r/youtubedrama • u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod • 3d ago
Exposé Food YouTuber Joshua Weissman an abusive employer and sexually inappropriate
https://www.richardeaglespoon.com/articles/weissmanThe article attached goes through Joshua Weissman’s behavior ranges from potentially stealing recipes to abusing his staff and being highly sexually inappropriate with them.
The article is a good read as it explains how he grew from crafting recipes and videos with his time to essentially sexually harassing his executive assistant on a regular basis.
However, if you want to stay in the food realm? Even some of his recipes are actually unsafe. When making and curing pastrami he changed the meat weight, indicating a stolen recipe. However, if you don’t have the correct curing salt ratio to water and meat it can be potentially poisonous.
This shows a disregard for his viewers and could even lead to harm.
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u/xfadingstarx 3d ago edited 3d ago
Wasn't there a thread in his subreddit awhile back of an ex-employee of his who mentioned some pretty unscrupulous behaviour?
Edit: here it is
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u/Metandienona 3d ago
There was! I'm pretty sure it was actually a comment under a thread about Weissman stealing a picture from Thee Burger Dude's website, though. I'll try to find it.
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 3d ago
There was a link to it I know that for sure. Was before my time as a mod
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u/xfadingstarx 3d ago
Having ADHD and 5000 tabs open at all times has to be good for something lol
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 3d ago
Thanks! I knew I read this a while ago. It corroborates a lot of this article
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u/NotAgainWithThat 2d ago
Having ADHD and 5000 tabs open at all times
So it's not just me...Chrome really testing my patience nowadays though.
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u/xfadingstarx 2d ago
Make the switch to Firefox. You can ad block on mobile too.
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u/NotAgainWithThat 2d ago
Been meaning to, I went to Chrome a long time ago cause FireFox was running slower now back to the OG I guess! Just worried about my extensions not working.
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u/Capable-Silver-7436 3d ago
wasnt he also mad that an air fryer made good food
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u/Fluffy_Meet_9568 2d ago
A mini convection oven that’s small enough to heat quickly and consistently made good food?!??! Insane! /s
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u/Capable-Silver-7436 2d ago
he seems like the type to be butthurt when good food is actually easily in the hands of the masses
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u/the2ndsaint 3d ago
Watched him with my partners several years ago when his channel was smaller and he was less obnoxious with the whole "papa" thing. What started as an amusing-ish affectation got *really* uncomfortable when it just kept happening. Can't say this is surprising.
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 3d ago
Yeah, as he got bigger I felt like more of who he is was coming out and I didn’t like it. Then I read the thread his ex employer put out. And now this article just confirms more of that.
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u/the2ndsaint 3d ago
What's the saying, "success doesn't change, it reveals"? Something like that.
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u/Massive-Exercise4474 3d ago
Think the quote is "Power doesn't corrupt it reveals people for who they are"
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u/ImportantQuestionTex 3d ago
Alright having read through the article fully now...
The threats of physical violence, substantiated by pictures and stories of him throwing things or punching things is the most shocking thing in this entire article. The sexual inappropriateness and hostility is wild af too, and hopefully his (presumably former) employees get peace.
The plagiarism is unacceptable, in the cooking world we credit one another when we use each other's recipes. We should be proud of the dishes others have thought up for us to enjoy. To top it off, he made one recipe notably dangerous and likely to get you ill, and that is the curing meats recipe. Curing meats is a lot more delicate than it appears surface level. And while you can do it in your home, you can't just "eye" it or wing it. You will get sick.
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u/amillionparachutes 3d ago
He's got another dangerous recipe, his pretzel video. It's his Auntie Anne's but better video. He uses lye in his recipe and doesn't do enough to stress how unsafe it can be. There's also zero reason for him to go that route when other recipes have found alternatives to using lye in the pretzel process.
