Akademiks Allegedly Grooming... But There's Bigger Issues At Hand | Reaction
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- FD Signifier captured my thoughts on Akademiks' latest dicey behavior. Let's react.
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FD's video is exactly the right video to be boosted. Thank you for using your platform for spreading it. It is so much more than a "pack out."
'Preciate you brother. It's all happening 🏆
@@TheCompanyMan 👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉I am not glossing over this but where is the outrage and backlash against streamer Aiden Ross who does stuff like this and also tries to emasculate black men with inappropriate Gay Grooming. 👈👈👈👈👈👈👈👈
@@YaKUZZiGirlWorldwidewhere is the outrage and backlash the the man who molested me when I was a child?
Mf don’t know everybody
@@YaKUZZiGirlWorldwidetalk about it
This a revelation how to get a 🥋 gone!
I can't lie this coming up. Just brought back all the anger I have towards Boosie. The man literally admitted to paying grown women to have sex with his children so they wouldn't turn out gay and barely anyone ever talks about it. Like can you imagine anyone else coming out and being like "Yeah I pay people to r**e my kids" and nothing is even hardly said about it?
When I watched Poor Things, people at the movie theater gasped at a specific scene related to this topic, and all I could think about was how hypocritical people are. I can't count how many times I've heard, as a woman, about older men paying sex workers to "turn boys into men", and the boys in question being literal kids. Our society is okay with this happening, but not okay with this being addressed directly.
Wow 😮 I never knew how much this type of thing goes on but really in all honesty maybe 🤔 I am not that surprised. I guess I just don’t Understand why people are being so dismissive and accepting this type of behavior. It’s very sad and unsettling in 2025 after all we have seen and heard people would make excuses for an adult person saying these weird things to someone’s child!! It’s so disturbing to say the least.
This 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
That’s not rape he ordered a private dancer and honestly he is the child’s parent if he ain’t abusing or traumatizing the kid then oh well too many of these kids turned out by their friends and media, what are they gonna do?
@@heyitsmira17this the same country that allows child sex change so what lesser of two evils ya want? And Boosie got his son a lap dance yall act like yall never seen explicit or heard explicit things in your youth and if so you were sheltered so stay in that lane
"THEM PREDATORS MOVE IN FLOCKS"
Kendricks lyrics are aging like a fine wine
@@MustangRoy7 big facts!
Careful, Aubrey's Angel 66 or LeBron Ultra Instinct will come and say the same passive-aggressive joke comment that they keep spamming on every video about their OVWhoes
@@tiolloyd9555 Drake just hired a crisis management team and suddenly the bot defenders are out in full force. He really can't get anyone on his side without paying them, huh?
@alexanderson281 nah, these two ain't bots. I swear, I've seen them on every single video about HipHop, be it about Drake or not, defending Drake ever since the beef started and they keep on going even after the beef ended, either they're jobless or teens who can't cope with their fave rapper losing
Pretty sure aubreysangel is anti drake but trolling. They're always saying off the wall things
He just got banned on twitch. Finally some accountability
…and Happy Dad
Twitch said, "AK's got a weird case, why is he around?!"
@@terryjoho it's weird considering that's their exact demographic
thank god. that's where he even got some proof of the SA victim being attacked at his home right? I believe her screaming for help was streamed on twitch before he went to turn it off & let his friends continue with her :(
Twitch usually will ban quick af but he will just go to kick and kick will allow all sorts of weird shit
We gotta do away with this narrative of "I treat him like family" or "In my family..". 80% of SA is committed by friends/family members.
@@OGSauceDaddy Facts!
As a grown woman, I don’t know how many times I’ve heard men I’ve dated or been in relationships with talk about losing their virginity at a young age to an older woman. And they brag about it. I gently have to let them know that no sweetheart - you were molested. Full stop. It’s genuinely heartbreaking and it corrupts a lot of boys who then become men with warped senses of sexual intimacy. And that’s before we even get into porn’s effect.
i know 3 men in my life who shared with me their experiences, and they didn't understand what they experienced was straight up s*xual ab*se until i broke it down. it's devastating 😢
The exposure also makes them more sexually active
@@brlealcoable most boys of a certain age want to be with a older woman or just have sex in general so its very complicated when it happens cause they won't see it as abuse but it will in most cases skew there reality on what a woman is and what her purpose is and what a man should be.
