JonTron Salt - feat. the growing Yooka-Laylee shitstorm (Mighty No. 9 2.0)

[TheImportantFart]

So while the Farms was down, an interesting thing happened. Popular YouTuber Jon Jafari, who runs the YouTube channel JonTron, went on a stream with Sargon of Akkad and came out as an anti-SJW. I'll link the stream below:

Although if you don't want to sit through all five hours of that here's the relevant part:

Jon had already courted controversy in this area when he gave an interview to Breitbart shortly after the 2016 election, but this pushed things to a whole other level. Below is just a sample of the salt that flowed:

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Also, Jed Whitaker (who works for Destructoid) said Jon was a Nazi because he'd dressed up as one for a video.

Apparently there was some fallout with Jon's longtime friend PeanutButterGamer but that seems to have blown over.

None of this has hurt Jon's popularity. In fact, his subscriber and Twitter follower count has gone up since the livestream. Still, there are plenty of butthurt former fans out there and NeoGaf's been in meltdown since it happened, so I think there's enough content here to work with.

 

[HY 140]

I haven't seen this much salt towars jon tron since the whole retard incident

 

[dunbrine47]

I did not know about the Breitbart article. I thought all the salt was coming from that stream/PBG twitter spat.

My reaction to OP:

Spoiler: You knew this was coming.

 

[Assorted Nuts]

Best part about all of this is how Jon's views are relatively tame if you actually watch any of the livestream. Not that any of these SJW reactionaries would ever do that. This is basically "AVGN hates Ghostbusters and thus all women" round two.

 

[TheImportantFart]

Searching "JonTron racist" gets you some fun results:

My favourite part is when he says "There's more of us than them." Obviously not buster, since Jon's subscriber count keeps going up.

 

[A Ghost]

 

[The Jumping Dwarf]

Searching "JonTron racist" gets you some fun results:


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My favourite part is when he says "There's more of us than them." Obviously not buster, since Jon's subscriber count keeps going up.

The funniest thing about it all is that IIRC Jon is actually Jewish.

 

[TheImportantFart]

The funniest thing about it all is that IIRC Jon is actually jewish.

He's also of Iranian descent so not technically white.

 

[MasterDisaster]

I love how many demands there are to shut him down just for having an opinion.

 

[HY 140]

Searching "JonTron racist" gets you some fun results:

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My favourite part is when he says "There's more of us than them." Obviously not buster, since Jon's subscriber count keeps going up.

I kinda expected this from someone with an undertale icon

 

[c-no]

He's also of Iranian descent so not technically white.

One wonders if that's brought up to these people. Then again, there would mental gymnastics followed by saying Jon Tron has internal oppression or something like that.

 

[Mister Loser]

Jon has always been open about his political views, yet despite that, these retarded SJWs can't even fathom the concept that people don't like them, and instead continue on living in their own little world.

 

[The Great Chandler]

One wonders if that's brought up to these people. Then again, there would mental gymnastics followed by saying Jon Tron has internal oppression or something like that.

Then you have the fringe lefties who think Jews are white supremacists who hate brown people of Middle East descent. Jon is an "Uncle Tom" to his Middle Eastiness in their blurry eyes.

 

[Jaimas]

Jontron is one of many content creators who got pushed too far by this sort of shit. A lot of people don't realize it, but prior to his going on Sargon's show, he had almost 100 pages worth of the outrage machine trying to Nora Reed him. Eventually Jontron just said: "Fuck it, if I'm going to be attacked by these faggots, I'm going to have the fun of doing what I'm getting blamed for," and he went on Sargon's show.

If you haven't heard it, check it out. It's pretty goddamned long (5 hours? Jesus), but the good stuff with Jon happens in the first hour. It's surprisingly heartfelt and covers a lot of why Jon's been worried about this shit - all for justified reasons. Like pretty much every big LPer and reviewer on the Internet, he knows people who've been given the choice of being targetted or drinking the kool-aid, and it's starting to become apparent just how endemic this shit is.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

I liked JonTron before, but I gained respect tenfold for him not backing down on his words and beliefs.

Also, according to this dumbass Tumblr post:

JonTron has said totally worse things than iDubbbz' smackdown on Tana Mongeau, such as:

Spoiler: big image of JonTron saying such terrible things

 

[Feline Darkmage]

He's also of Iranian descent so not technically white.

He's Iranian-Hungarian. So, Half European actually, if we want to specify his ethnicity. He also supported a Jewish Socialist man named Bernard Sanders for president. Something I doubt a nazi would do.

Searching "JonTron racist" gets you some fun results:

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My favourite part is when he says "There's more of us than them." Obviously not buster, since Jon's subscriber count keeps going up.

And here comes Matt Myers proving once more why he deserves a thread here.

 

[KingGeedorah]

People say stupid shit all the time. His videos are pretty funny, but I wouldn't agree with all his personal views.
Does he deserve to have his housed burned down? Nope.

 

[Lackadaisy]

brb going to give JonTron $5

 

[forgettispaghetti]

Actually, I don't understand why the SJW's are so pissed. If you look at the one hour video, he supports a lot of leftist things, he just doesn't like the approach SJW's use. He even said something along the lines of "I thought I was leftist until I met SJW's."

But I mean, to SJW's any criticism at all means you're clearly a "Sexist, racist, homophobic fascist who supports white supremacy and the KKK."

 

[GabeRegan]

So how was this a surprise to anybody? I have a passing knowledge of him from seeing some of this tweets pop up in other threads, and I had assumed he was right-leaning for a while now. Is it just that he's confirmed it that have people freaking out?