yes these allegations are real and credible, -yes and- his marriage to Amanda itself was a red flag. I went to one of her spoken word tours with a few friends who have known her personally: she made a racist joke, made jokes at the expense of the people who called her put on the racist joke...
and then tried to lead the crowd in an impromptu session of "forgive your rapist" and was trying to "come on!" everyone who booed and tried to sit it out.
We all left vowing to not even play her ass on spotify
I was livid: like a big through line of the show was about a very abusive relationship she was in, dovetailed into vague implications of complicity that were honestly already losing the crowd, and finally at the climax of her story, was like, "everybody get up! Who's been assaulted in their life?"
my God.
and the way she drops something as triggering as "forgive your rapist" and then goes "I want to keep performing my show"
everything I learn about her is awful lmao
really did feel like "haha, I did an art. made you feel something. you're all so programmed or repressed! anyhoo, only 10 mins left in the show! no time to take this anywhere but retraumatization and confusion byeeee~!"
She's a terrible person and was canceled before canceling became a thing because she used to invite local musicians to play with her or open and refused to pay them. She might be the first to pull the "you get paid in exposure" card.
Of course that's not even the worst thing she's done
She once said that a Gwen Stefani video having ironic use of brand names was bad, and that the real way to be ironic would be to "ironically" send money to the KKK.
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her racist joke was about how she'd made a DIFFERENT racist joke and gotten dragged on tumblr, something about how black girls can't be goth, and she BOTH didn't deny making the joke AND tried to lead the audience in laughing about how RIDICULOUS it was to consider her racist for it!!