You can believe it's wrong that these women have said horrible, racist sh*t and should be held accountable for them while also believing they don't deserve to be victims of assault, abuse, and misogny. These things can coexist and people just don't seem to understand that.
I commented once before the Brooke stuff came out sth like:” I don’t like Tana because of her racist past but I still believe her” And got attacked by a white girl saying I am part of the misogyny problem online, because nobody is talking about male creators’ racist past. 😅I was like, no girl, you are the one having trouble addressing 2 things at the same time.
It's all to do with the perfect victim. People think a victim needs to be a certain way rather than acknowledging like victims can do or have done some bad things as well
@@Olivia-ug7scyes. that was what was said originally. you can choose to not support a racist, but people that speak out about abuse should almost always be believed, no matter what
Yes, I dont have to condone tanas' actions or like her to believe her. It was crappy of people to just outright dismissed her or believe her but justify it cuz "she's tana." Still, I don't have to "forget" how she really is and the many lives she has tried to destroy, not talking about cody, it wasn't a long time ago when she doxxed the wine lady. At her grown age.
@kennaelpis prob what happened to Drake was a big part what he did later on. Not justifying, but it is such a sad situation for everybody involved, and I feel for Drake's victim, and I feel for young Drake.
Yeah, I think it's extremely important to at least take every sexual harassment, SA and ra** claim seriously, no matter the person's history or gender/gender identity.
I just want people to start a new tab about Brooke’s issues (racism, homophobia, etc) and NOT have people divert from the FAKE DEAD MOM issue. We can have multiple things be true and be ISSUES at the same time.
@@RatClowns oh, you have to watch the two videos Cooper has already done on Brooke and Clinton Cane, the musician who is not actually Australian and not actually an orphan. They are pretty recent and long and very funny.
this is my biggest issue. I’m only hearing people talk about clinton being a lying manipulator or brooke being a raging racist in response to one another. neither of them are great people, and neither of those things are related. it’s not hard to point out their issues individually without comparing them. like maybe just acknowledge when someone does something you don’t fuck with and then don’t fuck with them 😭
I feel like this is related to the “perfect victim” ideal. Like someone can’t be a victim of abuse because they also did something bad. Her racism doesn’t mean she wasn’t also a victim of Clinton Kane
@@DebsDemurrer agreed. It's extremely concerning, and it seems to be just getting lost in the the overall story regarding the racist behaviours. Will definitely give your video a watch when Cooper is done.
@@DebsDemurrer I will make sure to take a look at your video! Thank you for bringing attention to this topic, I think it should be discussed more openly because a creator doing these awful things should not have a platform :(
@@ohitsthatonedude Agreed, it's easy to assume the worst but there are a LOT of people who supported him/voted for him just because he promised to lower taxes and prices. He definitely attracts racists though.
Two things can be true at once. She can be a victim of an abusive boyfriend but also still be deplatformed because of her racist mentality. They’re unrelated
@@kaskaskas yeah exactly that is my point! ppl supporting clinton kane again just because the person he abused is a racist is the whole issue, hes still an abuser and a bad person you shouldnt support, even if youre also against the person who spoke out
@@kaskaskasyeah no thats exactly my point, people shouldnt start supporting an abuser again just because the person who spoke out is someone you dont support
theres a redemption arc for everybody, when i was 13 i was an alt right 4chan troll who would say slurs online to hurt people bc i hated myself. now im a leftist and those actions and beliefs are far in my past. doesn’t matter how far gone people are, (besides obvious uncrossable lines like being a p3do or a serial killer) they still deserve a second chance to change
@@bingusenjoyer197i agree but i feel like her situation is different, she was 16 while u were 13 and it’s clear that you’ve made a change in your life w ur actions, but at the same time we really don’t know how brooke is behind the screen so it’s hard to gain that trust back when it’s already been lost
@@bingusenjoyer197fantastic point! This is why “calling in” is better than “calling out”, because we want to educate and encourage empathy; not create an environment where someone continues to harbor these feelings and beliefs (doubling down) because they think they’re being “martyred” by cancel culture. I hope that made sense?
just in case someone doesn't know - rubber bullets are NOT rubber. they are REAL bullets with a rubber casing. they can cause fatal injuries and permanent disabilities. I'm glad you're okay - you could have very easily wound up paralyzed from being shot in the back.
@CheerfulCalicoCat-oj1jl Yeah, like rubber bullets still sound bad, but I didn't know they were that bad. I wonder if there has been actual like cases where there have been people who have died. Can they like sue? I'll search it up probably
They definitely can cause fatal injuries and disabilities so I agree 100%, but the reason they are used is because they are not real bullets. They are blunt tipped for the purpose of not penetrating whereas bullets are pointed at the tip (unless it’s a buckshot in which case it scatters and blows your damn limbs off), and the inside CAN be metal but also plastic and most commonly hard foam
It's so gross to see TANA MONGEAU condemn Brooke for her racism when Tana has such a long list of racism in her past as well. As a white person it's weird, can't imagine how the black community feels on this...
i'm black and i'm 16 and tbh i started watching the cancelled podcast because i thought i thought i could be apart of girl talk or gossip or whatever and be up to date, and after this came out about tana and brooke it was just like a huge sigh and reminded me that i was never included or would've been thought of on that couch, it's just tiring seeing EVERYYYY white female influencer have a history of them openly being racist
@@blah572 I always hope that people can learn and grow from their past and its just a big reminder that people never change only what they post openly does.
I feel completely fine. I don't have the privilege of the biggest issue in my life being a fucking stranger saying the n-word, not being racist at heart and destroying their life several years later
21 year old indigenous woman here who grew up in southern oklahoma. as a person of color, i relate a lot to d’angelo’s video over brooke’s apology. we can try and have a nuanced conversation around accountability and people’s ability/inability to change all we want, but at the end of the day we (poc) are tired. i have witnessed firsthand what the conservative, far right indoctrination process looks like within families - i have lost friends over it. i have spent the majority of my life defending my own existence and fundamental rights to people i once genuinely cared about. these people grew up in a bubble where that level of hatred was not only acceptable, but normal. that is sad and incredibly hard to unlearn. HOWEVER, people of color and other minorities have had no other choice but to accept the realities of this world because it is thrown in our face everyday. there are minorities who cope with the realities in different ways, some more harmful than others, but few are warranted the decision to claim blissful ignorance. instead we (once again poc) are “suppose to be” continuously teaching white people how to treat us - which is exhausting. so i find it hard to sympathize with brooke and tana’s upbringing when mine (and many others) was very similar, but i never had the choice to stay ignorant because once again this is my existence we are talking about. all of this to say that while i believe that conversations like this are very important, i find it hard to care because at the end of the day these white girls are gonna be fine lmao. i can appreciate brooke’s attempt at taking accountability while also accepting that the rise or fall of her career will not be determined by my support or lack there of.
i agree so much!!! THIS is how to not be racist as a white person (i am one as well to be clear btw). educate yourself, educate the ones around you, and advocate for POC. it is truly what i think should be our job when it comes to these things, instead of judging if some other white person is supposed to be excused for being racist or not. we truly can never truly understand what its like to live as a POC but all we can do is try, and spread love.
I am a women of color and I see your point but I think your case is different than the rest of us. North American (I specify North American because Latin American natives; such as myself, have a very different history than North American natives) indigenous people are some of the most preyed upon in almost every negative situation in the US. That is something different that the rest of minorities in the US will never be able to understand. I mean Asians are considered a minority and they are the most successful race/ethnicity in the US, just to give you an example. At the end of the day, both sides of the political spectrum have racism that courses through it. The difference is who is being affected and that doesn't make it any less wrong. I agree that Brooke's attempt deserves some merit, but she used that attempt of accountability to shift the blame elsewhere. All we, as internet users, can do now is either accept her "apology" and continue giving her a platform or don't accept and move on.
@@AmandaMills-o5l Depending on what you consider "Asian," but yes. SE Asians are typically lower-class and face a lot of discrimination due to colorism. "Asians" can suffer a lot in silence due to the "Model Minority Myth."
She changed it to that around blm and the idubbz thing when she first started getting reamed for being racist. I think she's been too scared to change it to anything else lol
I’m a POC and grew up in a very homogeneous society with close to zero exposure to other ethnicities and races, etc for the first 15 years of my life. I’m 28 now and live in a city with people from all walks of life with a very diverse community and try my best to be conscientious about racial issues in general and keep an open mind and try to understand issues faced by people of other races. But also I’ve learned over the years that the some things that were ingrained in me during those formative years were quite small minded, ignorant and sometimes racist. I’ve tried hard over the years to unlearn these things and was lucky that during my late teens I was exposed to a lot of progressive media that really shaped my views as an adult. I wonder how I’d have turned out had I not been exposed to those things. I’m not quite sure why I put that whole spiel above lol but just a bit of context about my experiences. With that being said, I feel like a lot of people who put BLM or other racial activism posts, tags, etc are extremely performative and insincere in their activism in order to appear progressive and not-racist. I say this because the same people choose to exclusively hang out and fraternize with people from their own race or community and others who are ignorant (and very transparent about their ignorance) or who engage in micro aggressions and covert racism themselves. I feel perhaps putting those posts up is a great step but if actions don’t follow the social media/keyboard activism, it means very little. I hope I didn’t offend anyone by saying this but it’s just something I’ve noticed.
@aval964 I enjoyed reading your experiences. I'm from a small town in the Midwest and similarly we had a very small "ethnic" population that has grown as ive gotten older, and I have seen so many people try flaunting the confederate flag and being racist to all walks of life different from their own. There's always bad apples in general. It's definitely how you are raised and morals of your own. I remember my parents imprinting it on me and I realized at a young age(like 5??) That it was effed up to treat someone different because of skincolor. I found it very hypocritical of my parents to tell me to be nice to my brother with disabilities but they were rude to someone because of skincolor? Lmao I love my brother it was something I argued about as a kid to my parents to convince them it was wrong because I felt like it was the same thing.
@@breannenicole4454 definitely. I am so glad you were able to get out of that mindset, which can’t be said about a lot of other people who’ve been indoctrinated. I know some people that I knew back when I was 14-15 before I moved away who are ultra nationalistic and very bigoted and have a lot of hatred for muslims in particular. It’s scary because they’re convinced their views are not harmful. It’s very hard to get through to people like that who’re hell bent on not changing. Furthermore even though we’re poc, a lot of people in my community have an obsession with white skin. LGBTQ issues are also not as accepted but it’s getting better. I dread thinking about how I’d have turned out if I hadn’t moved away. My parents are relatively open minded compared to the people I grew up around though they are also racist sometimes- not in the extreme sense of hating people and being overtly racist but they’ll judge people from certain ethnicities, even our own lol (self racism?) and make ignorant remarks, and also have subconscious biases, etc. All of this to say that even though I’m not perfect, I would have definitely known at 15-16 not to say the things Brooke Schofield tweeted even though I was from a very racially isolated community. Though everyone’s circumstances are different but it’s hard to give someone grave when they’ve said vile things. Ugh sorry about such long comments, I tend to get carried away when talking about these things :/
@@moedacowI think it might be because it came from people who “hate gays” (aka closeted gay white men attacking a mirror) was trying to insinuate that they’re “maggots”. But that’s just my theory so that is probably why it rubs you wrong.
Omg Brooke, I was raised from birth by the most conservative right wing parents. I didn’t tweet bullshit, I am proudly their greatest disappointment because my views oppose theirs.
exactly. I was raised by parents & grandparents who said v racist conservative things my whole life but somehow I have always known not to say racist stuff & see black people as human beings & to challenge them on those views.
I know this isn't the main topic, but the protests I went to while in college in iowa were wild. one night a police officer walked directly up to my roommate, and for context, she is black, and pepper sprayed her point blank. absolutely no rhyme or reason and she couldn't see for over two hours and was in an insane amount of pain. next day, we go out again, end up getting tear gassed at a completely peaceful protest. a couple people ended up having seizures due to the tear gas and flash bangs. when the ambulances got there and were helping the two people that were having seizures, the police threw tear gas canisters directly at the ambulances and hit them. the mayor condemned their actions, marched with us for a night or two, and then the first night of protests without him, the cops threatened to shoot us with live ammunition. the cops in that county showed us time and time again how blatantly racist they were. they need to fire everyone and build that police force back up with people that actually want to help the community :(
Who knew about Tana’s racism years before besides me? Edit: So I just remembered this- A UA-camr I watch, one time in one of his videos from years ago, he briefly shared that he & Tana meant to collab but she then ghosted him.
