YouTube Star Under Fire For ‘Dear Fat People’ Video
YouTube superstar and comedienne Nicole Arbour has come under fire after posting a video last week that compared obesity to people who like to shop. In the video, which the comedienne is now claiming was satire, Arbour says that if overeating is an addiction and a disease then so is being a shopaholic. Those comments have drawn fire from a number of advocacy groups and led the star to claiming people who were critical of the video are “slow.”
ABC reports that Arbour was called a bully by many and that there are a number of videos that have gone up in response. “Fat-shaming is not a thing. Fat people made that up. That’s a race card with no race,” Arbour says in the video. “I’m not saying this to be an a**hole, I’m saying it because your friends should be saying it to you.” Comments like that have led many to question just how this was satire. “Fat shaming is not a thing,” said YouTube user Shawn Halpin in his own video. “Why don’t you tell that to the teenagers who killed themselves?” The artist also claimed that YouTube had temporarily blocked he video. She also says people have come up to her and agreed with her comments about obesity.