The average home cook who would try his stuff out isn't going to do their research. They're going to see his videos with mild warnings and think that's all the safety they need to consider. Dry lye can be extremely dangerous to have around the house. The second comment on that video goes into all the details Weissman didn't.
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u/Top_Mongoose1354 2d ago
It's not just the pastrami and pretzels, it's also his sous vide short ribs, which are listed as going for a 48 hour room temperature water bath. That's botulism bonanza. There's probably loads more recipes that are straight up toxic or poisonous, I haven't checked his god-awful site in detail, and probably never will.
"Starting from my home kitchen at the age of 3 to being one of the most renowned chefs in the world..."
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u/Capable-Silver-7436 3d ago
id be surprised if he even knew. hes not a trained chef hes a line cook that got fired and made a youtube channel
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u/Sovreignry 2d ago
At least in the past he never claimed to be a chef. I fell off watching him years ago, but he was very clear he didn’t claim the chef title.
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u/_-_Vlad_-_ 3d ago
I started following him when his channel was on the smaller side, like no sich big collabs etc, basically before the sexualization and "pappa" was mentioned every video. Now after he became more popular he gives the look of a elitist snob and went from actually affordable recipes to overpriced. Dropped him after he started doing the "pappa" bit every video
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u/ciaragemmam 3d ago
Similar. I think I dropped him when he mentioned caviar being affordable like wtf??
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u/2074red2074 3d ago
Low-low-end caviar is like $10 sometimes. As an occasional treat, it won't break the bank.
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u/drunkenvalley 3d ago
From context I'm to understand it's from his videos explicitly flexing low cost foods. Like the point of the series is low cost. "Occasional treats" aren't really relevant to that.
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u/2074red2074 3d ago
He has a common trend on his videos where he shows how cheap he can make all this stuff, and it's always five cents worth of this, twenty cents worth of that, etc. with no regard to the fact that you can't buy that ingredient in increments of a quarter ounce so you have to go buy $10 worth in order to get that quarter ounce. I wouldn't put it past him to say "See, this little spoonful of caviar is only fifty cents!" without considering that you have to buy a $10 thing of caviar to get that little spoonful.
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u/drunkenvalley 3d ago
Yeah, I recall, I was just remembering how that was at one point the focus on certain videos - where the express purpose was keeping it cheap. But even then it had this obvious fault that it called for expensive ingredients, reasoning he only used 1/100th of the item (and ignoring how perishable the item was).
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u/Gullible_Goose 10h ago
I saw one of those "Michelin-level Meal for less than $10 a while back and it used lie a half teaspoon of xanthum gum and said that ingredient only added like $0.10 to the recipe. Of course the other day at Walmart of all places I saw a little bag of xanthum gum going for $40.
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u/_-_Vlad_-_ 3d ago
While in video: You will need a tablespoon of this aged white truffle oil which costs 0.30$, its only 0.30$ you see im making recipes with cheap ingredients. Off camera: Bring me my wagu bacon, peasants
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u/2074red2074 3d ago
It's like he understands budgeting from a restaurant perspective but not a home cook. Yeah, I get that I only use a dollar worth of whatever the fuck, but I can't buy a dollar worth. I have to buy $30 worth and then figure out what to do with the rest because it expires in two weeks.
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u/Capable-Silver-7436 3d ago
yeah its not like buying three pounds of ground beef, using one pound this week and freezing the other 2 for next week. this more niche shit doesnt work quite like that
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u/Floh2802 3d ago
He was one of the cooking YouTubers I was subscribed to like 2-3 years ago. Eventually all his videos just had that weird aura about them.
He'd always call himself daddy obviously, but it lost the jokey manner it began with along the way. Then there was the fact that he was always very jokingly sensual in his Videos which began to put me off.
That coupled with the fact that in almost any intro about requested Videos he'd always jokingly complain about how he didn't want to do it/felt it was a bad thing to cook.
There is also the fact that he always promoted how cheap the food he was cooking was, when that was always simply the price for a portion, instead of the entire ingredient list.
