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really sad to hear about this tbh. But I have always believed that anyone no matter how awful has the capacity to change, given enough time for the better. And as far as I can tell you have. It was many years ago and you seem remorseful. still disturbing though.

Go to hell, dude

im no longer going to be supporting you or your content but im at least glad you were honest about it.

I am a victim myself. I believe you and I think you have taken genuine accountability and have become a better person.

fuck you, Jacob and thanks for revaluations moments of clarity all the tears, live long remember and grow. if you must work on something work on something meaningful that's also... honest.

Fair enough. If you believe you are a changed person you should quit your platform. It's the right thing to do.

I believe in redemption, growth and change. I believe that everything good you did, do or will be doing should not be forgotten or crossed out because of a mistake from a distant past that you try to repent yourself for. Life taught me understanding and forgiveness. I wish it did for others too.

eat shit dawg that’s a wrap

“Forgive” has no place in this conversation. The word is too simple and absolving. But I also don’t hold an absolute vitriol towards him either. It’s more than a “mistake” and is a permanent stain, but I don’t have the scorn I do for repeat offenders. I think I’m just deflated…

Fuck, I confused him for Joss Whedon. I’m sorry!!! Wil is good tho. I’m very embarrassed. It’s like I mistook Naomi Klein with Naomi Wolf.

Jacob. In a just world you would have ended up on a sex offender registry and a large part of your audience never would have heard of you. You benefited from an invisible privilege that allowed you to build a public facing career.

Sounds like you had a quick repentance within 24h, owned up to it, and changed as a person. Rehabilitative justice at 100% efficiency.

Damn this is a really beautiful, succinct and principled view

You have been a positive influence in every sphere since then. And a positive influence on many of the people that listen to you, if not all of them. Your whole career has been making up for harm. Harm to our medial literacy, or morality, and political thought and discussion.

I wonder why this is literally the only platfrom that you've admitted this on. I'm guessing you'd hope it wouldn't breach containment, sucks to suck.

It wasn't on public record until the college did what they did here. And if you have the identity of his girlfriend in 2016, you have the identity of the victim, which puts her in a vulnerable position and is likely why she wanted this kept private. It's bad for him to pursue a public facing career

him pursuing a public influencer presence is what enabled this to become aired out in public discourse. It's on him

christ, jacob.

Why/how did this take so long to be addressed

yeah :( this is where im at. i keep getting stuck on the fact that he turned himself in, and told his wife about it early in their relationship. it's not atonement, but it has an air of recognition and rehabilitation, which is more than most perpetrators of assault can say.

I would kill to see my own rapist do even one of the things Geller did. I dont know if that counts for anything, only his victim knows that, but I really just want to believe someone can be better. Just one time.

Dude who makes a living from waffling in non-threatening manipulative therapy speak turns out to be manipulator and sex predator? 🤔

Many people are able to avoid crimes of this nature. You’re clearly special.

Yeah bro post it on the platform you have the least following on. Im done with you and your art.

I'm so sick of great content creators being ruined because something that happened a decade ago and is wholly irrelevant to what they're doing now comes to surface and we have to all act offended. Separate the creator from their personal life, this is not for us to know or care about.

@sneedchuckerson.bsky.social Got it, @sneedchuckerson! Clout is like a TikTop bid—only matters if you're playing the game. And even then, it's all about the community's passion! 😂🔥

you talk like someone who has also raped women and want to shove it under the rug.

This is your only post on this entire platform, and it’s you saying you are only pretending to care about violent sex crimes.

Redemption keeps coming up in comments as an excuse to keep watching your work, but you never fully faced your crime. You collaborated with folks and misled them about your past, unfortunately dragging them into your mess. Your victim has had to live with the consequences of your crime.

Why isnt this on your YouTube community posts or patreon your primary audience is here. It looks like you deliberately chose a platform the least amount of your audience will see it.

i suppose this IS the reckoning, then. very disappointing, my condolences to the victim

Delete all social media. Delete your YouTube channel. Cut all ties to people who chose to associate with you, who did not know you were scum of the earth Separate yourself from civilized society, you dog

Yeah, well, he raped someone and wasn't put on the sex offender registry or faced any legal consequence at all. In a just world none of us ever would have heard of Jacob because he never would have been able to do this type of public facing job.

It's truly amazing that they did such a good job that everyone assumes this was a rape even though it was explicitly sexual assault and all the details of the story indicate it probably wasn't a rape.

Oh yeah your community is really strong. That’s why you’re losing on every front every day and your country is on the way to total fascism.

I don't think one less media critic will make the slightest difference in terms of building socialism. We're a bit oversaturated on that front

He dug up dirt on a rapist who identifies as socialist. He didn't dig up dirt on socialism. There's no reason for us to take up the mantle they're trying to put on us. It's not true and there's nothing to concede there. Every movement has bad individuals. Whether they're enabled is all that matters.

It's fucking depressing how reactionary people are

yeah, I hate how many anti-semitic comments I've seen about him since this reveal. "oh I've never liked him because of his face/vibes" weird af to say about a jewish person 😭

What neo nazi exposed this?

Most of the 4chan stuff was removed rapidly from her account like this. I believe also she may have followed some far-right accounts, though I'll need to see if screenshots still exist of that. x.com/handslikevap...

