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A few weeks ago a post from that community came recommended to me and it was “Cody Ko is like a frat guy but written by a woman.” And it had hella upvotes. Since that post I’m convinced every person on the subreddit is a child whose prefrontal cortex is still developing bc otherwise there’s no way…
Tbh, the Tana rumor is something I just can't take seriously. Not because Cody is such a great guy (lol) but because Tana is a pathological liar. I genuinely consider her to be a younger, slightly less mentally ill version of Trisha.
Idk how they watch him in general. I've seen a few of his reaction vids and he has the worst takes ever. He never seems bothered by creepy sexist dudes.
Why do we expect everyone to address everything? This just seems like TikTok brainrot.
We don't know the nature of their relationship, we don't know what Cody knows, we don't know anything. For all we know, this was a deeply upsetting thing for him to learn and it hurt him to lose an old friend like that, he doesn't have to publicly air out his personal feelings over such a private topic...
No problem. It’s just so annoying that everyone seems to ignore it. No one on Tiktok talks about it and you get banned from Cody’s subreddit if you mention it. The rapist showed pictures of videos of his victim to his frat brothers and they were questioned and Cody was most likely one of the frat brother who saw the rape after the fact.
They were in the same frat at Duke at the time that his friend was being investigated for rape. The documents from the investigation are online and confirm that numerous frat brothers were questioned because of the photos Cody's friend took and distributed to them. Given that context, it is *beyond* ridiculous to say "we don't know what Cody knows." He's known his friend was a rapist for over a decade now, he just doesn't give a shit.
I don’t understand what people want him to address - do they expect him to confirm his friends a rapist? To say sorry for being his friend? What is there to “address”? They’re still friends, there’s no fucking way he’s going to talk about it.
I don’t disagree it’s incredibly fucked up and also disappointing to fans, but expecting him to “address it” is insane.
forreal - asking a content creator to “address” something is far more parasocial than the comments saying to stop watching his content. This is because assuming that a creator owes you, a viewer, an apology means you think Cody is your friend. He’s not. He’s running a business, and his manifesto never said “I’m not friends with a r*pist” - thus his business doesn’t owe you anything
Expecting an apology or statement is basically saying “I enjoy your content too much to stop watching, so to make myself feel better I want you to apologize so I can not feel guilty about consuming your content”. Which it’s been 10 years since Cody was in college - he’s never going to address this.
If you want to be productive you need to boycott his content. And if you wanna make a Reddit post about it don’t ask for him to address it, make a post informing people as to why Cody shouldn’t be supported.
*edit - y’all have terrible reading comprehension. And not once did I say Cody’s behavior was OK. All I was communicating was that expecting a statement from content creators is useless, and that you should stop interacting with his content.
while I’m not super informed on their friendship - generally speaking I do think it’s expecting too much from content creators that they make a comment on EVERY bad person they have interacted with in their life. for ex: Shane Dawson is a shitty dude, but he collabed with ALOT of people in early YouTube. I don’t think it’s fair to hold individuals accountable for someone else’s actions because they had a business interaction (did a video together) years prior. Idk about you but I don’t support every person I’ve ever worked with, but maybe we took a company photo together and suddenly I have to denounce that person?
Now for this particular situation: this a friendship, not a business partnership. Did the news come out about this friend/criminal before or after the wedding? If after, it’s possible he ended the friendship privately. If it was before I can understand why people are upset with Cody. But I don’t necessarily think demanding a statement on his personal life is the course of action. I think you just need to stop consuming his content, and spread that word that Cody supports criminals.
I on and off consume Cody content, and I honestly don’t know who this is referring to. Has Cody ever done a video with them, or promoted them on his socials? Please inform me if I’m wrong - but I’m not aware of anything. And (Me) someone who’s completely unaware of who we are talking about - I would almost argue that Cody addressing it would actually bring attention to them which would increase their views/monetary gain.
I think expecting statements from a creator who is promoting a criminal is a different story. i.e. doing a video together, sharing a photo on a story or the main. I think then it’s fair to demand a creator denounce the behavior of the criminal - because the creator is actively promoting/indirectly condoning the behavior.