Makes me think is this why some black men don’t like black women? Some black woman m0lested them and that ruined their relationship with all black women? 😟 Heartbreaking
@@Shinigami7of1 Often, they don't even want to. They have normal sexual curiosity that gets perverted by social pressures and expectations.
Justin this whole convo reminds me of Dot’s Father Time. “My niggas ain't got no daddy, grow up overcompensatin'
Learn shit 'bout bein' a man and disguise it as bein' gangsta.” Mr. Morale heals the soul.
Me too.
Tbh, all of Mr Morale is aging like fine wine.
Just like the diss tracks, Mr. Morale rings true.
FD has the Father Time instrumental playing in the background of his video which was very fitting
It’s playing in the back of FD’s video!
@@fangal12 I knew it sounded familiar. I kept thinking it was Gloria. Let me go run through Mr. Morale again. 😅
What's the most gross is is AK's "excuse," that's how you talk to your little brother or cousin. Ummmm No...absolutely no one should ever talk to anyone's little anything like that. Get these creeps out the culture.
Agreed, what a gross thing for him to say. Makes me sick to my stomach imagining someone acting like that to my brothers or cousins - even worse knowing it probably DID happen to at least some of them, and I just never knew…
@laceyholmes3614 exactly! It's such a cop out of an answer. I'm grown now, but all my siblings are substantially older than me. They never had such inappropriate conversations with me when I was a teen. Speaking that way to young family members is wrong. 0 accountability in that group.
He literally said ANYTHING he could say to deflect. And if he really feels like this he doesn't need a platform.
There's an even worse word then "grooming" for people who do that to their own family members. I believe it starts with an "i."
FD is such an important presence on this platform. Shoutout to him for breaking this down, and shout out to Scru for shining a light on this situation in the first place.
Ak the type who will call drag queens groomers then turn around and pull this shi- and his fans will just nod along like the call isn't coming from inside the house.
Literally
I watched FD’s video yesterday and the way he slow walked us through the major issues with not only the behavior in question but the issues with the collectives response to the behavior was masterful. Protect children.
I reported him to the Feds. If anyone else is in the medical field, law enforcement, state or federal employees please consider your role in protecting vulnerable people in society as a mandated reporter, and report this predatory behavior. S*xual harassment is illegal and even more egregious when directed at a child. It doesn’t matter that this boy is in Malaysia.
I think he was targeted BECAUSE he was in Malaysia. People think nothing can be done because he isn’t in the US(not everyone is knowledgeable about the FEDS).
They gave him money and know he is vulnerable because of his background and the fact that he is clearly latches onto older men as mentors.
He has the exact profile a textbook groomer would look for. AK bragged about them giving him money but to me that was even more alarming.
I agree...where do we report?
People like that don’t belong on this earth!
@Dontbadummy cyber crimes I assume. Look that up.
@@MaynardsSpaceship oh I thought you had a direct link or contact information for reporting....
If to catch a predator was still airing, half of them would try to pass it off as "Trolling". Get tf out of here with that
No bs My brothers uncles and old head in my teens mostly would say “you ain’t getting no buns you wet the behind the ear” it was sarcastic and they literally were assuming I wasn’t that type of kid (in my teens) also this came because every non gay kid male has at least said “I get girls yo” but all that sk a dk and let a dude fk you was never said to me ever, and let alone by my OGs or strangers
It's still airing as a show called Takedown with Chris Hansen. It's pretty funny (not haha funny) because they have the exact same excuses as in the 2000s show. I was worried. I just wanted to talk. I wasn't going to do anything. I figured she was lying about her age.
I despise the use of the word “trolling” to describe behaviours with real-world consequences.
I hate that word and concept so much because of stuff like this. “Trolling” is trolling, and predatory behavior, is predatory behavior. We gotta call stuff for what it is in its exact definition.
Didn't AK try to pass it off as "we're just trolling lil bro" and talking about giving him money?
Why do you feel the need to "troll" (🙄) a child??
