For many years now I have written about one of my pet peeves: How the popular math youtuber Matt Parker contracted a "they pronoun fetish" some time in late 2019 and has since then clearly had the mission of trying to force the pronoun "they" as a singular pronoun, by using, overusing and abusing it constantly, even to refer to people whose sex is absolutely unambiguous. (In one particularly egregious and funny video he was chatting with a historian. They were talking about a guy who lived a couple thousand years ago. The historian kept referring to the guy as "he" while, at the same time, Matt kept referring to him as "they". It was really cringe.)
Of course, and unsurprisingly, Matt Parker is not the only "they pronoun activist" out there. There are many others, such as this particularly egregious example.
However, I have found another big youtuber who beats hands down Matt in the use of the "they" pronoun to refer to one single particular person. And that would be the Internet Anarchist, who has 1.7 million subscribers. While Matt has clearly toned down his use of the pronoun in this way (not stopping completely, but using it less frequently during a video), Internet Anarchist beats him hands down in the "mentions of 'they' per minute" count.
For example if you watch this video, the total number of times he uses "they" to refer to one single person is literally in the hundreds, and at points he uses it at least a dozen times per minute. At many points he uses it more often than Matt Parker ever did, at his worst. And this is not just one single video where he does this, as he does it in pretty much all of his videos.
Funnily, at one point in that video he clearly slips up and clearly accidentally uses "her" to refer to the woman he's talking about, who he has been referring to as "they" at least a hundred times by that point:
"[...] eventually turning every single one of Emerald's followers and the entire online community against them. He called her out for three main things: Their long history of faking tourette's for clout, fabricating a doctor's report to boost the legitimacy of their claim, and even called a liar by their own family."
Oops. I suppose he still has some training to do.
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