So this video has been going viral in the past 24 hours.
First let me tell you what I think of this video.
It was hard to watch. An annoying skank with a colored stripe in her hair and an Ariana Grande voice talking for six minutes with down syndrome music playing in the background. But. I loved the point behind it. And even better - I think it speaks volumes that hundreds of "plus-size positive" videos are put up every week on YouTube without a bat of an eye, but when this bitch with less than 100,000 subscribers speaks the truth it causes a potato storm.
That's right, a simple search shows that the expected hate and response videos from potatoes have already made their rounds, and I'm gonna tackle the first three I see. I'm going in.
(obvious trigger warning)
1.) boogie2988
Talking around the problem. Talks about how "fat people have a lot of different problems that lead to their obesity." I get that. But that doesn't make it any better. That doesn't make it right. Fat people get diseases and physical problems
because they are fat and use tax dollars to pay for that, which makes it a burden on all of us, not just the hunk of fat on a scooter in Wal-Mart.
I've been subscribed to this guy for years now, but today that's changing. He says in the beginning that he's "tired of making videos like these", but he makes a weight-related video at least once a week. Mainly because I've seen how they've evolved. A year or two ago he was saying that he was going to lose weight, no problem. He made some progress, then went silent on his weight for the longest time only to eventually say that losing weight proved to be too difficult for him to keep up with. Yet he makes tons and tons of gaming videos, does gaming streams, and does videos like this:
I'm tired of seeing it. At first I gave him the benefit of the doubt. He talked about how being fat is a problem and he was trying to fix it, but anymore all I can see is that he's failed that goal and is now making every attempt to rationalize peoples' obesity. Rationalizing doesn't fix the problem, it just makes fatties comfortable with being unhealthy.
2.) Meghan Tonjes
Unlike above, I don't know this YouTuber or the next one. But...
This is hilarious. She had a 6-minute reality check that she has no defense against, but she wanted to cry her way through a video anyway to rationalize her own weight and psychological issues.
2:45 "A lot of
girls who struggle with body image...don't need to hear this shit."
...Uh huh. I'm gonna go on a limb here and say you're a privileged white feminist. Just a hunch.
4:25 "If you watch that video... and you agree, and you don't view people as, like, complex, the way that they are....
Please don't follow me, because like..... I'm not there for you..."
3.) Kendall Rae
You think I watched all 15 minutes of this? Nah. I've already wasted a lot of my Saturday morning watching two other awful videos. Literally all I did was click in the middle of the video, 6:10, to hear just a fraction of what she was saying, and I shit you not it was all summed up by listening for three seconds and hearing this:
"...plus I have all these disorders which block me from losing weight anyway."
That's enough potato attention whoring for me.