“I feel it’s really important that we make fun of everybody,” she told Time magazine. “I think [what] brings us together and unites us as people is that we can poke fun at all of us.”
Comedienne Nicole Arbour claims that the video she made regarding fat people was just her “joking around”. She also claims that if there are other videos about graphic violence, nudity and other offensive content, why is hers getting so much media attention and scorn? Before I say what I think about her video, why don’t you watch it and decide for yourself if she was “just joking” or if she was actually dissing overweight people:
So, what do YOU think? Was Nicole Arbour just making lighthearted jokes about people who are overweight, or do you think she was being rude, insulting and actually fat-shaming them?
My opinion about Ms. Arbour’s video is that – not only did she intentionally set out to offend people (she admits this to the hosts on “The View”) – but, she took a lot of pleasure in being rude and offensive toward the overweight population; because she KNEW that she could get away with it and that it would boost her YouTube ratings, views and subscribers. You know what most celebrities say regarding news in the media:
“Negative publicity is still good publicity…”
They believe this to be true because any publicity – good or bad – puts them in the spotlight and draws ATTENTION to them or to whatever it is that they’re trying to achieve. Well, Nicole Arbour certainly has accomplished that. However, she definitely made some enemies with millions of people around the world. I can only imagine how much hate-mail she has received thus far!
Many comedians and comediennes throughout the years have told offensive jokes about overweight people. However, for some reason, Ms. Arbour’s “Dear Fat People” video has struck such an emotional and offensive cord with so many people, that it has negatively affected her personal life.
Nicole Arbour was fired from a dance film that she was going to choreograph – and the film’s topic was about a young girl who was being bullied! The irony of this has made some people hate the comedienne even more. Thousands of other YouTubers have made reaction videos to Ms. Arbour’s “Dear Fat People” video, most of them scathing and full of condemnation.
Will Nicole Arbour succeed as a YouTube star and in Hollywood after this viral film fiasco has died down? Or will she be forever branded the proverbial scarlet letter for the one video she made that insulted millions of overweight people? No one knows for sure. But, I know one thing: I don’t respect her work one bit, nor do I think she’s comically talented for what she’s done and for how she has made so many people even more self-conscious about their weight…and how she did it in the cruel, ridiculing and bullying type of manner that she did.
Now, she’s reaping the consequences of her actions.