Breaking! DJ Akademiks has been banned on twitch
He has?
For real???!!!
@@Nixnix123for real!
Good!
@@Mr.Badoogle Yes this is confirmed. His account is not active on twitch and his page is listed on the streamerbans website which reports banned streamers. Not sure if its a permanent ban though.
This is the most mature, articulate, grown man take on this issue. Outstanding analysis. Justin, I appreciate you for pointing out the female predators as well. I have to stay on guard with my 16 year old son!
It's all happening 🙏🏿
watch FD’s vig on Signified B-sides too!! 🫶 for more realass informedass truly grown man perspective on this horrific issue
I'm disappointed in the way people are reacting to this. Especially the bigger platforms. Some say they shouldn't apologize, others saying that the whole thing is just "weird," so I appreciate someone finally calling what it is... Grooming... It's disgusting, and people are showing how normalized it really is.
Some of these platforms don't want to get out of his good graces or hurt a potential relationship and just hope it will blow over. And that's what will happen. These folks don't care or will hold him accountable cause they don't care
Yep, Wayno got on his platform and called it weird. Some are just concerned with maintaining their connections in the industry.
Is that Kendrick's father time playing in the background? That's so dope
Yep.
I made a post about him on Threads, and i was surprised that someone said people are taking it too far, calling him a pdf file and stating he should be canceled. I told the person that was a boy, mind you A BOY and if that was my little brother, all of them would've gotten f'd up by my dad, uncles, and cousins. There's absolutely nothing funny about this situation 😒 This goes for male and female predators.
What’s worse is his inability to take accountability for what he said and to try to shift blame to Kendrick. Kendrick has nothing to do with that foul ish you said Ak
@t-god2439 This, this, this!!!! Everything is someone else's fault. Grow up dude fr
I'm guessing since it's a boy it's taking less seriously.
Any normal person wouldn't shy away from calling a spade a spade if a girl was involved.
@@MrsTee78he's literally gaslighting and blaming everyone. He doesn't even think he did anything wrong
@@MrsTee78tell Ak that
Thank you to you Justin, Scru Face Jean and FD. Doing the work that matters
FD bringing systemic analysis to cultural moments. Top form the world needs more people like him
BIGFAX
hell no he needs to go on a diet first
Right , this conversation is extreamly important and it’s bringing the roots of the issue to light
@ so you only listen to sexy men?
@@youtubegooglebbro can only watch videos by people he attracted to
FDs' background shines through in moments like these
I agree with FD. Drake Stans move too weird, and you can tell offline they are basement boys.
The issue is many are grown, infantilized, haters of women guys. Also, many are offenders that are there because kids are there.
Prince from Thought Crimes called him Akwayne Gacy and I was trying to figure out the comparison then it hit me Gacy was a clown to the public but a monster in private
Prince is undefeated.
Drake was Groomed...by the older woman who gave intro him to "Spritzers" its a cycle
Sexy Redd seems to be on that same kind of time, wanting to perform her nasty, trashy music in front of high schoolers.
Was thinking the same thing. It's honestly just sad
i was thinking about that too. i can't help but wonder if ak experienced the same, and, like FD said happens in some cases, he's behaving this way to justify what happened to him so he doesn't have to feel like he was raped. i wonder if, subconsciously, he's being extremely defensive of this behavior because of the absence of grief, anguish, and trauma that it "being normal" provides him. of course, i have no idea if this is the case or not, but it's one option for an explanation of his confusing and self-destructive doubling down.
it feels inappropriate and almost dangerous to speculate to this extent, but 1. i do think it's important to keep in mind when viewing these individuals and analyzing their behavior, and 2. it's ak. war in chiraq ak. his career is built on inappropriate and dangerous speculation on the lives of random people. i don't feel so bad for invading his privacy considering the amount of young black people he likely got killed.
Probably by someone on that show as well, he's stunted and stuck back there.
And now he's banned from Twitch and happy dad dropped Ak's sponsorship 🙌🏾
Yep...But Happy Dads also waited to see what people were feeling about it, before they acted...They really don't care on way or the other...They just don't want to lose their customer base....
