“And then she goes to insinuate that when we did make love that I was forcing her into it, that I was pressuring her into it and she didn’t really want to. That’s funny coming from someone who has slept with over 20 people.”  - A Horrible Rebound (mirrored) 

This statement cut deep for many viewers who have been the victim of rape, and not been believed because they’d had too many past sexual partners. One woman made a very brave and honest video in response, saying,

“You practically said that if you’ve been with over 20 people you can’t get raped. Greg, your personality reminds me of my rapist… You know what my rapist told me? After he raped me, he told me nobody would believe that he raped me because I’d been with over 20 people. You basically said the same thing my rapist said which is why I compare you to my rapist. You, in my eyes, are just as bad, if not worse than him. You’re showing kids that it’s impossible for a ‘slut’ to be raped. You know what Greg? I’m a ‘slut,’ and I got raped.” - Onision is Like My Rapist

She was just one of dozens of videos which expressed disgust at his statements. A petition, which had been created back in December after his last scandal where he and his now ex-girlfriend Shiloh scammed everyone into believing that she had sepsis, suddenly found it’s signature count shooting up over a thousand more than it had previously. People were outraged, and rightfully so. Yet youtube and adsense, the companies which sponsor him, haven’t batted an eyelash. They don’t seem to be responding to our protest, causing Onision to feel more invincible by the day.

This is unacceptable. It is more important now than ever before to take a stand against him and not stop until his sponsorship is revoked. He should be ashamed of his actions and he should not be profiting off of manipulating minors into following his dangerous and despicable opinions. Do not underestimate his power, this is not some rogue troll with ten followers that is easily ignored. You saw the figures in his facebook statement. He has influence over too many people, people who treat his opinions like gospel, to let his actions go unchecked.

DO NOT BE PASSIVE! DO NOT WAIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

This will not be rectified by a few people complaining. We all need to voice our opinions so that youtube and adsense cannot turn a blind eye to this. Please take a few minutes of your time to do the following:

-Sign the Petition to get his sponsorship revoked
-Report his accounts to Adsense (report both accounts OnisionSpeaks and Onision)
-Flag his offensive videos, (Here is a step by step on how to flag them) the category for each is listed in their descriptions (this is a playlist of the videos on his accounts for you to flag. Only click on these videos to flag them, if you just want to watch his videos, please use the mirrored account OnionChronicles so that you don’t give him ad revenue. Do not flag the videos on OnionChronicles, for they are to document and prove his behavior)
-Report his facebook pages, Onision and OnisionSpeaks for Other/Abusive Content > Contains Hate Speech
-Write to Vidcon, an upcoming convention which he is speaking at, and request that they revoke his invitation. We wrote and they listened! As of January 20th, he has been removed from the speakers list!!

-Contact the other speakers on their list and ask them to speak out in support of the cause.
-Upload your own reactions to his videos on youtube.
-Reblog (don’t just like, reblogging spreads the word) and repost this to other social networking sites, along with other posts from OnionChronicles, OnisionDrama, and HoldTheOnion, that show the horrible things that he’s done.
-Send this post, or your own take on the subject, along with the playlist of his offending videos (mirrored) to popular websites which discuss internet issues and support women’s rights. (Ex: Jezebel - Email, Gawker - Email, Bitchmedia - Contact, Feminist.com - Email, The Good Men Project - Email)
-Tweet about it (we need a good hashtag, send me ideas!)
-Send me a video anywhere from 10-60 seconds, saying that you want Onision’s partnership revoked (any brief comment why can be included, but keep it brief, I will edit them together for a youtube video. Please send these asap)

Please do at least one of these things. But the more you do, the better. Our voices will be heard!

EDIT Jan 20, 2012: We have made some progress. Vidcon listened, and removed him from the list of speakers and he is super pissed. We have over 2,600 signatures on the petition. Good job guys. I’d like to thank everyone who took the time to e-mail them. This is just more motivation to continue fighting the good fight. Let’s give youtube a wakeup call! Keep flagging! Keep reblogging! Keep writing to adsense! We can do it!

If hater = someone with an informed contradictory opinion and desire to right the wrongs of influential but painfully ignorant public speakers, I will GLADY accept that title.

 

If you have difficulty expressing your opinions on the subject, here is the letter I sent to Adsense. Feel free to use this as a form letter or to help you come up with your own ideas if you would like to:

 To Adsense:

 It has come to my attention that you sponsor youtube partner Onision. I’m incredibly disheartened by this, and I don’t believe that he should be paid for the types of videos he produces. 

As of late, all Onision has contributed to the community are hateful, spiteful, and bullying videos, specifically targeting his ex girlfriend, as well as a large percentage of the female population. His recent videos have been riddled with derogatory language and have encouraged the policing of other people’s bodies in the form of shaming them. He also insinuated that people with a certain number of sex partners cannot be pressured into sex which offended thousands of people and sparked dozens of response videos, including one very emotional video from a rape victim herself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSCVNCpfh2I

I’m disgusted by his recent videos and, despite his attempt at an apology, I do not believe he is actually sorry, or actually will change his behavior in the future. It seems to me that this is part of a cycle of his, where he makes several videos that deeply offend a percentage of his fans and viewers, he receives a backlash by those affected by his judgmental comments, he rants about them and dismisses them as “haters,” and then he finally apologises to save face and tries to cover it up by deleting the videos. Only the damage is already done, it’s far too late for an apology. His young, impressionable followers have already swallowed his opinions whole and committed to them as gospel. It is also a very cheap way to rack up views and collect ad revenue.

Sponsoring these videos is condoning his destructive behaviors. I can’t imagine that you, or the companies that advertise with you, support such opinions. Revoking his sponsorship will send the message that you do not take this lightly, and that you respect the people who are watching the ads that you attach to these videos.

Here is a playlist of the offending videos. They’ve been mirrored because he has a tendancy to delete videos:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL25DB4CA3C9A26468

However, his youtube accounts are OnisionSpeaks and Onision

Thank you for your consideration.