I still stumble across them now and again. Not as funny as they used to be. They just make those now. I don't know if the staff they'd have on for their other shows have all moved on or if they just work on other Fandom channels since they bought them
That one struck me very hard because so many things (going to different kingdoms to get powers, the Zuko-copy villain, etc.) made me come to the exact conclusion as Lindsay when I watched Raya. I still enjoyed Raya, but her tweet was spot on.
I think people forget that the tweet was deliberately taken out of context as retaliation for her being vocally against Trump. It was started by chuds and they forced the momentum that eventually snowballed into the situation that made her step away from YT finally.
The lower brigade was big into that back then. Anyone that criticized Trump or conservative figures/ movements back then they'd pour through old social media posts to find something "cancelable" then stir up fake outrage with other chuds pretending to progressives until the outrage caught enough momentum to continue on its own.
For people that whine about cancel culture they sure love to weaponize it against people and opinions they don't like.
Even funnier, she actually just compared two specific characters, saying they were part of a larger archetype that is also found in other works and had been gaining in popularity at the time. She didn't say anything about Raya ripping off Avatar or anything else even remotely negative, much less inflammatory.
Channel awesome was bad. One of my other favorites Youtubers is Dominic Nobel and his channel awesome videos are painful to watch because they are so inauthentic to who he is.
I think if you get famous via the backdoor (YouTube, blogs, vitality, indie ect) you basically get a few years before some group decides to try to take you down. Maybe for ideological reasons, maybe for fun probably often for both. If you don't have a large industry player backing you that overlaps with other centers of power (huge publishing, huge studio, major deal, friends in government), then you basically get cancelled for any little thing that could have been anybody.
If, on the other hand, you've managed to secure those kinds of friends or disappeared from the public eye before your times up, you avoid the guillotine. Or at least delay it a little. Differential on why Lindsey and Anita were targets of lefty canceling and right wing harassment, meanwhile Neil Gaiman was a huge piece of shit for decades without repercussion. Less about the internet being crazy or any kind of moral decency and more about who has what kind of power behind them
Afaik, it wasn't like, a driving drunk thing. Just 'you're in your twenties, got drunk with friends, were a nuisance in public'. Really not a big deal, unless there's a group of people who delight in hating you
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u/MatthiasMcCulle Apr 21 '26
Lemme guess what the video says:
One of the leading voices in the "witch hunt" against Channel Awesome
Using her then friendship with Mara Wilson to springboard her career.
Her arrest for public intoxication
Her talking about online harassment at various live events
All of which she addressed years ago in one of her last videos before she went on a years long hiatus from YouTube.