@@thehandifanwith9386💯
This video is over 40 minutes long, but only 10 minutes after it was was posted, there were over 80 comments. Congrats Justin, you have a bomb ass following. We click right away when you drop, and comment as we watch.
It's all happening🙏🏿
Truth!
@@TheCompanyMan
The problem is that Akadiddy is apart of the biggest ecosystem of Hip-Hop media. Alot of people in that industry don't wanna loss any possible corporate ties with him, so they won't call him out. It keeps them 'relevant'. So let's see if he's really getting canceled.
Im glad you mentioned the alarming rate of teachers that have inappropriate relationships with students. It's happening so much that they don't even report on it anymore. So calling it a gaming community thing is bs and a cop out.
Agreed. I live in the middle of the map and it’s a silent/not so silent epidemic. I work with young people in mentorship and I can tell you I’ve had to have some really difficult conversations with my kids. I don’t work in a school district but I promise you I’ve had to report sus behavior and pray not to whoop somebody’s ass if I’m being honest.
A sad reality is that positions that allow access to vulnerable populations, such as children, are always full of predators.
Justin, thank you so much for speaking out those words about how young boys engaging in romantic and sexual relationships with adult women is usually seen as a trophy or a sign of ultra masculinity in our society. It in fact, as you said, distorts so much of these boys' minds and experiences going forward well into their adult life.
Akademiks' and his entourage's behavior is disgusting. I'm so glad voices like yours and the rap reactor community in general are at the forefront of the critiques on this situation. Thank you so so much, I respect you greatly and am a huge fan. Thank you.
Thank you so much. It disgusts me and it takes people to be louder for things to change. I appreciate you being a part of this community.🙏🏿
@TheCompanyMan That's absolutely right, I'm proud of the platform you've created for yourself and what you choose to highlight and bring to our attention. Change is coming and it's lovely to see that we do not accept this behavior any longer. God bless you. We support you always!
@ It's all happening 🙏🏿
It’s pretty telling how that gross guy keeps insisting on calling the little boy a “man”. Like forcefully saying the word “man!” even after calling him a minor and underaged. Gross gross.
Justin I just want to again reiterate how much I appreciate your journalistic integrity by posting links to the sources you discuss/use in the video. I appreciate your information exposition and I think including the sources is great way to push people to research/watch/and form their own opinions on the subject.
Been watching both yourself & FD for years, been great seeing the crossovers! Not many men who can talk about the patriarchy as strongly as FD can
I watched FD’s video yesterday and the way he slow walked us through the major issues with not only the behavior in question but the issues with the collectives response to the behavior was masterful.
I reported the video to FBI this is a crime against a child and I am mandated to report any reasonable allegations of child abuse. If anyone else is in the medical field, law enforcement, state or federal employees please consider your role in protecting vulnerable people in society. And report the predatory behavior.
Great work. You're rapidly becoming one of my favorite channels. All facts, no frills with an 80s radio voice. 😂
Thank you!
80's radio voice nailed it. I appreciate the radio voice.
Im subbed to both FD's channels with the bell but youtube refuses to notify me whenever he post. I only usually find out through other youtubers talking about his videos. Really weird.
That's crazy. Thank you for doing so either way!
@@TheCompanyMan Thank you for covering his video. Im watchin that then ima come back here.
It's called being shadow banned. The algorithm pushes him down and does recommend him because of the topics he talks about. Plenty of political youtubers are shadowbanned
I've found that sometimes going to your favorite channels and resubbing and re-belling keeps you in the loop with the channel. Idky but it's worked for me.
@BlackHippy313 and it's always the real ones who get banned too. You won't see shit like the Critical Drinker or Nerdrotics getting shadow banned
I just want to say, I appreciate the fact you don’t rush to “be the first” to cover a story and take the time to watch things unfold and gather factual information. 💕
Ya know, I appreciate that too! Good point.
The next Culture United episode is gonna be interesting
Thanks!
Thank you!
FD and The company man? man youtube is at its peak right now
wtf lmfaooooo
I totally disagree that there wasn't a hidden agenda here. The lawyer guy says he's going to cut the kid off. Off from what? Oh, yeah. Remember AK said they gave him money last week? You're telling me they did that out of the kindness of their heart? No. They had expectations and the conversation clearly shows what they wanted. ❗❗❗
I was on that kinda time at first too, my kneejerk reaction to this was that someone thought to record this for a reason. It's all speculation but, I knew I wasn't the only person who heard that and questioned that.
