Project Update (Patreon)

Content warnings:  Suicide, Child Sexual Assault, Depression, Transphobia, Threats of Deportation

Hey everyone, I just wanted to update you on why there hasn't been a video the past couple of weeks (and likely won't be this weekend), as well as what I'm currently working on.

So first, what's in the works. The screen shot is from the next Dune video, one which actually tackles social issues: Fatphobia, Anti-Albinism, and Toxic Masculinity. The audio is pretty much done, just need to add visuals. If I can do it by Saturday, I will, if not it will be done by next week.

I also have the video after it, covering transphobes suing the Survivors' Network ready to be recorded, and I hope to do that sometime this weekend/early next week.

So first things first, there's just a lot of depressing shit going on right now in the US and the UK, and it is draining me constantly. It's a battle of attrition, any time I put out one fire, four more spring up, and I feel like I'm trapped.

On top of this, what Rachel Oates did not only caught us by surprise but sets a terrifying precedent. If people like Rowling or Linehan realise they can flag content on YouTube down for defamation without first filing a court order, it could theoretically end human rights activism on the British side of YouTube. Not just for trans people, but all marginalised groups as the more that realise being labelled a bigot means they can nuke any video.

We are of course fighting things in the background, but it's taking a lot of time to figure out our best approach.

To further complicate things, we've gotten caught up helping other people. If you follow our social media, you've likely seen that we're trying to help a 19 year old in Saudi Arabia who is a victim of family CSA and is now being threatened by their abusers with deportation.

We're also helping a friend who studied in the UK only to screwed over by the uni who (after they'd fucked up) told him that they'd contacted immigration and got him a 10 year ban from the UK. This cost his family everything and even drove his father to suicide, only for our friend to discover, upon contacting immigration to see if he could fix things, that the university had just straight up lied about talking to them.

Everything is pushing the Oates thing back, and the two of us are being left with very little energy these days. I'm still aiming to get the promised two videos out this month, but I don't know how things will go in the coming days and weeks.

All I can do is thank you all for your continued support and promise you that I am doing my best to keep things going.