iilluminaughtii Exposed: The Dark Story Behind YouTube’s Worst Critic

[@KrazyCatQueen]

Can’t talk, inabber just dropped a 2 hour long video about a thing i have no knowledge of

[@iNabber]

it's what i do best!

[@caittails]

I envy you so much for being able to hear this from him first. 😂

[@lobotomizedvolvo240]

real asf

[@--Ch3rry-B1oss0m--]

You lucky bastard.

[@yukiandkanamekuran]

Inabber dropped a video about something i know too much about

[@lordfreerealestate8302]

Doxxing a suicidal man, calling the cops on him and saying he had a gun, leaking someone's suicide note - it's downright sociopathic. It's not uncommon for abusers to weaponize their victim's mental health against them - it has happened to me before.

[@annaamsden3754]

I wasn't prepared for how heartbreaking that portion of his video was... You are right, she is a monster for that.

[@jakdekayen]

I never leaked any personal notes, but calling the police on someone who is suicidal is the appropriate action I called the authorities on a man i used to speak to who threatened to kill himself and said he had a weapon to do it, when i turned him down If i hadn't called the cops he would have hurt himself very badly, because it turns out he really DID have a weapon and was about to do it when they broke down his door But i never leaked their personal info, thats disgusting. Edited to add: all I'm saying to people reading is, if you know someone who is ACTIVELY threatening to hurt themselves and claims to have a weapon DO contact emergency services!! Even if they didn't plan to actually do it, at least you can possibly save a life and set them on the road to get help, and have done your civil duty to report it and prevent it. It doesn't matter if they get mad at you, at least they are alive to BE mad. The man i spoke of, got help afterward and while i never spoke to him again, he was at least still alive. Just DON'T LEAK personal info to the internet, don't leak their goodbye note to anyone but the appropriate authorities, and don't make a post online to draw attention to their actions!!

[@tzcaptor108]

​@@jakdekayen telling the cops that someone has a weapon is a death sentence. Look up "suicide by cop"

[@tinykittenlollipop1]

@@jakdekayen Cute, and there was a situation where a mother called for her own son and they came out of the cars shooting at him and killing him. Telling any cop in the US that the person who is suicidal has a weapon, is ASKING for them to die by cop. So congrats! They'll either die by themselves or die by cop here in the US.

[@lisarodriguez6966]

​@@tzcaptor108 If someone is that intent on taking their own life, it will happen. You can't put that on the person that asked for a well check to take that responsibility. I've heard personal stories and none of them included guns out and drawn with the cops ready to take the life of someone they were called to check on. Statistically, suicide by cop is more utilized when a crime has been committed and the dude decides he's not ever gonna go back to prison. It's not on the person that notified out of concern.

[@chemystrypassionfyre729]

Hope ppl take notice that Blair who was nearly 30, invited her 18 or 19 yr old employee to come live with her and ultimately be financially dependant on her. Its a huge power move and extremely creepy

[@jnoelleart]

im waiting for people to make the “he’s an adult” excuse for this because they always say that when talking about age difference and power imbalances. yes legally 18+ is an adult but to me if your age still ends in “teen” you’re considered a child to me

[@nyxmacaulay666]

Hey, had this move pulled on me once, was a literal nightmare Edit Not as bad as wonder had it though, at least they weren’t my Bosses

[@storyranger]

Okay this is the first I am hearing of the age difference and honestly it makes everything 100x worse and it was already at Terrible Level 9000

[@BexxBott]

That’s actually vile that she failed to mention the MASSIVE age gap and clear power imbalance. Makes me feel sick that I was a fan for so long

[@hyldrklein451]

Wait. Omg. I guess it all flew over my head but yeah, that is messed up. I dunno about the other milkmen but Oz, Wonder, and Click. They're much younger than blair and would've been in their early, young adult ages during this time period. I remember Wonder saying that Blair was planning to get into real estate and her first would-be tenants were her "milkmen". Knowing what we know now, that just sounds so wrong.

[@allyssaward5691]

She made a calculated risk calling out a copyright lawyer's channel, and holy shit, she is bad at math

[@aegisScale]

She musta flunked Risk Pre-Calculus.

[@rachelellasmama]

I read that as "she's bad at meth." Well...

[@jelliekitty]

underrated

[@shilohhighland6716]

With Oz explaining what his role was for Blair on her online presence until Jan 2023, her online presence before and after make sense. So it is possible that Oz would have stopped her from blowing up at Legal Eagle if Blair was still living with him.

[@allyssaward5691]

@@shilohhighland6716 oh absolutely.

[@axolotlking1072]

She put his SUICIDE NOTE on screen... and still thought SHE was the good guy??????? She STOLE HIS STUFF. She ABUSED these people.

[@bensoncheung2801]

His stuff… in the *garbage!* My *_heart!!!_* 444 👍

[@izzyt1626]

That's not only disrespectful but a total breach of privacy. I hope he's doing better.

[@I_love_dr_stone]

hi blaire@@bensoncheung2801

[@blackghostart308]

And threw it all away, including a YT play button

[@talynhastime9343]

I was a fan of Blair, and I can't believe she turned out to be like this. I've seen some people say that they never bought into her because they got bad vibes from her, to which I say, please lend me those bad vibe senses because mine are broken. I fell for Creepshow Art and I fell for Blair's persona, probably because I like to give the benefit of the doubt since the world has enough of people being judged and pounced on for every little thing. But every single time I do, it turns out they were actually scumbags all along. I hate it.

[@Silvermoon424]

DUDE I'M THE SAME, I'm 0 for 2 now because I also fell for both Creepshow Art AND iilluminaughtii. I'm just very trusting, I guess.

[@dredgewalker]

You need to get exposed to these kinds of people in order for your instinct to learn. In my case I was exposed to dealing with a few criminals due to the nature of my family business and after some time I was tuned to figuring out if a person was no good. That vibe is your subconscious that has stored that experience warning you without you even thinking about it.

[@destrious8133]

It's insane, I fell for her (but not Creepshow, never liked her) and finding out she doesn't do anything but voice act her content and make all the money from it is crazy

[@Linnzy]

I wasn't a fan of CSA, I didn't know about her when she was big, but I was watching EmilyArtfull and Peaches, and that was how I then learned about CSA mostly through Emilys video about the her story and boy was that a ride to follow. I've been a fan of Blair for half a year or so and cinsumed basicallyneverything she posted. She seemed good, she was great to listen to and brought attention to things I didn't know about before. So when she first posted her own video about herself, her so called 'apology' video I was thinking, okay the ppl are going dramatic and over the top as usual. I felt bad for Blair, and was like, yeah things happen, people can fall out and such. There was one point in her videonshe sounded so genuine and almost started crying and so did I. I was gonna leave it at that and keep watching her but then, I got suggested other peoples videos about the topic and...well let's say I am no longer subscribed to Blair. I refuse to feel ashamed of being a 'fan' of her, I am dissapointed yes, but not ashamed.

[@mandymagnolia1966]

Don’t feel bad. I watched them both too til they got blown out of the water 😅 people online usually show a curated side of themselves, so there’s only so much you can do. I didn’t know anything about Sad Milk though. A really sad situation 😔

[@laurax1179]

Jeez you know your a horrible person when your flatmate’s therapist thinks they are better living in their car than in a house with you.

[@larissabrglum3856]

Seriously

[@meowJACK]

And if I recall correctly... It was the therapist SHE recommended him 🤣

[@ranm.6197]

​@@meowJACK yeah it was 🤣😭

[@fortunatecookie]

Scrolling through the comments before watching the video is wild

[@bariatric-parasite]

@@meowJACK yup and he lost his therapist bc she recommended her own therapist

[@HeisenbergFam]

Illuminaughti calling out a lawyer LegalEagle was a messy, not very bright move

[@jadesx96]

and only the tip of the heckin iceberg 💀

[@iNabber]

can we cook?

[@HeisenbergFam]

@@iNabber since you are a dope KZbinr, of course. Have a good one

[@allyssaward5691]

She fought the law, and the law won.

[@PurpleT3a]

Lol like what did she think would happen?

[@michakaikarsten7331]

The IRONY of her being like "why would anyone bring up the plagiarized video from 3 years ago" and then she turns around and pays people to dig up videos from like 2009

[@tiacat11]

Maybe that's what she meant. "Why would anyone bring up the plagiarized video from 3 years ago themselves when they could pay someone else and then make up an alt account to bring it up instead?"

[@AndSoWeLaughed]

Doesn’t it depend on when she sifted for the videos? 2009? I thought Sad Milk was recent? The screenshot says he said it on Sad Milk so I would assume she looked for it during the time it was said, or am I confused? Did she look for them recently but he said it ages ago? I think if she was a part owner in Sad Milk and someone did something offensive, your own dime, you’d investigate it. And you’d pay someone to investigate it. However, it seems like what happened was she knew it was said ages ago, and she’s now finding them ONLY to discredit him - am I correct?

[@milkywaycafe.]

​@@AndSoWeLaughed Im pretty sure the situations is that it was said a long time ago but she started digging for it recently

[@courtneyann4265]

If Blair was as good of an employer as she seems to believe, she would know that blasting a former employee’s mental health struggles is a huge no no. That alone should be enough to ruin her reputation

[@OrdinaryEXP]

It is a special kind of evil and pettiness to publicise the most stressed and sensitive moment of someone who has a complete trust on you as an attempt to drag them through the mud to save your own face. Blair is beyond sick and nasty, she is an outright sociopath.

[@feather9115]

In my country, you'd get a jail sentence for exposing an employees struggles with mental health. Totally insane and cruel of her to do that

[@KingRumar]

I mean she chastised corporations for doing this very thing so of course the one projecting has gotta wag her finger and hurl stones

[@lma6808]

It's illegal actually.

[@katrinascarlet5637]

​@@lma6808 well Wonder did say he was currently in suite involving her. I assumed it was just about his belongings in the car but I hope it includes this.

[@dieselpatches]

i just made a community post asking why she’s getting hate. thanks nabber.

[@dorkchops]

*TL;DR* she only followed the gaslight gatekeep and forgot girlboss

[@yeti7565]

@@dorkchopsthat’s like the best way I’ve ever seen anyone explain this situation

[@n0etic_f0x]

Yeah... it is really bad. Like... she is just a brutally cruel person. It was shocking to see her wrong on every single point she made regarding the controversy. It is rare to see someone just score no points at all and get dunked this hard.

[@iNabber]

hope you're keeping well mate

[@n0etic_f0x]

​@@dorkchops Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girl Fascism

[@Bulls_Aye]

A quick update: Blair sent a cease and desist to Wonderstruck and he is now considering legal actions. Things are definitely going to get worse.

[@jamielaporte6967]

Lmao can't wait for that to get discussed, probably the stupidest thing she could have done in this situation.

[@randomaccount64]

She is honestly so stupid. Her whole video was basically "how do I make myself look worse" yes I watched the whole thing and she just dug a grave big enough I'm surprised the world's still here

[@chaotic_racoon6944]

another update another creator called Onetopic involved in Sad Milk responded with his point of view

[@bjarked47]

Hope he gets legal eagel to represent him, just so the hole story reaches a full circle.

[@melanthahoang831]

Oz just got 1 too. Wonder also secured legal funds through gofundme

[@Taikofan04]

I’m autistic and I was absolutely pissed when I saw that illuminaughti, a person who most of us thought was on our side by making exposes on autism speaks, pretended to be autistic on an alternate Reddit account. We already have a tough time being heard by others so seeing this after thinking she was on our side made me so frustrated.

[@headman82]

Those videos are what made me like her channel. But now thanks to all this it has soured like milk

[@Taikofan04]

@@headman82 same here, I watched her on and off but I was introduced to her via these videos

[@32Theresa]

@@headman82some may even say… sad milk

[@fluidwolf]

Yeah honestly it feels incredibly scummy

[@headman82]

@@32Theresa that’s the joke

[@iank472]

What really bugs me is Blair made a public accusation but then made a private apology. That is the foundation of this entire mess. She's happy to embarrass or denigrate other publicly but not enough of an adult to admit fault herself publicly.

