Russell Brand returned to social media immediately, giving his followers (on the platforms that will nonetheless give him cash for posting on them, anyway) a listing of matters he’ll be addressing within the upcoming week on his on-line exhibits—a listing that didn’t, in some way, embody addressing the a number of allegations of sexual assault which have just lately been made towards him.
This is per THR, which studies on a video the comic—who’s confronted demonetization on YouTube, along with having his work pulled from locations like BBC’s streaming choices and Paramount+—posted on social media this weekend. The three-minute video is, if nothing else, an unsettling glimpse into Brand’s conception of the final week, which has not, in his telling, been the story of a really well-known comic being accused of rape by a number of ladies throughout a multi-year interval. No, that is all about censorship, as Brand claims to his followers that organizations just like the BBC stepping away from him don’t have anything to do with a historical past of joking about sexual assaults he’s now formally accused of committing, however in regards to the British authorities making an attempt to regulate the unfold of the reality. (Sorry for the wayward italics right here; Brand simply form of talks like this, along with his palms in fixed movement throughout his movies, and it’s infectious.)
In the video, Brand factors his followers towards video internet hosting platform Rumble, now “the first platform that we are going to be streaming from,” after the opposite ones stopped giving him cash. (He has 1.49 million followers on the platform, the place he commonly posts movies with titles like “OH SH*T, Bill Gates Is Doing WHAT to FRIUT Now?!!”) He briefly mentions “the Deep State.” At no level does he truly tackle the allegations towards him, solely noting that “Obviously, it’s been a unprecedented and distressing week.” (He beforehand issued a press release, forward of the preliminary report, denying all prices towards him.) It’s very odd, parallel actuality stuff—at the same time as our precise actuality continues to refill with folks coming ahead with complaints and allegations towards him.
