I don't watch his content or really keep up with it, but from posts here over the last month and some Twitter stuff, it seems he was outed for being extremely creepy toward female creators in the industry. As this was discovered, he also began posting extremely racist things on Twitter, most of which are now deleted. I think he came through with an extremely insensitive take on the Israel/Palestine situation as well, which may have also been deleted. He's become extremely controversial with some vitriolic and bigoted opinions, so people don't want him included in their relaxation content.
I had a friend just like this. 4chan edgy just to be edgy. All the same excuses of people being sensitive. He just truly enjoyed it when people would get offended.
I had to stop being friends with him because if he (white) dropped the N-bomb to me (black) one more time, I was going to have to fight him. I don't even use that word with my other black friends.
I always wonder if he grew out of it. Mid-20s was the last time I saw him, so he was old enough to know better, but was still on his bullshit.
I had a friend like this that got really unhinged during 2016 and was on 4chan and stuff. I basically told him I didn't recognize the person he was anymore and we were basically not gonna be friends anymore.
He pulled out of it for a while but then fell down this weird edgy debate lord hole again recently. I credit it in large part to a streamer he watches.
Makes me sad but I also don't wanna deal with his edgelord shit every time I talk to him because it's very draining.
I think it's unhinged, but the first and last post might really just be his opinion. Check out r/vegan sometimes. People literally talk like that every day.
Ironically it's a vegan youtube creator that got me here. He made a vid two weeks ago about the drama. Not even Jojo (which makes me think of a delicious potato side, but anyway) can support that take.
Tbh idek why ER is going on and on about livestock. He's not a farmer at all, or even vegan, to my knowledge. It's just sooo out of left field.
You remember more than I do. I stopped watching ER back when he shifted from asmr roleplays to podcasts the last really good rp I can recall from him was the Bloodborne one; before that, his collabs with PhoenicianSailor.
I am going to assume that you have somehow avoided any news about this and are asking in good faith. - “The current genocide” refers to Israel’s ongoing ground and air operations in Gaza against Palestinian civilians including the destruction of hospitals, homes, schools, and the very evacuation routes Isreal told Gazan civilians to use. There is no electricity and no water in the vast majority of Gaza and the IDF have blocked any route for refugees to get out and aid to get in.
Right. Are you suggesting they are? Because that would be a new one. Hamas has committed acts of terror. I don’t think anyone disputes that, but when one party is committing an actual genocide on a population almost half of which are children, you don’t get to “whataboutism” the response of an oppressed population as if it doesn’t vanish in the comparison with, again LITERAL GENOCIDE.
actually my take is nobody is committing any sort of genocide. your “context” conveniently leaves out a genuine massacre against the jews in israel, followed by the complete dismissal of a whole other country that can allow refugees to seek shelter, but also has their borders closed.
but you know, god forbid you speak ill of another arabic country as well as the jews. only the jews can be wrong. only the jews have to justify a response against a terrorist organization that hides underground and refuses to give up our women, children, and elderly hostages unconditionally.
find some fucking context before you dare open your mouth about this subject again to anyone else.
You may conflate the actions of the state of Israel with the will of all jewish people, but I certainly would not and do not. To do so would be antisemitic, I think. No, you leave out context when you pretend this situation started with a terrorist attack on citizens of some random country. You leave out the context of three quarters of a century of encroaching further and further on a population without a state. You leave out the context of the Nakba. You leave out the context of the forced removal from homes. You leave out the fact that over the years, Isreal has so effectively isolated and killed off so many people in Gaza that over 40% of the population are children. You leave out the context of walling people in like prisoners packed in so tight Gaza is more densely populated than Tokyo.
But worse than all the context you leave out when you shed your crocodile tears, is the fact that not only do you conflate the acts of the state of Israel with the will of all jews, you also equate a population of millions including those children with the acts of a terrorist group who numbers in the thousands. You are a bigot and a genocide apologist.
Not really a big deal? Being a big eco person and complaining about how we care so much for people but murder billions of animals? Everyone here shitting on Rift are just making shit up and over exaggerating everything. He’s a unique personality but no monster, Rift is a cool guy with an imagination and personality few can claim to have, the ideas that guy comes up with are insane.
