Fresh & Fit claim they\u2019re victims of \u201ctargeted attack\u201d following YouTube hate speech ban YouTube: FreshandFitThe hosts of the Fresh & Fit podcast say they were victims of a \u201ctargeted attack\u201d and \u201cmass reporting\u201d after receiving a week-long ban from YouTube over \u2018hate speech.\u2019 The Fresh & Fit podcast is back on YouTube after receiving a seven-day ban from the video platform. Fresh & Fit is comprised of influencer duo Walter Weekes and Myron Gaines, who aim to \u201chelp men navigate women, finances, and fitness.\u201d Their podcast has become a subject of controversy in the past due to comments made by Weekes and Gaines \u2014 most notably during their viral conversation with Instagram model Brittany Renner earlier this year. The Fresh & Fit podcast received a week-long ban from YouTube in late March, leaving viewers confused as they awaited more content from the channel, which usually uploads multiple videos per day. Seven days later, the duo returned with a live stream to explain why they\u2019d taken a sudden hiatus. Weekes and Gaines say they were banned due to \u2018hate speech\u2019 stemming from two older videos. The hosts also claimed their channel was the victim of a \u201ctargeted attack\u201d from an unnamed YouTuber and alluded to a potential \u201cmass reporting\u201d from said YouTuber\u2019s fanbase. Fresh & Fit claim unnamed YouTuber was behind \u2018hate speech\u2019 ban \u201cWe got flagged for hate speech,\u201d Gaines explained. \u201cBy another YouTuber,\u201d Weekes added. \u201cWe\u2019re not gonna go too much into detail, but all I\u2019m gonna say is two videos that are old as hell were flagged, and the way that they were flagged was indicative of a mass report that was very obviously a targeted attack,\u201d Gaines continued. \u201cIt was \u2018hate speech\u2019 from two old-a** videos, and that right there made me go, \u2018Hmm.\u2019 When we looked into it a little bit further \u2026we pretty much found it was a targeted attack, guys.\u201d (Topic begins at 12:35) Despite their unexpected ban, the hosts say that their channel received around 15,000 subscribers during the seven-day suspension. This latest ban lift follows another major unban for Twitch streamer \u2018ExoHydraX,\u2019 whose channel was recently reinstated after getting banned eight months ago for a hot tub stream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fresh & Fit claim they\u2019re victims of \u201ctargeted attack\u201d following YouTube hate speech ban YouTube: FreshandFitThe hosts of the Fresh & Fit podcast say they were victims of a \u201ctargeted attack\u201d and \u201cmass reporting\u201d after receiving a week-long ban from YouTube over \u2018hate speech.\u2019 The Fresh & Fit podcast is back on YouTube after receiving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}