Ethan’s deliberate cherry picking when choosing who to respond to

Ethan is plain and simple: A bully.

He can try to frame it as defending himself, but in reality, he is the internets bully (and has been for a long time) who has intentionally picked what to ignore and what to respond to.

It is so clear to me that Ethan goes after people who he knows are way out of their depth and maybe less informed on how to approach criticism of him and ignores the dozens of video essays that have made succinct and informed criticism of everything he has said. He intentionally boils the backlash down to stupid shit like the prolapse (which in my opinion people have given him the chance to do by going after silly shit like that which is actually not that deep). What is deep is all the stuff he refuses to address, because he knows he cannot without looking bad or having to apologise.

I want to clarify, no hate to Mika. Watching that video it was clear to me that she is just a sweet girl who didn’t understand the doors she is opening and in my opinion didn’t really carry the conversation that well.

But Ethan is honestly so horrible, and his crew by extension for tolerating and egging on this behaviour. Because how could you possibly think it is justified or okay to go after a girl who made a silly little video that really felt like nothing, but you don’t want to defend yourself against all the other people who are informed enough to have you cornered?

Let’s call a spade a spade, there is absolutely no reason as to why Ethan chose Mika’s video to react to other than he knew it would be an easy dunk and he comes out looking good.