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This content explores the complex and often contradictory human reactions to the deaths of public figures, particularly artists and celebrities, examining the tension between traditional respect for the deceased and the modern tendency to scrutinize and criticize their past actions, even after death.
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Today we're going to be talking about
Hey,
let's party up.
>> All right. All right. Stop the music.
I want to talk to you
about the human experience. The human
experience is made up of every single
event in your entire life. Events that
you will never ever forget. By merely
existing, you get the privilege of
experiencing the beauty of nature, the
accomplishments of man, and if you're
lucky, the aspects of a specific culture
you get to call your own. It can almost
be overwhelming. So much going on, all
so precious, and you just have to sit
there and acknowledge the gift of your life.
life.
>> Hey, um, I'm your sister's boyfriend.
She just got mauled to death by seven ostriches.
ostriches.
>> Dang. Most people wouldn't give a rat's
ass if you died. And to the general
public, that's expected and probably
favored. I mean, me personally, I'd be
weirded the [ __ ] out if a bajillion
people showed up to my memorial, but I
don't know. But again, that's the
general public. The layman, the ordinary
people, and the people we're talking
about today are not ordinary. They're
freaks of nature. It's easy to say you
shouldn't care when a celebrity passes
because, well, you didn't know them. Why
would you mourn somebody you didn't
know? While I think it's fair to say
that it's a bit silly to mourn
celebrities or in the case of today
artists as much as people who were
genuinely a part of your life, I still
do feel like if something touches you,
like a piece of art, you're allowed to
feel a certain way when that artist is
passing. Easy example, I'm Mexican.
Dragon Ball is heavily influential in my
culture even before I watched and read
it. I've been surrounded by DB all my
life. It's had a huge impact on me. So
yeah, when series creator Akira Toriyama
died, I felt some type of way, and I
know a lot of people felt similar, but
there is another disparity when it comes
to Morning Dead celebrities. Most of
them are terrible people. In a lot of
ways, the internet has gotten much more
apathetic. Some of it is masked under
the guise of jokes. Some of it is buried
in 15 layers of irony. Or some of it is
coming from people who are brave enough
to tell you straight up to your face the
most offensive things imaginable, which
is kind of funny because people consider
2016 the edgy era. I think the edgiest
era is right now. What was once
considered edgy or taboo is now
something that may be met with praise.
And one of those things is the rise in
apathy towards dead
controversial figures. We'll call them.
Maybe I'm just misremembering things
here, but when someone died on the old
internet, they got to be remembered for
the things that they did and did great.
And there wasn't really any sort of push
back on that either. I can't remember
anybody going, "Sorry, were you talking
about Kobe? Don't look up what he did in
And yeah, people would joke about these
people dying, but those jokes were more
so for shock value. The humor rarely
resided in pointing out the actions of
these people and was more about just how
tasteless the jokes could get.
>> Walker was best known as the star of the
popular car racing movie franchise, The
Fast and the Furious. Ironically, Walker
himself was killed in a horrible car
crash, which is kind of funny
>> if you're a horrible [ __ ] A man died.
died.
>> Fast forward to 2025, I see seven
different King Vaughn edits a day, all
making fun of the fact that
>> he was a serial killer who bragged about
killing people.
>> And as funny as I may find some of these
videos and statements, I'm not going to
deny that there is a part of me that
feels strange when I do. And I know that
there's people who agree with me on that
front. But I also know that there are a
lot of people who don't. And so that's
what we're going to tackle today. Why do
we feel bad when we criticize dead
people even when they deserve it? And
should you feel bad, too?
>> You threw me off your board.
>> It's a blessing.
>> It means
In the Bible, God suggests that
criticizing dead people is bad, stating,
"Damn, fool in the mud and shit." Is
this actually in the Bible?
I I I don't know. I don't read books
unless they have pictures of the
question in them.
>> Aha. As I suspected,
32 flavors.
>> But since the dawn of time, there has
been a precedent set that making fun of
the dead is simply a no-go. If someone
is dead, they've earned their peace. let
them rest.