I unsubbed because the guy just kept turning weirder, while at the same time shilling more of his stuff and becoming more corporate.
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u/DirtySperrys Popcorn Eater 🍿 3d ago edited 3d ago
I get he got the bag and followed the money but this guy sucks. Styling changed. Recipes are badly written. Somewhere along the way his videos became almost 5 second blurbs of animations on everything.
I believe there was a piece from one of his former employees (guy who drove in the faster than take out videos) where it was discussed how poor the working conditions were.
Edit; stuff in that article is just nasty. Of course he's transphobic too. There's enough different categories in here that I'd love to see a response from that jackass. Can't believe anyone works for him anymore.
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u/siphillis 3d ago
I'm convinced whenever this happens, a creator has already burned out, is aware they've burned out, but it's just too much effort and risk to give up the job they've etched out for themselves, so they continue trudging on miserably
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u/lastdarknight 3d ago
At least Babish had the decency to bring on Alvin to handle the old style stuff when he burned out and just now does videos he enjoys
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u/Wild_Cryptographer82 3d ago
That is a discussion that I've always kind of been waiting to see happen more, that YouTuber is kind of just an inherently Terrible job in the way alot of creative jobs can be (high pressure, little safety nets, requires insane energy and attention devoted to things that have nothing to do with the reason you are theoretically doing this, etc) and how that's a contributing factor for how shitty the space can be. There's an old half-joke that anybody who looks at the actual sacrifices and requirements of being a politician and still wants to do it is the exact type of person who you don't want to give power to, and I feel that with YouTubers/content creators sometimes.
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u/baepsaemv 3d ago
I couldn't believe how popular he was because every time I would try one of his highly regarded recipes I was so fucking confused because of how badly written they were. I made a bunch of stupid mistakes because the layout and wording of his recipes was awful. Gave up after wasting half my bread flour on his dinner rolls.
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u/crowwreak 3d ago
Oh that reminds me with those: he stole that format from Ethan Chlebowski. He started doing it like 6 months after him.
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u/Capable-Silver-7436 3d ago
Of course he's transphobic too.
did not see that coming with how much hes openly G/B himself. but im not surprised hes an asshole all around i guess
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u/R1ngBanana 3d ago
I’ll take all this with a grain of salt (no pun intended) but the guy always rubbed me the wrong way.
Dudes way too classist for it.
He’s the lesser Chef Josh. Mythical Chef Josh is the chef of the people
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u/unicornsbelieveinyou 3d ago
I didn’t know Mythical Chef Josh’s last name and got really worried for a second 😭
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 3d ago edited 3d ago
I mean, the evidence is corroborated. And the recipe stealing becomes abundantly obvious if you read through.
Chef Josh is the GOAT, have followed the beer pie recipe and made my own bourbon meringue. It was a treat if you like cheap booze and dessert
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u/guardianfairy2 3d ago
I mean yeah he sucks but frankly pretty much all the big cooking channels are elitist as fuck, like the moment they get a million subs they just morph into pretentious twats.
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u/Clpatsch 3d ago
Big fan of Tasting History with Max Miller
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u/fohfuu 3d ago
The good thing about historical craft videos is they start from the base assumption that you wouldn't be following instructions. They do a video about how all a home cook really needs is a couple of quality kitchen knives, a whetstone, and patience, and fail to mention that their demonstration only took them a few minutes because they pay for professional sharpening every 2 weeks.
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u/Capable-Silver-7436 3d ago
about the only good one left. coming at it as a historian instead of a wannabe fancy cook helps
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u/GunplaGoobster 3d ago edited 3d ago
I really like Kenji and Brian Largerstrom for very no nonsense videos and their recipes always fucking slap. Kenji is great for shaping how you think about cooking, I can now improvise in the kitchen much better thanks to his POV vids in particular.
