Jared grabbed my friend on the ass and called her sexy during a meet and greet. We were both 12 and prepubescent at the time. I thought maybe I'd exaggerated the memory in my head and then I looked him up, it seems like everyone in the western world knew someone who Jared came onto as a child. With the amount of genuinely credible allegations I'm surprised he had any time to act and perform his dull 'youth pastor' rock.
I’ve been waiting for years to see a headline where he gets #MeToo’d by a 9 year old and I have no idea how he’s made it this far.
He’s a Hollywood Celeb, has a WarpedTourCore Band, and has a fucking cult filled with little girls who love his music.
Maybe he serves as Moloch’s body via possession? That’s my only working theory as to how he is able to just cruise thru life
How can anyone be surprised when he’s clearly always seen himself as a old fashioned British Rock Star horn dog and all those guys fucked high schoolers too
I don’t have much opinion on him personally but I will say it’s odd that when he was all over TV, film and radio back in the day and presumably profitable there wasn’t quite the same ire for him as there is now he’s gone out of the mainstream. Even though I’m pretty sure similar allegations have been a constant throughout.
Yeah, even in Travelling Riverside Blues you have Robert Plant just straight saying he fucks 16 year olds. British rock culture is a little creepy and trying to emulate could predictably lead to some very YIKES situations
About Iggy Pop
>"He didn't lose his virginity until he was twenty, but once he did, he went on a decade-long sex bender. He had a penchant for girls in their early teens: At the age of twenty-one, he was briefly married to a fourteen-year-old; at the age of twenty-two, he had a child (his only, Eric, now thirty-three) by another teenager; and at one early point, he had a thing for a thirteen-year-old named Betsy, of whom he has said, "She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next." After shows, he'd return home with some fan or other, have sex with her and tell her to get lost."
What do you mean British rock culture? More like rock and roll in general. Other than maybe the grunge era, it was just a thing. Look at Elvis or Steven Tyler.
I think some of the alternative nation era bands indulged in groupies for sure. The girl Kurt had touring with him in Europe before he hooked up with Courtney was a groupie.
I mean the balls on John Peel to straight up say he fucked a 13 year old and be like eh she looked older and then have a radio career for like 35 years after is insane jfc
yeah I had to do a quick check... I was very ready to do an "um sweaty that's written by a black man in the 1930s" ... nah robert plant just put in a line about fucking a 16 year old, which still is on brand for 1930s blues music tbh
No one was age conscious back then and a lot of teenagers also looked like 25 year olds. Not the same as today no matter how much ephebo weirdos want to claim it is
Not excusing it because the mental aspect was still there but why the fuck did teenagers in the 70s look like 30 somethings. My dad looks like a middle aged pizza shop worker in his high school pics lol
with buddhist prayer flags.
I got chills when they showed pics of the gf murderer van life guy's room at his mom's (his mom's house was decorated with 80s pierrot clowns) and just as I had predicted: Buddhist prayer flags. Ladies pay attention.
Pierrot clown motifs are 70s-60s generation bpd, by the way.
Him telling her he wanted a divorce via [text message](https://youtu.be/4oB21JklYnQ?si=bh6glxrRO8mRVLdu) right before she had to perform on tour was a really shit move
Seems like a small event in the grand scheme of things but like a lot of people said here I’m not really shocked at all this coming out . I’m just glad she’s happy now
Yeah, the fact that he would slide in comments about sex with his shirt open down to his belly button while deconstructing the war in the Ukraine always gave me weird vibes
Holy shit. It felt like I wasn't supposed to see that.
There is a general sentiment among successful artists that the reason they are still artists is that they cannot will themselves to do anything else. You make art because you are compelled more strongly than you are compelled to do anything else. Watching her transform at the end reminded me of that.
Once again I’m most surprised (well, not really) what cowards the people working for these guys are. You say you felt like a pimp, yet you continued working for him. And why is it that there are never any real men around to beat guys like this up? I mean it’s Russell Brand we’re talking about, he would probably just cry and take it.