[@jubs96]

She does this ALL THE TIME

[@amandamandamands]

@@jubs96 Yep what she did to both r/slash and Cruel World Happy Mind that I know of, I don't doubt that she has done it to others too.

[@spuburq]

I'd understand if it was like how some people don't want their apologies/charity to seem performative, but considering her pattern of behaviour and general personality, it's clear that it was a decision to save face above all else

[@Necroxion]

She never apologized to the actual editor that she showed to the whole internet to drag, just LegalEagle

[@melloncoliee]

What did she do to rslash? That's new to me lol

[@ondine3335]

So she befriended this guy, hired him, got him to move to another state and stay in her house for 6 months with the goal of having him become her tenant, bought him a crazy expensive car that she dangled in front of him without actually giving him, and then took the car back when they fought knowing he was living in it? and he was... barely legal? And she was 11 years older than him? like what the fuck is going on there

[@JayEyedWolf]

Technically if I have the timeline right he only ended up staying a month, as he couldn't bear the living conditions. However, she did bait and switch him from staying in her own personal home (albeit owned by someone else) for only 2 months(? I think June or July to August) to staying in her personal home for 6 months (June/July to December). All in preparation for him to become her legal tenant in a house she owned.

[@Midorikonokami]

You forgot 'published his suicide note to the entire internet'

[@spicyramensnack4413]

@@Midorikonokami Wait, she did? Idrk much abt the situation and I'm watching the video rn but wtf

[@Midorikonokami]

@@spicyramensnack4413 yes. Wonderstruck's suicide note. For all the internet to see. And apparently we also recently found out she used the language in her ex boyfriend's suicide note to break up with him. He said so himself, so this is a behaviour pattern on her end.

[@ihsissmedeiros4482]

I'm late for this but the absolute low blow that it was talking about his dog. She is truly unhinged wtf. I truly hope Wonder is doing better for himself and his dog.

[@mac12196]

Any apology using phrases like “IF what I did MAY have hurt you/ feelings…” completely takes away from the apology itself. Takes all of the acknowledgment away

[@TheGustave03]

"I'm sorry you feel that way"

[@JoshSweetvale]

"I'm sorry I got caught."

[@gizmo_gadgets6482]

Exactly. Anyone that apologizes like that is making the victims feelings their own fault, not the perpetrators fault. A phrase that actually holds the perpetrator accountable is “To anyone that I’ve hurt, Im sorry” or “I’m sorry that I’ve hurt you”, etc. This puts the fault on the perpetrator.

[@morlath4767]

@@TheGustave03I'm a watcher of Mauler and the EFAP team, but this is one thing that absolutely pisses me off about him. It's in one of the very early EFAPs where he basically says this and the other guys are all on board with it.

[@Forestdude9000]

I can forgive an "if" as poor wording to separate the people being apologized to from the rest of the crowd, but "If I may have" is just avoiding responsibility.

[@reytheangel]

I was disgusted throughout the entire video. Mortified at her repossessing the car with ALL of his belongings. I have NO words for her posting his suicide note. I cannot fathom how Wonderstruck felt watching that. There is genuinely no coming back from that.

[@justaperson4656]

Don't forget her *showing his suicide note*

[@minikipp8549]

@@justaperson4656 in what world is that okay, like I Get you don't like the guy but where is your Basic Human Decency

[@justaperson4656]

@@minikipp8549 in blaires world it's okay apparently, she didn't give it a second thought. I guess she thought he isn't dead so it's fine? Disgusting imo.

[@liamlowenthal8476]

I get it, but from what I can see, she still owned the car due to lack of return payments. She paid for the car. She showed the receipts on that one. The rest, I don't know. He said, she said. Don't buy into that. Just be disgusted and unsub. That's all you need to do.

[@reytheangel]

@@liamlowenthal8476 the car isn’t the issue, it’s everything inside the car that he owned. said she’d give it back then ended up throwing away. As he explained he was in the process of moving, that’s really all he had

[@serentine7]

The weirdest part for me as a former casual fan of Blair was seeing her "exposed" video, listening to it and having no idea who any of the mentioned people were, and still leaving with a really bad taste in my mouth about Blaire and Blaire alone. The whole thing just gave me the ick. Who talks like that about anyone? Especially former friends and coworkers? "I regret ever being your friend" tell me you're deflecting without telling me girl

[@hashyashey]

I felt the exact same way, I saw her video before any of the other stuff and it left me feeling really uneasy and made me look deeper into the whole thing. Good to know my intuition was right

[@merissamakesstuff]

I was in the same boat. My initial comment was more sympathetic because I had was kinda lost and didn't want to be too critical. But when I read more comments from people who felt the same as me, I stated more what I thought and sought more context elsewhere. I think she should have just apologized for being a jerk. I'm sad because I used to watch most of her vids. I don't know if I want to support that now. I think I'm going to go watch the others videos.

[@amandaanstett6973]

I watched it before all the drama came out because of the legaleagle stuff, everything with Wonder.. I was like... why is this in here?? And at first, the comments were SO supportive of her.

[@cherrybomber69]

Same here, I was so confused during the entire video only knowing about the legal eagle stuff, and then grossed out when she started airing out wonders mental health stuff.. then I was recommended videos about what was going on and I was mindblown. I had no idea any of the drama, past and present had occurred. And no idea she was capable of such abuse towards Wonder and straight up slander on Click.

[@cherrybomber69]

​@@amandaanstett6973 I think when I watched it the top comment went something like "Im so sorry, it sounds like you were taken advantage of by a pack of wolves"

[@newtpollution]

The framing of Click as being some sort of pervert using Discord to create a grooming cult is so evil and disingenuous that that alone ought to end Blair's career. Accusations like that, yes, even ones that are disguised as "friendly concerns" can ruin peoples lives.

[@grapeicies]

Especially when you consider the fact that this 30 year-old, fiscally successful woman routinely brought

[@BexxBott]

As a mod in a streamers discord, you’re so right. Our discord is minuscule in comparison, but the streamer had to sleep sometimes :/ we’ve handled issues ourselves and reported it to the owner when she was actually awake. When I watched Click’s video, I could not believe how disingenuous Blair was about the situation. “With click knowing” that’s so wild. Click doesn’t deserve a label of assisting in predatory behavior, Blair does for having a barely legal kid living with her and being his boss.

[@LaMorenitaDivina]

Agreed. It’s such a deliberate choice here. It’s an accusation that nobody in their right mind would defend, and one that (rightly so, in the cases where it’s true) can stick forever and colour the rest of someone’s career and life prospects. It wasn’t just meant to hurt emotionally, it was meant to destroy him.

[@aliasilver_636]

Not entirely surprising since shes friends with people (thought slime, sophie from mars, kirachats (badbunny) etc) who have actively and to this day continued to assert another creator they dislike as a discord sex cult groomer. This was entirely baseless and utterly disproven years ago (link below for mobile fellows), but these are her friends (or at least associates), and she just so happens to use the same tactic as them? Link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIG6nJ6GaLGne80&pp=ygUYeGFuZGVyaGFsIHNleCBjdWx0IGRyYW1h

[@HoneyM1lkart]

Click is so pure I couldn't even imagine

[@camilleconner2832]

She seems like the kind of person that would send you a venmo request for 35 cents

[@erismason3441]

Or they'd invite you to dinner, split the check, then 3 weeks later Venmo you the cost of their meal. Then, when you were confused, they'd start spreading rumors about how awful you were, until you paid her.

[@caroltea862]

Lmao

[@fabh9674]

@@erismason3441that’s oddly specific. You ok, man?

[@bigslams7139]

​@@fabh9674he's going through somethings, let's just be there for him

[@erismason3441]

@@fabh9674 no lol. Based on a true story.

[@llammb]

I was a huge fan of Blair, I watched all of her MLM videos but then a couples months in I started realize how big of a victim blammer she is and how awful she talks about people for no reason

[@astranaut3967]

I unsubscribed from her when it was revealed to the general public how bad immigrant children being detained at the border was. Blaire's words "I am sick of hearing people whining about kids in cages, America is a pretty awesome country" 🤮🤮🤮 I was out.

[@IsaRican810]

@@astranaut3967She said that?!!?!? And she’s on a podcast called the leftist mafia 🤣😭 that’s wild.

[@sporkstress2468]

Same! Absolutely wild to see all of this stuff come out.

[@asscheeks3212]

​@@IsaRican810 makes sense when you think about it deeply

[@iluVioletLink]

I saw her being recommend to me left and right for these recent months, never heard about her until then. Only watched her Temu video and thought "oh it's a KZbinr talking about greedy corporations" And then this whole thing exposed this mf being a greedy corporation herself

[@marykateandnoashley]

Having dealt with people like her in my life who just get away with it, coupled with the fact that she does not write, research, edit, or draw ANY OF HER OWN CONTENT, this is so satisfying to see.

[@BlueFlames094]

She doesn’t do any of those things?! Omg I thought she did everything with her videos. That’s crazy.

[@reyrats]

I KNEW ITTT. I always thought she recited her lines like she wasn’t 100% sure how they were meant to be read, like she didn’t come up with them

[@unapologeticallyb5068]

I'm so confused on how she got so popular

[@Wil_does_stuff]

@@unapologeticallyb5068 The writers, editors, and artists are good and the content is really clean and well-made

[@clownEfactory]

@@BlueFlames094 She got her start literally just reading Reddit posts. Come on now.

[@tired1923]

tbh Blair being an aspiring landlord just makes so much sense

[@urheehoo]

don't wanna assume anything but it seemed very cult-y /gen 😬

[@ryancasey919]

Omg it really does I didn’t think about it like that 😂😂😂😂

[@AsterisSleeping]

The way I almost choked from laughing when I saw this. Honestly if I could high five you I would.

[@melhinojos7540]

DEAD ASS i was like damn...it makes sense now

[@kiralonely]

LMAO the fact I didn’t realize this until now. Fr though, big yikes.

[@Evistopheles]

I like drama but I don’t like being involved so here’s some frog facts: - frogs can stick to walls through sheer power of will - frogs can temporarily fly because of their strong legs but not all of them - some frogs probably like salami - if you look at a frog, it’s highly likely that it’s visible - if you hear a frog make a sound, it means that they wanted to sing a song

[@littlemy1773]

Pmsl 🤣 thanks 😊

[@Xil_Gon_Give_It_To_Ya]

Thank you, my sir, for the frog facts I should add that some frogs are so tiny that they're... unorthodox flyers? Like, they've got the take off down, but almost never stick the landing.

[@alim.9801]

Thank you, these are good facts and I will be collecting them

[@ITSAMEAUTOMA]

Tysm

[@duckduckmoose9487]

Adding my own frog fact: there's a species of frog that can jump but can almost never land so they just kinda like, ragdoll their way through life

[@lenorapaige7028]

I commented on one of her videos once, nothing argumentative or confrontational at all and the abuse she gave me for it was unbelievable. She was awful, and went straight in to vile personal attacks on myself and my children. I don't even remember what I said but it wasn't even argumentative, mean or trolling. I unsubscribed and requested her videos no longer be recommended to me. I'd binged her for hours and was a huge fan. I was gutted. I still don't even understand what I said that warranted it.

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Egotism, deflection, etc. Likely had nothing to do with you or what you said.

[@NemesisNoodle]

Same! She's a total psycho lol.

[@beckycarlson1957]

That’s horrible. Don’t usually wish bad

[@AWindy94]

Why do so many of us have this kind of experience with her... That's relatively alarming... She also made really nasty replies to me as well and that was when I unsubed. I used to really love her content too I came across her not long after I'd almost joined a MLM, and her content made me feel secure in following my gut on that. As the phrase goes though, a broken clock can still be right twice a day.

