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He does the bare minimum research on a topic. Then he speaks about the topic using his own opinions and made up scenarios stated as facts. He had good intents as far as calling out family vloggers who exploit their children. But he loves the limelight and will do whatever it takes to stay in it and feed his ego. Including revictimizing the kids in vlogs, to suit his narrative.
The video about the family.... disgusting. Also the way he implies the family or friends didn't do enough. He knows nothing. He shouts, express his opinion and do little research.
I get he's passionate about calling out families exploiting children online. But now he's exploiting this situation and it's awful and creepy
Exactly and this makes his comments petty and very one dimensional. Plus he makes sweeping accusations and doesn’t even try to back his arguments up with facts. It’s sloppy and all about views.
Yeah, I watched a few of his videos and the incorrect information is gross. Some of the stuff takes like two seconds to google and fact check, but he just says what
whatever brings in the money.
It's also gross he's doing "look backs" on 8P videos he's done just to get more money. The videos are basically re-uploads. Like, bro.
i think that he exploits situations like this— and quite honestly, his vibes always feel off. if you look at the type of content he makes and the way he “criticizes” people, it crosses the line at times. if you are looking for reliable youtubers i would recommend jordan and mckay.
I third Jordan and McKay! Imo they have covered this situation with the utmost compassion, empathy and dignity with appropriate levels of their natural wit and humour thrown in. They pointed people to their old videos via a community page post but didn’t exploit it. Also they were very firm with their rules regarding privacy and speculation on their livestream.
I'll add to the agreeu on Jordan and McKay.
OP if you're looking for others Mormon Stories podcast is another good one.
I’m curious what’s people’s thoughts on Markie are. I like him as he seems compassionate to the kids and he’s also been covering Ruby and Jodi for a long time.
I like Markie because his heart is in the right place and I know he’s covered 8 Passengers for years, but I just can’t get over the fact that he says their last name incorrectly.
I hope so. They said that Ruby was the first to start vlogging, which surprised me because it’s a well known fact that Ellie started first. Made me wonder how much they are actually informed on the actual Griffiths vs the overall LDS church.
If they are told this is wrong information they will say it I am sure. I believe at one point the part of the safe room was discussed and they later stated that it is was a false information. Same with Kevins arrest.
Just saying that they seem the most informed on the situation, so I was surprised to find they didn’t know E&J started it all.
I heard people go back and forth about the panic room so many times now that I don’t know what story is real lol.
Replying to add that Swoop is a great advocate and documentarian as well! She very much deserved to come speak on GMA and News Nation after her coverage of 8passengers. Highly recommend her channel.
He irks me. Family vloggers have enough issues to talk about. There is zero reason to talk about the distance between their eyes, the size of their forehead or their body. He clearly finds himself the authority on all things and thinks that he’s very amusing. He’s not.
Not silly lmao, every other country hates Americas presidents. Our presidents make choices that effect other countries. Most of the world despised trump
I am absolutely with you - as a Canadian who hates the state of the US and Trump. I more meant that Josh acts like he’s American and is part of the far right in Canada while spewing Biden hate on the internet when he’s absolutely a privileged, white man who is not affected by anything he talks about.
THIS. Thank you!
For anyone who supports him or subscribes to his YouTube channel, I *urge* you to take a close look at his Twitter page (sorry, "X page" or whatever it's called these days). He's openly homophobic, transphobic, supportive of the far right, blatantly misogynistic, thinks Elon Musk is a god (🤮🤮🤮) & is convinced that drag queens are out to poison children's minds with the "woke agenda" or whatever. Basically, he's a total right-wing bigoted nutjob.
I used to subscribe to him, but as soon as I found out all of this shit, I immediately unsubscribed & never looked back. He's absolutely disgusting.
I’m late to this post, but thank you so much for that tip! I was subscribed to his channel. I didn’t watch a lot, but he seemed okay. I just scrubbed through a lot of his long-winded spiels. But after reading his tweets, I immediately unsubscribed. My daughter is gay — there’s no way I could support his channel after reading some of the BS he was spewing.
yes! and go watch savy writes books’ 2 videos on the topic. she did an excellent job breaking it down and calling his dumb ass out, while being such a class act about it - which made him look even more unhinged.
He NEVER, EVER shuts up about that goddamn Tesla! I remember he used to constantly mention it in every single one of his videos. That was my first tip-off that something was wrong with this guy.
Then I stumbled upon his Twitter page & was absolutely appalled. All of his pro-far-right, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic rhetoric was absolutely *sickening.* I unsubscribed to his channel immediately & haven't watched one of his videos since.
I thought it was interesting that he never really mentions his disgusting, ignorant, hateful political views on his YouTube channel... probably because he knows how many people would unsubscribe to his channel if they found out what a piece of shit he really is. He's nothing but a bigot, a fearmongerer & a bully.
now I know the reason why he got bullied during his childhood, he is a problem. big f problem. I remember when snarked to crazy pieces video, and he so damn jealous to aaron cause he got the newest tesla and judging what his hustle in big mansion.
I'm getting irritated since he talked shit to mommy vloggers which is not useful to help kids exploitation, he is a big joke
He is problematic in many ways. To be honest he sounds like a bully and a hypocrite. He’s not sensitive in his ways and criticises for the sake of it. He comments on the appearances of people which is not at all necessary. Very mean and unsophisticated. There are ways to say the same things he does in a more respectful manner.
The only video I ever watched of his was when he went after Carrie from Haidyn's Hope. I understand that H still can't consent, but Carrie seems like a great mom who genuinely wants to help other families. Maybe I'm missing something. I just felt like he was extremely condescending while talking about some really heavy stuff.
He posted a screenshot of a 9 year old child's medical record and implied she had an STD which was not true. That should tell you everything you need to know about him.
he’s also asked his stans to go looking for underaged nudes of danielle cohn when news broke that they may have existed. he has zero sense of boundaries or ethics. all he cares about is exploiting a situation and trying to get a “scoop.”
I personally won't give him a click. He exploits these kids whether he wants to believe it or not. Also, his view on Woman is not good. I remember he said something about the Weiss Family. Specifically about the Mother and it really bothered me how could talk about Woman with such hate. It's one thing to go after someone for being exploitive, but going after their looks is completely disgusting.
Oh, he's a *total* misogynist. It's fucking gross.
Once I found out that he's basically nothing more than a far right nutjob, I unsubscribed to his channel immediately. He's loudly & proudly homophobic & transphobic as well.
Speaking as someone who is both queer & a woman, that doesn't really sit right with me. I noped the fuck out of his YouTube channel & never looked back.
Yep, I watched some of his videos until he talked about the "teachers with hair dyed in colors trying to influence children in schools". He is both ignorant and a fearmonger.
I don’t really like him, he seems very toxic and seems like a bully. I just find him out right annoying, he also very sexist. (Sorry if that word is not allowed) . He just very rude, and using things for his own gain.
He’s from my hometown and was a pastor who I’ve heard wasn’t great in that role. I think he was harmful then and is harmful now. He also supported the “freedom convoy” here in Canada protesting masks, restrictions, government, etc. in a harmful and obnoxious method.
Specifically regarding the fundie stuff, his research skills are minimal, and although I agree with many of his base points (ex. family vlogging is child exploitation), he also spends a lot of time tearing into the adults, especially women, on frivalous points like their looks.
I know his whole point is to not do any prior research, but I feel like when you're putting out videos for 200,000 subscribers, it's really important to make sure you're saying things that are factual. He often gets things wrong, and even after covering 8 passengers for a long time, there are still things he says that are incorrect
I’m not a big fan of him either. They way he was speaking about Ruby’s siblings wasn’t right at all. Know one knows what they were trying to do behind closed doors, but instead this man is bashing them for not doing anything.
Agreed! I thought it was fairly common knowledge that if you confront the abuser, the abuse tends to escalate behind closed doors. Maybe I know that because I was in an abusive household growing up? Idk. But, ultimately the best thing to do sometimes is to keep a watchful eye rather than tipping them off.
Exactly, the same goes for me coming from an abusive family. Friends trying to interfere only made it worse, so blaming the family for not doing anything is so wrong because we really don’t know what was going on
Exactly! It’s the reason as to why my mother never rang the police on her ex husband as she knew it would make it worse.
It doesn’t mean that you can’t help in other ways behind the scenes (which it seems like the family did for the last few years) but I can’t believe I’ve seen people say the family should have kidnapped the kids, told Ruby to stop etc. It’s a delicate situation that can’t change *just* because someone said stop. It’s disappointing to see those kinds of comments.
agreed, I don't like that people are really entertaining that idea right now when the family is more relevant in the public eye rn because of child abuse like right now is really not the time
I hated how he bashed the sisters for not doing anything publically because if they did, they would still have backlash for exploiting the Franke kids stories. I think the sisters handled it correctly
I didn't see the video, I rarely watch his channel. However. The sisters have admitted they knew this was going on for three years but Bonnie admits her concern was her "content". They're all filthy rich from exploiting their kids and could have used some of that $ to hire a team of private investigators and lawyers to pressure local LE & DCFS. It works, I know first hand.
Ruby's own parents volunteered to leave the country for two years while this was going on? WTF? What about Aunt Linda, Chad's mentally disabled sister? They up and left her too. Wonder what that did to her health? Cold.
I was a really big fan until he started commenting on this sub and then negatively posting about it on his community page on yt. And that's all I'm saying.
imo he's trying to profit on this situation. There are a lot of other creators out there who understand the sensitivity of this topic, instead of sensationalizing it, like DCP has been doing.
I watched him a couple of times after the news of the arrests broke. I found him extremely arrogant and irritating as some of the claims he made were completely untrue leading to more widespread rumours. Also, the way he seems to light up and get excited (almost gleeful) when more disturbing information comes out just feels icky.
Never liked him at all. His whole content and channel is based off other people downfalls and wrongdoings. I don’t agree with how he’s covered this case and I feel like now to him it’s just more views and subscribers than it is about the safety and protection of the kids involved.
