I'm going to need to see #JoCat make a video on the #MonsterHunterWilds and #FFXIV collab event just announced for next month. #gaming #CrapGuide
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I read something a few days ago that has been nagging at me ever since. It was an explanation for why hating #JoCat for that fun video became a culture war thing. It's mindblowing, obvious in retrospect, and depressing.

The primary audience for a big part of the right wing influencer-sphere is middle and high school boys on their way to incel-dom. That's how they get massive followings and thus money. Other people watch the videos and streams too and the ideas spread from those videos to social media where they eventually get into Fox News or the RNC platform but they start with adult men trying to win the approval of those boys.

That target audience needs an explanation for why girls don't like them despite how desperately they want girls to magically fix everything wrong in their lives. The hatred of women that naturally arises from that conflict becomes part of what "being straight" means to them. Unironically liking women and happily sharing that challenges that definition of straightness. To overcome that perceived threat, they latch on to the paradoxical "it's gay to like women."

Once that happens, JoCat is a popular gay man stealing women from them because he's woke. Attacking him is basically self defense because all of their problems remain since he denied them the women who could fix their lives.

I'm sure there's more to it than that but it's a pretty compelling explanation to me, even if it is a bit "For want of a nail".
Mood: 😑. Just found out #JoCat, a youtuber, has been bullied of the internet for this creation. WTF.
https://youtu.be/Y2Y5KVtU810?si=sqyJEfMy3PMMSRVA
I Like Girls - JoCat Animation

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Yesterday I learned that one of my favourite #DnD content creators #JoCat had been silently enduring some serious #cyberbullying. I am not okay with this. Bullying is not okay.

Jo Cat has, quite understandably, said he will take an indefinite leave from content creation. That's sad for us fans but completely understandable.

I made an #isBrill page to celebrate Jo Cat's fine creations and wish him well.

https://jocat.isbrill.com/

Feedback and suggestions are welcome.

Jo Cat

I think Jo Cat is brilliant. All of his content makes me smile. It might be fair to say that in my friendship group quoting Jo Cat has become an innate part of our shared language. This is not the usual happy brill page. A few days ago, Jo Cat posted that he would be…

So apparently a collection of the worst people from the left and right have successfully bullied #Jocat off of the Internet for a 2 year old song about liking girls of every body type.

Everyone who participated in this should feel deep shame and regret for their part in it, and those who don't should be ostracized from society.

But sadly the people who do this shit persist and instead we lose valuable people who are more vulnerable to attack.

Well that sucks. Just learned that #JoCat, the creator behind A Crap Guide to D&D, Gobbo Adventures, and that really cool video about Klonoa, is leaving video making and presumably streaming as well for getting so much hate.

It's a real loss, and it sucks to give those shitty people a win. But I'm hoping his life gets more peaceful.

o/` You do the Slice! You do the SPOOOOKY SLICE! You do the Slice! Now your hits have more spice! o/` #FFXIV #JoCat
I put him in the eldritch cafe. #jocat https://twitter.com/JoCat105/status/1680976754159042562/photo/1 (sorry the twitter link)
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β€œput him somewhere”

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