ITS NOT F*CKING HARD TO LEAVE YOUNG GIRLS ALONE! ITS NOT HARD TO LEAVE YOUNG PEOPLE ALONE PERIOD!

the downfall of male drama channels this year has been WILD

I really hate the whole "But they're 18 so it's okay" thing. There's not much difference between an 18 year old and a 17,16 year old. Legality does not equal morality.

What 25 year old can look at a 17 year old and be like "Yeah, I wanna get with that."? It's so gross. That's a kid. It doesn't matter what anyone says, a 17 year old is a kid. That's so gross.

The age of consent is when teenagers can legally consent to each other, not when it suddenly became legal to be with a teenager. She was still legally a child no matter what state this happened in.

I’m not surprised. Fraternities operate like police departments & there’s a wall of silence. It’s why abuse has been slid under the rug since their inception.

I hate hate hate people dismissing this because it’s Tana. There is no “perfect” victim and it’s so gross to see people excuse any form of assault. Saying shit like oh she was underage but wanted to, or she was drunk, or why did she go home with him is so awful for all victims. It’s the same with male victims being dismissed especially by other men saying oh you’re lucky she’s hot, or how could you not fight a woman off. All victims deserve to be heard and validated in their experience, and supported as they work to heal their trauma. You don’t get to cast aside a literal crime because you don’t like the victim.

Tana gets to say if it's traumatizing to her, that's not up for us to decide. However, we can all say a crime was committed, Cody Ko is a dirtbag for taking advantage of a minor, of a young woman who was a fan of his. That's abuse of power and it's beyond gross.

we always have to remind ourselves to not trust content creators no matter how much we believe they’re lovable and good people

Do not allow teachers, relatives, friends or religious leaders, etc to say “You’re so mature for your age” It’s not a compliment. It’s a huge red flag. As a society we need to stop casually allowing groomer language to be used with our daughters

I was 13 and he was 19. The aunt that I told blamed me for flirting with him. For years I blamed myself. Recently in therapy I realized that he was an adult who knew better. I was a kid who thought I knew everything. Well everything except how to handle the trauma

I loved cody and really dislike Tana but never have I ever once said that shit about this situation. Fuck no.

Tana had no one to protect her in L.A and people wonder why she's the way that she is, she's so desensitized its sad, and it's unfair to tell her that it was "so long ago", "look at what she wearing" or saying stuff like "Well she's not a good person" as if she as an impressionable yougin deserved to be taken advantage of by a FULLY AWARE AND GROWN ADULT. (Who btw was warned about her age) I'm not a fan Tanas but I'm also not a fan of groomers

So many guys say if she’s 17 it isn’t that bad. But an older guy having sex with a young woman is always predatory, it’s just that under 18 is the line where we say “Now it’s so bad we throw you in jail.” It’s not okay!!!!!

So I grew up in a time where it was not really a big deal for 16/17 year old girls have these boyfriends 24/25. I remember those girls thinking it was so cool, and I dated a guy that old at 17…when I turned 25, I was just like ugh! What a freak. I’ll always feel like he kind of took something from me, even though we were never intimate, even though he tried to tell other people we had been. What a nasty flex. Trying to say you slept with a 17 year old. That’s ok. He has a daughter now and I feel like karmas going to get him. My mom always said”there’s a reason women his own age don’t want him.” She was right.

i'm so glad you're saying this bc i was so fucking weirded out by the fact that everyone just moved on after the tana situation came out

People say “they always gave me off vibes” about canceled creators. I didn’t understand until this one. I actively avoided this guys channel for a reason I didn’t know.

I am SO HAPPY that as a society we are finally seeing how fucked it is for older people do date 17 year olds. I remember being called a prude for calling people out who did it at a haunted house I worked at. Im so sad that this happened to Tana and everyone else its happened too, but I'm really grateful that they are talking about it now, so this backlash can happen, and hopefully, it will show younger people this is gross and older people that its not gonna fly anymore.

I would love for her to name every single man who slept with her when she was a child. Shame them all, regardless of their popularity because their current partners deserve to know.