This idea falls apart when you apply the
harsh realities of the world to it. To
put it bluntly, some people deserve to
kill. I'm gonna keep it a 100. There's a
decently long list of people that when
they die, I'm going to start hitting the
quan out of impulse. This is the first
segment in this video because I want to
illustrate my main point right away, and
that's that I get it. I feel like even
if you're the most sympathetic,
altruistic person in the world, you'd be
lying out of your ass if you said you
didn't understand why some people still
get [ __ ] after they got got. Oh, OJ
Simpson died. We should treat him with
the same amount of respect and civility
as everyone else. No, he he killed two
people and got away with it. No. To
disavow these more black and white
scenarios is to disrespect what the
people around these situations might
feel. If a person is celebrating a death
of a sexual deviant because they
themselves were a survivor of something
like that by telling them to be
respectful, you are 110% demeaning what
they've gone through. The criticism of
dead figures is often tackled extremely
black and white. So, I wanted to get the
most black and white thing out of the
way first. I get it. I understand and I
feel that way sometimes. And while it
feels a little weird to say that I have
a great example of someone who deserved
the heat after they passed,
I do.
>> That's all right.
Good night, girl. I'll see you tomorrow. [Music]
[Music]
>> Touad was an Agrade [ __ ] poster and
streamer back in the day. He was popular
for his zoom bombings and ironic K-pop
obsession, all of which had his
signature forceful personality. And
later in his career, he became popular
for overdosing on K while playing Overwatch.
I do not think there was a single person
on Earth who was sad about this. Before
this happened, there were very clear
signs. Tumad's Twitter account was a
schizophrenic mess, and every YouTuber
that was around him said as much. But
it's hard to feel bad about this because
his skits rants involved very,
very disgusting things. Pedophilic
comments, jokes about being a rapist.
And it doesn't help that when all of
this went down, multiple real
allegations with very real weight to
them began to surface. And the more [ __ ]
that surfaced, the more guilty he
seemed. I'm not going to say anything
absolutely so Tombad's ghost can't sue
me, but there is a lot of evidence.
A lot of evidence.
A lot of evidence.
>> I am literally driving.
>> So, suffice it to say, people were not
exactly treating this man with respect
and kindness when he flatlined. One
thing that Tumad's death did, to me at
least, was recontextualize his entire
online presence. This loud, abrasive,
overbearing character he presented
wasn't a character. That's just who he
was. I'm not trying to dramaticize the
situation or anything, but when you go
back and watch his old videos, they have
a much more
sinister undertone. To be clear, there
was always a level of uncomfortability
when it came to Tumad's old videos. And
let's face it, a lot of them profited
off of the harassment of others. But I
don't know. Well, I guess now, as
dramatic as it may seem, my brain kind
of automatically assumes that any of
these people, especially the newer the
video got, could have been at the mercy
of a drugaddicted lunatic. Watching a
Tumad video now, it's a harrowing
experience given his place in internet
history. And I often think about all of
the less than stellar things surrounding
him. Not that I was a really big fan of
him before or anything, but yeah, I can
safely say that his videos are ruined
for me. I just can't see him as the
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa. We We have to go over some
other stuff before we can make all this
make sense. So, let's go ahead and shift
our perspective away from people who
deserve it to people who don't
Here's the thing about artists, big or
small. They aren't perfect,
says literally every artist ever. I've
made a ton of videos about the
responsibilities that having an audience
brings, so I'll brush upon it here.
There is an impossible to meet
expectation thrusted onto public figures
by the internet that when not met, the
internet will begin to downplay that
public figure for. You don't agree with
me on a specific opinion, well, I'm not
a fan anymore. You choose not to speak
on a certain topic, you're a centrist.
Even if you somehow manage to avoid
every single thing levied at you, all it
takes is one jag off to tweet, "Hey, so
we all agree that this guy sucks now,
right?" And just like that, there's a
brand new suite of people who will hate
you and everything you do. This stuff's
lame. Yeah, but it happens to everyone.
All right. And for the most part, it
stops as long as there's nothing too
crazy about you.