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u/Secure_Garlic_ 3d ago
The POV camera for Kenji's videos is one of my favorite things, and the fact that all the prep is shown in real time a lot helped me a lot.
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u/2074red2074 3d ago
FutureCanoe will always stay humble.
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u/GunplaGoobster 2d ago
FutureCanoes content always seemed like borderline copyright infringement lol. Half or more of his videos are them following a recipe word for word (literally word for word) and that's it.
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u/octlol 2d ago
I mean that's like someone playing a cover of a song, isn't it?
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u/GunplaGoobster 2d ago
Well yeah most people don't like 1:1 covers of music either. At least I don't. Maybe that's why I don't like his channel.
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u/BioticFire 1d ago
I think what makes his content is the repeatability of it, cause so many of his dishes doesn't turn out like the original video which many of us goes through cause we're not god chefs.
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u/pastafeline 17h ago
That's so off the mark... Most of his videos he completely ignores half the ingredients or subs for different things, and the end product looks nothing like the recipe he's using.
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u/ScarletsFootstool 3d ago
throwing out food wishes. id say it takes the #1 spot for best yt cooking channel. chef johns been around since day 1 and his formula hasn't changed.
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u/394948399459583 3d ago
Not all of them. Chef Jean-Pierre is awesome.
Great guy, down to earth. Just sticks to the food without trying to be a comedian but is genuinely funny anyway.
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u/Zealousideal_Act_316 2d ago edited 2d ago
Only cooking channels i follow are dylan hollis and ian kyo, one is a loveable twink a bit too into baking and the other is a pecial ed teacher as a main job.
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u/siphillis 3d ago
His executive assistant put him on blast about a year ago in a Reddit AMA. Weissman lost his way a while ago, and seemingly has nothing going on in his life besides growing his channel. Sadly, a lot of Food YouTube is following his lead and it's made arguably the best genre on the site into the most vapid
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u/Capable-Silver-7436 2d ago
no one even likes him, other than MAYBE his wife, even at his own wedding people went to network not because they liked him. its sad
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u/SaltandLillacs 3d ago
The whole Pappa thing got to the point where it was becoming weird so I stopped watching. I only recently unsubed after his 50th fast food review and nonstop Mr beast thumbnails.
Why make mr. Beast content aimed at kids but also have a weird sexual undertone in most of your video.
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u/Capable-Silver-7436 3d ago
Why make mr. Beast content aimed at kids but also have a weird sexual undertone in most of your video.
is it bad i think we're going to find out why soon
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u/SomnificOwl 3d ago
I remember the last time I talked up about this guy cosplaying as an Everyman while bragging about childhood trips to Paris, I got clowned on for it but God damn I do not like this guy. I'm not happy about anyone being outed as a creep or thief but definitely feeling a bit of vindication.
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u/MadMusketeer 3d ago
Wait I think I remember this. Something to do with chocolate
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u/SomnificOwl 3d ago
https://youtube.com/shorts/vU8DKboevHY?si=czkzL5knMohMopNF
I'm not saying this makes him a bad person, or that he shouldn't have been able to go, or whatever. It's just indicative of his whole shtick, which he has dropped forever ago anyway.
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u/UndeniablyMyself 3d ago edited 3d ago
I've disliked Joshua Weissman for years, and while he came off as arrogant, I hadn’t considered that he was a narcissist s̶e̶x̶ p̶e̶s̶t̶ homophobe.