I was such a huge Cody ko fan and I was for years. I even went to a tiny meat gang live show. Something about the way he talked about women always irked me a bit, but I left it at that because I know I’m not going to 100% agree with my fav creators all the time. Especially because I knew he was a frat boy and I assumed he was still slightly brainwashed from that. However, since this came out about tana, I’m out. I don’t understand how you can justify what Cody did. He knew she was 17 and did it anyway. That’s gross, predatory, and illegal behavior and I can no longer watch his content or support him.

ill never forget him and noel dismissing andrew tates negative impact in their podcast and i stopped watching them since then and all this makes sense now tbh because maybe they didnt see the large impact of how andrew tate is genuinely hurting women with his content the same way how they dont see how theyre hurting women with their own personal actions

I loved Cody and have been a huge fan for years and this ia so gross. The fact people seemed mad at Tana for "exposing him right after he had a baby" feels like such victim shaming. I don't care even if she just walked in the room naked and seduced him....as a 25 year old man you dont let it happen. He seriously needs to address it.

... and yes the " sponsors" is always the red flag. Pewdiepie said it best - you ALWAYS can look up your sponsors and make a decision - not to by another snakeoil seller.

I wish i was surprised but im not. Any one in a frat is someone to be wary around. Frats are notorious for committing and then covering up sexual crimes. Even if they themselves didnt do the crime, they most likely know someone in their frat that did and kept quiet about it which makes them an accessory to that crime

imagine being told that the girl you’re about to hook up with is a minor and STILL feeling like doing it… absolutely disgusting. but his fans’ behavior is worse.

I wonder if Kelsey knew about that groomsman. If not, I do feel terrible for her right now. Can’t imagine being in a relationship and realizing these horrific things about your partner and friend. If she did know, yeah I don’t feel bad.

i loved cody so much but smth rubbed me the wrong way when he was still taking sponsors from better help after everyone kept telling him about how awful they were and then there’s more stuff coming out about him now:(

Also Cody shared Colby’s Instagram page on all the old vlogs Colby was it (which was most of them) and there are comments from people who followed it through him that Colby would immediately follow back and dm fans. Cody invited more potential victims into the arms of an accused r*pist. This is more sinister than people think.

What’s crazy is I didn’t even know Cody said the N word and then apologized about it. He never mentioned it on his channel or other platforms to my knowledge. That’s was definitely done on purpose.

I do not like or respect Tana as a creator/influencer. Does that mean she deserves to be treated like she's worthless? Absolutely not. He is a creep, end of story.

As a (recovering) former Cody fan who hit my limit when the info about C*lby being a groomsman came out, what's appalling is his community had known about the accusations and disciplinary history at Duke for a long time. I cant speak for every long-time fan, obviously, but quite a few of us knew and Cody definitely knew it was getting attention back then. He stopped featuring C*lby on all of his socials a few years ago and while I wasn't gonna go ahead and assume the man was fully dropped after years of friendship because of internet sleuths and hate.. I was still disappointed when it became obvious that they've remained THIS close and that Kelsey was associating with him too. I'm a victim of SA myself, I know that friends of the offender often struggle with the concept of their bro being an actually awful person (or have very little grasp of the seriousness of the situation, lots of men are that dense after all), but for someone as conscious of his image as Cody seemed to be in years past, he wrecked the hope that some people had of him being a decent person (by keeping that r*pist as a super close friend this whole time) by forgetting that his wedding would be a public spectacle - actually no, he knew it would be a public spectacle, but he forgot that he had fans who knew C*lby's past and that he'd be clocked for it instantly. Rant over, I fucking hate these men so I love to have a reason to vent LMAO

I unsubscribed immediately when I found out. I’m having a hard time believing Kelsey didn’t know about either situation, but obviously I don’t know that

Cody’s content is boring as shit these days, easiest time I’ve ever had unsubscribing from a content creator I use to like.

