#i can kill two hiatus brain conspiracies with one fuckin post

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

Hey. I'm pro Palestine and anti Israeli occupation. I want to be up front with that before I say what I'm about to say.

This thing you've just repeated here on my post is an antisemitic conspiracy theory, and I'm not gonna let it fly. Here's what's actually going on

Guz Khan got fired between seasons and was adamant on Twitter that he did not know why, but that this was sometimes how the industry worked.

Some people on Twitter with no evidence started speculating that Taika Waititi specifically, ie the Jewish EP, fired him for his support of Palestine. I have heard a vicious rumor that Guz Khan quietly blocked the first person to say it on twt and they admitted that he blocked them but still believe the conspiracy they invented.

In season 2, and I'm sorry for the spoilers but it is relevant and you have already been spoiled by this post so I'll just say it, Khan's shoes were more or less filled by a Kiwi local with less international recognition (i.e. someone who costs less). Ewen Bremner's contract was only renewed for the first four episodes after which his character, Buttons, was written off in a reversible way if they wanted him back for season 3. Nat Faxon's character, the Swede, was married off to Spanish Jackie, similarly cutting down the screen time they had to pay his actor for to 3 episodes. It was revealed after season wrapped that HBO max had slashed Our Flag Means Deaths budget by 40%. Which heavily implies that Ivan was experiencing the first hired first fired effect as the most minor member of Blackbeard's named crew.

Nathan Foad who is still on the cast has vocally supported ending the occupation of Palestine and his career is unaffected.

Guz Khan was vocal in his support for Palestine looooooooong before he was hired onto OFMD and Taika Waititi was an EP on there the whole fucking time, and yet Khan still got the role of Ivan, which didn't have to happen.

Taika Waititi signed a shitty letter which was not great but also emphatically does not say what you think it says.* So we don't actually know his real position on the conflict we just know that he's Celebrity DumbTM and jewish, which is apparently enough for some people to take this little unconfirmed conspiracy that doesn't hold up to Occam's razor and run with it.

This one doesn't really debunk anything but it's worth saying here, for nothing but there is one crew member who has vocally supported Israel on his (now deleted for racism) twitter: Con O'Neill, who is not jewish, but for some reason Taika Waititi, who is jewish, is taking all the heat from OFMD fans as this becomes a hot button issue. I bring that up because if you wanted to get after Zionism as it relates to OFMD you could criticize Con, you don't have to make a whole conspiracy theory. Everyone just continues stanning and then drags the most prominent Jewish guy in the cast and crew for something that really seems like it's a budget issue. I'm not happy that Ivan is gone, I disagree with Taika Waititi on a lot of shit. I don't think that's any excuse for antisemitism.

All of that being said the person who left these tags probably didn't know what they were reiterating, owing to the fact that a lot of fucking antisemites like to repeat this conspiracy confidently as a fact without front loading the fact that they're antisemitic, and then people pick it up and repeat it because it's the internet and fact checking is an endangered species. The savvier ones will take Waititi's name out of it all together so that it sounds more legit. I did initially cop to the savvier version of this conspiracy theory until an anon said "they're using this to be antisemitic" and then I bothered to look into it and found no evidence for it. Then the answer was revealed to me when they cut Faxon and Bremner's screen time and had to do two fewer episodes due to budget concerns. Don't fall for it they do this shit for every Jew more famous than a YouTuber with a morphie code.

*this links to a post I made discussing the issue and then at the bottom of the post I link to an article about the letter, after that it displays to a screen shot that a friend of mine saw organically on Twitter that sort of implies hes probably not a die hard zionist but could mean nothing because it is just an insta like. People update me on celeb drama against my will and I subject y'all in turn

Being in the OFMD fandom right now is so fucking funny because half the fandom is like "I love my little show perhaps it was not as good as it could have been due to the budget but it was still beautiful and wonderful I hope we get a season three <3" and the other half is like "Snapewives and The Johnlock Conspiracy speed run no mods any percent, go go go"