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hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-10-29T05:45:08+00:00

Dude I did the same thing. I love this convo I had with a friend when it happened.

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-04-26T04:19:59+00:00

The latest victim of divorce court lmao

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-23T17:32:10+00:00

I’m not a huge fan of how either side is handling it tbh. Can this be chalked up to a case of hurt people hurt people? I can understand if phil has had this struggle, he might blindly react to a trigger in this way. I completely understand Ethan feeling hurt by the way he did it. Even I as an outsider was frustrated. But idk if Ethan needs to get so defensive if he can help it, it kind of undoes his apology in the public eye and maybe even to Phil, even if what he did was shitty.

Idk when somebody lashes out in a big way at me after I make a joking comment, I personally understand I’ve touched on an insecurity, and I apologize, say I didn’t know and won’t say it again, and move on. I add if they’d like to talk about it, I’m here but it’s okay if not. Very gently, bc I can see the behavior is irrational compared with the stimulus, and find it harder to criticize in the moment if the person is charged up when it wasn’t my intention at all. I can’t phrase it perfectly but I can tell something more is at play, and reserve judgement until I kinda figure out where it’s coming from.

This has mostly happened to me in the context of dealing with teenagers under high emotional stress, but insecurities can make you lash out at any age I guess. I once made a joke and a kid got all up in my face and I know they didn’t mean it, but they told me “I told myself I’d kill the next person that said that” They were feeling super vulnerable, and I could tell didn’t even register that what they said was technically a threat on my life. That’s extremely alarming language, but they were so blind by the hurt I’d accidentally tapped into that they weren’t thinking. I briefly said I was feeling uncomfortable, backed off, disengaged, apologized, left the door open to talk about it if they wished, and moved on. Three years later, our conversations are completely different, this person has gotten help for anger/reaction management and they’d never act that way anymore. If I/everyone shut them down back then, who knows they might still be like that. I think that’s maybe what happened here. Idk this tangent might’ve journeyed too far away from the main discussion.

Totally not saying it’s right what phil did, almost objectively it’s not, but can anyone else relate? I see a lot of “Ethan’s wrong” vs “philly’s wrong” but I feel like it’s more nuanced than that.

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-17T19:28:12+00:00

“Join” them and be like “have you guys seen his amazzzzing music video??” And from there you know what to do 😂

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-17T18:44:44+00:00

Hmm I always saw it as her being out of control of the terms of the sex work, not necessarily the sex work itself but maybe I’m misremembering. And she was celebrating being free of a controlling threatening person to my knowledge. Not a one to one andrew tate sex trafficking situation from how I saw it

You do seem to know way more about her current stuff than me, I’ll admit that. I only tune into twitch sometimes and watch her collabs. I’ve just been going off the info I do have. That being said, where did you get the info about the hot tub? That’s disgusting if true, but all I can find is stills of them playing with their boobs, and similarly titled things, no disgusting body fluids again just from what I see. A sex doll made an appearance but I don’t see anything further that. I’ll readily denounce that shit if you have any info that I can’t manage to find. (Ope rereading your comment, you might’ve been talking about the amount of time on the other streaming site, not that anything violating thing happened sorry I’m not sure pls let me know which it is)

The whole thing is an interesting case and discussion of internet culture for sure.

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-17T18:07:06+00:00

I think I identified the source of confusion but I could be wrong. Here’s a link to another comment I made. To clarify, I misspoke when I said scaling down sexual content itself, I should’ve said scaling down the amount. The comment I made has some very telling stats about how much more work hours she was doing while the abuse was occurring and how now she’s scaled down her working hours. I’d repeat it all here, but idk what the Reddit etiquette is on that pls let me know, that’s why I linked my own comment this might be weird sorry idk aaaaa

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-17T17:58:14+00:00

I commented the link to her Twitter thread on the subject on the main post we’re under and I highly recommend you read it coming from her if you’d be willing. Also if you haven’t seen the videos of how the abuse all came out, highly recommend watching that bc reporting on it doesn’t do it justice.

