#i havent watch the video but im about to
So Alex Day uploaded a new video “The Past”. It’s 30 minutes long and in the description he writes
I hope you’re all well. Please try not to type anything thoughtlessly as you consider your response to this.
Full disclosure: I have put ads on this video because I trust myself to do good things with the money that comes from that, be they charitable donations, funding for projects that will be of benefit to you, or other things I haven’t thought of yet.
Please note that IT IS NOT OKAY FOR HIM TO RETURN TO THE YOUTUBE COMMUNITY.
If you need a reminder as to why he’s not welcome, please look through this again.
OR EVEN BETTER - watch this reupload of the video!
Andhere’s a transcript of the video.
Though, if you do decide to watch the video, make sure you download and activate add blockbefore.
I quote “I haven’t wanted to talk about my side of the story because I’m scared of Tumblr” apparently we are “intolerant of anyone who doesn’t share our opinion”? No Alex Day, we are intolerant of people manipulating and abusing other people.
“I don’t care what you think of me” … “That’s why I haven’t defended myself at all in the last six months.” Really?Really?Really?Really?
“There is a lot of anger and fear and pain in our community right now. And I am a person who can reach a lot of you, and maybe I can decrease some of that.” It’s a misunderstanding. “Maybe I can decrease some of that, by just explaining my side of it."
"And even if you don’t agree with my side of it, or don’t believe it, or you think that I’m just trying to preserve myself because you know, being famous on the internet has always been so important to me.” [he’s ironic] “Then maybe you can just write it all off, but I think it’s still better. It’s still better that I said something. And even if just one person who watches this comes away from it feeling a little bit more reasonable about the whole situation, then I feel like that’s good. Then I’ve reduced the amount of over all misunderstanding and fear and anger in the world by one person. That’s a good thing to do. And I think the attempt to decrease it will outweigh the inevitable increase in anger that this will create. So here we go…”
Basically what he’s saying:
It’s worth convincing the “few” people who still haven’t decided if I’m manipulative and abusive and should not be trusted. It’s worth having those people on my side over how angry everyone else will be at me for still using YouTube as my platform.
I think this only proves that we need more people talking about this topic, bringing attention to it.
Lindsey wrote a tumblr post where she explained that, if she had told Alex to stop he would have, but she didn’t feel like she could. Alex Day says “But the point is she felt like she couldn’t, for reasons that… I still don’t fully understand but I’ll do my best to make sure no one ever feels like that again”
He still does not understand what he did wrong.