It’s literally the only thing I remembered about her aside from Tanacon. That’s why I was deeply uncomfortable with her having an audience. I will always acknowledge her as a victim of various things but I am doubtful about her morality.
the contrast between tana’s racist tweets and her having BLM as her display name is insane 😭 but loved that u shared ur experience at the protest!! perfect example of the difference between performative and true activism 👍🏾 awesome vid coop
38:36 this is after the story but. Coopers BLM protests are legitimately heroic(his is from a African American girl) I didn’t know he did this but with how he’s talking it’s like “Ya anyone would have done it” but no a LOT would have just ran. You actually RISKED your life to help your community and those girls, That’s sick as hell, and on behalf of those girls and BLM thank you
I love recountings of major events like this. I always try to stay open to expanding my world view. I remember watching the Hong Kong protest at the same time as the BLM protests taking notes. My parents were constantly monitoring kcmo. I wanted to go, but as I was in high schooler without a car during covid, it was not happening for me. My parents gave me the whole antifa stuper violent protesting blah blah blah story but I had a friend that was always posting his account near the medic tent at the protest. Recordings of speeches, pictures of dumped out milk (relieves pain from teargas), the ground of the tent being a mess because everything was overturned because every night it was flooded by people and cops. Missouri's curfew was put in place for covid but it was inforced heavily for BLM, real strange huh
Idk why but your comment made me tearful, because it's so true, not a lot of people would do it. He stood his ground and helped his community like many other brave souls did during the BLM Movement Movement. It was beautiful to see all types of people coming together and fighting against injustice. 🖤🖤 Black and Brown solidarity, my friend 🖤🖤🤎🤎 Hope y'all are well 🖤🖤🙏🙏
As a black woman, what I look for is REAL accountability. To me, that looks like admitting without a shadow of a doubt, that they truly used to be racist as hell. After that, they can then share their journey to healing from that, and growing into a more healthy, compassionate, and empathetic mindset. Most ppl caught in situations like this feel that the most critital and urgent course of action is to apologize to white centrist/"liberal" fans to prevent serious losses to their revenue. Its hard to apologize for shit like this, UNLESS you actually are NO LONGER A RACIST. When you have truly moved beyond this shit, apologizing is easy, beacause you've already dealt with the inward shame and disgust that introspection brings when healing intense flaws within yourself. To me, apology videos are easy to disregard, most of them are crap.
That’s what’s missing here. Where’s the journey? I can recount specific things/events that helped me change the way I think. Where’s that in any of her statements? Same thing with Tana in her past controversies. They’re just using buzzwords. Like, you “condemn”her? Okay, sis.
Except Brooke was blocking every black creator who was making critical videos of her so there’s nothing to forgive because she hasn’t grown. She just blocked everyone who would have had a problem so now only her fans are left.
@basharalbutseggs8056 Adam Mcintyre talked about it in his video. She blocked him after he made a video on her, and he mentioned she did it with others too.
she clarified this. she said she was blocking people that just wanted her to self delete. she said she would never block any black creators who offer constructive criticism.
Thank you for also including Tana. I’m so sick of people acting like she’s such a saint. Or saying it’s ok because ‘sHe’S cHaNgEd’? Has she? She recently doxxed an older woman and lied about it. she hasn’t changed.
Thank you for using your platform to show that the BLM protests were peaceful, and that the violence was initiated by police, and using your own firsthand account to do so. It’s so important for people to know what really happens at these demonstrations, both for the benefit of the movements, and for our own safety. And also, thank you for being a part of the movements!
I grew up in a racist and homophobic household. I realized (pretty quickly) that it was wrong. I ended up leaving religion because of it as well! Thank god for the internet and public school systems for teaching me better.
Cooper calling out the pimping issue that is going on with of is so important. Everyone was quick to call Andrew Tate a pimp and Tana M is essentially doing the same thing with a “hey girly let me help you🥰🫶🏽” twist
Yessss!!!! That's how women are mostly involved w trafficking rings, by distributing the girls because they earn their trust. That part deserves way more coverage!!
you make it sound so dramatic lmao comparing tate to tana? that's pretty gross of you. tana is a business woman but let's not pretend that the women she helps don't want it.
It was already part of my vocabulary, a common greeting to my pets, in fact. So the first time I watched one of his videos and heard those same words, I was immediately impressed. 😂
Idk how people are surprised about Brooke’s past racist actions when she’s literally best friends and works with Tana who’s infamous for doing the same thing years ago and a plethora of other scandals as well. Also them being racist doesn’t absolve their abusers (Cody and Clinton) actions towards them.
i'm so glad you mentioned tana's hypocrisy in 'condemning' brooke, because it also did not feel genuine to me. it feels like people have just conveniently forgotten about tana's past since canceled blew up, so i'm glad people are realizing now.
WHOAH the tana portion should’ve been a video on its own !! That is SUCH predatory behavior and it’s disgusting that she’s taking advantage of other influencers and her own fans. she has NOOOO MORALS… sad
YEAH. i was wondering why barely anybody was talking ab that portion bc it’s the MOST important. i’ve liked tana for a min and neverrr heard ab her trying to be a pimp 😭 my views have changed immensely
thank you so much for talking about tana and the sexual exploitation, as someone who was sexually exploited when they were 18 (who also had lots of people try to use me for sex work that they would profit off of), this is fucking disgusting and i hope tana’s 18 year old fans don’t see this as appropriate, because she’s monetizing off of completely normalizing sexual exploitation, also shout out sophia literally so many thoughts and prayers for all the female content creators that have to deal with that fucking harassment
I was also raised by my fgrandparents since pretty much birth bc of drug addict parents. My grandpa would watch racist comedians and come into my room to say racist remarks just to piss me of, and my grandma would just ignore it cause yknow she's white it's not targeted towards her. My older sister turned into the most midwest camo wearing, "I have friends that let me say the soft n word so racisms dead" hick woman. And I spent the rest of my life in that house arguing with my grandpa about what he was saying the second i learned what racism was in what the 5th grade? It was like "oh my grandpa is awful then" not "but my grandpa told me x y z racist remark here" defending them. It's one thing to grow up on the culture, it's another to accept it despite the rest of the world telling your you're wrong. Racist are a special kind of narcist bro.
Ya no exactly i grew up in asian i am mean i am still here soo the beauty standard is literally WHITE everybody unanimously decided white is more pretty but it never made me think that i am brown i NEVER tried to change my skin colour which just means its HER fault 😮💨😮💨😮💨
Okay so youre kind of disproving your own point. Congrats you didnt turn into them... but your sister did. So just because it didnt happen to you.. doenst mean it cant happen. It quite literally happened to your own sister by your own admission.
@@bailey7792 It's almost like growing up with Fundies, you can either become brainwashed by it and accept it or you are able to see through the lies. Unfortunately, some people don't for a long time. I spent a lot of time undoing all the micro aggressions I had that stick with me because I spent my childhood trying so hard to be accepted by my parents, I was blinded by the fact that they weren't good people and I didn't need their acceptance. And I'm in my 30s. It is shameful how long I spend figuring out how much internalized hate that was there for no reason. Based on a religion I didn't even believe in. It can be a long road. Look at Girl Defined, shes around my age but she's been brainwashed for so long, she only NOW starting to deconstruct some of the things she's been taught. She's still terrible, but she's trying to learn. They should definitely be held accountable but I want ppl to grow and be better so they don't hurt anymore people along the way. But never expect forgiveness for those you have hurt.
@@bailey7792no I think the point she was also making is it depends on what you allow and believe im pretty sure she told her sister how it was wrong just as much as her grandpa and she didn’t care to change her mind
36:51 THIS is what an ally should be. My best friends are white and protected me for 4 years bc we lived in a Blue Lives Matter area. I was the only Black person in the building. Cooper, the fact that you had fear for your own life and continued to try to keep others safe is more than admirable.
I highly recommend people watch Kat Blaque’s video on this topic. Not only is she black, and grew up in a similar place, but she made some really eye opening observations, especially to someone who hasn’t had to experience these kinds of things (aka us white people). Because it’s one thing for us to hear her apology and decide whether we want to continue to support her, but her actions did not affect us, and I do think a lot of us more progressive/liberal white folks have a tendency to get offended on other people’s behalf. But Kat points out how Brooke talks about not knowing better until she was older.. but in her tweets about Trayvon, she doesn’t give him any of the same grace despite him being younger than she was. And those types of tweets had REAL LIFE effects on people, especially on black people, so it’s not really “just a shitty tweet” for us to be like “oh that was tacky but she was young.” An apology can’t undo the harm people experienced. ETA: I came back hours later to add - this isn’t about just flippantly saying the n- word or singing along with a rap, or even just her jokes about her friends saying slurs at the movies. It’s specifically about the harm her comments about Trayvon have had and things like that. Neither situation is right but being SO blatantly racist and harmful when there are real victims is on a whole other level than just saying n-a a few times.
thank u so much for recommending that, i just watched it and i learned so much in just 30 minutes. genuinely recommend it as well, shes so good at communicating her perspective
I love Kat Blaque so much, and I'll gladly watch her video after this one. D'Angelo Wallace did a pretty good job too, as a black man who ALSO grew up in similar areas to Brooke. He tends to give space for a grey area while also giving his own input. I'm the kind who likes to watch multiple takes on a situation. Well, so long as those takes aren't excusing someones actions, of course. And in scenarios centered around racism, well I'm obviously going to listen to PoC voices on the topic, since they are always the ones most affected in such situations. Brooke is a- Case I know far too well coming from a rural town that insists it's not racist but the second a person of color shows up everyone is giving them side eyes (wish I was kidding.) Difference between me and her is I grew up in a progressive and accepting family despite where we live, while she lived with a racist asshole. But I have seen SO many kids grow up to be so hateful and say the most vile fucking things- But as many of them are now beginning to graduate from College and get away from small town life and immediate family- Are learning that hey, maybe racism is bad! So like. I partially believe Brooke when she says she isn't (entirely) like that anymore- But the damage is d o n e. She can't undo that. Ever. Nor can anyone who grew up like her undo any similar damage they did. It's awful, and it sucks, and if shitty racist people didn't indoctrinate their kids into such ways of thinking, PoC wouldn't have to grow to be so tired of having to teach people to treat them like people. Hatred can be undone, but it's damage will forever remain.
Kat had a great video. Most of the white people making videos on this are too focused on the "can she change?" conversations instead of the "racism is harmful no matter what age the white people involved are". I give zero shits about Brooke's apologies or whether she's changed. I care about how black kids grow up being victimized by the white kids' "edgy phase". People are too obsessed with "giving her a second chance" when no one has the power to stop her from making podcasts. Brooke can continue being an influencer and people can decide that there's no value in listening to stupid people speak, but that's just the free market. She's not being punished, but people are too worried about her ability to make millions while talking shit. Maybe we should be worried about why racist "phases" are normalized and how somehow the white people are still being treated like the victims. Black kids are constantly targeted, but oh, poor Brooke for tweeting. It's night and day how different videos by white and black creators are on this topic. No one is stopping her from changing and growing, but maybe we want the victims of racism to matter more than the racist acts of white people in these conversations.
@@Stinkeroniandcheese THANK YOU. I feel so validated hearing this take as a poc. I'm not black myself, but there's something so odd about seeing a lot of white creators discuss ''how can she change'' instead of the harm this behaviour causes towards the actual victims. In this case black people, and latine people. It's tiresome how racist phases are just being normalised, and not condemned.
Cooper describing the protest he was at reminded me how change is hard and some many people are hurt and have been to have us reach a point we are already at. I'm lucky to not have been discriminated against before and I can't imagine worrying about be discriminated daily. I hope everyone is safe out there!
The focus of this I feel really needs to be on the pimping stuff. Obviously the racist remarks are TERRIBLE and they both need to be held accountable, but the fact that Tana is CURRENTLY in the business of pimping and profiting is A HUGE PROBLEM. I was involved in human trafficking and barely made it out. I’ve seen this stuff firsthand. Not only is it terrible in general, but the fact of it is that the biggest percentage of victims are POC. So it’s not a separate issue at all. If you are angry about her previous racist remarks please be just as angry if not MORE SO about the current exploitation she’s perpetuating. Whether she’s doing it directly or not, SHE IS STILL GUILTY OF FURTHERING THE RING.
Cooper, that story about the protest is absolutely crazy. I've always known stories about riots and stuff like that are usually really exaggerated and spun by the media, but just hearing an actual account like that is eye-opening.
