Former ’90s kid actor Blake McIver has deleted every single one of his social media accounts after making an AIDS joke on Twitter.
At 5:13 AM yesterday morning, McIver tweeted: “So is Pose just Glee with a viral load now?”
Occasional Queerty contributor and longtime HIV/AIDS activist Mark S. King was quick to put McIver on blast.
“I have #HIV antibodies older than you, sir, and never in my life has punching down been hilarious — or a good career move,” King responded.
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Others were equally as outraged.
“Tasteless & tactless tweets,” one person responded. “Get well.”
“What did you think was a good idea about making an AIDS joke tweet?” another asked.
“Take. This. Down.” a third person commented. “Absolutely not ok.”
Thankfully, McIver, who came out publicly in 2010, heeded that person’s advice and deleted the tweet… along with his whole entire Twitter profile. And his Instagram page. And his Facebook account.
He has effectively scrubbed the internet of his entire social media presence, which, honestly, is probably for the best. At least, for the time being.
New Now Next notes that this isn’t the first time the actor-turned-go-go-boy has found himself in hot water over a social media post. In January, he went on a Twitter tirade during Rent Live, which he later blame on his mental state.
“I had a severe manic depressive episode last night and although it’s not an excuse for what was said publicly and privately, it’s a reason,” he explained.
Some have already declared McIver “canceled” and are vowing never to support him again. We’re not ready to completely throw the guy under the bus yet, but we’d definitely like an explanation.
Blake, if you’re reading, you know how to reach us.
Related: From Child Star to Go Go Hunk to Babs Belter: The Fabulous Evolution of Blake McIver
Catholicslutbox
Declaring him “cancelled?”
He was cancelled long before this happened- like 20 years ago.
He’s gay, so he gets a free pass. Get over it.
Joan Rivers once said, “You better deal with life and get over it and make it funny because otherwise, it’s so sad.”
ConnorBryant1658
Declaring him “cancelled?”
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Hdtex
@ConnorBryant1658 swallows for money. Anal is extra.
LukeHill1389
Declaring him “cancelled?”
He was can….- I can’t agree with you more But i am here not only to discuss this article but I AM LOOKING for NEW Soulmate. My whatsapp number is 17732425635 . Drop me some lines nly if you are sngle and really miss for love and pleasure..
berto
Who is blake? Never heard of him.
jw8890
He played the little rich boy Waldo from The Little Rascals. Unsurprisingly his father was played the the big cheese himself Dumbass, sorry meant Donald, Trump
Brian
Tasteless, yes, but also kind of funny. Lighten up, people.
WashDrySpin
Brian as always you are have your finger on the pulse of blantant stupidity, obvious racism and transphobia and above all self serving behaviors..
Reach for the bottom of the barrel as always
Vince
Brian
Sorry but only a do#chebag would think that was funny and ok. Even he regret saying that. He suffers from a mental illness apparently. What’s your excuse?
Brian
And yet, looking at the comments here, you two are in the minority. But your virtue has been appropriately signaled to the rest of us, so go eat your cookie.
WashDrySpin
So if I were in 1835 and opposed slavery or thought that women should have the right the vote…because the majority of people think it is OK, that makes me somehow wrong because they “majority” thinks the opposite…well you are NOT a smart nor clever person
Brian
You’re equating civil rights and a joke? You probably shouldn’t be commenting on other people’s intelligence, because that is idiotic
WashDrySpin
Ok let’s just call you a tasteless POS
Brian
Tasteless humor is a valid form of humor. Just because it’s not your cup of tea doesn’t make it wrong for others to appreciate it. It will be around long after your faux outrage is forgotten by the world.
Ronbo
Brian, you did not know the difference between actress Meg Ryan and one-time presidential candidate Meg Whitman. Please STOP making comments.
It’s just pathetic how the most ill-informed HAVE to be the loudest.
Brian
That’s so you’ve got, a brain fart from last year where I wrote the wrong last name in a post? You’re as lame as the guy who thinks telling me to get another Madonna tattoo is some sort of insult.
marion
@ WashDrySpin Outrage used to be a negative emotion, forcing people to act against true injustice. But, you seem to revel in it, I think finding outrage everywhere makes you feel good, Does it make you feel good?