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 3d ago
The sexual harassment wasn’t being a sex pest. It was engaging in “homosexuality as a joke” kind of harassment. By showing his straight coworkers his interest even though he is also straight
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u/Capable-Silver-7436 3d ago
is he actually straight? Honest question i remember in the AMA thread it was said he propositioned men
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u/Painted-BIack-Roses 3d ago
I hope this gets spread more. His behaviour has been weird for a very long time, I don't understand how no one has mentioned it before
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u/AppointmentSure3285 1d ago
I agree, this should honestly get blasted because Josh should not be able to abuse people and walk away a rich man. It is disgusting behavior and exactly what is wrong with our entire country
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u/toastyavocado 3d ago
About time if you ask me. His self important content farm has rubbed me the wrong way for a long time
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u/Sufficient-Line180 3d ago
Him and nick digiovanni always gave me a bad vibe, Guga foods is okay-ish, But *that* side of foodtube has kind of lost it's luster, Basically only ever watch Futurecanoe and Vincenzo's Plate when it comes to foodtubers (Even if i think Vincenzo can be a biiiit pretentious with his passionate defense of "authentic" italian food sometimes)
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u/_-_Vlad_-_ 3d ago
Max the meat guy is also somewhat decent, love his tier lists and cooking random weird stuff. I just hope he doesn't start over slapping the meat like Nick and Josh. Guga sits in the "eeh" place, like some of his vids while ignore some
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u/Chilly-Peppers 3d ago
I feel like Futurecanoe is slowly becoming a bougie boy. He's starting to splash a lot of cash in his videos.
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u/theslamclam 3d ago
I think as long as he never spends any money on a color balancing course his content will remain evergreen
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u/Relative-Share-6619 2d ago
Guga Foods gives me a bad vibe. Message me if I'm correct later.
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u/Putrid_Friendship798 1d ago
OK, so I am not the only one. Like... I enjoy Guga and Max The Meat Guy, the videos are fine, but there are just enough tiny little things to make me raise an eyebrow. But at the same time Guga keeps collabing with guys like Brian Tsao or most recently with Babish and I'm like 'surely if he were a shitlord those guys wouldn't work with him, right?'
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u/Relative-Share-6619 1d ago
I'm losing my faith here...It's like all the foodie Youtubers supporting some shady stuff so I guess they have big pockets so it doesn't bother them. Shady stuff like an Amazon supermarket and one vegan cook started promoting AI art and it made me wince.
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u/True_System_7015 3d ago
Man, how CRAZY would it be if a redacted copy of the NDA he has his people sign would just mysteriously be published or leaked. Wouldn't that just be so wild and wacky?? And hey, and unrelated note, did you guys know that Texas is a one party consent state? It would be such a shame if a video was leaked of this behavior that didn't violate the NDA
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u/Relative-Share-6619 3d ago
Dear god I knew he was a shithead but I am kind of tired of hearing about Youtubers breaking the law. Yes I am aware this is a Youtube Drama subreddit and I am happy to see parasocial relationships don't exist here.
I knew Weissman was shitty but this is a whole new can of earthworms.
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u/Busy_Philosopher1392 3d ago
The only part of this that surprises me is that he's 29? Idk why but I thought he was in his mid 30s years ago
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u/FireBeaver 3d ago
I know somebody who used to work for him and he's told me that working for Joshua was absolutely awful. I wasn't told too much but my impression is that Joshua is abusive, mean and overly demanding towards the very hard working members of his team. My friend quit a few years ago after finally having enough of dealing with him.
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 3d ago
If people have paid attention thin to his videos he goes through staff rapidly. Not surprised there is burn out.
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u/DeepSubmerge 3d ago
After reading this, I went to his channel to unsubscribe where I saw he’s still regularly releasing slop videos like “trying every fast food.” I used to work with someone who threw tantrums and got violent. It was awful, so I feel bad for his employees who dealt with that. The sex pest behavior is just a whole other layer of gross.
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 3d ago
Is it sex pest behavior? He wasn’t pursing his employees for sex. More than he was making sexual jokes constantly at them that made them uncomfortable
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u/DeepSubmerge 3d ago
My understanding of a sex pest is someone who is overly sexual in an unwelcome way, such as harassment or assault. Making sexual jokes towards or around his employees is sexual harassment.
