"Dear Fat People" YouTuber Nicole Arbour Reportedly Fired From Movie After Backlash

When YouTube comedian Nicole Arbour's "Dear Fat People" diatribe went viral (the bad kind), her immediate response was predictably unapologetic. "I feel it's really important that we make fun of everybody," Arbour tells Time in a recent interview. "I think what brings us together and unites us as people is that we can poke fun at all of us." Arbour later tweeted that the "only reason reason there's an issue" is because she doesn't look like a "traditional" comedian. "If I were a guy," Arbour says, "people would have LOLd n moved on."

Proving one half of her theory, almost no one has LOLd n moved on. "'Dear Fat People' is an unfunny and cruel fat-shaming video that guises itself about being about health," director Pat Millstells Zap2It. "It's fat-phobic and awful. It went on for over six minutes. I felt like I had been punched in the gut." Shortly before this interview, Mills had reportedly fired Arbour from his forthcoming film Don't Talk to Irene. Arbour disputes this: