How Exposing Wendigoon Ended His Career

[@InternetAnarchist]

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[@madethistocomment727]

"No one refuted what I said. They just pointed out things that were wrong." ...... that's...... that's what refuting means.

[@spankyjeffro5320]

No. Refuting proves how things are wrong. Just pointing to them, acknowledging them, is just an opinion.

[@theaprilsonlyfool]

@@spankyjeffro5320 this is either being purposfully pedantic, bait, or both.

[@forickgrimaldus8301]

​@@theaprilsonlyfoolconsidering its a Bully mcgurie Av maybe bait

[@lancearnedo7837]

​@@spankyjeffro5320in case you most likely didn't actually watch any videos about iPoS he was, by your exact definition, refuted by everybody he slandered

[@titaniumgamer_10]

​@@spankyjeffro5320 They couldn't refute it because IPOS didn't actually bring any evidence for his claims in the first place.

[@Kimosabes2hot]

Wendigoon burned down my crops, tainted my water supply, and delivered a plague upon my lands.

[@FusionArmorX]

He did!?

[@Kimosabes2hot]

@@FusionArmorX Noo, but are we going to just wait around until he does?!?

[@peony356]

lucky ☹️

[@haramsaddam238]

Wendigoon ate all the puppies and kittens at my local animal shelter

[@Ind3xPlus]

Seems like a nice guy

[@fairiedragon999]

Never forget; Wendigoon closed his Patreon once he was able to make consistent earnings via KZbin so his content could stay 100% free to his audience.

[@ChexzMix]

Wendigoon kinda genuinely seems so nice

[@emmaesta9444]

​@SimplyChanya fr, hes the Mr Rogers or Bob Ross of KZbin. I try really hard not to put someone online on a "but they seem so nice" but it takes A LOT of care and kindness to accept the fact someone just doesnt like you and instead of lashing out or making a video debunking everything and being filled and fueled by drama and instead wishing him the best and telling folks not to harass him. He just really does seem like a very nice person

[@ChexzMix]

@@emmaesta9444 Ikr? Wendigoon seems very considerate of others and from what I watch of him, he’s just a normal guy who’s just living life. It doesn’t take two seconds out of somebody’s day to say “Hope you’re doing well” and those who can’t or start unnecessary drama are just aholes.

[@antagonizingprotagonist8721]

Man, even more reasons to love Wendi

[@planescaped]

That is a great show of character. Whenever I see a youtube creator with millions of subs still plugging a patreon, it feels hella sleazy.

[@1992jkwj]

Wendigoon drugged me and chained me inside of his basement for 30 years. He told me "You were born in darkness, you now shall be molded by it." I ate nothing but cockroaches and drank basement mist condensation from the black mold on the walls. He is a great man.

[@robertkohler1048]

See, this is the sort of hospitality I could only ever dream of receiving!!! The more I hear him, the more I want to be like him :)

[@Chungus581]

That was me, my bad

[@bane2201]

Same here! I've used that quote all the time. What a nice guy.

[@beepboppindodobird9148]

wendigoon did a the same thing to me! really such a stand up guy🙏

[@manifestgtr]

“You merely adopted the darkness…”

[@JohnGalt916]

You have to have dirt to expose it. Dude pretty much had 45 minutes of "you know who else drank water? Hitler".

[@G.A.C_Preserve]

Did you know that he's also Vegan, Breathe Air, hate modern Art, sleep until noon, love his mother,...

[@linkesocke4533]

The dude didn't smoke, didn't drink alcohol, had a dog, liked to watch movies (even ones from the usa)...

[@deathmauler181]

Lmaooo

[@NEEDbacon]

@@linkesocke4533 In fact he loved stuff from Disney.

[@Flesh_Wizard]

MY MO- wait no it's Hitler

[@matticole4]

the only wendigoon conspiracy believe in is that he wears makeup for his videos (theres no way his skin is THAT perfect)

[@anthonytonythegeek5561]

if he is, than he looks good with it on lol

[@azariel6669]

@@anthonytonythegeek5561 i hope you mean the makeup and not the skin lol

[@vitoriaarruda2968]

His skin looks so glowy and smooth!!! Bro needs to drop his skincare asap 😭

[@anthonytonythegeek5561]

@@azariel6669 yes i meant the makeup

[@bell.e.flower]

@@vitoriaarruda2968 exactly I need to know, what products does he use? If he doesn't have that great of skincare routine then what is the secret behind that skin?? Man he is actually goals and I'm not even kidding.

[@transsnack]

He truly bridged the gap between the left and right. None of us like him now.

[@haxan_3567]

Well said

[@zandaroos553]

I disagree with some of Wendigoons views but that was absolutely unhinged nonsense, fuck this guy.

[@reminiscentiaoff4669]

True and. It's crazy. No idea how an analysis channel can lose all self-awareness like they did tbh.

[@wjulabasia5191]

​@@reminiscentiaoff4669 Bro he compered cannibals to indigious people. Can he even analyzie media? 🤣

[@averysspookshowspectacular6205]

​@@wjulabasia5191 I watched him a few years ago and he had some interesting and well thought out videos back then. And then The Hill Have Eyes thing happened and...

[@ShowWithNoName]

Wendigoon has to be the least problematic person ever if this is the worst dirt that can be found about him.

[@davidmartin9183]

The fact that his response to the video was him apologizing if he ever did anything for him to act that way (even tho he didn’t) and telling him to keep doing what he loved and telling his fans not to talk crap made me respect him even more. That’s how the Bible teaches us to act and I’m glad after all the fame he’s gotten he’s still talking the Christian path. I can’t even do that lol Walking the Christian path**

[@LiveFreeOrDie2A]

Wendigoon may be the nicest most wholesome guy on the planet, BUT his misuse of the words “whenever” vs “when” is fucking UNFORGIVABLE. He’s a menace who must be stopped.

[@TheMissileHappy]

He honestly makes me feel uncomfortable, I used to watch him quite a lot, but there's sonething that makes me dislike him more and more

[@krodmandoon3479]

​@@LiveFreeOrDie2ASuch as.

[@Nervadane]

​@@TheMissileHappy tell your mommy to keep you in a psych ward

[@KarlaRei]

Liberal atheist here. Love me some Wendigoon. He seems to be very kind and inclusive. 1.) He's allowed to have guns. 2.) He's allowed to be Christian. 3.) He's allowed to wear Hawaiian shirts. He did break into my house and stole all my cheese though. Wasn't thrilled about that.

[@DH-xw6jp]

Question. Why is everyone saying [Wendigoon did bizarre criminal act]? I get that it is a joke (and a lot of them are funny, your included) but is it an in-joke, or is it just riffing on the fact he covers odd cryptids that do weird stuff like cheese theft?

[@anonymousperson1771]

​@@DH-xw6jp I'm pretty sure it's sarcasm playing on IPoS' assertion how horrible a person Wendigoon is, by stating the most mundane or ridiculous circumstances.

[@velka3313]

Also how wendigoon started his channel by doing conspiracy theory iceberg video.

[@hioman]

​@@anonymousperson1771nah it started way before that. I think it's just a play off of how nice he is, or it's a spin off of the jokes where wendigoon's gruesome murder is described as a suicide

[@Tacdelio]

dont like how you said "allowed". are you saying that because you like him as a person, he's allowed, as in, you are unphased by his affinity for firearms? does that mean, by default, you dont like christians, or people who like firearms, or people who wear hawaiian shirts?

[@sasoriko]

I'm black and Wendigoon has _never_ spoken to me let alone been in the same room as me. He probably doesn't even know I exist... what a racist!!

[@nothanksplease]

thats probably why he never talks about you D:

[@evey0259]

There's also that time he held a bloody bat and said "BLACK PEOPLE!" with fear in his eyes.

[@ketchups2777]

😂

[@Colddirector]

Did you know that Wendigoon kicks puppies? I know there's no evidence other me saying it just now, but he never *denied* he kicks puppies so he probably did it.

[@sasoriko]

@@Colddirector I bet they're black puppies. I mean I have no proof that he's racist but I'm black and he's _never_ been nice to me. So... There's that.

[@Hapnote]

Calling someone an extremist for wearing a Hawaiian shirt... while wearing a Hawaiian shirt yourself. How is this man real.

[@transsnack]

I'd almost call it satire if it weren't for the fact that he's being 100% serious in that video.

[@YukiPyro]

By him saying that, he's also implying that Hawaiians are extremists.

[@BIacklce]

it was a legitimate belief back in like 2018, legitimate meaning for people who are so internet poisoned that they actually believe whatever the SPLC decided what was a hate dogwhistle that week. So its double funny, A) being that guy in 2018, and B) still being that guy 5 years later.

[@Bl4ckD0g]

Hawaiian shirts and tiki torches. It's either a Luau or a Lynching.

[@fatgripofscrilla]

It's very obviously satire.

[@rafal.zbojak]

The tragedy of this poor bastard is that he picked a fight with a human version of a labrador retriever (which is a dick move in the first place) that is guarded by an autistic and very protective pack of hell hounds.

