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shamanicshaymin(TW: CSA) ...Welp. I take back everything nice I said about Brad Jones in my NC The Wall MST. Hell, anything nice I said about him in general.
This hurts me more than when I learned Doug Walker was a clueless hypocritical jerk, tbh. Whereas I had already stopped watching the Nostalgia Critic before #ChangeTheChannel happened, I loved the Cinema Snob for years (along with DVD-R Hell, Midnight Screenings, and most 80s Dan) and he introduced me to a whole lot of obscure weird shit I would've otherwise never heard of. I got to lol at porno spoofs I wouldn't have dared check out on my own and learn about disturbing/controversial films from the safety of my room, and he was one of the few people I knew who mocked bad religious films without bashing religion itself. To know that the same guy who chewed out the main lead of "Rock: It's Your Decision" for his homophobia and exposed the creepiness of Clay Walsh from "Old Fashioned" turned out to be a creep himself is so... heartbreaking.
Knowing Brad stayed with Doug and Rob on CA should've been the first warning sign, but I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. Then the more I learned about him (his broken friendships, the Logan Paul comment), the more my faith in him decreased. I unsubscribed from his channel beforehand, but this... this is officially the nail that breaks the coffin.
Never meet your heroes, kids. They'll only betray you in the end.
This hurts me more than when I learned Doug Walker was a clueless hypocritical jerk, tbh. Whereas I had already stopped watching the Nostalgia Critic before #ChangeTheChannel happened, I loved the Cinema Snob for years (along with DVD-R Hell, Midnight Screenings, and most 80s Dan) and he introduced me to a whole lot of obscure weird shit I would've otherwise never heard of. I got to lol at porno spoofs I wouldn't have dared check out on my own and learn about disturbing/controversial films from the safety of my room, and he was one of the few people I knew who mocked bad religious films without bashing religion itself. To know that the same guy who chewed out the main lead of "Rock: It's Your Decision" for his homophobia and exposed the creepiness of Clay Walsh from "Old Fashioned" turned out to be a creep himself is so... heartbreaking.
Knowing Brad stayed with Doug and Rob on CA should've been the first warning sign, but I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. Then the more I learned about him (his broken friendships, the Logan Paul comment), the more my faith in him decreased. I unsubscribed from his channel beforehand, but this... this is officially the nail that breaks the coffin.
Never meet your heroes, kids. They'll only betray you in the end.
