I tried to ask a another youtuber Living Anachronism who has worked with Shadiversity if he knew about Shad’s homophobic content & the mod delete my question, told me asking about that was against the no drama rule, that it wasn’t homophobic & proceeded to try to gaslight me with pseudo-intellectual bullshit.

I’m tired of bringing thing up in non queer spaces only to be told that’s it not actually homophobic.

The original video I referred to:https://youtu.be/GiyMDN9j2OU?si=bDqnc1pCG8t3HASp

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Jack Saint (YouTuber) did a take down vid on Shad that revealed his real nature to me. I also had previously enjoyed his historical content.

The thing is, as another poster pointed out, once people started looking, he’s actually not historically accurate either and is barely more knowledgeable about it than your friend in the SCA who won’t shut up about long swords and katanas.

It’s a pattern with bigots: you can’t trust their information or expertise on anything. Because either they aren’t willing to update their views with facts, or they’re willing to lie to cover up facts they do know but dislike. Neither are good qualities in any person, but especially not in historians and educators.

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I also just found out that Shad has been less then civil to another youtuber who’s a HEMA & Stage fight instructor who criticized one of Shad’s videos.

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I used to watch his castle videos and found them interesting during the pandemic, and i hadn’t heard he was a deranged and hateful person. It’s really a shame, but i went ahead and unsuscribed and blocked his channel

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I’m just gonna repost a comment I made on a thread about YouTubers you don’t watch anymore:

Oh it gets worse with Shadiversity. Huge AI art guy, his brother’s an actual artist too so it’s hard seeing Shad brag to him. Very “anti-woke” and paints his conservative Mormon beliefs on everything.

The worst unforgivable part is the end of his book has impregnated rape victims step up to defend the rapist protagonist because he “gave them” a child, while the ones that didn’t get pregnant were jealous.

He loves to bring up that the book is supposed to explore this immoral character. But this isn’t the protagonist’s viewpoint this is just how Shad thinks the world works. This is how Shad believes rape victims think.

Very sad to see, I followed him for swords and castles but Jesus Christ.

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Yikes. It’s times like these that I am glad to not follow any particular celebrity fandoms. Not everyone who is widely known is a shitty person but, a lot of them are. And they’re less interesting than most other people you’d meet.

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Not my autistics ass not realizing “homophonic” was a typo for “homophobic” and thinking this guy just really doesn’t approve of people who sing in harmony with a melody (as opposed to polyphically, where there are multiple melodies) 💀 bruh why am I like this

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pats head It’s OK fellow autist

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I used to watch this guy because I liked castles. Didn’t consume a ton of this content. But last year he made a video to specifically call out Barbie. Like his channel doesn’t involve movie reviews, he just decided it was such a controversial film he had to made a video calling out “the woke”

After I saw he had made that video I unsubscribed and found other cattle content. His brother seems nice.

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He did this for Captain Marvel too. Suddenly a movie review channel. For me there’s got to be more of a gap between having an interest in medieval stuff and actually believing that women only exist as the property of men and that the king is appointed by God.

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