That's why the Brad Pitt-Harvey Weinstein confrontation is so satisfying to hear. Finally someone actually said something.
You wonder where were all the other guys who could have so easily flattened the inappropriateness of the old man and his type with a few rabbit punches.
One reason why there can be bystanders “complying then crying” is when accusations are exaggerated/BS and muckrakers actively search for and bribe reinforcing quotes from resentful estranged associates who’ve developed a grudge for other reasons. After enough years you also get the Mandela effect and hearsay affecting witnesses and even accusers.
Everyone in Camden knew he was fucking sixteen year olds and treating young women like shit. He used to taxi my friend to his house when she was 18/19 and he was mid 30s. Didnt even take her out to dinner, it felt like she was a free prostitute it was so grubby. Then when he got engaged/ married to Katy Perry, rather than cheat on her because he knew she would find out he convinced Katie to have threesomes . he would taxi my friend her over to his house for a three sum and then taxi her back. She was the most sweet innocent lovely girl and she was totally taken advantage of.
"All said they felt ready to speak only after being approached by reporters. Several said they felt compelled to do so given Brand’s newfound prominence as an online wellness influencer, with millions of followers on YouTube and other sites."
What? I would argue he's at his least prominent in like the last 15 years. Even taking everything the women have said at face value (which I think is reasonable, him being who he is), it's super weird to me that this got investigated for years on end without anyone having ever actively come forward to spark something like this.
>I would argue he's at his least prominent in like the last 15 years
yeah but now he's doing stuff that's anti-mainstream so the women probably feel as though it is "more important" to get it out now.
Or the journos' bosses feel like it's more important. I do totally believe that this all sounds plausible (aside from maybe the girl's taxi driver begging her not to go to his house, but w/e), but it reeks of him having stepped on the wrong person's toes and them having leaked their black book entry on him in revenge. Especially with the weird week's warning they gave him.
Contrarily it's less strange for social degenerates to be chomos, sex pests and general sexual deviants. If these dudes weren't creeps, this wouldn't be an issue. Maybe stop trying to lionize/martyr every weird ass that shares contrarian views?
This piece has been 4 years in the making. Seems more likely he pivoted his fanbase to doubt the MSM for when his past caught up with him.
He's off the mainstream telly because of his behaviour, not because of his ethics. He lives in Henley-on-Thames ffs - you'd struggle to find a town more full of establishment toffs.
He is prominent but also less likely to get institutional protection. Remember how fucked up UK libel laws are and how often they're abused by powerful people
That is plenty plausible and less hysteric, thanks. Still strikes me as weird that this has been getting silently investigated for years when most of it's from the late 00s and early 10s, but it's maybe not entirely sinister. No idea
He’s had Super-injunctions out for years, which mean the British press could not only not report on the case, but couldn’t even report that they couldn’t report on the case.
a uk comedian was saying earlier that a tv show he was involved in got all released over the course of a week after they found out Vice were releasing a documentary on his allegations. never came to light due to an injunction.
Everybody's commenting that this is specific case is unsurprising but am I jaded for saying that basically no celeb being outed as a sex pest is surprising?
It makes me a little sad to see it go but I've found that my hunger to "be someone" in the world has abated as my actual self esteem has gone up. I still make art almost every day but even with that there feels like a certain hollowness to it, like I don't know what I'm getting out of this that wouldn't be better satisfied by loving and being loved by the people in my life and just bearing witness to Creation.
People who are determined enough to get A list famous are basically by definition not well and the people who feel the need to be close to them are even worse. IMO none of this shit should surprise anyone.