[@crazycar4015]

I'm looking at the comments from his appearance on the Unsubscribe podcast from December and one of the comments just described Wendigoon at the table as the quiet nerdy kid who just happened to get pulled into a hangout session with a bunch of jocks. Nothing is more accurate than that lmao. Pinned comment from DonutOperator on that same episode, "No one touches our Wendigoon."

[@in_the_vortex]

I am proud that I'm called an autistic hellhound because somehow it's fitting xddd

[@LBJ.91]

Wendigoon is an angel. Leave our wendigoon alone

[@avatarxs9377]

@@LBJ.91 wendigoon and papa meat are the best duo on yt

[@acrazyweeb7225]

Pretty much that one scene from “Everyone Loves Purple!” But if purple was actually a gentle soul and not a soulless psychopath

[@jarman_2000]

IPOS attacking Wendigoon is like shooting a golden retriever because you don't like pitbulls

[@InternetAnarchist]

He’s such a kind person even outside of KZbin. 🥹

[@chlochlo_the_T_BAG]

thats a pretty good analogy i like it

[@RemoWilliams1227]

Great analogy. I had no idea of any of this but love Wendigoon and friends, why would you want to hurt wendigoon?

[@Eric-vs2he]

Wendi is basically a retriever who's friends with a pack of wolves that is willing to beat the everloving shit out of anyone who dares attack him

[@skechers28227]

It's also like shooting MY pitbull because you don't like pitbulls. Lol. I guess my point is, please don't just go out shooting pitbulls. 😢

[@sirdurtle9519]

I read the title as "Exposing how Wendigoon ended his career" and was very nervous about what Wendigoon had done

[@miZuZYN]

I read the title as "How Exosing Wendigoon ended [Wendigoon]s career" and had a mini heart attack

[@HopUpOutDaBed]

yeah I kept waiting for the twist of "but actually it turned out he was right about wendigoon" until about half way through the video when I realized I'm a dumbass.

[@nicolethorson8186]

Me too. I thought, "We can't lose another one!"

[@greenaum]

Yeah I think that was intentional when he wrote the title.

[@white_meat_chicken]

Same. Gotta admit though, the click-bait title got me to watch all the way through. Kudos Internet Anarchist.

[@xochitl.mar.z]

“Christ didn’t say love the people who are nice to you, Christ just said love people.” I’m not a Christian but goddamn I respect the hell out of this man. Much love always to wendigoon. He seems genuinely kind.

[@sraveiryorkshire5770]

Jesus said “If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that.”

[@tempestvenator9809]

@@sraveiryorkshire5770 Yeah, that is what is supposed to make Christianity stand out. Even Paul himself repeats the point of "even the pagans know these things" for certain subjects.

[@sraveiryorkshire5770]

@@tempestvenator9809 Amen.

[@sinandtonic2029]

That's what I thought until the seizure jokes lol

[@sandakureva]

To his own detriment, more often than not.

[@Wrathchild06]

Zane’s voice makes my skin crawl in a “nice guy” kind of way.. he sounds like Kipp from Napoleon Dynamite

[@jayanthsambaraju6562]

Hal from Megamind type behavior. "Why does HE get all the love and success instead of ME?!" Envy at its finest.

[@markbunst5961]

Looks like if Kip went on an eating binge too

[@josephvanucchi5249]

I sure wouldn't let him mix my drink

[@Wrathchild06]

@@josephvanucchi5249 I wouldn’t let him make my nachos either

[@fateunknown4971]

@@Wrathchild06 it's more like a bad nicolas cage impression

[@supsuo9563]

imagine making a video expecting people to be on your side just for it to backfire

[@dinodoeseditz]

💀

[@TK_Tazzkooler]

😭😭🤣

[@miirico5398]

I mean the bloke tried to make a hitpiece with no fucking evidence at all. What does he think is gonna happen? people will rally behind him or some shit?

[@harmless_p0tato821]

My favourite part of the video was what he undoubtedly thought was going to be a rock-solid defence of everything he said; “And if they don’t want to be seen as a big group of Nazis, let’s see how they react to this video’s existence, because I’m sure they will be level-headed about all of this”

[@Motorcitynights]

That's a pretty common thing on here

[@franciscobrisolladeoliveir9596]

As someone who was following the whole drama closely, I legit think Zane was having a psychotic episode because of his leaps in logic especially (something that you forgot to put in the video that I thought was important) was him saying how Wendigoon following him on Twitter was a scare/intimidation tactic when, in fact, Wendi followed Zane on Twitter because he watched a video of Zane's.

[@Lizzie-Bee]

I was wondering if it was a manic episode too

[@planescaped]

It did kind of resemble the fixation on an individual some with paranoid delusions suffer from. Often times it is a public figure... or the Dominos Noid. >__>

[@StenchSniffer]

Yeah I feel like his monetary issues mixed with outside issues and maybe some private mental issues might have caused him to have a full break down and say some weird political shit. He’s like a Liberal Kanye

[@leechowning8728]

Same. I had to watch B Buckinghams video on it, since I only became aware of it when Shoe responded... I do not watch horror or cryptids, or even true crime and long dramas much, so she was the only one in my circle to bring it up... The other people I follow that he lashed out at did not mention it, because if Donut, Garrand T, Brandon H or Kent Ballistic said much, the guy would get so much hate it would just make it worse... But his video really feels like someone ran out of his meds, and just lost track of what he was doing.

[@anonymousperson1771]

It's late-stage political brainrot from the "everything is political" school of thought. Wendigoon isn't explicitly leftist, interacts with non-leftists/not-leftist-enough people like Shoe and by extension so does his large audience. Therefore in this context, they are Zane's political enemies that need their influence quashed and isolated - hence far-right accusations, guilt-by-assocation and calls to "push out" conservatives - to impose and control a leftist homogeneity over social spaces. And why Wendigoon following him is considered an attack rather than an interest in his own content.

[@0749Rockystar]

"You have to get a career for me to destroy it."- Everybody but Wendigoon

[@InternetAnarchist]

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[@0749Rockystar]

@@InternetAnarchist You make quality content. Thank you for your hard work.

[@helloimskip]

KILLSHOT reference?

[@0749Rockystar]

@@helloimskip Close it was Warning shot.

[@munky342]

​@@helloimskipKillshot is "Had to give you a career to destroy it"

[@princeshadow13]

Claiming people from Appalachia are white and racist isn't racist in itself, it's classist

[@connorchavez5584]

I was thinking that + at the beginning where he was talking about the "redneck" con??? God damn

[@Markuden]

So saying people in the ghetto are black and racist is also classist? Because i can guarantee you that tou will be called a racist.

[@nickbob2003]

It can be both racist and classist

[@meganmarts5769]

Appalachia is a HUGE region that spans many states. It has people of all socioeconomic backgrounds. Just like anywhere else in the United States.To insinuate we are all lower class is also a harmful stereotype

[@Suguri]

@@meganmarts5769 To be fair, the assertion that Appalachia is racist is entrenched in the redneck stereotype. Princessshadow13 is correct that the claim itself is classist, though it's implied rather than stated outright. But I'm also from a little pill town in Eastern KY, so the poor economic thing hits pretty close to home. D:

[@lawliet6910]

I feel like he was trying to pull an hbomberguy exposing James Somerton but it flopped so hard because uhhh.. neither Wendigoon nor anyone else he mentioned are like Somerton

[@poonpoon1604]

The sad thing is in his head the people he tried to expose is worst than james.. just in his head tho

[@PicketPolecat]

Methinks he didn't watch that video, especially since Hbomb actually calls out this type of behavior and even hates on drama channels in the exact same video

[@thelastjerkbender2505]

​​@@PicketPolecathe absolutely did and took the wrong message from it. Much like how Charles Manson heard Helter Skelter and decided to start a race war.

[@TheGraveyarder]

​@@poonpoon1604those kinds of people, the ones that keep asserting that theyre the "good guys" or their heart is in the right place, are the most dangerous ones in their head, anything they do is never wrong or evil.

[@kaiyote7924]

I think what sucks the most is that as an lgbt member i DONT hate faith, i have faith. What i dont like is the rise of extreme thoughts and im not going to target someone for beliefs unless they infringe on my right to exist. Being lgbt is not a faith or belief trust me, if it were that easy to just not be myself it wouldnt hurt so damn much

[@geograymon55]

I feel bad for the people who clicked on his video expecting a review of actual conservative horror movies and instead watched the horror of a man ending his entire career in a single video.

[@RallyTheTally]

The horror indeed, better then most movies.

[@edsand9498]

it's a good idea for a video, too bad that he had to go after a genuinely nice dude like wendi. i'm left wing but i respect wendigoon for making good content and being a christian who isn't racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. and is just a cool guy.

[@neoqwerty]

@@edsand9498 The only fault (as another lefty, but with an interest in theology (thanks Go Nagai for Devilman)) I can find with Wendigoon is that he has a tendency to talk about Christianity as a monolith instead of specific denominations, while not mentioning which denomination he's focusing on. It ends up being a bit irksome to have basically a whole set of cool things Wendigoon discusses trapped in the "to be sorted" pile because I don't know when he's talking very generally about consensus and when it's his denomination and/or local pop influences that inform him. Like, I know he's trying to be casual but I'm actually invested in theology from multiple angles! I think it's also telling that the only bad thing I can say about Wendigoon is "he doesn't talk about religion ENOUGH when he tackles it". I never thought I'd say that as an agnostic, too.