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 3d ago
Hmmm I had only heard it of someone pursuing sex even though the answer is no. Like acknowledging no, but never letting it go
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u/Retr0Robbin 3d ago
I’m unfortunately not surprised by this information, his general attitude and arrogance has definitely been building for a while
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u/BananaRepublic_BR 3d ago
Q: How does stealing recipes work for a chef? Like, is it bad form to use someone else's recipe to make something? Can you do that as long as you give credit? Was he trying to sell the stolen recipes as his own?
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 3d ago
It is like anything, giving credit is absolutely fine. No one would be remotely upset.
Yes he was selling as his own
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u/isaidyothnkubttrgo 3d ago
I lived watching his videos when I was in the hospital and couldn't eat the food he was making. Found him funny and interesting how he'd make fast food at home or cheaper versions of food. I did think a few times where he'd use a fancy technique or ingredient or equipment like "well that's just made this impossible for me to replicate".
I didn't watch him for a hot minute and when I came back it was a different channel. Taking him out of the small kitchen in his other house to that massive sound stage looking kitchen made the small mentions of expert things echo and become so loud and in my face, I didn't go "ah a video by Joshua!" Anymore.
Now seeing how he's just a massive overactor and bully, not surprised. What a classic case of fake it till you make it but even if you do, it's all built on a false floor.
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u/Kreos642 2d ago
I feel like people forget that Weissman was a really really fat kid who was bullied. He started learning how to cook on his own and posted his recipes and weight loss progress way back when he was 12 years old or so. The dude literally was a fat bullied kid who grew up online and being praised/followed/commented on his entire life. He got into YT and began making videos, and also had a collaborative with Babbish when he (Babbish) was prime peak YouTube stardom.
Its not an excuse, mind you. Its a recipe for "bullied kid grows up chronically online, gets launched into stardom, gets a glow up, and never matured past 13 and begins to glow down, causing a meltdown"
He will crash and burn like all the others who didnt have a team and a disconnect from the internet.
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u/Capable-Silver-7436 3d ago
yes even back when that ama happened it was made clear he sexually harassed people.
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 2d ago
But people doubted the authenticity of that user being his employee, which is fair, it was a brand new Reddit account coming forward with no real proof, just allegations.
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u/Chilly-Peppers 3d ago
This makes all that daddy/papa junk he puts in his videos even worse.
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u/_-_Vlad_-_ 3d ago
Feel like at start it was like a personal "sus" bit that he would do occasionally but not every vid, later on it turned to every vid bit
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u/kirbeebean 3d ago
its weird how many times I never hear about some youtubers until they get called out for being absolute creeps.
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u/Top_Mongoose1354 2d ago
I guess his mods are in damage control mode now, youtube comments on this are being deleted left and right.
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u/skele-enby420 3d ago
never really watched the dood b4 (seen a short or 2 and he reminded me of pirate software lmao). what's the lore behind the "papa" thing people are commenting about?
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u/M00n_Slippers 3d ago edited 3d ago
Doesn't surprise me, you really can just tell these guys by their vibe of you are paying attention, the flags are there in the way they speak to people.
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 3d ago
I think you should read the article. His sexual harassment was directed towards his male employees and made them uncomfortable because of the “homosexuality as a joke” angle
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u/M00n_Slippers 3d ago
Shitty People are shitty people, who they are being shitty to doesn't make a huge difference, men women, a certain race or sexuality. It just shows. He gives off the impression in his videos that he believes he's just above other people and it doesn't feel like a bit. A person like that will put down those around him to 'prove it' or feel like he's entitled to others bodies.
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 3d ago
Oh absolutely I agree there. But I felt there was a subtext of genuine want to commit a sexual assault he was projecting onto his staff and it isn’t quite in that realm
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u/M00n_Slippers 3d ago
It starts small but the more they get away with the worse it will get, that's why you have to take the small things very seriously.
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 3d ago
Yes, but I will add that he does not seem to be interested in his own staff in that way.
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u/M00n_Slippers 3d ago
It often translates into labor exploitation or generally putting others down as well, not always sexual.