when i was seventeen i was very minorly sa’d and it destroyed my entire life. i have had an extensive trauma history throughout childhood and adolescence, things that were far worse than the sa. i couldn’t figure out why i that situation of all the things i’d been through was so traumatizing-one day my therapist told me that she had a client who was groped on the breast and she had another client who was molested her entire life by her father. the client that was groped could not get past it or move on and the other was able to move through therapy and continue living her life relatively unaffected by the trauma. trauma manifests differently in every single person and our abilities to deal with different types of trauma differ from person to person. i bring this up to say that tana has talked about being genuinely unaffected by the sa, not viewing it as a traumatic event but knowing it was morally wrong. i think that’s so important. just because someone is largely unaffected by something doesn’t make it okay. the reason sa isn’t legal or moral is because most of the time emotional damage is inflicted and the potential for that emotional damage is even greater. not every 17 year old that gets preyed on will carry the trauma through their life-but the great potential that they will is why you can’t touch (of any kind) people without consent.

Since i learned that he's a massive elon musk fan and was on the waiting list for a tesla I disliked him also where they made fun of trans people him and noel

You, H3, Trisha, Jeff, and Adam McIntyre are pretty much the only ppl who have a clear stance against Cody… saddening.

ALSO Cody and Kelsey announcing their engagement THE SECOND this was brought up the first time……..??

WHAT? BRO I'M REFUSING TO WATCH MALE CHANNELS AT THIS POINT YOU CANNOT REALLY TRUST ANYONE

Quite literally tens of thousands of adults anyone can sleep with. Children are off limits, that is it.

when it was colleen ballinger everyone knew ab it but not when it’s him. comparatively his actions are worse than hers… i’m not saying people were wrong to call out colleen, but why are they so slow and hesitant to call out a man who did worse

The flippancy with which she told this story originally indicates that she didn't understand until the public outcry that this was an inappropriate thing. Her talking about all the people that took advantage of her in her youth got me. I am not a Tana fan, but dang, no one ever deserves to have grown men prey on them like that. And "mature for your age" almost always means "experienced a ton of trauma" and in no way actually means maturity.

have been subscribed to cody for close to a decade, heard about this and unsubbed immediately

As a cody ko fan… my heart dropped just seeing the title and thumbnail.. i’ve never heard about this

I feel like we need to call out jc Caylin too 🤧

It isn't about you being fickle, it's about learning new information and changing your opinion. It is more than okay to do that and if people don't like it, that's their problem not yours!

Just disappointment after disappointment with the amount of people who can't even act with basic human decency. How can you sexualise someone so much younger than you? How are you still friends with an assaulter? After Alex and that streamer it's literally three of them in what? Two weeks? If Kelsey didn't know, I can't imagine what she's going through, especially as they're married and have a child. What happened to protecting children? 17 is not fully grown.

I've literally been the biggest cody ko/tmg fan for YEARS. Watched every single upload was literally watching him earlier today. This is the first time i have ever heard about any of this and let me tell you i have never unfollowed a person so fast on every platform i am disgusted

Im glad you're talking about this, I thought it was so strange that everyone moved on so quickly. I believe most commentary channels are scared of backlash since Tana herself is getting threats but that makes it too easy for Cody Ko to avoid addressing the situation

this is the first time that i ever heard anything bad about cody time to see what’s up

What’s pissing me off is how Cody is just continuing to make videos. We all know he and Kelsey know what’s going on. It’s making them to look even worse. Soon the whole fan base is going to hear of this and he’s going to be in hotter waters, there’s nothing he could say to make what he did right, but the fact they’re pushing it under the rug, along with their rapist friend, is seriously disturbing. And I have been a huge Cody fan for years.