[@jordanmalone2547]

I saw it weeks ago and was so confused I had to check like 3 times, skipped to halfway and the end and that’s literally all it was. Didn’t even follow the channel it just popped up. So misleading and also just straight up slander? Lmfao if this video caught actual traction and made him tons of money I would sue the hell out of him, that kind of rhetoric no matter political views is so fuckin dangerous and what’s wrong with the internet community as a whole. He’s just a lil guy who gets scared let him LIVEEEEEEE

[@edsand9498]

@@neoqwerty yeah honestly i don't even know what denomination wendi is, but i'm not too bothered by it, as an ecumenical type of person. his videos are so general and biblically focused that it's alright to not have it from a specific denominational focus. although it would be awesome to have a video of him talking about all the different denominations

[@erbnie]

One theory I wholeheartedly believe is that IPOS was jealous of wendigoon because not only is wendigoon younger than him, he also has a larger following/gets more money than he does.

[@orang1921]

i dont see why he'd latch onto this one person out of many who fits that

[@Heavysweating]

@@orang1921 They both have a focus on horror stuff, so I believe either they both covered same topic and Wendigoon's video performed better, or Wendigoon made a video on a topic IPOS was about to cover and that grew him bitter. Since he went on such long rant about his money situation, I believe he came to the mindset that Wendigoon took money out of his pocket, mixing in the different political alignments as part of the reasoning too.

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

@@Heavysweating That, and the fact that Wendigoon is a Christian and Conservative probably made IPOS think he could easily get people to rally against him. Lo and behold, it turns out IPOS was 110% wrong in his sickening beliefs. Wendigoon is far too nice of a man to get cancelled on the internet.

[@hyperion3145]

​@@orang1921 Also, IPoS said that Wendigoon lives fairly close to him, so on top of the things everyone has said, he has to see his success every day and he is a loser.

[@nathanpremo]

That kind of what leftist do. You're technically right.

[@creeperjo7]

IPOS: "I have no need or desire (weird pause in between) to hear 5 hours of opinions on blood meridian..." then dont watch it tf?

[@chantellejade2900]

I met wendigoon once, he tied me to a chair and told me a 3 hour tale of Jonah and the gourd. Nice dude.

[@thezackast2752]

Can verify, I was the chair

[@peony356]

This is true, I was the rope

[@relwalretep]

Gourd checking in.

[@ziphy_6471]

Can verify, I was wendigoons shirt

[@crimecime]

So true, I was the sound vibration

[@kaibird542]

As someone from the American south, I picked up the bad vibes as soon as the video started- if you’re using redneck as an insult and call everyone in impoverished states (like the Appalachian states and a lot of the south states) racists, then you clearly don’t care about anyone living there and would rather just use buzzwords instead of critically thinking.

[@kiet10]

Exactly! People have a horrible misconception of the south and somehow boil us all down to 'racists'. Is there racists here? Sure, just like anywhere else in the damn world but we sure as hell don't condone it. It is funny to see people so up their own ass trying to act as some moral superior while they generalize an entire group of people based on their own lack of knowledge. You know, almost like a racist.

[@11darkraven11]

​@@kiet10as someone also from the South, you can't deny that the people in the South have much more of a reputation of being overtly racist than the West/North. Not all of us are racist, but Southern racism is a different kind of racism and it's more normalized in the rural South than other places. Again, it is NOT justified to assume that everyone/anyone from these areas is racist, but it's also not right to downplay the presence of racism in these areas

[@kiet10]

@@11darkraven11 I don't really think I'm downplaying it, if anything I'm just annoyed that it is overblown. I'd argue that it isn't normalized either, more prevalent? Probably. That's probably due to there being so many old fucks throughout the area, the younger generation is a lot better even if there's vocal outliers. I'll have to admit I haven't been anywhere North/West for enough time to see any real difference though so I can't speak on that.

[@AliceTheNeko]

@@11darkraven11 While I understand where you're coming from in that it can be obnoxious to hear people buck responsibility, I believe your frustration here is misguided. Were this individual racist, themselves, you may have a point; however, implying that they should take responsibility for the poor behavior of others within their demographic is like going to a random black person and saying that they should take responsibility for gang violence. There are more than enough places to talk about problematic biases that tend to find their way into a given culture. No culture is free of negative stereotypes which "formed for a reason", but to point them out here when the user is making a claim that individuals should not be judged by their culture betrays your own argument, since in this context, it's essentially passing judgement on a culture yourself because they passed judgement on another culture, even if you too are a member of the southern culture you're criticizing.

[@QuatrinaVR]

Bingo. As a woman from Louisiana, I have no time for people like this guy that want to believe they are somehow superior simply based on their location.

[@berry_nose]

IPOS making his claim about the Appalachian region as 'white racist country' really displays his own ignorance and biases.

[@Marynicole830]

I mean it’s pretty rough up here but it all comes from fear and desperation. This area has been ignored by politicians since it became part of the US. We need more gainful employment here. There is no generational wealth and people out of high school have to work immediately instead of going to college. The lucky ones find a trade program that pays but otherwise people can’t even go to trade school while working 70 hours a week. If jobs paid more up here, especially factory jobs that used to support whole families, it would help. There are government programs to help pay for school but not living expenses. Now how does this tie into bigoted or racist ideas? When people are hurting and can’t meet their needs no matter how hard they try, never seeing their families, they look for the cause. They know it’s not supposed to be this hard and wasn’t in the past. My papaw and great grandfather were blue collar and didn’t make much but made enough to live and the barrier to gain skills wasn’t as high. If you wanted to be a brick layer so,eons would teach you to have more help and pay you a small wage until you were good enough to make more. Now everything is corporate, all the small businesses have been bought up and there aren’t that many more mom and Pop shops incorporations don’t want to pay to train people. Corporations, but more for the short term, whereas family businesses make decisions based on long-term. So anyway, people know there’s something wrong it’s not supposed to be like this. Their aggression just tends to be aimed at the wrong people. Sam has to do with old attitudes, passed down from the Civil War era, but that’s small portion. I know where I’m at the state was split and we had a lot of union supporters in the area, but there are still issues here. There is a ton of propaganda infiltrating the homes of my neighbors and people around me. Bad actors are taking the desperation and anger of people who have been ignoring trampled on and and using it the further their own cause. The people here are being used. they’re being told that the issue is immigrants who are often just as poor not worse off, companies hiring minorities to meet some kind of quota, or planning social programs same there’s a lot of fraud. While there is some, it’s not like what most people around here have been told. And even then that wouldn’t cause the issues. People in power like to stay that way and if they get blamed for the way things are, they’ll lose power. And it’s everyone in government I don’t care if the Republican or Democrat all of them except for maybe a handful or bought out by large corporation and act any interest of those large corporations and not the interest of the average citizen let alone the low income families up here in the mountains. And I hate it because the people here are honestly kind hospitable. This anger is not who they are. So many live in squalor. In falling apart trailers, leaking roofs, rats, and ants all over the place. Rigged up electrical work that would give an electrician a heart attack. Then they see people who live like Kings compared to them telling them how they should live and think. even if they have a point it doesn’t matter because it’s somebody that’s living far better than them that doesn’t know the struggles they go through. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong and they shoulders and responsibility too without easy information is to get these days, but it’s a larger reason why it seems like to the rest of the world. Our neighbors are hateful when we see a completely different side of them. I’ve seen it happen. They’ll complain, yelling at the TV about immigrants or minority, but as soon as they meet someone from one of those groups, and they need help? They give them the shirt off their back. It’s actually weird to watch. It’s like in in practice they don’t act the same way they talk. Now local corruption is totally separate issue and it’s something that the locals Get hurt by as well, but are redirected in the same way as with national politics. I deal with it here where I’m at, but the local politicians use the same fear and desperation to stay in office. I’m fairly active and act activism in general, there’s a lot of causes I care about But I don’t forget where I come from and I hope to start helping the people around here. People here are super smart and capable, but fear the best of us. If their anger was directed at the correct parties responsible for their suffering they could start a massive change for the better in this country. And a lot of people know this and that’s why it’s in their best interest to keep them poor and afraid. Sorry that was long. It’s a completely complex issue and of course not everybody fits this. There are so many people here who are accepting of everybody and love everybody. But I would be dishonest if I didn’t admit that we do have a problem with prejudice. It’s mostly systemic and mostly not individual people. I would say now that most individual people, well, at least the average person, is accepting most everyone. But those involved with the legal system local politics have a major problem with it. I just wanted to explain why the politicians get away with it even if the people don’t align with the same values. Gerrymandering doesn’t help either.

[@ColdPants89]

@@Marynicole830This was a long but insightful and worthwhile read, thank you

[@Torquesquad]

Also calling him racist is pretty while since he constantly was making content with MistaGG..... who is Hispanic soooo. Pretty sure he wouldn't do that if he was truly racist.