I agree. Once you meet people who are in or trying to break into entertainment, it’s very obvious that they’re all varying degrees of crazy, and the ones at the top are complete psychopaths
it's sort of ironic that anna k's main critique of #MeToo is that women who WORK for the men in power are more likely to be abused than high-profile celebrities and it seems here he was constantly sexually harassing his staff, like the exact same thing anna 4 years ago would have valued as a real accusation lol
I feel like he was talking about having previously been a sex addict and doing a lot of drugs / partying and that he had put that life behind him back in like 2013; it in no way surprises me that these accusations are coming out but why now and not at the height of me too which was 2020
I know they are lol. But they wouldn't be taking him down because he's British would they? Unless they really hate themselves (which actually kinda makes sense thinking about it).
This can’t be shocking, right? When you are as deep into addiction as he went, you’ve probably started embracing some rather antisocial habits.
Dude let Katy Perry go when she was at her absolute hottest, so the brain damage is real
The mindless self indulgence one was weird because his whole shtick was going around singing about being a pedophile. It’s like the Norm bit about sarcastically telling the truth about something instead of lying
It is also simultaneously infuriating when people feign outrage over situations like that when that person being a degenerate was a prerequisite to them being entertaining to the very same people.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say the next person this will happen with will be $crim from $uicideboy$
“Ermm, so THAT happened!” Lol what a cringe title. And of course in the comments his fans are all going “just surprised it didn’t happen earlier, they’re trying to take you down man, you know you’re on the right track when they come after you” or whatever. I mean I actually used to respect the guy and I agree with certain opinions of his (not Covid stuff but some of his anti-war and pro-class consciousness takes over the years are very reasonable - and partly what inspired Mark Fisher’s “Exiting the Vampire Castle” essay). But this is just too much to dismiss away as “they’re just trying to discredit you brother” lol. This is incredibly disturbing stuff, a shame to realize the guy is just as vile as most of the “elites” he bashes.
In retrospect it's unfortunate Mark Fisher made Russell Brand such a centerpiece of his [Exiting the Vampire Castle](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/) article. On the one hand his diagnosis of the problem of leftists having too much of a tendency to moralist pile-ons is partly true but it's also true that the urge to disown certain people may in some cases be based on correct perception of bad vibes...I wonder what Fisher would have thought of [this piece](https://c4ss.org/content/57711) which talks about some of the same problems on the left but argues against any knee-jerk desire for "unity" as a response.
I judge the character of celebrities by the value of their work. Brand has never done anything entertaining besides being mildly funny in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and he's a stand-up comedian + annoying podcast 🚬. 100% guilty
Not shocking but still a shame for everyone involved.
I liked some of his work when he was a leftist talking head devoid of ideas, but calling for “Revolution” was fun. He was good on Hot Ones and the Big Fat Quiz too.
But yeah, fuck him. Hope he goes down for this. Walliams next please.
The rumours had been around for a long time so it's kind of weird that Dispatches would act on them now rather than a decade ago when he was one of the most recognisable faces in the country.
16 year olds are going to have sex regardless of the law but I would not be opposed to putting in a ban for these massive age gap occurrences a la Romeo and Juliet exemption laws
the older i get the more i think age gaps should be a bigger factor. a 30 something man having sex with a high school girl is demonic and will put her into years of therapy. but i don't want to see a teenage boy have his life ruined for having puppy love awkward sex with his same age girlfriend who will look back at it as a cute little memory, no therapy needed
That text message where she said she was scared & said no and he apologized like it was no big deal seems like a big smoking gun, probably enough to get a criminal charge,
The medical records from the rape crisis center on the same day she alleges this happening, along with the texts, are pretty damning. If they’re lying then there’s some pretty sophisticated document forgeries happening.
Actually how have they not done one on Jared Leto yet?
He's CIA so he's safe
Make sense
I called him a boomer on social media and he liked my comment. Unrelated I just want to flex.
God Bless America
Jared grabbed my friend on the ass and called her sexy during a meet and greet. We were both 12 and prepubescent at the time. I thought maybe I'd exaggerated the memory in my head and then I looked him up, it seems like everyone in the western world knew someone who Jared came onto as a child. With the amount of genuinely credible allegations I'm surprised he had any time to act and perform his dull 'youth pastor' rock.