I believe they wanted to see how far he would go? For more money? More attention? More access? There was an expectation of something s*xual
This shit made me so ashamed that I ever watched his streams. FD video about this hit home for my own trauma so like, this felt uniquely fucking gross to me. Sorry to swear left and right this just bothers me so much given I had watched AK a good bit to keep up with what's going on for years now. It's not okay "cause it's a boy" it's just not.
BIGFAX. I'm sorry you had to experience that. Thank you for sharing and being vulnerable🙏🏿🙏🏿
So glad you shared this. I watched his video yesterday and was EDUCATED. This is really important stuff. Patriarchy hurts men too and this poor 15 year old gave us video documentation of the way young men are pressured into behaving in a way that justifies the adult predators behaviors and choices- and even their own childhood abuse. It's like ... hazing. As if " It happened to me so it's a right of passage, not a abuse."
We talk about characters like Vlad, Post Malone, Tom McCorny, etc. But the enemy within is a dynamic that I think might be a worthwhile discussion. I read a book recently called A Spy in Canaan and it was about how a photographer for the Civil Rights Movement was able to infiltrate and feed information back to the government about what Dr. King and the movement was up to. I truly believe that characters like Act-a-gimmick is something like a chaos angent. Maybe not purposefully "sent" by someone, but his impact and behavior could definitely give someone the impression that "oh that's what culture means". Maybe Act-a-gimmick is encouraged to be the way he is. I don't know. But, to me, something has always been off with that dude.
Thank you for highlighting FDs video and bringing mindfulness to the systems of patriarchy. This is the kind of conversation we need in order to bring predatory behavior out of the shadows of patriarchy and into the light. Gender doesn’t matter, it’s the behavior that should be the focus.
It doesn't make sense to link Ak's behavior to patriarchy when patriarchy is what protects most kids from that type of behavior
I can't unsee it now.....when Erica Badu dissed Akedemics...
I'm a mom with a daughter, but I can only imagine how meaningful it is for young boys to hear this from grown men. Thank you, Justin.
Anyone who has followed Livingston's career knows that this backlash is long overdue. From taunting kids in Chicago to repeatedly mistreating females. I'm thankful for everyone putting pressure on him now that he's been exposed literally grooming a child. The rabbit hole goes so much deeper, the guy has streamed all day everyday for years. Other disturbing and disgusting activity has been a casualty of the news cycle and fell under the cultural radar. Until now.
Looove how you guys (creators on this side of YT) have been supporting each other ☺️. Can’t wait to see what 2025 has in stock!
"[Someone] got a weird case, why is he around..." We gotta get Kendrick another grammy
AK should have been EXILED when he caught the 🍇case against his ex GF. His DNA was in her.
He wouldn't have even had the chance to harm the child
Some adults hate a child's innocence so they seek out ways to destroy it
Shoutout to you and the homie FD for speaking on this. I get upset whenever stuff like this comes up because I feel like so much of my childhood was stolen from me by men like Akademiks (and women who agree with his thinking).
I knew I wasn't straight by the time I was 9 and had I had men that looked like me around me (like you and FD) I'd have come to embrace that part of myself much sooner and lived a much fuller, happier childhood.
Y'all are changing the world talking about this and that really, really needs to be said.
Thank you.
Got me crying at 11 AM on a Thursday.
Thank you and thank you for being vulnerable and sharing your perspective. I appreciate you, Bellamy.🙏🏿
Thank you, I was happy under my rock not knowing this man existed until creators I respect and subscribe to started reacting to his videos. If I subscribe to you it’s because i appreciate your takes on stories and try my best to avoid creators that lack moral integrity. Channels like this should be the largest spaces in the hip hop culture offering intelligent conversations surrounding the culture
As a man who had to learn how to be a man by myself because my father wasn’t around much, I feel FD’s take so much. Once my ex and I broke up (the hardest thing I’ve gone through to date), I had to teach myself what emotions are, I had to ugly cry many times, I had to learn that my emotions are valid regardless of who was right or wrong for the breakup, and I had to learn how to forgive myself. When I tell you that my mental health was the worst it’s been from 2020-2023 from this breakup (we broke up right before Covid happened), I went to Inpatient times because I knew I was going to do something and didn’t want to. I’m 28 now and recently went to Inpatient again. My mom audaciously claimed that I was running away from problems. What does that even mean when inpatient keeps you for at most a week and I have to come right back to my problems? My mom is an amazing woman, but I realize that she has patriarchy in her as well. It doesn’t help that I’m her oldest child and only son.