[@tallybarnie5453]

In his video about a witch he grew up in a racist town himself he admits in the video but then lowkey excuses it by adding nuance (no im not saying racism is ok but he explained the history and economics blah blah blah) and all around was more sympathetic but then to say that about where wendigoon is from with no nuance is hypocritical

[@uumanebs]

@@Marynicole830 I don't disagree, but you're overlooking a lot of the reality. Illegal immigrants are direct competition for the mundane jobs these people also see as a way out for themselves and their families. They don't need to be convinced of that, that's the life they live. The same is true of the quotas, which do exist, especially in corporate America where they are given social credit scores which effect investment groups like the people who handle everyones 401k's. It was affirmative action, then it was DEI, now they're transitioning to BRIDGE. These practices have been found unconstitutional, so they just keep rebranding what they're doing. The same government that finds them unconstitutional is also pushing them behind the scenes. And since these programs are designed to impact people who are historically overlooked and thus lack means, these people are once again in direct competition and their competition is being given undue advantages. This isn't even remotely as simple as even you've made it out to be. Which is a far more complex look at a situation than most people are willing to give it. These people are ACTIVELY being oppressed and any bigotry that may exist is being reinforced by the unfair advantages their direct competition are being systemically given. And then you have people like IPOS and the entertainment and media industries all calling them oppressors despite being the most oppressed group within our society.

[@theultimaterage675]

I've had the pleasure of actually meeting and talking to Wendigoon before. He is one of the nicest and sincerest people I have ever met. As someone who's a Christian who's struggled with forgiving people and letting things go, like him, I don't think I could've ever responded as calm and respectful as he did. The level of humility and grace he has is actually insane to see

[@low-keydrama1260]

Honestly a lot of this was caused by jealousy. IPOS wanted what Wendigoon had: A successful KZbin career analyzing and reviewing horror. He thought he could just "expose and cancel" him, but his "points" were just grabbing at straws and really overreaching on some things to make "connections." It's like telling someone "Oh your favorite color is white? Well the KKK wore all white so that means you're a racist and want to be a member of the KKK, if you're not already one!" Like it's such a stretch just to make a point

[@NEEDbacon]

"You breath air? Well you know who else did? Hitler. So you're literally HITLER!"

[@derekhenschel3191]

Uhhh are you not a wendigoon fan or something, his success wasn't driven by his horror content it was driven by his political and conspiracy theory content

[@dogbackwards7658]

​@@derekhenschel3191 I'm sure the comment is just putting things in Context to that hater IPoS. To be fair Wendigoon is leaning much more to horror now with his recent uploads and his podcast with Papameat. He still does the conspiracy stuff on the Official Podcast.

[@derekhenschel3191]

@@dogbackwards7658 yea definitely I'm just saying his horror stuff wasn't what propelled his career

[@mariokarter13]

I can see how IPOS' point on The Hills Have Eyes could have been good, but he completely botched the delivery. Zombies were originally a metaphor for consumerism, it's not much of a stretch to say cannibalism could also be used as a metaphor for something else.

[@11epicnoob]

The argument breaks down to this: "he racist bc rich, white, and has Hawaiian shirts"

[@TheZeroNeonix]

That and because he dared to talk to this list of people who also did nothing wrong. lol

[@darylchua2168]

and is christian

[@TheHikeChoseMe]

he isnt white..he is literally native american

[@TheZeroNeonix]

@TheHikeChoseMe - I thought he was mostly white, with a grandfather who was a Native American.

[@jennifergreene6469]

I might be misunderstanding but... is he not wearing a Hawaiian shirt himself in that slide, while making this claim?

[@katy5298]

Wendigoon doesn't just live in Appalachia, he's Appalachian. He has a lot of love and respect for appalachian people (hello, wendigo), their history and their traditions, and talks fondly of their lores and superstitions that he heard from his grandfather growing up. Zane IS racist.

[@ligmasurvivor5600]

wendigooning

[@GoodKidmAAdLizard]

Fallout 76 referenss!!!???!!

[@spencerhamilton3084]

He's also part native just bc someone is light-skinned doesn't mean they aren't native

[@noupera]

@@spencerhamilton3084 i’ve seen a lot of people basically discredit the fact that he has native american heritage simply because he is white passing?? like yes, he looks white but that does not mean he isn’t native. plenty of people “look” white and are people of color, it’s ridiculous that people think race has to have a certain look!

[@spencerhamilton3084]

@@noupera no fr as a light-skinned native (I'm half) and grew up on the rez it's absolutely silly and every actual native will tell you it doesn't matter lol

[@takumifujiwara1998]

Guys, I have a theory. Wendigoon didn’t invite him to his birthday party and has been holding a grudge ever since.

[@despacitoking237]

I would too 💀

[@xvx_k1r1t0_xvxkillme7]

Or maybe it’s because wendiGoon keeps manipulating people to join his religion 💀☠️🏴‍☠️

[@Quiet_Void]

“Even Spider Man got invited to his birthday party, unforgivable!”

[@One-tab_by_mouth]

Ahahahaha 😂😅

[@MephiticMiasma]

understandable. You only turn 3 once.

[@Requiem100500]

The whole video is basically "People aren't allowed to have opinions that don't align with my own" stretched into 3 hours

[@0kr4m]

False equivalence. Conservatives are trying to take trans rights away. Leftists aren’t trying to take anyone’s rights away

[@macaemeia146]

average political extrimest:

[@shoelessbandit1581]

​@@macaemeia146I'm a political extremist and I'm more respectful of other's opinions lmao

[@FortressLordJP193]

I don't think it's even that, if they were real exposures I wouldn't mind, they're just all really weak points.

[@midashitegamer5264]

@@shoelessbandit1581then you’re not a political extremist congrats learn what extremism entails

[@BrandonBuckingham]

this has gotta be some of the most fun drama ever

[@AJMasion]

Lmfao 😂

[@Blankframe12]

True

[@LostHorizons0]

It’s not that interesting

[@strangerofthe2067]

your latest gun video about Kensington was fire Brandon 🔥

[@Calla1995]

I mean, nothing illegal happened ad it was just some classiest idiot showing his ass with the self awareness of a stump. Can hardly get better 😁

[@MichaelCardio]

I like how everybody rejected the name X and just kept calling it twitter Edit: didn't really expect this simple comment to be the one to blow up my phone. But here we are. PS: My goodness it's just a comment about twitter, not a warzone 😭

[@Chippur]

X sounds so terrible..

[@transsnack]

​@@Chippur it sounds... like a site more often visited in incognito mode than anything.

[@Chippur]

@@transsnack are we supposed to call videos posted on X "x videos" 😭

[@OtakuDeCarnitas109]

Fun fact, When Musk owned PayPal, he wanted to call it X, only for PayPal to kick him out for it.

[@transsnack]

​@@Chippurunironically, yes, that is what they're officially titled now.

[@McSqueezyNB]

Met Wendigoon once, kidnapped me and handcuffed me to a radiator, then forced me to watch every Veggie Tales VHS. Great guy

[@BrickFighter13]

I don’t get why people want to “expose” Wendigoon when he’s literally such a nice guy on the internet

[@misaeldoesanimation4408]

He literally explains why in the video. The guy trying to expose him is delusional

[@ekki1993]

Plenty of people like both the drama and the catharsis of finding out the good guy you don't like is actually bad. It happens to all famously nice people.

[@TheBobblemin]

Nobody can believe somebody is that nice. It's why people would say Mr. Roger's was a military sniper before the kids show. No one can just accept a person is that nice just because they is.

[@eeveeunlimited1629]

Wendigoon probably won't be the first or last KZbinr who will receive unnecessary hate over literally anything.

[@Phantosification]

Social Media is littered with the dead careers of "nice" guys who turned out to be insane evil assholes. It is possible to jump the gun on that, in pursuit claiming "First!" to call it. But bad vibes aren't enough.

[@AwfulWaffle8474]

In the video he says Wendigoon uses the fact he is a Christian to deflect criticism but then uses the fact he (IPOS) is gay to deflect criticism of himself.

[@Colddirector]

So what you're saying is that I should make a video exposing them both as a gay Christian?

[@dogbackwards7658]

That's just one example. The amount of hypocrisy from IPoS is enough to fill the credits at the end of the movie. Calls out people for making bad-faith arguments while being totally in bad-faith. Saying that words have an effect on people without any regard for how his words affect people. Implies Wendi is racist just coz he comes from a certain region. While having said something super racist in his Hills have eyes video. The list goes on...

[@RallyTheTally]

Good point.

[@SOBEKCrocodileGod]

What’s crazy is IPOS has rarely even mentioned his sexuality in videos, so saying “they’re just hating on me cause I’m gay” is a poor excuse. Like I’m sure some out there are that close-minded but the majority criticizing him aren’t doing so because of that

[@sarahblack9333]

​@@dogbackwards7658 implying wearing a Hawaiian shirt makes you a part of the bugaloo boys while himself wearing a Hawaiian shirt...

[@madmattgaming3951]

Am I the only person who reads "Imma Piece of Shit" every time I see IPoS on the screen?

[@wikdsweet]

Nope, you're not alone 🤣

[@alrosenfeld5958]

Was just thinking that.