For the most part. See, there are a lot
of people on the internet with extreme
control issues, and they will take a
recently deceased person and drag their
worst moments into the spotlight. I
mean, I guess it's not the worst thing
that could happen to a dead person. They
they could have one of those like 3:00
a.m. videos made on them.
>> One of my favorite things about Mac
Miller is he dated Ariana Grande. This
girl is like my dream girl.
>> Here's the question, though. Do these
statements and criticisms just become
invalid because someone is dead? Like,
sure, it's not nice to point out a dead
man's issues and flaws, but they don't
disappear just because they're dead, right?
right?
Well, I mean, I guess I guess they kind
of do, but you get what I'm trying to
say. If people's behavior was less than
ideal, then I'm sure there's a way we
could respectfully point that out.
Here's the thing, though. We're dealing
with a bunch of freaks that have control
issues. And the way they handle these
situations brings up a lot of issues,
such as number one, dead people can't
[ __ ] defend themselves. I'm going to
pull out Etica as an example here
because there is a small faction of the
internet who like to pin Etekica as a
lollycon. If you don't know what a
lollycon is, I am so sorry. The main
evidence for this is a tweet where
Etekica says that he beats it to anime
babes regardless of their age.
>> Great video, but bro, where's where's
that girl from? Now, that's a girl that
I definitely have a couple of porn
images saved on on my computer. I've
seen her a lot. There's a lot of good
footstep with her, too.
>> Okay, first off, this argument is
[ __ ] stupid. It takes the screenshots
and video completely out of context.
Liking characters that look like little
girls is very different from finding an
anime girl hot because she is designed
to be attractive. Disregarding that,
what the hell are you doing bringing
this up right now? Etekica isn't going
to come out and say, "No, I don't like
lollies actually because he can't. He's
[ __ ] dead." I've definitely pulled a
worst case scenario. A lot of the people
claiming this are just doing it to
justify their own [ __ ] up fetish. But
I think it gets my point across
regardless. Again, it's just
disheartening to see people say things
knowing that there is no way in hell
they're going to get any push back that
really means anything. Let's ignore that
a little bit and look at when criticism
of a dead person is quote unquote good,
because there's a question that arises
even when that happens. Number two,
where was this energy before they died?
When Aussie Osborne died, there was an
influx of tweets talking about his
racist remarks, most with no evidence.
Now, on one hand, yes, this is a very
justified thing to call out and
criticize. However, a death that
happened mere days after Azy's sort of
highlights an issue with the way people
went about it. Hulk Hogan, small side
tangent. Um, I was in NYC when Aussie
Osborne died and my DJ uncle who lives
out there was talking about how it was
really sad to see him go. Uh, and then
like a few days later, Hulk Hogan died
and he literally just went, "Oh, well,
he wasn't one of my favorite people."
And that was about as sweet as the
responses to his death got. People put
old Hulk Hogan through the [ __ ]
ringer because if you didn't know, this
is a real thing he said about his
daughter dating black men. I think you
can deduce why people felt justified in
their malice. And when you look at the
people criticizing Hogan versus the
people criticizing Aussie, there is an
imbalance. Hogan has been giving [ __ ]
about his remarks for years. Whereas I
haven't heard anything about what Azie
said right about up until the literal
day he died. Hell, I still don't know
because nobody who ever complains about
it shows what he [ __ ] did. Why wasn't
there anybody talking about this when he
was alive? You know, when it mattered.
Because surely if the comments were so
horrible, you would have noticed them
before he died. It's not like he's never
been relevant. He was one of the biggest
stars of all time. The whole thing just
feels very self- serving. Again, control
freaks power tripping over something
that really doesn't matter. But that
statement creates an issue within itself
because I don't know what this [ __ ]
person's feeling. They could be power
tripping. They could be legitimately
concerned. They could be both. Both are
opinions that two people could hold and
it's not right to write that off just
because one person was an idiot when
they were pointing it out. It's a really
tricky situation to navigate feelings
on. It would be a lot less tricky if I
could see what he actually did, though.
People have gotten too comfortable just
saying things and not showing them. But
that is a completely different can of
worms for a completely different day.