@@ringer1324 yeah I don’t think white people truly care about being called a cracker tbh not that I’ve ever put that word to use because I’m from the UK so it’s not a thing here.
People tend to forget about what problematic things influencers do, Tana was promoting the idea of teenager girls lie about their real age and claim to be 18 or older and get hooked up with celebrities or influencers or go to clubs get drunk and get high, her stories were always obvious about who she actually is.
@@celinayliterally all of her old story times about her in Vegas as a teen. I haven’t watched them in years but the ones I can remember that stick out is her story time on how she went to EDC & talked ab how she was going to an 18+ festival since she was 15, the story time of her getting banned from a Vegas hotel, and the story time about her almost having sex with G Easy. There’s definitely more bc all her partying & club story times she was making at 20 were referring to years ago, and she’s also said in many random vids that the club Hyde in LA would let her in underage & talking about having a fake ID. If I’m remembering correctly I also think the reason she was arrested at Coachella was underage drinking but I could be wrong about that one.
@lizzieschwab7675 oh my god I had no clue 🗿 I didn't really know about her until tanacon and thought that was the only real reason people hated her. I didn't know about all this. Thanks for sharing wtffff
I am loving these long form content. I watch these videos while cleaning and doing chores in general. I watxh inabber a lot and your videos are like a higher energy version of his. I love it
Thank you cooper. You’re my comfort UA-camr. I just got home at 7, I got on my school bus at 6, the 6pm late bus. It ended up being overcrowded and we had to wait for another bus. We left at 6:30. But today, the second day of school. I finally get to shower with water that isn’t full of dirt. Thank you.
I said dumb shit like this as a teen, and even into college. That was the late 90s & early 00s. Have spent my life since trying to make it right, and raising my kids to be better. Glad there wasn’t social media back then, though if there had been, I’d probably have learned my lesson a lot earlier. People can learn to be better, but not without some serious repentance.
My mom grew up in rural Georgia.. her family, to this day, is so unabashedly racist. I was visiting my grandmother (mom’s mom) shortly after George Floyd was murdered and the things grandma and her sisters were saying… horrific. (And don’t worry I called them out on it and now my grandma won’t speak to me. Byeeee!!) still, my mother came out of it and although she isn’t necessarily as educated on the pervasive nature of racism in modern America as I wish she was, she would never ever ever use a racial slur and is totally aware of the epidemic of hate crime. My mother then raised me and I, despite growing up in a very red state, am a raging leftist and have been since i saw a specific episode of family guy at age 13 (seriously). Displaying hate because of who raised you is no excuse. Everyone has agency and if my mom could end the cycle of hideous behavior she experienced without access to the internet, and probably very few POC around her, Brooke has no excuse.
Racism exists on both sides of the spectrum. Don't make it out to be primarily a right wing thing, because the racism on the left is just a flipped version of the right wing racism. At the end of the day, judging someone based off of factors that they cannot control is wrong. You don't need to be on one side to see it.
@@tvmayer A common stereotype about conservatives is that it is a bunch of white people who hate minorities. When I refer to liberal's racism as "flipped", I mean it in the sense that it is minorities who are being racist, towards white people and each other. A good example of that would be the Stop Asian Hate movement. Asians are minorities and the most violence against Asians at the time was coming from another minority group. At the end of the day both sides has its bad people. Racism is not a conservative thing only. Racist is something that anyone can be. And we should call out anyone, from any side, who decides be racist.
1:24 had to do a double take aint no way she is defending a literal hate crime. I have not heard his name in a second and hearing it when someone is defending his murderer is awful
My home town is smaller and only had 1 formal protest for George Floyd and Brianna Taylor in 2020 and we thankfully were close enough to Flint (lookup Sheriff Swanson he's a rare good human in uniform and spoke at the DNC last week) so the police actually worked WITH the organizers of the protest to block roads for them and actually barricade against any counter protestors. We also had a really good rally afterwards in the center of the city where local black men and women spoke about their lived experience and it was such a powerful experience. A few people I went to high school with spoke and hearing what they lived through int he same school I went to was such an eye opening experience. I was privileged to not be exposed to the hatred they delt with and was so moved by the strength they had to speak on what they lived through. That's what I was doing when I was barely 21. Not using my conservative family's diatribes against Black/POC or using homophobic commentary. I have an uncle who wore a MAGA hat to a wedding AFTER January 6 for god's sake 🙄 It's 👏 not 👏 that 👏 hard 👏 to identify what you're around and choose to learn opposing view points and act as an advocate.
Cooper thank you so much for bringing this point to public attention. What you said about Tana speaks to the issue on a personal ‘E Pimp’ level but also on a societal and systematic issue in SW. As someone who was in the industry for 5 years I know first hand that it is sold to young women as a means of empowerment interpersonally but also culturally (much like an MLM). For women middle to upper class this means getting a bag, passive income. For those lower class or poverty level this means the chance at financial ease. However wherever you enter the industry you soon are faced with unfortunate moral quandaries. The upper class with money vs exploitation of other and the lower class with money vs personal safety and comfort. At every turn you are convinced by those inside the industry predatory or peer level that just doing a little bit more outside your current comfort level will increase your income, clout and status of empowerment. Just as you said this has parallels to MLM businesses but the stakes are that of physical and emotional boundaries rather than an external product. Most heartbreaking in this intersection of SW and capitalism is that the younger and more vulnerable either ‘E Pimps’ or the market as a whole can sell this American Dream ideal of the industry to women, the more profit can be made from them.
do you guys not notice him repeating the same things over and over again and replaying the same clips? I really think that’s what makes them longer 😭 in his last video he played the same exact clip like 4 times in a row lmao
I likely won't be able to get thru this full hour. Being an internet user and a black woman millenial, I have to reserve my energy and actively protect my peace. Love your content Coop
Honestly I find you refreshing. I try not to get my hopes up as a person of color or as a woman mostly because I’ve been let down by some of my favorite ever content creators who happen to be white and have a horrible history on the internet be discovered. I am exhausted with having to deal with the number of content creators who have a bad track record and the level of insensitivity in their responses to it. I believe ppl can change I do, I am just tired of having to forgive ppl bc I want to like them still and it’s easier to pretend it doesn’t exist bc being a person of color you can’t exist without some form of racism coming ur way whether its present day or older coming back up. Not trying to praise you for the bare minimum of not saying slurs but I am happy that you are calling this out and explaining the power dynamics that come from the consequences of explicitly hurting a group of ppl. Like great you’re taking “accountability” and on ur journey to be a better you, but it doesn’t change that now I know my fave would actually have thoughts like this about me most likely and that’s jarring to think of. I feel like there’s no place for us anywhere and when we get upset we’re called overemotional for having a proportional response and reaction.
The BLM protest I went to in DC was peaceful and filled with some of the most caring and beautiful people inside and out that I’ve ever seen. The crowd was just alive with hope and love but also the desire and message for true equality, justice and peace. I had to leave before it ended but still It was quite the experience that I recommend for everyone’s benefit.
All of the protests that happened in my area turned into riots real quick. The entirety of my downtown area had to get shut down because people committed arson and were lighting up businesses like there was no tomorrow. Historical statues were defaced and even American flags were being lit. Unfortunately that is the reputation that whole movement got. Not to even mention all of the funds that were used to line rich people's pockets and buy them mansions. I think the whole movement had a good purpose but was ruined because of greed.
growing up my dad was very racist. when it’s something you hear all the time, it’s almost as if you’re brain washed into believing that, because it truly is all you know from such a young age. i’m not defending brooke, but i do think that what she’s saying makes sense. i did realize sooner than 18 that i had grown up on some rotten “stereotypes” that were not accurate, once i started to actually work with people of different backgrounds and races and see that the color of someone’s skin does not reflect what kind of person they are. parental figures play a huuge role in who their kids are, and sometimes the kids figure things out for themselves and sometimes they don’t.
I totally relate, my dad’s racist too, but c’mon now there has to be a line somewhere. At 16 you’re definitely old enough to think for yourself and realise what’s good and bad, ESPECIALLY in America. It’s one thing to be indoctrinated with a certain world view, another to proudly proclaim it to not only your friends but all of twitter too
I grew up with a racist dad as well, you definitely internalize it whether you realize or intend to or not. It actually makes it harder for me to understand or justify people like her because I’m a little older, in my 30s, and as soon as I had regular internet access in my early teens I quickly realized it’s all based on irrational hate and ignorance. She had easier and better access to information to educate herself at a younger age than I did and she still held onto her racist views longer.
i do agree with this and i don’t think this is talked about enough. generational racism, especially in white families, is very prevalent. my grandpa is very racist and definitely engraved some of those ideations into my dad’s head. not as intensely but it’s there for sure. the thing is though, when you grow up with a family or community who are racist on any level, it’s up to you to break the cycle. i’ve realized that as i’ve grown older, and now as an adult i feel i’m responsible to be an ally for POC and call out racism when i see/hear it. when i was younger, i didn’t bother, because i was also raised on some rotten stereotypes and while i knew it was wrong, i didn’t understand the TRUE impact.
@@xoluciaxo_3721 she was brought up on those beliefs and when that happens it can be kind of like an echo chamber for those horrible opinions. It's difficult to break out of that mindset or to even consider other views because in your head the people who love and support you think this way and this is all you know. I don't think it's fair to say that she should've known better when that was likely all she knew What she did wasn't okay, but I think the way she has grown, the time it took, is pretty realistic, even if it doesn't look the best for her.
There's no influencer with a "problematic past and a hard childhood in the HOOD" that they supposedly outgrew that doesn't have things like this in their older posts. Those are the 1 out of a million people that talked shit on Twitter but got extremely lucky and became famous so it surfaced. At this point no one should be surprised anymore - if someone was like that in their teens and told us multiple time they were like that - they are still like that just more covertly
I agree. I was raised a conservative in an extremely conservative family and I’ve grown up around racist comments and I would have never thought to say any of that no matter what age I was. The “N” word has always made me so uncomfortable even in music. Posting that extreme of stuff you don’t change those views you just learn they’re not acceptable.
@@kimberlyyyyy44 Same. A lot of my family still says stuff like that. I had to tell my grandma not to say certain things around my kid. I love her so much but she's very problematic with her views and words. We just agree to disagree and move on. But I have a hard time with it b/c I'm so different than them and always have been.
It’s crazy how college can change people’s views of the world. My roommate in collage was horrible, she was racist and homophobic and sexist (was wild to me bc how can you be a woman and hate women?) and by our junior year she was a complete different person and we actually became friends. College changes how a LOT of people see the world because they are away from the influence of their family who had been drilling horrible things into their heads. Which is why the (far far far) right is always screaming about indoctrination in the school system.
your protest experience is exactly how it happened when i went. all the protestors were very calm and both times i marched, the police were the aggressors. i live streamed everything on Facebook and the next day my videos had been removed. they do anything and everything they can to control the narrative. thank you for doing what you did and thank you for talking about it. it's so upsetting what our Black friends and family in the community deal with every single day. it's been going on forever and it is truly awful. i really hope one day things change.
wait THAT'S how you spell mongeau???? For years I've been thinking "Tana Mojo" like as in mojojojo from the power puff girls. My life is a flipping lie! Also great video dawg
I saw it spelled before I ever heard it pronounced, and the first time I heard it I was like "THAT'S how you pronounce mongeau????" I used to call her Tana Mongoose as a joke but it doesn't even sound close to her real name 💀
French is really like that, lmao! It will have you thinking you are crazy if you don't know anything about it! If you get confused, remember when they were calling her Tana Mongoose? That's closer to the spelling! 😂
Hey Cooper, I’m not too sure what side of the internet you're on in terms of music, but you should look into K-pop. There’s a lot of sexual “crime” going on and getting swept under the rug constantly. K-pop Twitter is in shambles right now due to recent (this morning) news of Taeil, the eldest member of NCT, being removed from the group due to a crime. It’s a whole issue, and a lot of people are up in arms about the situation. I’ve been watching your videos for a while, and you dig deep into whatever topic you’re discussing and aren’t afraid to say what needs to be said. This is a very serious issue for the victims, and they will most likely be pressured into staying silent. Fans are discussing the matter on Twitter, but I fear it will just stay there. We need to make this bigger and get more eyes on it. I would appreciate it if you could at least consider making a video about this. We need to shed light on this dark situation.
