Generation Hope

Generation Hope is an American YouTube channel that makes skits and videos that it markets as inspirational.
==Content==
On June 10, 2021, the channel uploaded its first video, Mom Keeps Daughter SICK To Scam GoFundMe Money, She Instantly Regrets It. It would continue to upload videos about people from marginalized communities, kids and ordinary people being maltreated by people in positions of power, though sometimes they would upload videos about ordinary everyday interactions like Girl FRIENDZONES the Nice Guy, She Lives To Regret Her Decisionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlSk7TZD3A8. In their video, Drunk Dad Attacks His Disabled 15 Year Old Son, the father, Carter in the intro is seen yelling at his son Ben, who he flips off his wheelchair.
==Controversy==
===Video about whipping black people===
On January 10, 2022, SomeOrdinaryGamers tweeted "HAHA WTF IS THIS LMAO" and attached a screenshot from the Generation Hope video Racist Karen WHIPS Black Boys For Playing Basketball, What Happens Next Is Shockinghttps://twitter.com/OrdinaryGamers/status/1480356086247047170.
In the video, two black boys, Roy and Vince, are playing basketball but are harassed by a Karen who threatens to call the police and deflates their basketball, while also mocking Roy for being in a wheelchair. After Roy goes home, his mother notices him being upset and when he tells her what happened, she says that "he's not handicapped, he's handicapable" and tells him to stand up for himself. The next morning she even buys him a new basketball and encourages him to not let the harassment and fear drive him away from doing what he loves. Once again, the Karen notices him and Vince and repeats her racist verbal harassment, but Roy retorts against her. The Karen then takes out a whip and begins whipping Roy, but Roy refuses to let his spirit be broken. She is caught by Roy's mom, who tells Vince to call the police for a hate crime. Later the Karen, who's real name is revealed to Mallory, is arrested. As the credits roll, Vince and Roy talk about standing up for yourself in the face of racism.
The video was criticized for showing graphic and shocking scenes of a black man being whipped for the sake of drama and entertainment and was considered to be extremely tone-deaf with how it dealt with racism. The video was also called ableist for the message of telling a wheelchair user to "stand up for himself", as well as the credits showing Roy actually standing up without any need of the wheelchair. After the backlash the video was pulled from the channel. It has since been reuploadedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi3iZ_RVpL8.
==References==
Category:Educational YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2021