But even when those feelings are valid,
number three,
does it even matter that much? Sometimes
it does. We've gone over that. But every
once in a while, I see people just
absolutely lose their minds over
something and it's like, "Bro, chill."
People are obsessed with celebrities.
They will idolize them. They will put
them on pedestals. And when the egg ends
up on their face because guess what?
this all-perfect being you created in
your head wasn't real, they'll bash the
hell out of them just to seem as safe as
possible. I see it over and over again,
and it's become embarrassing at this
point. And it's especially embarrassing
to see it done to dead people. This is
one of those cases where the
parasociality does apply. Again, why do
you care if somebody you didn't even
know was an [ __ ] Like, I'm sorry,
but if you had no real connection to
these people and their actions were
aimed at large groups that don't deserve
it, why do you care? Oh, because you
have empathy. Well, guess what I have?
It's a gun. With that being said, I do
kind of understand being disillusioned
with someone who portrays themselves as
something that they didn't really live
up to in their real life. Being upset at
an artist because, "Oh, they weren't
nice to me," is one thing. However, when
someone builds themselves up to be an
inspiring, kind-hearted figure who
worked hard to get to the place that
they're at, and it turns out they have a
closet full of skeletons.
Yeah, let's just say it isn't too hard
to see why some people wouldn't take
>> Hey, look, it's Stan. Jack Kirby created
those characters. Um,
Um,
I'm inclined to think that he created
Everybody knows Stan Lee, the
charismatic creator of hundreds of
Marvel superheroes. To the general
public, he is the greatest and most
important figure in comics history. This
is a title he does not deserve. For
those who don't know, Stanley is not the
creator of a majority of these
characters. He is the co-creator of most
of these characters, as in he helped
shape them into what we know today, but
he did not do a majority of the work.
Stanley's credit as creator for a lot of
these characters goes directly to Joe
Simon, Steve Ditco, and the main talking
point for today, Jack Kirby. See, Stan
created this method of writing comics
called the Marvel method. Essentially,
he would write an outline of what he
wanted a story to be like. The artist
would use that outline to draw the
entire comic, and then Stan would get
back the complete art and then write the
rest of the story. This is a method of
writing that indubitably puts a heavy
amount of work on the artist because
they had to draw all of this [ __ ] out
with only a basic idea of what the comic
was supposed to be like. On top of this,
Lee got Kirby and Simons fired from
Marvel. He forced Kirby to give up the
rights to the characters he created just
>> and in general made millions off the
backs of Kirby and others while they saw
nothing. But case in point, he's kind of
like Michael Keaton and the founder. Dan
would later give credit to his
collaborators, but it didn't really mean
anything. It was either too vague.
>> I couldn't write him fast enough. And
these artists were so brilliant.
>> Well, it's really nice of you to say
that, Stan. Can you do me a favor and
tell me who the artists were? Or it
wasn't reflective of the amount of work
the artist actually put in. So, all in
all, yeah, this is 100% something that
However, there is an increase in malice
towards Stanley from people who are
in the no, so to speak. And normally
this wouldn't be an issue. After all,
Stan died a hero that he really wasn't
to the masses. But semi-reently, it's
come out that in his elder years, Stan
Lee was treated [ __ ] horribly. He was
forced by the team around him into doing
a bunch of [ __ ] he didn't want to do and
had a bunch of people around him who
weren't helping even though they knew
about this. And even after the man died,
every single party around him parades
his corpse around so they can sell all
sorts of stupid ass [ __ ] And there
are some people who will see this and
just not give a [ __ ] I've seen a lot of
people who believe that because of
Stan's past actions, they're justified
in mocking his elder abuse. And I got to
be honest, I I don't think that that's
the case. I think the reason they're
comfortable with this is because they
have the opposite view of Stanley than
the general public. To the comic book
obsessive, Stanley didn't do [ __ ] It
was Kirby and Dickco and all of the
others who did everything while Lee sat
in the corner of the room with his thumb
up his ass and took all the credit. And
when I first heard this, I thought it
might be true. After all, Lee 100% did
take a lot of credit that wasn't his.
