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opendoor wrote: ↑Sun Nov 04, 2018 3:31 am Double-posting, but if anyone likes Tom's vlogs, this last one is pretty special.
(Don't read the comments before you watch).

obsessivelymoody wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:56 pm A bit of an odd question, but as a very casual tomska viewer I wouldn't know - does anyone have receipts of some kind of impression of him working with IRL for merch? If there isn't, that's chill, but it would be interesting to have that documented in one place if anyone has any idea!

CubeZ_ZOlO wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:14 am Ok his whole pride month set of stuff was a total bop, and I definitely learned some new stuff, but dude, he's asserted that he was straight like 50 times in those videos alone. The more someone insists they're straight the more they make me actually think about their sexuality.

We currently live in a heteronormative society. He doesn't need to clarify that he is in fact heterosexual. People will just assume he is. Telling us once in a while is more than enough.

Otherwise he does air more on the line of edgy with his humour, but it is obvious where his intentions lie. He does stuff in bad taste yes, but in the end we all do. It's what makes us human.

it would probably help if he put some time between retracting his stuff and issuing a statement tho.

kavat wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 8:28 am

CubeZ_ZOlO wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:14 am Ok his whole pride month set of stuff was a total bop, and I definitely learned some new stuff, but dude, he's asserted that he was straight like 50 times in those videos alone. The more someone insists they're straight the more they make me actually think about their sexuality.

We currently live in a heteronormative society. He doesn't need to clarify that he is in fact heterosexual. People will just assume he is. Telling us once in a while is more than enough.

Otherwise he does air more on the line of edgy with his humour, but it is obvious where his intentions lie. He does stuff in bad taste yes, but in the end we all do. It's what makes us human.

it would probably help if he put some time between retracting his stuff and issuing a statement tho.

His whole thing is being an edgy straight white dude, who's also a feminist and an ally (because he sure has a lot of queer friends). You have to remember that his core audience is still edgy straight white boys, so I think it's his way of saying "hey, you can like guns and bad taste jokes while also not being a dick".

One thing that he has messed up in the past is clarifying the line of laughing With the queer community and laughing At it. An example is the tweet alittledizzy quoted above, another is the Straight Ally video he did with Ash Hardell a couple of years ago. People just didn't get the joke (and then you can question if it was funny to begin with, but that's a different discussion).

So him talking about how straight he is, might be his way of going "I know my privilege here and if you are straight, you should too".

I'm also suspecting it might be a running joke parodying how people often say "you can be gay in private just don't shove it in my face" by doing just that but with his straightness.