I'm glad you took the step to help yourself, and i hope your recovery goes well. 🙏
You are not alone. Heal. It seems you have an understanding of the things that you need to heal, and the people who played a role. You are not running away, you are running towards help. There’s nothing wrong in needing help. Stay true to yourself and your growth. Proud of you!
I am thankful that real men are calling this disgusting behavior out and not calling it weird. Thank you all who have stepped up and called this dangerous and disgusting behavior out. He and everyone who is doing this should be called out and reported. Imagine if this is happening can you imagine what’s happening behind closed doors and in other realms. All children are our responsibility to protect them and for them to be safe. To all these wonderful men who are about taking care of our children and women and their families I am honored to be part of this community. Peace and blessings to you all
I saw F.D.'s video yesterday and I'm so glad that you both decided to speak about this, as men.
This happens so much in face to face situations. People using their positions to exploit others.
That was no apology.
Thank you for taking your time on this. Cause I can't listen to that exchange any more than the handful of times that I have while watching reactions.
Thank you for calling it what it IS.
He should be called out for the behavior and reported and people should not bring him in the conversation AT ALL anymore when it comes to The Culture.
FD was on point with his commentary
The absolute devastation that happens to young boys from such a young age. The disconnect leads to all of this. I do hope this opens up a conversation that's tough to have but necessary.
Absolutely amazing ,this gives me hope for the future of our community. To finally hear this from men and not just feminist. How these behavior inflict harm on boys, and they don't trust the world or women later in life.
Gasp I got a heart from the Company man. Much appreciated brethren. It's all happening hehe
I've been planning on becoming a member for a while and was very interested in if/how you'd address this situation. Thank you for using your platform and your voice, it isn't easy to do well, and you've done so very well. Doubling my planned membership amount!
THANK YOU!!!
I don't know what's worse. Ak thinking that grooming a 15 year old was good content or all the SICKOS defending the chat's behavior. That entire chat was full of predators. Thank GOD the child knew they were suspect.
The amount of people trying to brush this off or defend it....this world just sucks, i swear
Also: Ak erased his messages to Nour and tried to get him to erase the video. Watch his interview with ImstillDontai!
So glad the real journalists are on this!
I’m glad to hear your take and really appreciate you talking about this. Men need to have these conversations with themselves and change the narrative. Hope you stay well! Reppin. G-vegas the right way 😊love to see it.
'Preciate you! GVegas. Represent.✊🏿
Gaming culture?? Nah lol, that’s just weird conversation to be having with a minor.. tf are they talking about
They Wanna hide behind shit talking in gaming culture too make it seem not as bad.
@2ClutchCorey ive been a gamer since the 80s and this ain't it. It's just the lames that get online and talk reckless behind the safety of the internet but would be quiet as church mice if we were in the 90s and had to game in the same room.
BIGFAX
We talk shit in a chat lobby yes but not like this I may say something like yea I can smaxh your mom but not what these weirdos was saying
This is not gaming culture, it's a very specific dark part of discord culture IMO. I've seen this phenomenon before. Some of these private discord servers cultivate this type of nasty culture... it's all wrapped up with the manosphere / edgelord / incel culture but anyway for whatever reason these people get super comfortable talking like this and sharing inappropriate content like this with each other. Those guys probably didn't know they were being recorded... if they did, I'm truly bewildered by how brazen this was.
In fact I want to go as far as saying, if you have children, DON'T LET THEM ON DISCORD. Or make sure you look at every single server they have joined and make sure it's got appropriate content/culture.
Love your work man and glad to see you investing this heavily into your own publication!!