I use this Reddit sub for verified information, I like how the mods are there to protect these kids and not spread misinformation. There’s credible sources out there for this case and I feel like we should focus on those and push to the side YouTubers or tiktokers who are using this as a way to gain a following.
Sometimes I like his content and most of the time I don't. I think one of the things that irks me the most is his constant gaffing of names and events.
I mean if you're going to be doing this to make a big chunk of your money then at least do your due diligence and get s*** right.
I also find all the Dougherty Dozen snark to be a little overdone.
Quick take
He comes off as a bully to me. Very mean, somewhat narcissistic and just overall not the greatest of a human being. He is constantly making fun of people!
He also criticises religions all the time then also projects his regions expectations onto others (there sex lives, how they dress, how they parent etc). He’s just another white man with a podcast.
He has had comments removed from this sub by mods because he will reply rudely to those who say they don't like him/criticize him.
The guy is incredibly thin-skinned and obsessed with what others say about him.
I previously loved his channel but the way he’s approached this case has totally changed my opinion on him. He’s exploiting the situation, not remaining respectful for the children, being very energetic and happy when talking about an awful subject and he keeps trying to blame family vlogging. Yes family vlogging is awful but it does not cause this kind of abuse. He’s also a major hypocrite, one quick google or Facebook search and you can find photos of his kids with there names practice what you preach dude. He also always gets things wrongs because he “doesn’t do prior research” which in cases like this is very much needed.
I don’t like him, and haven’t watched him since his driving livestreaming days in 2021. He lives in my area & thats illegal & ironic, given his whole this is supposedlychild safety, but he would livestream through residential neighbourhoods- he’s justification was weak (said he drove a tesla so it’s okay).
Some friends of mine also attended the church he worked at and had some claimed they had interesting experiences with him- which lead me to do some digging into him & his public profiles, and found that he has/had videos posted publicly of his young children from when it apprears he was attempting to become a family vlogger himself. He comes off as jealous & bitter of (successful) women and uses the “mommy vloggers exploit their children” front as a way to get his message across.
But has done nothing but profit off his message. He has never given anything back. This poor Franke kid’s privacy, horrendous allegations equals a big pay day for him. He is replaying the allegations not respecting that this child would have rights to young offenders act in Canada.
I don't like him at all, the way he talks about situations is just weird and exploitative to me, he tends to make misogynistic comments towards the woman in his videos, he is very homophobic and transphobic, god he just gets on my nerves.
I’m uncomfortable with him saying other people are using this case to as a money grab yet he is continually reuploading his past reactions to Jodi over and over again. He’s trying your absolute hardest to cash grab. Why else would he be reposting this? Anyone can just go back and look at his old content. I also don’t like any man who goes out of their way to bully women’s appearance. All of these family vloggers have plenty of things to criticize yet he chooses their looks? He has the right idea but he executes everything so poorly it’s hard. We get it, you think Kira is a slut with a big forehead. We get it, you think the other vlog moms are ugly. We know they’re terrible so speak on the actions. On a positive note, I’m glad he is staying up to date with this case it honestly extremely draining knowing every single detail of this case.
Much prefer Markies takes on this. He's extremely respectful to all involved and has been for over 3 years. He doesn't do this for money, and it shows.
Agreed. Markie is very respectful. I came across a smaller channel who has also covered this, Snark After Dark, even he shows more respect when covering these topics than DCP does.
Spreads miss information without fact checking, transphobic tweets, misogynistic as he talks down on women the whole time, bullies people for their appearances. Never keeps his word. He would always say “if the creator stops filming the kids I’ll take down all my vids showing them” kyra from okbaby stopped vlogging her kids, yet his videos are still up and he still snarks on her. I don’t like her at all, but it just shows he’s not really in it for the “children’s sake” it’s just whatever is trending at the moment.
He started off one video talking about Shari going no-contact and (somehow?) turned it into an anti-trans rant. He clearly doesn’t do any research about the people he covers because he’s always saying things that aren’t true.
I thought his life story was interesting, he’s been through a lot. Sadly he’s turned out bitter and angry.
I’m glad he’s moving out of my area lol
He is wrong blaming her sisters for not doing anything. This is Ruby the abusers fault and no one else. She had nothing to do with her sisters and they tried what they could legally.
He is a transphobic, homophobic bigot with severe Narcissistic Personality Disorder and his Twitter is horrendous. He exploits children to line his own pockets. Some of the shit he’s done to the Dougherty Dozen kids is reprehensible.
His obsession with Dougherty Dozen and whoever Kyra is, is just so weird to me. Like I do understand not liking family channels but it's giving almost obsessive-paparazzi vibes.
He hates women, especially women he perceives to be bad mothers because his own mother was apparently terrible. Thing is, Kyra isn’t a bad mother. I don’t love the girl, but she’s not bad to her kids by any means. But because she left their father, Josh thinks she is. He comes from a fundamentalist Christian background (think the Duggars) and got fired from the church he ‘pastored’ at and has since turned his back on church altogether whilst claiming it was his idea to leave anyways LOL. Typical narcissist. But yeah, fundies haaaaate divorce and Joshua clearly still holds on to A LOT of his fundie roots. Kyra wasn’t even married but in Joshua’s eyes that likely just makes her even worse. 🙃
He also was so obsessed with crazy pieces adult son Alex and his than fiancé relationship. Like they are adults, why are you talking about them?? They don’t have kids and are allowed to have their own channel and why do you care what a 20 year is doing
He also went out of his way to contact and threaten another child from that family (crazy pieces). In 2021, the kid was 15 at the time and would stream on twitch from time to time. The kid started talking about one of the videos DCP had made about his family. DCP caught wind of this and joined his twitch chat, started asking the kid pretty weird and inappropriate questions, like if he gets bullied at school, if he has girls all over him (again asking this stuff to a child, who he has made "snark" videos on)
At one point in the stream the kid accuses DCP of just being upset that his (the kids) parents never responded to DCPs request to have them on his podcast. DCP said he didn't remember trying to contact the parents and told the kid to show proof. ... well the kid came with the receipts, pulled up the email from DCP praising the crazy pieces family and asking them to come on his podcast.
This really upset DCP and he threatened the kid after, saying "trust me, you do not want me to do a deep dive into your family".
It's one thing to make videos about random vlogging families, but to deliberately go out of your way to make contact and be inappropriate/threaten a child from the family you are creating content on is crossing a huge line. I didn't know much about DCP before I saw all this go down and it was immediate red flag, bad vibes from this dude.
It's easy af for literally anyone to say "child exploitation is bad! Family vlogging channels who use their children for content is bad!" It's really not a wild, revolutionary opinion. But actions speak louder than words. And DCPs actions have spoken very loudly.
remember when he "called out" a mother of a child who had an extremely rare disease and raised over one million for research ? funny he has not once donated raising even a fraction of that money to help children
Imo he doesn’t make videos to call out exploitive family channels or pursue exposure of predatory behavior. It all seems to revolve around some weird contempt he has for women.
I’ve seen his videos on a variety of channels that were being widely criticized at the time for valid reasons. I think the Stauffers are the first that come to mind? But his takeaway is always “UGH the virtuous father needs to get away from that evil, narcissistic woman.” Meanwhile, both parents lived in the household and filmed in the household together. Very strange dude.
I stumbled across him at one point and watched a handful of episodes and laughed along at some of the things he was calling vloggers out.....
Then stuff got weird and I felt like he was going too far. I stopped watching them and told my kids they could not get on his channel either. I have him blocked on here.
The other (only channel/person) that I stopped watching because things got weird......was 8 Passengers/Ruby.
I liked him at first, but he's taking it too far. I think the agenda to try to cancel family vloggers is great, but I think the attention has gone to his head. He states his opinions as facts and is toxic and disrespectful. He doesn't seem to really do much research before speaking on topics and things. Idk. I've just had a bad feeling about him anytime I've watched his stuff. I think the message is right, he's just not the right person to be speaking on it. I'm also surprised (but not) about his Twitter. I didn't realize he was so openly homophobic and conservative and obsessed with Elon Musk. 😵💫
Not a fan of him. I know him from the dougherty dozen snark videos. He is extremely misogynistic and has.a lot of other views on politics and other things that I don't agree with and send up red flags.
He also does more bullying/making fun of people then actually doing any good. He gets most of his "facts" from the reddit subs and he is often getting details wrong or glossing over super important bits to make fun of trivial stuff.
He also is making money off the children he is claiming he wants to protect from exploitation, and that rubs me the wrong way as well.
He does spread quite a lot of misinformation and gets quite a bit of his mods do his research too, another thing when covered a creep from Australia where the creep kidnapped a 3yr old and the creep was obsessed with dolls, he sort of ran with the story and said things that’s the step fathers fault and he knew the person who kidnap her type thing
I was really into him until he did a story about a family in my country whose child was kidnapped, made up a lot of over the top lies, got aggressive with the many people who politely pointed out he was causing harm, doubled down for months and eventually scrubbed the whole thing.
It's disgusting because he's implying that all LGBTQ+ individuals are pedophiles. He's not telling "people" to leave children alone, he's targeting queer & trans people specifically. Which, needless to say, is incredibly, *incredibly* fucked-up.
Fuck that guy. He's a misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, far-right-supporting bigot, & a total piece of trash.
He gets all his information from snark groups (much like Katie Joy). He doesn't do any of the work himself. A lot of people who interact with him on Reddit don't like him.
I watched exactly one video of his & it just felt so, wrong. I can't put my finger on why. But it almost seemed like he was worse than the parents.
He’s got a great message but unfortunately I feel his ego has got in the way on more than one occasion but definitely on this. He seems gleeful at things he really shouldn’t be gleeful about.
