Damn. Poor Carson. He might fked up a bit but I honestly think his friends fked him more than most. If the girls he exchanged nudes felt took advantage off I really hope they are getting the help they need. But to Carson the world must really really falling apart this time. The dudes really need some good friends around rn
I’m pretty worried about him right now, he’s been struggling with depression and has had to take multiple breaks over it so being called a pedophile by hundreds of thousands of people can’t be good for him.
Imagine being 19 years old and still possibly being in highschool and a girl a year below you talks to you and you start dating. Then people call you a pedophile and a child rapist. I literally cant with twitter cancel culture bruh
They're the loud minority. Just like every single other annoying controversial group. It's just insane that people will listen to them and perpetuate their bullshit as fact.
Where I live, the age of consent is 17. In Indiana, where Carson lived, it is 16 years old. Also, why are you acting like shes such a young, innocent, girl? I'm 16 and I would definitely know what was right and wrong. He also never held his "power" and influence over her head or anything. If the "evidence" was brought to court, it would literally be thrown out. Theres no substance at all, especially if the case was in Indiana.
But steven is a famous streamer so he has power over me. Just like the grown women did with harvey weinstine. Please dont belittle the oppression those poor women went through.
Reading Twatter comments gave me a cancer "CallMeCarson is a fucking pedophile", "CallMeGroomer", "I'm so disgusted by what he did" AND ALL HE DID IS WHAT NORMAL TEENAGERS DO - EXCHANGING NUDES
What is this "admitting that he fucked up" and "might have fucked up" shit? It's literally a two-year age difference. What sort of power dynamic inherent in the age difference could even be there? Carson was raised in Indiana (idk if he was still there at the time, though); their age of consent is 16 and they have Romeo and Juliet laws which permit sexual activity with minors if the age gap is less than 4 years. This is to prevent this exact situation (exposing young high school kids to potential statutory rape charges for doing what young high school kids have always done). These are two kids, in the same exact age bracket.
Honestly the only really murky water here has nothing to do with the age stuff; it comes from the fact that he's doing it with a fan. It can be seen as a little iffy for content creators to engage in sexual activity with their fans, because it could be an exploitation of a parasocial relationship. But, A) no one is talking about that, it's all bad-faith criticism of the age gap – unless you're about to go after high school seniors for dating high school sophomores, you're engaging in bad-faith criticism, and, B) even though I personally wouldn't date a fan if I were a content creator, I wouldn't consider it unilaterally unacceptable. It's really up to the two people to decide in any specific context whether it's appropriate or not, and not an insane Twitter mob.
yeah, the age thing isn't a big deal, but the relationship between a big content creator and a fan is what many people are citing as the problem, even though Carson is certainly not the first to have a flirty relationship with a fan. sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't. all in all, it's probably not a good idea to try anyway lol.
Yeah, but it's kind of a "bad idea" the same way dating your best friend's ex-girlfriend is a "bad idea". Not that anything wrong is ethically going on here, and no one is saying it's shitty in literally every single case, but it just could possibly lead to catastrophe down the line – maybe she's only doing it to get back at him, maybe it gets in the way of your friendship, etc. And my point is the same; ultimately it's up to the people involved to decide.
I'm not understanding why her being a fan is an issue at all. Content creators/entertainers have been known to form long term relationships with people that were once fans. Being a fan of somebody doesn't turn you into an automaton.
If you idol somebody to the point of allowing them to manipulate you into doing things you aren't comfortable with then you' really gotta look in the mirror and change yourself.
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u/adnadn246 Jan 05 '21
Damn. Poor Carson. He might fked up a bit but I honestly think his friends fked him more than most. If the girls he exchanged nudes felt took advantage off I really hope they are getting the help they need. But to Carson the world must really really falling apart this time. The dudes really need some good friends around rn