Much appreciated!
Finally found an awesome channel with integrity 🎉
Thank you!
I appreciate this video and how it speaks about not only the presenting problem but the over arching problem with an intellectual conversation.
This video is so triggering yet soo real. Thank you for raising this awareness in such an articulate way.
I've experienced this kind of abuse and it really does affect you so bad.
Words mean things. Akademiks apology, "WE are going to use this as a teachable moment. [I] didn't come this far to....". Why is it not "I" in the teachable moment as well? Insincere, delusional & lacks accountability.
This is why I still play Meet the Grahams.
Shout out to TCM.. we all appreciate the work you put in.
Thank you!
Akademiks is obviously disgusting but should we also be questioning streamers as to why children are serving as moderaters when it puts them in arms reach of weirdos like this??
There's nothing inherently wrong with having a a 15 yr old being a mod cause you can protect them from the weirdos like max tried. The real important thing is if the streamer themselves are the weirdos.
Like that wouldn't have happened in Max's discord. Had max been there I'm pretty sure they would've shut the fuck up
@BlackHippy313 false. Moderators should absolutely not be minors. The purpose of Moderators is to protect minors from harmful content.
I would say that’s not the issue. Saying that takes the accountability from AK and ppl like him. They should know how to handle teens, mod or not. That’s the bigger problem.
Not enough people put actual time in thinking about trust and safety work and what that actually is (and that's gonna get worse tbh). I agree with the people saying that the larger issue is the behavior of the grown men, but this is a valid point. My understanding is that it usually happens because younger people are probably more active and involved in streamer's communities but there's a lot of like, mental labor and power dynamic to it that should at least spark conversation.
F.d. Is talking about something beyond anybody comfort zone to fix. Look at this country at this exact moment. Most people knowing chose toxic patriarchy over any change. Ppl really are fragile and will stick their abusers after realizing they’re abusers and care nothing about their lives simply because it’s familiar. This is so eye opening(I’ve always known but damn) it makes it easier for me to disassociate from people’s suffering more for my own self preservation. I know that’s sad to say but i got to save my own life. Yall be safe out there
They don't hate me, they hate the man i represent
KDot
I appreciate you, Justin! Your voice, your conviction are crystal clear and valued. thank you.
Some people only outraged by the gxy suggestions and normalize everything else when the whole thing was inappropriate and disgusting.
The other dudes that were speaking were YK and AJ. I'm not sure which was which but i know the AJ one asked about the X change.
The one they calling manager that is not a manager name is Ray. He wasn't speaking on the call.
Well how can you be surprised, when PDiddy orchestrated a sex ring for decades, had over 100 seperate r*pe and sexual assault cases and the main takeaway from black Twitter was "AYOOO HE'S GAAYYY!! EWWW IT SOUNDED LIKE HE WAS BANGING MEEK MILL! GAYYYYYYYYYYY"
homophobia and misogyny defo trump most things in these conversations.
I am SO glad he pointed out that this is patriarchy and this is exactly how patriarchy is intended to work.
What REALLY distrubed me was how many people was in that conversation with their face blocked ...😠 talk about hidden agenda..
Thank you, I knew you'd get around to this eventually. The amount of people with platforms that have been dancing around minimizing this is frankly sickening.
It's as though Ak is literally the Drake of hip hop journalism, everybody's scared to call shit out for what it is to salvage whatever relationship they have with him as though they value the thoughts and opinions of a person so morally bankrupt they couldn't even tell why it's unilaterally wrong to be talking with a minor like that. Thank you for being a megaphone for the culture, we appreciate you!
This channel stays growing! Love to see The Company Man winning.
FD’s video is the sort of content needed nowadays.
Hearing Father Time in the background is very very fitting.
Thank you, Justin.
This is why journalistic integrity is so important and why we, as the Hip-hop audience, need to elevate the voices of journalists within the culture. Over the past few days, I've seen several Hip-hop commentators and gatekeepers try to minimize the severity of the vile nature of what Akademiks said to that little boy.
I respect what Byron did and filed a complaint to TH-cam; AK incriminated Livestream for the world to see and everyone with platforms should've filed complains before using the content for entertainment and monetary gain.
