Now that his “I Messed Up” video is down, it is apparent to me that Jimmy has always operated from a place of cis male privilege.

In our society, we don’t hold cis men to any kind of standard so when they mess up, we let them off with a wink and a nod. And often cis male “apologies” come with a whole boat load of excuses and explanations about how people have made it so hard for them and “cancel culture” and all that.

So when Jimmy did the typical cis male apology and we didn’t buy it, he decided to take it down. Because if we aren’t going to accept his “apology” (or his version of things) then he might as well not have said anything at all. That’s my best guess anyway.

And to be honest, I don’t know why he’s so surprised that we aren’t just bending over and taking it. I mean he literally built his whole channel on being critical thinkers and not taking the status quo from religious folk. If we don’t take it from them, how can he expect us to take it from him? He should be proud of the community he has fostered. But then he only cares about that when it’s working for him I guess.

The reality is that cis men like Jimmy are too used to being able to have a double standard and convincing people that it’s fine. But I think that the positive thing that has come out of this is that we know that we don’t have to settle for that anymore. We can unsubscribe and unfollow and stop donating. We can spend our social currency in a way that actually does real good and rewards genuinely good content creators.

So no, Jimmy, you aren’t owed our forgiveness or our subscriptions. But pouting and deleting things that could be used against you? Grow up.