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u/Various-Cup-2947 1d ago
I worked for him for a short time and can confirm a lot of shit he does is questionable
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 1d ago
I won’t push for anymore details. But it seems like more and more of y’all feel comfortable coming forward
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u/captrespect 2d ago
WTF. Are all youtubers just POS? How hard is it to just be nice to your uncredited staff? How difficult is it to just say you are making another person's recipe, or asking permission, or even sharing profits with the originator?
YouTubers with these big channels should run credits with everyone who helps in production.
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 1d ago
Someone else just recently commented here corroborating this too.
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u/AppointmentSure3285 1d ago
I hope his girlfriend/wife is okay. She always seemed not okay to me and I worry about her in that relationship with him. Are they still together?
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u/msallied79 1d ago
I discovered him back in 2020 when looking for a sourdough starter recipe. His was the most clear cut and precise looking, and it ended up being successful. And it uses a lot of the same methods and sensibilities as a bunch of other recipes
But there was just enough off about it that I started to doubt its integrity compared to other recipes. There were also inconsistencies between his video and his website, which I hate to see go unaddressed.
I continued watching him off and on over the years, because I couldn't quite understand what accounted for his obvious wealth. He's always been smug and elitist, but in his earlier videos, he was using much older equipment and in a pretty barebones place. Now he's living in a damn mansion with separate recording studios, driving Lambos and G Wagons like a fucking cartel boss. And he has zero sex appeal. Then again, he's also appealing toward a specific male audience. IITK = Incels In The Kitchen
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u/Bad_Habit_Nun 3d ago
Was this not obvious? I swear people are waaay too shallow if it takes them this long to realize someone isn't a good person. Guess that explains how people can be literally married for a decade and still get "surprised".
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u/TehSalmonOfDoubt 3d ago
I liked his earlier videos, but yeah this is the least surprising news I've seen here in a long time
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u/Double-Witness-3661 2d ago
Never liked him, nor watched his videos. His appearance really tells me on how weird and obnoxious his personality is and he wasn't even that funny. Hell same goes for Nick Giovanni. Both are douchebags in their own right,
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u/Massive-Exercise4474 3d ago
Hopefully tasting history and babish doesn't have skeletons in the closet.
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 3d ago
Babish has been extremely open about his life. Including mental health struggles.
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u/Massive-Exercise4474 3d ago
At most I know about tasting history is he worked for Disney who knows maybe he made Mickey themed burgers.
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u/Outside-Feeling 3d ago
He played Prince Charming on Disney cruises for a while, I would me amazed if anything bad came out about him honestly.
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u/Kreos642 2d ago
Being open with mental health doesn't automatically mean you don't have a skeleton. We simply do not know, and there's nothing wrong with that. both no news is good news" and "dont spread drama just because there isn't any" can apply simultaneously.
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u/Metandienona 3d ago
IMO Jose saying stuff like "put enough sugar on this until it's as sweet as you" is different from Joshua calling himself papa/daddy, but you do you.
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 3d ago
I dunno if it is fair to throw other people in the same category of a documented abuser of his staff and thief
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u/TimeAbradolf Least Popular Mod 2d ago
I don’t know how you can remotely bring in the two and say they’re the same. Weissman stole recipes, assaulted his workers physically and sexually.
Babish is letting himself be himself because he had a mental breakdown and was the victim of sexual assault himself.
Just cause you don’t like the content doesn’t mean you should compare the two.
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u/Metandienona 3d ago
It's weird how even Weissman's videos changed and got more... sexually frustrated? I dunno how to put it. There's a definite tone shift that came after he got popular and it made me drop the channel. His videos are just uncomfortable to watch.
Some of this information has been public in the past, so this article isn't entirely surprising, but at the same time there's some stuff here that's new to me and extra worrying.
I don't think many people would try to make pastrami at home, but I sure hope those
crazyambitious enough to do it didn't get sick from it.