‘Dear Fat People’ YouTuber Is Back Being Unfunny, This Time About Abortion

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September 22, 2015

Remember Nicole Arbour, the American ‘comedian’ who caused widespread outrage with her astoundingly unfunny video ‘Dear Fat People’?

Well, she’s back, and this time is using her shitty take on Jenna Marbles-style ‘humour’ to talk about abortion, with a video called ‘Why Abortion Is Wrong’.

One of many choice lines in her 5-minute rant:

“If we want less abortions, we should have less alcohol. And that’s not gonna happen, ok people with the giant signs of dead babies protesting? You’re really gonna force a rape victim to have a baby? If you could fuck off with that, that’d be amazing.”

It seems to us that Arbour isn’t *actually* against abortion – she’s just taking the piss out of people who are, using a hot-button topic to troll the internet.

Well, it worked:

@NicoleArbour you literally wanna have no career huh

— cass (@vigoddess) September 19, 2015

@NicoleArbour Fat shaming, abortion… What’s the next hot button? guns, religion, feminism, marijuana, immigration, climate change, wars…

— Atticus Franklin (@AtticusFranklin) September 19, 2015

@NicoleArbour Imagine if your videos were funny. Imagine.

— Alyson (@alysonpizza) September 19, 2015

@NicoleArbour I would love to see you try to be funny without hiding behind a controversial click bait title for once. You wouldnt,but still

— Amanda Gibbs (@mandaellengibbs) September 19, 2015

Guys, Nicole Arbour was averaging, like, 6,000 views per video before Dear Fat People. She’s an itchy blip, minor redness in human form.

— Courtney Enlow (@courtenlow) September 22, 2015

etc. And these were the kinder versions – we’re just not down with reposting tweets along the “kill yourself” line.

Then Lindy West, American author, outspoken feminist, and one of the women behind the fantastic #shoutyourabortion hashtag that recently went viral (a movement to break down the stigma and shame of a very common medical procedure, currently a hot topic in the U.S), got into it.

She posted these in response to Arbour’s “Dear Fat People” video:

if “dear fat people” was satire, that means you were lampooning fatphobic bigots by aping them in a hyperbolic way… (1/2) @NicoleArbour

— Lindy West (@thelindywest) September 18, 2015

…if that’s so, plz make a follow-up about the unconditional dignity & humanity of fat people, which u def believe in (2/2) @NicoleArbour

— Lindy West (@thelindywest) September 18, 2015

AND THEN NOT ONE DAY LATER, “Why Abortion is WRONG!” came out.

tell me the definition of satire @NicoleArbour

— Lindy West (@thelindywest) September 18, 2015

Arbour blocked her. Ha – her M.O. might be to troll the entire internet, but clearly couldn’t take the wrath of West and her 60.4K Twitter followers.

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG ALL I DID WAS ASK HER TO DEFINE SATIRE pic.twitter.com/OTwXVwKych

— Lindy West (@thelindywest) September 18, 2015