[@abigailpena5950]

I used to be a long-term fan, but now I'm terrified to even dare to comment on one of her videos

[@lavenderbakery4184]

this video going from "accusing someone of plagarism for something stupid" to "accusing someone of being a pedophile enabler" to *"stealing from a homeless man"* is something that i did NOT expect

[@wilkinscoffee4228]

It get's worse :D

[@ereristark425]

@@wilkinscoffee4228 it gets worse??????????

[@CMAsketchy]

​@@ereristark425 she is planning on suing wonder now lol.

[@whitneyd6827]

@@CMAsketchy lmao for what, defamation? "He retaliated when I defamed him so everyone unsubscribed from my channel!" Ok hon

[@ann-mariepaliukenas19]

What proof is there of these allegations?

[@aacsmiles]

What gets me about her “apology” video is her martyr tone. “I’m so sorry for things I did, but here’s a 10 minute explanation as to why it’s not really my fault. And here’s a bunch of out-of-context reasons the people accusing me are bad people and deserve the things I did to them anyway. Woe is me!”

[@yeetmeat2734]

I thought I was the only one to pick it up lol. It sounds like she's trying to convince us that she's the holy saint who's the victim of these horrible people in her friend group, and that she's done nothing wrong in the slightest. "I know I did a oopsie-daisy, but nobody is there for me! Oh, boohoo! My friends only take advantage of me!" In reality, she's the sole problem for everyone she was friends with and has done nothing but tear them down.

[@setodd2098]

Yup when a "but" follows an apology is not a genuine apology. Someone is not truly acknowledging their actions but is focusing on justifying it existing their actions with the but. 🙄

[@AlexBooks13]

So, I accidentally got to seeing people commenting about that video on twitter, went to watch it, and, despite not knowing ANYTHING about her before or ANYTHING else, the video made me super uncomfortable both because of the tone you mention but also how she just went and talked about PRIVATE PERSONAL MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OF SOMEONE and for fucks sake that was enough for me to just... But hey at least I found some new youtubers to follow when they covered her, like iNabber lol

[@DrakeDraco2000]

That's textbook Narcissistic Personality Disorder for you! The only modes Narcissists have are The Saint ("I did _all_ the work") and The Victim ("Nobody _ever_ helped me"), sometimes at the same time -- they will deny any reality in which they are The Bad Guy to the point of gaslighting, and sooner double-down than give a genuine apology when the gaslighting fails and they're presented with hard evidence that they did anything wrong. "Obviously _I_ can't be The Bad Guy, because the person _accusing me_ is The Bad Guy for _defaming_ me! How _dare_ they hold a grudge and air out my dirty laundry on a public forum, rather than just talk to _me_ about it (even though they've tried and I've shut the conversation down)! And just to prove _they're_ The Bad Guy --" followed by recollection of completely unrelated incidents, stored as ammo over years to be siloed when it comes time to attack someone else's "credibility", all the while claiming they're just defending themselves. To quote The Narcissist's Prayer: "That didn't happen. But if it _did_ [...] it wasn't my fault, but if it _was_ I didn't mean it, but if I _did,_ then you deserved it."

[@maniaclaugh]

The way she speaks is definitely something she perfected in front of a mirror. She doesn't sound sad, she sounds like an actor reading her lines.

[@remuskitty8686]

i feel it important to point out that in Swedish [clicks native language] the r slur is not considered bad, as soon as he found out its not ok in English he stopped

[@szatan9717]

Oh yeah that's the entire point against Blaire's accusations. As a person whose first language isn't english either i didn't even know what the n-word was for a long time. Similiarly with a lot of words that aren't school textbook stuff. So Click not knowing this in 2011/2012 isn't suprising at all. And as a teenager? Like come on, of course teens use words they don't understand if they think they have a vague idea, even in their native languages

[@fabh9674]

I’m autistic and I personally find it really weird how hard she went at him for it. Like I don’t even get that offended over that thing. The entire time I was like “…who cares?”

[@szatan9717]

@@fabh9674 same, it just feels very nitpicky to act this seriously about it. Especially when it's neurotypical people lol

[@brodiemorris2081]

have you even looked at her channel? 90% of her videos are just being offended because something didn’t fit “the message”

[@KuroNoUsagi]

"So regarding all the accusations against me, I really hope this other person has learn from their mistakes and becomes a better person" that is the resume of her "apology"

[@valevargas4173]

fr

[@emmestein]

Haha yes so true

[@OrdinaryEXP]

-their mistakes- *their "mistakes" (I fabricated to make them look bad)

[@goof421]

ok but she literally stole Wonder's property???? and threw it in the TRASH??? all that valuable shit, those play buttons??? unforgivable, I would've sued.

[@lightworthy]

based on other comments i’ve seen, i believe he actually is. he had a go fund me for legal fees and i believe the missing items were mentioned as a part of that

[@DyslecticAttack]

Even before this he seems to have had a small claims issue against her running. But since the legal system was backed up for 2 years, it hasn't made much progress. I haven't spend much attention to the exact items, but they amount to basically most of his clothes, his 2 play buttons, 800 dollars of recording equipment, a PlayStation, his skateboard, and a bunch more. The legal fees mentioned by Kyra are to fight her Cease and Desist notice, since he was forced into an NDA when leaving the company. And he refuses to stay quiet when she brings up his mental health, his finances, his life (with fairly transparent malicious reasons), while she leaves out all of her significant involvement and while she forces him to essentially shut up with shady contracts.

[@aval8548]

@@lightworthy i hope Legal Eagle is his lawyer tbh

[@AngelDame17]

@@aval8548 Sounds like the case wouldn't be in his Skillset, but I bet Legal Eagle knows a good buddy he can refer to Wonder

[@averyfields8183]

Tbh, I would probably have put her stuff in a box and put it near the curb.

[@ms.annthropic6341]

Blair: The thing I did that you have a problem with happened 3 years ago! Also Blair: This other creator said/did something problematic 12 years ago - CANCEL THEM!!

[@GogiRegion]

She literally found stuff so old that Click has doubled in age since some of it.

[@Pihsrosnec]

@@Raya-ir4tm not to mention on the scale of nono words, retarded is pretty mid. it even being a slur is a contentious point, and that's by todays standards. in 2009 it probably wasn't even on most people's radars as possibly being problematic, let alone someone that wasn't even familiar with english.

[@feather9115]

Also, just the fact that the click has completely changed his behaviour and is extremely inclusive totally cancels it out for me

[@tealablu3759]

@@feather9115 for me it’s the fact that they literally had to dig around to find it, and he has apologized for it, and English was in his first language, and he was learning from sources that were likely using language like that (which doesn’t excuse it, but it certainly explains how he got it!). And HE APOLOGIZED AND CHANGED HIS HABITS (yelling at the situation, not at you)

[@Necroxion]

Meanwhile Blair herself made fun of Tipster's mental health on livestream As an adult Although I find the one where she and her friend made fat jokes about Tipster worse. Not because it was fat jokes, but because they sold merch about those fat jokes and Blair later deleted Tommy C's videos because his editor made a fat joke of the exact same friend that made fat jokes about Tipster Blair. Herself. Deleted someone's livelihood. Because his editor. Made fat jokes. About her friend. Who made fat jokes and merch about fat jokes about someone else. On livestream.

[@chthonickore]

Listen I've written an 8000 word dissertation, she plagiarized. You're 100% right, she's taking his words as her own and not citing it when needed. If this was an academic setting, she would have been reprimanded for it.

[@chelsey8737]

100%. I got my ba in dec and if I had done that "citing" during an essay, I definitely would've gotten a strongly worded email telling me to redo it immediately or face academic consequences

[@michellejelencic5493]

I was looking for comments like this and I love it. she's basically making the argument (in an academic setting) that you would only need a works cited page instead of an in text citation highlighting the location and crediting the author. this is a textbook plagiarism

[@ginad70]

I think it's something also to note, Blair went after Click for things he said when he was a teenager - a teenager still actively learning English! How a Swedish boy, learning the English language in his teens, is supposed to know American negative connotations in the English language is beyond me. She is taking advantage of that fact and vilifying it. My boyfriend is Swedish; I am American. He is not a teenager, but he still needs some things explained about the English language. It's not like they have a class of "don't say these negative English words because, in America, it's viewed negatively." And when you are a teen on the internet, you hear and repeat things. Once Click found out how the words are used to harm people, he stopped using them. Blair knew that, took advantage of it, and made a fake profile to spread her agenda - disgusting behavior.

[@oofuwu2666]

Thats actually a really good point!!

[@midnight4685]

Even as a native English speaker, the teens I knew that many years ago and even recently are all too willing to throw around the R slur. One even expressed confusion in a class when he used it and the teacher told him not to say that about his friend, just call them an idiot instead, and even he didn't understand why it was a problem. It's certainly not good, and 'everyone's doing it' isn't usually a defence, but if even many English-speaking teens are using it with no weight behind it, why would a non-native English speaker know that most people outside of his own demographic (teenager) consider it to be such a heinous word?

[@valentinmitterbauer4196]

Throwback to the time when i (austrian, no native english speaker) shot around the australian equivalent of the n-word because i assumed it's the normal term, since the australians i knew used it so casually.

[@MsSteelphoenix]

Also, the severity of slurs/insults/curse words varies even within native English speakers (eg. 'bastard' isn't really an insult in Aus/NZ but it's definitely one in the UK).

[@fingerboxes]

Sometimes words that are slurs in one English-speaking country aren't slurs in another. This came as a shock to me when I went to Great Britain and casually referred to my foster parents, who were from India and Pakistan, as Pakis. This is apparently as bad as the n-word is in the US. People were shocked at it and were like "I thought that that was someone you LIKED" and I'm like "Yeah, they're my family" and the responses was "that doesn't mean you can go around calling them that!" In the US, "Paki" is just used as shorthand to distinguish between Indian meaning someone from India and Indian meaning "Columbus was a dingus" indigenous Americans. Anyone who has spent time in Desi communities will know that that's how the word is used here because you hear it all the time. That's probably because there are about as many of each kind of "Indians" in the US. In the UK there are virtually no indigenous Americans (a few thousand at most) but plenty of people from India because it used to be owned by Britain and so there, Paki has become a slur.

[@mossalto]

Accusing a copyright lawyer of plagiarism over a video effect was a truly galaxy brained move, but I don't think any of us could have seen where that would lead us, and especially that it might all start with a surprise elbow-drop from hbomberguy of all people

[@amusingmoose9924]

I swear, he had that clip on file.

[@astarryeyedgirl]

What's really wild is that her downfall didn't occur because that lawyer sued her!

[@The_Red_Scare]

Fitting that his name is hbomberguy. He basically dropped an h bomb on her.

[@lordjustinian2913]

Let's just say he did have that clip on file because he did his own anti vax debunking video where he went through all of Andrew Wakefield's story and John Deer is the guy who did an investigation into some of the abuses that Wakefield committed on autistic children as part of a study which was designed to find out about a fake bowel disease that somehow causes autism in children. So he definitely had that clip on file.

[@fortunatecookie]

Finally, all that deep research pays off for him

[@trashcan1741]

I used to be a huge fan because my entire family has been a victim to mlms. One day, she decided to publicly post and shame a fellow fan who asked really nicely if she was going to continue her most popular series (the mlm series). She was experiencing burnout which is okay but she publicly shamed the poor person on her community tab. The fan even said they really loved her videos and didn’t mind if the answer was no! She just cried victim. And when all the comments were saying “hey Blair, this isn’t the take you think it is” SHE IGNORED THEM. If it’s still up, idk, but she also only liked the comments defending her for being a shit person. Mind you this happened in like 2021/2022-ish!

