Team YouTube waiting five days to address this, ‘both sideing’ the situation where there’s clearly only one person in the wrong, SSSniperwolf and teams YouTube both posting their statements 14 hours ago… yeah, this is gross, their statement is a joke
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tl;dr jacksfilms made a second channel to react to sssniperwolf’s lazy reaction videos in which she oftentimes posts other people’s content without credit, Jack called her out for stealing content among other things, no one is above criticism and she deserved to be called out a long, long time ago
she then doxxed him and went to his home (she has over 30 million followers on YouTube) and showed up at his front door, team YouTube waited 5 days to address the situation and now said both sides were in the wrong, which is an insane take
it’s worth noting too that like, on jjjacksfilms (the channel he made to call her out) and on his twitch streams reacting to her videos, he wasn’t just critiquing her content with his fans for a laugh or whatever—
he and his audience have been actively working to find and credit the original creators of the clips she stole, contact them when appropriate to let them know that sssniperwolf was using their videos and profiting off of their hard work, and help them file DMCA takedowns against her
(if you haven’t seen one of his sssniperwolf bbbingo videos on jjjacksfilms, please go watch one for context. the bingo itself is pretty funny, but then it’s broken up by first hand accounts from smaller or casual creators—including CHILDREN—reaching out to Jack for support because sssniperwolf stole their content and made fun of them or other shitty behavior towards them. multiple people have shared that sssniperwolf’s theft damaged their self esteem and creative drive so badly that they stopped making videos. it’s fucking heartbreaking)
the upside is that, with Jack and others calling her out and encouraging the original creators to file DMCA takedowns against her for copyright infringement, they are making a real difference:multiple videos of hers have been edited and re-uploaded to remove clips from creators who filed complaints, in some cases enough to bring the video under 8 minutes so that it can’t get mid-roll ads anymore. there’s even a whole video that’s just gone now, completely deleted from her channel, because so many people have come forward to file takedowns against her, both on their own and directly because of Jack’s support.
she’s reacting so strongly because Jack has been standing up for and supporting her victims, and in doing so, has hurt her income.
it’s absolutely terrifying behavior but it’s also a sign that even though YT isn’t really doing anything, the fight against her is effective anyway. filing DMCA takedowns against freebooters and “reactors” like her works! that’s really exciting!
anyway keep pressuring Team YT to respond properly to this mess. also stan Jacksfilms, he’s one of the OGs on YT and has been such an important part of the community, encouraging and inspiring a lot of young creators, and fostering a very fun and collaborative environment with his fans. his iphone parody videos are hilarious.
was gonna leave my comment in the tags but tbh i’m silent enough about this as it is.
seeing stuff like this is so upsetting because these terms were well known and widespread in the ace community but because of exclusionists many people stopped using terms like this because they felt uncomfortable and unsafe.
i loved these terms when i was in highschool, i loved the feeling of community, but i lost that because i didn’t feel comfortable openly and proudly calling myself asexual.
they’ve hurt so many people and damaged our community badly and i will never forgive them for that. we deserve to use our own terminology and feel safe within our community.
sometimes i notice i haven’t seen “grace” (grey-ace) in a while and consequently wonder if i made it up.
I remember ppl - even other ace ppl - saying the card suit thing was “cringey” and “straight ppl aren’t gonna take us seriously” (sounds familiar?) So i guess the community wound up abandoning it. We were also having severe issues at the time with aces being stereotyped as “childish/immature” for associating things like cake, dragons, and space with asexuality, plus in general as most aces just don’t “get” allosexual things in media and irl. We were starting to be viewed as ignorant, virginal, childish, losers, etc. I haven’t seen an ace-cake thing in a good while now.
This was the infancy of exclusionary influence on us. I didn’t realize it did more damage than just closeting us. Whole symbols and terms have been lost. Community has been lost.
I remember three-four years ago I got myself into the ace community on Insta, and I came across these terms. People in these circles would talk about cake, space, dragons, and the black ring on the middle finger. Then, a year or two later, ace content fizzled out (I thought it was Insta’s algorithm figuring out that I knew all this and didn’t bring me the old stuff) and young aces had no idea what any of these were - including the black ring. Finding out young aces had no idea what the black ring meant nearly snapped my heart in two - I proudly wore the black ring, I drew characters with it, and it was my quiet way of communicating to others what my sexuality was. I was baffled at the lack of knowledge - and it turns out that exclusionists got their hands into our community and snuffed us out.
Anyways, we need to bring this back. I thought the card suite thing was cool, it taught people the different ways people can experience attraction, I loved making jokes about preferring cake, I loved wearing the black ring and talking about it with my fellow queer people at my highschool QSA club.
I’m sorry, people don’t know about the cake or ring anymore? I remember being welcomed with spams of cake gifs, photos, and MS Paint drawings. I also distinctly remember that the block solo ring in the midle was meant as reference to the Ace of Spades (black, solo, middle of card). Only thing I didn’t know was that other aces could represent a more refined nuance. Let’s see if we can get this all rolling again.
Welcome to anyone who is interested in helping with the culture revival.
This is the exact reason I started my #ace positive and #aro positive tags. I remember learning about asexuality and thinking it was cool, but not for me (yet). I remember ace visibility day where people would post selfies with an ace card to signify their orientation like in the original post. I remember going through the tag and following every ace blog I could find, turning notifications on and scrolling through their blogs endlessly to learn more about it. I haven’t gotten a notification for any of those blogs in ages.
Going through all those blogs and seeing validation, learning more things about my newfound orientation was so incredibly as a questioning and unsure 15 year old. It’s devastating to me that this community has fallen quiet so much. So I started my tags, hoping to spread some more positivity and maybe inform people. This community is full of incredible people and the fact that so little of them remain, it heartbreaking.
Check out my tags if you ever need to. Maybe I’ll add more tags to my list to do whatever I can in support
I remember seeing the start of ace exclusionary rhetoric only a few years ago… I can’t believe so much of the ace culture got lost to it so quickly.
Please, if you want to start exploring an identity for yourself (especially one exclusionists will try to tell you doesn’t “belong”), consider finding and talking to older people who’ve been in the community for a while - preferably IRL if that’s safe, or on dedicated community forums.
Diversify your research and look outside of socmed, which can be a hive of exclusionist rhetoric and flat out misinformation. Ask around about old publications or websites (the ace community has been developed and discussed in queer spaces for pretty much as long as those spaces have existed)! Check out the sources in wikis! Do your best to learn the history - because there is history. Share what you learn with your peers!
Every queer identity has an older and richer culture than the exclus want you to think, and you all deserve to be a part of it.
friendly reminder that this blog is a safe space for aspec people! unfriendly reminder that if you’re an exclusionist, Fuck You!
If you want to write a dumb little story with a dumb little plot and ridiculously silly characters. No one’s stopping you. Genuinely, no one should be allowed to stop you. Write that dumb story with your whole heart and don’t hold back.
ok the dumb little story turned into a lot of work why does this always happen
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