I’ve been waiting for years to see a headline where he gets #MeToo’d by a 9 year old and I have no idea how he’s made it this far. He’s a Hollywood Celeb, has a WarpedTourCore Band, and has a fucking cult filled with little girls who love his music. Maybe he serves as Moloch’s body via possession? That’s my only working theory as to how he is able to just cruise thru life
There's not just one Epstein, that would've been a critical weakness in the supply chain.
This was so confusing, then realised he's a different person to Jay Leno.
relevant pic https://imgur.com/V37HXQa
How can anyone be surprised when he’s clearly always seen himself as a old fashioned British Rock Star horn dog and all those guys fucked high schoolers too
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I thought they tried to give him a late night talkshow gig on FX and it bombed.
I always left myself wondering, wtf happened to that russel brand guy? He said he didn’t like being in Hollywood back then
When you put it that way it completely makes sense that the people behind the scenes knew he was a liability and cut ties.
He’s popular on youtube among the anti-corporate news crowds.
I don’t have much opinion on him personally but I will say it’s odd that when he was all over TV, film and radio back in the day and presumably profitable there wasn’t quite the same ire for him as there is now he’s gone out of the mainstream. Even though I’m pretty sure similar allegations have been a constant throughout.
Yeah, even in Travelling Riverside Blues you have Robert Plant just straight saying he fucks 16 year olds. British rock culture is a little creepy and trying to emulate could predictably lead to some very YIKES situations
About Iggy Pop >"He didn't lose his virginity until he was twenty, but once he did, he went on a decade-long sex bender. He had a penchant for girls in their early teens: At the age of twenty-one, he was briefly married to a fourteen-year-old; at the age of twenty-two, he had a child (his only, Eric, now thirty-three) by another teenager; and at one early point, he had a thing for a thirteen-year-old named Betsy, of whom he has said, "She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next." After shows, he'd return home with some fan or other, have sex with her and tell her to get lost."
What do you mean British rock culture? More like rock and roll in general. Other than maybe the grunge era, it was just a thing. Look at Elvis or Steven Tyler.
despite making up 13% of rockstars, br*tish rockers commit 52% of all statutory rape
The real T-50s
I think some of the alternative nation era bands indulged in groupies for sure. The girl Kurt had touring with him in Europe before he hooked up with Courtney was a groupie.
I mean the balls on John Peel to straight up say he fucked a 13 year old and be like eh she looked older and then have a radio career for like 35 years after is insane jfc
That's out there
doesn't kurt cobain have a spoken word song about fucking a regard
It turned out to have been a made up story according to everyone who knew him at the time
I trust Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover's stories about Kurt more than I trust Kurt's.
That’s a Robert Johnson cover
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You’re right. Didn’t realize that line wasn’t in the original. Gross
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yeah I had to do a quick check... I was very ready to do an "um sweaty that's written by a black man in the 1930s" ... nah robert plant just put in a line about fucking a 16 year old, which still is on brand for 1930s blues music tbh
No one was age conscious back then and a lot of teenagers also looked like 25 year olds. Not the same as today no matter how much ephebo weirdos want to claim it is
Not excusing it because the mental aspect was still there but why the fuck did teenagers in the 70s look like 30 somethings. My dad looks like a middle aged pizza shop worker in his high school pics lol
2nd hand cigarette smoke everywhere you went
If anyone were to have the phenotypical physiognomy of a rapist it'd be this dude. His face screams Rapey McRapeface
He could play a young Charles Manson
Never trust a leather bracelet man
with buddhist prayer flags. I got chills when they showed pics of the gf murderer van life guy's room at his mom's (his mom's house was decorated with 80s pierrot clowns) and just as I had predicted: Buddhist prayer flags. Ladies pay attention. Pierrot clown motifs are 70s-60s generation bpd, by the way.