[@tealablu3759]

Wow. Come to think of it, I was kind of confused as to why she hadn’t done any MLM stuff in a while. That’s what drew me into her channel. And that’s definitely not how to treat a fan

[@chuuchuru2806]

she also did the same thing with a fan who asked if she was going to continue her Reddit content before she changed her style to focus more on mlms at the time! This was closer to 2020 though and she has since deleted the post

[@trashcan1741]

@@chuuchuru2806 I think that’s what I’m referring to! She always did r/antimlm so I got those two confused!

[@chuuchuru2806]

@@trashcan1741 it would make sense! it would've been truly insane if she pulled the same stunt twice lmao

[@bariatric-parasite]

yeah that and her ignoring audience's telling her spons are not good like bite, better help, smile direct, etc and she had more sponsors with them and her dollskill video was extremely weird bc she focused on the fact that some teens buy the clothes so they shouldn't sell adult clothing ? odd

[@johnnypreer5276]

it started as a fun, anti-mlm channel. I caught on to the super-consistent uploading and soulless shit a few months down the line, and lost interest when i started getting the “here’s why this harmless thing is actually evil” vibes, and given that her whole character is based on “moral high ground” while throwing the amount of stones she does, this type of ending isn’t too surprising.

[@pinkiepielunagirls4541]

i had the same story! i enjoyed her anti mlm videos but i started getting "holier than thou" vibes as well as "here's why this thing was evil all along" vibes, which kind of annoyed me. also every time i watched one of her videos youtube would flood my recs with her afterwards because of how often she uploaded

[@johnnypreer5276]

@@pinkiepielunagirls4541 exactly right. knowing who she is now, she probably was running out of content ideas and spun a wheel to see who she was throwing under the bus for whatever reason that day. Went from a decent channel to an actual outrage factory. Glad to see this is how it ends for her shitty channel. Painting someone as bad as possible for the sake of content is par for her narcissistic course it seems, friends and family included.

[@asteroidrules]

@@pinkiepielunagirls4541 It also became really obvious that the priority was quantity over quality. At least half of the "MLM" companies she made videos about weren't actually MLM companies.

[@unclewiley1986]

I also started watching her mlm videos but she made a video on something i was familiar with and her phrasing of it was off so I dropped off her channel. It's been a while so I can't remember what video it was😂

[@xanderjarvis]

I thought I as the only one who thought this lol. At some point, it seemed like she stopped trying to give any kind of commentary because she would post videos about things that are serious issues, like the troubled teen industry, and just spend the entire video saying "idk I just think it's awful"

[@hbmcu24]

1:51:00 My jaw LITERALLY dropped when you said she showed Wonder's s*****e note. This is like the 5th video on this situation I've watched and no one else has mentioned that. Everything else I saw was really bad behavior on Blair's part, but that is a truly disgusting breach of trust-- it's the thing the made me immediately grab my computer and unsubscribe, because no amount of good content is worth supporting that. Clearly she meant a lot to Wonder at one point, or else she wouldn't have been able to gain so much control over his life-- imagine someone you believed to be your friend firing you for not meeting a deadline that hadn't even passed, repossessing your car in which she knew you were living, and to top it all off, displaying your most vulnerable moment on screen for millions of people to see in order to make you look like the villain in her story. Disgusting. (PS top-tier content as always iNabber)

[@eliontheinternet3298]

For REAL, I am… flabbergasted? I don’t even have a word for this. Who the actual f*** does that.

[@meowJACK]

Good lord. The more little details like this that I discover about the situation just make me increasingly sick to my stomach. Blair is seriously a sick and twisted person. Truly disgusting, the things she does to people. Wonder in particular - there's such a MASSIVE list of absolutely horrible things she has done to him and I can't seem to find even the slightest reason WHY she has gone out of her way to do him SO dirty in so many different ways, like wtf is wrong with her?!?

[@bariatric-parasite]

her story with wonder, even told from her perspective, is so holier than thou to me like it sounds like she was trying to parent him, someone she knows is vulnerable, and got mad when he didn't adjust fast enough ? and the amount of personal and unnecessary details was a trash move. she needs to reflect because just because you believe your actions are justified, you need to self reflect at some point.

[@thisisanaussiegal3590]

I was heart broken watching Wonder respond to the abuse inflicted on him by Blair... I don't think he actually realises how abused he was and is by her.

[@gisellereyna7327]

Omg mine did too, I gasped

[@bbasilgaming]

i feel so bad for Oz. he was clearly so manipulated into siding with Blair and i feel just. awful for him. he lived with Blair, that must have been hell

[@spoopyvirgil4944]

At least Oz seems to be in a better place now and the Click gave him a bit of light when he came out and discussed everything. Oz's apology for his naivety in Click's comment section seemed much more genuine then Blair's "apology" video tbh.

[@maryrose9292]

I'm glad Oz and Wonder talked about everything because they used to have a great friendship (Wonder mentions this in his video). Oz has been with Blair for longer and I think he was manipulated the most, even ruining his friendship with Wonder. She got him totally isolated.

[@tinykittenlollipop1]

I felt so bad too for him and still do too. Oz was equally manipulated by her and emotionally abused by her. And yet, he feels so guilty for it all. I'm glad he realizes his part and has apologized for his part and seems to be mending things even within himself. I'm hoping this helps him heal too along with everyone else. They all deserved so much better. They are all good people. And I hope Oz can learn to forgive himself because he was also a victim of hers and doesn't need to blame himself.

[@katherinemani6458]

I honestly have a question about Blair and oz did they date or how did they even come to even live together?

[@boocrimson7720]

Sounds like poor Oz trauma-blanked a fair few things too cause he mentioned not remembering a whole lot throughout comments on the responses. Makes me sad for he and Wonder. Click and OT and Salty too but I'm also glad they didn't get roped into her "mess of a hype house attempt" cause Oz and Wonder went through some shit with her

[@Goosebumpy]

It makes me so sad that Blair used wonders biggest fear as a way to make him seem like a freeloader or burden… that’s so disgusting and abusive.

[@studiostyx7075]

I've been the Wonder friend at my lowest point in my 20s and am still traumatized by the way certain people disguised as friends extended help I would gratefully accept, only for them to use it against me.

[@aphrojitex8972]

Okay so as a neurodivergent person who’s endured a lot of childhood trauma/abuse, I cannot stress enough that explaining yourself can definitely be a big part of apologies. They’re not just utilized the way Blair did. I honestly didn’t know there were people who used this to manipulate so I’m appalled. From my experience, you typically feel like that’s the least you can give those involved, rather than only saying you’re sorry. Almost like an addition to “I’m sorry for…” however, what Blair did doesn’t fall in this category. She quite literally demonized anyone holding her accountable. I truly think she ruined the processing of what many people consider a genuine apology.

[@chaoticneutrality]

What has upset me as a neurodivergent person is seeing her use ablelist terms in their videos furthering harmful stereotypes of neurodivergent people. My friend once emailed her letting her know that the terms are harmful and iilluminaughtii kept using them in future videos and never responded. Now seeing her talking about someone elses mental health is upsetting but unfortunately not surprising.

[@linniebee]

@@chaoticneutrality she has a fake account acting as an autistic kid to bully other creators too. its insane. click showed it in his video too

[@saucefreakystyle]

THANK YOU, I was really put off by how over explaining was treated as an objectively manipulative thing

[@gh0stz_z1p]

I am a Neurodivergent as well and illuminaughtii just appeared on my page for the talk about Autism speaks and i thought she was trustable since i don’t know what is Ableist or not. I really thought she was trusting, Turns out no. A Big liar and Manipulator. I hope she will never appear on youtube again. And as well i also feel very bad for the victims who were Mentally Hurt, and emotionally by her. Hope she gets invited to the deepest pits of Hell.

[@QuikVidGuy]

If anything, an explanation is usually pretty vital in demonstrating that you know what you did wrong and why it's wrong. And depending on how you explain yourself the other people can tell if you actually understand or not

[@softwaifu]

Showing someones sui- note without their consent should be an automatic channel takedown, but maybe thats just me

[@meep_maap0007]

i wholeheartedly agree. that is not for her to show off as “proof”

[@erismason3441]

Yes, 100%. Failed the bare minimum empathy check, off the platform you go.

[@MouseofMischief]

You are right, 100%. Sui*ide is no joke, and someone elses attempt should never be talked about or exploited without permission

[@czmc]

She literally TRAUMATIZED Oz. He can’t even remember a lot of the shit that happened. That is a crazy scenario to find yourself in, but the fact that Oz tried to mediate the whole time and just got shit on by Blair…

[@derpleyew]

Blair’s idea of plagiarism is like if a newspaper tried to accuse another newspaper of plagiarism for using the same font.

[@Aetharn]

Think you're funny? You're plagiarising my comments. Your comments have the exact same font as mine, so i'm sorry to say i have reported you to youtube.

[@derpleyew]

@@Aetharn exCUSE me?! You cannot just plagiarise my comment by using an apostrophe and a full stop to punctuate your comment. I will be speaking with the United Nations about this. You crossed a line!!!

[@gkarenko9593]

I own the rights to any reference to lines. My people will be contacting you.

[@Bjorksbackyard]

You’re all making these comments on KZbin, which I also have, therefore you’re all getting sued.

[@derpleyew]

@@Bjorksbackyard you can’t speak in first person tense and not expect me to not sue you for defamation

[@GTaichou]

Not only did she show the sui- note in her video, she put it in a Google File, linked to it in the video description, and it's just THERE for anyone and everyone to DOWNLOAD AND SHARE. Like WTF

[@makingmanagingmoney]

That is so horrible. It breaks my heart.

[@dlo111]

Holy S‰it3 that is horrific!

[@alim.9801]

That is so fcking nasty.

[@JoshSweetvale]

That sort of chicanery isn't just evil. It's also dumb.

[@raven_moonshine39]

I'm honestly getting to the point where if someone's defense starts with a definition, I'm done listening to them. If the only way you can think to defend yourself is to argue about semantics then you're already missing the point of what you did wrong.

[@pennyw2226]

yeah like definitions have no place in an APOLOGY VIDEO. I'd understand if you're trying to educate someone in like an actual documentary but she just talks like every manipulative person ever and it's so gross to me

[@AshleyYelsha]

RIGHT

[@tealablu3759]

I was about to argue with you, but you’re absolutely right. If the semantics of the word is what makes or breaks your argument, and you have to start off by explaining the exact definition of where you are not in the wrong, then you’re kind of garbage in that situation 😬

[@atomhearts]

i think onision even did this at times, to try and prove why some of what he was doing wasn't scummy and irredeemable. it just doesn't sit right when you, as you mentioned, use semantics

[@raven_moonshine39]

@@atomhearts yeah, it was actually his trying to argue about the definition of groomer that first made me start getting leary of semantics based arguments. Like, you're not proving anything, you're just digging yourself into a deeper hole.

[@wicewispies]

please dont ever be exposed to be problematic you’re the only commentator i have left 😭

[@Metguy123]

To be fair this goes beyond problematic

[@swiftlyaswiftie]

Him and pinely are all we've got left

[@imaginary92]

J Aubrey?

[@Broeckchen]

@@imaginary92 Yes, thank you! Also, every commentary youtuber will eventually be exposed for *something* . It comes with the territory and the medium. You can't perfectly research the absolute objective truth, and criticizing other humans while being one yourself is bound to create a hostile situation or accusations of hypocrisy at some point or other. Don't ever put your creators on a pedestal. They're humans, and all humans are idiots sometimes. You just need to consider how much and what kind of idiotry you're fine with in a creator whose content you consume. And what kinds of support you want to withhold from one you feel disappointed by. Is an adblocker while watching enough for you? Do you not want them to have the views and watchtime? Or would you rather stick to calmly critical comments in the hopes that this might make them grow and change?

