pic.twitter.com/KCKRP3099c— ManiacalV will never DM you for money (ColinT) (@ManiacalV) January 3, 2021After the “Bean Dad” saga, users began to dig up old tweets by Roderick where he’d used offensive slurs.
He has now shared an apology for both the thread and his old tweets on his website.He said the thread that brought him so much criticism was “poorly told” and exaggerated for effect, adding: “I framed the story with me as the asshole dad because that’s my comedic persona and my fans and friends know it’s ‘a bit’.”Addressing the older tweets, he said they “were intended to be ironic, sarcastic”.“I thought then that being an ally meant taking the slurs of the oppressors and flipping them to mock racism, sexism, homophobia, and bigotry,”.
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