This guys is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(musician)#Controversies
Bertke was criticized for a 2015 video that derided feminists as gold diggers and "making misogynist arguments against women's rights". He later claimed that it was made "to impersonate the radical right".
In a YouTube livestream that was uploaded in 2016, Bertke stated that he has a "fairly robust resentment of the gay community". In the same video and on the topic of the Orlando nightclub shooting, a terrorist attack at a gay bar in Florida in 2016, he said, "It amazes me to see the West welcoming a culture through the floodgates that wants gays dead. I think that's fantastic". Bertke later claimed to not have any hate for the gay community and also claimed Asperger syndrome and bipolar disorder as contributing factors. He stated that the video was made in bad taste and that he never intended for it to go public, although he also stated that he was trying to "impersonate the far-right and create hysteria", noting that the video was made around the time of the 2016 American election. YourEDM compared his "homophobic rhetoric" to the 2015 video, which he similarly tried to explain as a social experiment. Writing for The Verge, Megan Farokhmanesh saw this explanation as a transparent attempt at plausible deniability.
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I miss Pogo. He was so ahead of his time! But alas...a lot of what he says or does is, sadly, not wholesome 100 for the Internets
Granted...his music lives on (if all those "Forget slowed + reverb" dance edits on the 'Tok shows that, even now, kiddos still love that music)
Trump for prison
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Miss him? I guess I haven't seen anything new from him in years but he's not like dead, right?
But yes iirc he was a fairly virulent homophobe, and people have been fully cancelled for far less than what he's said, so I'm surprised he's gotten away with things.
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He's still making music. It's pretty much all the same stuff like "Lydia" but he's gotten better at mixing and mastering, so the new stuff is quite improved. I still love Pogo from the Soundcloud era.
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