It’s been over a week since youtube partner Onision made an incredibly personal attack on his ex girlfriend public for his tens of thousands of youtube followers and fans to see. He then created a series of videos (mirrored) which only exacerbated the situation. In doing so, he also deeply offended thousands of people with his statement,

“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!!

-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. 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 writing to adsense! We can do it!



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:

Sorry it’s a text video because I had borrowed a computer with a webcam to make the last video. 

holdtheonion:

Backpedaling, are we? Damage control and remorse are not the same thing, Onision!

This is in response to the hour or so of footage that Onision has released in the last week. I’m only making a video because he refuses to allow comments on his own videos. He claims this is because he doesn’t care what the haters think, but in actuality, he’s terrified of the backlash for the offensive things that he’s chosen to say. He can’t handle being told that he’s wrong and he refuses to educate himself on the issues that he thinks he knows everything about already. 

I didn’t get to touch upon nearly as much as I would’ve liked to in this video because I’m very uncomfortable on camera. I’m much more capable of expressing my views in writing than I am in speaking publicly. It took a lot for me to consider making this video, but I have such strong feelings towards what he said, and towards the systematic oppression of women that he so casually laughs at, that I put this together. For those of you who aren’t aware of what slut shaming, victim blaming, and rape apology is, I’ve put some links below for you to research. 

Victim Blaming:
http://www.zurinstitute.com/victimhood.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_blaming

Slut Shaming:
http://www.alternet.org/story/150473/slut_shame_why_do_we_still_attack_women_…
http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/what-is-slut-shaming/

Rape Apology:
http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/feed-the-faq-rape-apologis…

Coercion:
http://www.fit.edu/caps/documents/SexualCoercion_000.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercion

Rape Shield Laws: 
http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbID=DB_FAQ:RapeShieldLaws927

How can you help?

-Sign the petition to get his sponsorship removedhttp://www.change.org/petitions/onision-and-shiloh-end-the-deception-unsubscribe
-Write to adsense about how you feel he should not be sponsoredhttp://support.google.com/adsense/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1190500&page…
-Write to youtube about how you think he’s abusing his partnership
-Flag his videos as inappropriate and discuss how they effected you
-Spread the word on youtube, tumblr, twitter, Facebook, and all other forms of social media to get more people to ban against this behavior and start an open dialogue about the problems that have been outlined in this video.

Other relevant links:

-Onision drama: a tumblr that has documented this and other ridiculous things that Onision has done. http://onisiondrama.tumblr.com
-Onion Chronicles Mirrored versions of his videos so you can watch without giving him ad revenue http://onionchronicles.tumblr.com