I wasn’t gonna say it but Noel made Cody funny…there I said it

I’ve watched Cody Ko basically every day for the last 1&1/2 year, though I have watched him for 7 years on and off. But when I heard about this I just couldn’t watch him any more, it’s just so disgusting. I can’t believe people actually defend him

Cody (and kelsey) have been my favorite youtubers for years, but this is inexcusable. The fact that he refuses to publicly address it while simultaneously posting like nothing is happening is a NIGHTMARE! Seeing other diehard, top 1% cody fans follow his lead is incredibly eye-opening for me, in terms of fan dickriding no matter the cost 😔

The fact that his frontal lobe was fully done developing (25) and he did that... vile. I'm beyond disappointed. I can't support him anymore.

she doesn’t sound like she wasn’t traumatized by it - she sounds like she’s had such a traumatic past that she’s dissociated from comparatively “minor” incidences like this

I was even more appalled him and Kelsey are friends with a r4p1st.

I had no idea about this… I feel so awful for Tana, that trauma never leaves you! Have unfollowed Kody. How gross!!!

I was WAITING for Angelika to cover this and pulling up looking FLAWLESS even better. But yeah Codyko has made me uncomfortable with continuing being sponsored by better help but tbh when this came out and I was like point blank period she was a MINOR ans I'm disgusted

I tried to understand the hype for so long. I'd watch videos and try to force myself to like him. But after I saw a clip of him being weird about BTS, I got the ick. I knew something was off about him. Edit: I'm 20, and my brother is 16, turning 17, and trust me when i say that teens are literally so young, gullable, and naive. What cody ko did is inexcusable, period.

I’m 21 and I would never even consider dating or flirting with an 18 or even 19 year old. Even that feels way too dramatic of a difference to me

Whether or not it was traumatic for Tana is irrelevant. It could have been any other 17yo or even 18 yo and it would still be disturbing, especially as Kody Co was a big KZfaqr before Tana and had more influence. As for Cody’s friend, the men who your boyfriend/friends hang around with reflect their morals, what they’re willing to tolerate, and the behavior they are willing to enable. You are who you hang out with. I personally believe Kelsey may not have known this-and if she just found out, my heart deeply aches for her. For me personally, it was more disturbing to find out about the things that my ex would tolerate, joke about, and enable with his “boys” than finding out that he had cheated on me. It makes you second guess the very person you are with, and their values as a human. I also believe that individuals who curate their KZfaq career around calling out others and making fun of the creeps on this platform have a responsibility to be held to a higher standard. The higher the high horse you sit on, the harder you’ll fall if you fail to uphold those moral you put every one else against

i unsubscribed to cody a while ago when the tana situation came out. i met cody and kelsey recently and they were both really sweet and i thought "huh, i wonder why i unsubscribed from both of them?" because i really havent seen anybody talk about this situation in a while and completely forgot... glad im still unsubscribed bc this is repulsive

Cody is so sinister for hiding this but Kelsey is just as bad. As a woman especially to knowingly turn a blind eye and even participate in the silencing of a victim. Disappointing

Just because 18 is legal does not mean it’s morally right turning 18 does not make you suddenly an adult that is still a child

I'm so shocked about the lack of videos I've seen about this giving how big of a platform both Cody and Tana have. I wish more people were talking about it!

this whole situation reminds me so much of the movie promising young woman.

are there any good youtubers left omfg

I’m sorry but Kelsey’s silence also is disgusting to me, the way they’re both so fucking close to Colby still is sooooooo gross just thinking about how he’s probably seen his buddy’s little video of the “incident” (crime, literal assault) and ughhh idk they’re just all ruined for me now

I've been telling my friends for a couple years now, Cody Ko always seemed sleazy and disgusting. He'd put on this nice guy facade and occasionally talk about feminist topics, but it would always be the bare minimum of "progressiveness", it was like those tik toks about "the most progressive guy in 1950". Yeah fellas, women deserve some rights and it's not right to harass them! He'd make a video about men harassing drunk ladies and laugh. I don't think he ever saw women as equal to him.

This one hurts

Why is nobody talking about jc caylen? She said his name too. Plus he dated Lia Marie Johnson when she was 17 and he was 21 AND Lia made a video titled “this is my story” and she said that when she was 17 she was in an abusive relationship and that the person who she was dating strangled her…. He needs to be talked about too because he’s very gross

I was a Cody fan for YEARS- I’m disgusted and have believed Tana 1000%

My daughter is 17 and if she hooked up with a grown man who was 24 or whatever....straight to prison!! Yuck.

