Have you seen the video of Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge which circulated on social networks this weekend? If you haven’t seen it, I tell you, it’s better this way.
We see the actor filming himself in the woods. While making a dubious joke, he leans against a tree on which the “N” word is engraved in large letters.
The day after posting this video, he posted another video to explain himself. He said he had never seen the inscription carved on the tree.
Hmm…let me doubt it.
I might be wrong, but…
If you want my humble opinion, I don’t believe Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge’s excuses.
The inscription of the n-word was too visible not to be noticed.
I may be wrong, but I sincerely think that Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge saw this tree with the inscription and wondered in what roundabout and funny way he could show this to his subscribers.
Maybe I’m wrong again, but I think he decided to make a silly play on words with the word “job” to have an excuse to show this particular tree because of its engraving.
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The responsibility to double-check yourself
As others who reacted to the video have raised, you’d have to be really unlucky to accidentally film the only birch tree with such an inscription in a place full of birches.
I tell myself that if Guillaume is telling the truth and he didn’t see the engraving, it must necessarily be because he didn’t listen to himself again before publishing his video, because the inscription was so blatant!
I believe that public figures have a responsibility to carefully check their content before publishing it.
In 2024, it is truly unacceptable that this kind of thing is happening, whether intentional or not.