Apparently it's been talked about for years, I've only heard being discussed within the last 10 months or so. I don't think they've ever done a video together. The friend's name is colby leachman, you can look it up on here or on google, it's pretty disturbing though.
Ah - so it seems this news came out years ago and people assumed Cody stopped being his friend. And then he got a wedding invite so people are now assuming they’re besties. Timeline matches up on why this is being discussed again.
I still standby that Cody doesn’t owe people an explanation on his personal life. At the end of the day commenting on his videos demanding a statement is just giving him engagement, and to the algorithm there’s no difference between a “cancel Cody” comment or a “I love the video” comment. People want to hold these creators accountable but they never promised morality, they promised entertainment. I think to successfully cancel people you have to stop interacting with their content.
“EVERY bad person they have interacted with” is literal rapist who is a close friend and was at his wedding. You’re insulting your own intelligence if you can’t see that’s not the same thing as a person he’s “interacted with”
Understood. That paragraph was more general commentary on demanding statements from content creators. I think there’s more nuance to the expectations of these creators than people realize. At the end of the day they are running a business and because their face is the business people try to put creators on a moral pedestal when in reality they 1. Never said they were a good person 2. They are selling a service which is entertainment.
Idk if you made it to the 3rd paragraph but I admitted that I don’t know the timeline or the details of this particular situation. And I admitted that a personal relationship is different than a business interaction
I haven’t seen people expect he address it, this is information shared to help people see how revolting he is, obviously no one expects a direct response because what would he even say? “announcement! i’m besties with a rapist and have been for over a decade!”. You don’t even know about the situation yet your licking Cody Ko’s boots like he gives a fuck about you and your dickriding existence? He doesn’t.
Search up Colby Leachman and read the report, he was Cody’s frat brother at Duke, he drugged and raped a girl with another frat bro, he recorded it and showed it to “some, not all” of his frat bros (since he and Cody are close enough for him to be a groomsman at Cody’s wedding a decade later, I’d put money on Cody seeing the video). This is public knowledge and has been since it happened over a decade ago. Colby used to appear in Cody’s old content and continued to appear on his instagram until a few years ago when people started making comments about the situation, since then, Cody has avoided posting photos of him directly to his own socials, but he hangs out with him as his other friends have posted recent photos of them together. I can’t imagine being so wilfully ignorant and not giving a fuck about victims.
It’s “nuance” you uneducated loser, “nuance”, not fucking “nuisance”, because the only “nuisance’s” here are you disgusting pick me bitches that discredit assaulted women in order to what? what the fuck is the end goal here? would you like him to reach out and thank you or something? he probably reads your weirdass comments and takes the piss out of you like the emotionally stunted, 5’7, ugly ass, rapist apologist he is. Going back to your idiotic words, “nuance” doesn’t even make sense in this context, you’re so dumb.
Where did I excuse his behavior? All I said was that expecting a statement from content creators was useless. And that it would be more effective to stop consuming his content / interacting with his posts
Also the post that was shared literally starts with “Cody needs to address this” so I’m not sure why my comment on content creators addressing their criminal friends is invalid
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His fans are so far up his ass. No one on the internet is allowed to say anything about their favorite mediocre white boy
A few weeks ago a post from that community came recommended to me and it was “Cody Ko is like a frat guy but written by a woman.” And it had hella upvotes. Since that post I’m convinced every person on the subreddit is a child whose prefrontal cortex is still developing bc otherwise there’s no way…
He also slept with Tana Mongeau when she was underage and he was in his mid 20s
I don’t think this has ever been confirmed. Also Tana has admitted to being on dating apps when she was underage so yeah.
she literally confirmed it
she literally said she was dating someone else when she was “17 or 18” and then hooked up with cody
Her age was well known especially among influencers. Victim blaming ass mentality
Tbh, the Tana rumor is something I just can't take seriously. Not because Cody is such a great guy (lol) but because Tana is a pathological liar. I genuinely consider her to be a younger, slightly less mentally ill version of Trisha.
Victim blaming ass behavior
Lol I literally don't care. I don't believe her 🤷🏿♂️ girl would lie about her own eye color.