@@Mythy-ws8es it’s a negative adjective used to describe black peoples hair- typically like 4C hair type. It has a really racist flavour because of the history of its usage
For me this isn’t even a I don’t like them I never liked them but come on guys these influencers continue to show us they were racist then they say “oh I’m sorry but-“ and everyone is like oh have sympathy and empathy. No. I’ve lived my whole life as a black woman you have no idea how hard it can get unless you live that life, I’ve grown up with people like Brooke and Tana. They aren’t sorry, if they were sorry they would’ve said something A LONGGGG TIME ago but because people called them out now they’re sorry. When you grow and learn from your mistakes you apologize for them then and there, not 5-10 years later when people call you out. I think that people can grow and they can change but this is not an example of growth, you sit on a couch and call everyone else out for their mistakes but somehow have conveniently forgotten your own. I believe in change and growth but again in this scenario I don’t believe there’s been any but that’s my opinion and I don’t know what they’ve learned or how they’ve changed.
my sentiments exactly because if they truly felt as if they’d grown as individuals they would have addressed their problematic remarks ages ago when nobody had even known about them. that would have shown them ACTUALLY taking accountability and would have been real proof of their growth.
I’m so ready for this. I used to be a Tana stan back in middle school/early high school, until I watched kahlen barry’s videos. I was there for the whole Trash debacle, the natanna situation, the fake wedding. I’m so grateful for kahlen being willing to share his story about tana so that people like me who were fans could properly learn who we were stanning.
One thing I wish Cooper had pointed out was that Tana Mongeau had her profile as Black Lives Matter while she was saying racist shit. Like what the fuck
I'm gonna be honest when I was 14/15 I have said and believed in some pretty bad things, just thinking about it ughhhh makes me feel so much guilt and disgust with myself.
I feel you Cooper. I'm a teen growing up in Wichita, and I was raised in a very red area. It didn't take me until my oldest brother came out as Trans that I realized that I had a lot to learn and discover about myself.
When a person blames all their behavior on a drug-induced blackout, how can they be trusted? It still doesnt absolve them of a crime if they murder someone and yet Narcissists demand that we acknowledge that they will never be held accountable.
@@lesaubergineshow was this weird? There are literally people saying that this means that "tana is a bad person who either lied about it or deserved what happened" as if she's not a victim? That isn't a Tana stan.
I’m genuinely so glad that you talked about the Tana situation- the whole modern day pimp thing is such a real issue and is soooo disgusting and so common. Genuinely any woman who has ever been online in some capacity has experienced someone telling them to do that kind of content and it’s such a disheartening and dehumanizing thing to hear. Like there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that kind of work, but it’s not something that people should be coerced into as it’s a very difficult job and holds serious consequences that anyone in that profession could tell you about. I’m absolutely appalled by this and am shocked I have never heard anyone else speaking about it so I’m so glad you’re bringing attention to it and speaking about it so thoughtfully🩷I’m also so sorry that Sophia has had to deal with people like that, I know first hand how icky and horrible comments or suggestions like that can make a person feel
i was raised in a very conservative household and have ALWAYS been disgusted by the things they've said. i know not everyone can say that and its not required for someone to be a good person, change is possible and good. i used to parrot some not good stuff they said and be confused about more progressive things that i was never taught, but hearing my grandmother say racist things, my dad say homophobic and transphobic things, and having close relationships with people of color all my life, knowing of queer people and what gay meant at a young age and then having close relationships to queer people once i started public school in 5th grade, i was always grossed out that people could say such awful things about other people- i remember it was actually around 2016 i found out that politics wasnt just republicans, hate and anger- but there was another side, i started looking into the other side of politics, and hearing leftist youtubers say everything I'd always thought (but with more information of course) I'm not sure how or why, it could be my queerness even if i didnt know at that time, but I'm forever grateful i didn't fall down the path of right wing politics, even if it does mean my dad disowns me- i wish people would stop justifying their actions with "well i grew up around racist people"
Everyone CAN change and grow! What I’d love to see is people taking accountability by visibly showing themselves doing the work. Donate to relevant causes. Start platforming marginalized communities. Create in-good-faith dialogues with those you’ve harmed and model effective communication and in real time cognitive flexibility! There are options!
This! Like she hangs out with Kid Rock and has not really gone out of her way to be actively ANTI-racist. I think if she had then she would have more grace from her audience.
I just have to say… as a worker in a country where it is legalised and decriminalised, we have what we call parlours, houses, or love rooms, you work in a parlour or a house and they take a percentage in exchange for their services (admin work getting and sorting clientele, cleaning, health products, etc), love rooms you book and pay for kind of like an air bnb or a hotel, and they have all of the supplies aswell, so you’re paying for the space and supplies. Also, even as a worker of 4 years, I would not recommend O.F as my clientele only have me in their memories, O.F they get that of you forever on their computers etc, so it is definitely a different ballgame to what I do.
Yo I remember that protest. I wasn't able to attend in person but I was watching streams and news coverage trying to track the police so I could keep an eye on my friends who were there. They really corralled all the protesters into one area, surrounded them, and tear gassed them. It was fucking sadistic. Literally there is no valid reason to do that. Also, dang I didn't realize you were from around here too.
Brooke’s apology videos were basically, in my opinion, an excuse for why she said the things she said and the people in the comment section of her two apology videos who were defending her are no better. Anyone that’s been called out for bad things they’ve said or done can say that they’ve changed and that’s no who they are anymore but actions speak louder than words. She was old enough to better than to say those things and she still said them. I think that instead of Brooke not being on the podcast when Brooke was getting backlash for her old tweets she (Brooke) should’ve went on the podcast addressed it apologized for it (without making excuses for it) and show that she actually has changed and she isn’t that person anymore going forward. Brooke not being on the podcast when all of this was happening seemed like she was running away from it instead of sucking it up, facing it and accepting the consequences for what she said. Also I like your nail polish Cooper 🖤
Totally agree. She should have been on there as well. Tana wanted to look like she changed a lot and not get cancelled. Growth for Tana would have been doing both
I grew up in a racist environment and it made me uncomfortable. I never once had the urge to participate in that rhetoric. I spoke up when i could, got my butt beat a few times for it, but never, ever participated in the racism. Never had even an inkling of desire to do so. I believe she could change, but the excuse just doesn’t feel solid for me personally
I hate this take so much bc obviously the people cancelling Brooke aren’t the ones not cancelling men when they do the same. Can we stop trying to diverge the conversation to misogyny?
This happened in my experience during the wave of increased protests. Went to a huge March in Cleveland. Saw a videographer who was just there to record and show what was happening, get shot directly in the eye with a rubber bullet. I went and tried to get medical help and was fully ignored. Kid fully lost his sight in that eye. Also was gassed multiple times and riot gear brought out and chased. No one was being violent until the police instigated but that's not what the news said.
You can believe it's wrong that these women have said horrible, racist sh*t and should be held accountable for them while also believing they don't deserve to be victims of assault, abuse, and misogny. These things can coexist and people just don't seem to understand that.
Right, like no matter what they did why would anyone wish abuse on another human being
I commented once before the Brooke stuff came out sth like:” I don’t like Tana because of her racist past but I still believe her” And got attacked by a white girl saying I am part of the misogyny problem online, because nobody is talking about male creators’ racist past. 😅I was like, no girl, you are the one having trouble addressing 2 things at the same time.
It's all to do with the perfect victim. People think a victim needs to be a certain way rather than acknowledging like victims can do or have done some bad things as well
And people are allowed to not support a racist.
@@Olivia-ug7scyes. that was what was said originally. you can choose to not support a racist, but people that speak out about abuse should almost always be believed, no matter what
As a black woman, I have never and will never like Tana, but I still believe her.
Victims should still be listened to even Drake Bell.
Yes, I dont have to condone tanas' actions or like her to believe her. It was crappy of people to just outright dismissed her or believe her but justify it cuz "she's tana." Still, I don't have to "forget" how she really is and the many lives she has tried to destroy, not talking about cody, it wasn't a long time ago when she doxxed the wine lady. At her grown age.
@kennaelpis prob what happened to Drake was a big part what he did later on. Not justifying, but it is such a sad situation for everybody involved, and I feel for Drake's victim, and I feel for young Drake.
Yeah, I think it's extremely important to at least take every sexual harassment, SA and ra** claim seriously, no matter the person's history or gender/gender identity.
i wish more people could have a mindset like this. you don’t have to like someone to know that what they went through was messed up
I just want people to start a new tab about Brooke’s issues (racism, homophobia, etc) and NOT have people divert from the FAKE DEAD MOM issue. We can have multiple things be true and be ISSUES at the same time.
the WHAT issue
FAKE WHAT ISSUE???? 😧
@@RatClowns oh, you have to watch the two videos Cooper has already done on Brooke and Clinton Cane, the musician who is not actually Australian and not actually an orphan. They are pretty recent and long and very funny.
this is my biggest issue. I’m only hearing people talk about clinton being a lying manipulator or brooke being a raging racist in response to one another. neither of them are great people, and neither of those things are related. it’s not hard to point out their issues individually without comparing them. like maybe just acknowledge when someone does something you don’t fuck with and then don’t fuck with them 😭
I feel like this is related to the “perfect victim” ideal. Like someone can’t be a victim of abuse because they also did something bad. Her racism doesn’t mean she wasn’t also a victim of Clinton Kane
Why are none of the comments discussing Tana’s straight up pimping agency exploiting young girls😭
Agreed! I am a Paralegal and I’ve done a video and will be doing a whole series on this. It’s truly mind blowing.
can u elaborate on this?
just got to the end of the video… yikes
@@DebsDemurrer agreed. It's extremely concerning, and it seems to be just getting lost in the the overall story regarding the racist behaviours. Will definitely give your video a watch when Cooper is done.
@@DebsDemurrer I will make sure to take a look at your video! Thank you for bringing attention to this topic, I think it should be discussed more openly because a creator doing these awful things should not have a platform :(
Brooke liking a trump post in the middle of trying to apologize is literally insane
Because most losers like her doesn't change
lol she might as well just double down and say I don’t care anymore 👻
How the fuck is that insane? Over 70 million people like him. Dumbass
I dont think supporting Trump always means the worst, just that they probably have a little bit of misguided political opinions
@@ohitsthatonedude Agreed, it's easy to assume the worst but there are a LOT of people who supported him/voted for him just because he promised to lower taxes and prices. He definitely attracts racists though.
its crazy how a lot of these people are more concerned about picking a side than having their own morals and standing by them...
also lets not forget how clinton kane wasnt only abusive and a liar to her but also to other people?
I’ve noticed this happening with everything nowadays, it’s concerning
Two things can be true at once. She can be a victim of an abusive boyfriend but also still be deplatformed because of her racist mentality. They’re unrelated
@@kaskaskas yeah exactly that is my point! ppl supporting clinton kane again just because the person he abused is a racist is the whole issue, hes still an abuser and a bad person you shouldnt support, even if youre also against the person who spoke out
@@kaskaskasyeah no thats exactly my point, people shouldnt start supporting an abuser again just because the person who spoke out is someone you dont support
Calling Brooke's tweets "racist" doesn't even cover it, she was celebrating hate crimes. I don't honestly see a redemption arc after that
theres a redemption arc for everybody, when i was 13 i was an alt right 4chan troll who would say slurs online to hurt people bc i hated myself. now im a leftist and those actions and beliefs are far in my past. doesn’t matter how far gone people are, (besides obvious uncrossable lines like being a p3do or a serial killer) they still deserve a second chance to change
@@bingusenjoyer197i agree but i feel like her situation is different, she was 16 while u were 13 and it’s clear that you’ve made a change in your life w ur actions, but at the same time we really don’t know how brooke is behind the screen so it’s hard to gain that trust back when it’s already been lost
@@bingusenjoyer197fantastic point! This is why “calling in” is better than “calling out”, because we want to educate and encourage empathy; not create an environment where someone continues to harbor these feelings and beliefs (doubling down) because they think they’re being “martyred” by cancel culture. I hope that made sense?
I knew there was a reason I never liked or listened to her
And she stated she didn’t change her views until after college which was literally like 5-6 years ago racism in internalized
just in case someone doesn't know - rubber bullets are NOT rubber. they are REAL bullets with a rubber casing. they can cause fatal injuries and permanent disabilities.
I'm glad you're okay - you could have very easily wound up paralyzed from being shot in the back.
Omg?? I thought they were actually rubber which is still bad but??? I didn't know this
@@CheerfulCalicoCat-oj1jl I didnt know this either :
@@sxndr.a :(( i feel like naming them rubber bullets is a bit off putting when they can be deadly/paralysing, it's so sad
@CheerfulCalicoCat-oj1jl Yeah, like rubber bullets still sound bad, but I didn't know they were that bad. I wonder if there has been actual like cases where there have been people who have died. Can they like sue? I'll search it up probably
They definitely can cause fatal injuries and disabilities so I agree 100%, but the reason they are used is because they are not real bullets. They are blunt tipped for the purpose of not penetrating whereas bullets are pointed at the tip (unless it’s a buckshot in which case it scatters and blows your damn limbs off), and the inside CAN be metal but also plastic and most commonly hard foam
It's so gross to see TANA MONGEAU condemn Brooke for her racism when Tana has such a long list of racism in her past as well. As a white person it's weird, can't imagine how the black community feels on this...
Same. I’m extremely sad and embarrassed
The "black community" doesn't know about these ppl and probably doesn't care
i'm black and i'm 16 and tbh i started watching the cancelled podcast because i thought i thought i could be apart of girl talk or gossip or whatever and be up to date, and after this came out about tana and brooke it was just like a huge sigh and reminded me that i was never included or would've been thought of on that couch, it's just tiring seeing EVERYYYY white female influencer have a history of them openly being racist
@@blah572 I always hope that people can learn and grow from their past and its just a big reminder that people never change only what they post openly does.
I feel completely fine. I don't have the privilege of the biggest issue in my life being a fucking stranger saying the n-word, not being racist at heart and destroying their life several years later
21 year old indigenous woman here who grew up in southern oklahoma.
as a person of color, i relate a lot to d’angelo’s video over brooke’s apology. we can try and have a nuanced conversation around accountability and people’s ability/inability to change all we want, but at the end of the day we (poc) are tired. i have witnessed firsthand what the conservative, far right indoctrination process looks like within families - i have lost friends over it. i have spent the majority of my life defending my own existence and fundamental rights to people i once genuinely cared about. these people grew up in a bubble where that level of hatred was not only acceptable, but normal. that is sad and incredibly hard to unlearn. HOWEVER, people of color and other minorities have had no other choice but to accept the realities of this world because it is thrown in our face everyday. there are minorities who cope with the realities in different ways, some more harmful than others, but few are warranted the decision to claim blissful ignorance. instead we (once again poc) are “suppose to be” continuously teaching white people how to treat us - which is exhausting. so i find it hard to sympathize with brooke and tana’s upbringing when mine (and many others) was very similar, but i never had the choice to stay ignorant because once again this is my existence we are talking about. all of this to say that while i believe that conversations like this are very important, i find it hard to care because at the end of the day these white girls are gonna be fine lmao. i can appreciate brooke’s attempt at taking accountability while also accepting that the rise or fall of her career will not be determined by my support or lack there of.
all this!!!! we are TIRED
i agree so much!!! THIS is how to not be racist as a white person (i am one as well to be clear btw). educate yourself, educate the ones around you, and advocate for POC. it is truly what i think should be our job when it comes to these things, instead of judging if some other white person is supposed to be excused for being racist or not. we truly can never truly understand what its like to live as a POC but all we can do is try, and spread love.
I am a women of color and I see your point but I think your case is different than the rest of us. North American (I specify North American because Latin American natives; such as myself, have a very different history than North American natives) indigenous people are some of the most preyed upon in almost every negative situation in the US. That is something different that the rest of minorities in the US will never be able to understand. I mean Asians are considered a minority and they are the most successful race/ethnicity in the US, just to give you an example.
At the end of the day, both sides of the political spectrum have racism that courses through it. The difference is who is being affected and that doesn't make it any less wrong. I agree that Brooke's attempt deserves some merit, but she used that attempt of accountability to shift the blame elsewhere. All we, as internet users, can do now is either accept her "apology" and continue giving her a platform or don't accept and move on.
facts girl
@@AmandaMills-o5l Depending on what you consider "Asian," but yes. SE Asians are typically lower-class and face a lot of discrimination due to colorism. "Asians" can suffer a lot in silence due to the "Model Minority Myth."
It's so jarring seeing her racist tweets while her handle is BLACK LIVES MATTER
They matter when they're doin' something for her ratchet ass.😒
She changed it to that around blm and the idubbz thing when she first started getting reamed for being racist. I think she's been too scared to change it to anything else lol
I’m a POC and grew up in a very homogeneous society with close to zero exposure to other ethnicities and races, etc for the first 15 years of my life. I’m 28 now and live in a city with people from all walks of life with a very diverse community and try my best to be conscientious about racial issues in general and keep an open mind and try to understand issues faced by people of other races. But also I’ve learned over the years that the some things that were ingrained in me during those formative years were quite small minded, ignorant and sometimes racist. I’ve tried hard over the years to unlearn these things and was lucky that during my late teens I was exposed to a lot of progressive media that really shaped my views as an adult. I wonder how I’d have turned out had I not been exposed to those things.
I’m not quite sure why I put that whole spiel above lol but just a bit of context about my experiences. With that being said, I feel like a lot of people who put BLM or other racial activism posts, tags, etc are extremely performative and insincere in their activism in order to appear progressive and not-racist. I say this because the same people choose to exclusively hang out and fraternize with people from their own race or community and others who are ignorant (and very transparent about their ignorance) or who engage in micro aggressions and covert racism themselves. I feel perhaps putting those posts up is a great step but if actions don’t follow the social media/keyboard activism, it means very little. I hope I didn’t offend anyone by saying this but it’s just something I’ve noticed.
@aval964 I enjoyed reading your experiences. I'm from a small town in the Midwest and similarly we had a very small "ethnic" population that has grown as ive gotten older, and I have seen so many people try flaunting the confederate flag and being racist to all walks of life different from their own. There's always bad apples in general. It's definitely how you are raised and morals of your own. I remember my parents imprinting it on me and I realized at a young age(like 5??) That it was effed up to treat someone different because of skincolor. I found it very hypocritical of my parents to tell me to be nice to my brother with disabilities but they were rude to someone because of skincolor? Lmao I love my brother it was something I argued about as a kid to my parents to convince them it was wrong because I felt like it was the same thing.
@@breannenicole4454 definitely. I am so glad you were able to get out of that mindset, which can’t be said about a lot of other people who’ve been indoctrinated.
I know some people that I knew back when I was 14-15 before I moved away who are ultra nationalistic and very bigoted and have a lot of hatred for muslims in particular. It’s scary because they’re convinced their views are not harmful. It’s very hard to get through to people like that who’re hell bent on not changing. Furthermore even though we’re poc, a lot of people in my community have an obsession with white skin. LGBTQ issues are also not as accepted but it’s getting better. I dread thinking about how I’d have turned out if I hadn’t moved away. My parents are relatively open minded compared to the people I grew up around though they are also racist sometimes- not in the extreme sense of hating people and being overtly racist but they’ll judge people from certain ethnicities, even our own lol (self racism?) and make ignorant remarks, and also have subconscious biases, etc.
All of this to say that even though I’m not perfect, I would have definitely known at 15-16 not to say the things Brooke Schofield tweeted even though I was from a very racially isolated community. Though everyone’s circumstances are different but it’s hard to give someone grave when they’ve said vile things.
Ugh sorry about such long comments, I tend to get carried away when talking about these things :/
As a queer person, I fully support censoring the f slur as "fuehhhhh" love it 4:26
same lmao it's so funny
Honestly real same I never liked hearing the f slur especially being called it like ew the word itself is just gross to me
love you, from rotterdmn
@@moedacowI think it might be because it came from people who “hate gays” (aka closeted gay white men attacking a mirror) was trying to insinuate that they’re “maggots”. But that’s just my theory so that is probably why it rubs you wrong.
I cosign
Cooper Istg the “I donated to the BLM” comment Brooke made felt like a scene from white chicks 😭 life imitates art
59:36
@@hhhhbbbbhhh you are a menace
LMAO HELP need to give it to you this was kinda funny at how much of a menace thing it was @@hhhhbbbbhhh
@@hhhhbbbbhhhwell played
Omg Brooke, I was raised from birth by the most conservative right wing parents. I didn’t tweet bullshit, I am proudly their greatest disappointment because my views oppose theirs.
Also that she's a trumpist right now, when she's not 15... Lmao girl. Shut up maybe. I don't believe a single word of this apology
🤝 mine arent like horrifically radically right but good lord my ma makes my head hurt
exactly. I was raised by parents & grandparents who said v racist conservative things my whole life but somehow I have always known not to say racist stuff & see black people as human beings & to challenge them on those views.
this!!
I know this isn't the main topic, but the protests I went to while in college in iowa were wild. one night a police officer walked directly up to my roommate, and for context, she is black, and pepper sprayed her point blank. absolutely no rhyme or reason and she couldn't see for over two hours and was in an insane amount of pain. next day, we go out again, end up getting tear gassed at a completely peaceful protest. a couple people ended up having seizures due to the tear gas and flash bangs. when the ambulances got there and were helping the two people that were having seizures, the police threw tear gas canisters directly at the ambulances and hit them. the mayor condemned their actions, marched with us for a night or two, and then the first night of protests without him, the cops threatened to shoot us with live ammunition. the cops in that county showed us time and time again how blatantly racist they were. they need to fire everyone and build that police force back up with people that actually want to help the community :(
Holy shit im so sorry
I hope you and your roommate and the people who had to get rushed off to the hospital are doing okay 🫂
Jesus… I’m so glad my country doesn’t have this problem, that’s scary.
“White women in LA?” told us everything we need to know
Honestly, just "white woman" would have covered it.
it wasn’t even surprising after that😭😭
But that's not racist??? Oh I forgot, you can't be racist against white ppl....right????
Had he just stopped at White, we still would've understood what was being said...
Cue the bo burnham song
Who knew about Tana’s racism years before besides me?
Edit: So I just remembered this- A UA-camr I watch, one time in one of his videos from years ago, he briefly shared that he & Tana meant to collab but she then ghosted him.
Literally everybody alive during 2016 lmao
it's like the one thing i knew about her back then as someone who never followed her
crazy how people forget
It is the only thing I knew about her for years.
It’s literally the only thing I remembered about her aside from Tanacon. That’s why I was deeply uncomfortable with her having an audience. I will always acknowledge her as a victim of various things but I am doubtful about her morality.
pretty much everyone. some people are just willing to ignore it
the contrast between tana’s racist tweets and her having BLM as her display name is insane 😭 but loved that u shared ur experience at the protest!! perfect example of the difference between performative and true activism 👍🏾 awesome vid coop
38:36 this is after the story but. Coopers BLM protests are legitimately heroic(his is from a African American girl) I didn’t know he did this but with how he’s talking it’s like “Ya anyone would have done it” but no a LOT would have just ran. You actually RISKED your life to help your community and those girls, That’s sick as hell, and on behalf of those girls and BLM thank you
I love recountings of major events like this. I always try to stay open to expanding my world view. I remember watching the Hong Kong protest at the same time as the BLM protests taking notes. My parents were constantly monitoring kcmo. I wanted to go, but as I was in high schooler without a car during covid, it was not happening for me. My parents gave me the whole antifa stuper violent protesting blah blah blah story but I had a friend that was always posting his account near the medic tent at the protest. Recordings of speeches, pictures of dumped out milk (relieves pain from teargas), the ground of the tent being a mess because everything was overturned because every night it was flooded by people and cops. Missouri's curfew was put in place for covid but it was inforced heavily for BLM, real strange huh
Idk why but your comment made me tearful, because it's so true, not a lot of people would do it. He stood his ground and helped his community like many other brave souls did during the BLM Movement Movement. It was beautiful to see all types of people coming together and fighting against injustice. 🖤🖤 Black and Brown solidarity, my friend 🖤🖤🤎🤎 Hope y'all are well 🖤🖤🙏🙏
As a black woman, what I look for is REAL accountability. To me, that looks like admitting without a shadow of a doubt, that they truly used to be racist as hell. After that, they can then share their journey to healing from that, and growing into a more healthy, compassionate, and empathetic mindset. Most ppl caught in situations like this feel that the most critital and urgent course of action is to apologize to white centrist/"liberal" fans to prevent serious losses to their revenue. Its hard to apologize for shit like this, UNLESS you actually are NO LONGER A RACIST. When you have truly moved beyond this shit, apologizing is easy, beacause you've already dealt with the inward shame and disgust that introspection brings when healing intense flaws within yourself. To me, apology videos are easy to disregard, most of them are crap.
That’s what’s missing here. Where’s the journey? I can recount specific things/events that helped me change the way I think. Where’s that in any of her statements? Same thing with Tana in her past controversies. They’re just using buzzwords. Like, you “condemn”her? Okay, sis.
precisely
Clicking within 2 seconds is going on my resume
Sameeee
Sameeee
Same 😂
i accidentally clicked, thought it was an old video, checked the time, and saw it was under an hour ago 😭
😂😂
Except Brooke was blocking every black creator who was making critical videos of her so there’s nothing to forgive because she hasn’t grown. She just blocked everyone who would have had a problem so now only her fans are left.
Boom! She ain't sorry, she just don't wanna be canceled. Fuck her
naaaaaa no fucking way !!
Proof
@basharalbutseggs8056 Adam Mcintyre talked about it in his video. She blocked him after he made a video on her, and he mentioned she did it with others too.
she clarified this. she said she was blocking people that just wanted her to self delete. she said she would never block any black creators who offer constructive criticism.
Thank you for also including Tana. I’m so sick of people acting like she’s such a saint. Or saying it’s ok because ‘sHe’S cHaNgEd’? Has she? She recently doxxed an older woman and lied about it. she hasn’t changed.
Birds of a feather
@@theessentialforager6658Stick together? Flock together?
@@theessentialforager6658stick together
THIS.
THANK YOU. i feel like im going crazy LMAO
Thank you for using your platform to show that the BLM protests were peaceful, and that the violence was initiated by police, and using your own firsthand account to do so.
It’s so important for people to know what really happens at these demonstrations, both for the benefit of the movements, and for our own safety.
And also, thank you for being a part of the movements!
I grew up in a racist and homophobic household. I realized (pretty quickly) that it was wrong. I ended up leaving religion because of it as well! Thank god for the internet and public school systems for teaching me better.
Thank god 😂
Cooper calling out the pimping issue that is going on with of is so important. Everyone was quick to call Andrew Tate a pimp and Tana M is essentially doing the same thing with a “hey girly let me help you🥰🫶🏽” twist
EXACTLY!!! and no one here is focusing on that
Yessss!!!! That's how women are mostly involved w trafficking rings, by distributing the girls because they earn their trust. That part deserves way more coverage!!
you make it sound so dramatic lmao comparing tate to tana? that's pretty gross of you. tana is a business woman but let's not pretend that the women she helps don't want it.
I’m a Paralegal, I’ve done one video on this so far and will be releasing more on my UA-cam channel. It’s so mind blowing.
@@TimeMovie93150 calling someone gross for pointing out sexual exploitation? get a fucking grip
“What’s up weirdos” has been permanently engraved in my vocabulary because of you cooper. Thank you.
Me too! I always try and do his little hand thing but I can't and I struggle through the whole first half trying 🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️❤️
It was already part of my vocabulary, a common greeting to my pets, in fact. So the first time I watched one of his videos and heard those same words, I was immediately impressed. 😂
Idk how people are surprised about Brooke’s past racist actions when she’s literally best friends and works with Tana who’s infamous for doing the same thing years ago and a plethora of other scandals as well. Also them being racist doesn’t absolve their abusers (Cody and Clinton) actions towards them.
Right?! It always confused me how people are truly surprised by this
W take!!!! thank u !!
Brooke right now is 27 years old meaning she didn't stop being racist until 4 years ago like that is insane
i'm so glad you mentioned tana's hypocrisy in 'condemning' brooke, because it also did not feel genuine to me. it feels like people have just conveniently forgotten about tana's past since canceled blew up, so i'm glad people are realizing now.
WHOAH the tana portion should’ve been a video on its own !! That is SUCH predatory behavior and it’s disgusting that she’s taking advantage of other influencers and her own fans. she has NOOOO MORALS… sad
YEAH. i was wondering why barely anybody was talking ab that portion bc it’s the MOST important. i’ve liked tana for a min and neverrr heard ab her trying to be a pimp 😭 my views have changed immensely
Agreed. I’m a Paralegal and did a video on this and will be doing a whole series.
thank you so much for talking about tana and the sexual exploitation, as someone who was sexually exploited when they were 18 (who also had lots of people try to use me for sex work that they would profit off of), this is fucking disgusting and i hope tana’s 18 year old fans don’t see this as appropriate, because she’s monetizing off of completely normalizing sexual exploitation, also shout out sophia literally so many thoughts and prayers for all the female content creators that have to deal with that fucking harassment
So sorry to hear you went through that. I am a Paralegal and I released a video on this and will be doing a whole series. So messed up.
I was also raised by my fgrandparents since pretty much birth bc of drug addict parents. My grandpa would watch racist comedians and come into my room to say racist remarks just to piss me of, and my grandma would just ignore it cause yknow she's white it's not targeted towards her. My older sister turned into the most midwest camo wearing, "I have friends that let me say the soft n word so racisms dead" hick woman. And I spent the rest of my life in that house arguing with my grandpa about what he was saying the second i learned what racism was in what the 5th grade? It was like "oh my grandpa is awful then" not "but my grandpa told me x y z racist remark here" defending them. It's one thing to grow up on the culture, it's another to accept it despite the rest of the world telling your you're wrong. Racist are a special kind of narcist bro.
Ya no exactly i grew up in asian i am mean i am still here soo the beauty standard is literally WHITE everybody unanimously decided white is more pretty but it never made me think that i am brown i NEVER tried to change my skin colour which just means its HER fault 😮💨😮💨😮💨
Okay so youre kind of disproving your own point. Congrats you didnt turn into them... but your sister did. So just because it didnt happen to you.. doenst mean it cant happen. It quite literally happened to your own sister by your own admission.
@@bailey7792 literally nothing in her story was a counter to her lived experience. Her sister drank the Kool aid and she DIDN'T. THAT'S the story.
@@bailey7792 It's almost like growing up with Fundies, you can either become brainwashed by it and accept it or you are able to see through the lies. Unfortunately, some people don't for a long time. I spent a lot of time undoing all the micro aggressions I had that stick with me because I spent my childhood trying so hard to be accepted by my parents, I was blinded by the fact that they weren't good people and I didn't need their acceptance. And I'm in my 30s. It is shameful how long I spend figuring out how much internalized hate that was there for no reason. Based on a religion I didn't even believe in. It can be a long road. Look at Girl Defined, shes around my age but she's been brainwashed for so long, she only NOW starting to deconstruct some of the things she's been taught. She's still terrible, but she's trying to learn. They should definitely be held accountable but I want ppl to grow and be better so they don't hurt anymore people along the way. But never expect forgiveness for those you have hurt.
@@bailey7792no I think the point she was also making is it depends on what you allow and believe im pretty sure she told her sister how it was wrong just as much as her grandpa and she didn’t care to change her mind
36:51 THIS is what an ally should be. My best friends are white and protected me for 4 years bc we lived in a Blue Lives Matter area. I was the only Black person in the building. Cooper, the fact that you had fear for your own life and continued to try to keep others safe is more than admirable.
I highly recommend people watch Kat Blaque’s video on this topic. Not only is she black, and grew up in a similar place, but she made some really eye opening observations, especially to someone who hasn’t had to experience these kinds of things (aka us white people). Because it’s one thing for us to hear her apology and decide whether we want to continue to support her, but her actions did not affect us, and I do think a lot of us more progressive/liberal white folks have a tendency to get offended on other people’s behalf.
But Kat points out how Brooke talks about not knowing better until she was older.. but in her tweets about Trayvon, she doesn’t give him any of the same grace despite him being younger than she was. And those types of tweets had REAL LIFE effects on people, especially on black people, so it’s not really “just a shitty tweet” for us to be like “oh that was tacky but she was young.” An apology can’t undo the harm people experienced.
ETA: I came back hours later to add - this isn’t about just flippantly saying the n- word or singing along with a rap, or even just her jokes about her friends saying slurs at the movies. It’s specifically about the harm her comments about Trayvon have had and things like that. Neither situation is right but being SO blatantly racist and harmful when there are real victims is on a whole other level than just saying n-a a few times.
thank u so much for recommending that, i just watched it and i learned so much in just 30 minutes. genuinely recommend it as well, shes so good at communicating her perspective
@@Mythy-ws8esI’m so glad you found it useful! Thanks for checking it out. ❤
I love Kat Blaque so much, and I'll gladly watch her video after this one.
D'Angelo Wallace did a pretty good job too, as a black man who ALSO grew up in similar areas to Brooke. He tends to give space for a grey area while also giving his own input.
I'm the kind who likes to watch multiple takes on a situation. Well, so long as those takes aren't excusing someones actions, of course.
And in scenarios centered around racism, well I'm obviously going to listen to PoC voices on the topic, since they are always the ones most affected in such situations.
Brooke is a- Case I know far too well coming from a rural town that insists it's not racist but the second a person of color shows up everyone is giving them side eyes (wish I was kidding.)
Difference between me and her is I grew up in a progressive and accepting family despite where we live, while she lived with a racist asshole.
But I have seen SO many kids grow up to be so hateful and say the most vile fucking things-
But as many of them are now beginning to graduate from College and get away from small town life and immediate family- Are learning that hey, maybe racism is bad!
So like. I partially believe Brooke when she says she isn't (entirely) like that anymore- But the damage is d o n e. She can't undo that. Ever. Nor can anyone who grew up like her undo any similar damage they did.
It's awful, and it sucks, and if shitty racist people didn't indoctrinate their kids into such ways of thinking, PoC wouldn't have to grow to be so tired of having to teach people to treat them like people.
Hatred can be undone, but it's damage will forever remain.
Kat had a great video. Most of the white people making videos on this are too focused on the "can she change?" conversations instead of the "racism is harmful no matter what age the white people involved are". I give zero shits about Brooke's apologies or whether she's changed. I care about how black kids grow up being victimized by the white kids' "edgy phase". People are too obsessed with "giving her a second chance" when no one has the power to stop her from making podcasts. Brooke can continue being an influencer and people can decide that there's no value in listening to stupid people speak, but that's just the free market. She's not being punished, but people are too worried about her ability to make millions while talking shit. Maybe we should be worried about why racist "phases" are normalized and how somehow the white people are still being treated like the victims. Black kids are constantly targeted, but oh, poor Brooke for tweeting. It's night and day how different videos by white and black creators are on this topic. No one is stopping her from changing and growing, but maybe we want the victims of racism to matter more than the racist acts of white people in these conversations.
@@Stinkeroniandcheese THANK YOU. I feel so validated hearing this take as a poc. I'm not black myself, but there's something so odd about seeing a lot of white creators discuss ''how can she change'' instead of the harm this behaviour causes towards the actual victims. In this case black people, and latine people. It's tiresome how racist phases are just being normalised, and not condemned.
Cooper describing the protest he was at reminded me how change is hard and some many people are hurt and have been to have us reach a point we are already at.
I'm lucky to not have been discriminated against before and I can't imagine worrying about be discriminated daily.
I hope everyone is safe out there!
this situation just gets WORSE and WORSEEE
The focus of this I feel really needs to be on the pimping stuff. Obviously the racist remarks are TERRIBLE and they both need to be held accountable, but the fact that Tana is CURRENTLY in the business of pimping and profiting is A HUGE PROBLEM. I was involved in human trafficking and barely made it out. I’ve seen this stuff firsthand. Not only is it terrible in general, but the fact of it is that the biggest percentage of victims are POC. So it’s not a separate issue at all. If you are angry about her previous racist remarks please be just as angry if not MORE SO about the current exploitation she’s perpetuating. Whether she’s doing it directly or not, SHE IS STILL GUILTY OF FURTHERING THE RING.
Exactly!! Couldn't agree more
This.
This should be top comment!! Also, sorry you went trough that 🙏🏼
or the focus can be on both because neither is more acceptable than the other and you can hold people accountable for more than one thing at a time
@@torilewis yes but no one in the comments is doing what you're saying. they are just focusing on the racist tweets
Jenna marbles took accountability the right way for sure, removing herself from the online fame world altogether.
She shouldnt have cancelled herself and everyone knows it.
True!! I do miss her, but im so glad she left becayse it seems to have made her much happier
Cooper, that story about the protest is absolutely crazy. I've always known stories about riots and stuff like that are usually really exaggerated and spun by the media, but just hearing an actual account like that is eye-opening.
The yah-yeet I couldn't stop crying 😭
I was wondering when people were going to talk about how racist they are, honestly crazy.
