Game Grumps host Dan Avidan was allegedly caught grooming a 17 yo so that he could begin a sexual relationship with them when they hit adulthood, though it appears that the allegation against him has less weight than the one against shmorky as it started at 22 rather than 18 like in shmorky's case.
He and his co-host had previously defended blm during the 2020 regressive leftist riots.
heavily edited due to clarifications.
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Can you confirm that 17 was considered a minor in Dan's specific case? Can you also confirm how he was 'allegedly caught'? I don't quite understand what that means.
I fixed the post, but I wish we could edit titles.
I think that makes more sense. It at least seems to be a good faith attempt to clarify.
What does allegedly caught mean though?
called out would probably be more appropriate.
I haven't browsed the orchards thread all day so I'm not up on new developments, but from what I was reading yesterday he just had semi-normal conversations with her while she was 18 and they didn't fuck until she was 22, aka the "grooming" allegations are a bit overstated. Just another post-metoo "I fucked an eceleb and regretted it" roastie overblowing shit on twitter.
the original allegations claimed the grooming started at 17.
Ultimately it's likely nothing.
So he "groomed" a minor who was already above the age of consent... by not having any kind of sexual interaction with them before they were 18?
A lot of this "grooming" obsession is nonsensical. They treat people the age of 17 and under like they're total infants. You see this a lot with adult artists on twitter saying "No minors!" as well.
You called them adult artists. Even if it wasn't more trouble than it's worth, why would an adult artist draw someone who isn't an adult?
In this context "adult artist" means an artist who himself is an adult. Actually it means that in pretty much every context.
Yeah I meant artists who are adults, or alternatively who draw adult material (nsfw).
Freaking everything is grooming to these idiots
In comics there was a sort of recent scandal where an artist was accused of (among other things) "grooming" women in their mid-20s.
The USA is kind of unusual in having their age of emancipation/consent at 18, and I don't even think it's been that way for all that long (look at all the songs from the 1950s about "sweet sixteen". Why the hell do you think 16 was an age to make a big deal over? It wasn't about the damn driver's license.)
It's 16 in Canada, and most other places as well, I think. You only need your parent's permission to get married or join the regular armed forces; for everything else, you're good to go off on your own if you want.
US culture is infantalizing its people, like, hard. There's no way a 17 year old should be treated or considered the same as a five year old. It's ridiculous. But humans have that problem of going from one extreme to another - Western civ has gone from treating kids like shit/disposable commodities to treating them like sacred things to be sheltered and coddled until a certain age (and then suddenly expected to function as an adult at a certain age, like legal bullshit is magic). Disaster awaits on that path ...
It was a combination of factors that got us to this point, but the takeaway is that in the US, age of majority has become intertwined with franchise.
You do not want 16 year olds voting. Frankly you shouldn't want people under 30 voting but we play the hand we're given.
Oh, I forgot about voting. That's 18 (and alcohol, tobacco and weed ages are set by the province, but the federal minimum is now 18, too. When I was young, there was no federal minimum age for cigarettes.)
BUT, you can quit school, leave home, rent a place, hold a full-time job, and co-habitate with a sexual partner, and Children's Aid can't touch you. But you were expected to have been trained and educated enough to be able to take care of yourself by that age. And my advice to the young, from experience, isn't to "stay in school", it's to "get a trade", and one that can't be exported.
A rockstar parody musician slept with a fan then didn't call her back? the horror!
We're talking about a guy who sings about one night stands and creeping on women then bragging about it, and parody songs about dinosaurs with lasers and lets plays.
It was honestly only a matter of time until they went after Dan for being a misogynist for his songs anyway. I just wonder why it took so long.
pump and dump isn't a crime.
Im not gonna waste my time caring about this one way or the other
The Virgin Egoraptor vs The Chad Danny Sexbang
Exactly. We can't just accept claims like this at face value just because they target people we might disagree with politically.