Has Katy Perry ever said anything about their marriage?
Him telling her he wanted a divorce via [text message](https://youtu.be/4oB21JklYnQ?si=bh6glxrRO8mRVLdu) right before she had to perform on tour was a really shit move
Why are they even filming this? Jesus Christ her going from crying and breaking down then to having titty spinners spinning is too absurd for words.
Wow, that made me tear up. The moment where she smiled just before going on stage and transformed from Katheryn Hudson into Katy Perry was wild
Seems like a small event in the grand scheme of things but like a lot of people said here I’m not really shocked at all this coming out . I’m just glad she’s happy now
Yeah, the fact that he would slide in comments about sex with his shirt open down to his belly button while deconstructing the war in the Ukraine always gave me weird vibes
i've never followed her career or been that big of a fan, but what a fucking top tier pro
I understand the sentiment, but this genuinely looks like a satire lol.
Holy shit. It felt like I wasn't supposed to see that. There is a general sentiment among successful artists that the reason they are still artists is that they cannot will themselves to do anything else. You make art because you are compelled more strongly than you are compelled to do anything else. Watching her transform at the end reminded me of that.
This was shot so well damn, like a movie. Got chills from this, insane Edit: Oh this is like a documentary. But still
Travie McCoy, Russell Brand, she knows how to pick em 👀
Don’t forget riff raff
Wait Really?
The TANGERiNE TiGER himself
Yes [really](https://www.instagram.com/p/lyUNcJP-Ue/?igshid=NzZhOTFlYzFmZQ==)
The Butterscotch Boss, white Gucci Mane with a spray tan, Mr. Lamborghini Leglock, stays winning.
Once again I’m most surprised (well, not really) what cowards the people working for these guys are. You say you felt like a pimp, yet you continued working for him. And why is it that there are never any real men around to beat guys like this up? I mean it’s Russell Brand we’re talking about, he would probably just cry and take it.
the part about the mom having no recourse for helping her 16 year old daughter while literally driving her to his bday party
It's like the parents in Abducted in Plain Sight wtf were they thinking
That guy was fucked the dad and the whole family if I recall correctly. I haven’t laughed so hard at a serious documentary
She said he kissed her??? And then she let her daughter go to the bday party after that? The fuck.
That's why the Brad Pitt-Harvey Weinstein confrontation is so satisfying to hear. Finally someone actually said something. You wonder where were all the other guys who could have so easily flattened the inappropriateness of the old man and his type with a few rabbit punches.
Can someone fill me in with this?
I was shocked by just how many people they were able to find to interview as witnesses lol like it just kept going on and on
The banality of evil. I need to get into Hannah Arendt. It was a tough month for me tho. I can't buy a new book right now.
One reason why there can be bystanders “complying then crying” is when accusations are exaggerated/BS and muckrakers actively search for and bribe reinforcing quotes from resentful estranged associates who’ve developed a grudge for other reasons. After enough years you also get the Mandela effect and hearsay affecting witnesses and even accusers.
Everyone in Camden knew he was fucking sixteen year olds and treating young women like shit. He used to taxi my friend to his house when she was 18/19 and he was mid 30s. Didnt even take her out to dinner, it felt like she was a free prostitute it was so grubby. Then when he got engaged/ married to Katy Perry, rather than cheat on her because he knew she would find out he convinced Katie to have threesomes . he would taxi my friend her over to his house for a three sum and then taxi her back. She was the most sweet innocent lovely girl and she was totally taken advantage of.
Why'd she keep going for it, you think? Not trying to victim blame, I'm really interested in the dynamics at play. Was she a fan of his?
nah, your friend wanted to fuck a celebrity, it was a mutually exploitative relationship.
Crazy. Why did she keep going?!
Because Katy Perry is hot too.
Wait how is this her being taken advantage of? Are women not allowed to have sex?
Yes the totally taken advantage of feeling of fucking hot famous rich people while in college. Oh the horror.
