I recently watched a video from the YouTuber Chris Boden (PhysicsDuck) and saw an unhinged comment in the comment section that he replied to. I thought his reply was great so I felt like sharing.
Start image description: A YouTube comment section with a comment with the username censored and a reply from the YouTuber PhysicsDuck.
The comment reads: What is with the gay pride?! Im so sick of seeing this everywhere. Why is it necessary to shove this down everyones throat? Unsubbed!
The reply from PhysicsDuck: What are you on about? Are you ok? Do you smell toast?
There’s nothing in the entire video that is in any manner gay. I’m a nerdy middle aged straight white dude talking about how we measure the diameter of wire and cable, and you’re having a homoerotic existential crisis? Really?
Am I just that overpoweringly attractive to you that you can’t fight these feelings anymore and have to ragequit the channel while screaming about “gay” and how necessary it is to have something shoved down your throat?
Because, while I’m not gay, I’ve got a LOT of family, friends, and viewers who are every imaginable fabulous fruity flavour of sparkly awesome you can imagine, and I’m sure that one of them would be happy to help you fulfill your fantasy, if you ask nicely.
It’s ok, no judgement or kinkshaming here. Come out of the closet, it’s too damn crowded in there anyways.
I love you, just the way you are.
Good luck.
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Edit: Video source
Could be a bot, the YouTuber is wearing a shirt with rainbow lightning bolts on it in the video which I only noticed after some other comments pointed it out. So if not a bit maybe someone saw that and lost their marbles.
I’ve dealt with an unfortunate number of conservative folk IRL and a lot of them seem to go through life looking for something to be mad about.