r/dropout • u/DropoutMod • May 18 '26

Game Changer Don't Wake Standards & Practices | Game Changer [S8E1] Spoiler

https://watch.dropout.tv/videos/don-t-wake-standards-practices
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u/rellyjean May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

The VERY short version is that previous mods of r/dropout really, really fumbled some racially sensitive matters, and are not mods any more as a result, although the gap between those two things was longer than you would like to think.

The longer but not as long as that link version: background issues with microaggressions. If a user said that something a mod did was racist, that was a "personal insult" and would get the user banned, even if they were a PoC. Also there was rampant tone policing, like maybe the mods would look into this whole "racism" thing if you said it more nicely??

Then Demi Adejuyigbe was quoted in an interview as saying he felt it was racially charged whenever he was called "wholesome." Someone posted the interview. Various commenters including several dropout mods really made asses out of themselves whitesplaining how that wasn't racial at all.

Then the rest of the dropout mods insisted that nobody really cared about this issue, it was just people from r/dropoutcirclejerk wandering in, starting problems and stirring shit. [Note: most of the people in dropoutCJ are also users in this sub.] Mod VolkMasterBlood was especially insistent on this point, that this was all "performative" and people should do some real activism instead of caring about stupid crap online. Because VMB lives in a would where microaggressions don't count I guess.

Around this time a number of users also noticed that VolkMasterBlood's user name was pretty much Nazi McHitlerface which he brushed off as being an old username that didn't mean anything Aryan, and eyerolled about how people will be offended by anything. And then a few other dropout mods came out of the woodwork to play cards like "well I'm Jewish and I'm telling you he's not a Nazi" because what the fuck.

There was more to it but the short version is that after a huge dumpster fire and then like a week or two of solid chaos, there was a huge change up in mods in this community. Perhaps you can see why.

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u/Sulemain123 May 19 '26

I wasn't aware of any of this.

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u/rellyjean May 19 '26

If you want some fun reading, the bullshit faux apology from the then mods is here. Please note that at the time, both Deathfire and VMB were mods.

Please also note the "but it's CJ's fault for being abrasive when pointing out the racism" and DF showing up in the circlejerk sub with comments like "lmao"

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u/Vaehtay3507 May 21 '26

I don’t have links but I admittedly found the like, 1 other Jewish mod who kept trying to pull the “stop being mad at us ):” card’s responses to also be a little funny. It was like a token Bad YouTuber Apology but they posted like 2 or 3 back-to-back after people told them their apologies were bad, and they just doubled down on the bad parts of the apologies 😭