White Influencers Will Never Account for Their Racism While the YouTube Apology Cycle Persists

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YouTube sustains itself with drama: influencers on the platform are always beefing with one another, rewarded for their antagonism with more clicks, more subscribers, more interest, and more views. More often than not, controversy on YouTube surrounds problematic behavior, because those content creators view the website as a democratizing force where they can be their most authentic selves in highly-edited videos, and that usually involves your run-of-the-mill homophobe or racist refusing to see their behavior as such. It’s not just on YouTube. Just two months ago, for example, Instagram influencers from the UAE, Lebanon, Philippines, Germany, Poland, Algeria, and Turkey posed in blackface to show solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

. He said he would confront Mongeau about her frequent use of the n-word, which she would dismiss as him being an “angry Black person.” He said she also joked that he was once arrested

when he was not. “I feel like the isolating and the alienating that went down in the entertainment industry was the first time I felt like I started to see it from that way because there’s so many different eyes on you,” Barry said, adding that Mongeau apologized on Twitter and told fans on Instagram that she took “full accountability” and hired a therapist, but she has not responded to any of his private requests.

 

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