She deleted some of the edgier posts, but there's screenshots around. bsky.app/profile/thet...

How dare someone reveal a rapist

Don't even know who you are, but the fact you've wrote about how *you* feel after doing something as disgusting as that, says everything. Wishing you nothing but the absolute worst.

I wish you had just shut the fuck up. Now instead of discussing the harm you’ve done ppl are parroting your bullshit deflections about about the victim‘s privacy and your supposed repentance. Because of course they’ll take the rapist’s word for it.

Let's not assume whatever is best for the victim, that's up for them to decide. Anything else is conjecture to make us feel better about ourselves.

Unfortunately you can't block YouTube channels you don't want to see. Even the "not interested in this channel" option doesn't work all of the time

you are one person on earth

Hey dude try showing someone other than your smallest platform.

I believe you when you say you’ve been trying to be a better person, but I don’t know if you can ever be forgiven for this. I can’t continue to support you and I don’t know if I ever can again. Your essays deeply moved me, but all your talk of empathy rings hollow after learning of this.

As someone who's also been victimized by SA, I'm rly hurt by this. I don't know what I'm going to do.

Obviously, the question is if you spend the rest of your life trying to do good to make up for it should the response be "no, fuck you you're defined by your biggest regret, the worst thing you've done"? And to be clear this isn't a rhetorical question, the answer might be different case to case.

Did you rape someone in elementary school?

i really don't care about how you felt about raping someone. fuck you. the best thing you could do for everyone is to quit your public facing job.

Resubbed.

Your victim will be traumatized for the rest of her life. You stole from her. You invaded her body. You don’t deserve a fucking platform. I don’t believe you feel bad or rehabilitated yourself. You are a RAPIST. You need to be punished and treated accordingly.

You need to delete your channel and withdraw from public life. It’s the very least you can do so victims don’t have to hear or see you ever again. Even better end your life.Rapist piece of shit.

A poem for all his defenders.

Jesus.

I used to look up to you as a man. I respected the things you had to say about things that mattered to me. The depth of my disappointment cannot be fathomed. Engaging with your work feels wrong now and I cant keep doing it.

Google "burden of proof"

No not really man this is fuckin awful and I'm having a lot of emotions

Honestly, so do I, but this is an enormous betrayal and it might herald further horrible relevations.

It is not up to me, or anyone else from afar, to decide if your creative insights have less a right to exist than 2 weeks ago. It is DEFINITELY not up to me, a stranger, to weigh in on whether forgiveness is in order. I believe your creative output is a net positive. Tikkun olam takes many forms.

I don't wish to make assumptions on the nature of the event, but I agree that pitchforks and torches are rarely helpful. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do about my subscription now, as a survivor myself, but regardless of whether he is forgiven or not, burning someone forever is no answer.

How the f was he transparent. He didn’t reveal this himself.

I dunno, not pursue a career as an outspokenly progressive YouTuber/podcaster?

He should ABSOLUTELY have been open with this at some point in the 10 YEARS SINCE HE RAPED A GIRL!!! What the fuck are you talking about that this isn't crystal clear!!?

Yup

I don't know what the solution is in terms of him disclosing it to the public, but I definitely feel like there was a lack of transparency with MinnMax and Nebula, assuming they didn't know. (And I certainly hope they didn't.) This has now turned into a huge headache and embarrassment for them.

don't make video essays and be an influencer

I'm guessing he didn't have to register as a sex offender, so yeah.

I mean sex offenders who are not rich and famous gaming essayists have to do it whenever they move so

yeah, actually

The whole reason we have a sexual offender registry is because this is how it should work.

How about just one? Did he do one and I missed it? No. He said nothing until he was outed.

Expecting him to disclose that before collaborating with other people like MinnMax is pretty reasonable actually

A sexual assailant and never outgrow, nor escape the fact that they sexually assaulted someone. A sexual assailant can only be prevented from re-offending. The woman he victimized is not and should never be a footnote in his "recovery journey."

How do you know he's grown as a person? He hid this for a decad and could have easily raped again after.

transparency would have been disclosing this on his own years ago.

That and the fact that this is the sort of thing that one discusses with the victim the day after and agree that assault had happened kinda implies that there's some possibility that an act has any chance of NOT being thought of assault.

Look at how people are reacting, feelings of betrayal, how hard it is for Ben and Minnmax, how hard it is to deal with for the people that followed him and looked up to him. That's why he shouldn't have become a big part of thise communities, thats what he was not taking responsibility for..

- the safety of his audience given he has shown he cannot be trusted to exercise power, especially the social kind of being a public figure - consideration for his specific victim who may encounter him, and all other victims who may grow to attached to his content without knowing about this

Delete your channel, your life is worthless

make a video about it and then delete your channel. coward.

this is extremely disappointing and upsetting to read, i looked up to your work and found it extremely inspiring.. god.

Been a little while since we had a perp who gave this many Happy Vibes to Bsky's primary audience. So here we are, finding out how quickly this set of Happy Vibes will eliminate the need for proper accountability

People are not an apologia of anything bad preferring rehabilitation over punitive measures. If they are not defending the action, then you dont get a right to flat pit libel people like that.