Per last night's stream, I still maintain that #JackBlack did not get hired to be on #sesamestreet, he just actually found himself at Sesame Street one day and taught Elmo about Octagons and they just happened to record it
@SirTapTap I can kinda give them the benefit on this one, his crimes weren't really well known at the time. But I do wonder what the writers of this felt after that became public...
@Kallekatt13 Oh yeah just very banal stuff. Ad references were pretty big at the time since everyone watched TV so stuff like the jared ads, "can you hear me now" and stuff were unavoidable
@SirTapTap How "beloved" was Jared as a "mascot" anyways? I was pretty young when he was airing (2000-early 2010s?), so I only really know him for the kiddy diddlin'.
@Kallekatt13 He was pretty popular, a very polite and every-man looking guy and his transformation pics were amazing, though of course largely unrelated to Subway. It really was pretty much an OJ situation
@Kallekatt13 Yeah, OJ is sort of unique in getting out scott free. More of a trumpian figure I guess. Or Cosby though none of it's directly comparable. Cosby's life's basically toast despite the (important) technicality that got him off, though on the other hand, it was so late in his life to begin with.
@SirTapTap Funnily enough, I first heard of Cosby BECAUSE of the SA:s he did. Maybe it's because I never lived through the 90s or maybe he wasn't as popular in my country as he was in America.
@Kallekatt13 Sheesh, that's definitely a cultural thing lol, I was born well after his peak but there was still cosby parodies in everything.
Well, pretty fucking BIG technicality actually, evidence was illegally obtained. Sucks he had to be released, but it was the right call. Rules have to apply to everyone, otherwise police will just "know" people did it just like the "good old days".
@SirTapTap That does suck. But we at least take some (very) small comfort in that he will probably never have that same kind of influence that he just to have!
@SirTapTap And I thought those guys would defend literally ANYTHING these guys did!
Also, did you know that metoo actually had quite a global impact, beyond the US? We had a metoo movement in Sweden, for example, and several people were outed as being really shitty.
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