Big man’s birthday!!!! Feels weird to have grown from a teenage child into adult alongside him but it’s also been so cool to watch how much he’s grown since I first started watching
there have been times--many, many times--in the past where dream + the dteam were viciously hated for next to no reason. i've been there, battling against what felt like the entire internet's ire against misinformation, unfair treatment, and outright cruelty. i get it.
that being said? the time of the dream team being unjustifiably reviled has long since passed. over the past year and a bit, these guys have burned through so much goodwill on so many occasions. and now this, with george? he literally groped a drunk girl, admitted to doing this, and yet his and dream's first reactions were to blame the girl's friends for being manipulative haters? and then every subsequent backtrack and apology has been about how terrible they feel that no one talked to them about this before, as if dream hasn't proven multiple times over that he cannot be trusted in interpersonal professional conflict to keep his damn mouth shut on twitter/reddit, and also in what universe does that make an appropriate apology? in what universe does george's feelings matter even a little bit in comparison to caiti's? even in the most charitable case, where he was fully ignorant, had no ill intentions, and made a terrible mistake while drunk (which, to be clear, i fully believe was the case!), his feelings on the matter still don't enter into the equation if someone was hurt! his and dream's reactions have been nothing short of sickening, victim blaming and invalidation at their absolute finest, and the fact that i've seen so many people i once had respect for consider any of this behavior acceptable has been Profoundly disappointing to say the least.
like. i get it. i was there. i know that it sucks to be constantly defending your guys from every which direction. i know that there ends up being a sense of satisfaction and community when you're standing up for what feels right, especially when it feels like everyone hates you for it. i know that when your guys make mistakes it can feel Gutting to watch the world tear them apart when you feel that they're trying their best to learn and change and be better. but how many times do these people have to demonstrate the same consistent pattern of thoughtlessness, selfishness, and deflection of responsibility before it's clear that they're not interested in improving? how badly do they have to fuck up before you'll even consider that it might be too far?
it is in no way hypocritical to say, y'know what, yes i've defended these guys in the past but This Shit Is Not Cool. and i am imploring people to take that step sooner rather than later before the rhetoric you echo to defend them becomes actively dangerous, because i have seen entirely too many people already cross that line.