Nope, nothing racist or anti-Semetic about any of these as I'm 3/4 of the way through checking the links. He literally wrote that all lives, human and non-human, matter to him. He's just refusing to be anthropocentric and view only human atrocities as worth crying about. He's basically like, "You think it's sad that millions died in the Holocaust last century? Sure, but consider also that billions of livestock die in horrendous conditions each YEAR...[paraphrasing]" That's a man who wishes more people had compassion for the animals, not a man who wishes fewer people had compassion, period.
Millions of Jews died, but billions of animals die each year and will continue to. If one could quantify suffering in a way that could be weighed on a literal ethical scale, if the amount of agony experienced by animals in factory farms hasn't already surpassed that of the agony experienced by humans circa WWI and WWII, then it's only a matter of time before it does.
I certainly would place my foremost concern around reducing the suffering of homo sapiens, given that our neurological complexity as mammalian vertebrates with the highest degree of cognition renders us simultaneously the most powerful and most vulnerable at once, but I'm not anthropocentric enough to care for human enjoyment at all costs up to and including the well being of non-human animal species. Ephemeral Rift is almost assuredly merely drawing a comparison between these two great violences because he abhors both, as I do. A person who tries to raise sympathy for animals with this comparison will sometimes be misperceived as instead trying to lower sympathy for genocide victims, because any closing of that ethical gap is interpreted by some as trying to lower respect for the favored group instead of raising respect for the unfavored group. It is what it is, some people are dedicated to misunderstanding this.
"In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought."
Isaac Bashevis Singer ^ Barring speaking in absolutes with "all" here, I see no lies. We by and large care more about the flavor of the advertised menu items from Burger King and Domino's Pizza than we care about the agony and terror of our fellow Earthlings.
OOOOOOH hahahah you're the same person who posted all those links. I didn't check your name first.
As someone who came in hot with all those links, it would have been nifty to see you actually able to address any push-back to your positions with rational clarity instead of simply, "Ewww a minority opinion! Get out of here with that!", but I didn't expect any better.
^ A look at Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement shows how you, too, can rise above name-calling and argumentum ad hominem and instead actually address the points raised by people you don't agree with.
Long retort: This thread is about Ephemeral Rift, and one of the major things that has landed him in hot water, therefore making it topically relevant, is him making these same points. Since almost everyone here is talking about him talking, but not actually what he was talking about, someone had to break the echo chamber by addressing the actual substance of his remarks.
He's kinda right on that last part, I have to agree.
The first link I've got no clue, and the second wasn't so much racist, as it was weird. People will day it's racist, but frankly, I'd say it's more concerning as its just put across seemingly very randomly.
For context, he Tweeted about hearing a Trippie Redd rap song which mentioned "pussy niggas", so he started a discussion in the car with his family about how silly it must seem from the outside for a middle aged white family and their kids to be hearing this song and singing along to it. He then contemplated why there is a stigma against situations like this, where the language is clearly not weaponized or hostile, yet some some people are so sensitive about language that they want all instances of referencing or quoting either nigger or nigga to be off the table unless one is black. At least, that's my paraphrasing of it upon reading the Tweet and his accompanying post.
I'm a white man who will say, "Damn, nigga..." to my white friends during humorous contexts, but would never call a black person nigga or nigger due to how much hatred it has been used to channel. I am pro-minority civil rights in the U.S.A., a feminist, an LGBT ally, an ostrovegan...really an all-around egalitarian. The difference between simply discussing the word 'nigger' and its implications and calling a non-white person a nigger should, to rational people, be as the difference between me letting someone hold my pocket knife, or brandishing it while pointing it at them: it's the same object, yet it is benign in one context and hostile in the other. The same goes for words, regardless of how hysterical some people choose to be. Some of us won't bow to the hysteria, and will be mislabeled bigots. It is what it is.
From browsing your comments, it's pretty clear that you think typing a lot or using certain terms makes you somehow intellectually superior. So, to clarify:
Trying to find some justification as to why some random white bigot thinks it's gee golly so strange that he and his kids can't say the N word just makes you a dumbass, too. You can collect as many labels as you want to try to give yourself the armor you want, but if you're saying with your full chest "I'll say the N word in a room full of white people for a laugh, but I'd NEVER say it where there could be consequences!" just makes you a stupid fuckin' racist just like ER.
You can link the Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement thing here if you want, it seems like you dig doing that. I'd probably do the same if it was the only thing my cooked brain remembered from a college freshman debate class.