It was like waiting for the other shoe to drop
Still doesn't detract from what they've been through. They can be bad people and victims of other bad people at the same time.
i thought he said nah yeet
“Shouting racial slurs at Chris Pratt during Jurassic World with a black guy right behind her” so unintentionally hilarious 😂😂😂
This is only okay if the slurs were cra***
@@ringer1324 yeah I don’t think white people truly care about being called a cracker tbh not that I’ve ever put that word to use because I’m from the UK so it’s not a thing here.
Is it not intentional though…
@@ringer1324I LOVE SCREAMING SLURS AT JURRASIC PARK!!!!
People tend to forget about what problematic things influencers do, Tana was promoting the idea of teenager girls lie about their real age and claim to be 18 or older and get hooked up with celebrities or influencers or go to clubs get drunk and get high, her stories were always obvious about who she actually is.
Whoa, whoa, explain-
Please elaborate more. I've never heard of this what?!
@@celinayliterally all of her old story times about her in Vegas as a teen. I haven’t watched them in years but the ones I can remember that stick out is her story time on how she went to EDC & talked ab how she was going to an 18+ festival since she was 15, the story time of her getting banned from a Vegas hotel, and the story time about her almost having sex with G Easy. There’s definitely more bc all her partying & club story times she was making at 20 were referring to years ago, and she’s also said in many random vids that the club Hyde in LA would let her in underage & talking about having a fake ID. If I’m remembering correctly I also think the reason she was arrested at Coachella was underage drinking but I could be wrong about that one.
@lizzieschwab7675 oh my god I had no clue 🗿 I didn't really know about her until tanacon and thought that was the only real reason people hated her. I didn't know about all this. Thanks for sharing wtffff
@@lizzieschwab7675 thank you! Finally someone remembers 👏
I am loving these long form content. I watch these videos while cleaning and doing chores in general. I watxh inabber a lot and your videos are like a higher energy version of his. I love it
Thank you cooper. You’re my comfort UA-camr. I just got home at 7, I got on my school bus at 6, the 6pm late bus. It ended up being overcrowded and we had to wait for another bus. We left at 6:30. But today, the second day of school. I finally get to shower with water that isn’t full of dirt. Thank you.
I hope your school year gets better ♥️♥️
Why is ur water full of dirt tho
@@prox9180 sediment leak lol. Just got new pipes for water tank
@@prox9180Not everyone can afford clean water.
I said dumb shit like this as a teen, and even into college. That was the late 90s & early 00s. Have spent my life since trying to make it right, and raising my kids to be better. Glad there wasn’t social media back then, though if there had been, I’d probably have learned my lesson a lot earlier. People can learn to be better, but not without some serious repentance.
Ew…. The levels of racism. It’s so not hard to just NOT be racist!?
My mom grew up in rural Georgia.. her family, to this day, is so unabashedly racist. I was visiting my grandmother (mom’s mom) shortly after George Floyd was murdered and the things grandma and her sisters were saying… horrific. (And don’t worry I called them out on it and now my grandma won’t speak to me. Byeeee!!) still, my mother came out of it and although she isn’t necessarily as educated on the pervasive nature of racism in modern America as I wish she was, she would never ever ever use a racial slur and is totally aware of the epidemic of hate crime.
My mother then raised me and I, despite growing up in a very red state, am a raging leftist and have been since i saw a specific episode of family guy at age 13 (seriously).
Displaying hate because of who raised you is no excuse. Everyone has agency and if my mom could end the cycle of hideous behavior she experienced without access to the internet, and probably very few POC around her, Brooke has no excuse.
I think it’s a lot about having empathy. Thinking other races are less worthy as humans is quite difficult if you have basic empathy for other humans.
Racism exists on both sides of the spectrum. Don't make it out to be primarily a right wing thing, because the racism on the left is just a flipped version of the right wing racism. At the end of the day, judging someone based off of factors that they cannot control is wrong. You don't need to be on one side to see it.
@@AmandaMills-o5l what’s the “flipped version” of racism?
@@tvmayer A common stereotype about conservatives is that it is a bunch of white people who hate minorities. When I refer to liberal's racism as "flipped", I mean it in the sense that it is minorities who are being racist, towards white people and each other. A good example of that would be the Stop Asian Hate movement. Asians are minorities and the most violence against Asians at the time was coming from another minority group.
At the end of the day both sides has its bad people. Racism is not a conservative thing only. Racist is something that anyone can be. And we should call out anyone, from any side, who decides be racist.
Georgia 🇬🇪 is an awesome country
I’m so glad you addressed what you did in the last part of the video. It’s so important to talk about and it’s wrong.
These girls aren’t sorry. They just don’t want to face consequences
My ear buds were on highest volume and the way at 0:38 I literally freaked out
I saw this just in time lol thanks
I'm sorry but I laughed at this because this would happen to me 😅😂. RIP your eardrums 🙏
Air buds 🐕🐕
I’m sorry for your loss of hearing
It happened to me I was playing Cult of the lamb with my headphones on full blast in the middle of the night 😂
1:24 had to do a double take aint no way she is defending a literal hate crime. I have not heard his name in a second and hearing it when someone is defending his murderer is awful
It's so traumatic to me, I have teenage sons. I've raised them well, but I've been scared for SO LONG.
My home town is smaller and only had 1 formal protest for George Floyd and Brianna Taylor in 2020 and we thankfully were close enough to Flint (lookup Sheriff Swanson he's a rare good human in uniform and spoke at the DNC last week) so the police actually worked WITH the organizers of the protest to block roads for them and actually barricade against any counter protestors. We also had a really good rally afterwards in the center of the city where local black men and women spoke about their lived experience and it was such a powerful experience. A few people I went to high school with spoke and hearing what they lived through int he same school I went to was such an eye opening experience. I was privileged to not be exposed to the hatred they delt with and was so moved by the strength they had to speak on what they lived through.
That's what I was doing when I was barely 21. Not using my conservative family's diatribes against Black/POC or using homophobic commentary. I have an uncle who wore a MAGA hat to a wedding AFTER January 6 for god's sake 🙄 It's 👏 not 👏 that 👏 hard 👏 to identify what you're around and choose to learn opposing view points and act as an advocate.
As a black woman, thank you for covering this topic❤
Cooper thank you so much for bringing this point to public attention. What you said about Tana speaks to the issue on a personal ‘E Pimp’ level but also on a societal and systematic issue in SW. As someone who was in the industry for 5 years I know first hand that it is sold to young women as a means of empowerment interpersonally but also culturally (much like an MLM). For women middle to upper class this means getting a bag, passive income. For those lower class or poverty level this means the chance at financial ease. However wherever you enter the industry you soon are faced with unfortunate moral quandaries. The upper class with money vs exploitation of other and the lower class with money vs personal safety and comfort. At every turn you are convinced by those inside the industry predatory or peer level that just doing a little bit more outside your current comfort level will increase your income, clout and status of empowerment. Just as you said this has parallels to MLM businesses but the stakes are that of physical and emotional boundaries rather than an external product. Most heartbreaking in this intersection of SW and capitalism is that the younger and more vulnerable either ‘E Pimps’ or the market as a whole can sell this American Dream ideal of the industry to women, the more profit can be made from them.
Cooper uploading longer videos is my jam
do you guys not notice him repeating the same things over and over again and replaying the same clips? I really think that’s what makes them longer 😭 in his last video he played the same exact clip like 4 times in a row lmao
I likely won't be able to get thru this full hour. Being an internet user and a black woman millenial, I have to reserve my energy and actively protect my peace. Love your content Coop
Good for you. I've had to do the same thing for things that really trigger me. Take care of yourself. Hugs❤
hope youre okay
the situation just keeps getting bigger and bigger 😭
Honestly I find you refreshing. I try not to get my hopes up as a person of color or as a woman mostly because I’ve been let down by some of my favorite ever content creators who happen to be white and have a horrible history on the internet be discovered. I am exhausted with having to deal with the number of content creators who have a bad track record and the level of insensitivity in their responses to it. I believe ppl can change I do, I am just tired of having to forgive ppl bc I want to like them still and it’s easier to pretend it doesn’t exist bc being a person of color you can’t exist without some form of racism coming ur way whether its present day or older coming back up. Not trying to praise you for the bare minimum of not saying slurs but I am happy that you are calling this out and explaining the power dynamics that come from the consequences of explicitly hurting a group of ppl. Like great you’re taking “accountability” and on ur journey to be a better you, but it doesn’t change that now I know my fave would actually have thoughts like this about me most likely and that’s jarring to think of. I feel like there’s no place for us anywhere and when we get upset we’re called overemotional for having a proportional response and reaction.
that shirt + chest tattoo combo with literally everything in your background is pure art 😭 so pretty!!
The BLM protest I went to in DC was peaceful and filled with some of the most caring and beautiful people inside and out that I’ve ever seen. The crowd was just alive with hope and love but also the desire and message for true equality, justice and peace. I had to leave before it ended but still It was quite the experience that I recommend for everyone’s benefit.
All of the protests that happened in my area turned into riots real quick. The entirety of my downtown area had to get shut down because people committed arson and were lighting up businesses like there was no tomorrow. Historical statues were defaced and even American flags were being lit. Unfortunately that is the reputation that whole movement got. Not to even mention all of the funds that were used to line rich people's pockets and buy them mansions. I think the whole movement had a good purpose but was ruined because of greed.
growing up my dad was very racist. when it’s something you hear all the time, it’s almost as if you’re brain washed into believing that, because it truly is all you know from such a young age. i’m not defending brooke, but i do think that what she’s saying makes sense. i did realize sooner than 18 that i had grown up on some rotten “stereotypes” that were not accurate, once i started to actually work with people of different backgrounds and races and see that the color of someone’s skin does not reflect what kind of person they are. parental figures play a huuge role in who their kids are, and sometimes the kids figure things out for themselves and sometimes they don’t.
I totally relate, my dad’s racist too, but c’mon now there has to be a line somewhere. At 16 you’re definitely old enough to think for yourself and realise what’s good and bad, ESPECIALLY in America. It’s one thing to be indoctrinated with a certain world view, another to proudly proclaim it to not only your friends but all of twitter too
I grew up with a racist dad as well, you definitely internalize it whether you realize or intend to or not. It actually makes it harder for me to understand or justify people like her because I’m a little older, in my 30s, and as soon as I had regular internet access in my early teens I quickly realized it’s all based on irrational hate and ignorance. She had easier and better access to information to educate herself at a younger age than I did and she still held onto her racist views longer.
i do agree with this and i don’t think this is talked about enough. generational racism, especially in white families, is very prevalent. my grandpa is very racist and definitely engraved some of those ideations into my dad’s head. not as intensely but it’s there for sure. the thing is though, when you grow up with a family or community who are racist on any level, it’s up to you to break the cycle. i’ve realized that as i’ve grown older, and now as an adult i feel i’m responsible to be an ally for POC and call out racism when i see/hear it. when i was younger, i didn’t bother, because i was also raised on some rotten stereotypes and while i knew it was wrong, i didn’t understand the TRUE impact.
@@xoluciaxo_3721 she was brought up on those beliefs and when that happens it can be kind of like an echo chamber for those horrible opinions. It's difficult to break out of that mindset or to even consider other views because in your head the people who love and support you think this way and this is all you know. I don't think it's fair to say that she should've known better when that was likely all she knew
What she did wasn't okay, but I think the way she has grown, the time it took, is pretty realistic, even if it doesn't look the best for her.
@@brittneyyyann I'm so glad you've come so far
There's no influencer with a "problematic past and a hard childhood in the HOOD" that they supposedly outgrew that doesn't have things like this in their older posts. Those are the 1 out of a million people that talked shit on Twitter but got extremely lucky and became famous so it surfaced.
At this point no one should be surprised anymore - if someone was like that in their teens and told us multiple time they were like that - they are still like that just more covertly
I agree. I was raised a conservative in an extremely conservative family and I’ve grown up around racist comments and I would have never thought to say any of that no matter what age I was. The “N” word has always made me so uncomfortable even in music. Posting that extreme of stuff you don’t change those views you just learn they’re not acceptable.
People can grow up. Not all do, but they can.