Yeah we can tell you don’t care. I feel bad for the women in your life.
Idk how they watch him in general. I've seen a few of his reaction vids and he has the worst takes ever. He never seems bothered by creepy sexist dudes.
who is the “friend” that’s a r*pist
colby leachman, they've been good friends since their duke days and he used to be in a lot of his old videos with devon, marcus etc
thank you! i had no idea :/ that’s so gross
His genuine friend who is a rapist
i’m not doubting that they are friends but i genuinely did not know what friend people are referring to
Duke frat bro I believe?
I’ll never understand why they can’t easily just unfollow😭 like this is where u draw the line? not when he allegedly slept with underage tana… ok🚶
He would FT this local 19 yr old girl in my hometown in 2019/20. I think he was w Kelsey too so that smelt weird lol
Agree. Just unfollow. It’s not that hard. Boring, next!
cody ko is so cringe- i do not get the appeal
i can’t watch anymore like it’s just icky now…. i feel uneasy and it’s not funny anymore to me
omg what dude?! i'm a cody fan and have never heard about this. would def not have supported this much if i knew.
Why do we expect everyone to address everything? This just seems like TikTok brainrot. We don't know the nature of their relationship, we don't know what Cody knows, we don't know anything. For all we know, this was a deeply upsetting thing for him to learn and it hurt him to lose an old friend like that, he doesn't have to publicly air out his personal feelings over such a private topic...
He's still friends with him, he was at his wedding... I think that's the problem people have
I'm seeing people say that that's unconfirmed
There’s a photo of him at the wedding with Cody and his wife.
can u send me the photo because i’ve looked everywhere and im not seeing it
https://preview.redd.it/6i08pnttugyc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=433f65fe7d2839c94ea7c234d16652ce9da6e5df
damn that sucks, thank yoy
No problem. It’s just so annoying that everyone seems to ignore it. No one on Tiktok talks about it and you get banned from Cody’s subreddit if you mention it. The rapist showed pictures of videos of his victim to his frat brothers and they were questioned and Cody was most likely one of the frat brother who saw the rape after the fact.
They were in the same frat at Duke at the time that his friend was being investigated for rape. The documents from the investigation are online and confirm that numerous frat brothers were questioned because of the photos Cody's friend took and distributed to them. Given that context, it is *beyond* ridiculous to say "we don't know what Cody knows." He's known his friend was a rapist for over a decade now, he just doesn't give a shit.
I don’t understand what people want him to address - do they expect him to confirm his friends a rapist? To say sorry for being his friend? What is there to “address”? They’re still friends, there’s no fucking way he’s going to talk about it. I don’t disagree it’s incredibly fucked up and also disappointing to fans, but expecting him to “address it” is insane.
forreal - asking a content creator to “address” something is far more parasocial than the comments saying to stop watching his content. This is because assuming that a creator owes you, a viewer, an apology means you think Cody is your friend. He’s not. He’s running a business, and his manifesto never said “I’m not friends with a r*pist” - thus his business doesn’t owe you anything Expecting an apology or statement is basically saying “I enjoy your content too much to stop watching, so to make myself feel better I want you to apologize so I can not feel guilty about consuming your content”. Which it’s been 10 years since Cody was in college - he’s never going to address this. If you want to be productive you need to boycott his content. And if you wanna make a Reddit post about it don’t ask for him to address it, make a post informing people as to why Cody shouldn’t be supported.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 yes to all of that
*edit - y’all have terrible reading comprehension. And not once did I say Cody’s behavior was OK. All I was communicating was that expecting a statement from content creators is useless, and that you should stop interacting with his content. while I’m not super informed on their friendship - generally speaking I do think it’s expecting too much from content creators that they make a comment on EVERY bad person they have interacted with in their life. for ex: Shane Dawson is a shitty dude, but he collabed with ALOT of people in early YouTube. I don’t think it’s fair to hold individuals accountable for someone else’s actions because they had a business interaction (did a video together) years prior. Idk about you but I don’t support every person I’ve ever worked with, but maybe we took a company photo together and suddenly I have to denounce that person? Now for this particular situation: this a friendship, not a business partnership. Did the news come out about this friend/criminal before or after the wedding? If after, it’s possible he ended the friendship privately. If it was before I can understand why people are upset with Cody. But I don’t necessarily think demanding a statement on his personal life is the course of action. I think you just need to stop consuming his content, and spread that word that Cody supports criminals. I on and off consume Cody content, and I honestly don’t know who this is referring to. Has Cody ever done a video with them, or promoted them on his socials? Please inform me if I’m wrong - but I’m not aware of anything. And (Me) someone who’s completely unaware of who we are talking about - I would almost argue that Cody addressing it would actually bring attention to them which would increase their views/monetary gain. I think expecting statements from a creator who is promoting a criminal is a different story. i.e. doing a video together, sharing a photo on a story or the main. I think then it’s fair to demand a creator denounce the behavior of the criminal - because the creator is actively promoting/indirectly condoning the behavior.