[@YoungBison]

I thought it was in praise of soy

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

I didn’t, but now I can’t UNsee it. Ggs lol

[@Hardbass2021]

Well, I thought that's his name, tbh.

[@bobthespam]

i did find it weird that one time i liked one of Wendigoon's Videos, and suddenly he personally tracked me down, called my phone, and said "hey kid, would you like to join my extremist right wing gun youtuber group?", but i was kinda shy so i declined.

[@dogbackwards7658]

This was clearly the first time the dude ever stepped outside his own echo chamber. He was so sure the straws he was grasping were enough to "expose" possibly the most unproblematic person online.

[@nikoclesceri2267]

it's not though, he made and then deleted a video where he compares the incest ridden cannable family in the hills have eyes to native Americans.

[@dogbackwards7658]

@@nikoclesceri2267 oh yeah he did. Then he immediately retreated back to said echo chamber coz he didn't at all feel what he said was wrong or racisy af. Just that in his own words "the video was received poorly" and everybody was just a hater.

[@ferret2308]

The fact that it wasn't just wendigoon but Oompaville, DonutOperater, etc. He hit the jackpot of beloved creators and his prize is deplatforming, rightfully.

[@GregMcGregsen]

And the fact that he didn´t mention penguinz0 who is a gun enthusiast and friends with wendigoon , because he would get his ass wopped so hard, is so funny

[@hydromancer4916]

Donut's a zogbot

[@acid_tongue_4315]

I had No idea he went after oompa :0 And like, sure, While I and a lot of others suspect Oompa may have some more republican or conservative views, he tries to keep them out of videos, and often times even catches himself real time about to get a but too political for his channel standard. Oomp is just a little goblin with a candy company, he is actively tryna avoid starting political conversations. For this "exposee" to see that effort and then completely disregard it simply because of oomp's personal beliefs he keeps to himself is wild.

[@seggsyman6957]

@@GregMcGregsenthat’s a good point I didn’t even think of that

[@selinesbeau]

@@acid_tongue_4315 And there's some of us out here that just don't want anything to do with anyone's politics. Like, i'm not stopping you, but I don't want to participate.

[@gngrblls2thwall]

He talks like Napoleon Dynamite auditioning to play Patrick Bateman in an American Psycho remake.

[@NEEDbacon]

"Guh, I'm like, not even there"

[@Fungfetti]

😭

[@Ixiah27]

Go watch a sketch named Whicker Island by monty phyton, he acts the same xD

[@thedukeofchutney468]

Don’t you put that evil on Napoleon!

[@DistractedGlobeGuy]

He talks like Napoleon Dynamite auditioning to play Michael Jackson on _South Park._

[@Unserioussam328]

I like wendigoon. But more importantly I feel like wendigoon is someone who despite not agreeing with his beliefs, I can respect why he has them and I'm willing to continue listening when he puts what he's talking about through the filter of what he believes in. .. it also helps that he's handsome but y'know.

[@PaulFeench]

Fr people need to realize that just because someone has beliefs and are open about them doesnt mean they are pushing them

[@brianc8916]

The reason his Hills Have Eyes video got backlash is because he compared Native Americans to flesh hungry inbred cannibals. It's not exactly an opinion most would agree with. Also, defending a .pdf file didn't help.

[@LiamNajor]

He WHAT?!!

[@marianrucareanu8802]

Dude, you can't just end like that, give us some details.

[@YoungBison]

​@@marianrucareanu8802in praise of shadows literally said the cannibals in the hills have eyes are an allegory for either black people or native Americans

[@marianrucareanu8802]

@YoungBison (I meant the pdf) my bad, I replied before finishing the video

[@TwoBs]

@@marianrucareanu8802 Probably in reference to the video he recently put up where he complained about people shrugging and laughing at a PDFile getting shot at (it was a thumbnail by one of the creators mentioned in his video, whining because said creator in question was smiling in his thumbnail) - basically implying that it was so insensitive and people were so unsympathetic to the person shot because “gun culture bad”….

[@Coolguy126YT]

Imagine trying to expose Wendigoon, one of the nicest youtubers on the platform.

[@dinodoeseditz]

i know! how dare he!

[@user-fr8hx2gm9t]

breaking news: guy is normal

[@YerielGonzález-m5u]

fr wendigoon is so goated

[@mrfancyshmancy]

He is right leaning so he is bad, and uf he isn't i'll just get a gold medal in mental gymnastics to make him the bad guy -some weird left leaning horror youtuber

[@mrroboshadow]

It's kinda like trying to paint Mr. Rogers as an asshole It's dumb and impossible

[@theedexterspeckman6512]

you know that scene in family guy where quagmire absolutely tears brian to shreds about how he’s a pretentious liberal asshole who acts like he’s better than everyone else, leeches off the people around him, and acts like he’s so politically correct but never does anything to better the country he lives in? that’s literally how i feel about in praise of shadows. right down to the “God, you’re pretentious!” line.

[@humrH2360]

I'd argue he's even worse. Because while Brian actually does show some bite on occasion, IPOS continues to do this helpless village girl schtick, even as he's essentially demanding *_the erasure of ideological dissent._* Zane essentially epitomizes these words from Jordan Peterson: "A harmless man is not a good man." Underneath a veneer of a harmless well-meaning young man is bloodthirsty manchild who hates the world for how it doesn't cater his desires, but has zero strength to do anything about and is unwilling to accept any sort of worldly imperfection.

[@j.2512]

a rootless cosmopolitan parasite

[@TimeCircleBlue]

@@humrH2360 that last part made this spring to mind: “He who Desires, but acts not breeds Pestilence.” So it is written.

[@palntyboi]

@@humrH2360 he is the kind of person to write the witches hammer, so to speak.

[@Silentguy_]

@@TimeCircleBlue William Blake. Nice

[@armancochranwhite-wb4vb]

I’m not straight, I love wendigoon, I think we should all just come together and agree on one thing, wendigoon is the kindest man on earth.

[@LiveFreeOrDie2A]

Wendigoon may be the nicest most wholesome guy on the planet, BUT his misuse of the words “whenever” vs “when” is fucking UNFORGIVABLE. He’s a menace who must be stopped.

[@CheeseHooHoo]

Glad to see you exposed TechLead and got your video back

[@manporo5865]

Wait, it got hit??

[@kingslow012]

​@@manporo5865yeah the scamming dirtbag did a copyright claim on it and even made a video that is now deleted admitting that he did it penguinz and someordinarygamer did a vid about it

[@weaboo8141]

@@manporo5865 He's been on a striking spree recently.

[@vuhoanginh2715]

​@@manporo5865TechLead tried copyright strike him

[@davidturney2975]

Penguinz0 did a video on it last night

[@monarchyyyy]

"YOU KNOW THAT I ONLY GOT $500 FROM AD REVENUE ALONE!!!" "He's a millionaire, why would i listen this stuff?" He's literally jealous and seething because it's not him lmao

[@BIacklce]

"I only make 500 dollars a month" *makes 3+ hour videos* gee I wonder why

[@vidyastuff3509]

Thats where that video really came from. It was 100% a shot to get his name out there for clout and it backfired.

[@planescaped]

@@vidyastuff3509 No I think he legitimately believed the things he was saying. It was more like someone having a mental breakdown and being disassociated with reality. The type of thing you see before the person ends up committing themselves somewhere.

[@yuzzo92]

Also a problem that he could have easily eased by splitting 4 hours self-entitled essays into multiple parts.

[@thedinkster2163]

I'd fucking listen to the guy making millions doing the same job as me.

[@alexvp9344]

As a non straight guy it always baffles me how the most homophobic assumptions come from actual queer people whenever they try to deflect or something, like his first thought when someone called him low testosterone was bc he’s gay

[@melancholyentertainment]

True actually, a lot of the negativity I’ve encouraged as a bi man has been from others in the queer community. I’ve also seen them basically take issue with others not reinforcing their stereotypes.

[@vv414-u9p]

@@melancholyentertainment people in the queer community (from what I've observed as a straight man) tend to forget the sacrifices made by those before them and the movement has kind of devolved into just self-worship, which is fine but can lead to things like stereotypes and forgetting how you got there in the first place.

[@crushycrawfishy1765]

@@vv414-u9p dude, I was absolutely gobsmacked the first time I heard gay people talk about trans people as if they were sub human and monsters.It's like, if there was one group who should understand persecution, and prejudice it would be the gays. LGBTQ community has gotten really vile lately and I hate it.

[@urbansekkt6355]

It's the same with racist stuff. I've came to notice that the more tolerant you claim to be... The more chances you'll fuck up worse than a legit racist.

[@fluidwolf]

It's kind of nutty how some in the community have dived into embracing the very stereotypes many spent years fighting against. Oftentimes in attempting to use their sexuality or gender as a shield sadly.

[@snaggletooth-xn9zt]

funny part is that im from the apalachan region, im black and bisexual 💀im walking proof his argumentt is stupid, not 1 time in my life was i ever racially profiled

[@terrified057t4]

Nah you're _obviously_ a cishet rich white gun-owning male masquerading as a black bi Appalachian.