Who's to say he wasn't capable of taking
all of the credit? But in my opinion,
this falls apart when you observe the
actual work of Lee and in this case
Kirby. In order to prove this, I took
two books, The Classic Fantastic 4,
which was written by Lee under the
Marvel method, and The New Gods, which
is one of Kirby's most acclaimed solo
works. And I read the first issue of
each of them to see if I could find any
differences, and lo and behold, I could.
F4 is much more,
how do I put this? Human. The
interactions feel a lot more natural.
The book still has a lot of vintage
comic book camp, but there's much more
expression behind the characters and
their motives. New Gods
isn't really like that. The characters
are more so vessels to present the plot
and cool ideas to the reader. Character
dialogue is often just expository,
describing what's going on or what
something is as opposed to how the
characters feel or what the relationship
to the things around them are. This is
in no way a means of discrediting either
of the two men, but rather showing you
that these two books were written
different. And you can point to a genre
change, a character change, but the
differences in the writing are
fundamental. The differences to me are
that one book had Stan Lee and one
didn't. And normally I wouldn't want to
rest a point on an opinion, but I know
that there are a lot of people just like
me who have said the exact same thing. A
lot of people who have read far more
than me have expressed that while
Kirby's work is great, it isn't as
smooth as his work with Lee. OH, BUT
JACK KIRBY would constantly talk about
how Lee never did anything. Okay, now
yes, there are a lot of interviews where
Kirby will claim that Lee did not do
anything. Interviews where he would go
on about how he was the one who did all
of the work and Stan Lee was a worthless
chud playing with himself. And
to be as nice as possible,
you have to be brain dead to take these
interviews at face value. In these
interviews, Kirby has every single
reason to make Lee look as bad as he
possibly can. And yes, Lee is 100% a
manipulator, but that doesn't mean that
Kirby was telling the truth. Hey guys,
it's editor King XB here. I just wanted
to kind of show you something that I
found in relation to the whole Kirby
lying debacle. I was rereading the
statement that Jim Shooter,
editor-inchief of Marvel at the time, uh
had made in relation to Kirby being sued
for his original artwork. And as I was
rereading the statement, something
caught my eye where it said that Kirby
was not only demanding that he would get
his artwork back, but also that he would
be given sole credit as the creator to
all of the characters he co-created with
Stan. So basically have Stan's name
ripped from the creations that they did
together. But then here it also says
that Kirby insisted that he created
Spider-Man. And that stuck out to me
because Kirby never once worked on a
Spider-Man book. That was the creation
of Stan Lee and Steve Ditco. And as I
began to dig a little deeper, I found
out that this was a claim that Kirby
would constantly make, saying that he
created Spider-Man and then handed the
concept off to Steve Dickco, who shaped
it into what we know today. But in an
interview he did in 1971
on the Tim Skelly show, Kirby not only
claimed that he never worked with Steve
Ditco, but that Steve Ditco himself
created Spider-Man. And at no point in
this interview does he claim that he had
anything to do with the creation of
Spider-Man. And before you nerds in the
comments get mad at me, yes, Kirby did
make a Spider-Man, like a Spider-Man
concept. But the only place I've seen
where Kirby acknowledges this creation
was again the secondhound account from
Jim Shooter where he acknowledges that
while yes, he did make a Spider-Man
concept, it was largely thrown out for
Lee and Ditco's own original creation.
And this is not me trying to bash Kirby
for, you know, not getting down the
exact timeline of a near five decade
long dispute. But again, what I'm trying
to show you here is that just because
Lee is untrustworthy, it doesn't mean
that Kirby is. Nobody was a fly on the
wall when Kirby and Lee were creating
these stories. So, all we have are
heavily biased anecdotes and the art
that they created. And what seems to be
the most plausible from all of that is
that yes, Lee did help shape these
iconic characters. And with all that
being said,
I'm still not very fond on Stanley,
especially after doing all of this
research because what Lee did to Kirby
and to Dickco and all of the others,
runs so much deeper than money and
credit, which are huge deals, don't get
me wrong, but
I feel like what he did to them in the
long run is worse than that.