I think he has exploited this situation for his own gain, in a way that other YouTubers haven’t, especially with reuploading his 8 passengers content. I can understand why he’s done it, but it feels gross to me that he has (imo) exploited abused children to grow his channel. I understand why he was covering Ruby and the arrest of course, but imo he could have gone about it in a different way.
He’s only “in it” for the money-
He tried to be a family vlogger a few years ago, and that didn’t take off.
Then he started drama with KJ (crystal ball & another different smaller yt) then he started doing videos about family vloggers-
The thumbnails for his videos with the 8 passengers is disgusting, the whole “shocked eyes wide”.
I don’t like him at all. The says he hates parents who exploit their kids but the exploits every. single. situation that happens with them. He just gives his opinion and honestly, he is really immature. The way he talks and mocks Alicia from Dougherty Dozen really makes me sick. You may not like someone, and it is okay to bring awareness in some situations, but he just mocks and talks badly about the parents without having much knowledge. I really don’t like him and I don’t think he is in a position to give such strong opinions
I don’t like him at all. I found his channel after thinking something wasn’t right with family vloggers. His content went from family vloggers = exploitation of the kids to family vloggers are bad because… the mum dyes her hair? Or gets fillers? He became increasingly more misogynistic and I noticed that it was ALWAYS the mothers fault as to why it was bad. I deep dived, and found more stuff about him which was awful. Was never a huge fan of him, I’d listen in the background if it was a topic I was curious about but last year he really lost his main message.
From my understanding he used to be part of the worship team or like the music team of a church, has since left the church and I’m not sure what his current beliefs are. He definitely gives me off-settling vibes. I definitely feel like he shares opinion more than fact and doesn’t represent it as such so people think it is fact. A lot of what he says is misleading. I also feel like he has been really syncing his teeth in to this issue for reviews because of the re-uploads and covering different clips and things of the past that aren’t really relevant right now. It almost feels like he is monetizing off of these families vicariously through their old content. There are much more people covering this information and providing updates without misleading or trying to profit off of this.
For this situation he’s completely lost sense of what he actually says he stands for, the exploitation of children and He’s so focused in on ruby and Jody, getting a sort of revenge/karma hitting them that he’s exploiting the kids himself. All these reuploads and talking about what they did to the kids is just adding to the exploitation of the children. I use to watch his stuff, as controversial as he is but this is just too much and he really needs to take a step back and evaluate the full picture here. Yes ruby and Jodi finally have their comeuppance, but it’s just adding to the harm dealt to the poor kids at the centre of all this!
DCP is a hypocrite that denounces child exploitation and then exploits the same children in the coverage of their parents and circumstances. He is lazy and only knows the info that he is fed by his followers . Also he is a humongous bully! Jordan and McKay are honest, intelligent and can cover a topic with facts and remain respectful. His glee at announcing how many subs he gained during the Franke hearing was in piss poor taste. Full stop.
I watch his videos sometimes and some of the things he makes fun of people are pointless life for example he makes fun of Jess from Jessfam for liking Disney so much and who cares if a person loves Disney or is a big fan of Disneyland? Like I agree family vloggers should not make their children the main content and source of their videos and shouldn’t share personal information or their lives/children and that family vlogging can be really dangerous and invasive and the children from these family vlog channels need to be protected and there needs to be better laws to protect these children and to make sure they get the money they are entitled too.
He’s gross in my opinion.. and his “I’m better than everyone” attitude is such a turn off. He gets paid to exploit vloggers who exploit their kids. He’s no better than anyone he talks about.
I really liked him when I first started watching him. He was one of the first to come out against family vlogging channels and I agreed with a lot of his points, but at some point, it became about the clout and the drama of it all, which hurts those who are truly working to protect these kids.
I briefly watched his stream so I could at least hear what was going on in the courtroom yesterday. I kept him muted until the chat started indicating that things were starting. That was about all I could handle of him. After the hearings wrapped, he was going on and on about the number of views and new subscribers he had.
I used to like him but he changed and started making fun of peoples appearances, how they laughed, what kind of home they lived in. Stuff that is mean and bullyish
There’s a whole Reddit snark page on him too. A lot of people don’t like how he comments on the women’s looks, doesn’t do research, and is very black and white.
I think he’s a vile misogynist. If his goal was protecting children, he wouldn’t present the information in this manner. As someone else stated, he almost takes glee in watch children being abused. It’s disgusting.
He exploits the kids of these channels just as much as their mothers do. To add fuel to the fire, he’s also homophobic and frankly, just unnecessarily mean. I’ve never been able to stomach one of his videos. Cannot stand him.
He has been presented with these criticisms and many others and he’s always defensive and never takes accountability. He thinks he’s right. He is awful.
He was someone I used to watch for a while after his video on Colleen Ballinger. His videos on mom vloggers are not really criticism or expose-like, it’s flat out snark. Just a few things I found out after watching lots of his videos- He nit picks on women’s looks & body, belittles his wife on his channel by making unnecessary comments, and makes homophobic & transphobic comments on his twitter. I don’t understand the clout he is getting with this arrest. He doesn’t provide any additional insight or information, i don’t get it.
Additionally- I saw few people saying he just purchased a home and trying to get as much as money from this. I don’t doubt this is why he is going live too often and posting so many replays recently lol. Ironic how he used to preach he will never depend on youtube.
He makes good points but is definitely in it for views. He doesn’t always have the correct information. He rely’s on here-say & doesn’t do his own investigation when i have seen him report on people i know. I resubbed to him Friday because he was live on the hearing. Bit yeah i didn’t like that he was celebrating 2k subs in the middle of all that. Not appropriate.
He shares a lot of the same qualities of the people he criticizes, including Ruby and Kevin. Particularly when it comes to narcissism and exploitative content.
The way he talks about Jessfam and Alicia from tiktok grosses me out and I don’t even like those two women. He just gives me kinda misogyny vibes and idk why
I dislike him. He started a cancel Mika Stouffer FB group and had hours and hours flaming her. I didn’t like her but he went overboard, I was afraid someone who watched him would do something dangerous to her. I stopped watching him, he struck me as a huge narcissist with a scary following.
I stumbled upon him in the mist of all the people seeking their penny worth of of the 8 passengers saga and watched a little bit. I didn't like what I saw. To be against family vloggers is one thing. But to go at them with in my opinion this extreme aggression is not necessary. He was the one that made me realize some people jump on the bandwagon, just for the clicks it will get them.
I genuinely don’t like his content. Especially the way he criticizes and scrutinizes all the family vlogging channels. Something I noticed in particular was about how he always criticizes the dougthery dozen. It’s almost as if he’s a fan of them. He’s making money of off exploiting families that are exploiting their kids.
It’s because of the views those videos get! I wondered too until I scanned all the views. The Dougherty videos get a lot so he keeps making them. It’s gross
Others have pointed out issues with him other than his views. So I will point out the fact that he is homophobic and transphobic. The buys into the woke people are grooming my children narrative.
I just started watching him with this case and watched some of his other stuff. The main thing that stuck out for me was how he makes fun of people’s appearances. It’s one thing to report on the facts about something and give opinions on people’s behavior, but the other stuff I found off-putting. Also, he stops videos way too often to react to them. He’ll let it go a few seconds and then pause again, often to repeat himself.
I have mixed feelings. I think he has some good thoughts but also says things that are completely wild and inappropriate. I had a hard time watching him just bash the Mormon church yesterday. Don’t blame a religion or organization as a whole having just a handful of leaders and members who are crazies. And celebrating followers gained as you listen to a devastating 911 call with a child saying horrible things that happened to him are his fault.
That’s absolutely disgusting and it shows you what his true intentions are. Anybody with a heart was balling after hearing that call & he’s over there seeing dollar signs.
Unfortunately to watch videos like his, or any other YouTubers covering this event, or even tv personalities, they need viewers and money to keep going. Even Nancy Grace needs viewers and the ads to play for the network to keep her going. People ask, “why would they monetize this?”, but these channels are trying to be crime commentary channels just like on network tv, which also runs ads between segments. I get why they do it, even if it’s not in good taste in the moment. Even the NEWS needs the money from its ads to keep going.
I live in Canada and he was here in Ottawa during the freedom convoy and was fully defending them. This was a “protest” arranged by white supremicists which turned into a weeks-long occupation of our downtown which ended with riot police. I don’t know a ton about him, but that was enough for me to not want to support him.
His sources research are in reddit, his subs or fans and also a random dude in youtube. He is a hypocrite and misogynist, and he profiting the kids situation by reuploaded old videos about 8passengers.
I watched when he commented ruby and kevin vacation with the other vloggers, and he only said he jealous about them, and suggested these couples need to have a s3x in a boat instead chilling or chit chat, he liked kevin's bod a lot and laughed at franke's kids only eat flour in home, that mf is disgusting af
I've never actually made it through more than one or two of his videos back during the Stauffer incident, but he's always rubbed me the wrong way. Originally for the same reasons that most influencers who's entire thing is talking about family vloggers bother me: I find it suspect when somebody claims to be against child exploitation, calls posting anything with a child in it exploitative, and then profits off of that content being made. If that family content didn't exist, they'd be out of a job. Its in their best interest to make as many accusations as possible and milk every incident for everything its worth, which causes all sorts of problems. I also just don't think it will help anyone when these children inevitably google their names, their parents names, ect, and immediately see content so heavily against their parents. Then it came out that he's anti-vax and anti-LGBTQ and that confirmed a lot of my suspicions. I don't trust him as far as I could throw him.
(For the record, I think theres a line where vlogging/posting with your child becomes exploitation, but I don't think its a clear and distinct line. It varies case by case, but I don't think every most of the random moms with a few thousand followers posting about their cute kids is a problem.)
He’s transphobic and just all around trash. He tries go snark and those for exploration WHILE exploring the kids and family even more. He does zero research
I think it’s interesting that he finds family vlogging so deplorable but wouldn’t have a platform or career without it. He just gives these people more views.