Hdtex
Not funny. Not funny in the least.
workin35man
Wash/Dry who makes negative comments about newly married gay couples. Yet you can point a finger at this ? You are a hypocrite
Invader7
Who? Another has been NOBODY troll douche actress…
marion
Our Graham looking under every rock for the tiniest piece of outrage. I thought the jock was quite funny.
Man About Town
Which jock was that?
jjose712
Frankly, i thought that given HIV is not more than a chronical disease right now you can make fun of it.
In fact i suppose you could make fun of everything.
And frankly this is quite harmless but of course on twitter everything is something terrible to be outraged
WashDrySpin
I guess since their is no more slaves/slavery go right ahead and make fun of it…
swellster
I’m poz. I don’t get the outrage. Given the time frame for Pose and the subject matter I thought the joke was kinda funny. I hate all of this outrage culture. pick your battles.
WashDrySpin
Being HIV+ does not allow you to speak for everyone and their temperament about this matter.
The statement is tacky and if you are so brave about your convictions regarding their joke. Go ahead and take to Twitter or Facebook and share it
man5996853
@WashDrySpin…and being negative doesn’t give you the license to speak for anyone who doesn’t have the disease. T
There is nothing in the original comment which even implied that he was speaking for an entire group of people. Un-wad your panties and chill the eff out. You are attacking someone because of your own, misguided inference.
Cam
You can always spot the anti-LGBTQ trolls on here because they always start with “I’m…….” before they post something against that group.”
i.e. I’m a lesbian but……” or “I’m trans but….” or “As a gay man, I don’t feel that….”
Nice try.
Hdtex
I’m poz. I “get” the outrage. You do not speak for me. Pound sand.
notasjw
To the perpetually outraged.
Oh grow up.
Joan from the grave.
Cam
Says the screename that becomes outraged if anybody doesn’t support Republican anti-LGBT bigotry.
Vince
I don’t make a jokes about AIDS, I don’t make a joke about cancer or any other thing that people are suffering from. I’m sorry some of you feel different but I’ll say this. If you ever did that in front of me I would kick your ass. Now of course that would be funny and totally different.
PinkoOfTheGange
So would this be greeted with the same outrage: “Trump is a cancer on the truth”?
Vince
There is a difference. If you were to make a joke about a condition of cancer such as weight loss, hair falling out, etc then yes it would be disgusting.
PinkoOfTheGange
That is an awfully thin hair to split.
Vince
Well, go ahead and test it then. Make a joke about cancer to someone who’s family member suffered from it and see their reaction.
Brian
My mom died from cancer in November. Brain and stomach. The brain tumor caused dementia, and at the end, when her bowels shut down and she could no longer eat and drink, she lasted 22 days wasting away. It was brutal.
One of my favorite tasteless jokes I probably found in the extremely popular Truly Tasteless Jokes book, which was the best selling paperback of 1983 and spawned dozens of sequels according to Wikipedia. The very abridged version is that a guy decides to have sex with a really old lady, she tastes weird when he goes down on her, he tells her her juice tastes interesting, she says “that’s not juice, that’s cancer”
I still think that’s funny.
1898
never heard of him, but point of clarity: it was an HIV joke not an AIDS joke
amazing that it’s 2019 and a gay web site doesn’t know the difference
PinkoOfTheGange
“Don’t step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. … There you have it, Montag. It didn’t come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no!”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Creamsicle
I honestly think that the joke was pretty tame.
What happened to the “unshockable gays,” that helped launch blisteringly ascerbic comic allies, like Joan Rivers or Kathy Griffin? Has social acceptance made us humorless because there’s less actual darkness and danger to deal with in our lives?
WashDrySpin
Would you be saying this if the person was straight and conservative…
PROBABLY NOT!!!!!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
People need to lighten the fcuk up!!!
He is Gay he MEANT IT AS A JOKE. There was no malice nor nefarious motive in his post. People are hating on him for making a joke while there are countless others attempting to deny our, rights, dissolve our marriages, and even CRIMINILIZE our sex. And the Gay internets are trying to crucify this guy???
Stop clutching your dam pearls and aim your venom at our ACTUAL ENEMIES….
