So Dan from Game Grumps (aged 42) is getting cancelled for supposed grooming. I don’t want to say he’s not a groomer, because theres stuff about other alleged behavior that isnt detailed at all in it.
But like the story presented is that a 17 year old fan started messaging him. He thanks her for her support and wishes her a happy birthday when she turns 18 about a month later. Then nothing is shown until the fans 22 and they exchange some cringey sexts. Then apparently they fuck and he breaks things off. And everyone’s calling this grooming, but like, that’s not what grooming is? I donno, it just feels like people really have been stretching definitions of things for the last year like with that Alex Morse thing to take advantage of cancel culture. And it seems like it only causes people to ignore victims who are actually groomed.
Famous people should only fuck other famous people, it’s just cleaner that way. There’s an implicit power dynamic when you’re famous and the person you’re fu king isn’t. Not saying that the power dynamic makes these accusations more credible, but that it really does create a one sided thing. I’m sure him blowing her off felt a lot worse than a regular blow off because he was famous.
Basically, ban groupies, stop fucking fans idiots.
In this case, the power comes from her being a fan since she was a child. He’s been a very popular YouTuber for like a decade plus now, so 20 year olds were watching him when they were in middle/elementary school. He knew she was one of those fans and should have avoided that situation.
Basically, anyone who likes you for reasons related to your fame is a dangerous situation. Doubly so if you were a formative influence on them (even if it was just poop jokes all the way down).
And using your 100k twitter followers to get sex is weird, don’t do it.
