I'm very happy to see you guys pick this story up. It's been a huge deal for months within the community, but it really needs to be seen by a wider audience. Props definitely need to be given to the Green brothers for immediately dropping the offending "artists" and speaking out against it. Laci Green is basically…

The most recent one, Jason @Veeoneye, put out a video blaming his parents for not teaching him plying underage girls with alcohol for the purpose of having sex is wrong. Excuses for everyone!

"Progressive YouTubers." There's a term you don't see every day. Well, outside of self-sufficient potato growers open to the latest root technology, anyway.

Alex Day also wrote a post (which appears to be taken down), in which he defended himself by saying something along the lines of "Yeah, I totally manipulated some girls, but it's only because I didn't really understand consent."

maintain your "not rapey" brand by not being rapey!

I wish they'd also scrutinize those racist as shit "in the hood" pranks as well.

Sam Pepper is a bit of a joke in the UK - a failed Big Brother contestant who tried to become a panel show personality. Not very popular at all. Though now with such exposure of his dark side, i suspect there will be more in the way of criticism. I truly hope so anyway.

I'm against victim blaming...

are YOU joking? maybe she's internalized all the shit she's been taught, that maybe she was asking for it, that she owed it to him, that maybe it was just some rough sex. that rape only happens in a dark alley by a scaaaaary black man, not by a youtube celebrity who she was on some kind of date with.

She is probably a silly, immature girl who didn't think it would escalate, was star struck and made some stupid decisions. But here is the thing, friend. We all make stupid decisions sometimes, it doesn't mean we deserve to be raped. Nor does it make it any of less of a crime or awful or her fault that he raped her.

Right. Because every rape victim ever has always been immediately aware of the severity of what took place and never tries to excuse, rationalize or blame themselves for what happen. No rape victim has ever remained silent because they feared shame, reprisal or further abuse for making "a big deal" out of having been…

or maybe she was so shocked, she was in denial, and assumed that what happened wasn't rape.

Wow like women who get the shit beaten out of them and still go back to the abuser. Thank God we have you to tell us what REAL VICTIMS act like. BARF

We don't know if he forced her to go back to the hotel room. He could have made her feel so unsafe that she couldn't say no. Please stop victim blaming, you asshole.

Fuck that. She's awesome. What I hate most is that this story doesn't surprise me.

This is the internet. We're not fucking sorry ever.

Pointing out problems as a part of journalism, discussing it, and making changes in your own life to effect progress is not whining, dear.

I think the outrage is due to 1) A person being placed in a cell with a person who previously sexually assaulted them and 2) The higher probability that trans-women will be a vulnerable population in terms of sexual assault specifically, and abuse more generally.

A woman was put in "protective custody" with a male registered sex offender. Yes it matters that she is a woman (IS a woman). You don't understand how not only was she allowed to come to harm while in protective custody but she was callously put in harm's way?
The way you speak of her "presenting as a woman" is just…

My brother is not a transsexual or transgender, or gay and he was raped almost every day he was in prison over 40 years ago. No one cared about him.