I was in a room uh with a bunch of
people who I didn't know when I was
writing this segment of the video. And
so I asked around two questions to each
person. The first being, who is Stanley?
To which the entire room said, "Oh yeah,
the Marvel guy or the Spider-Man guy."
And then the second question I asked
them was,
"Who is Jack Kirby?"
to which the entire room responded,
Earlier this year, I really wanted to
kill myself.
We're talking about a lot of fun topics
today. I'm more I'm going to read
directly off this script. I'm lazy. I
know a lot of people talk about, you
know, believing uh nobody loves you and
how silly it is, but people don't talk
nearly as often about feeling like
you're unworthy of loving. When I was
really, really looking for a way out, I
started to develop this idea in my head
that I was an objectively bad person
because I had to be. If I was going to
take myself off the face of the earth
forever, it had to be for a good reason.
So, I started to convince myself that I
was a bad person and make that into an
argument that would be impenetrable to
the people around me. You know, one
thing I can myself even at my lowest is
I wasn't nearly stupid enough to think
that that would work. I mean, after all,
the only reason that you would need to
convince somebody that you are unworthy
of loving and deserve to die is if you
knew they wouldn't take it well. as if I
killed myself turned into when I killed
myself. I began to think about what I
would die in the eyes of others as. I
began to think about what my legacy
would be. To some, I'd figured I'd die
King XB. To some, a good friend, to some
an aggravating classmate or coworker.
Or maybe
maybe I'd die the way I saw myself.
a pathetic worm who buried his pain in
seven layers of irony and knew that when
he took his own life, it'd be because
he'd rather end it all than admit the
mess he made was genuinely fixable. It
was this obsession with legacy that
eventually led to the creation of the
video that you're watching right now.
Because even though I got much better,
as evident by the fact that, well,
well,
I'm right here, I've thought a lot about
the people who didn't. But all this is
to say, my experiences this year have
given me a newfound sympathy towards a
lot of groups of people.
And we are going to close with a group
of people who many of you will
rightfully claim don't deserve any sympathy.
We discussed people who definitely
deserve this [ __ ] We discussed people
who don't really deserve the [ __ ] We
discussed people who kind of deserve the
[ __ ] And now we're ending on a
curveball. People who have more than
definitely done enough to deserve the
[ __ ] while at the same time holding a
pretty decent amount of respect. I can
understand how that description may seem
a bit confusing. So, I'm just going to
pull up my first example and I think
you'll get it. John Lennon. The Beatles
will probably be the most influential
thing from the last century, the century
before, and the century to come. And
Lenin was lauded as a result. He was a
philanthropist, an arbiter of peace, one
of the most musically talented of the
lot, and he had the best walk. But if
you look into him past that, you'll find
that he's also done a lot of other stuff
such as beat his wife, neglect and abuse
his firstborn, make a song called this,
and fell in love with his mom. I
>> was just remembering the time when I had
my hand on my mother's 14
14
years. The man has a long rap sheet of
issues. All of which are very very well
documented. Nearly all of which he
admits to himself.
>> All that I used to be cruel to my woman
and beat her. That's me. Cuz I used to
be cruel to my woman and visibly
>> any woman. You know, I was a a hitter. I
couldn't express myself and I I hit I
fought men. I hit women. I was violent.
That's why I'm always on about peace. is
the most violent people that go for love
and peace. And I sincerely believe in
love and peace.
>> Let me get this out of the way.
Criticism, mocking, all of it justified.
We are not talking about some kind of
saint here.
But the more you look into it, the more
you realize that he wasn't just doing
all of this horrible [ __ ] and then
moving past it. Lennon's actions seem to
be the result of deep-seated trauma and
substance abuse. And near the end of his
life, it seemed like he was really
trying hard to be a better man
before he got shot and killed. Nearly
every person he ever harmed forgave him
before or after he died.
And it brings up something interesting.
Going back to the parasociality thing
from earlier, we don't really know John
Lennon. At least most of us. I don't
know, maybe Ringo is watching this.