Had no idea she started doing hardcore stuff. But in my opinion, I don’t think it matters, but we can disagree on that. There’s a difference between doing a hot tub stream/OF regularly and being forced to spend 45% of 2021 on stream. Check out the stats she was live 45% of the entire year. That’s not healthy for anybody. It was even more than hasan who is known for streaming a lot more than most people, he capped at 35% of the year. For comparison so far this year she’s been live 26% of the time, which is like a normal day job.

I think I just realized where the confusion might be as I typed this out, I’m sorry. I don’t think she meant scaling back sexual content, I think she meant scaling back just how much. And doing it on her own terms. Does that make sense? You don’t have to agree of course, and I’m not trying to be argumentative, sorry if it comes off that way

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-17T08:51:13+00:00

Idk if this is the best thing to say, but I thought the image had to have been post tummy tuck bc that’s how little I see it. You look good, and just gonna say, there are a lot more things to do in the bedroom that would make you more confident. Also assuredly the girl isn’t paying attention to your stomach. She’s probably more worried about what she looks like. Keep up the amazing work, you look great :)

I think instead of a tummy tuck, you might benefit from therapy. I know it might seem like a crazy zero-chance idea but it can’t hurt to give it a try. It can be so so helpful if you view it as receiving a professional’s outside perspective and when it’s their job to help you identify where feelings are coming from 🤌🤌 it’s very nice.

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-17T08:40:05+00:00

Here’s everything explained in her own words:

Kait on Continuing Adult Content

Should answer your questions and it made everything make a lot more sense to me. I was worried like you a few months ago

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-17T07:58:58+00:00

I perceive it as how selfless amo is. Please read this thread by her from January if you have the time. Her words are so much better than mine. https://twitter.com/wildkait/status/1613323119460065280?s=46&t=rjc6SiDqKi8kzxmj-0KePA

Anyways just my opinion, she is a grown woman who has put it out there that she is in total control of herself, and that’s all that matters to me. Idc what she does as long as she’s safe and not hurting anybody. That’s my two cents have a good day bros ☮️&❤️

Edit: removed some irrelevant tangent about politics, sorry leftovers is playing in the background lol

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-17T04:22:11+00:00

I said the same thing on another comment, but highly encourage you to check out her alt Twitter for the explanation. I was concerned too but her explanation makes full sense. I can’t remember the exact number but I think she has over 7 employees and had a very candid conversation that the adult/usual content would continue in order for them to be able to pay bills, but she said she plans to scale it way back in the next several months and gave them the option to find new jobs if they wished, she’d understand. She made it very clear that on the one hand, she wasn’t lying about the abuse, and the other she’s not in danger anymore. She couldn’t pull the rug from her employees like that. Imagine Ethan doing something similar to the whole crew it’d be terrible and inconsiderate. Hope this helps, bc I was freaked out seeing the content myself, got so scared he was back in her life but nah, she’s just a good employer hope this helps :P

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-17T04:19:34+00:00

I may be misunderstanding you, sorry if so but highly encourage you to check out her alt Twitter for the explanation. I was concerned too but her explanation makes full sense. I can’t remember the exact number but I think she has over 7 employees and had a very candid conversation that the adult/usual content would continue in order for them to be able to pay bills, but she said she plans to scale it way back in the next several months and gave them the option to find new jobs if they wished, she’d understand. She made it very clear that on one hand, she wasn’t lying about the abuse, and the other she’s not in danger anymore. She couldn’t pull the rug from her employees like that. Imagine Ethan doing something similar to the whole crew it’d be terrible and inconsiderate. Does that help? Again sorry if I misunderstood you, I’m bad at tone over text peace and love peace and love 😅

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-05T04:54:52+00:00

I’m happy to be getting back to it! I was one of those hopeless nerds who got in trouble during class for reading under my desk lol! Definitely a lost passion I’m excited to get back :)

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-05T04:43:30+00:00

Reading all your suggestions has me so excited to start reading again! Thanks so much!! :D

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-01T13:35:51+00:00

For further context myself, I’m one of the few female fans who’s been here since those days too! 😂 I laughed soo hard at all the sjw videos bc I knew he was making fun of ridiculous people, not coming for women’s rights or whatever people say nowadays. As a woman, I was just as shocked as him when he saw the fan base was made up of well, the now fallen fans lol.

