodrome and the SnobCast and finding them both really entertaining. It really does feel like I lost something important to me, even though I didn't know the guy (and now I'm glad I didn't. I'm glad I never met him. I wish I'd never heard of him). If Brad Jones is reading this, fuck you. Go to hell. To quote Poe Dameron, you're not only a coward, but a traitor. And sooner or later, when karma does bite you in the ass, I'm going to get a front row seat with popcorn and snacks, because after everything you did to Alison, you deserve it.
I'm just really disappointed in Brad Jones. I think disappointed was putting it mildly when I first watched the video; I got fucking enraged. And then sad. I guess now that I've watched the video in its entirety, I'm just really disappointed. Nymja, who writes for the Reylo fandom -- and who I followed because of her KOTOR fics -- had a beautiful phrase in her fic "Freedom Shall Carry Me" about how someone has to care to be disappointed. She might have been writing for Reylo, but that's a fucking mood, dudette. I guess the reason that that line seems so appropriate now is that when I was eighteen years old, I thought Brad Jones was a god. I didn't know he'd pull the shit he did later, naturally. But I cared. Fucking hell shit I cared. Then I just naturally kind of outgrew him, and then...this happened.
For those of you not in the know, the #ChangetheChannel movement started last year, and it exposed some genuinely horrifying stuff going on at Channel Awesome, up to and including sexual assault and grooming. When Brad found out about all that? He fucking laughed. That's what I can't forgive him for, the fact he laughed about it. Went on Double Toasted and just thought the whole thing, the whole goddamn thing, was the most hilarious thing ever. And then went on to blame Alison Pregler (a.k.a. Obscurus Lupa) for harassment by others she had absolutely jackshit to do with. And the piece de resistance -- he went on to outright gaslight the public about certain things, including accusing #ChangetheChannel of swatting his father-in-law's funeral, as well as lying about things his wife said to make the backlash that they both got seem unfair. (The Wounded Gazelle Gambit, basically)
I just can't. I remember putting on his videos when I had sleep issues. I remember listening to Radiodrome and the SnobCast and finding them both really entertaining. It really does feel like I lost something important to me, even though I didn't know the guy (and now I'm glad I didn't. I'm glad I never met him. I wish I'd never heard of him). If Brad Jones is reading this, fuck you. Go to hell. To quote Poe Dameron, you're not only a coward, but a traitor. And sooner or later, when karma does bite you in the ass, I'm going to get a front row seat with popcorn and snacks, because after everything you did to Alison, you deserve it.
