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I checked through the content, I feel some of it could be considered mild hate speech but others was just the bloke mocking him. Also if this bloke was getting punished then shouldn't some of his guests get punished too considering they joined in? 

In terms of the merch/Patreon thing, what this guy doesn't seem to get is that some of what he's saying is out of YTs hands. They're not going to go to Patreon or any online merch stores and be like "I don't want you to allow this person to use your website because he broke our rules", it's like separated parents trying to get the other to enforce punishments that one set but the other didn't. Also Youtube would lose a lot of business this way.

In terms of the milkshake thing, the Vox dude is an idiot for thinking someone wouldn't clap back for encouraging semi-violent acts against people with differing political beliefs from him. However, Crowder could have avoided using his sexuality to clap back.

All in all, Vox guy should expect people to clap back when he says something like he did. Crowder should have been a bit more careful in the way he took Vox guy's stuff apart. Vox guy should actually learn how promotion, Patreon and business works. YT should have just stuck to punishing those involved rather than cause unnecessary stress on content creators that have nothing to do with this sorta stuff. 

Both of them done wrong, end of story

@Abyssreaper99 I personally use the "Who cares?" approach to a lot of things. People will always be dicks but if it doesn't affect my work I don't really care. To me this looks like someone throwing a hissy fit simply because they couldn't take a little bit of heat. Can't really say Crowder did anything wrong in that regard as he didn't violate any ToS. Starting to see a lot of people abuse the system and lot of YouTubers are losing ad revenue from ads being pulled from their videos. Not much can really be done about it once the ball is rolling. It totally is a publicity move to get attention and not about his feefees at this point. "Taking down" a big YouTuber certainly makes a name for yourself.

regardless of whether or not the situation escalated too far in the end... you can give people "a bit of heat" without dragging their sexual orientation into it, it's not a difficult concept
like, just so this is clear, if someone's immediate thought about "how can i make fun of this person" is to target their sexuality that's gross and out of line. and not rarely a pretty good indicator that there's more where it came from.

allowing homophobia gets more than just our feelings hurt in the long run, and a "who cares" approach only adds to the problem.

that said, it's whatever the fuck with youtubers, anyway. they'll just post a half-assed "apology video" where they vaguely apologize for making you feel hurt without ever reflecting on the actual wrong they did, and ppl will forget about it when next week's drama roll around