[@-user_redacted-]

​@@swiftlyaswiftie Jarvis is pretty wholesome, I think he's fine.

[@YennaAvyeon]

As a long time viewer of the Click, that video on the situation was heartbreaking. Especially when he realized the lengths she went through to harass him.

[@chaoticdusk1316]

The sheer heartbreak in his voice and on his face when he talked about the alt made me want to cry. He'd been so composed throughout the whole video then he cuts in to add what he'd newly discovered with the alt and you can just hear how broken he felt. Really its the sort of expression and tone that I never thought I'd hear from him.

[@GogiRegion]

@@chaoticdusk1316 He is so stoic when it comes to shitty people on the internet, too. Like, the only time I think I’ve seen him that broken up was with the Established Titles scam. Normally he doesn’t show it on screen, so you know it had to be some of the worst he’s seen.

[@vintagearisen]

Yeah, I felt really bad for him. His online persona is so sunny and positive and he maintained it pretty well even in that video until he got to that part where he was talking about her cyberbullying him through a proxy account. I can't imagine the depth of betrayal there. Just... like, all the other stuff is already SO BAD but to then anonymously cyberbully someone you once considered a friend? That's a level of low, vindictive cruelty I just find utterly unforgivable.

[@versebuchanan512]

I can't believe she invented highlighting text in a word doc on screen.

[@kelly-alec]

english teachers around the world seething

[@rinapop2681]

Putting all of this into context creates a deeply upsetting image of blair. Shes clearly a very manipulative and nasty person. Her response video is rage inducing.

[@ZorotheGallade]

She's gone full damage control, but the fact she obsessively defends every single one of her actions while never admitting even a shred of responsibility just digs her grave deeper.

[@rleering4204]

I used to be a fan of hers, but the bitter/negative undertone of her videos put me off. Glad to see I listened to my instincts.

[@rachelhansen2417]

This is the reason why I stopped watching her, too!

[@DrawciaGleam02]

I..had trouble detecting that bitter undertone. I also heard her voice was boring to some people and I didn't get that from her either..... I feel a little stupid....

[@restingsithface]

Yeah, she was always very smug and condescending. Bothered me too. Very holier than thou, much like how Creepshow was.

[@RandomPasser]

​@@DrawciaGleam02 don't get too down on yourself! Some people have the ability to sense this type of thing and others pick it up from life experiences. It also doesn't help that she was a master manipulator as well.

[@ianisblue]

this!! thats exactly why i never really got into her videos

[@acidicanus3318]

"you always make me out to be the bad guy" my guy... if you are being called the bad guy by multiple people time and time again... you might be the bad guy

[@JennzOrs]

is it me? am I the drama? I don't think I'm the drama

[@ozpin8329]

As my dad used to say, if you smell shit everywhere you go, check the bottom of your shoe

[@kiralonely]

I know a similar quote. “If you meet one asshole while out and about, then you met one asshole. If everyone you meet are assholes, YOU’RE the asshole.”

[@DelusionaGrandeur]

An old redneck comedian (Ron White) had a bit like that too: "At what point do you go '..Maybe it's me? I seem to be the only common denominator in this math equation!"

[@exhaustedbaking]

Looking at Blair's track history, I believe that her attack on Legal Eagle was for the same reason she's lashed out before: jealousy. She felt threatened by another KZbinr and wanted to try and destroy him with her usual underhanded tactic - except this time not only was her 'evidence' weaker than wet tissue paper, but she'd targeted someone who wouldn't bow down out of fear. And now, of course, her bullying has finally backfired on her. All because of a piss-poor attempt to make herself feel big.

[@thelocalcrusader9522]

mfw she targets a lawyer with tactics that usually involve some threat of legal action

[@gcolombelli]

Let's hope she learns something positive from this ego check.

[@brianm.595]

That "exposed" video illuminaughty put out was the straw that made me unsubscribe her channel. It was like, "I'm not going to air dirty laundry... here is the dirty laundry" like what? Then to put that guys note up where he is clearly borderline on the edge of life and death onscreen. Nope. Can't do that. After listening more intently to all the claims and then getting some context from the other people involved, she was basically laying out half truths and not fully disclosing realities that made her look bad. Like you repossessed that guys car and threw out his youtube play button? Clearly just being vindictive. Also why did you buy a guy with essentially not enough income a $42,000 car instead of a 10k used but good beater? I suspect to have more control over the guy.

[@meowJACK]

"I'm not going to air dirty laundry... Here is the dirty laundry. I'm sorry if I maybe hypothetically hurt anybody, but it's everybody else's fault. The things I'm accused of happened 3 years ago and I was having a hawrd time and feewing sad. Also the person who accused me of doing a bad thing said edgy words 14 years ago so they're a bad person and what I did was no big deal"

[@Necroxion]

Never mind her segment on Click Even without Click's response where it all happened in 10 minutes while he was asleep, it still says, at best, that Blair had evidence of grooming and did nothing about it for years

[@Heretowatchvideos123]

Also doesn't help that she outed his suicide note and called the police on him for holding a deadly weapon without telling the police that he's gonna shoot himself

[@thisisanaussiegal3590]

I only discovered this drama when it was suggested yesterday. I had been subbed to Blair for about a year as I liked her content. After watching her video I unsubbed due to her statements about Wonder and Click's statements (keeping in mind I had no idea of the situation or the other creators when I watched her video). Even just watching her video I left her channel as I wasn't going to endorse her behaviour by subbing. I then - out of curiosity- went on to watch Click and Wonder's videos. I am heart broken for Wonder and disgusted at Blair for Click.

[@melchol2121]

@@thisisanaussiegal3590 same I just unsubscribed, I dont understand how she still has over 1M subs still

[@lydrowl]

I used to watch Blair, I dont anymore, I actively avoid her videos and I unsubbed. I at first stupidly believed her but quickly snapped out of it once I realized she literally leaked a man's suicide post to her. Like, what is wrong with you Blair?

[@beepatpen]

I really enjoyed her breakdowns of MLMs, Autism speaks and PETA but then her content just wore me down and I felt like it was making me more negative and haven't watched her since, I didn't think that she was terrible or anything, just didn't want that energy in my life, but now in glad I did that.

[@liamlowenthal8476]

That's good. I don't care if you hate her or not, but I'm pretty happy you are one in apparently 100 that actually left. A lot of people are still going on her channel to yell at her, which makes zero sense to me. "I hate you! Let me increase your view count and stay subbed so I know when you post so I can tell you how much I hate you!". That.. is just insane to me.

[@TitaniumTurbine]

@@liamlowenthal8476 Hey wait a minute… to have had to have seen those comments on her videos, you would have had to have clicked on the video, counting as a view… 😂 Only messing with you.

[@GogiRegion]

@@liamlowenthal8476 To be fair, if you don’t actually watch the video it doesn’t increase video performance. Commenting does, though.

[@Jess-iq1bw]

​@@beepatpen yeah I like those videos too and the Ronald Reagan one. I did enjoy her contact, it's a shame she's a wolf in sheep's clothing.

[@daintybeigli]

If Blair hadn’t released the “exposed” video, I wouldn’t have known of any concerns. I would have remained subbed and kept watching the occasional video of hers. But the truth will out and now I don’t support her anymore. The way she treats people is unacceptable to me.

[@MissCaraMint]

Yeah. The other’s wouldn’t have made videos responding to her accusations of them if she hadn’t made her video. Click originally made ha tweet thread to put publically put distanse betweeen them so people would stop salong him about her. He had no intention of it going further. Sure it ended up giving the others the courage to make their own Twitter threads, but honestly she could have made it past that easily. The former sad milk members were just venting, and really didn’t look like they were going to take it further. Sure it looked bad, but it was contained, and you could very well think that this was just a bad “friend breakup” with bad feelings on both sides situation. Yeah that might make her kind of a sucky friend, but you don’t have to be a saint to make enjoyable videos. It’s her own video that really showed her true colors for many people, and then the responses started. So avoidable.

[@recycledfelines]

Maybe it's jealousy on my part, absolutely could be, I'm the jealous sort, but hearing how much money she genuinely made is so ick, and off the backs of her victims, Jesus Christ that just makes everything so much worse.

[@Boothillsfootstool]

If i had a nickel for every time blair accused someone of something when they were sleeping id have two nickels, which isnt alot but its surprising that it happened twice

[@pastelmusic409]

Thanks for the laugh, this video had me feeling really down :)

[@Midorikonokami]

If I had a 2euro for every time Blair accused someone of something that turns out SHE DID HERSELF, I think I'd have more money than her right now.

[@Thenewboidahlia]

Her “crying” is just so..disingenuous it’s ridiculous

[@merissamakesstuff]

I thought it sounded fake, but wasn't sure. But it was late when I watched that video. I was in bed. Listening again, it sounds super forced.

[@liamlowenthal8476]

I can't say if it was fake or not, I wasn't standing in the room with her. I'm glad you were.

[@haiw72j]

It sounds legitimately so forced and fake that I couldn’t help but giggle when listening to it

[@ShaSha-lex]

the click who she was involved with in the drama also cried, but that broke my heart with how genuine it felt

[@TheMightyGlizzy]

I ain’t watching her video but damn She’s really that desperate 💀

[@ashleyjenae__]

Blair thinks talking in a calm voice makes her sound sane lol. The worst part is how she’s truly trying to ruin everyone elses career.

[@oxydator]

If you pay close attention to the sound of her voice, it becomes pretty clear she had to force herself to try sounding calm and sorted, but unfortunately, many seem oblivious to such signs of manipulative behavior.

[@SuperNuclearUnicorn]

There's tons of people with no real beliefs who will just agree with someone who speaks in a convincing way, and Blair is scary good at that. She knows when to speak calmly and firmly, and when to turn on the emotion It took a situation where she took on a beloved creator who is a literal lawyer where she was blatantly wrong for the house of cards to fall down. Imo, if she went for a smaller creator (see the Cruel World Happy Mind situation) or if she had at least some defence then the could have avoided the drama, but she went after a bigger target and lost

[@Ruosteinenknight]

I've always noticed there has been a disconnect between her youtube and Twitter. She's way more aggressive and combatative in twitter, sometimes flying off the handle with very little provocation. I'm not championing civility politics here, but at the same time, it's not probably the best course of action to answer every push received with a swing of a sledgehammer.

[@hellsdementedsong5563]

I was always a big fan of Blair. After seeing her expose video I felt really uneasy. After seeing the clicks response I unsubscribed and was sad how far she fell. When I watched Wonderstrucks video though….. she is an absolutely disgusting individual and I hope she gets what she deserves. To put someone’s mental health on display for the world to see and force him to have to explain such a private thing is horrifying. Even if she apologized for real I wouldn’t forgive her now.

[@ona3779]

"I hope I am never associated with you" Inconvenient thing to hope for, as trying to ruin the Click for no reason in such a disgusting way will literally be the only thing I will ever remember her for. Edit: Nevermind, she will _also_ only be remembered for what she did to wonder, what the frick was that, Jesus Christ.

[@shatteredprism]

Her apology reminded me so much of my narcissitic mother's "apologies" that I saw right through it faster than I expected. I moved out 3 years ago. When Blair/Illuminaughtii started using manipulative tactics in her "apology", and the speech people who lived with her said she used towards them, I was just like "she reminds me of my narcisstic mother" and I was pretty much just going "I'm not buying this apology, it reeks of manipulation and other tactics my mother used on me when confronted about how she treated me". Edit: fixed mispellings

[@hagelslag9312]

Yeah I too notice the overlap in the way she speaks. She put a lot of words and actions in their mouths, and was constantly telling them to behave as if she was some kind of mother. "I hope you learned from this" and shit like that. But it was also gross how MUCH private information was shared openly. To quote one of the last minutes in her own video "like we have discussed privately before..." and continues to expose what they talked about - "I believed you when you said it back." It's disgusting to talk for other people. If she had kept it with only what she said herself, no problems there, but she kept putting out what others supposedly said, creating a narrative in her favor. And she did this a lot. And I am still shocked she shared his S note, while in his note he was calling out HER behavior as a trigger, and here she is showing what a 'good person' she is because she called 911. Gross. Sorry you had this with your mom, that sucks. I hope you got to heal.

