• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    AvE. A 3 minute video supporting the truckers “protest” gets a hard NO from me.

    He’s why I had to install 3rd party channel blocker because yt kept recommending his videos.

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      14 hours ago

      Same. I had been subbed since the start, but banished his channel from my feed when he posted that bullshit.

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        2 hours ago

        He had racist and anti trans jokes in all his videos. I wrote them off as just innocent friendly jokes for a while, but they were in ALL his videos. I unsubbed and blocked him after I realized it was a pattern with him.

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        8 hours ago

        Para social relationships are hard. You think you get to know someone over the years watching their videos. I would even watch the videos he would put on his daughter’s channel. The videos of him just cooking.

        I thought he was a smart guy even with some of his gruff persona.

        Oddly enough, one of the first cracks in that facade was a BOLTR video taking apart a Hitachi wand or knockoff. He was so weirdly prudish about the idea of a woman actually using one in a way that didn’t feel like a joke. But I convinced myself it was probably a joke, because…why would he be weird about that?

        But the trucker protest videos hit me like a cement truck. It actually really bummed me out. I texted my dad and he said something to the effect of, “Oh well, his videos have been shit anyway.”

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        12 hours ago

        AvE as in AvE. It use to mean “arduinoversusevil”, but the arduino stuff quickly became a memory. He’s tech youtuber out in rural, western Canada who would review power tools and DIY projects. He had a rugged individualism thing going on, but never really got into politics or current events until the he posted the video in support of truckers shit.