[@mrpickles-hb6zx]

You don't speak for all of them,you aren't special

[@snaggletooth-xn9zt]

@@mrpickles-hb6zx praise of shadows framed it as if this is a super racist region of the us, if that was really true how come at no point was i ever profiled im not saying im special and that nobody gets profiled there but at the same time its pretty shitty to say that everyone there is racist with just the evidance that theres alot of white people there (just fixed a couple typos)

[@royalraptorgaming8501]

@@mrpickles-hb6zx ah yes, invalidate the experience of black peoples when it’s no longer convenient to validate them. Classic.

[@ZzzarieL]

@@mrpickles-hb6zx but everyone is special of their own, no?

[@austinwilburn1772]

That sounds like calling someone Hitler because they got denied from a art school.

[@HeydenHarvey]

he was right though wendigoon is a horrible person he came to my house once destroyed my tv then ran out

[@0xPRIMEgs]

So he ran in, turned on that In Prase of Shadows video, refused to elaborate, and left?​@@HeydenHarvey

[@austinwilburn1772]

@@HeydenHarvey he called my family stinky :(

[@Usernamesdontmatter1]

​@@HeydenHarvey Dude stole my kid and then made a video about his disappearance. Truly awful.

[@gatergates8813]

​@Usernamesdontmatter1 I gave him a tray of corn muffins to paint my chicken coop- and he never did it!

[@dinodoeseditz]

you know it’s a good day when internet anarchist posts the juiciest internet gossip

[@seekersrepublic4731]

InPraiseOfShadows: "He wears a Hawaiian shirt so he must be an extremist!" Mirror: *Exists* InPraiseOfShadows: *Confused screaming*

[@Coconut-219]

When the video title character limit doesn't have enough room for the massive sarcasm quotes around the word 'exposing'

[@isltdairwvs808]

Another funny thing is, those aren’t even true Hawaiian shirts. Those are just floral shirts.

[@flamefangstar]

There's a difference? /gen

[@isltdairwvs808]

@@flamefangstar yes there’s a difference. Hawaiian shirts are slightly oversized with prints/ flowers/plants and things associated with Hawaiian culture.

[@yggdrasil2]

Arent they also lacking buttons over the chest?

[@isltdairwvs808]

@@yggdrasil2 no. They’re only missing the Top button near the neck

[@McNuggins]

His analysis of "Hills Have Eyes" was pretty goddamn racist.

[@thrgg]

It's like people who think ogres are a depiction of black people. Why would you ever think that?!

[@1995pieter]

and the common theme here is he just doesnt seem to learn his own faults. when he sees sorry and admits faults is all very superficial. how he presented it, how he worded something. but he refuses to consider he might actgually be in the wrong here. very ironic the typical white person who lecture other white people how they are racist and how it should be done, but in the same breath refuses to see his own racism. i kinda feel for the dude, he is clearly not in a good space and probably doesnt have alot of good people around him who would engage him for introspection. he only has yes man around him or just pestered anyone critically about him away.

[@FG-tu4fq]

IPOS: How is my take of Hill Have Eyes racist? You compare indigenous people to violent cannibals, dispshit.

[@setterfieldstray]

Most libs are unconsciously very racist

[@jimjamauto]

He could've even spared himself this criticism if he was the least bit knowledgeable about cultures he claims to care for and used the movie an an allegory for the Apache instead of "Native Americans". He would've still been wrong but he would've been gracefully wrong.

[@TheAnonyomusGuy]

For clarification: Zane made the statement that you could compare the hill folk to different groups and his examples where Native Americans, and black people.

[@noupera]

i always kind of saw the hill folk as a commentary on lower class white families in the south and the stereotypes a lot of people in this country put upon them. to compare them to native or black people is just crazy

[@gimzod76]

Which is even more racist given the tale the film is based on is from Scotland.

[@bzipoli]

WHAT

[@AliceBowie]

I think you can say they represent oppressed or marginalized groups, but they definitely are the good guys. If anything the lesson of the movie is don't take shortcuts through the middle of nowhere, especially when a gas station guy tells you not to.

[@TheAnonyomusGuy]

@AliceBowie I don't think it's that deep, just a modern version (for the 70s) of the infamous Swanny family. Also, the cannibal, rapist, murdering, and torturing hill folk aren't the good guys.

[@halisaurusrex8366]

As someone that grew up in WV (the only state that is FULLY embedded in the Appalachian Mountains), it is the fkn same as everywhere else. You have some people living in small towns or big cities that are racist. Saying that all of Appalachia is racist is honestly offensive lmfao.

[@rooftophustlers]

I have to turn this off. 3 minutes in and my brain cells are screaming for mercy.

[@sarahr9894]

I'm a liberal and queer and this guy has said just the most racist, homophobic, and genuinely unkind things, and I hate that I share those two similarities with him. Wendigoon is one of my favourite creators. He's smart, funny, talks about interesting things, and incredibly kind. This is the guy who turned off his Patreon because he didn't need the money. He turns off donations on his livestreams because people give him too much money and offers to refund them. If there's ever been a guy who deserves the success he's gotten, it's Wendigoon.

[@PerfectCell937]

Have you heard of the horse shoe theory? Most leftist and most far right people are extremely similar

[@Sebastian4775]

@@PerfectCell937 yep, thats why im center leftist , i have right wing and left wing friends

[@jimbob8726]

I mean, you are probably used to seeing those kinds of people in the liberal circles, if the right leaners never fought, America might still be using slavery they bought from the trans-atlantic slave trade like the countries still using slaves to this day.

[@enderforces7013]

hatred holds no flag. A lot of homophobia comes from queer people, most slut shaming comes from women and racism is far more present in non-caucasian ethnicities.

[@ΓιάννηςΜεταξάς-ρ5φ]

@@Sebastian4775 your right wing "friends" would ship you to the camps if you were queer.

[@smolsammichowo]

The way Wendigoon responded reminded me of that one moment in Gumball where the one cactus person just obliterates Gumball by saying "I forgive you :) " after he was going on about "Privlage" & "Social Justice"

[@francoquispe656]

One time Wendigoon ran over me with his car and drove off, he just went to buy me a burger for me to wait until the ambulance he called came, pretty good guy.

[@timmyreobed5043]

My favorite part of that hitpiece is how IPOS was so paranoid that he immediately assumed Wendigoon following him on Twitter was intended as a threat, or that him leaving a prequel meme quote in the comments section of a transwoman's video meant that he was transphobic. A comment that the creator of said video even responded positively to

[@SeanStrife]

Yeah, that's kinda the impression I got; Wendigoon was interested in seeing where a particular content creator's career goes and hopes for the best.. and I get the feeling Wendigoon probably liked some of IPOS's videos and that's why he followed him... after all, they're in the same genre (horror media analysis).

[@hiunaut2833]

@@SeanStrife Wendigoon in fact did like some of Zane's video, he even said in his long comment on Zane's slander video that his Slenderman video was great and (iirc) in Brandon's video he also explained that's what made him to follow IPOS's channel and twitter. Zane was completely manic connecting the dots like a conspiracist nutjob.

[@hafwaybrown]

PoS is a very appropriate abbreviation

[@MichaelDavis-mk4me]

Prince of Persia? What did he do to earn our spite?

[@defundhollywood3259]

It cracks me up every time I watch a video about this situation. It's like the Apple version of a PoS... iPOS 😂

[@chrisgabele75]

The fact that Wendigoon straight up forgave IPoS and even apologized to him, which aligns with his faith, is the reason why he is my most favorite KZbinr of all time

[@Fungfetti]

He is the most Christlike man I've ever seen, it's written that Jesus would hang out with the troubled and unusual to show them they had a loving and respecting place with him, and that's exactly what wendigoon does

[@alvintollah]

He has said it himself, that Wendigoon's weakness is stories about mercy and forgiveness. Lotta moments in his videos where he cried when he got to such parts. Thus, it's not surprising that the guy is very forgiving and quick to apologize.

[@sammythedragon]

he's one of the only people i know of who actually embodies what christianity is supposed to look like, mad respect even if im agnostic myself

[@spankyjeffro5320]

Lol, no. No, it does not. If you read the bibble, you would know why. His religion is fucking filthy.

[@Cypherwraith001]

I think the graciousness of Wendi's response compared to the callous "I made an oopsie, but not really" tone of IPOS's followup really drives it home. One is a guy who loves telling stories and tries to respect everyone he comes across, regardless of their stance or belief. The other is petty and mad about the success of others, and wanted to tear them down to build himself up. Ain't hard to see who's who

[@enfenfenf]

Putting your apology on patreon behind a pay wall is wild

[@BrandonBuckingham]

amazing video anarchist!!! great coverage

[@InternetAnarchist]

Thank you legend, I was late - but I finally got this out 😂❤️

[@MeTaLandPiZzAdUdE]

Bro I nearly got a heart attack from this title... I thought Wendigoon got cancelled for something nefarious

[@pon2804]

RIGHT?? holy crap I was gonna cry and simply never open youtube ever again

[@DeathbyProxy]

ME TOO LMAO

[@ellielou52]

I was having a mini meltdown. If he's a terrible person I have no hope for the human race anymore!

