#and also bc for a while i used to entertain myself by reading random forums where they were mentioned and most were super fucked up

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probably just bad memory but it feels like mike's been saying the r word far more frequently recently than he did when using that word was fairly mainstream. does the old man want the thrill of saying a slur but is too scared to do it with racist or homophobic slurs or what lol

I weirdly noticed this too? If we count all the times he's been bleeping it over the last couple years (one I can already think of is in a Nerd Crew outtake on Patreon). But it's not like CRAZY frequent, it's peppered in like once or twice per year but it's as you say, more than when it was en vogue. Maybe before he used to cut it out of the video but now ig he thinks he can get away with the bleeping + censoring the mouth alone ? It probably works on most viewers but to me it's always evident when he's saying it.

And hm somebody correct me but as far as I can think of, even going back to screenshots/archived exchanges on forums Mike hasn't Ever been the type to say homophobic/transphobic or racist slurs. This doesn't mean at all that he didn't find other ways to be racist though like the horrid blaccent he used to do in his produce aisle sketches 🤢 which is why it surprised me when Jay Implied the n-word with his "Lovecraft's cat joke" in the first Star Trek trivia video bc I sincerely thought they weren't Like That.