Always remember that we don’t know the true character of celebrities we watch online or tv. Even bloggers or social media influencers play a character. Some of them are really good at playing the character it can start to trick you into feeling almost like they’re a friend or acquaintance. Resist the urge to form parasocial relationships. The past couple months should be a teaching moment for lots of people.

I went on a date with a 19 year old when I was 24 and felt DISGUSTING

He’s literally worse than James Charles. He actually did the damn thing

I do not think Tana is a good person. But on this point I will always defend her. She looks SO YOUNG. It’s so gross. It’s so easy to not sexualize minors.

I was 4 and people have still blamed me so peoples reaction to Tana doesnt surprise me. Makes me angry but not surprised.

Your makeup is absolutely BEAUTIFUL today! I mean you are always beautiful and your makeup is ALWAYS pretty but it just looks so airy and fresh today! ❤ it!

I enjoyed watching Cody Ko but after knowing all this i wouldn't even try to defend someone gross like this. What goes on the minds of those people who meat ride such people?

So glad you’re talking about this Angelika ❤

Im genuinely SO surprised no one is talking about this. I guess it goes to show how people will turn a blind eye when its someone their biased towards.

i generally cant stand Tana AND I absolutely believe her. I hope she finds the healing that she needs and I think she truly deserves and think its very courageous for her to come out and talk about this situation

the wedding shit with the college frat boys videotaping an assault is the literal plot of promising young woman....and if it doesnt seem too serious at 1st glance, mayb u should watch that movie...u'll probably end up feeling differently

it's crazy to me on how many male creator and artist are getting exposed for their disgusting behavior in 2024

She does look rly young in the beginning.😢

As someone who actively dislikes Tana, and was a HUGE fan of Cody and Noel until literally a month ago when I found out about all of this: you either have a standard or you don’t. You either think it’s alright for a 25 year old and a 17 year old to be together or you don’t.

thank you for covering this, i feel like not enough people are talking about it!!

I watched him for 6 years. His podcasts, his main channel, second channel and Kelsey’s ones too. Unsubscribed to everything as soon as I found out. Its not that hard. People excusing him infuriate me

I was watching his videos daily. Now im unsubscribed and have it so youtube wont recommend his channel anymore.

I remember when this was first revealed and both cody and his now wife kelsey just went completely offline and I was so worried for Kelsey. But then Cody never said anything and they announced their engagement and then nobody talked about it until now bc "it's tana"

Just because it’s not your worst trauma, it doesn’t mean that it’s not traumatic.

THANK YOU for this video. Omg I’ve been arguing with people in the r/codyko subreddit about the stupidest things ever. They’ll say “oh she was almost 18”, “oh there’s no proof anything happened”, and I think my favorite- “why are we trying to cancel him for something that happened 10 years ago?” Codyko superfans are built differently. And the Reddit is HEAVILY moderated, where you can get banned for saying Tana or even putting 17 and 25 lol.

its been years since i last watched cody but i think this is what i needed to finally unsubscribe. just yikes, i feel bad for kelsey

Like with Dr Disrespect people are excusing and defending Cody... Gross. It's not surprising, it's disappointing.

I’m 24 and the mere idea of getting with a 17-18 year old is *revolting* 🤢 It’s so disappointing because I loved his videos and I really enjoyed watching TMG.

this is rlly interesting cuz i usually have a cody ko video on in the background at work, and recently ive thought to myself multiple times “oof bad take” like to the point where i had to stop watching/ listening. it was one of the dating show videos that did it for me. i’m honestly not surprised

Girl have you heard about the guy who just got drafted into the NBA whose girlfriend has been grooming him? It’s WILD. His name is Kyle Filipowski. It’s so icky and reminds me of this story.

as a massive cody ko fan (or should i say previous fan) i believed tana straight away. it's really disheartening that he hasn't said anything about it. plus he had a r*pist at his wedding? i'm holding kelsey accountable too

hearing this about cody actually breaks my heart wtf 😭