Originally Posted by
botley
He's not a demon, he's just an asshole, which IMO is totally on par for the course in vlogger culture. Nothing exceptional about his behaviour whatsoever, he was just chasing bucks and crossed a line as many have done and continue to do without consequences. The Fader reported what he posted, some of which contains racist material. Everybody defending him points to other stuff he did, as though that cancels it out somehow, which of course it doesn't. Nobody censored him, nobody asked him to take the channel down, he did it himself because YouTube stopped funding it. Oh and also because he was probably quite rightly embarrassed by it, and I suspect he actually has some conscience about this deep down. We'll see how he responds.
What part of The Fader piece is poorly researched? Once again, nobody has contradicted the facts presented in the article. "Big Man with a Gun" isn't really a satire (I'm aware Reznor reportedly said it satirizes misogyny "in a way", but he certainly doesn't play it for laughs); it's a characterization. That controversy already played itself out, and Reznor took his knocks for it. If Trent Reznor participated in a YouTube video where he "satirically" invited women to drink bleach, as Fantano did, I would say that he was a sexist piece of shit.