apologies if this doesn’t fit your policies, but what are your thoughts on the ilymation drama? i tried to make sense of but it’s hard without delving into seeing fatphobic rhetoric due to the nature of her original video and how most people that discuss it don’t seem to understand the nature of fatphobia as a whole. but what do you think of it?

I don't remember if I watched her original video or not but my understanding of the situation is she made a video and people were responding to it and she was using the DMCA system to strike down videos.

Given the typical nature of people that would be upset enough to do a response video to an animation I can imagine its a lot of fatphobia, diet culture and pop science defending. 🙄

The crux of the issue is that she's not a commentator by nature so it probably feels very violating to have someone take your personal video and have someone be a clown about it under the guise of a "response". So I understand the instinct to protect your content. However unlike YouTube itself, the user base does not fuck around over trying to protect fairuse. Which has more and more self righteous fatphobes responding. I'm sure they are especially nasty if they think the response was 'correct' and her original was body positive.

It is fairuse to make a 'response' to the original video. It is an abuse of the take down system to flag those videos. And she doesn't have the skill set to navigate this frustrating situation because she is not a content creator that gets into fights or has people come after her normally. My heart goes out to her, I have seen other work from her, she's very personal, raw and vulnerable.

It probably felt like someone punched her in the heart. She wanted to protect herself and made the wrong choice. Now everyone is being assholes.

-mod squirrel