[@shatteredprism]

@@hagelslag9312 I've healed quite a bit (therapy helped quite a bit). Once I move out of my grandparents' house (where I'm low contact with my mother), I'm going no contact with her. If I have a kid with my partner, my mother isn't going to be allowed to see them.

[@xuanzhencat]

Her apology went into so many weird confusing details that I didn’t have the patience to sit through this and assumed this was some petty drama that I did not need to worry about. Then a video from another person appeared on my feed, I watched, and HOLY SHIT. The way she made it look had almost no similarity to what THREE OTHER PEOPLE who participated in this situation said independently of each other.

[@rrrrrrrrr9027]

i saw another comment on a video about this that said to the affect of "if she could just admit to her mistakes instead of legitimizing them" and it think that sums up narcissists well

[@me0101001000]

Anyone ever hear the Narcissist's Prayer? Check it out. It's incredibly relevant.

[@catscar708]

I stopped watching her ages ago because of her arrogant demeanor. This reminds me of Def Noodles meltdown in many ways.

[@pennyw2226]

Yeah I was a fan for a bit but she really reminds me of manipulative people I've had experiences with and even hearing her just define plagiarism made me want to die like. idk how i didn't realize sooner but she just has the speaking patterns of every vindictive horrible person I've ever interacted with and it's just. Ugh

[@positivityprobably1458]

I could only get through a few minutes of one of her videos a long time ago. She's so obnoxious. Her huge ego and self-righteous demeanour is obvious even in her own videos. To be honest, this situation is terrible, but not surprising. Blaire couldn't have gone her whole life without hurting somebody.

[@BType13X2]

I stopped watching her when she went after the integrity of Mike fucking Holmes. A man that came to my community after a massive natural disaster and helped home owners, gave them advice, told them what to watch for. Went to forums, stayed for 2 weeks, and didn't have a film crew or other documentation of him doing that. He showed up to genuinely help for no reason than to help. That's when I started doubting who she was and her reliability as a person.

[@lindseystein9676]

Yeah, she does seem a bit arrogant. I briefly watched her videos, but stopped because of the content mill type vibe I got. Plus, there were too many inaccuracies

[@r3dr4te963]

I watch her from about 2-3 years ago, back when her MLM vid were popular. I always feel she have this superiority complex or vindictive, judging on how she speak (tone, intonation, word chosen) but I thought it just a false flag from my own, I mean she talk about MLM bad people right? Then this plagiarism drama happen, then her manipulative past get exposed, yet I'm not really surprised. I'm more disappointed that I didn't notice how her content are quite bias and having many inaccuracies, as people now pointed out now

[@bellaforman7014]

Never thought I would have to hear a creator defend how their dog acted towards another creator’s dog-

[@lilr6199]

My dogs gonna cancel your dog. He has the receipts somewhere, I think he buried them

[@skyepilot4074]

@@lilr6199 Your comment really made me laugh. Who would've thought that dogs would be cancelling each other

[@lilr6199]

@@skyepilot4074 well unfortunately it seems my dog ate the receipts, so the cancelling has been cancelled, I’ll get em next time

[@moraspennyworth]

feel so bad for wonderstruck :( having to relive all those events just to defend himself must not have been easy for him. hope him and his dog are doing well

[@JoshSweetvale]

Having friends in a domestic abuse situation is absolutely essential. Do not get isolated.

[@jakecob864]

Disgusting how she's exposed her former colleague's privately shared personal problems. What a horrible person

[@ann-mariepaliukenas19]

If true that’s horrific

[@So_Indecisive]

@@ann-mariepaliukenas19 what do you mean “if true”, there is literally evidence

[@ann-mariepaliukenas19]

@@So_Indecisive well i need to research the “ literal evidence” not just believe what people say.People say anything to follow group mentality.

[@omniscient.nescience]

​@@ann-mariepaliukenas19 It's? Literally in her own video? Like, this isn't even 'someone said this about her', she literally posted private screenshots of someone's mental health struggles in her 'apology' video

[@ann-mariepaliukenas19]

@@omniscient.nescience well im not 12 so i like to do my own research thanks,as well as listen to what she said in her own video as there’s much more out there.

[@HoneyM1lkart]

Hearing the click genuinely sad on the verge of tears made me cry. Not only did she hire someone to ruin his life, wich thankfully didnt work, but she completely took advantage of someone with MH issuesand weponizing it, and taking everything from her employees. Shes an awful person far past "needing help"

[@palinurus]

I do wish that iNabber had mentioned that the Click is also not a native English speaker, and that he mentioned in his response video that in addition to being a teenager in the 2010s, he also didn't understand much of the harmful context of his words. He's purged his channel and has been working on making it a safer and more inclusive environment for years

[@feather9115]

​@Three Bees I've watched a few of his more recent videos before this drama and found him to be extremely inclusive and thoughtful. He has obviously learned from his past experiences and changed his behaviour

[@tealablu3759]

I didn’t even know who the clique was before. I watched his video on the situation, and I found myself believing him more than Blair throughout. And I have been watching Blair for years and really didn’t want to find out that she was a garbage person.

[@iNabber]

okay i know i just dropped a big ass movie, but.. well.. you know what, just like the damn video. and comment beans. (AND I DONT CARE THAT IM LATE TO THIS)

[@I879quitatatime.]

Brooo

[@p-__]

Bean

[@Zo-ix7ew]

beans x

[@xxronnythelazyratxx]

beansss

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love You so much mate!❤❤😊😊

[@starcrossreverie]

The alt account part made me feel sick. It's such a nasty thing to do and then to attempt to make herself the victim? That's not normal at all. It's horrifying.

[@Hair8Metal8Karen]

When you heard his voice crack with the emotion, I felt so bad for him.

[@ann-mariepaliukenas19]

It’s “normal” for sociopaths.I’ve experienced it.

[@gargles5270]

it’s shit high schoolers do, and this is a grown ass woman

[@ToxicXeia]

I've been watching The Click for years, so I am so glad you made this video. Down with Blair and her awful actions!

[@BlueFlames094]

Honestly anytime I see someone mention the click I just can’t believe for a second he’s done something bad because he’s such a genuinely good man who constantly wants to learn and grow from anything and everything. When I saw Blair talk about him I was like “nah, not click, this doesn’t add up”

[@ToxicXeia]

@@BlueFlames094 I know right? People like to forget that he's Swedish, and things that are super offensive/slurs/bad imagery in the USA, probably have no meaning in other countries. They're just random words to throw around. He'd already apologized for his language years before this lmao.

[@Linnzy]

​​@@ToxicXeia didn't know who he was, I've only been watching Blair for what...like the last 6 months or so, consuming all of her vids, she has a good voice to listen too and she seemed very calm and down to earth, so when she posted her own video about herself I was like, okay ppl are exaggerating as usual, I'm notbhere for the drama, but then I got to see other peoples videos and breakdowns on the case and I have now unfollowed her. Also, I answered to you specifiaclly because you said he is Swedish which catched my attention because I am too Swedish, it's not often you come across other Swedes.

[@ToxicXeia]

@@Linnzy I'm glad you decided to listen to the other side, and not just blindly stand by her. I stopped watching her a long time ago, because her vibes were off. Glad I trusted myself. The Click is a really chill and sweet KZbinr. If you don't really like reddit readings or stuff like that, he DOES have a gaming channel and a music channel ^^

[@Fisen82]

@@ToxicXeia I can say, as a Norwegian. Some words, like for example "rtard" is used more loosely here, both in Norway and in Sweden. Not sure about Denmark or other Nordic countries. Im sure we do see it as a slur if used that way, but we often say "this situation is rtarded" when we just mean "oh this is stupid." Not really thinking about the word as a slur. Also I'm sorry if me using the word now is offending anyone, absolutely not meant that way, just trying to make it easier for people to understand what word I'm talking about, instead of just saying "the r-word" It can be confusing lol

[@catboysephiroth560]

I wasn't a hardcore fan, but I used to put on iilluminaughtii on in he background when I was drawing. I eventually learned about SadMilk and found Click and OT through that, absolutely fell in love with Click and OT's energy. OT in particular has become a channel I go to to stave off the dark thoughts and just give myself a happy boost, both OT and Click just have the vibes of people who I would adore having as a loving, supportive friend. The bullshit Blair pulled is astonishing. I'm frustrated as hell that I didn't pay attention and just vaguely skimmed over her shit and gave her attention. Leaking someone's suicide note? Are you fucking kidding me? Abusing a power imbalance between yourself an a significantly younger person is just as vile. Ugh, my head hurts and I hope she plummets into irrelevance, and possibly into a deep deep well too.

[@lucian374]

I didn't even know Click and OT were connected to iilluminaughtii until the twitter threads and Click's video. I was suprised when it happend.

[@soupoup]

​@@lucian374 same and never heard of sadmilk either

[@lucian374]

@@soupoup I had heard of sad milk from watching iilluminaughtii but I never watched any videos and after I stopped watching her I accidentally found Click and OT years a couple years later.

[@anniek3866]

OT is so awesome 😊 Especially the LGBTQ+ acceptance

[@nohrianprince]

As someone how has had to get certification from taking a plagiarism course, I can confirm undoubtably that Blair plagiarized the hell out of that documentary. It isn’t even paraphrasing (which without a citation is plagiarism.) as she uses 5+ words in a row numerous times that is identical to the source material. If it’s a scripted video, whoever wrote the script plagiarized, be it Blair or not; being the head of her channel it’s her responsibility to ensure her videos do not infringe on someone else’s content. She should’ve just taken the L and apologized rather than double down.

[@pigeon3264]

Would it have still been fixed the issue if she quoted each line verbatim on the screen *and* added citations? Or should she have started the quote by stating what she was quoting and its source beforehand? Not really asking for the creators sake but for my own personal knowledge in the future

[@fruitmilk2863]

@@pigeon3264 replying so I get the notifs when this question is answered, I’m also curious

[@koffeekai89]

I used to have a friend like Blair. The parts where she pettily talk about how "I hope you grow into a better person" and then cries and says "I miss the friend you WERE..." it all turns around on her being the victim in speaking that way rather than realizing some people just dont work out as friends. Meanwhile shes sharing SUICIDE letters for the entire world to see. How can someone seriously be so delusional as thinking they are the victim after doing something like that to someone else? Even if Wonder actually was being lazy and actually messed up her car without a care and didnt pay insurance (which is clearly BS anyway) it would not justify her posting that letter. Its sick. Its twisted.

[@Datura981]

I used to watch her channel, but sometime around 2021, I felt like her on-screen presence started changing dramatically. I couldn't put my finger on it, but in retrospect, I think it was this same habit of omitting information to make things look as bad as possible that initially struck me. She'd always been a bit judgemental and holier-than-thou, but a lot of the companies she made content about were genuinely grifting and hurting people, and she made me chuckle, so I tuned in regularly. I believe the last video of hers that I watched was about Tyra Banks. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't like Tyra. She's judgemental, petty, and egotistical... but the way Blaire was being so flippant discussing some of Tyra's own problems, just like that, I was like, y'know, this isn't a new trend from this channel. It stopped being about calling out bad behavior or bad business, and it just became bullying, and I didn't subscribe for that.

[@pizza_chu_7801]

I stopped watching her around the same time.

[@panickedshears]

I only discovered her around 2021, but, I think I mainly only watched her older content. I just liked it better yk? Her newer content always just felt… off.