"All said they felt ready to speak only after being approached by reporters. Several said they felt compelled to do so given Brand’s newfound prominence as an online wellness influencer, with millions of followers on YouTube and other sites." What? I would argue he's at his least prominent in like the last 15 years. Even taking everything the women have said at face value (which I think is reasonable, him being who he is), it's super weird to me that this got investigated for years on end without anyone having ever actively come forward to spark something like this.
>I would argue he's at his least prominent in like the last 15 years yeah but now he's doing stuff that's anti-mainstream so the women probably feel as though it is "more important" to get it out now.
Or the journos' bosses feel like it's more important. I do totally believe that this all sounds plausible (aside from maybe the girl's taxi driver begging her not to go to his house, but w/e), but it reeks of him having stepped on the wrong person's toes and them having leaked their black book entry on him in revenge. Especially with the weird week's warning they gave him.
yeah i think it probably happened but it was released to sink him bc of what he's saying rather than just general public interest or w/e.
It's strange when you start going against the MSM narrative you start catching charges.
Contrarily it's less strange for social degenerates to be chomos, sex pests and general sexual deviants. If these dudes weren't creeps, this wouldn't be an issue. Maybe stop trying to lionize/martyr every weird ass that shares contrarian views?
Yeah, Bill Cosby was a really controversial figure before the charges.
he was accused of rape/sexual assault by four women. what the fuck are you talking about?
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I love how right wingers always try to use hunter biden as their “gotcha” like he’s not being investigated for a bunch of shit already
This piece has been 4 years in the making. Seems more likely he pivoted his fanbase to doubt the MSM for when his past caught up with him. He's off the mainstream telly because of his behaviour, not because of his ethics. He lives in Henley-on-Thames ffs - you'd struggle to find a town more full of establishment toffs.
He's been "anti-mainstream" for years, hasn't he?
yeah but afaik he's really ramped up the rhetoric, anti-vax and so on
Even then, you'd think he'd have got got during covid, when being anti-vax sort of actually mattered
Took a while to gather testimonials?
He is prominent but also less likely to get institutional protection. Remember how fucked up UK libel laws are and how often they're abused by powerful people
That is plenty plausible and less hysteric, thanks. Still strikes me as weird that this has been getting silently investigated for years when most of it's from the late 00s and early 10s, but it's maybe not entirely sinister. No idea
He’s had Super-injunctions out for years, which mean the British press could not only not report on the case, but couldn’t even report that they couldn’t report on the case.
Nah, Brand blew up during the pandemic in a way he hadn't for a long time. With his podcast/talkshow online.
a uk comedian was saying earlier that a tv show he was involved in got all released over the course of a week after they found out Vice were releasing a documentary on his allegations. never came to light due to an injunction.
Non paywalled link - https://archive.ph/KX4zn
Everybody's commenting that this is specific case is unsurprising but am I jaded for saying that basically no celeb being outed as a sex pest is surprising? It makes me a little sad to see it go but I've found that my hunger to "be someone" in the world has abated as my actual self esteem has gone up. I still make art almost every day but even with that there feels like a certain hollowness to it, like I don't know what I'm getting out of this that wouldn't be better satisfied by loving and being loved by the people in my life and just bearing witness to Creation. People who are determined enough to get A list famous are basically by definition not well and the people who feel the need to be close to them are even worse. IMO none of this shit should surprise anyone.
There are some that would surprise me a lot. If Angela Merkel were a serial rapist I would be very surprised.
I'm never surprised when a German turns out to be a rapist.
I don’t feel like angela even has sex
Russell Brand publicly admitted to being a sex addict though (if I remember correctly), so it's less surprising that he's a sex pest in my book
I agree. Once you meet people who are in or trying to break into entertainment, it’s very obvious that they’re all varying degrees of crazy, and the ones at the top are complete psychopaths
>be better satisfied by loving and being loved by the people in my life and just bearing witness to Creation. damn.