With hip hop news: I’ve got my Holy Trinity.
Justin Hunt for true reporting and nuanced journalism
FD Signifire for sociocultural context and perspective
Curtiss King for the Artist perspective.
Especially since last year where the toxicity of unwelcome guests in hip hop media spaces (*cough WTD*) got exposed on full blast, the 3 of yall are the trusted voices I have for just about everything hip hop
“There’s some weird sh*t going on and some of these artists are here to police it.” is really starting to age well.
And like a true Company Man "Measuring 2x to cut 1x" much respect for that alone sir!
the worse thing about all of this is that you can also ask brazilian and mexican men and you can hear these exact same stories
patriarchy is big in multiple cultures
Crazy respectable how you keep your ear to the street Justin 💪🐐
AK’S TV SHOULD’VE BEEN TURNED TF OFF!!! There’s literally NO WAY to justify some of the things asked to that kid during that conversation smh. GET EM ALL GONE! 🤦🏾♂️
2024 was such the year of truth that now it’s overflowing into 2025
I really appreciate FD's ability to zoom out and see the bigger picture and how these things fit into it. He's a great communicator
How soon until Trump offers him a cabinet position?
10/10 comment
He's the wrong shade for them. Everything else is perfect.
Bro, true shit.
Totally agree. Honestly, get em all outta here. If bro talked to my sons like that, I’m going to jail.
I had already watched and listened to FD, Scru, Curtiss, and a host of others who posted about this. I want to say that even 'tho those immediate responses were gratifying, I really appreciate that you waited to come in and comment only after making sure you had time to fully observe and digest. What is particularly powerful is that you and FD didn't make the grotesquerie that Ak and his ilk are the focus. It's the spectatorship normalizing his behavior that makes it clear that if a mirror was held up to him... we'd see more of the "weird" than we'd like to acknowledge in our communities.
Fd is the reason why I started to look into the “patriarchy”. He made amazing points in his video. I’d love to hear you speak on it to. (Considering that you’re one of the 3 people on TH-cam I’d listen to about it)
Thanks for pointing out Scru Face Jean's original video, which i believe was the first big one about it on yt.
Akadiddy dropping soon!
I listened to Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers in full for about the third time today, and I'm finally starting to understand it. Sadly, that's partly because of all the disgusting stuff that's been put in the spotlight in the past year. I'm looking forward to the next season of Dissect to really dig into it and contextualize it in everything that's been going on since.
FD's been saying this for the last 2 years he's been on the scene. Really didn't believe him until I asked my friends. Deadass ALL of them have had interactions like this, and a few of them actually did lose their virginity this way
FD signifier might be one of the greatest TH-camrs on the platform. I think it’s so interesting about his content is the fact that it’s so transgressive in a space where that should be controversial yet he’s able to thrive and he’s so smart with the way he speaks on topics he clearly has a lot of knowledge on everything he touches and that makes me really trust what I’m getting from him as well. He helps me do a lot of reflecting and a lot of learning about myself and things like masculinity classicism racism and it’s really helped me as a young adult just turning 21 last year and now I might have to go rewatch that Kendrick Drake documentary because it’s so damn good.
I got in to a whole ass relationship when I was 14 with a 24 year old woman. I remember my friends thinking it was cool af. After that relationship was over, I remember it warping my thoughts and feelings of what love was. I remember turning 18 and thinking how nasty it was that a person that was 24 could even look at a 14 year old child in a sexual way.
This didn’t surprise me at all! When my sons started gaming and wanted to play PS or Xbox live I only had one rule…. No headphones. I would sit on the computer/clean while they played in there room w the door open so I could listen to their conversation. Some of them were so inappropriate I’d make the boys drop out of the game and join different teams. They were grown adults on there that just didn’t care and found it funny to tell your children about things they had no business knowing about. My sons are adults now but at the time that rule worked in our home but it seems ppl on the net haven’t changed at all. I’m glad we’re past that stage in life. Great coverage as always.
Sometimes it takes more than one time to address something and for change to happen.
BIGFAX. The civil rights movement is a testament to that.
Glad that kid had a good head on his shoulders at an important moment. Protect yourselves and your people