WashDrySpin
Hey babe, you can take your parlor store mental tricks that allows you to read the minds of someone that you have never met and go sit on the toilet and flush them right along with your grandstanding attitude
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
WashDbagspin:
Oh look how cute!! Another troll slithered out from under it’s rock to attempt to stink up this site!
Sorry “babe” I don’t do troll…
Toofie
Absolutely. We have REAL enemies out there that the full blast seems reserved for nonsense things like this.
BuddyinCA
This kid needs to learn the saying, “If you can’t be witty, don’t be shi**y.”
TheMarc
I love how the reporting of his abhorrent comment by Queerty comes with a pass. Graham might as well have said “Call us if you need us to spin this for you!” Was the comment in absolute poor taste? Of course it was, not the worst thing a gay man has said, but still awful. In fact, if a straight male celebrity had said this, CNN might have even reported on it. And many that are defending him would be holding pitchforks and torches. When are we going to get to wrong is wrong? And away from “Now, before we pass judgment…how hot is he?”
Brian
I’d be fine with Tim Allen making this joke too. People making tasteless jokes shouldn’t be news stories in the first place.
TheMarc
@Brian, that’s great and you’re entitled to your opinion. It doesn’t negate how others feel though. But that is really an entirely different point than what I was discussing. Queerty (and many others) has un-apologetically fed the outrage machine with little to no thought around clarifying the offending party’s real thoughts or putting it into context; with the exception of when it is a gay “hottie.”
Brian
Queerty exists solely to feed the outrage machine. Do you think anyone outside of this website or Twitter cares that grown up Waldo made an HIV joke? This is such a non story it’s laughable, yet it certainly got WashDrySpin frothing at the mouth, along with a couple of others. You even made sure to call it “abhorrent” and “awful”. Which it’s not at all.
TheMarc
Brian – And as I said, you’re well entitled to your opinion. I say it’s abhorrent and awful, because I believe it is. It was an insensitive and unnecessary joke that really wasn’t funny enough to justify it seeing the light of day.
michel_banen
It was intended as a joke. And with everything humor; some will think it’s hilarious, some will be offended. There was no intention to offend people, yet the joke backfired. Honestly, I don’t really get the outrage and discussion. Jokes happen. You either laugh about it or not. If not…. next. Now it’s getting way more attention than it probably should.
ciasteczek
you are bunch of whining snowflakes, aren’t you? He make a JOKE. Maybe you shoukd google what does it means.?? Really pick you battles wiser.
Cam
You sound mad…..maybe you’re the sensitive one.
Man About Town
My favorite part of stuff like this is how they dig themselves in deeper with grasping-at-straws explanations, in this case “I had a severe manic depressive episode last night…”
That one’s right up there with Roseanne’s “ambien” excuse.
bjm123
Stop making excuses. If he was black or any other minority making these jokes, you queens would be up in arms. But I agree with what someone said earlier: his career is over. To be honest with you, I didn’t know who he was to begin with. That being said: Pose is far and away THE greatest gay/trans show ever and the fact that the cast is minority is a big deal because it shows that minority gay/trans people matter. And the same thing for individuals with HIV/AIDS.
PinkoOfTheGange
It is like black people get a pass on using n—–g.
It is was a thing but now the twitter rage machine will burn down any one.
bjm123
PinkoOfTheGange: It’s like white people wearing KKK masks and then thinking that they are inclusive when they really aren’t.
Wicked Dickie
“..He has effectively scrubbed the internet of his entire social media presence, which, honestly, is probably for the best. At least, for the time being…” So that’s the appropriate response, Queerty? Just delete social media and all of forgiven? Wow. I suppose because he fits your narrative it’s ok.
Cam
This guy has been so thirsty for fame for years. Remember a few years back Queerty had a bunch of articles, probably submitted by Blake himself on the “Child Star who was now a go go boy”. It was presented as if he was around 19 and trying to find himself. Turns out he was nearly 30 then.
This is probably more about him being pissed for being a gay former actor and Ryan Murphy never hiring him for anything.
Ksjnyc1
I am not outraged, but the garbage that is in some people’s heads scares the shit out of me.
nitejonboy
Now if he’ll just totally disappear, I thought he was ugly enough on tv 20 years ago, the sight of his face now makes me cringe even more now that he’s grown..how anyone thought that kid belonged on tv is beyond me!! He should stick to radio.