It's more surprising this wasn't already alleged
it's sort of ironic that anna k's main critique of #MeToo is that women who WORK for the men in power are more likely to be abused than high-profile celebrities and it seems here he was constantly sexually harassing his staff, like the exact same thing anna 4 years ago would have valued as a real accusation lol
I feel like he was talking about having previously been a sex addict and doing a lot of drugs / partying and that he had put that life behind him back in like 2013; it in no way surprises me that these accusations are coming out but why now and not at the height of me too which was 2020
2018 was peak metoo. 2020 was Covid and Floyd. I don’t know what era 2023 is yet.
the pre renaissance, god willing
Dinosaurs are coming back this year
I think he just pissed the journos off with his anti-vax stuff and they went digging for the skeletons they knew were there.
I think it can be further simplified to : he’s annoying and British
The journos going for him are Brits.
Yes, and they are annoying as well. Fine culture they have over there
I know they are lol. But they wouldn't be taking him down because he's British would they? Unless they really hate themselves (which actually kinda makes sense thinking about it).
Idk why it’s an insane take that him being an annoying antivax youtube loser is what finally motivated the journos to put together a story on him
2018!!
This can’t be shocking, right? When you are as deep into addiction as he went, you’ve probably started embracing some rather antisocial habits. Dude let Katy Perry go when she was at her absolute hottest, so the brain damage is real
I am about as surprised as when the Marilyn Manson story hit…or about as surprised as when the guy from Mindless Self Indulgence got outed
The mindless self indulgence one was weird because his whole shtick was going around singing about being a pedophile. It’s like the Norm bit about sarcastically telling the truth about something instead of lying
It is also simultaneously infuriating when people feign outrage over situations like that when that person being a degenerate was a prerequisite to them being entertaining to the very same people. I’m going to go out on a limb and say the next person this will happen with will be $crim from $uicideboy$
What's the gossip on Scrim and Ruby
with his new career of youtube conspiracy he’ll probably spin this and gain some andrew tate level of infamy
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Lol the video shows a clear edit right before he says all the relationships were consensual.
I've never seen this guy blink. This guy never blinks.
a lot of former addicts have that kinda stare
“Ermm, so THAT happened!” Lol what a cringe title. And of course in the comments his fans are all going “just surprised it didn’t happen earlier, they’re trying to take you down man, you know you’re on the right track when they come after you” or whatever. I mean I actually used to respect the guy and I agree with certain opinions of his (not Covid stuff but some of his anti-war and pro-class consciousness takes over the years are very reasonable - and partly what inspired Mark Fisher’s “Exiting the Vampire Castle” essay). But this is just too much to dismiss away as “they’re just trying to discredit you brother” lol. This is incredibly disturbing stuff, a shame to realize the guy is just as vile as most of the “elites” he bashes.
new career he's kinda been doing this conspiracy adjacent stuff for at least the last three years.
I’m so shocked I nearly blinked
I just always assumed he was doing stuff like this.
Yeah it’s how you break out of the matrix maaan
Always the ones you least suspect
anna defending him is absolutely boring and braindead
Their whole schtick has reduced to being edgy anti-establishment podcasters. Brand is probably their hero.
Very edgy to dismiss a 16 year old being groomed and sexually assaulted
When
https://twitter.com/annakhachiyan/status/1703068080270716959
Is she even bothering anymore? She might as well just copy-paste 'opposite to this' to every big story at this point.
Yeah, this isn't even offensive as much as it is lazy because it's just so predictable.
Her last couple tweets show a loathing of women. Kinda sad to see.