[@caliwagg1898]

Yeah, I can’t remember what video it was but Blair said some things that made me go, “wait, that’s not a good take” and I started noticing it more and more. Once she branched out from obviously morally bankrupt companies the cracks began to show.

[@MilkChocolateGeese]

same

[@kiraalldredge48]

This is when I stopped watching her as well and I had been a subscriber from when she did Sims Videos years and years ago.

[@christianbusch5499]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. All she had to do was either; 1. Not be an absolute villain. Preferable choice. 2. Not accuse a copyright lawyer of copyright infringement. One tweet caused the equivalent of a beached whale carcass exploding.(seriously google that, crazy shit man)

[@rachelhansen2417]

I love the imagery of this comment 😂

[@xuanzhencat]

I sent those videos to my friend who studies the history of whaling and he hates me now 😂

[@HazelleFPS]

whalussy going nuclear wtf man

[@medusaurus]

your editor absolutely understood the assignment and i applaud them so very much

[@danilynn9904]

That was the best part of the video. They deserve a raise.

[@mo-ov8hz]

note from someone who writes lots of essays in college, citing a source in your refs is NOT sufficient to avoid plagiarism if you do not disclose that you are using a source in the text of your work itself. tldr: she was def plagiarizing Brian Deer’s documentary

[@eewahnah]

Blair has a knack for calling anything even close to her style of content as 'plagiarism/copycat', from Cruel World Happy Mind 2 years ago to LegalEagle this year and only now I see how much importance she gives herself in general, not even her team, just herself

[@turntapeover5749]

This was honestly a long time coming for Illuminaughtii. And HBomberguy video isnt the first plagiarism she did. This is probably just the most popular youtuber who noticed and called it out. A couple years ago, there was an anti-MLM content creator called Cruel World Happy Mind to which Blair's anti-MLM videos had eerily similar scripts. The fans told CWHM, and CWHM privately and politely reached out about the matter to which Blair went on a nuclear Smear campaign against CWHM. That was foreshadowing what was gonna happen in the future both on the plagiarism side and the toxic behavior side. I've been detesting Blair ever since because she was being pretty nasty to a much smaller content creator who looks like the nicest most wholesome person ever. The mask slipped and what lied beneath was very ugly. CWHM has gone to more broad commentary since then and her channel has really grown. This was just jealousy on Blair's part because she wants to be #1 and she was being rightfully called out. CWHM wouldn't even have reached out if it hadn't been for her fans which overlapped with Blair. And she did the same as she did to HBomberguy. Word for word copy pasta scripts. So yeah. She's finally reaping what she sowed and I couldn't be happier that karma finally caught up to her.

[@kimberlymarino7344]

That is what caused me to unsub. Blair was bold enough to go on a podcast and say she thought she was the only...ONLY KZbinr doing anti MLM videos! Yep said out loud that she believed she not only invented the genre but was the only person on the platform covering it lol. At the end of the day I do not think she has ever had an original thought in any of her videos. She pays people to write what she thinks and then reads it in a very monotoned dull voice. It's about time karma got her.

[@irishalchemy]

Thanks for explaining what happened with CWHM, it's seems like there are still a lot of people who don't know about that.

[@resstie]

And she (and/or her writers) had pulled information for her videos from anti-MLM activism groups even after being explicitly told not to use their info. Some of it wasn't meant to be made public, could pose a risk to those who gathered it or wasn't properly credited. And then she acted like she didn't even know that anti-MLM community exists at all. What a load of bs, truly.

[@turntapeover5749]

@@irishalchemy IKR? But CWHM fans remember. And never forgot. And Ill be real with y'all I will be delighted if and when Madison releases a commentary essay on "How the Illuminaughtii became the next Creepshow art". I feel like this will be immensely cathartic lol

[@alithealien5049]

used to watch blair for a while, it was sometime around her establishedtitles video, that the “holier than thou” superior attitude that she had became grating, especially because she was directly attacking smaller channels who had no clue about the dodgieness of established titles. but she’s always had that attitude. that she is 100% correct, and everyone else is not only wrong but a terrible terrible terrible person 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@unapologeticallyb5068]

She's low key always been a KZbin villain lmao

[@missdenisebee]

Even when I agreed with her on something, that self-righteous TONE she uses…ugh. I felt like she always took it too far, past “this is how I personally feel” & into “…and if you disagree, you are a deluded, evil, ignorant person”. It reminds me of every virtue signaling Karen I’ve ever met in my life.

[@meaganfarr2]

Yes! She always had this tone of being better than everyone else even in her first uploads, it really rubbed me the wrong way.

[@thxwanderer]

The funny part of this in particular is that she deleted her own establishedtitles sponsored video BEFORE coming out with that video and shitting on smaller channels for "falling for it." She knew damn well she fell for it too but still wanted to look better than everyone else.

[@itsjustmaddisen]

That's the same vibe I got from her and stopped watching her videos after a while. It's still disappointing though that she didn't learn and grow. So messed up.

[@AmazingKevinWClark]

Personally if I had a script writer and it turned out they plagiarized, I would fire them on the spot and put out an apology video explaining what happened. The writer has broken the trust and there's no guarantee that they wouldn't do it again. It's better to get someone new and more reliable.

[@masonm2232]

I strongly believe Blair needs to discuss how she views herself, relationships & disagreements with a therapist.

[@xuanzhencat]

I knew a person like that. She spoke to a therapist every week (I knew she wasn’t lying bc I heard her talking to the therapist regularly during the lockdown). That therapist would need to be a superhero to help her. To do such unhinged shit in the first place, you need to be so fucked in the head that talking to a therapist might not be enough.

[@bethlovesdevon]

You have to WANT to change for Therapy to work. The reason talk therapy doesn’t work on people like this is because they won’t acknowledge they’ve done wrong

[@Melinda-G-Marshall]

She can’t… because wonder stole her personal and favorite therapist… and by doing that, created a conflict of interest and Blair couldn’t see that therapist anymore🤣. Blair can’t just see ANY therapist!!!! Because you know, Blair set it all up, so she could then complain about it way later, so that she could then apologize for “accidentally” creating that very same conflict of interest. Truth is: the therapist fired Blair because wonder told her what was going on with Blair’s abuse and personality defects. It’s crazy that Blair facilitated wonder seeing the therapist knowing that might happen! She’s off the hook malicious and oblivious at the same time and that is a scary combo right there. Sorry if anyone thought I was serious at the start of my comment lol. Totally sarcastic. I used to binge her content all the time and then realized how condescending she is. I unsubscribed from her channel before all of this but I’m loving this massive coverage of her fatal flaws.

[@recycledfelines]

​@@bethlovesdevon let me tell you if there was ever going to be a ' come to Jesus' moment , it's right now. She is receiving the biggest undressing of her life

[@madi9443]

I strongly believe if she didn’t go after a LAWYER, all this probably wouldn’t have come up or at least not now.

[@narnigrin]

And a lawyer with three million subs at that! He had no reason to even break a sweat, neither on the legal or the KZbin success side of things.

[@narnigrin]

A lawyer with 3M subs, too. Like, our man Devin is popular. He's not some newbie YTer with 30k subs that she could just bully.

[@Caelinus]

@Queen Cobra He does not specialize in Copyright/IP, he is a general civil trail lawyer who does that kind of law among others. Weird distinction, but calling a lawyer a "specialist" in some sort of law is actually an official designation. You have to be certified as one, and if you claim to be one without that certification then you can get in trouble. As far as I can tell he does not claim that specialty. Rather he claims "subject matter experience" so it is better to call him an "experienced in Copyright/IP." Especially as he is absolutely available to be hired for all sorts of litigation.

[@chaoticdusk1316]

Yeah I have a bad feeling that if she hadn't let her mask drop in such a public way like that the truth would've been buried far longer that is if they ever spoke up at all. I think if it weren't for that moment where everyone got to see that mask fall, people likely would've had even more trouble believing The Click, Wonder, Oz, and One Topic if they'd tried to speak out. The idea of standing up to someone with her following was definitely some level of unnerving and would've been unthinkable back when everything first took place. Unfortunately for her she let the mask drop while engaging with someone who has an even bigger following than her and by now several of the people she's hurt have also built up quite the following so she had more push back now then she might have then. She dug her gave back then and tried to cover the opening with plywood so no one could see and if she hadn't dropped the match then maybe people wouldn't have known. And now that they d she's decided to pull out the pickaxe to dig a bit deeper if her trying to take legal action with a cease and desist against Wonder is anything to go by.(

[@namelessnavnls8060]

@Madi It's ironic how easily Legal Eagle could've OBLITERATED her entitled ass and legally disprove her claims of plagiarism.. But instead of doing exactly what they had ever right to do, they were so very polite and civil to someone who scarcely knows the meaning of those words.. I admire the professionalism and great example they set. People get angry so easily and leap to be defensive so quick nowadays. A little polite but solid self defense without all the aggression and theatrics could go a long way, honestly.

[@paula5540]

We, The Illuminati, don't claim her and have no association with this individual.

[@theforgotten1213]

Illuminice

[@thereadingwriter4197]

Illumislay

[@astarryeyedgirl]

Illumibased and illumipilled

[@Whothefuckisgrey]

Illumikunt

[@domino6011]

IllumigreatPR

[@zombieknifefight2831]

I feel like saying "sorry for causing you stress" isn't the same as just saying "I'm sorry for behaving the way I did, it was wrong."

[@Noxis07]

Wow... I was convinced Blair was a bad person 1/4 through the vid, but now I genuinely think she's damn near irredeemable after that note incident. That is a new low.

[@Bb___________]

i used to watch iilluminaughtii quite regularly until i started noticing mistakes and misinformation in her videos. They were the kinds of things where you'd easily believe the misinformation if you weren't already familiar with the topic. at a certain point it made me question how many other things were wrong in her videos that i was just taking as facts because they were presented as such. big picture i don't think this will have a huge long lasting impact on Blaires channel, but i do think that this whole controversy is going to highlight to many people that her content isn't as trustworthy as it is appears to be.

[@cindyeisman8796]

Yes! This was my experience with her exactly. Glad I'm not the only one.

[@cottoncandylover666]

me too, I didn't know what was misinformation but when she started making SO MANY videos it felt like she was just looking for things to complain? I started to realize that the subjects she talked about weren't as bad as she wants to portray it

[@detectivewiggles]

She does employ a ton of logical fallacies. She usually says it's just her opinion when she says them, but it's not hard to learn about those and stop using them.

[@purplecat4977]

I thought I was the only one who had done this. There are a couple of channels I used to watch regularly that I unsubbed because they covered a subject that I knew enough about to realize how badly they'd treated the subject and asked myself the exact same question. How much other BS from this creator have I been internalizing as truth? I still prefer channels that can teach me something, but it's given me a zero tolerance policy when one of those channels gets something wrong that I catch. (I never caught Blair in anything like that, though. I just got tired of her victim shaming in her videos.)

[@jamiewatson7380]

Wow yea. I thought i was the only one. I guess she just doesnt uave quality control anymore its kinda meh now.

[@lunarmoontea4247]

If I had a nickel for every time a youtube creator I used to watch that made videos about exposing problematic content turned out to be an awful person that was using alt accounts to harass/trash their former friends, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.

[@Kay-xf9pf]

Yeah Dr Doofensmirtz🤣 it's weird but happened to a lot of us

[@squeakybb]

Who was the other creator?

[@Chloefromcanada]

​@A.N. Cathey I'm assuming creepshow art

[@jeanzerwas9704]

holy shit i forgot about that whole thing

[@lunarmoontea4247]

@@Chloefromcanada Yep that's the one

[@Siberiasun2]

Illuminaughtii exposed, she unironically exposed herself as a terrible human being, yikes.

[@Theforestrysystem]

I haven't watched yet but I've been a fan of click/ot/Wonder/Oz for a long time now. I used to be a fan of Blair too because I simply didn't know the things she was doing. I didn't know what she said about click when he left sad milk because I had stopped paying attention and what she did disgusts me. She has done such awful things to so many great creators and it makes me so sad. I'm so glad people are covering this.