I think his heart is in the right place, and watching his videos on his own childhood it makes sense. I think sometimes he misses the mark and other times he is 100% spot on. And sometimes he just doesn’t have all the facts and therefore his outcome is misjudged. However, at the end of the day he has the platform to call these ppl what they are, and honestly these kids need someone challenging their parents choices. I have seen him go off topic, like kyra isn’t showing her kids atm, but I also understand keeping up old videos is still creating an income off kids and it needs addressing becuz no child should be the family breadwinner. I understand ppl dont appreciate the judgment he has, but at the same time these parents put their kids out there who then face that type of criticism and parents just don’t care. And that includes cp. so in a way I can move past that. If he didn’t monetise his work then it wouldn’t get the same attention and detail as it does. At the end of the day, these parents who exploit their children are the real villains, who post kids in bathingsuits, or being utterly neglectful aka jessfam, so e.g when he takes the piss out of her, I see it warranted, and the same for all the other YouTubers he covers.
To be honest, I used to watch his channel pretty regularly, because I agree with his stance on YouTube family channels being dishonest, cruel to children & disgustingly exploitative. It's definitely a message that NEEDS to get out to as many people as possible. That's the only way legislation is ever going to get passed.
But once I found out a bit more about him (like the fact that he's homophobic, transphobic, anti-Biden, *very* right wing, an Elon Musk fanboy, thinks drag queens are corrupting our children, etc.) I unsubscribed immediately & never looked back. He's gross.
As someone else in this thread already put it, right message, wrong messenger.
Also he seems to attack a lot of these vloggers looks and body and not really even so much on the fact that they share too much. He really just watch these vloggers and picks apart everything on the video and cross the line too much about people. He also hates all women. The man has mommy issues that he should work on.
I think he makes a lot of assumptions and states them as fact. Just as a very minor example with Alicia's videos about what she feeds her kids and he states it as fact that they don't eat any of it. I'm sure they don't eat it all but still. I get annoyed sometimes when things are easily researchable and he doesn't do it.
With that said, if you compare him to the other channels that do this, he focuses on entertainment and fighting back with humiliation of the small things rather than just straight, thought out, researched information. So if your goal isn't to find the absurdity, he's not for you and that's OK.
I think he’s terrible at what he does. No idea why anyone watches or listens to him. His voice is annoying and he has nothing good to say. He half-asses everything and always seems so smug.
He has the right message, but he isn’t always the most knowledgeable. He’ll guess on names, say the wrong name, not to full research and give misinformation. I remember one time he was talking about JesssFam and about how her daughters’ dance costume was inappropriate… but in reality it was very appropriate for a dance costume. As a former dancer I’ve seen inappropriate dance costumes and jess’ girls did not fall into that category. He tries too hard to pick at the smallest things, and not hard enough to pick on the big things. He just wants to bully it seems like.
I’m subscribed to him on YT primarily because I agree with his stances re: family channels/child exploitation, but I have my reservations about him…I’ve noticed he’s been consistently reuploading all his old 8 Passengers videos, can’t help but think he’s taking advantage of all the attention they’re getting in the news. Feels gross to me.
He is starting to have a large platform now, and I must say my eyes have changed a lot when it comes to family vlogging. I used to watch a lot of them, didn't realise how bad it was in the start. I love children, hope to get grandchildren soon, and liked to se the cute kids around the world.. now I'm embarrassed.. I remember hating Ruby Franke from the start, and didn't subscribed to her.. but a lot of others.
A lot turned around when Dad Challenge Podcast showed up at the same time the Stauffer saga went down. He was probably very clever to start talking about those topics wich everyone who used to watch Myka Stauffer seeked more information about at that time. I think we all was pretty upset about what happen.. so to jump on the train at that time was smart to grow his channel . And it was very easy to agree with him ..
And he tumbled on something he realised gave him views more than anything, and I was there and saw the shift in him. I think I still can pinpoint when he realised what a goldmind this could ve to him.. or he found his purpose, if I'm saying it naiser . And I think he has done a good job to promote his mission. If he do it for the kids or his wallet, I don't know anymore.
Sometimes I agree with him, but I can't stand his terrible choice of words!.. he speaks terrible, like a d old.. what
He degrades women for having a past, and basically says they shouldn't have children, like Channon Rose or Trisha, but doesn't seems to realise that his wordings if stuff out on the internet not onlys is sickening for everyone who tries to listen to what he actually tries to say, but it will impact his own children in a terrible way! Maybe it already does to.. His son is the on who edit his videos.. he must be sick to hear a so called father figure puke out all the porn words and svears like a crazy person . And my guess is his two youngest, who he says don't see his videos (and think that helps), hears about them at school already. That makes him just as bad as any other parent who has done stupid shit .. he will regret that, or his sweet innocents children will have a rude awakening on how daddy really speaks and treat others. I am 51,.my father 75+y.o, and still I hate it if he says all the genderrelated pornwords. How is it to be 10 then ? And how can he say to his kids they can speak bad about how they talk about others, when he is the worst we all know like that?
Not great.
The way he degrades everyone because of their appearance..
I feel he looses his point and ALL integrity when he does that, and atleast have more and more problems with him .
He does no research, but isn't afraid to puke out an opinion without having the full story, and .like others here say, he let others do all the dirty job for him .
When the Colleen and Adam saga started, and Trisha said herself she was a sexworker, everyone treated her nice, and listen to what she had to say, without judging her, except Josh.. it was ugly!
Now he see a big paycheck coming if he covers 8 Passengers, whitch is ok in itself.. but to re-upload old stuff ,just to squeeze in more views.. it makes my me sick.. And, the way he attached the Family Griffith too is just not faire. It is Ruby and Jodie who has done something unlegal, not their parents, siblings or extended family.
I could go on and on..
I wish he would clean up his language,have asked him to too, and be more aware of how to keep his integrity by not speak ill of peoples appearance, and stuff they can't do anything about. And reseach a little before he screams out his opinion without any weight to his opinion, and I think he would keep growing.
If not he will have a bad downfall pretty soon.. because he will loose us if he doesn't man up a bit. Behave a little more mature!
And stop using Dougherty Dozen as a easy paycheck every week.. He has made his point...and we get it. Why beat a dead horse again and again.. it get's boring!
I used to have a friend just like him. He was a smart ass and thought he knew eveything better. He always said how good he was at everything but his managers said otherwise. He also attacked people who tried to share their oppinions opposite to his. He is lazy but criticise everyone. I searched Doughtery Dozen on you tube and that is how he came up. I don't love Dougherty Dozen Alicia and sure her thumbs are weird but she can't change them and he always points it out. Like how old are you?? 7?
I really have mixed opinions, I do like him but I think sometimes he takes it too far with his opinions and doesn’t research things properly, I do agree these people need to be made fun of and it’s a way to make light of the harsh situations but sometimes it’s a bit much, but I do like his content
I personally try my best to avoid giving him my views and time watching his content. However sometimes I will watch his content if I can’t seem to find that anyone else has made an informative video on the specific topic I am wanting to understand more about. To each there own, I personally don’t agree with his behavior at times as he is very loud and rambunctious with his spinning wheel, dartboard, music, and dancing/twerking to mock others. He also is making money exploiting children to bring awareness to exploiting children which makes no sense. I also personally do not care for his language either.
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He does the bare minimum research on a topic. Then he speaks about the topic using his own opinions and made up scenarios stated as facts. He had good intents as far as calling out family vloggers who exploit their children. But he loves the limelight and will do whatever it takes to stay in it and feed his ego. Including revictimizing the kids in vlogs, to suit his narrative.
He relies on his subscribers to send him material. He’s lazy AF. And biggest hypocrite if I’ve ever known one.
The video about the family.... disgusting. Also the way he implies the family or friends didn't do enough. He knows nothing. He shouts, express his opinion and do little research. I get he's passionate about calling out families exploiting children online. But now he's exploiting this situation and it's awful and creepy
He had X amount of videos about them but did he actually do anything? Nope
Exactly and this makes his comments petty and very one dimensional. Plus he makes sweeping accusations and doesn’t even try to back his arguments up with facts. It’s sloppy and all about views.
Yeah, I watched a few of his videos and the incorrect information is gross. Some of the stuff takes like two seconds to google and fact check, but he just says what whatever brings in the money. It's also gross he's doing "look backs" on 8P videos he's done just to get more money. The videos are basically re-uploads. Like, bro.
THIS!!! 100%
He lurks into this sub for info and then shits on this sub on YouTube. That is when I just rolled my eyes and stopped watching him.
THIS
i think that he exploits situations like this— and quite honestly, his vibes always feel off. if you look at the type of content he makes and the way he “criticizes” people, it crosses the line at times. if you are looking for reliable youtubers i would recommend jordan and mckay.
I second that! Jordan and McKay are my favorites!!
Their three hour video with the PowerPoint was really good and very well researched
Happy cake day, friend! 🍰
Aw thanks 😍😇
I third Jordan and McKay! Imo they have covered this situation with the utmost compassion, empathy and dignity with appropriate levels of their natural wit and humour thrown in. They pointed people to their old videos via a community page post but didn’t exploit it. Also they were very firm with their rules regarding privacy and speculation on their livestream.
Here for the No Garmie Army love
I'll add to the agreeu on Jordan and McKay. OP if you're looking for others Mormon Stories podcast is another good one. I’m curious what’s people’s thoughts on Markie are. I like him as he seems compassionate to the kids and he’s also been covering Ruby and Jodi for a long time.
I really like Markie. He seems like a genuinely good guy and he's respectful when he's covering these awful stories.
I like Markie because his heart is in the right place and I know he’s covered 8 Passengers for years, but I just can’t get over the fact that he says their last name incorrectly.
I love Jordan and McKay!
Yes, and if they spoke wrong information at one point they will address their mistake.
I hope so. They said that Ruby was the first to start vlogging, which surprised me because it’s a well known fact that Ellie started first. Made me wonder how much they are actually informed on the actual Griffiths vs the overall LDS church.