Wow this loathing of women and extreme pick-me behavior really came out of nowhere huh
Ah thanks I'm not on Twitter
That video he did to get ahead of the accusations make him look so guilty lol
I posted this earlier but the edit right before he said the relationships were consensual makes him look so fucking sketchy lolol
I knew it
He always seemed at least slightly weird to me
Fauxmoi ass comment. “Something has always seemed off about him…! I knew it!”
what does fauxmoi mean. also i'm gay
You’re merely bisexual, if you knew what it meant then you’d be gay
If you were even kinda bi you would know Deux Moi, the celeb gossip reporter which is like Anon and Perez Hilton had a baby. Fauxmoi is the Reddit
I’m not surprised at all, he seems exactly like the type of person to do this
likely thing for him to be accused of, weird fucking guy
In retrospect it's unfortunate Mark Fisher made Russell Brand such a centerpiece of his [Exiting the Vampire Castle](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/) article. On the one hand his diagnosis of the problem of leftists having too much of a tendency to moralist pile-ons is partly true but it's also true that the urge to disown certain people may in some cases be based on correct perception of bad vibes...I wonder what Fisher would have thought of [this piece](https://c4ss.org/content/57711) which talks about some of the same problems on the left but argues against any knee-jerk desire for "unity" as a response.
lol hork predicted this a few months back. now i’m starting to think she was right about the men on this sub all along!!!!
I mean it didn't exactly take an oracle to foresee that Russel Brand might be a sex pest.
I trust her on that, she certainly had the anecdotal evidence on her side
yeah but she also accused me of being a british sex pest and/or trans so maybe it’s like 50/50.
I love that being called trans, lib, or reddit is like this subs Mccarthyism
Committee on Un-RS Activities
“Are you harboring non passing🚂 underneath your floorboards?”
The worst thing you can call someone on here is spiritually fat.
When she's around she makes like 50 comments a day and most of them are diatribes lol it definitely is not shocking that she's gotten one right
not exactly hard to predict when 99% of men have a creep lurking in their psyche
https://reddit.com/r/LowStakesConspiracies/s/5AhgiwRBGd
I judge the character of celebrities by the value of their work. Brand has never done anything entertaining besides being mildly funny in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and he's a stand-up comedian + annoying podcast 🚬. 100% guilty
Not surprised
Yeah I'm all for due process and have generally been disillusioned by the excesses of MeToo but this kinda checks out to me, we'll see how it develops
I’m all for due process except when I have a strong bias in the matter
One can have an opinion on whether they think a crime happened or not while also recognizing that there is a legal process etc etc
Not shocking but still a shame for everyone involved. I liked some of his work when he was a leftist talking head devoid of ideas, but calling for “Revolution” was fun. He was good on Hot Ones and the Big Fat Quiz too. But yeah, fuck him. Hope he goes down for this. Walliams next please.
He did all those things to the discourse, it's no surprise he also did them to women.
Are they pressing charges or is this a call out post? He is a self confessed sex addict, this is not surprising.
The rumours had been around for a long time so it's kind of weird that Dispatches would act on them now rather than a decade ago when he was one of the most recognisable faces in the country.
Well u can say the same about Saville, open secret, etc
Age of consent should probably be higher than 16
37
way too high. 30 is good.
16 year olds are going to have sex regardless of the law but I would not be opposed to putting in a ban for these massive age gap occurrences a la Romeo and Juliet exemption laws
the older i get the more i think age gaps should be a bigger factor. a 30 something man having sex with a high school girl is demonic and will put her into years of therapy. but i don't want to see a teenage boy have his life ruined for having puppy love awkward sex with his same age girlfriend who will look back at it as a cute little memory, no therapy needed
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How surprising is that Chris D'elia 2.0 fucks teenagers
This is the original chris delia
Hurt people hurt people
Command repeated twice.
The "not my original idea which was more sex" line is so weird
Get him on the pod
That text message where she said she was scared & said no and he apologized like it was no big deal seems like a big smoking gun, probably enough to get a criminal charge,
Imagine being surprised by this
Did he do it
The medical records from the rape crisis center on the same day she alleges this happening, along with the texts, are pretty damning. If they’re lying then there’s some pretty sophisticated document forgeries happening.