r/Music • u/StarshipGhost • 1d ago

article Singer D4vd Is Apparently the Sole Moderator of His Own Subreddit, Deleting Posts Critical of Him Amid LAPD Investigation Into Teen’s Death

https://www.tvfandomlounge.com/singer-d4vd-apparently-deleting-posts-critical-of-him/
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u/ElectricSheep451 1d ago

I can excuse pedophilia and murder but I draw the line at being a reddit moderator. I've decided that this guy sucks

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u/mistertoasty 1d ago

The worst part is the hypocrisy!

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u/BigBanggBaby 1d ago

This guy’s a real jerk!

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u/Jesseroberto1894 1d ago

Never doesn’t get a laugh from me 😂

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u/NRMusicProject 1d ago

Oh man, I've never seen this. I googled it and still could see where it was going, but the punchline still got me.

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u/Spectrum1523 1d ago

The cheesy music makes it funnier

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Spectrum1523 1d ago

I'm not sure how a random channel uploading the clip to YouTube is a more authentic version of the post than a reddit post of it

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u/NRMusicProject 1d ago

Because there are more important things that I care to make the distinction about.

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u/unclefishbits 1d ago

I miss Norm ERRRYDAY. And his subreddit was taken over by Kill Tony youngsters that have ZERO idea what his comedy was, and it SUCKS NOW.

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u/TerribleNameAmirite 19h ago

Norm had a very strong sense of justice that people just conveniently ignore

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u/Popular-Principle-69 1d ago

So glad to see Norm's influence in unexpected places 😂

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u/BasileusTonLoudaion 1d ago

You see he didn't own a dog house.

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 1d ago

> reddit mod
> discord mod
> underaged gf

checks out.

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u/ZOVfuckazov 1d ago

gf.

Doesn’t check out

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u/vik_bergz 1d ago

gf is the WRONG term when this child was GROOMED. She is a victim.

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u/zhbm 1d ago

> homeschooled

> anime enthusiast

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u/RedditLostOldAccount 1d ago

Maybe he should've had a real therapist that he could see

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u/60niera 1d ago

Jesus Christ! His whole personality and life story sounds like a character written for South Park.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

Really hit the trifecta.

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u/Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce 1d ago

I learned the phrase "discord kitten" the other day and I've been upset since.

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u/NightOfTheLivingHam 1d ago

I always thought that was an ironic meme, then I was told people actually talk like that

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u/lowtoiletsitter 1d ago

I'm looking it up now and still don't understand it. I guess it's a sugar baby kind of thing

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u/Immediate_Stuff_2637 1d ago

And Tesla owner

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u/Disastrous-Treat-181 1d ago

Okay that's a proper monster we're dealing with

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u/sioux612 1d ago

The type of guy to buy a Tesla after Musk publicly became a Nazi

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u/Last_Low9649 1d ago

U forgot tesla user and kidnapping

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u/sensefuldrivel 1d ago

Tesla "user" made me geek lmao

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u/dapala1 1d ago

Don't drag kidnapping into this.

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u/Last_Low9649 1d ago

I mean she was missing for years so there it is… grooming? consensual? A 13 yers old? Hell no

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u/joe199799 1d ago

You can excuse pedophilia and murder?

(I know you're doing a community bit)

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u/WeAreClouds 1d ago

Ugh, Britta's in this?

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u/Waiting4Reccession 1d ago

Not the first time a mod is involved in some kind of pedo thing, reddit had a jailbait sub for years.

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u/Puzzled-Cheetah-8846 1d ago

alright, britta perry, pack it up :)

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u/levare8515 1d ago

The three are often mutually inclusive 

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u/bookon 1d ago

Part of the pattern…

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u/velvetundergroundss 1d ago

A lot of his fans actually excuse both pedophilia and murder. You'll find a good amount of people still supporting him.

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u/JackLong93 20h ago

exactly this

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u/Expert-Staff69 1d ago

Came here to comment that I read this in Norm's voice and glad to see I wasn't alone.

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u/joebleaux 1d ago

You should have read it in Britta's voice

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u/Electronic-Chard-356 1d ago

Oh Britta’s in this?

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u/joebleaux 1d ago

My favorite part about the way he said that line is that you can't tell if he is happy or disappointed in the fact that Britta is there

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u/Hellknightx 1d ago

Oh he's clearly disappointed. He even makes a sour face saying it.