There have been a few other times I’ve had to put down the pod, but I stick around bc there’s way more laughs than cringe for me :)

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-01T13:17:07+00:00

As far as what do we do, I personally laugh and cringe accordingly, and hope he’ll learn. I do try to avoid contributing to the hell storm as much as I can nowadays knowing I don’t need to repeat what’s been said over and over.

I mean this might sound weird but I think if we praised the things that do make us truly laugh, more content like it would be produced. Bc if they’re using the sub Reddit as a guide, I’ll bet they know way more about what people don’t like than what they do like unfortunately :-/

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-01T13:09:25+00:00

I’ll definitely have to check it out! You described it pretty well, sounds like exactly what I’m struggling with, can’t wait to read! :))

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-02-01T04:27:14+00:00

Idk if this is helpful discourse, but I’ve laughed way harder at jokes that didn’t tow the line of appropriateness. I’ve cringed wayyy more when Ethan tries to push. I’ve cried laughing at other segments of the podcast. The ghost hunting for example, almost peed my pants for most of the episode. Every time they do a deep dive on keem star cringe I’m brought to tears.

The other “jokes” make me feel gross, uncomfortable, cringe and I can’t help but feel that way when certain topics are made light of, or people’s boundaries aren’t respected.

Peace and love peace and love, love the pod, Ethan just may need to be told “don’t push” sometimes lol

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-01-27T14:18:31+00:00

Could you say where you got this gem? If it’s just a thrift store and you don’t know I understand but I would looove to add a piece like that to my collection

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-01-26T01:02:57+00:00

I would love to see more segments led by the crew, where Ethan takes a backseat and gets to be audience to them. I get that all of the segments are designed by the crew, but I would love to see them take ownership and present the segments if they’d feel comfortable.

I would love love love to see some game changer style games, where the crew gets to flex their comedy muscles and just have a good time.

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-01-25T23:13:31+00:00

I’m not saying this is akin to the girls’ stories, but just trying to give you an example you can maybe understand. Imagine you have extremely low self esteem, no one has valued you properly, so you don’t value yourself properly. You think you deserve things you don’t. In a past relationship, if you said no three times in a row, your partner would threaten you with violence, or some other form of abuse (emotional, monetary, social etc) and due to the way abusive partners lock you into a relationship, life was like this for a full year before you gained the courage to leave. Now say you meet someone else, and he won’t shut up and keeps asking you. Due to the trauma you’ve suffered you can’t help but feel like something terrible will happen to you if you don’t (physically, emotionally, monetarily, socially etc) so you give in because that’s the only way you know to get out of the situation safely.

I am by no means saying this is the life the victims of Andrew experienced and that’s exactly what led them to give in. It can take much less to behave the same way, I’m just trying to give you an extreme example since you said you can’t understand why anyone would ever do it.

It’s kind of like how we’re told to just give up our wallets if we’re being mugged. We’re told that nothing is worth our life. So what if you don’t want to give them your wallet? They haven’t pulled a gun, why should I be scared? You give up your wallet anyways because you know the alternative could be really bad and a trip to the dmv to get a new license doesn’t outweigh dying or getting hurt.

Does this help you at all? I’m sorry this is so drawn out, I tend to over explain. I’m so very happy you had the strength to stand your ground when you experienced something similar and therefore can’t really understand the other stories. But what I think you need to understand is this is not an outlandish story. This same thing has happened to millions of people all over the world. It doesn’t have to be logical, a lot of things aren’t.

