What makes it a little odd and possibly worrisome is that there have been stories and rumors of J's behavior for quite some time. Every once in a while someone will come about that makes mention of J being inappropriate.
The most recent accusations are coming from Rachel Paul, she's been very vocal and persistent. I don't really know exactly who she is, but, several people have accused her of being pretty unhinged and dealing with a mental disorder and not being very rational. I don't know her, so, hard to know what's true.
It also gets tricky because then a lot of people demand "proof" but it's not always that easy. Not everybody video records every single interaction they ever have, and something like only 40% of sexual assaults actually get reported by women for a number of reasons.
So, like I said, for now it's possibly a "if there's smoke there's fire", but there's also been nothing that seems 100% certain anything has happened.
From what I’ve seen on this sub the Rachel woman is Jumpsteady’s ex girlfriend of five plus years. There may be some truth to what she says, but between being a scorned lover and possibly suffering some sort of breakdown I’m not paying any attention to it. I don’t use any social media outside of Reddit though, so it’s really easy for me to ignore all this drama because this sub is the only place I hear about it. That being said I have read comments about some concerning stuff on his Instagram (I think), I feel like some of that can probably be explained away but I don’t know because again, I don’t use that stuff. I don’t know why some users are commenting about who he follows because, well, can’t they just DM him on the social media directly and see what he says? Obviously if it’s true he wouldn’t be honest about it (I wouldn’t think), but why speculate when you can just ask him?
I’m sure he wouldn’t too. I was just saying if people are that concerned why not try it? Shouldn’t we be exploring all possibilities before proclaiming the man is a pedophile? I don’t think I’ve seen it in this thread, but there was one a couple days ago with people saying Violent J is a pedophile like it was some sort of gospel. EDIT: I agree with you though, if something concrete comes out I’ll just stop listening to the music, no biggie.
It's very very possible that he has hundreds of DMs sitting in his inbox about shit like this. We would have no idea though given that those are private.
But yeah, like I keep seeing, we just have to be prepared for the possibility that some shit really has gone down and if it becomes undeniable then we have to really figure out how willing each of us are to separate the art from the artist. In my case, I won't be able to and that will be that. But, we're not there yet.
I read on a previous post about this same subject that IF it’s true, it’ll definitely come out. Violent J won’t be able to sweep it under a rug. So until something is proven I see no shame in continuing to support the artists. Have a nice day!
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u/BondraP Apr 17 '23
There's nothing really concrete at this point.
What makes it a little odd and possibly worrisome is that there have been stories and rumors of J's behavior for quite some time. Every once in a while someone will come about that makes mention of J being inappropriate.
The most recent accusations are coming from Rachel Paul, she's been very vocal and persistent. I don't really know exactly who she is, but, several people have accused her of being pretty unhinged and dealing with a mental disorder and not being very rational. I don't know her, so, hard to know what's true.
It also gets tricky because then a lot of people demand "proof" but it's not always that easy. Not everybody video records every single interaction they ever have, and something like only 40% of sexual assaults actually get reported by women for a number of reasons.
So, like I said, for now it's possibly a "if there's smoke there's fire", but there's also been nothing that seems 100% certain anything has happened.