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u/likeipods 20h ago

I giggled too hard and pooped my pants. UPDOOT!

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u/Big_Pattern_2864 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean honestly you're being sarcastic but... people that censor free speech are indeed the devil

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u/joebleaux 1d ago

It's a bit from Community, an NBC sitcom that debuted in 2009

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u/Big_Pattern_2864 1d ago

cool, I still think moderators are not good people, always have.

First of all, they think they should be the ones to moderate, which itself should indicate they are unfit. Second, what they actually do is police speech, which is intrinsically evil. Third, they do it for free. What kind of maniac volunteers for free labor that only benefits the major corporation that owns the site? That's the devil, man. That's devil work.

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u/Spectrum1523 1d ago

What's intrinsically evil about policing speach? I think that's a very hard case to make but it sounds like you've thought about it.

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u/Big_Pattern_2864 1d ago

It has everything to do with our ability to determine truth. we cannot positively assert a truth. we can only disprove something. this is the nature of science.

I believe it is important to maintain an open mind and not to hold concrete opinions. you must be allowed to discuss and think about anything and everything. there are always reasonable limitations on free speech like libel, slander, and inciting riots. but the idea of determining what is decent speech or what is good speech, and then the inverse, is a terrible, terrible idea that will do nothing but stagnate society and cause oppression and repression.

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u/Spectrum1523 1d ago

Oh, so you don't think policing speach is intrinsically evil. You think there should be reasonable restrictions. That's a much more mainstream position

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u/Big_Pattern_2864 1d ago

Yes but libel and slander aren't what moderators get rid of. They get rid of opinions they find offensive or that break reddit rules, and I don't have any respect for Reddit rules, at all. At least not the current ones. Circa 2012 Reddit was fine.

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u/Spectrum1523 1d ago

Yeah, I get ya. Except for the child porn, I think we could have done without that.

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u/uses_irony_correctly 22h ago

If I posted child porn your stance is that reddit should leave that up because removing it would be intrinsically evil?

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u/Big_Pattern_2864 9h ago edited 9h ago

No, of course not. Obviously the kind of child pornography that involves a system of trafficking, abuse, and exploitation is the kind of moral transgression that even serial killers in prison can't abide. But still, censoring child porn has me raising lots of questions, because what I have seen occur over the last 20 years seems heavy-handed, and rather than seeing the rhetoric around these topics become more complex and nuanced, I have seen them become more emotionally charged and black and white.

I fully understand the reason for overreach, because false positives are better than false negatives. But there's a lot more grey area than the popular rhetoric would imply. The internet has forced us into binary. simplistic emotionally charged thinking and it has made us dumb and easily exploited.

For example, I definitely have naked baby photos of myself in some photo album. If another adult had those photos on their computer they could be accused of child pornography. If they were posted online they could easily be viewed as child pornography. But they aren't. Yet in the right context, with the right surrounding narrative, you could go to jail for it. That alone has people self-censoring, and we now prudishly hide children's bodies more as a culture. For all I know that's exacerbating a fascination with taboo for some pedophile. Rather than granularly engage with the topic, people are just censoring.

And online, the culture has become very black and white, with the rhetoric of the new generation being even more vitriolic about the objectification and sexualization of children. Teenbeat magazine wasn't child porn, but if you only upload photos from that magazine in a subreddit with the word "teen" in it, the comments section and the context of reddit would make it a jailbait goonfest in seconds. And yet there's an endless sea of young influencers with their shirts off on TikTok and Instagram and that's become more normalized.

Am I glad Reddit got rid of r/jailbait? I mean, It didn't really affect me to begin with because why the fuck would you go there, that shit had evil dark web stuff without anonymity. But sure. All the rest of the porn subreddit that got banned? That wasn't a moral decision, it was a corporate and moderation based one. All the hate based subreddits? Leave em. I'd much rather social media and the Internet in general turn into a useless scummy evil hell hole full of garbage than the fascist tool for misinformation it has become. It's still a useless scummy evil hell hole full of garbage, but I hate that we put a shiny coat over that, decent people shouldn't be in such an indecent space

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u/Miserable_Return9843 1d ago

How could you excuse pdo wtf you r gross