I wanted to make a quick blog post on the recent events relating to youtubers and sexual harassment. If you haven't heard Sam Pepper recently made a video called 'fake hand ass grabbing prank' or something like that where he went round grabbing girls for a 'prank'. When realising how hurtful, demeaning and damn right wrong his video was he then tried to cover it up with two more videos explaining how it was all part of a social experiment and that how if it was a boy this wouldn't have got the same attention it did. I fail to see how filming a video harassing girls will ever bring the right attention to it, and to then upload another one doing the same to boys completely amazes me because of how small minded someone can be. Since then Sam Pepper and other youtubers have been exposed over other sexual harassment incidents. I'm so disappointed with these youtubers. To think I used to watch people like Sam when he was a small channel, filming videos in his home in England, and to see how much authority he thinks he can have now because he's 'famous' really does shock me. It's saddened me to think that these are people that sooooo many young people idolise and that fans have still stood by him despite all the accusations. It makes me so angry to think that youtubers of all people have taken advantage of their platform and taken advantage of the power they have behind their channel and subscribers. However it has been a hot topic within the youtube community and it has made me so happy to see how many youtubers have stood against people like Sam by tweeting and making their opinions on the matter clear. Those are the youtubers that deserve the subscribers and support. Sam pepper has also been banned from various youtube against as he is 'not welcome there anymore' thankfully.
I would love to hear your opinions on the story in the comments:)
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