Do yall think FA will ever get cancelled? It seems they always skate by every accusation or issue brought up about them. They have lost a lot of viewers but they still record Abbie’s every move.
Have yall seen how Colleen Ballinger is being canceled right now? Ppl are pulling up her old Youtube videos.
I think “puberty blockers” chick was right on track. If Fathering Autism gets into the right hands of one of the new generation content creators, it’s a wrap for FA. It would be hilarious if something like “puberty blockers” got them cancelled. The new generation does not play around with what they believe in lol.
They're at a weird place right now in terms of social media cancelling.
Colleen is significantly more popular, and always has been. Her views have dropped and her audience has changed over the years, but she's still got a huge group of people who followed her in the past or who were very aware of who she is.
In order to be "cancelled" in the way the word is currently used there has to be a fairly significant audience willing to put forth the effort to do the cancelling. Colleen has that, even if that audience doesn't currently watch her content.
The Maasses are kind of on the edge of that level of social media fame and that means it would take a certain level of fuckup to gain enough outside traction to see an actual public cancelling. The secret daughter thing is a good illustration of this; that did a number on their core base of fans and they bled views afterwards, but it never migrated outside of the general FA online world because, despite what Atha likes to tell himself, no one gives a shit about them. They're not famous Youtubers, they're not renowned autism experts, they're not charming, messy family vloggers. They're mid content creators using their audience to springboard their MLM scamming for money.
The most likely outcome for these fools is - and I've been saying this for years - a fairly gradual sputtering out of their online presence. Their actual audience will dwindle, their "income streams" (including Slimelife) will dry up, the hardcore humpers will fade away leaving them more open to unchecked negative comments, the vlogs will come less often, and they'll eventually have to seek out other sources of income.
We're actually seeing this ^^^ play out now. It's a process, but it's happening. Asa is in the midst of trying to drum up other sources of income - the Boone rental, vague plans for a new channel/new channels, suggestive content on FA, etc - as everything is crumbling around them.
As things stand, I don't know that anything they're doing
at a glance is enough to capture the attention of the younger gen's ire. They're Youtubers in a Tiktok world.
I do feel strongly, however, that Asa is heading down a pathway that may cause him some problems outside of his little bubble and that those dang kids may pick up on something juicy enough to give Asa a taste of what cancelling is like. If he didn't read Tattle on the daily I'd expound on that but I'd rather see him shoot himself in the foot.
Based on the media he consumes and how that media affects one's views on the world I believe he's going to get sloppy about trying to revitalize Fathering Autism. Kids these days™ don't care about SSI fraud or child abandonment or MLM bullshit. The things they do care about are exactly what his media tells him is okay.
Whether he gets sloppy enough before Maass Media LLC crumbles to nothingness remains to be seen, I suppose.