Like damn, it was only 10 years ago and they’re doing racist accents for like every type of asian you can think of.

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    I didn’t even know that. I am a casual viewer of JonTron for many years. Has he made some sketchy videos or tweets?

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      Back in 2017, he went onto Destiny’s stream and rattled off a bunch of racist statistics.

      *Before the debate he was apparently on some right-wing podcast saying shit about immigrants.

      Oh, and he called america a Banana Republic in response to Trump losing.

      Afaik at this point he’s learned to shut the fuck up and stay in his lane.

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        Anything more recently? And anything that is him going full Nazi?

        Saying racist bullshit is bad and I think I won’t watch him anymore then but “going full Nazi” is a bit more serious I believe.

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            Oh wow didn’t know it was this bad. Is that from the 2017 stream or more recent? Either way he is a pos and I won’t watch him ever again.

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              Those are old comments - as another poster said, he’s kept his head down but hasn’t apologized or shown he’s grown past it. I’m not convinced, especially seeing how he’s had some hot anti-vax takes since the pandemic started

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                Yeah. Seems like he 100% still believes this shit but just keeps it to himself. Man this is depressing. Is there any funny gaming YouTuber that isn’t a giant pos?

                JonTron -> no, as we just established

                Game Grumps -> kinda racist and Danny seems to be at best a creep and at worst a rapist

                OneyPlays -> if offensive=funny was a channel

                PewDiePie -> if he isn’t a right winger he is at least very careless with his “jokes”

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                  Is there any funny gaming YouTuber that isn’t a giant pos?

                  Northernlion seems like a cool dude. He’s the one I watch most.

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                    adding to my comment without ruining the bit

                    I think a lot of the Let’s Play people from Something Awful still make good video game YouTube content and aren’t awful people: ChipCheezum, General Ironicus, Slowbeef (the video LP OG), Tie Tuesday, and Voidburger are a few I remember.

                    Haven’t really been into that stuff in 10 years or so, so excuse me if someone has milkshake ducked.


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                  Mega64 and Rocco Botte keep winning (oh god I hope nobody proves me wrong about this).

                  Kinda pre-youtube and then youtube, dunno if it counts.

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                  the best gaming channel on YouTube was SirRonLionHeart and he’s retired (but seems like he’s doing well) also he dropped his character in his newer stuff

                  oh what the-

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                  Don’t personally watch them but a few friends of mine swear by the Real Time Fan Dub people & associated channels - I like Lythero but it’s a lot of fgc stuff so it might not be everybody’s bag. Jerma is still good but fuckin impenetrable lol.

                  There’s plenty of good stuff out there but yea a lot of that 2000s-2010s gaming youtube circle turned out to be trash sadly

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          To my knowledge he hasn’t posted any explicitly wehraboo shit a swastika yet.

          Other than never really apologizing for those statements during the debate, he’s been keeping his head down.