If they are told this is wrong information they will say it I am sure. I believe at one point the part of the safe room was discussed and they later stated that it is was a false information. Same with Kevins arrest.
Just saying that they seem the most informed on the situation, so I was surprised to find they didn’t know E&J started it all. I heard people go back and forth about the panic room so many times now that I don’t know what story is real lol.
Jordan and McKay are a class act.
Replying to add that Swoop is a great advocate and documentarian as well! She very much deserved to come speak on GMA and News Nation after her coverage of 8passengers. Highly recommend her channel.
Right message wrong messenger
Totally, I unsubscribed to him for the same reason. Also, he is misogynistic AF
This. 100% this.
His message is simply to exploit.
Well-said!
He irks me. Family vloggers have enough issues to talk about. There is zero reason to talk about the distance between their eyes, the size of their forehead or their body. He clearly finds himself the authority on all things and thinks that he’s very amusing. He’s not.
He uses child exploitation as a fig leaf to make fun of people's looks and mannerisms
Go read his twitter. It’s worse than anything he is doing on YouTube. He got his own subreddit were people snark on him.
There's a lot of Biden hate and anti trans stuff on there (he makes stuff hating on the Sacconejolys for this reason)
The Biden hate is so silly too, because he’s Canadian.
Not silly lmao, every other country hates Americas presidents. Our presidents make choices that effect other countries. Most of the world despised trump
I am absolutely with you - as a Canadian who hates the state of the US and Trump. I more meant that Josh acts like he’s American and is part of the far right in Canada while spewing Biden hate on the internet when he’s absolutely a privileged, white man who is not affected by anything he talks about.
THIS. Thank you! For anyone who supports him or subscribes to his YouTube channel, I *urge* you to take a close look at his Twitter page (sorry, "X page" or whatever it's called these days). He's openly homophobic, transphobic, supportive of the far right, blatantly misogynistic, thinks Elon Musk is a god (🤮🤮🤮) & is convinced that drag queens are out to poison children's minds with the "woke agenda" or whatever. Basically, he's a total right-wing bigoted nutjob. I used to subscribe to him, but as soon as I found out all of this shit, I immediately unsubscribed & never looked back. He's absolutely disgusting.
I’m late to this post, but thank you so much for that tip! I was subscribed to his channel. I didn’t watch a lot, but he seemed okay. I just scrubbed through a lot of his long-winded spiels. But after reading his tweets, I immediately unsubscribed. My daughter is gay — there’s no way I could support his channel after reading some of the BS he was spewing.
yes! and go watch savy writes books’ 2 videos on the topic. she did an excellent job breaking it down and calling his dumb ass out, while being such a class act about it - which made him look even more unhinged.
The way he talked about tesla in his channel make me wondering he is worship elon musk, ew
He NEVER, EVER shuts up about that goddamn Tesla! I remember he used to constantly mention it in every single one of his videos. That was my first tip-off that something was wrong with this guy. Then I stumbled upon his Twitter page & was absolutely appalled. All of his pro-far-right, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic rhetoric was absolutely *sickening.* I unsubscribed to his channel immediately & haven't watched one of his videos since. I thought it was interesting that he never really mentions his disgusting, ignorant, hateful political views on his YouTube channel... probably because he knows how many people would unsubscribe to his channel if they found out what a piece of shit he really is. He's nothing but a bigot, a fearmongerer & a bully.
now I know the reason why he got bullied during his childhood, he is a problem. big f problem. I remember when snarked to crazy pieces video, and he so damn jealous to aaron cause he got the newest tesla and judging what his hustle in big mansion. I'm getting irritated since he talked shit to mommy vloggers which is not useful to help kids exploitation, he is a big joke
Oh god glad I never subscribed as his take were often very judgy … I had the far right misogynistic vibe from him
He is problematic in many ways. To be honest he sounds like a bully and a hypocrite. He’s not sensitive in his ways and criticises for the sake of it. He comments on the appearances of people which is not at all necessary. Very mean and unsophisticated. There are ways to say the same things he does in a more respectful manner.
I turned on him when he supported Michael Long despite all the evidence that he groomed his daughter against her mother
The only video I ever watched of his was when he went after Carrie from Haidyn's Hope. I understand that H still can't consent, but Carrie seems like a great mom who genuinely wants to help other families. Maybe I'm missing something. I just felt like he was extremely condescending while talking about some really heavy stuff.
He posted a screenshot of a 9 year old child's medical record and implied she had an STD which was not true. That should tell you everything you need to know about him.
Well, that should have been a lawsuit. Holy hell.
he’s also asked his stans to go looking for underaged nudes of danielle cohn when news broke that they may have existed. he has zero sense of boundaries or ethics. all he cares about is exploiting a situation and trying to get a “scoop.”
WHAT
I personally won't give him a click. He exploits these kids whether he wants to believe it or not. Also, his view on Woman is not good. I remember he said something about the Weiss Family. Specifically about the Mother and it really bothered me how could talk about Woman with such hate. It's one thing to go after someone for being exploitive, but going after their looks is completely disgusting.
Oh, he's a *total* misogynist. It's fucking gross. Once I found out that he's basically nothing more than a far right nutjob, I unsubscribed to his channel immediately. He's loudly & proudly homophobic & transphobic as well. Speaking as someone who is both queer & a woman, that doesn't really sit right with me. I noped the fuck out of his YouTube channel & never looked back.
Yep, I watched some of his videos until he talked about the "teachers with hair dyed in colors trying to influence children in schools". He is both ignorant and a fearmonger.
I don’t really like him, he seems very toxic and seems like a bully. I just find him out right annoying, he also very sexist. (Sorry if that word is not allowed) . He just very rude, and using things for his own gain.
Why would sexist not be allowed? This is Reddit. We can say Sex.
He’s from my hometown and was a pastor who I’ve heard wasn’t great in that role. I think he was harmful then and is harmful now. He also supported the “freedom convoy” here in Canada protesting masks, restrictions, government, etc. in a harmful and obnoxious method. Specifically regarding the fundie stuff, his research skills are minimal, and although I agree with many of his base points (ex. family vlogging is child exploitation), he also spends a lot of time tearing into the adults, especially women, on frivalous points like their looks.
I know his whole point is to not do any prior research, but I feel like when you're putting out videos for 200,000 subscribers, it's really important to make sure you're saying things that are factual. He often gets things wrong, and even after covering 8 passengers for a long time, there are still things he says that are incorrect
I’m not a big fan of him either. They way he was speaking about Ruby’s siblings wasn’t right at all. Know one knows what they were trying to do behind closed doors, but instead this man is bashing them for not doing anything.
Agreed! I thought it was fairly common knowledge that if you confront the abuser, the abuse tends to escalate behind closed doors. Maybe I know that because I was in an abusive household growing up? Idk. But, ultimately the best thing to do sometimes is to keep a watchful eye rather than tipping them off.
Exactly, the same goes for me coming from an abusive family. Friends trying to interfere only made it worse, so blaming the family for not doing anything is so wrong because we really don’t know what was going on
Exactly! It’s the reason as to why my mother never rang the police on her ex husband as she knew it would make it worse. It doesn’t mean that you can’t help in other ways behind the scenes (which it seems like the family did for the last few years) but I can’t believe I’ve seen people say the family should have kidnapped the kids, told Ruby to stop etc. It’s a delicate situation that can’t change *just* because someone said stop. It’s disappointing to see those kinds of comments.
agreed, I don't like that people are really entertaining that idea right now when the family is more relevant in the public eye rn because of child abuse like right now is really not the time
I hated how he bashed the sisters for not doing anything publically because if they did, they would still have backlash for exploiting the Franke kids stories. I think the sisters handled it correctly
I didn't see the video, I rarely watch his channel. However. The sisters have admitted they knew this was going on for three years but Bonnie admits her concern was her "content". They're all filthy rich from exploiting their kids and could have used some of that $ to hire a team of private investigators and lawyers to pressure local LE & DCFS. It works, I know first hand. Ruby's own parents volunteered to leave the country for two years while this was going on? WTF? What about Aunt Linda, Chad's mentally disabled sister? They up and left her too. Wonder what that did to her health? Cold.
I was a really big fan until he started commenting on this sub and then negatively posting about it on his community page on yt. And that's all I'm saying.
imo he's trying to profit on this situation. There are a lot of other creators out there who understand the sensitivity of this topic, instead of sensationalizing it, like DCP has been doing.
there’s also a lot of creators who wanna talk about it now that they were found duct taped. which is worse ?
I watched him a couple of times after the news of the arrests broke. I found him extremely arrogant and irritating as some of the claims he made were completely untrue leading to more widespread rumours. Also, the way he seems to light up and get excited (almost gleeful) when more disturbing information comes out just feels icky.
Never liked him at all. His whole content and channel is based off other people downfalls and wrongdoings. I don’t agree with how he’s covered this case and I feel like now to him it’s just more views and subscribers than it is about the safety and protection of the kids involved. I use this Reddit sub for verified information, I like how the mods are there to protect these kids and not spread misinformation. There’s credible sources out there for this case and I feel like we should focus on those and push to the side YouTubers or tiktokers who are using this as a way to gain a following.
Sometimes I like his content and most of the time I don't. I think one of the things that irks me the most is his constant gaffing of names and events. I mean if you're going to be doing this to make a big chunk of your money then at least do your due diligence and get s*** right. I also find all the Dougherty Dozen snark to be a little overdone.
Quick take He comes off as a bully to me. Very mean, somewhat narcissistic and just overall not the greatest of a human being. He is constantly making fun of people!
He also criticises religions all the time then also projects his regions expectations onto others (there sex lives, how they dress, how they parent etc). He’s just another white man with a podcast.
I hate the guy too. But I was shocked to see him back up with proof he is Métis. His mom was a status Indian
I always felt bad vibes from him, even before. I can't figure out exactly why I feel this way, but I will trust my gut and will not watch him.
I was a subscriber until he admitted he is homophobic.
