That's the thing, Jar's video was ready for release, Kumo just uploaded it early
Jar even admitted he was going to post it on that Sunday.
So I did put my thinking cap on and I do semi-remember him saying that, but the entire time he
has maintained he wasn't sure about the video (hence sending it out to people to check over), the hitch is him having Chud look over it and whether that was to be done on stream or not. I'm willing to believe that he wasn't 100% about putting the video out but felt way more pressure to release on the back of Kumo uploading it after getting sent it from that RomanticGremlin person.
It's a scapegoat and a flat out lie so he can shift all the blame onto kumo, instead of addressing the fact Jar said in his interview with synnibear "he has to leave the beach when he sees a 16 year old in a bikini because he knows he will cause something to happen if he doesn't."
I mean yeah, he picked and choose which bits to address and solely focused on things people have in the forefront of their memory, I had completely forgot about the "beach bit" until you brought it back up and I've been following this pretty closely. It's the YTCC standard to do this (Lio did it to completely devastate Peaches' arguments, for example). I will say this much and this doesn't go so far as "Defending him" but more an explanation of his thought process.
JAR comes across as one of those autists who's severely obsessed with his public image and self-perception, to the point he has a mini freakout each upload about being "Cancelled" (Which most people would point out is really dumb) and when he speaks about this stuff it doesn't, at least to me, speak to him actively being a pedophile seeking out 16yos at the public park to lust over, but more like he's worried that
if he went to a public swimming pool and
if he was staring at a teenager in a bikini
if it turned out the teenager is a minor he is then, by proxy, a pedophile and so he doesn't want to go near the situation in fear of it occurring. While you say he shouldn't be on Youtube i just don't think he should be part of the commentary community, he clearly has no head for it.
Did no one else catch him say that the reason he definitely wasn't attracted to Synnibear because he only saw her avatar, but then to proceed to explain he lusted over Jaden Animation's avatar so much he had teenagers draw porn of her and tried asking her out
Ok so I didn't pick up on that but I also do *not* know JaidenAnimations and I assumed that he would've seen an RL pic of her given how big she is right? But also one could be allowed to give him the "Pass" on this because his example he pulled out was HopelessPeaches and I would totally understand someone like him being the type that, years ago, he was into someone for their avatar and upon seeing HP's was kind of into her but the moment he saw she looked pretty fucking ugly he learned not to hyper fixate on avatars.
I'm personally still trying to figure out what the attraction with Synni bear was for him and Kumo, worst case scenario it was the power dynamic of her being reliant on them.
Speaking of Kumo, I saw the clips of him "interviewing" Synni and holy fuck that guy was seriously being a leading SOB and it has really made it easy for JAR to blame stuff on him or come out looking better than he should've, Kumo forcing this idea that "JAR was going to rape you because of sleepy calls" was fucking insane and he was desperately making wild leaps in logic whilst clearly pressuring some chick who was very easily lead/happy to turn on people to save themselves. The whole thing was just wild for any of them to step into and they should've realised that by looking into Jack and realising the dude was fucked in the head. (Actually tried watching one of Jack's videos and holy fuck it gave me PTSD of 2008 UwU scene/emo culture on fucking MySpace and I had to stop watching it within 5 minutes)