[@hannahm420]

he really called oompa a “gun toting youtuber.” LIKE HELLO WHATTTTTTT?? 😭😭 yes oompa has said he does have guns but it was literally like once or twice ever. he never bases any of his content on guns. IPOS is such a weird ahhh dude.

[@shadowyyCFH]

he also said he took advantage of nikocado avocado by filming him shooting guns when nik was there consenting to it lool

[@hannahm420]

@@shadowyyCFH ffs this dude really just said fck facts or any solid evidence proving me wrong on any of these people calling me out 😂😂😂

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

I dunno about you, but Oompa likes to poke a lot of fun at the fact that he's a gun toting nut in a lot of his videos. He's even done a few skits where he'd just have all of his guns in a pile in the background shot. That being said, it's obviously a joke that Oompa likes to do. Zane being the delusional strawman that he is, he probably assumed that Oompa was being serious with those jokes.

[@WanderTheNomad]

@@hannahm420 It's what we call "grasping at straws"

[@MichaelDavis-mk4me]

@@shadowyyCFH "Conservatives... EVERYWHERE! In the walls, in the shadows. They hide in supposedly liberal bodies, then lash out at you!" That's probably what he thinks, his whole video was a paranoid rambling.

[@Lelldorin84]

"I'm not saying Wendigoon eats babies, but has he ever gone on record to say he doesn't eat babies? Maybe he's too busy eating babies!" What is this, amateur hour?

[@Calla1995]

As a native East Tennessean its hurtful to hear someone broadstroke and paint everyone i know and love as willfully ignorant bigots. It speaks to a very classist mindsent. He can't even pronounce Appalachia right. Its like "I'll throw an Apple-at-ch'ya".

[@transsnack]

I'm from Louisiana, so I get that particular pain. I'm sorry he did that, it always sucks to be on the receiving end of such assumptions.

[@Calla1995]

Thank you very much. Or, as i believe is a mutually know phrase. "Bless your sweet heart" lol 😊 ​@@transsnack

[@publiusventidiusbassus1232]

And its funny, because those stereotypes are usually enforced by white liberals who have virtually no social experience with people that aren't other white liberals.

[@surly_mel]

I lived my entire childhood in Appalachia, same ratio of bigots as anywhere else really. 100% doesn't deserve to be picked on. I think this happens because idiots love to pick the economically disadvantaged. If you're poor you must be stupid, right?

[@camellia5989]

​@transsnack yo I'm from Louisiana too, love to see another one of us

[@senor_vunchero]

The fact that Wendigoon was willing to accept Zane hates him. And see if he was ever rude to him that could warrant that hate, truly shows Wendigoon's kindness and maturity. And basically 100% disproving Zane's allegations into oblivion

[@SnailHatan]

Huh? No, that shows nothing. Anyone can type whatever the hell they have to. That isn’t proof of anything. Or is Putin’s smiling and typing about loving babies proof that he has a single ounce if concern for the future of the children and world?

[@Fungfetti]

@@SnailHatanholy yap

[@hexagonnoto6085]

@@SnailHatanuuhhhh what the sigma?

[@Bob.Roberts]

@@SnailHatan The difference is that he did it on camera with a huge audience watching online, so it's not like he can just do the opposite and not get bashed for it, regardless of the circumstances; and what the hell man, comparing Isaiah to Vlad? That's a rather unhinged stretch.

[@therealf.b.i9468]

​@@SnailHatanThe Island of Yapanese is calling their leader

[@faizalqorni7969]

He has such a strong reddit aura I don't know why

[@clubbedsandwich1128]

He definitely engages daily in r/politics. lol

[@Alex-me3yn]

cuz he is saying a bunch of gibberish but clearly trying to be malevolent, resulting in a simultaneously tedious and pathetic antagonist? edit: the fact he learned absolutely nothing from the whole ordeal, since he thinks he made a video that warranted a point by point refutation, at 20:36, as well

[@faizalqorni7969]

@@Alex-me3yn Also his choice of words, trying to sound... intelligent? while in essence it's just ranting about how envious he is.

[@DautFromX]

Because of his lefty politics and habit of calling everyone right of Marx a nazi, obviously.

[@SuperNiceteeth]

The title of this video made it sound like Wendigoon's career ended. Instead, I found out he's even more wholesome than I knew.

[@yeeyeeyeeye]

I'm liberal, queer, and a horror fan l and people like IPOS do not speak for me, and I get pissed when they do. He says the most racist and horrible things and then claims that he's just standing up for the people who can't. No, you're not. You are speaking OVER them and refusing to listen to them when they tell you to shut up and stay in your own lane.

[@j.2512]

this is like furries disavowing the zoophiles in their community, if it happens so often that you have to make constant disclaimers then maybe something is really wrong with your whole community.

[@cassbake2535]

It makes me so mad too, like hes a white man accusing Wendigoon of being a racist that shouldnt be allowed to go in public?? Off of no real evidence 😭😭 IPOS thinks hes a white savior or smthn

[@cassbake2535]

Im a person of color and this shit never hits me right IPOS is weird asf

[@arrestedeffort]

Thank you! I'm a queer leftist myself, and I can't stand the foaming-at-the-mouth, uninformed assholes like IPOS who constantly go on the offensive, looking for anybody and everybody to tear down. Sadly, it's people like him that get the most attention, and so many people think all leftists are like that. Just like we're often given the impression that all conservatives are hate-filled sociopaths just because the ones who are get the most attention. It's sad that the loudest, most vocal assholes color society's perception and lead to further division. While we as humans may have many vast ideological differences from many other people, we are overall more alike than we are different. Politics do not define us. And I wish more people would remember that more often.

[@Klongu_Da_Bongu]

Nope, they speak for you. You are the exception not the rule. Go to any left wing website/subreddit/comment section and observe how they talk about the other side - then compare it to the comment section here or an PJW video. That is the reason most liberals like me turned conservative.

[@ProfessorChocolateCake]

He also tried to claim that "People who own German Shepherds are KKK members".

[@nothanksplease]

HAHAHHHAHAHA

[@toastercannon7941]

Wait where?!

[@GrievousReborn]

He's apparently said something about how Johnny Depp gaslit people into thinking Amber Heard was insane

[@toastercannon7941]

@@GrievousReborn okay he needs help ASAP, it’s only a matter of time before he thinks his boyfriend is a CIA psyop designed to make him less extreme and tries to take him out

[@fluidwolf]

@@GrievousReborn The fact that there are still people simping for her is crazy to me

[@Monte_Carlo451]

The funniest part is that he thought wendigoon was stalking him or intimidating him when he was followed by wendigoon

[@esequieltrindade9244]

Least paranoid horror fan

[@chrisgonz19]

Wendigoon is someone that EVERYBODY can like.

[@ayameisastar]

The name “In praise of shadows” is in reference to a Japanese writer, Junichiro Tanizaki’s essay on traditional Japanese aesthetics. Although tanizaki’s writing sometimes had horror elements, his essay is not a horror piece. Also, none of IPOS critiques have anything to do with japaneses aesthetics and I’m pretty sure he’s never read the essay

[@MrX-yr6py]

oh shit, i read that and didnt even make connection. dude is too shitty to be associated with such a good essay in my mind, i guess.

[@trollman1296]

Wendigoon is like a Golden Retriever, they're friendly, playful, and goes along fine with everyone regardless of difference and his friends are brutal, vicious, and merciless wolves. What IPoS did is basically tried to hurt the Golden Retriever and his friends but it did nothing and instead got IPoS mauled viciously and mercilessly by the Golden Retrievers friend, and to add insult to IPoS, Wendigoon's response basically forgiving him and asking poeple to not harassm IPoS

[@thewooz7398]

I've heard Wendigoon described as the "golden retreiver" in a pack of hungry wolves, and I absolutely cannot argue with that.

[@MeaghanEdwards]

Wendigoon was way nicer in that response than I would have been.

[@Tuffest_Leader]

cant wait for "How Attacking Internet Anarchist Ended TechLead's Career" next haha

[@AwfulWaffle8474]

(as a millionaire)

[@userrrr.440]

can't wait for it !

[@sayo1133]

a 3-hour video making fun of actual bad conservative horror movies sounds like the best video ever. imagine clicking on that video and expecting 3 hours worth of something like kurtis conner watching the reconciler. and then it’s just a slow unhinged rant. for 3 hours. i feel bad for those people.

[@Superninjasam]

that exact thing happened to me lol. i used to actually be subscribed to IPAS but after that he lost me lol. i wasn’t even a big fan i just like watching long form videos to go to sleep. i had no idea he was such a hateful pathetic freak

[@wondrousworkshopofxenucede4859]

Yeah literally. He had a great video run where he covered stop motion horror, horror movies that had terrible production, etc. thought this next chapter would be the same idea. It’s election year so bad horror movies with conservative actors/productions was interesting to me. As soon as I realized that after 10 skips he spent twenty minutes talking about Twitter comments then I was like oh that’s not what this is about…

[@scarybeyondallreason666]

​@wondrousworkshopofxenucede4859 same. I was ecstatic upon clicking IPOS video but a minute into the rant, I skipped every single frame with a danged tweet. Such a mess.