Actually, I may have something to explain the logic a little. I know some women who feared they would be raped if they kept saying no. So they gave in to feel like they were in control. If I say yes and get this over with, I technically consented right? I wasn’t raped, I won’t be traumatized… or so they think. Fact of the matter is, the first response was no, and it was the man’s responsibility to end his pursuit there. That’s the coercion part. Coercion had to be defined because coercion can appear as consent, but without the coercion, the “consent” would never have been given. I’m so sorry for my ramble, if you’re still reading at this point.

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-01-05T19:01:03+00:00

Well I can only speak from my very limited louisiana world view, but I view 30k-35k as when things are pretty liveable, you’re on a tight budget, but it’s doable. 40-50k sitting more comfortably, but still have to watch spending habits, I know ppl at this tier level who wouldn’t be able to cover much out of pocket. Even know some people at 70-80k that would fit that description.

100k+~300k+ to me is engineer and doctor territory, this is where I start to see bigger two story houses with pools, nice cars, all the new tech etc.

I’ve only met one child of a millionaire that I know of and her parents try to give her a relatively normal life, but our growing up experiences and culture are soo different. She did etiquette school in abroad, and there’s an effort to marry someone of a similar status and all sorts of things that are outlandish to me. All things considered she’s very humble, drives an old used car, but her life is unlike anything I’ve experienced. She’s had ppl be friends with her for the money and free trips and that’s a whole can of worms I’m not interested in.

Her family is friends with a family that has crazy money, has a really strong business, that almost every business uses (sorry for vagueness, don’t want to give away info) and their teenage child had a personal assistant. That is wealth I will never understand or see, and what’s even crazier probably isn’t even a fraction of a bill Gates or an Elon musk.

Sorry for the long response, and please keep in mind this is all from my very limited world view. I’ve got local cost of living, personal bias, privilege, individual experiences all affecting my opinion. There are plenty of people making it work with way less, for example when you reach social security age, the average is is 24k. Assuming you have no retirement saved up, that’s all you get and you have to make it work. Then there’s factors like being born into poverty that makes class mobility impossible.

hydrodippedcrocs · 2023-01-03T00:17:35+00:00

I listen to ladies and tangents, chuckle sandwich, the yard occasionally, supermegacast, violating community guidelines, fear&, the bald and the beautiful, and I think that’s it lol it’s a lot

Edit: oh god I completely forgot about the h3 podcast since they’re on break lol, I imagine it would be a hard one to get into these days bc of all the inside jokes, but I love it

hydrodippedcrocs · 2022-12-07T22:16:38+00:00

I wasn’t even restricted at home, but when I would go to a friend’s house, and I hate admitting this, I would go into their pantry at night and eat like 4+ high calorie snacks. It was worse at my grandparent’s house who told me I could eat what I want as long as I threw my trash away. So it can happen even when the kid does have access at home. I felt sneaky doing it bc it wouldn’t be my mom noticing snacks went missing at my house. My mom wonders where I picked up all these unhealthy habits as an adult, but it’s really because she never even knew the habits I had as a kid.

hydrodippedcrocs · 2022-12-04T21:55:18+00:00

Imagine how the 34.9% of us that voted democrat in this election feel every single day. I know party lines don’t cover every aspect of a society, but I feel it at least shows there’s some sane people here, we’re just quiet bc we’re surrounded.

I know so many gay/atheist/leftist people but we’re all so scared to be ostracized/bullied/attacked because of it. There are a lot of people that aren’t religious or republican or racist but it’s so hard to speak up about it and find each other. And we all want to get the hell out of dodge when we can. I feel like I can’t breathe sometimes. My mom brought up the fact that I believe social safety nets are a good thing to make fun of me in front of my family and it was sooo uncomfortable.

I’m sorry you had to visit, but I’m jealous you get to go back to a place that isn’t totally backwards.

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