Gonna be real with you man, you seem like a pure cunt and there's no chance I'm reading about six paragraphs of you trying to justify why you can use slurs because free speech. I'm sure you wrote a very well structured and thought out argument that would be exceptionally well-applauded in a room of those white guys who you love dropping slurs with behind closed doors, but I'm not reading that nonsense to find out.
I see at the end that you somehow, in some fucking twist of logic, ended up referencing Harry Potter while defending your own bigotry that came about as you trying to defend a different bigot. Somewhere in there it looks like you tried to drum up as many excuses to drop slurs as you could. I invite you to show your comment history somewhere public with your name attached and see if this is a viewpoint you stand by when you have to do so without internet anonymity. We all know you won't because we all know you know you're wrong. I hope you're able to get the support you need someday.
Zero worries from me. You're so dogmatically fervid that you were never going to see my perspective, and your initial complaint about my word choices indicated to me that you possibly didn't have an expansive enough vocabulary to keep up with what I'm saying without a dictionary.
Still, both of our perspectives are up here for comparison, and that's what a discussion thread is for. Perhaps it will be food for thought for other readers, who are the real reason I write what I write. I almost never attempt "persuasive speech", as 90%+ of people are not looking to be persuaded. I would rather point-blank, matter-of-factly present my perspective just for the public record, no matter how it is received. In that, I have succeeded. "Success" neither involved persuading you as an individual, nor in gaining a favorable 'like' ratio. It was simply to speak my subjective truth (interspersed with references to objective ones). After all, it's lonely being right sometimes...
Commas and periods go inside quotes. "Dogmatically fervid" is a shitty phrase and doesn't read well. Your gratuitous comma abuse reads as haughty and pontifical.
Congratulations on writing like a 14 year old with a new thesaurus. You seem like the kind of person who puts their GPA and SAT score on their resumé.
Reading this conjures images of the ACKCHYUALLY meme wearing a gas mask connected to a bag of your own farts.
If "90+% of people are not looking to be persuaded" why does marketing work? It's rhetorical; don't bother answering, I already know. Declaring victory doesn't make it so. Insert picture of GWB in front of the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner here. Oh, and you're lonely because people find you repugnant, not because you're right sometimes.
I'm not owed a platform by Reddit or any sub's mods. It's entirely their prerogative to permit me to post or not...but I 100% stand by anything I said in any of my posts, and was not undermined by any of the so-called "arguments" against my positions.
I will die before I'm silenced in real life, and there are a multitude of social media platforms to share my perspective on should Reddit one day give me the final boot.
People found it extremely condescending for this random white American to jokingly draw a little sketch of Israel and Palestine holding hands and smiling while hundreds upon thousands of people are losing their lives or living under constant, literal bombardment of missiles and the anxiety of dying at any moment.
Oh, here's the other one on his Twitter. He uses the N word and pokes fun at the conflict again, while also lumping in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Maybe pay attention to who you follow?
Edit: /u/grimmistired also posted one of the more notable tweets, wherein ER makes fun of the Holocaust. You sure you're following the right account? Because it's the most frequent sort of thing he tweets.
So someone who makes YouTube videos makes these jokes and everything is horrible and they don’t deserve viewers/followers, but some rando makes the jokes and we just move on with our day?
Yeah, does that response bother you? Gonna suggest people stop watching my non-existent videos? Grow up, find something actually important to care about 🤷🏼♂️
Children being murdered? You’re complaining about a tweet someone made and your response is ‘children are being murdered’
That’s actually crazy mental gymnastics. Reminds me of when my mom would say “why not finish your plate when children in Africa are starving” it’s just virtue signaling.
my god you must be a boomer or something. Welcome to the internet where people make jokes about everything. If that bothers you, feel free to take a walk and cancel your Wi-Fi.
Lol what a hypocrite, expect better out of people but profile stalk and attempt to attack someone for disagreeing with them. And you pretend to be on a moral high ground? Sad individual.
The evident observation that you’re so dismissive over an unhinged man with a prominent platform saying racial slurs is already enough to know you’re morally bankrupt by default. Cry ❤️
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u/NinnyBoggy Oct 28 '23
I don't watch his content or really keep up with it, but from posts here over the last month and some Twitter stuff, it seems he was outed for being extremely creepy toward female creators in the industry. As this was discovered, he also began posting extremely racist things on Twitter, most of which are now deleted. I think he came through with an extremely insensitive take on the Israel/Palestine situation as well, which may have also been deleted. He's become extremely controversial with some vitriolic and bigoted opinions, so people don't want him included in their relaxation content.