Stand-up comedian Matt McCusker opened up during a recent appearance on Theo Von’s podcast about why he has stepped away from X citing an overwhelming feed of race war propaganda and white supremacy content.
McCusker told Von that the platform has become unrecognizable compared to its earlier days. “X is crazy now,” he said. “I remember when it was Twitter, it was like there’s too much censorship, and I’m like yeah, let me see the real s**t. Now I’m kind of like, let’s go, let’s censor this heavily again.”
The comedian said his personal feed has become flooded with a specific type of content that he finds deeply troubling. He stated, “I can’t even go on X anymore. I get all like race baiting kind of like race war propaganda where it’s like, can you believe… it’s just non-stop,” McCusker said. “I get a lot of like white supremacy stuff.”
He noted the irony of the content targeting him specifically, given that he has a Black wife. “They want you back. They know you have a Black wife,” Theo Von joked.
Matt jokingly, replied, “They want me back. They want me, man. They’re trying to break me out of that.” McCusker described the experience of scrolling through the platform while sitting next to his wife, only to have a video of someone screaming a racial slur suddenly appear. “My X feed’s just completely bonkers,” he said.
Von shared a similar sentiment, recalling waking up in the middle of the night, checking his phone, and almost immediately being confronted with graphic footage. “I’ve seen seven people getting massacred outside of some like, outside of a car dealership in Tijuana or something,” he said, adding, “What portal of he ll did I just take myself through?”
Host Theo Von also pointed a finger at platform owner Elon Musk, saying the billionaire should hold himself to a higher standard. “Elon should do better than that. He should want better than that for society,” he said.
Both comedians agreed that while there was once a legitimate argument against censorship on the platform, the pendulum has swung so far in the other direction that the content has become genuinely harmful to engage with.
“I’ve stepped off of X,” McCusker confirmed. “I just can’t watch it. It’s too much.”
Von summed up the feeling shared by many users who once welcomed a more open platform. “I feel like it’s kind of starting to lose its vibe,” he said, while acknowledging that from a pure business standpoint, the flood of extr eme content may be working exactly as intended.
