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YouTube character and podcaster Tana Mongeau has made waves within the creator area with impromptu remarks about fellow social media star Cody Ko having intercourse along with her throughout a interval by which they collaborated on movies when she was 17 years previous and he was 25.
In a dwell recording of her podcast Cancelled earlier than a Sacramento viewers on the finish of Might, Mongeau confronted a “scorching seat” phase, answering a barrage of questions as rapidly and actually as attainable. She revealed her least favourite metropolis of the tour (New Orleans), recounted taking a model partnership to advertise a sketchy Juul charger that could possibly be hooked as much as a smartphone, and claimed that rapper Tyga is essentially the most well-known particular person she’s ever slept with. Nevertheless it was an much more puerile inquiry that led to shock and scandalized reactions. Requested in regards to the “smallest dick” she’s ever had intercourse with, she replied, “Oh my god, nobody take a look at me. Cody Ko.” Because the room erupted in screams, she added, “I can say that, I used to be actually 17.” (In California, the place Ko has lived since 2015, the age of consent is eighteen.)
Whereas the tour had a coverage in opposition to cellphone utilization and recordings throughout exhibits, footage of the dialog nonetheless made it to TikTok and different social platforms, the place it rapidly unfold, resulting in condemnations of Ko in addition to assaults on Mongeau’s character and credibility. A consultant for Ko didn’t instantly reply to requests for touch upon Mongeau’s allegation, whereas a spokesman for Mongeau stated she had no additional remark.
Rumors that the pair had slept collectively when Mongeau was underage have circulated for years, however this on-stage allusion to an inappropriate relationship led followers of Ko to demand that the comic, podcaster, and rapper — who married to YouTuber Kelsey Kreppel final yr, with the couple turning into mother and father in January — make an announcement acknowledging Mongeau’s story. Weeks after it first began making the rounds, he has but to deal with the subject.
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Mongeau, in the meantime, has not too long ago sought to make clear her emotions about what occurred between them nearly a decade in the past. “To be one hundred pc truthful, after I look again on the Cody scenario, I positively am, like, ‘Why was he doing that?’” she stated in an episode of Cancelled final weekend. She recalled an occasion at which singer and influencer Gabbie Hanna pulled Ko apart and advised him Mongeau was solely 17, however the two left and attached anyway. “I can take a look at that and be like, ‘Why the fuck had been you doing that?’” she stated.
“However I don’t affiliate it or maintain it with trauma,” Mongeau, who turned 26 on Monday, defined, “as a result of I’m such a comparative particular person, the place I’m like, so many worse issues have occurred to me. And that’s unhealthy. However I genuinely really feel that manner.” She went on to explain how she grew up loving Ko’s content material and was a fan excited to spend time with him. “And I perceive the place now, as a grown grownup, that you would be able to say: You had been taken benefit of.”
Final week, Mongeau additionally guested on Simply Trish, the podcast of buddy Trisha Paytas, and mentioned her previous with Ko, which she once more careworn was not traumatic for her. Nevertheless, she stated, “If I had a 17-year-old daughter or little sister” in the identical scenario, “I’d kill.”
“However the factor that was really actually heartbreaking to me, and type of loopy to me, is after it began going viral, seeing so many individuals not believing me,” Mongeau continued. “Being like, ‘It’s Tana, so who cares.’ After which I began feeling unhealthy for therefore many different ladies who possibly look as much as me and wish to communicate their fact and see the best way that individuals simply don’t consider folks.” Paytas and Mongeau agreed that they each are likely to make gentle of darker moments of their lives as a manner of dealing with them. “You wish to really feel accountable for your personal narrative,” Mongeau stated.
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Ko followers on the devoted subreddit r/codyko have been break up on the allegation, with some doubting Mongeau’s account and others arguing that she was victimized. “Largely makes me unhappy for her,” reads one latest remark. “I hope she will get a personal apology.” In a top-trending thread, one other redditor requested for YouTube options to Ko and his Tiny Meat Gang Studios podcast community. “In gentle of the conditions with Cody’s previous, it’s tough for me to have a look at him the identical manner,” they wrote. “I actually loved watching content material like his, although. Any suggestions for YouTubers with content material that’s just like his?”
On one other subreddit, r/CodyKoUnfiltered, a discussion board meant to be a haven from the “censorship” of r/codyko, criticism of Ko was much more pointed, with customers complaining that they’ve been banned from the principle subreddit for mentioning Mongeau. “Placing your complete forwards and backwards of whether or not it occurred or not apart, the very fact [Ko is] not even addressing all this has been extraordinarily off-putting,” wrote one disillusioned particular person. “It’s pure ignorance. I’ve been a Cody fan for the longest time however I genuinely can’t convey myself to look at his movies anymore.”
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