Hey guys! So, if you haven’t seen the newest video in the controversy, DM me. I can send you the summary, but honestly, I don’t think watching it is very productive, and it gives money to Ash’s accuser. Yes, he said the proceeds would go to an anti-infant violence charity, but I don’t really buy that, and you shouldn’t either. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, I’m @silver_m00nie, and I’m so sorry this is how you’re being introduced to my favorite brainrot of all time, Unproblematic King Ash Silver. He’s a YouTuber, streamer, and everyone’s favorite cat ear wearer. Unfortunately, he’s been unfairly involved in some drama recently — and as someone who has been a fan since basically day one, I want to give my perspective on why it’s clear that this is bullshit, and my fave remains on TOP.

So, for the uninitiated, two days ago one of Ash Silver’s FORMER best friends, Lucidity, went live and accused Silver of dropkicking a baby at a park. Which, WOW. Absolutely insane to cancel him over something so clearly false. As mentioned at 1:39:40 in his July 7th, 2019 Super Smash Bros. stream, Silver HATES kids. He would never go anywhere near a baby in the first place, much less kick one. He hates their crying and the feeling of their weirdly perfect skin— it reminds him of the traumatic bullying he experienced in middle school for his acne. He’s literally been through so much, he would never do something like this. It’s obviously Lucidity trying to deflect all the hate he’s gotten recently — last month, it came out that he was buying underage streamer Carly Shot alcohol, which was literally deranged, and he never took accountability either. Ash RIGHTFULLY cut ties after that, and this is obviously a sad and desperate to deflect hate onto an innocent Silver.

I know what a lot of you are thinking. “Um, Moonie, didn’t you see the video of him kicking the baby?” First of all, Photoshop exists. Second of all, even if he did kick the baby, it’s still a major overreaction to cancel him for that. Honestly, I think a lot of the people trying to get him suspended from streaming need to get some perspective. Ash Silver is one person, and most of the real world’s problems have nothing to do with an influencer with no real control over people. Climate change is going to make that baby’s life worse than a little tap from someone the baby should feel HONORED to be kicked by. Besides, I guarantee everyone hating on him uses Amazon and has an iPhone. Y’all are complicit in way worse atrocities, but you just want to get mad at him over something that’s honestly not even that big of a deal so you don’t have to think about how you contribute to a way worse evil: capitalism. You freaks need to go do some praxis and leave my baby alone. The kid is probably fine anyway.

Which, okay, sure. The baby is currently in the hospital, but like, so what? It’s not that big of a deal. Babies are in the hospital all the time. It probably just needed a vaccine or burped in its sleep or something. Parents can be super paranoid about their kids getting hurt. I’m sure he just cried too hard when Ash kicked him and his parents freaked out, even though babies cry a lot. It was a joke, and the baby was blowing it out of proportion. I’ve gotten a lot of DMs about Ash’s apology where he admits that he wanted to hurt the baby, but I honestly think those people are focusing on the wrong part of the apology. He admitted that he’s in therapy now. Coming out with that was probably really hard for him, and I’m proud of him for getting the help he needs. The people trying to cancel him with ‘suspension from streaming’ and ‘assault charges’ need to stop being such vultures and let him get better. Even if he didn’t say it, he’s obviously really sorry, and that baby is way too sensitive.

Honestly, I think his haters are also way too overdramatic. Worse than that, they aren’t even trying to understand where he might be coming from. Ash Silver has had a really hard life. His parents got divorced when he was five. I already talked about how traumatizing his bullying was. His friends are all British. He had it really rough. Worst of all, he experienced all of that while dealing with something truly terrible — a debilitating mental illness. Ash Silver has ADHD. He was mentally ill and improperly medicated; he didn’t actually want to hurt that baby. ADHD people need to stim, and you can see in the video that the poor guy didn’t bring anything to stim with. The only thing he could use was the baby. That’s why he ripped it out of its stroller chair right in front of its father. He was stimming when he kicked that baby. It was an innocent mistake, he couldn’t help it. Are people not allowed to make mistakes anymore? You guys are all hypocrites — all of you have hurt people by making mistakes. That’s human nature. He’s not a ‘monster,’ he’s an innocent human like you and me. TBH, I think this is more on the dad than anything. Baby kicking is a really common stim for ADHD people, so the dad should’ve carried some stim toys on him so no one had to kick his baby. It was pretty inconsiderate in my opinion.

I really don’t think the people who’ve been shitting on him for this understand him like I do. I met him once when I paid $300 for his meet-and-greet last Comic-Con (it was worth every penny). As soon as I walked up to him, he immediately grabbed me by the hair, made hard eye contact with me, and told me that all his stans were worthless nightmares who only serve as stepping stones to endless power and money. I haven’t cut my hair since, TBH. But the point is, he’s a jokey guy! He loves a good bit, and he gets close enough to joke with people really quickly. He definitely didn’t mean to hurt the baby, no matter what his apology said, and if he did, it was just a joke.

Edit: Hey guys, I’m coming back to this. I’ve watched the video of him kicking the baby a LOT, and if you listen carefully at around the 10-second mark, you can totally hear that baby saying a slur. To be so bigoted at such a young age honestly tells me that baby was like, mega evil. Ash was doing the world a service by punting it so hard. He’s really just a great ally to marginalized communities for taking such a no-tolerance stance against bigotry. He did this FOR you, FOR his marginalized fans, and now the internet is CRUCIFYING him for what he did to protect all of us. He’s basically Jesus, and all his haters trying to cancel him are like the Romans killing him. He was literally just trying to get rid of a racist, and the way you guys are coming for him says a lot more about y’all than about him. Silver_m00nie OUT.