Nobody was directly affected by J's
actions. So, it's not up to me, not up
to you to apologize on behalf of the
people that he abused. But now that
everyone who was ever at his mercy
forgives him,
where does that put you and me? The
everyman. Why do we care? We didn't know
John. Well, yeah,
but John
John made art. John Lennon said and did
and stood for things that appealed to
the every man, that were for the every
man. And in spite of everyone he ever
harmed apologizing for the things he did,
did,
he still did those things. Things that
100% go against what he stood for. So,
who should he be remembered as? The man
who he was or the man who he was trying
to be? Lennon has undeniably spoken to
generations, which is one of the reasons
that he's the headliner for this
section. It's easier to find everything
about him and it's easier to understand
what he meant to people. Artists, more
specifically dead musicians, are the
most common in this category because
music is a really great way to get
across specific emotions or specific
events in your life while not
necessarily needing to let people know
everything about you. Like I said
earlier, I don't really want to watch
another Too Mad video because it it
makes me
>> think of things. But I Wonder by Kanye
is a beautiful song that has
legitimately pushed me to continue being
the greatest I can be even through
immensely tough times. And even though
Yay has been an unredeemably huge piece
of [ __ ] for quite some time, that song
has never left my rotation. Because to
me, that song speaks to a primal emotion
that lets me look past every stupid
thing Kanye has ever said and just lets
me feel the way it intends for me to
feel. And I bet that you, yes you,
Marcus, have at least one song like this
in your life. So, you can't really fault
people for that.
But there is a limit. If someone gets
past the aux and they start playing
vulturous Kanye, I'm kicking them out of
my car. People talk a lot about
separating the art from the artist. And
that's fine when people aren't injecting
their shitty beliefs into the art. And
I'm aware this is all very general speak
and it's focused on someone who's not
even [ __ ] dead yet. But what I'm
trying to get at here is that when
someone or something made by someone is
important to you, it can be really hard
to let it go or accept something
difficult about it. But sometimes
sometimes you just have to do it. Most
people when they die are not John
Lennon. They make no real effort to fix
themselves. They get no redemption.
They just go. And with that, I have one
more subject on the list.
The one who inspired me to make this
video. All right, you're going to watch
me hit this.
>> I'm not trying to ruin your fun. You're
just a little bit late. I guess you're
already done. There's this feeling I
can't shake cuz I'm too dumb. Never
doing the right thing, so I'm so
Wi-Fi Skeleton was an artist who made a
lot of songs that were mainly themed
around depression and suicidal thoughts.
He got really popular on Tik Tok and at
about the peak of his popularity on May
5th, 2025,
he overdosed. And from what his lyrics,
his friends, and what he said hours
before, he very well may have done this intentionally.
He also groomed and harassed multiple women.
women.
>> I was a little uncomfortable. I was more
grounded. I guess I was just kind of
like, "Ew." I think I told her not to do
that one time or something. But this
particular day, I don't know. I've seen
it for like the billionth time and then
I acted on it and I can't ever undo
that, man. I had no reason to act on it.
I had no reason to have her added. I had
no reason to say hello to her. There
wasn't anything specific about her or
something. It wasn't because of her age
or anything or because of how she looked
or anything. It's just somebody showed
me that they really like wanted to do
with me and I was like, "Wow, somebody
wants to do with me."
>> I want to get this out of the way first
because this is not something that is up
for debate. The audio clip I just played
was of Wi-Fi Skeleton admitting to
sexually messaging a minor. And there is
a lot more to this story. Too much for
this video. I recommend Stormy
Skeleton's video on the topic. It goes
into everything with receipts. There
isn't a lot of wiggle room for Cyrus. He
did awful [ __ ] He tried his best to lie
about it and for a time he was able to
get away with it. See, Wi-Fi Skeleton
was exposed when he was a commentary
YouTuber called Cyrus. So he was able to
shed the Cyrus personality once Wi-Fi
skeleton got popular. As a result, there
are a lot of people who know Wi-Fi
skeleton, but don't know that he was
Cyrus. But at some point, the trickle
from that began to reach the Wi-Fi
Skeleton audience, and
a lot of them just didn't accept it. It
may be because Cyrus made this incognito
video where he defended himself, but I
gotta say, if this video convinced
anybody, then the world is full of even
stupider people than I initially
thought. Two, guys don't really
screenshot sexual conversations. For
guys out there, have you ever had a
girlfriend or a really clingy girl that
you're talking to screenshot any of your
texts or photos you've sent because, oh,
they think it's cute or they think that
it's hot or they never they never show
anybody. Guys don't really do that [ __ ]
back. Yeah, this is for men. This is a
men's group. This is for the boys.