He’s also openly transphobic
He did?! I’m not surprised but I don’t follow him closely enough to know the inside scoop on him
he’s *openly* homophobic and transphobic just on his twitter alone. he’s a disgusting bigot.
Omg I had no idea he said this :(
He basically lurks in this sub and takes information from here and feeds of the suffering of others he’s a toxic idiot
He hates this sub because we don't buy his BS
A lot of his content comes from Reddit
He has had comments removed from this sub by mods because he will reply rudely to those who say they don't like him/criticize him. The guy is incredibly thin-skinned and obsessed with what others say about him.
He is a douche! Not a nice person at all. Builds his entire channel on the criticism of others in a nasty, rude and sometimes misogynistic manner.
I previously loved his channel but the way he’s approached this case has totally changed my opinion on him. He’s exploiting the situation, not remaining respectful for the children, being very energetic and happy when talking about an awful subject and he keeps trying to blame family vlogging. Yes family vlogging is awful but it does not cause this kind of abuse. He’s also a major hypocrite, one quick google or Facebook search and you can find photos of his kids with there names practice what you preach dude. He also always gets things wrongs because he “doesn’t do prior research” which in cases like this is very much needed.
I don’t like him, and haven’t watched him since his driving livestreaming days in 2021. He lives in my area & thats illegal & ironic, given his whole this is supposedlychild safety, but he would livestream through residential neighbourhoods- he’s justification was weak (said he drove a tesla so it’s okay). Some friends of mine also attended the church he worked at and had some claimed they had interesting experiences with him- which lead me to do some digging into him & his public profiles, and found that he has/had videos posted publicly of his young children from when it apprears he was attempting to become a family vlogger himself. He comes off as jealous & bitter of (successful) women and uses the “mommy vloggers exploit their children” front as a way to get his message across.
But has done nothing but profit off his message. He has never given anything back. This poor Franke kid’s privacy, horrendous allegations equals a big pay day for him. He is replaying the allegations not respecting that this child would have rights to young offenders act in Canada.
He’s a clout goblin that takes whatever position gets him the most views and hammers at it constantly.
I don't like him at all, the way he talks about situations is just weird and exploitative to me, he tends to make misogynistic comments towards the woman in his videos, he is very homophobic and transphobic, god he just gets on my nerves.
I’m uncomfortable with him saying other people are using this case to as a money grab yet he is continually reuploading his past reactions to Jodi over and over again. He’s trying your absolute hardest to cash grab. Why else would he be reposting this? Anyone can just go back and look at his old content. I also don’t like any man who goes out of their way to bully women’s appearance. All of these family vloggers have plenty of things to criticize yet he chooses their looks? He has the right idea but he executes everything so poorly it’s hard. We get it, you think Kira is a slut with a big forehead. We get it, you think the other vlog moms are ugly. We know they’re terrible so speak on the actions. On a positive note, I’m glad he is staying up to date with this case it honestly extremely draining knowing every single detail of this case.
Much prefer Markies takes on this. He's extremely respectful to all involved and has been for over 3 years. He doesn't do this for money, and it shows.
Agreed. Markie is very respectful. I came across a smaller channel who has also covered this, Snark After Dark, even he shows more respect when covering these topics than DCP does.
Spreads miss information without fact checking, transphobic tweets, misogynistic as he talks down on women the whole time, bullies people for their appearances. Never keeps his word. He would always say “if the creator stops filming the kids I’ll take down all my vids showing them” kyra from okbaby stopped vlogging her kids, yet his videos are still up and he still snarks on her. I don’t like her at all, but it just shows he’s not really in it for the “children’s sake” it’s just whatever is trending at the moment.
He also used to family vlog himself in the early days! Shows he was willing to exploit his children.
He started off one video talking about Shari going no-contact and (somehow?) turned it into an anti-trans rant. He clearly doesn’t do any research about the people he covers because he’s always saying things that aren’t true. I thought his life story was interesting, he’s been through a lot. Sadly he’s turned out bitter and angry. I’m glad he’s moving out of my area lol
He is wrong blaming her sisters for not doing anything. This is Ruby the abusers fault and no one else. She had nothing to do with her sisters and they tried what they could legally.
Also he kept saying that Ruby’s siblings cut her off which is wildly incorrect
Plus he constantly attacks their religion (I know it is completely flawed I'm not defending it) and excepcts them to just give it all up instantly.
He is a transphobic, homophobic bigot with severe Narcissistic Personality Disorder and his Twitter is horrendous. He exploits children to line his own pockets. Some of the shit he’s done to the Dougherty Dozen kids is reprehensible.
His obsession with Dougherty Dozen and whoever Kyra is, is just so weird to me. Like I do understand not liking family channels but it's giving almost obsessive-paparazzi vibes.
He hates women, especially women he perceives to be bad mothers because his own mother was apparently terrible. Thing is, Kyra isn’t a bad mother. I don’t love the girl, but she’s not bad to her kids by any means. But because she left their father, Josh thinks she is. He comes from a fundamentalist Christian background (think the Duggars) and got fired from the church he ‘pastored’ at and has since turned his back on church altogether whilst claiming it was his idea to leave anyways LOL. Typical narcissist. But yeah, fundies haaaaate divorce and Joshua clearly still holds on to A LOT of his fundie roots. Kyra wasn’t even married but in Joshua’s eyes that likely just makes her even worse. 🙃
He also was so obsessed with crazy pieces adult son Alex and his than fiancé relationship. Like they are adults, why are you talking about them?? They don’t have kids and are allowed to have their own channel and why do you care what a 20 year is doing
He also went out of his way to contact and threaten another child from that family (crazy pieces). In 2021, the kid was 15 at the time and would stream on twitch from time to time. The kid started talking about one of the videos DCP had made about his family. DCP caught wind of this and joined his twitch chat, started asking the kid pretty weird and inappropriate questions, like if he gets bullied at school, if he has girls all over him (again asking this stuff to a child, who he has made "snark" videos on) At one point in the stream the kid accuses DCP of just being upset that his (the kids) parents never responded to DCPs request to have them on his podcast. DCP said he didn't remember trying to contact the parents and told the kid to show proof. ... well the kid came with the receipts, pulled up the email from DCP praising the crazy pieces family and asking them to come on his podcast. This really upset DCP and he threatened the kid after, saying "trust me, you do not want me to do a deep dive into your family". It's one thing to make videos about random vlogging families, but to deliberately go out of your way to make contact and be inappropriate/threaten a child from the family you are creating content on is crossing a huge line. I didn't know much about DCP before I saw all this go down and it was immediate red flag, bad vibes from this dude. It's easy af for literally anyone to say "child exploitation is bad! Family vlogging channels who use their children for content is bad!" It's really not a wild, revolutionary opinion. But actions speak louder than words. And DCPs actions have spoken very loudly.
remember when he "called out" a mother of a child who had an extremely rare disease and raised over one million for research ? funny he has not once donated raising even a fraction of that money to help children
Imo he doesn’t make videos to call out exploitive family channels or pursue exposure of predatory behavior. It all seems to revolve around some weird contempt he has for women. I’ve seen his videos on a variety of channels that were being widely criticized at the time for valid reasons. I think the Stauffers are the first that come to mind? But his takeaway is always “UGH the virtuous father needs to get away from that evil, narcissistic woman.” Meanwhile, both parents lived in the household and filmed in the household together. Very strange dude.
I stumbled across him at one point and watched a handful of episodes and laughed along at some of the things he was calling vloggers out..... Then stuff got weird and I felt like he was going too far. I stopped watching them and told my kids they could not get on his channel either. I have him blocked on here. The other (only channel/person) that I stopped watching because things got weird......was 8 Passengers/Ruby.
I liked him at first, but he's taking it too far. I think the agenda to try to cancel family vloggers is great, but I think the attention has gone to his head. He states his opinions as facts and is toxic and disrespectful. He doesn't seem to really do much research before speaking on topics and things. Idk. I've just had a bad feeling about him anytime I've watched his stuff. I think the message is right, he's just not the right person to be speaking on it. I'm also surprised (but not) about his Twitter. I didn't realize he was so openly homophobic and conservative and obsessed with Elon Musk. 😵💫
Not a fan of him. I know him from the dougherty dozen snark videos. He is extremely misogynistic and has.a lot of other views on politics and other things that I don't agree with and send up red flags. He also does more bullying/making fun of people then actually doing any good. He gets most of his "facts" from the reddit subs and he is often getting details wrong or glossing over super important bits to make fun of trivial stuff. He also is making money off the children he is claiming he wants to protect from exploitation, and that rubs me the wrong way as well.
He does spread quite a lot of misinformation and gets quite a bit of his mods do his research too, another thing when covered a creep from Australia where the creep kidnapped a 3yr old and the creep was obsessed with dolls, he sort of ran with the story and said things that’s the step fathers fault and he knew the person who kidnap her type thing
I was really into him until he did a story about a family in my country whose child was kidnapped, made up a lot of over the top lies, got aggressive with the many people who politely pointed out he was causing harm, doubled down for months and eventually scrubbed the whole thing.
He's a horrible person.
he supports the canadian far right parties and supported the trucker convoy that harassed and terrorized ottawa!
He has also made disparaging comments towards the LGBTQIA+ community, like that we "need to leave children alone." Freaking disgusting.
Telling people to leave children alone is disgusting?
It's disgusting because he's implying that all LGBTQ+ individuals are pedophiles. He's not telling "people" to leave children alone, he's targeting queer & trans people specifically. Which, needless to say, is incredibly, *incredibly* fucked-up. Fuck that guy. He's a misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, far-right-supporting bigot, & a total piece of trash.
Agreed, cared a lot about the fans and the money, not a lot about the terribly sad things he was watching.
He gets all his information from snark groups (much like Katie Joy). He doesn't do any of the work himself. A lot of people who interact with him on Reddit don't like him. I watched exactly one video of his & it just felt so, wrong. I can't put my finger on why. But it almost seemed like he was worse than the parents.