@@kimberlyyyyy44 Same. A lot of my family still says stuff like that. I had to tell my grandma not to say certain things around my kid. I love her so much but she's very problematic with her views and words. We just agree to disagree and move on. But I have a hard time with it b/c I'm so different than them and always have been.
what, people can 100% learn from their past
It’s crazy how college can change people’s views of the world. My roommate in collage was horrible, she was racist and homophobic and sexist (was wild to me bc how can you be a woman and hate women?) and by our junior year she was a complete different person and we actually became friends. College changes how a LOT of people see the world because they are away from the influence of their family who had been drilling horrible things into their heads. Which is why the (far far far) right is always screaming about indoctrination in the school system.
your protest experience is exactly how it happened when i went. all the protestors were very calm and both times i marched, the police were the aggressors. i live streamed everything on Facebook and the next day my videos had been removed. they do anything and everything they can to control the narrative.
thank you for doing what you did and thank you for talking about it. it's so upsetting what our Black friends and family in the community deal with every single day. it's been going on forever and it is truly awful. i really hope one day things change.
ALMOST AN HOUR OF COOPER??? made my week😭
we also have another white influencer exposed as a racist alix earle 😭 can’t wait to hear your thoughts on her!
thought you said "made me weak" i was like wha?? 😭😭
@@eyelash-bug lmfaoo not me checking if i misspelled it😭
wait THAT'S how you spell mongeau???? For years I've been thinking "Tana Mojo" like as in mojojojo from the power puff girls. My life is a flipping lie! Also great video dawg
I saw it spelled before I ever heard it pronounced, and the first time I heard it I was like "THAT'S how you pronounce mongeau????" I used to call her Tana Mongoose as a joke but it doesn't even sound close to her real name 💀
French is really like that, lmao! It will have you thinking you are crazy if you don't know anything about it! If you get confused, remember when they were calling her Tana Mongoose? That's closer to the spelling! 😂
i was thinking of watch mojo skdjcjs
@@sarahwithanh4272 Yesss!!
“THANK YOU COOPER” we all chant in unison
THANK YOU COOPER! 🗣‼️
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Thank you Cooper ☺️❤
THANK YOU COPPER 🔥🔥
Hey Cooper, I’m not too sure what side of the internet you're on in terms of music, but you should look into K-pop. There’s a lot of sexual “crime” going on and getting swept under the rug constantly. K-pop Twitter is in shambles right now due to recent (this morning) news of Taeil, the eldest member of NCT, being removed from the group due to a crime. It’s a whole issue, and a lot of people are up in arms about the situation.
I’ve been watching your videos for a while, and you dig deep into whatever topic you’re discussing and aren’t afraid to say what needs to be said. This is a very serious issue for the victims, and they will most likely be pressured into staying silent. Fans are discussing the matter on Twitter, but I fear it will just stay there. We need to make this bigger and get more eyes on it. I would appreciate it if you could at least consider making a video about this. We need to shed light on this dark situation.
38:02 a war crime...???????? 🤨🤨🤨 but it wasnt a war??? 🤔🤔🤔🤔 but you cant do that??????🤕🤕🤕
Nappy to describe a white girl hair is so crazy ☠️
it's surreal actually like try explaining this exact tweet to a black american in the 1930s, i-
genuine question, can someone explain that word? have never heard it and english is my second language
@Mythy-ws8es (from Google) A derogatory term to describe the hair of Black people, especially women
@@Mythy-ws8es it’s a negative adjective used to describe black peoples hair- typically like 4C hair type. It has a really racist flavour because of the history of its usage
@@wallewonks thank u for explaining, and for the patience :)) i will look out for that word being used now
absolutely love your channel, you’re the only reason i know what’s going on with social media lately 😭
For me this isn’t even a I don’t like them I never liked them but come on guys these influencers continue to show us they were racist then they say “oh I’m sorry but-“ and everyone is like oh have sympathy and empathy. No. I’ve lived my whole life as a black woman you have no idea how hard it can get unless you live that life, I’ve grown up with people like Brooke and Tana. They aren’t sorry, if they were sorry they would’ve said something A LONGGGG TIME ago but because people called them out now they’re sorry. When you grow and learn from your mistakes you apologize for them then and there, not 5-10 years later when people call you out. I think that people can grow and they can change but this is not an example of growth, you sit on a couch and call everyone else out for their mistakes but somehow have conveniently forgotten your own. I believe in change and growth but again in this scenario I don’t believe there’s been any but that’s my opinion and I don’t know what they’ve learned or how they’ve changed.
Exactly girls like Tana and Brooke will be this way their entire lives
my sentiments exactly because if they truly felt as if they’d grown as individuals they would have addressed their problematic remarks ages ago when nobody had even known about them. that would have shown them ACTUALLY taking accountability and would have been real proof of their growth.
im loving the longer videos recently, i know they probably take a whole lot longer to edit though
Yeah same
I swear film cooper is underrated he literally gives such good information and barely gets any views 😢 I am here for you man.
he has hundreds of thousands of views
Ikr and he only has 1.3 subscribers 😢 not even a full number
1:00 Cooper, I NEED you to drop the link for your shirt. I gotta get it
I’m so ready for this. I used to be a Tana stan back in middle school/early high school, until I watched kahlen barry’s videos. I was there for the whole Trash debacle, the natanna situation, the fake wedding.
I’m so grateful for kahlen being willing to share his story about tana so that people like me who were fans could properly learn who we were stanning.
One thing I wish Cooper had pointed out was that Tana Mongeau had her profile as Black Lives Matter while she was saying racist shit. Like what the fuck
wtf? Really? 😔
If you screenshot old posts it will show their current handle so I don't think she did when she made the original posts.
I'm gonna be honest when I was 14/15 I have said and believed in some pretty bad things, just thinking about it ughhhh makes me feel so much guilt and disgust with myself.
the fact that you understand what you did was bad is a very good thing. people can change and I'm proud of you for doing so!
I feel you Cooper. I'm a teen growing up in Wichita, and I was raised in a very red area. It didn't take me until my oldest brother came out as Trans that I realized that I had a lot to learn and discover about myself.
"THANK YOU GUS'S DAD" we all chant in unison
Lmao yes 🙌
When a person blames all their behavior on a drug-induced blackout, how can they be trusted? It still doesnt absolve them of a crime if they murder someone and yet Narcissists demand that we acknowledge that they will never be held accountable.
That excuse is infuriating & bull shit. I hate when people use that as an excuse.
these things don’t at all excuse that tana is a victim, please keep that in mind everyone
you Tana stans are weird
Yeah she’s a victim but she’s also literally not a good person.
@@lesaubergineshow was this weird? There are literally people saying that this means that "tana is a bad person who either lied about it or deserved what happened" as if she's not a victim? That isn't a Tana stan.
@@lesauberginesThem saying this doesn’t make them a Tana stan. They’re just saying this so people don’t try to discredit that experience she had.
@@lesaubergines i’m not a stan?? i don’t engage in her content at all and hadn’t heard of her till the cody allegations.
Two things can be correct at the same time
I’m genuinely so glad that you talked about the Tana situation- the whole modern day pimp thing is such a real issue and is soooo disgusting and so common. Genuinely any woman who has ever been online in some capacity has experienced someone telling them to do that kind of content and it’s such a disheartening and dehumanizing thing to hear. Like there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that kind of work, but it’s not something that people should be coerced into as it’s a very difficult job and holds serious consequences that anyone in that profession could tell you about. I’m absolutely appalled by this and am shocked I have never heard anyone else speaking about it so I’m so glad you’re bringing attention to it and speaking about it so thoughtfully🩷I’m also so sorry that Sophia has had to deal with people like that, I know first hand how icky and horrible comments or suggestions like that can make a person feel
i was raised in a very conservative household and have ALWAYS been disgusted by the things they've said. i know not everyone can say that and its not required for someone to be a good person, change is possible and good. i used to parrot some not good stuff they said and be confused about more progressive things that i was never taught, but hearing my grandmother say racist things, my dad say homophobic and transphobic things, and having close relationships with people of color all my life, knowing of queer people and what gay meant at a young age and then having close relationships to queer people once i started public school in 5th grade, i was always grossed out that people could say such awful things about other people-
i remember it was actually around 2016 i found out that politics wasnt just republicans, hate and anger- but there was another side, i started looking into the other side of politics, and hearing leftist youtubers say everything I'd always thought (but with more information of course)
I'm not sure how or why, it could be my queerness even if i didnt know at that time, but I'm forever grateful i didn't fall down the path of right wing politics, even if it does mean my dad disowns me-
i wish people would stop justifying their actions with "well i grew up around racist people"
Love when Cooper randomly takes a moment to simp for Sophia 💖💖💖
Everyone CAN change and grow! What I’d love to see is people taking accountability by visibly showing themselves doing the work. Donate to relevant causes. Start platforming marginalized communities. Create in-good-faith dialogues with those you’ve harmed and model effective communication and in real time cognitive flexibility! There are options!
This! Like she hangs out with Kid Rock and has not really gone out of her way to be actively ANTI-racist. I think if she had then she would have more grace from her audience.
The shirt is- chef’s kiss though-
I just have to say… as a worker in a country where it is legalised and decriminalised, we have what we call parlours, houses, or love rooms, you work in a parlour or a house and they take a percentage in exchange for their services (admin work getting and sorting clientele, cleaning, health products, etc), love rooms you book and pay for kind of like an air bnb or a hotel, and they have all of the supplies aswell, so you’re paying for the space and supplies. Also, even as a worker of 4 years, I would not recommend O.F as my clientele only have me in their memories, O.F they get that of you forever on their computers etc, so it is definitely a different ballgame to what I do.
Yo I remember that protest. I wasn't able to attend in person but I was watching streams and news coverage trying to track the police so I could keep an eye on my friends who were there. They really corralled all the protesters into one area, surrounded them, and tear gassed them. It was fucking sadistic. Literally there is no valid reason to do that.
Also, dang I didn't realize you were from around here too.
COOPER I WAS SO CONFSUED ON THE WHOLE SITUATION I NEEDED THIS
Brooke’s apology videos were basically, in my opinion, an excuse for why she said the things she said and the people in the comment section of her two apology videos who were defending her are no better. Anyone that’s been called out for bad things they’ve said or done can say that they’ve changed and that’s no who they are anymore but actions speak louder than words. She was old enough to better than to say those things and she still said them. I think that instead of Brooke not being on the podcast when Brooke was getting backlash for her old tweets she (Brooke) should’ve went on the podcast addressed it apologized for it (without making excuses for it) and show that she actually has changed and she isn’t that person anymore going forward. Brooke not being on the podcast when all of this was happening seemed like she was running away from it instead of sucking it up, facing it and accepting the consequences for what she said. Also I like your nail polish Cooper 🖤
Totally agree. She should have been on there as well. Tana wanted to look like she changed a lot and not get cancelled. Growth for Tana would have been doing both
Gen X in the house
i love watchin bs about people i never heard of,
it chilles me out before coockin dinner.
Thanks again, love from Rotterdamn man
Hahah I was just about to go make some lunch rn and decided to put this on 😂 I get the feeling so much
@@S3YKOCH4N hope dinner was great! haha
@@skumsters2323Yh I only had cereal tho lol 😂 pretty basic but good
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I always wondered what real fruity loops taste like, really that good?
@@skumsters2323 I ate fruity pebbles but yh froot loops are good too. One of my main favorite cereals actually
I grew up in a racist environment and it made me uncomfortable. I never once had the urge to participate in that rhetoric. I spoke up when i could, got my butt beat a few times for it, but never, ever participated in the racism. Never had even an inkling of desire to do so. I believe she could change, but the excuse just doesn’t feel solid for me personally
i really wanted to see this "cancel them" energy towards male influencers and youtubers
no one will ever hold a man online as accountable as they hold women online. ever. unfortunately it’s a lot easier for people to hate on women.
Facts, cause Logan Paul has been campaigning for cancelation since he started.
This!!
I hate this take so much bc obviously the people cancelling Brooke aren’t the ones not cancelling men when they do the same. Can we stop trying to diverge the conversation to misogyny?
@@oddlysatisfied7024 exactly
I really like when Cooper makes longer videos their so fun to watch
Also I’m so sick of tana pretending she was poor in Vegas. She was not. She was middle class this whole “I’m so hood” bit is getting old af
I’m glad you told the story about your experience at your peaceful protest in Kansas, keep sharing those stories everyone
Man this vid is loaded. Thanks for calling out OF agencies.. they need to be stopped.
This happened in my experience during the wave of increased protests. Went to a huge March in Cleveland. Saw a videographer who was just there to record and show what was happening, get shot directly in the eye with a rubber bullet. I went and tried to get medical help and was fully ignored. Kid fully lost his sight in that eye. Also was gassed multiple times and riot gear brought out and chased. No one was being violent until the police instigated but that's not what the news said.