>> Get out of here, woman. Loser.
>> But about a month after his death,
something bizarre happened. Wi-Fi
skeletons, "Nope, you're too late. I
already died sort of became the
unofficial anthem of Men's Mental Health
Month." But even further than that,
there was a push to make Wi-Fi skeleton
the face of victims of false allegations.
No, you're too late. I already died
becoming a men's mental health month
anthem. Sure, I don't think it's a great
idea, but given the context and the
lyrics of the song, I can see the vision
there. But you cannot make this man the
face of false allegation victims because
his allegations were not false. It's
unbelievably awful to do that to his
victims. It hurts both the falsely
accused and the actual accusers. And for
what? So you can listen to his music
with a clear conscience. If his music
speaks to you, fine. A lot of his music
is about incredibly heavy [ __ ] that
people can relate to. But don't let him
become something he's not because you
like his music. I'm sorry, but objectively,
objectively,
And coming to that conclusion
made me come to my conclusion on the
entirety of the imperfect dead. No
matter what you say, what you do, how
you present yourself to your audience,
there is nothing you can do when your
legacy is being written because it's
being written by somebody else. Someone
who doesn't really care what you want to
be. No matter how long people rally for
you, rally against you, they'll soon
have to face what's been in front of
them this entire time. Because in spite
of anything that you may do, the only
thing that you're left with when you're
That's all for this video. Like and
kill you and then mock you afterwards.
I'm really sorry for the lack of
uploads. I've been dealing with mental
health as as you can probably tell from
the nature of this video. Uh, as well as
I had like a video planned and then I
got about halfway through the massive
script and I just scrapped it because it
just wasn't working out. But I'm back in
it. I'm feeling more pumped than I ever
have before. Gotten into shape. Gotten
myself a little bit more mentally
prepared for things. Thank you so much
for sticking around even in spite of,
you know, all of the just humongous
gaps. I hope to make it worth your
while. Please go out, do something for
your community today, man. Do literally
anything. Just I you know, the the world's
world's
the world's a [ __ ] up place,
especially as of right now. We're living
through one of the most rough times I
think I've ever seen. And if you can go
outside and just make one person's day,
Go go go go go ahead and do that. Like I
I I don't know. I I know I'm just a
[ __ ] idiot, but like if you can take
away something from this video, just go
go do something nice. Go talk to the guy
at the gas station. Go [ __ ] uh ask a
girl out. Go become the mayor and [ __ ]
up the the city's economy. It's
something like that. I have a channel
with my friends Isaiah and the Ancestors
and Parmesan called Disaster Cast where
we do all sorts of wacky [ __ ] So be
sure to follow up that. I have a second
channel called XB's Dumpster that I will
use a lot more. I have a Twitter,
KingXB. I've been trying to use it less
because what do you know? It makes me
feel better. I have memberships, five
bucks. You get access to a Discord
server. I'm going to start making uh
membersonly content on there. That's all
I got for today. Thank you so much for
sticking around. And as always,
no future for the ones stuck in the M. I
started a funny story which I'd heard
that day
and I'd gone on for a while
when it dawned on me that I'd forgotten
how it ended.
I I continued with the story and I hoped
that somehow I'd find find an ending,
somehow be able to invent one. And the
people were all looking very eagerly
waiting for the finish because they knew
that although the story was very boring,
it must be boring for a purpose.
Obviously, it was boring because the end
was going to be so tremendously amusing.
They often looked at me eagerly and I
continued and continued and I thought,
"How in heaven's name can I get out of
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