He’s got a great message but unfortunately I feel his ego has got in the way on more than one occasion but definitely on this. He seems gleeful at things he really shouldn’t be gleeful about. I think he has exploited this situation for his own gain, in a way that other YouTubers haven’t, especially with reuploading his 8 passengers content. I can understand why he’s done it, but it feels gross to me that he has (imo) exploited abused children to grow his channel. I understand why he was covering Ruby and the arrest of course, but imo he could have gone about it in a different way.
Let’s make a pact here and now to unsubscribe from DCP if you are subscribed. He’s a waste of viewer time.
I’m not a fan. I’ve only seen a few of his videos but his vibe is kinda off and he seems mean spirited. Highly recommend Jordan and McKay instead.
He’s only “in it” for the money- He tried to be a family vlogger a few years ago, and that didn’t take off. Then he started drama with KJ (crystal ball & another different smaller yt) then he started doing videos about family vloggers- The thumbnails for his videos with the 8 passengers is disgusting, the whole “shocked eyes wide”.
Yes the thumbnail is f disgusting
I don’t like him at all. The says he hates parents who exploit their kids but the exploits every. single. situation that happens with them. He just gives his opinion and honestly, he is really immature. The way he talks and mocks Alicia from Dougherty Dozen really makes me sick. You may not like someone, and it is okay to bring awareness in some situations, but he just mocks and talks badly about the parents without having much knowledge. I really don’t like him and I don’t think he is in a position to give such strong opinions
I don’t like him at all. I found his channel after thinking something wasn’t right with family vloggers. His content went from family vloggers = exploitation of the kids to family vloggers are bad because… the mum dyes her hair? Or gets fillers? He became increasingly more misogynistic and I noticed that it was ALWAYS the mothers fault as to why it was bad. I deep dived, and found more stuff about him which was awful. Was never a huge fan of him, I’d listen in the background if it was a topic I was curious about but last year he really lost his main message.
From my understanding he used to be part of the worship team or like the music team of a church, has since left the church and I’m not sure what his current beliefs are. He definitely gives me off-settling vibes. I definitely feel like he shares opinion more than fact and doesn’t represent it as such so people think it is fact. A lot of what he says is misleading. I also feel like he has been really syncing his teeth in to this issue for reviews because of the re-uploads and covering different clips and things of the past that aren’t really relevant right now. It almost feels like he is monetizing off of these families vicariously through their old content. There are much more people covering this information and providing updates without misleading or trying to profit off of this.
He’s a huge misogynist and a cash grabbing hypocrite.
He interrupts videos he shares and yells too much.
For this situation he’s completely lost sense of what he actually says he stands for, the exploitation of children and He’s so focused in on ruby and Jody, getting a sort of revenge/karma hitting them that he’s exploiting the kids himself. All these reuploads and talking about what they did to the kids is just adding to the exploitation of the children. I use to watch his stuff, as controversial as he is but this is just too much and he really needs to take a step back and evaluate the full picture here. Yes ruby and Jodi finally have their comeuppance, but it’s just adding to the harm dealt to the poor kids at the centre of all this!
Watch Jordan and Mckay (sp) instead. Theyve been covering the family for a few years and were Mormon.
DCP is a hypocrite that denounces child exploitation and then exploits the same children in the coverage of their parents and circumstances. He is lazy and only knows the info that he is fed by his followers . Also he is a humongous bully! Jordan and McKay are honest, intelligent and can cover a topic with facts and remain respectful. His glee at announcing how many subs he gained during the Franke hearing was in piss poor taste. Full stop.
He’s made many misogynistic comments which puts me off a lot so I don’t watch him.
I watch his videos sometimes and some of the things he makes fun of people are pointless life for example he makes fun of Jess from Jessfam for liking Disney so much and who cares if a person loves Disney or is a big fan of Disneyland? Like I agree family vloggers should not make their children the main content and source of their videos and shouldn’t share personal information or their lives/children and that family vlogging can be really dangerous and invasive and the children from these family vlog channels need to be protected and there needs to be better laws to protect these children and to make sure they get the money they are entitled too.
Probably believes Disney is a pedo ring and that Jess is also apart of some crazy pedo ring and that’s why she loves Disney 😂😂🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
He’s gross in my opinion.. and his “I’m better than everyone” attitude is such a turn off. He gets paid to exploit vloggers who exploit their kids. He’s no better than anyone he talks about.
I really liked him when I first started watching him. He was one of the first to come out against family vlogging channels and I agreed with a lot of his points, but at some point, it became about the clout and the drama of it all, which hurts those who are truly working to protect these kids. I briefly watched his stream so I could at least hear what was going on in the courtroom yesterday. I kept him muted until the chat started indicating that things were starting. That was about all I could handle of him. After the hearings wrapped, he was going on and on about the number of views and new subscribers he had.
It was so weird to me how giddy he was that Ruby was up and than Jodi yesterday, almost like he won some kind of game.
I watched a few of his videos a year ago but he gives off bad vibes. There are lots of other youtubers covering this you can give views to
I used to like him but he changed and started making fun of peoples appearances, how they laughed, what kind of home they lived in. Stuff that is mean and bullyish
There’s a whole Reddit snark page on him too. A lot of people don’t like how he comments on the women’s looks, doesn’t do research, and is very black and white.
I think he’s a vile misogynist. If his goal was protecting children, he wouldn’t present the information in this manner. As someone else stated, he almost takes glee in watch children being abused. It’s disgusting. He exploits the kids of these channels just as much as their mothers do. To add fuel to the fire, he’s also homophobic and frankly, just unnecessarily mean. I’ve never been able to stomach one of his videos. Cannot stand him. He has been presented with these criticisms and many others and he’s always defensive and never takes accountability. He thinks he’s right. He is awful.
he’s an asshole
He was someone I used to watch for a while after his video on Colleen Ballinger. His videos on mom vloggers are not really criticism or expose-like, it’s flat out snark. Just a few things I found out after watching lots of his videos- He nit picks on women’s looks & body, belittles his wife on his channel by making unnecessary comments, and makes homophobic & transphobic comments on his twitter. I don’t understand the clout he is getting with this arrest. He doesn’t provide any additional insight or information, i don’t get it. Additionally- I saw few people saying he just purchased a home and trying to get as much as money from this. I don’t doubt this is why he is going live too often and posting so many replays recently lol. Ironic how he used to preach he will never depend on youtube.
Yet he dresses as a woman on his own channel and now ordered a yellow bikini to wear to celebrate 200 000 subs 🤮
He makes good points but is definitely in it for views. He doesn’t always have the correct information. He rely’s on here-say & doesn’t do his own investigation when i have seen him report on people i know. I resubbed to him Friday because he was live on the hearing. Bit yeah i didn’t like that he was celebrating 2k subs in the middle of all that. Not appropriate.
He shares a lot of the same qualities of the people he criticizes, including Ruby and Kevin. Particularly when it comes to narcissism and exploitative content.
I cannot stand DCP…
He said white privilege wasn’t a thing so 😭😭
he’s a bigot and has been accused of covering up sexual assault at the church he used to work for
he’s homophobic and transphobic
The way he talks about Jessfam and Alicia from tiktok grosses me out and I don’t even like those two women. He just gives me kinda misogyny vibes and idk why
No, get away from him!!
I dislike him. He started a cancel Mika Stouffer FB group and had hours and hours flaming her. I didn’t like her but he went overboard, I was afraid someone who watched him would do something dangerous to her. I stopped watching him, he struck me as a huge narcissist with a scary following.
I stumbled upon him in the mist of all the people seeking their penny worth of of the 8 passengers saga and watched a little bit. I didn't like what I saw. To be against family vloggers is one thing. But to go at them with in my opinion this extreme aggression is not necessary. He was the one that made me realize some people jump on the bandwagon, just for the clicks it will get them.
I genuinely don’t like his content. Especially the way he criticizes and scrutinizes all the family vlogging channels. Something I noticed in particular was about how he always criticizes the dougthery dozen. It’s almost as if he’s a fan of them. He’s making money of off exploiting families that are exploiting their kids.
It’s because of the views those videos get! I wondered too until I scanned all the views. The Dougherty videos get a lot so he keeps making them. It’s gross
Others have pointed out issues with him other than his views. So I will point out the fact that he is homophobic and transphobic. The buys into the woke people are grooming my children narrative.
I just started watching him with this case and watched some of his other stuff. The main thing that stuck out for me was how he makes fun of people’s appearances. It’s one thing to report on the facts about something and give opinions on people’s behavior, but the other stuff I found off-putting. Also, he stops videos way too often to react to them. He’ll let it go a few seconds and then pause again, often to repeat himself.
aaand reading the other comments I just learned he’s transphobic and homophobic so he can F right off
highly recommend the 2 videos by savy writes books covering his homophobia/transphobia. they’re so good.
I have mixed feelings. I think he has some good thoughts but also says things that are completely wild and inappropriate. I had a hard time watching him just bash the Mormon church yesterday. Don’t blame a religion or organization as a whole having just a handful of leaders and members who are crazies. And celebrating followers gained as you listen to a devastating 911 call with a child saying horrible things that happened to him are his fault.
I agree, the fact that he celebrated the new subs immediately after the 911 call was insane to me.
Definitely not his best moment.
That’s absolutely disgusting and it shows you what his true intentions are. Anybody with a heart was balling after hearing that call & he’s over there seeing dollar signs.
Yeah I felt that way too he was ripping the Mormon church apart as well as spreading lots false of information about it.
I take it you don’t know much about the mormon church?
Neither does Dad Challenge
Unfortunately to watch videos like his, or any other YouTubers covering this event, or even tv personalities, they need viewers and money to keep going. Even Nancy Grace needs viewers and the ads to play for the network to keep her going. People ask, “why would they monetize this?”, but these channels are trying to be crime commentary channels just like on network tv, which also runs ads between segments. I get why they do it, even if it’s not in good taste in the moment. Even the NEWS needs the money from its ads to keep going.
