The Amazing Atheist
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About
The Amazing Atheist is the YouTube handle of Terroja Kincaid, a vlogger who produces monologue videos expressing his opinions on controversial topics. Initially, he spoke mostly about atheism and anti-theism, but later branched out to cover a wider variety of political and social issues.
Online History
On November 20th, 2006, TheAmazingAtheist[1] released his first video titled “Rant #1,” in which he discussed his views on various world religions and atheism (shown below). Many people criticized the video for Kincaid’s use of ethnic slurs, including “towel head” and “nigger.”
On January 7th, 2009, the @amazingatheist Twitter[11] feed was created, which received over 26,000 followers within the next four years. On December 27th, 2010, “The Amazing Atheist” Facebook[10] page was created, accumulating over 38,500 likes within the next two years. As of October 30th, 2012, TheAmazingAtheist YouTube channel has over 118 million video views, 320,000 subscribers and 530 video uploads.
On That Guy With Glasses
In 2009, TheAmazingAtheist joined the review team on Doug Walker’s website That Guy With The Glasses[2], where he took the alias of TheDistressedWatcher.[3] Among his contributions to the site were Trailer Failure,[4] a show in which he would review numerous movie trailers, and Sour Note[5] , which featured his sarcastic commentaries on music videos. His videos were poorly received by the audience, who created numerous petitions for him to be removed from the site. After being ousted from the site in September of 2011, he posted a video on YouTube stating that he understood why he was no longer part of the site’s review team.
Notable Videos
Books
Kincaid has written four books, including In Defense of Evil,[12]Neckbeard Uprising,[16]Scumbag: Musings of a Subhuman[13] and The Final Revelation.[14] Each book contains Kincaid’s beliefs on various topics written in a similar style to his YouTube videos.
Reputation
BananaGate
In October 2011, a personal video of TheAmazingAtheist was leaked on the internet depicting him performing a sexual act with a banana. The video quickly spread across other internet culture blogs, soon leading 4chan users to mobilize a raid against his Facebook page and website. On October 31st, Kincaid posted a video titled “BananaGate 2011,” in which he attempted to explain the context of the banana video (shown below). The video was subsequently reblogged by IGN[6], DailyDot[7] and Escapist Magazine.[8]
Rape Joke Controversy
On February 8th, 2012, Kincaid mocked a proclaimed rape survivor on the social news site Reddit and was subsequently attacked by many members of the community. Kincaid reacted by deleting his Reddit account, but several screenshots of his comments were taken prior to their removal (shown below).
width="425">On The following day, the Internet news site The Daily Dot[15] published an article titled “The Amazing Atheist Quits Reddit After Rape Comments,” reporting that the controversy may have resulted in hundreds of people unsubscribing from Kincaid’s YouTube channel. The article also included a screenshot showing Kincaid’s apology to the Redditor he had insulted (shown below).
Search Interest
External References
[1]Youtube – AmazingAtheist’s channel
[3]Channel Awesome wiki – Distressed Watcher
[4]Channel Awesome wiki – Trailer Failure
[5]Channel Awesome wiki – Sour Note
[6]IGN – The Amazing Atheist made a video shoving a banana up his ass and it got leaked
[7]Daily Dot – Banana Slip Doesn’t Hurt Amazing Atheist’s Appeal
[8]Escapist Magazine – BananaGate
[9]The X Blog – Time to Shut Down the Amazing Atheist
[10]Facebook – The Amazing Atheist
[11]Twitter – @amazingatheist
[12]Amazon – In Defense of Evil
[13]Amazon – Scumbag – Musings of a subhuman
[14]Amazon – The Final Revelation
[15]The Daily Dot – The Amazing Atheist Quits Reddit After Rape Comments
[16]Amazon – Neckbeard Uprising
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Top Comments
Jellote
Oct 26, 2012 at 07:19AM EDT+42
>Makes entire video begging for sympathy after his dad died
>“I was more saddened by this movie than my father’s death”
>Blames Christians for the Holocaust
>“Transformers fans should be put into concentration camps”
>And his comments about rape…
>“I will make you a rape victim if you don’t fuck off.”
>“BTW, you have to admit, when I told you that I hope you drown in rape semen, you got a little wet, didn’t you? It’s okay. We’re friends now. You can share.”
>“Fuck you, liar. All night you douches have tried to shit on me and tear me down. Then when I do the same it’s like, “Whoa man! That’s too far. Calm down.” No. Fuck you. Go get raped in whatever orifice you have to get fucking raped in. I am sick of your shit. I regret nothing.”
>“I’m pretty sure I could rape you without getting killed if it was really on my agenda. I mean, you didn’t kill the first guy, right?”
I think it’s safe to say TJ is about the worst person who ever lived.
Mnemonic
Oct 30, 2012 at 07:31PM EDT+37
What’s left to say about this guy? He’s as intolerant as the people he bitches about. Sad thing is, there’s 500 more just like him on Youtube.
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