Adin Ross Asking People To "Act Black" In Latest Example Of Streamers Being Awful
Former Twitch and current Kick streamer Adin Ross recently uploaded a YouTube video where he went on Omeagle and asked people to "act Black" for $100. When they would refuse, he'd up the amount to $200. When they'd eventually do it, he would then shout "Yo! You’re racist!" as if this was some big 'gotcha' moment. It shows that the current generation of streamers hasn't learned from the pitfalls of YouTube's 'social experiments', which were often racist, misogynistic, homophobic, or a combination of all three.
As reported by Dexerto, the infamous streamer uploaded the video to his YouTube channel on February 16. Titled 'i told strangers to act black for $100', it's just lacking the often memed (gone wrong!), (gone sexual!) suffixes.
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The video is harmful because it pushes the idea that there's an inherent set of behaviours associated with race. One commenter on the video, Ujefaa Sama, wrote, "Acting black doesn’t exist, how does one act a colour, black isn’t even an ethnicity. You mean 'act like a thug', which isn’t all of us."
Videos like this, where rich influencers and content creators dangle money in front of people to act like idiots, showcase some of the worst in humanity. For many people, $200 is a life-changing amount of money, worth being seen as racist online for. If it means you can afford a suit for a job interview, or repair your car to go to work, or buy yourself or your child some medicine, there isn't much people won't do for that.
Ross' video most clearly resembles an old PewDiePie video where he commissioned people on Fiverr to hold up a sign that read "death to all Jews", something he later claimed was a
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