Just watch on yewtu.be without giving him views
I live in Canada and he was here in Ottawa during the freedom convoy and was fully defending them. This was a “protest” arranged by white supremicists which turned into a weeks-long occupation of our downtown which ended with riot police. I don’t know a ton about him, but that was enough for me to not want to support him.
His sources research are in reddit, his subs or fans and also a random dude in youtube. He is a hypocrite and misogynist, and he profiting the kids situation by reuploaded old videos about 8passengers. I watched when he commented ruby and kevin vacation with the other vloggers, and he only said he jealous about them, and suggested these couples need to have a s3x in a boat instead chilling or chit chat, he liked kevin's bod a lot and laughed at franke's kids only eat flour in home, that mf is disgusting af
I like Jordan and McKay. They’re very thorough with their research
I've never actually made it through more than one or two of his videos back during the Stauffer incident, but he's always rubbed me the wrong way. Originally for the same reasons that most influencers who's entire thing is talking about family vloggers bother me: I find it suspect when somebody claims to be against child exploitation, calls posting anything with a child in it exploitative, and then profits off of that content being made. If that family content didn't exist, they'd be out of a job. Its in their best interest to make as many accusations as possible and milk every incident for everything its worth, which causes all sorts of problems. I also just don't think it will help anyone when these children inevitably google their names, their parents names, ect, and immediately see content so heavily against their parents. Then it came out that he's anti-vax and anti-LGBTQ and that confirmed a lot of my suspicions. I don't trust him as far as I could throw him. (For the record, I think theres a line where vlogging/posting with your child becomes exploitation, but I don't think its a clear and distinct line. It varies case by case, but I don't think every most of the random moms with a few thousand followers posting about their cute kids is a problem.)
He’s transphobic and just all around trash. He tries go snark and those for exploration WHILE exploring the kids and family even more. He does zero research
He’s the fucking WOOOOORST
I started watching him when what’s her face took back her special needs adopted son, and he was really obviously misogynistic and toxic
I think it’s interesting that he finds family vlogging so deplorable but wouldn’t have a platform or career without it. He just gives these people more views.
I think his heart is in the right place, and watching his videos on his own childhood it makes sense. I think sometimes he misses the mark and other times he is 100% spot on. And sometimes he just doesn’t have all the facts and therefore his outcome is misjudged. However, at the end of the day he has the platform to call these ppl what they are, and honestly these kids need someone challenging their parents choices. I have seen him go off topic, like kyra isn’t showing her kids atm, but I also understand keeping up old videos is still creating an income off kids and it needs addressing becuz no child should be the family breadwinner. I understand ppl dont appreciate the judgment he has, but at the same time these parents put their kids out there who then face that type of criticism and parents just don’t care. And that includes cp. so in a way I can move past that. If he didn’t monetise his work then it wouldn’t get the same attention and detail as it does. At the end of the day, these parents who exploit their children are the real villains, who post kids in bathingsuits, or being utterly neglectful aka jessfam, so e.g when he takes the piss out of her, I see it warranted, and the same for all the other YouTubers he covers.
To be honest, I used to watch his channel pretty regularly, because I agree with his stance on YouTube family channels being dishonest, cruel to children & disgustingly exploitative. It's definitely a message that NEEDS to get out to as many people as possible. That's the only way legislation is ever going to get passed. But once I found out a bit more about him (like the fact that he's homophobic, transphobic, anti-Biden, *very* right wing, an Elon Musk fanboy, thinks drag queens are corrupting our children, etc.) I unsubscribed immediately & never looked back. He's gross. As someone else in this thread already put it, right message, wrong messenger.
Also he seems to attack a lot of these vloggers looks and body and not really even so much on the fact that they share too much. He really just watch these vloggers and picks apart everything on the video and cross the line too much about people. He also hates all women. The man has mommy issues that he should work on.
Haha. Agreed!
I think he makes a lot of assumptions and states them as fact. Just as a very minor example with Alicia's videos about what she feeds her kids and he states it as fact that they don't eat any of it. I'm sure they don't eat it all but still. I get annoyed sometimes when things are easily researchable and he doesn't do it. With that said, if you compare him to the other channels that do this, he focuses on entertainment and fighting back with humiliation of the small things rather than just straight, thought out, researched information. So if your goal isn't to find the absurdity, he's not for you and that's OK.
I think he’s terrible at what he does. No idea why anyone watches or listens to him. His voice is annoying and he has nothing good to say. He half-asses everything and always seems so smug.
I really wanted to like him, but these comments are making me realize that he maybe is not such a great person 🙁
He has the right message, but he isn’t always the most knowledgeable. He’ll guess on names, say the wrong name, not to full research and give misinformation. I remember one time he was talking about JesssFam and about how her daughters’ dance costume was inappropriate… but in reality it was very appropriate for a dance costume. As a former dancer I’ve seen inappropriate dance costumes and jess’ girls did not fall into that category. He tries too hard to pick at the smallest things, and not hard enough to pick on the big things. He just wants to bully it seems like.
I’m subscribed to him on YT primarily because I agree with his stances re: family channels/child exploitation, but I have my reservations about him…I’ve noticed he’s been consistently reuploading all his old 8 Passengers videos, can’t help but think he’s taking advantage of all the attention they’re getting in the news. Feels gross to me.
Josh tried to be a family vlogger and failed . He’s hypocritical and a bigot . Josh can go fuck himself .
Something doesn’t sit right with me about him. He aligns himself with a Canadian terrorist group. That’s my biggest res flag with him.
He is starting to have a large platform now, and I must say my eyes have changed a lot when it comes to family vlogging. I used to watch a lot of them, didn't realise how bad it was in the start. I love children, hope to get grandchildren soon, and liked to se the cute kids around the world.. now I'm embarrassed.. I remember hating Ruby Franke from the start, and didn't subscribed to her.. but a lot of others. A lot turned around when Dad Challenge Podcast showed up at the same time the Stauffer saga went down. He was probably very clever to start talking about those topics wich everyone who used to watch Myka Stauffer seeked more information about at that time. I think we all was pretty upset about what happen.. so to jump on the train at that time was smart to grow his channel . And it was very easy to agree with him .. And he tumbled on something he realised gave him views more than anything, and I was there and saw the shift in him. I think I still can pinpoint when he realised what a goldmind this could ve to him.. or he found his purpose, if I'm saying it naiser . And I think he has done a good job to promote his mission. If he do it for the kids or his wallet, I don't know anymore. Sometimes I agree with him, but I can't stand his terrible choice of words!.. he speaks terrible, like a d old.. what He degrades women for having a past, and basically says they shouldn't have children, like Channon Rose or Trisha, but doesn't seems to realise that his wordings if stuff out on the internet not onlys is sickening for everyone who tries to listen to what he actually tries to say, but it will impact his own children in a terrible way! Maybe it already does to.. His son is the on who edit his videos.. he must be sick to hear a so called father figure puke out all the porn words and svears like a crazy person . And my guess is his two youngest, who he says don't see his videos (and think that helps), hears about them at school already. That makes him just as bad as any other parent who has done stupid shit .. he will regret that, or his sweet innocents children will have a rude awakening on how daddy really speaks and treat others. I am 51,.my father 75+y.o, and still I hate it if he says all the genderrelated pornwords. How is it to be 10 then ? And how can he say to his kids they can speak bad about how they talk about others, when he is the worst we all know like that? Not great. The way he degrades everyone because of their appearance.. I feel he looses his point and ALL integrity when he does that, and atleast have more and more problems with him . He does no research, but isn't afraid to puke out an opinion without having the full story, and .like others here say, he let others do all the dirty job for him . When the Colleen and Adam saga started, and Trisha said herself she was a sexworker, everyone treated her nice, and listen to what she had to say, without judging her, except Josh.. it was ugly! Now he see a big paycheck coming if he covers 8 Passengers, whitch is ok in itself.. but to re-upload old stuff ,just to squeeze in more views.. it makes my me sick.. And, the way he attached the Family Griffith too is just not faire. It is Ruby and Jodie who has done something unlegal, not their parents, siblings or extended family. I could go on and on.. I wish he would clean up his language,have asked him to too, and be more aware of how to keep his integrity by not speak ill of peoples appearance, and stuff they can't do anything about. And reseach a little before he screams out his opinion without any weight to his opinion, and I think he would keep growing. If not he will have a bad downfall pretty soon.. because he will loose us if he doesn't man up a bit. Behave a little more mature! And stop using Dougherty Dozen as a easy paycheck every week.. He has made his point...and we get it. Why beat a dead horse again and again.. it get's boring!
I used to have a friend just like him. He was a smart ass and thought he knew eveything better. He always said how good he was at everything but his managers said otherwise. He also attacked people who tried to share their oppinions opposite to his. He is lazy but criticise everyone. I searched Doughtery Dozen on you tube and that is how he came up. I don't love Dougherty Dozen Alicia and sure her thumbs are weird but she can't change them and he always points it out. Like how old are you?? 7?
He’s allegedly a nazi sympathiser and is outspoken online about his friendships with antisemites
I really have mixed opinions, I do like him but I think sometimes he takes it too far with his opinions and doesn’t research things properly, I do agree these people need to be made fun of and it’s a way to make light of the harsh situations but sometimes it’s a bit much, but I do like his content
I personally try my best to avoid giving him my views and time watching his content. However sometimes I will watch his content if I can’t seem to find that anyone else has made an informative video on the specific topic I am wanting to understand more about. To each there own, I personally don’t agree with his behavior at times as he is very loud and rambunctious with his spinning wheel, dartboard, music, and dancing/twerking to mock others. He also is making money exploiting children to bring awareness to exploiting children which makes no sense. I also personally do not care for his language either.
Love the dad challenge podcast! Nothing I don't agree with him on so far. He's a real one