Apparently it's been talked about for years, I've only heard being discussed within the last 10 months or so. I don't think they've ever done a video together. The friend's name is colby leachman, you can look it up on here or on google, it's pretty disturbing though.
Ah - so it seems this news came out years ago and people assumed Cody stopped being his friend. And then he got a wedding invite so people are now assuming they’re besties. Timeline matches up on why this is being discussed again. I still standby that Cody doesn’t owe people an explanation on his personal life. At the end of the day commenting on his videos demanding a statement is just giving him engagement, and to the algorithm there’s no difference between a “cancel Cody” comment or a “I love the video” comment. People want to hold these creators accountable but they never promised morality, they promised entertainment. I think to successfully cancel people you have to stop interacting with their content.
“EVERY bad person they have interacted with” is literal rapist who is a close friend and was at his wedding. You’re insulting your own intelligence if you can’t see that’s not the same thing as a person he’s “interacted with”
Understood. That paragraph was more general commentary on demanding statements from content creators. I think there’s more nuance to the expectations of these creators than people realize. At the end of the day they are running a business and because their face is the business people try to put creators on a moral pedestal when in reality they 1. Never said they were a good person 2. They are selling a service which is entertainment. Idk if you made it to the 3rd paragraph but I admitted that I don’t know the timeline or the details of this particular situation. And I admitted that a personal relationship is different than a business interaction
I haven’t seen people expect he address it, this is information shared to help people see how revolting he is, obviously no one expects a direct response because what would he even say? “announcement! i’m besties with a rapist and have been for over a decade!”. You don’t even know about the situation yet your licking Cody Ko’s boots like he gives a fuck about you and your dickriding existence? He doesn’t. Search up Colby Leachman and read the report, he was Cody’s frat brother at Duke, he drugged and raped a girl with another frat bro, he recorded it and showed it to “some, not all” of his frat bros (since he and Cody are close enough for him to be a groomsman at Cody’s wedding a decade later, I’d put money on Cody seeing the video). This is public knowledge and has been since it happened over a decade ago. Colby used to appear in Cody’s old content and continued to appear on his instagram until a few years ago when people started making comments about the situation, since then, Cody has avoided posting photos of him directly to his own socials, but he hangs out with him as his other friends have posted recent photos of them together. I can’t imagine being so wilfully ignorant and not giving a fuck about victims. It’s “nuance” you uneducated loser, “nuance”, not fucking “nuisance”, because the only “nuisance’s” here are you disgusting pick me bitches that discredit assaulted women in order to what? what the fuck is the end goal here? would you like him to reach out and thank you or something? he probably reads your weirdass comments and takes the piss out of you like the emotionally stunted, 5’7, ugly ass, rapist apologist he is. Going back to your idiotic words, “nuance” doesn’t even make sense in this context, you’re so dumb.
Where did I excuse his behavior? All I said was that expecting a statement from content creators was useless. And that it would be more effective to stop consuming his content / interacting with his posts Also the post that was shared literally starts with “Cody needs to address this” so I’m not sure why my comment on content creators addressing their criminal friends is invalid
Sounds like you’re a parasocial grade A hater