...is over?
YouTUBE is a place rife with drama of every sort, however, few times are quite as dramatic as today when I logged in to discover numerous people from across different communities talking about the same thing: VenomFangX has left YouTUBE.
For those who aren’t savvy to this particular part of the Internet, or even this little tribe of thought, I’ll give a little bit of background. VenomFangX is a YouTUBE user who uses his evangelical creationist Christian message to basically run his channel. I mention it because it is the sole and primary purpose of his presence on the site, he makes no pretence about it, and it represents his eminence everywhere he goes. VenomFangX is the worst representation any religion could ever have—he's charismatic, smarmy, insipidly drippy, condescending, and borrows most of his material from fraudsters and asshats. He is, for lack of a better term, a popular villain.
He has left YouTUBE in the past; and now he’s doing it again. (Last time to no effect, obviously, as he didn’t leave.)
And he’s doing it on the heels of a huge donation scandal perpetrated by him. It started out in April when he posted a video about how he couldn’t keep a job because he simply couldn’t keep from proselytizing to customers; and he even proudly strutted his lack of work ethic when he displayed spools of DVDs he had burned at his current employment, using their equipment for his own gain. It is unsurprising that such antisocial behavior got him canned from so many jobs.
Thus, he came to his avid and adoring fan base and asked them for money.
Initially he asked for $500 a month—or, as he put it, for 500 people to give him $1 a month. In the video where he asked for this he intimated that he would give any amount over $500 a month to charity and named Sick Kids Hospital in Canada as the recipient. A misspeak on his end, perhaps, but he did little to then actually offer this money to them; instead he repeatedly attempted to renege on this by pretending that he’d said no such thing when soliciting donations.
Numerous tubers rose up to document, dissect, and point out the flaws of his behavior. His previous behavior certainly did not work in his favor in this as few people outside of his cult following find this to be on par with his previous actions. April ended and he probably collected far, far more than $500 but there’s no indication that he delivered even a cent of it to Sick Kids Hospital.
Numerous complaints rained down on his PayPal account, contacts to the Canadian revenue service, and even Sick Kids Hospital. His PayPal was shut down twice due to fraud. And now, his YouTUBE channel and website are gone.
The reason given is that he’s been receiving death threats from Muslims. A claim yet totally unsubstantiated. However, a message on his website states that his parents took it down, that they don’t support his actions, and they apologize if he offended anyone.
Links to two series on YouTUBE that help elaborate what happened, and who VenomFangX is. These are mostly cultural critiques by people who don’t like him very much, but they will probably give a good example of one side of the story. The other side is accessible via related videos and searches if you want to expand the depth of your net into this seedy event.
Goodbye Venom. Although, I doubt he’ll be gone for long. Here’s hoping this was the community nipping the next Peter Popoff in the bud.
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3 comments:
Glad to hear of the disappearance of Mini Kent Hovind. I hope it will last, but idiots of his sort are like toadstools after rain.
I support his right to be a douchebag and to say what he wants, but to take money from people he's hoodwinked is amazingly immoral. Perhaps he'll be arrested?
Oooh! Boohooo! He's such a bad boy! Using his employers equipment for his own means? No one ever does that! Who has ever used the copying machine at the workplace for his own means? That's so antisocial! Oh, and what a terrible fraud! I've never heard of anyone so evil! Come on! Your non-Christian convictions are shining through so clearly. I don't know what he did. If he committed fraud, that's bad. No question about it. But he was spot on on theological issues - mostly. Evolution is a fake. Hovind is not fully stringent, but has good points. Creation.com is the site that pulverizes evolution completely. VFX is a very gifted kid, but of course he gets hated since he's an outspoken Christian. Too bad it seems he went into som conspiracy theories, like vaccination. Of course there's no need to take the shot, but that's just stupidity, no conspiracy. I'll give you a challenge: Let's see who's right about Christ. If I'm right I'll see you in the final courtroom. If you're right, I'll never know about it. He he.
Oooh! Boohooo! He's such a bad boy! Using his employers equipment for his own means? No one ever does that! Who has ever used the copying machine at the workplace for his own means? That's so antisocial! Oh, and what a terrible fraud! I've never heard of anyone so evil! Come on! Your non-Christian convictions are shining through so clearly.
Ah yes, this sarcasm is convincing because his lack of work ethic is the sum total of the bad behavior listed in the article above.
But wait...
I don't know what he did. If he committed fraud, that's bad. No question about it.
Right. You used the words "terrible fraud" to assign to his poor work ethic that's gotten him simply fired but totally ignore the activities listed that actually constitute fraud.
Way to troll.
When you want to defend someone as a shining example of your culture, perhaps you should really spend more time on the evidence of what parts make them shine. Instead...
But he was spot on on theological issues - mostly. Evolution is a fake. Hovind is not fully stringent, but has good points. Creation.com is the site that pulverizes evolution completely.
...you set up a series of bald assertions without even minor support. Really? What theological issues exactly is he spot on about, he doesn't make any points you disagree with? With Christianity being such a shattered doctrine which contains sects which still to this day sometimes gleefully murder one another over minor points of dogma, I think you have a long hill to climb on that one and you haven't started.
oo bad it seems he went into som conspiracy theories, like vaccination.
Wow. Did not know that he got onto the anti-vacc bandwagon.
I'll give you a challenge: Let's see who's right about Christ. If I'm right I'll see you in the final courtroom. If you're right, I'll never know about it. He he.
That's okay. How about you take up a challenge also: Let's see who's right about the Morrigan. When the final courtroom is a battlefield in the Otherworld... Oh right, not everyone in the world is Christian and has a comment about Christ, just like I shouldn't expect you to know who the Morrigan is or even have an opinion.
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