What makes me most disappointed is when a crime podcast does this. Like Sword & Scale. It is like, "She was horribly murdered and her family has never been able to recover from this traumatic eventHEY DO YOU NEED COUNSELING? NOW YOU CAN GET IT CHEAP AND ONLINE. JUST USE MY OFFER CODE: MONSTERS! YOU ARE IMPORTANT AND YOU ARE NORMAL. GO TO WWW.BETTERHELP.COM/MONSTERS!..."
I don't believe the deeper connections shit about Franco but the fact is he was taking cash per referral for a service he says he didn't realise was shady. I'm sorry but when you're a massive influencer taking lots of money to promote a product you do your fucking due diligence. Good that he's slammed the pause now but it shouldn't have taken people pointing this out and making noise.
It was definitely a fuck up on his part, but I can't possibly imagine him acting maliciously, referring people to a service he KNOWS is a scam. We're talking about a dude who grew up in an abusive household and blew open the DaddyOfFive scandal; it'd be some cartoonish-level supervillainy on his part to knowingly refer people to an inferior service for mental health counseling. That'd be like someone who lost their spouse to cancer knowingly peddling phony chemo drugs.
He was ignorant as to what the fine print said, mashed the pause button super fucking hard, and is using his influence to get the journalist who originally broke the story a look at the inner workings of the operation he helped expose. He fucked up, but he's doing his part to un-fuck it, which is really the least anyone who helped promote this service could do.
Say what you want about Phil, but I respect that he didn't just go "uhhhhh I didn't know" and then try to bury it as if it never happened. Dude takes his credibility seriously enough to keep the conversation going on an issue he was technically complicit in exasperating in hopes of making things right (even if it means making himself look bad in hindsight), and that's pretty damn decent.
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