[@PineFSunshine]

For me it was sunken cost falicy... I was expecting a video covering, well, bad conservative horror movies! There is so much to be said about that topic and how a lot of politically focused horror movies tend to be really bad. But IPOS just went on and on and his 'arguments' just fell apart and lost focus. Like I loved his videos but he really just lost me after that video. The dude not only fed the trolls, but gave them an absolute feast. He made a 3 hour drama video and it was extremely disappointing. There's so much more that I wanna say but this comment could also become a sunken cost.

[@JellieFluff]

Kurtis conner mention

[@EricDaMAJ]

Shoe on Head nailed it: This guy is a far leftist caricature as imagined by the Daily Wire. Indeed, if I worked for the Daily Wire or Babylon Bee and I'd seen the script for this video I'd have thrown it back in the writer's face as too unrealistic and one dimensional.

[@palntyboi]

daily wire, yes. babylon bee, a parody news site, no.

[@Taragoola]

As an anarchist most “normal” folks would probably consider me a left wing extremist. And even I think Zane is a twatwaffle. Wendigoon is an internet treasure.

[@InspiriumESOO]

Yeah IPOS is a bad right-wing psy-op. This cartoonish depiction is an affront to reason and logic, so much so that everyone regardless of political position sides against him. It backfired badly.

[@somebodyperson1741]

What are some specific views you hold

[@EricDaMAJ]

@@somebodyperson1741 You first.

[@lobsterlunchbox7581]

when I first saw this I got a heart attack because I thought wendigoon got exposed

[@Baldevi]

I actually lived in Asheville, where Zane lives [or used to live, no one can find him, I have asked because I am worried he'll harm himself in confused despair.] I met Zane once, for about 90 minutes he was at a monthly meeting of "Alternative practitioners" such as massage therapists, psychics, farmers etc. Zane was curious if any Horror fans were to be found there, but he was also immediately seeking to sniff out the political leaning of every atendee. We mainly refused to speak to/about politics, seeing that as a wedge, not a uniting energy, so we all encouraged him to speak about himself. At the time he had a dayjob that he hated, but wanted to become a critic of horror movies and find a way to make a living at it. He left quickly, since h's socially awkward, tho we all tried to sooth him into relaxing and enjoying himself. No dice. He was not nearly as delusional then as now, but this was literally 5+ years ago. I suspect his audience blowing smoke up his ass ahs inflated his ego massively, so this huge L has to have hurt that swollen Ego badly. I am eager for your coverage, so I'm watching now!

[@InternetAnarchist]

That’s interesting if true… thanks for sharing!

[@amazingkabachi437]

@@InternetAnarchist I was also there.( i was the politics )

[@harmless_p0tato821]

@@amazingkabachi437 me too (I was the wedge)

[@Qwerty-vo8do]

​@@harmless_p0tato821 me too (i was edging)

[@lakshaychand8603]

@@InternetAnarchist i was also there i was the earth

[@auraaetherbladesigma6939]

The ironic thing about what he stated about the conservative side is you can have both that and make an impactful story with themes and complexity at the same time. By separating the two aspects to make an artificial side to hate, not only do you weaken your argument but also proved that you’re willing to bend the truth to make your argument artificially appealing.

[@azabache6058]

I feel like politcal sphere has gotten so divided that eveyrone heavily involved in it can only see in black and white, us vs them, and if you're in anyway in the middle or hold opinions that are mixed you're just viewed as being an enemy who isn't honest about themselves. IMO, I think it's worse when leftists do this as so many of them will preach about looking at things from different perspectives and being accepting of others but as soon you fall slightly put of the party line you're immediately labeled a hate-monger. I've always considered myself a very left leaning person but the last decade has made it very hard for me to say that with some of the crazy assholes traning to rep some of the ideals i havs

[@Lilly_King]

​@@azabache6058 I think it's the internet-ifcation of it all. The algorithms feed on rage, not in a malicious way but anger is the emotion that gets the most ROI (Rate-Of-Interaction). And if you aren't constantly on guard against it and see the "other side" through the lens of the internet that rage filled extremism is all you see. And it looks ridiculous so you assume they are all ridiculous.

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

​@@Lilly_King Both of you are right. When people talk about politics in the basic sense online, it's more 'us vs them' than the 'deep topics' they claim to be for.

[@SpitfiretheCat16]

"conservatism has no place in horror" so 1) you can't have a horror movie without conflict and 2) like 80% of old classic horror movies were metaphors of conservative fears of progressive ideas manifested in a symbolic shape of some kind of monster what the fuck is this guy even saying???

[@toastercannon7941]

Horror is about pushing the boundaries, fear at its most basic is going outside your comfort zone, it’s easy to assume conservatives can’t do it because of that (conserve is literally in the name, it’s the opposite of leaving your comfort zone), but you kinda cut down horror’s potential if you assume that, horror can represent conservative fears just as well as the fears of the left, horror at the end of the day is an art form, and anyone can make art, you can’t say “that’s not art because I don’t agree with the piece’s meaning” (funny enough that happens more than you think)

[@ProsperoCh]

I feel like envy was a driving force for this whole thing. Like he opens with this huge pity party about how hard it is for him to make a career off discussing horror media. Then he looks at Wendigoon (who he considers a 'bad person' because he associates with those IPOS considers to be 'bad people') who is one of the most successful horror channels out there... And he just can't fucking stand it.

[@SeanStrife]

And what's sad is... most of the people he mentioned... aren't anywhere NEAR as right-wing as he claims they are; specifically oompaville (who strikes me as more of a center-left type... apparently IPOS forgot there are people on the left who love guns) and Mutahar (who... at his most far right, would be a goddamn centrist).

[@cleanerben9636]

@@SeanStrife it's crazy out here

[@ciclon5682]

@@SeanStrife people who call mutahar a far-right person are funny, muta has never shown signs of having a far-right ideology other than concerns over privacy and believing in the right to bear arms which by themselves arent even conservative political statments.

[@stratigangames508]

​@@ciclon5682 In today's political climate, they might as well be. It's crazy.

[@laskdjf3880]

doesn't wendigoon also follow bernie sanders?

[@Aisha18839]

yes

[@Edna-fq5gh]

And also strangely enough vivziepop

[@Furi_GYT]

I mean, Wendigoon does talk about a lot of biblical stuff, so follwoing a channel which has 2 well known shows that are about hell and heaven isn't that surprising tbh ​@@Edna-fq5gh

[@j.d.t.5761]

But then again, just because someone follows somone doesn't mean they agree with them. However, I definitely see your point.

[@MinecraftRick]

Doesn't surprise me at all considering he *lives* the Christian way more than he *spouts* it.

[@ToadySP]

The fact that his patreon supports increased by 45% after this controversy is just baffling. The idea that anyone out there could have watched that video, seeing him in real time act as the epitome of pride and envy, and yet still decide "this man needs my hard earned money" is horrible.

[@yeeyeeyeeye]

@@ToadySP they probably signed up just to see his ramblings in the community posts and then refunded after they took screenshots of what they wanted. It happened with James Somerton.

[@Yeshua_is-Cool]

Demons like the attack of the Christian man

[@NewOldEBM]

The best part about the Internet Historian thing is... like the dude is a kiwi in Australia... That date is 20/4

[@guilhermesstrueb881]

That mad lad is a kiwi? That's great.

[@JackpotsPH]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@JosiahMuncy]

To call someone out for wearing a Hawaiian shirt WHILE WEARING A HAWAIIAN SHIRT is wild 😵‍💫😂😂

[@SeanStrife]

That was probably an intentional choice on IPOS's part, to be fair.

[@purpseatpeeps8641]

@@SeanStrife I was thinking about that, how he must’ve only done it as an ironic statement… but then I realized that Wendigoon does too, it’s just a hypocritical point.

[@chloedog6901]

IA straight up roasted, cooked, and burned In Praise of Shadows by saying his video bombed more than Twitter rebranding to X

[@ausername8699]

In Praise of Shadows seems to have fallen into the trap of content-creator-turned-messiah. When you cultivate a following based on your personal worldviews and interpretations, you think you can wield your audience like a moral sword of justice. Except is perception of Wendigoon is so skewed from reality, he ended up backswinging and stabbing himself.

[@johnernest5843]

He's not even hot shit to justify that messiah complex. He's just in too deep in his own brain mulching social media circles that bro forgot how the real world worked and it backfired tremendously

[@stephenantonsson_II]

“I believe what I said was right but I could’ve worded it better” translates to “I meant what I said, sorry you’re too stupid to agree with me”

[@seen7163]

Gatekeeping horror based on political ideology is completely unhinged

[@alienboy1322]

Bubby, let me tell you about people who think some horror films are now woke.

[@seen7163]

@@alienboy1322 and they're just as dumb as this guy.

[@SeanStrife]

Especially in a world where H.P. Lovecraft exists.

[@0kr4m]

Gatekeep everything for the people trying to take trans people’s rights away ‼️‼️

[@Peaches-i2i]

They do it to every franchise and genre of interest. That's how evil operates. They come in, pretend to like it, and then start pushing their ideology.