Why finding out your favourite creator or Internet celebrity is a problematic person - or "milkshake duck" - is all too common...

Everyone has said and done stupid shit on the internet, and thus anyone could become a Milkshake Duck at any moment.

—Aja Romano, Vox https://www.vox.com/culture/22350188/what-is-a-milkshake-duck-definition-explained-jensen-karp-cinnamon-toast-shrimp

Polygon [also owned by Vox] writer Julia Alexander [...] suggested that to avoid these labels, one should not worry about what statements they may have made, but whether they show awareness that they made them and that they have grown past or changed away from them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Milkshake_Duck&oldid=1125626292

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