[@gachalee6296]

Your editor deserves a raise after that one. 10/10 favorite video about Blair so far. So much explaining on the problem it's self.

[@elonmusk921]

No teacher would ever accept Blair’s definition of plagiarism. You know she got all her essays sent back

[@ambersmith2612]

Even giving the definition like there’s not social/ literal/ academic etc definitions of words 💀 like you can’t just deny the way plagiarism is used socially as a defense

[@stylis666]

I did enjoy her definition and her showing how she got to it :p Here's a definition of cooking that I based on her method: *_Oxford languages:_* the practice or skill of preparing food by combining, mixing, and heating ingredients. "he developed an interest in cooking" food that has been prepared in a particular way. "authentic Italian cooking" cuisine baking food cookery suitable for or used in cooking. modifier noun: cooking "cooking chocolate" *_Cambridge Dictionary:_* adjective [ before noun ] UK /ˈkʊk.ɪŋ/ US /ˈkʊk.ɪŋ/ good for cooking with: cooking apples cooking oil noun [ U ] US /ˈkʊk·ɪŋ/ the skill or activity of preparing and heating food to be eaten: My mother always hated cooking. Cooking can also refer to a particular style of preparing food: Southern/Italian cooking So we can see that the definition of cooking is: something that is suitable for a style of particularity.

[@Dominique_99]

I was cracking up. When I saw that. At uni they ran our assignments through a program and hers would never have made it through. If over 10% of the assessment I think it was or maybe even less matched it considered to be plagiarised and we had couldn't hand it in. That was pretty much word. And if I grab the sript of a movie or TV show and then just add at the end that's where I got it from change a couple of words here and there do you think they won't be coming after me for copywrite! 😂😂 I mean seriously!

[@WinningSidekick]

I work with academic writing and lemme tell you, if I caught a student doing this I'd have a serious talk with them. You need to thoroughly cite ALL your sources, not just your source's sources.

[@mehhh8888]

You know if she just came out with something like "I did some stupid shit, I hurt the people I care about, I'm deeply sorry and am looking to make changes to better myself" people might have actually forgiven her and let her move on. But instead she's doing the opposite approach, refusing accountability, and digging herself a deeper and deeper hole to climb out of.

[@JoshSweetvale]

I genuinely think it's Trump. Yes, fear of broken pride motivates people to never back down from suicidal positions... But Trump's egomania shows these despairing lunatics _don't_ have to back down from your hubris. Ever.

[@Rjeda30]

After finding out how Blair treated the creator from Cruel World Happy Mind, over something that was her own fault, none of this is surprising. Blair could write the 2023 revised narcissists prayer after hearing what it’s like working with her.

[@DrawciaGleam02]

They revised the narcissists prayer? To what exactly????

[@DeaDiabola]

Someone please explain to me what the narcissists prayer is, because I was raised by one lmao

[@Pikeya]

​@@DeaDiabola The narcissist's Prayer That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it

[@thegongoozler69]

@@Pikeya holy shit that's literally blaire LMFAO

[@helenavioleta]

I love Cruel World, I didn’t know she was mistreated by Blair, gonna look into it!

[@1chi_]

I don't understand why everyone is all "I never saw this coming from Blair" When she has a long history of falsely copyrighting videos that would criticize her in attempts to silence those creators. This is something that is honestly long overdo.

[@ravenanne1734]

I think you just answered yourself. Those videos either aren't avaliable, or aren't advertised to her subscribers. Probably because of copyright.

[@randypissflaps]

Aah I've never seen anything about that until now, I'm needing to do more research. Still got the ick from her though

[@Ruosteinenknight]

I seem to remember Truth Sleuth doing one or two critical videos, but kinda fell apart when she tried to market Tipster as the golden standard.

[@Breadstick_Thief]

I was a fan until a few months ago where I felt there was too much bias going in then there was in the older videos. Only came back when this drama blew up. But honestly, I didn’t go looking for anything bad about her or get anything negative recommended to me. So I thought she was fine

[@Tea-chip]

Well you said yourself, no one would notice if she swept the dirt under the rug every time

[@akuma4321]

not only was click a teenager in those videos, he was also still learning english. he had _no_ idea that the words he used were bad; he just knew that cool english-speaking content creators he liked were using them.

[@alexevans2011]

EXACTLY. And that’s not even mentioning how difficult it can be to tell the difference between slurs, curse words, and words just frowned upon when you’re learning English. Especially as a kid or teenager because they don’t teach that in schools.

[@MoltenUranium]

Also, tons of people used those words back then. I did too, even being ND myself, because that was just something people used. Obviously now I know it’s a slur and that people shouldn’t use it, but yeah. When she says things like it’s never been okay, it comes off as super holier-than-thou, because it’s like “I’VE never used those words, so I can punish you for it” [even tho Oz says she used it in private too]

[@TwoCatsInLondon]

I’m around the same age as The Click, and I also used the r-slur in 2009. I was still learning English and mainly learned English through online spaces. Of course, when someone asked me to stop using the word, I stopped. I didn’t really realize what it meant. It wasn’t until a few years later that I found out and was horrified that I ever used it. I imagine he had a similar experience to that.

[@devent10n]

​@@alexevans2011 YES ON THE SLUR VS CURSE THING I was raised by a special ed teacher, and I was taught the r-slur was a "bad word" (cuss word). When I was in an environment that used it freely, I began using it also because hey, I'm an adult. I can curse. Then an autistic friend of mine was like, "dude that's a slur and it hurts my feelings", and I stopped using it. Click has clearly changed and grown over the last decade. We all said shit 10 years ago that would never fly today. Trying to hold a 17/18 year old kid who has English had his...second? Third? Language accountable for the slang he used (which he almost certainly learned in online games, which aren't exactly known to be places of kindness and genteel speech) over a decade ago is absolutely absurd.

[@Chorsanoidka]

yeah. I'm not a native speaker either and I'm actually autistic, but I still used the r-slur for quite a while. why? because I had no idea it was a slur! I just thought it was a stronger way to say "stupid". when I found out the truth, I was horrified. now that I think about it, my language actually does have an r-slur equivalent, most people just usually don't see it like that. I only thought about it because my parents kept on using it when referring to actual mentally disabled people, and that honestly made me feel like trash just a little. sorry for that last part, I guess I needed to vent about it.

[@benetnasch]

As someone who has modded a somewhat bigger discord server which has had (unfortunately) people talking of committing Illegal Activities (who were eventually reported and successfully had police action taken against them), the whole bit of TheClick and his mods receiving criticism for not taking action against that one person *immediately* was so bizarre to me. There's a fair amount of risks taking immediate action- especially if you want to report them to authorities. Banning iirc used to tend to delete all messages they sent in the server and since some of them are in DMs if the person realized they were banned from the server they could have deleted DMs and not leave evidence for a police report. It's very much a risk acting impulsively if you want actual justice to come/discord to actually do something about that person and not just kick them from a community only for them to find somewhere else to go and continue their degeneracy

[@daydream5120]

Thank you for pointing this out! Such a good point

[@RogueAstro85]

I was subbed to her for a few months and then realized how soulless and weird her videos were. She would always say "To those of you who know me, you know I love my..." and like, no. I have no idea who you are other than a voice over. She also pumps out content so quickly that it's obvious she doesn't do anything other than voice over at this point

[@emilyarmstrong83]

I walked back from her channel for a similar reason. At some point I realized that her videos are just 99.9% block quotes from other people and the remainder was either reiterating what the quotes said or telling everyone how disgusted she was with whatever she was talking about. It was a lot of things, but analysis it was not.

[@narnigrin]

My main "eh, not going to bother with this" moment was when I realised she mispronounces something at least once in every video lol. Sometimes it's foreign names or something, and I can respect that pronouncing things *perfectly* in a language you don't speak is not really possible; sometimes it's technical or legal terms in English, and sure, nobody is comfortable with every complicated word in every field ... but whatever the case, the entire internet is *right there* for her to just google the pronunciation, practice it for five minutes before reading out the sentence, and avoid the constant embarassment (of me, the viewer, who would cringe every time). Which tbh is also a pretty content farm-y thing to just ignore - other channels, even folks like Simon Whistler who uploads a bajillion videos per week, will at least make an honest attempt and/or edit out the worst mispronunciations.

[@Ashley-us3ci]

@@narnigrin THIS. I'm a history major and watched her video on romanticizing the Holocaust and was shocked how many words she mispronounced. That's when I really realized that everything she said was either 1) plagiarized 2) block quotes read from another source or 3) script writing from her team. Her videos are just her acting morally superior for 25-30 minutes. There is no investigative journalism, original analysis, or intellectual work on her end.

[@carlijnkruidhof]

​@@emilyarmstrong83exactly this. I found myself thinking 'wait did I miss the conclusion?? What was the point she was trying to make??' more and more often. Some videos were just compilations of other people's research, opinions and analysis.

[@imaginary92]

Yeah I was watching her occasionally when she made videos on topics I was interested in and I always got the feeling that a lot of the things she presented were just a personal interpretation and injected with her opinion. Opinions I often agreed with, but nonetheless opinions, which don't belong in the kind of investigative-like video she was supposedly making. And the mispronouncing all the time bothered me immensely as well. Especially for non-English words or names. You're not even making an effort.

[@catloaff]

The fact that she's still uploading three videos a week consistently just speaks on how content farm-esque her channel is

[@ozpin8329]

Every one of her new videos is struggling to break a hundred thousand views, she's losing about 10,000 subscribers daily, and every comment on her new videos is simply reiterating what happened here. Love that for her.

[@hannah-6080]

Yeah, I'd been thinking about that recently too.

[@flask223]

Is she supposed to quit

[@TheTrueMichael]

Eh, it's not farm-esque for it. It's professional. The fuck is she supposed to do? turn it all around the drama? It's stupid and cheap and people would lament her for it even more. She did one or two videos as a response. She doesn't anymore.

[@TheTrueMichael]

@Jack Honestly I'd like a pyramid plush if it was done better lmao it just looks lazy

[@bobanoda]

I absolutely cannot believe that blaire THREW AWAY THE DUDES BELONGINGS especially his gopro?!?! That’s insane I feel so bad for him

[@merissamakesstuff]

What?! His GoPro and Play button were in there? The hell? Hopefully he can sue. Isn't that illegal. ☹

[@liamlowenthal8476]

@@merissamakesstuff I'm not sure, I would think it depends on the state they were in when it happens. She's from my state, if it happened here, then yes, it is legal. If his belongings were on her property, she does have a legal right to toss it out however she deems fit, so long as she gave him a 30 day notice with probable cause. From what I'm hearing, there was no probable cause, and she didn't give him 30 days - I don't know if that's true or not, but if that was the case, I'm thinking at best she could be let for the value of the insured items. If said items were not insured, it's going to come down to a he said she said vote, and mitigation. That's all I know. I'm a neutral party in all of this. I have an hour of nothing to do, so I'm just scrolling through comments of the first video that popped up on my feed. lol

[@prettyevil6662000]

@@merissamakesstuff I believe he mentioned that he was pursuing legal action as she'd had two years to make things right (and he'd had a lawyer draft official demands to make him whole again) and failed to do so.

[@nicanonymus2491]

Right? Throw away his belongings is pure evil! I would’ve pack his stuff in a box and store it in the basement until he grabs it. In my country it’s illegal to throw away belongings from someone else. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@bobanoda]

@@autumnfrost-art yess like I’m a really sentimental person when it comes to items that hold special memories. I can’t imagine the feeling of knowing something like that is in the trash….

[@tristanclose5803]

Blair: *copies script word for word* Also Blair: "Why are you complaining? I cited it so it's mine now"