thedeadflag:

angels-tooth:

dykean:

dykean:

the “___ change my mind” guy sitting at a desk is Steven Crowder who is literally a deep conservative “comedian” and the biggest transphobe of 2018 so can we NOT use that meme anymore thanks. he literally calls trans people tr**** in some of his videos and refers to caitlyn jenner (I may not like her but Christ) as a transgender f@scist because she transitioned and refers to her transitioning as “going full #sjw.” this meme is cancelled and not funny. use google if you don’t believe me. bye

to all the people replying to this post saying: “but the original meme was about making fun of him you can’t tell me when to let a meme die” all i have to say to you is THE POINT IS THE MEME HAS GROWN OUTSIDE OF THAT CONTEXT. most of the people reblogging this had NO idea of the background behind the meme and were horrified to find out who the man in the picture was. that is because the meme has reached people with a very different message (as memes do) and become distorted. it no longer is a “parody meme” or whatever excuse you have for this. you cannot say to me “it’s just harmless it’s not like it’s spreading any of his idealogy” and not understand you are spreading the image of a man who is known to be racist, transphobic, anti-semitic, and made countless videos supporting harmful conservative ideologies that affect myself and many other people. i do not want this man’s face or any remnants of this image on my dashboard. if you want to keep using this meme, fine, i can’t physically stop you. but that is why i made this post and all the people telling me i don’t have a right to criticize something like this may kindly eat my sneakers.

This is my last post on this issue because frankly the amount of smug “Ugh Tumblr just doesn’t understand making fun of him is a good thing!!!” posts that over-simplify this particular issue is driving me nuts.

Making fun of bigots and taking away people’s ability to take them seriously is a good thing, YES. 

However, Steven Crowder could not give a single, flaming fuck about y’all turning his “change my mind” thing into a meme and clowning on him because this meme has brought him lots of attention and money. He talks about the meme on his Twitter and on his show. He loves the attention it brings him. It’s brought tons of traffic to his Youtube account and the video the meme comes from is at 5+ million views, while all his other “change my mind” videos are only at 1-2 million. 

His social blade is in the green and he’s gaining subscribers rapidly and getting millions of views on his videos.  This has literally only benefited him and he knows it.

He has “Change my mind” merch, guys. Come on.

He’s banking off of y’all “making fun of him”. It’s stopped becoming a joke and you guys are giving him more exposure and putting cash into the pocket of a literal transphobe because you think photoshopping “Pee is stored in the balls” on his sign is some kind of crushing blow to him when it’s literally the opposite.

Y’all think you’re landing some big “gotchya! tee hee” on him when he’s laughing all the way to the bank while y’all are literally fighting to keep his meme alive and fund his shit channel and his campus trips. He is literally participating in one at SMU as I type this, yet you really keep hammering at @dykean for asking you guys to reconsider spreading his face around for people to find him and his content. Is the meme funny? Absolutely. Is it worth helping a racist transphobe further his platform? No.

Seriously. It’s 100% predictable that if you signal boost a racist transphobe, even with the best intentions via making him a meme, enough white/cis people will buy into his views enough to benefit the racist transphobe. There are more people out there that believe there are only two genders, that believe enough of Crowder’s exact brand of cissexist logic to have those views reaffirmed and reinforced after exposure to him.

There are more people out there that refuse to believe white privilege exists, that believe enough of Crowder’s exact brand of racist logic to have those views reaffirmed and reinforced after exposure to him.

Folks can’t turn this guy into a meme, or a joke, because his views are too popular to be one. You’ll only win him viewers and supporters, and bring fence-sitters over to his views and away from more positive views, and let Crowder make money in the process.

He’s seen a 478.8% increase in subscribers over the past 30 days. It’s not a coincidence. The rate of increase in subscribers heavily outpaces the rate of increase in views, and that’s not a coincidence either. He’s likely earned more from views alone in this past month from the new subscribers than most people will earn in a single year. 

The five seconds of laughter isn’t worth the $$$ you’re helping put into his pocket.