Josh Macedo

Josh Macedo, also known as confusedtree, joshishollywood, badcgijosh, and potatoblade, is a 24-year-old resident of Ontario, Canada and was a member of the popular blogging site tumblr.

Tumblr Popularity

	“	I am a man of simple pleasures. I drink coffee, I like post-modern literature, wearing suits, attractive people and beers after work and more than anything in this world I want to adopt a guinea pig and name it SPEED METAL	„
	—Josh, being oh so quirky and adorable

Josh celebrates Canada Day in style.
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His claim to fame was his skinny stature, sophisticated nature, bowties, and silly poses. Thanks to his gratuitous pictures of himself, his face is widely known across tumblr. His Canada Day antics have thousands of notes and in 2012 he inadvertently started a meme that gained tens of thousands of likes and reblogs and in the span of a few hours was imitated hundreds of times. The next afternoon the meme was declared dead though continued on for weeks. If being a skinny, POC pretty boy wasn't enough to garner all of tumblr's affection, he was also an outspoken feminist and regularly called out the sexism that ran rampant on both real life and the internet. He became a positive part of the social justice front of tumblr.

	“	Hello friends! In celebration of Lady Gaga’s new track Aura, dubbed “Burqa” by many of her fans, a lot of white people are showing their enthusiasm by fashioning burqas out of scarves, towels and blankets! I thought now would be a opportune time to make a quick tutorial if you are one of those white people and are planning on rocking some… er… “burqa swag” of your own. Accuracy and proper execution is the key. Here’s a step by step guide! Step 1.) Find something solid and sturdy Step 2.) Strike yourself very hard in the face with the broad side	„
	—Josh, telling those racists what-for 11,900 notes

What a perfect representation of a character that has never been given a canon description.
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More recently he has become many tumblr users' "headcanon" face for Cecil, the narrator of the podcast Welcome to Night Vale. It's unsure why they took such a liking to him but reliable sources say it's because he's thin and not white. As everyone on tumblr knows, if you assume a character with no description is white, you are racist. Fans jumped to the chance of creating Cecil fanart using Josh's image to represent Cecil.

Disregard That, I'm a Pedophile

On September 13, 2013 tumblr user sweet-bitsy posted her chatlogs with Josh from earlier that year when she was still 15 years old. Not long after bitsy's reveal of Josh's creepy actions, other women began to come forward with similar stories of Josh's unwanted advances, the majority being under 18. Several other chatlogs/text screencaps were posted that showed even more of Josh's extremely awkward and unrelenting flirting techniques, one of which was just sending pictures of himself masturbating without warning.

sweet-bitsy

	“	I told him I was underage and he said that it was legal where he lived.	„
	—sweet-bitsy

Somehow Josh failed to realize that though pre-2008 the age of consent in Canada was 14, it has since been raised to 16. Or maybe he did know and just wanted some sweet jailbait nudes. I mean she posted a picture of her bare legs on her personal blog. She was totally asking for it.

Josh's Conversation with Sweet-Bitsy About missing Pics

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nyaanchu

	“	I’d like to rehash the fact that I am a legal adult, so in that regard he did nothing wrong. What was wrong were the situations in which he disregarded my obvious discomfort in seeking out his own sexual gratification, as well as the unsolicited and unwanted sexual pictures he sent me. Everyone knows if someone doesn't explicitly say "don't show me your dick" you have the A-OK to do it, right? Also, a disturbing thought has crossed my mind, in that although I am 21 years old I’ve often been mistaken for 15 or 16. It’s disturbing to me that he seems to continually go after girls who are either underage or who look like they are.	„
	—nyaanchuu

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littlestbug

	“	oh all this stuff about josh macedo is coming out cool he was like that with me when i was barely 17 and thought it was really cool that an Internet Celebrity was coming onto me so i didnt like. tell anyone that i was uncomfortable i guess and i like consented and whatever but yeah he was very uh sexual without any prompting whatsoever with me soooo lols :)	„
	—littlestbug

rupsidaisy

	“	I posted this originally under a read more but decided that, with the direction this is all taking, I would post it for more people to see in full. I know some of his apologisers are still out in their bowtie wearing ranks so I’ve taken a preemptive measure and shut down my ask box. As a disclaimer: I’m not claiming I was sexually harassed by Josh Macedo, I am not saying I am a victim, especially in comparison to the girls coming out in the tag, but I am posting this to support the evidence that he creeps on underage girls knowing that they are underage and that he makes people feel uncomfortable. My age was on my blog, my evident minor status very clear. I was pretty naive about that stuff last year and once I became more aware, I also became more uncomfortable with it. He rarely reblogged from me, or even liked my posts, but the posts he did like were always sexual in nature.	„
	—rupsidaisy

tottlebud

	“	This is so weird. I had a very similar exchange with josh, he sent me the same photo of him semi naked that this person has here. I suppose he’s sent it to loads of people, he’s said similar sexually charged things to me in the past which I never thought twice about cos it’s the internet and it didn’t mean anything to me? Plus I have a bf so it wasn’t reciprocate obvi.	„
	—tottlebud

Josh's ex girlfriend, numberninedream

The Story of Her Relationship with Josh About missing Pics

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deerhoof and others

	“	i have talked to 3 girls today who told me about bad experiences they had with josh macedo (who want to remain anonymous and well one look at bitsys blog will tell you fucking why lol) and another person he approached when they were 16 years old (deerhoof) is also posting saying that he sent unsolicited nudes to them and a ton of his friends are expressing that they had seen warning signs for this kind of behavior in him and had been too worried to say anything about it and are now no longer friends with him after bitsys story and all this other information came out today so i dont know how you could possibly be continuing to defend this trashbag but thats rape culture for you	„
	—tumblr user marcojean

And Then The Nudes Were Leaked

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The Fallout

A message to all the girls he's sexually harassed.

Even his friends think he's an asshole.

Though the fact that a few of these women were over 18 makes him not a complete pedophile, Josh's diehard feminist persona has been shattered and people have begun to question whether or not it was a front for getting pussy all along. Many of his fans abandoned him while a select few stayed on Josh's side to blame all those dirty whores for leading Josh on and ruining his good name.

His blog went without updates for several days before word came from people close to Josh that he had checked himself into a clinic for suicidal thoughts. Less than a day later he was released. Upon his return to the internet he deleted his blog and put a placeholder up that was nothing but the words "Stay neat"... along with his adsense ad. If you're going to get a lot of attention in a scandal you may as well profit from it. Fortunately for him the majority of tumblr is too goddamn stupid to use AdBlock. He was highly criticized for this by both angry people on tumblr and his own friends. Everything has since been deleted but it seems to have been wiped by a friend, not Josh himself.

	“	i understand ‘stay neat’ has been interpreted as……..passive-aggressive and i hadn’t even thought of it that way. he has a tendency to be awful with goodbyes and tries to keep it relatively “positive” so i had interpreted it as genuine. it’s reasonable for others to disagree. he’s given me full access to…..pretty much everything that requires login information so i’m going to go change it now	„
	—envenime

Other Links

Josh's deleted blog
Blog dedicated to recording his antics
Daily Dot article