#there is a difference here and it’s not a preexisting dislike for drm

[memryse]

i ordinarily do not make “discourse” posts or anything related to dream on here at all since i stopped posting dsmp but i feel the need to express my disgust with him and the defence he’s getting. having spent the last couple of days talking to many former dream fans who now feel even more unsafe in the community because of all of this, i can’t in good conscience not speak out for my friends. (note: this is not actually discourse, hence the quotation marks. this is a discussion of racism and other issues.)

you are allowed to criticise content creators. yes, don’t be an idiot who spends all their time looking for things to get mad about, or post mindless hate at all really because that’s lame, but it should not be a “natural consequence” to expect harassment for disliking a creator. that is an incredibly incredibly dangerous and irresponsible narrative to be spreading, especially for someone who is the current most popular minecraft youtuber whose fandom has a reputation both in and out of mcyt circles for being notably toxic.

doxxing is a big deal. it is natural to be afraid of it, and realistically, you should worry about it if it happens to you, no matter your follower count. even if nobody physically shows up at your house, that doesn’t eliminate other dangers: the most glaring example i can think of is a closeted person being outed by somebody finding their parents’ social media. again, this is downright irresponsible for someone like dream to be saying, especially in the wake of the person he replied to going private out of fears of doxxing because of their precarious and unsafe living situation.

having an “edgy” past is not something you get to pat yourself on the back for growing out of and then forget about forever; that is the bare minimum, especially when you have an audience of many poc who already do not feel that the community is inclusive, because antiblackness and other forms of bigotry run rampant in it. they now feel even more unsafe knowing that the face of the mcyt community downplayed his racist and islamophobic jokes as being a depressed teenager. i am a person who believes in personal growth and change, as both a technoblade fan and somebody who made antisemitic jokes as a young teen. but the first step of growing as a person is to admit what you did wrong using the real terminology for it and not trying to make it seem less bad than it was, or that it was okay at the time. it wasn’t okay. if you’re not able to condemn your own past actions as being racist, and feel the need to justify or downplay them in any sort of way, you have a lot of personal growth left to achieve.