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'''Kadie Karen Diekmeyer'''<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Asarch|first=Steven|date=23 February 2021|title=A TikTok animal rights activist was banned from the app days after making a sexual joke about a 16-year-old YouTuber|url=https://www.insider.com/that-vegan-teacher-banned-tiktok-going-to-stop-2021-2|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319050627/https://www.insider.com/that-vegan-teacher-banned-tiktok-going-to-stop-2021-2|archive-date=19 March 2021|access-date=8 March 2021|website=[[Insider Inc.|Insider]]|quote=Kadie Karen Diekmeyer, known online as That Vegan Teacher, has been banned on TikTok.}}</ref> (born 24 September 1964), known online as '''That Vegan Teacher''', is a Canadian [[Internet celebrity|Internet personality]] and animal rights activist. She is mostly known for her [[TikTok]] and [[YouTube]] career promoting [[veganism]], sometimes in controversial ways.
'''Kadie Karen Diekmeyer'''<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web|last=Asarch|first=Steven|date=23 February 2021|title=A TikTok animal rights activist was banned from the app days after making a sexual joke about a 16-year-old YouTuber|url=https://www.insider.com/that-vegan-teacher-banned-tiktok-going-to-stop-2021-2|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319050627/https://www.insider.com/that-vegan-teacher-banned-tiktok-going-to-stop-2021-2|archive-date=19 March 2021|access-date=8 March 2021|website=[[Insider Inc.|Insider]]|quote=Kadie Karen Diekmeyer, known online as That Vegan Teacher, has been banned on TikTok.}}</ref> (born 24 September 1964), known online as '''That Vegan Teacher''', is a Canadian [[Internet celebrity|Internet personality]] and animal rights activist. She is mostly known for her [[TikTok]] and [[YouTube]] career promoting [[veganism]], sometimes in controversial ways. Kadie is best known for posting vegan-related content on [[TikTok]] and [[YouTube]].


== Early life ==
== Early life ==
Kadie Karen Diekmeyer was born on 24 September 1964 in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada.<ref>{{Citation|title=Happy Birthday To Me! Go Vegan for the Animals - and Me!|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cEd-l00O5o|language=en|access-date=2021-10-20}}</ref> According to one of her videos titled "Ep.2 - Ethan Trace is a Disgrace", she said that she is of [[Germans|German]] and [[Swiss people|Swiss]] ancestry. She worked as a registered nurse for 25 years, and later attended [[Concordia University]] to become an [[English as a second or foreign language|ESL]] teacher in French Canadian schools. She worked both jobs and eventually dropped her nursing career to work full time in the school system. Diekmeyer left her job at the start of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] and began her online career.<ref>{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UozPFvOOcjY|title=@Mic the Vegan vs @SSSniperWolf|date=10 September 2021|last=Diekmeyer|first=Kadie|type=video|publisher=That Vegan Teacher|access-date=11 September 2021|via=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>
Kadie Karen Diekmeyer was born on 24 September 1964 in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada.<ref>{{Citation|title=Happy Birthday To Me! Go Vegan for the Animals - and Me!|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cEd-l00O5o|language=en|access-date=2021-10-20}}</ref> According to one of her videos titled "Ep.2 - Ethan Trace is a Disgrace", she said that she is of [[Germans|German]] and [[Swiss people|Swiss]] ancestry.

=== Recent years ===
Kadie claims that she is a member of the [[LGBT community|LGBTQ+ community]].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|last=Browning|first=Bil|title=Vegan influencer says coming out as animal rights activist is less selfish than coming out as queer|url=https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/02/vegan-influencer-says-coming-animal-rights-activist-less-selfish-coming-queer/|access-date=2021-11-14|website=LGBTQ Nation}}</ref> She originally came out as a [[lesbian]], and [[Bisexuality|bisexual]] a few weeks later.<ref name=":4" /> She has a [[dog]] named Bella, who is on a vegan diet.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-16|title=That Vegan Teacher Exposed|url=https://www.themycenaean.org/2020/10/that-vegan-teacher-exposed/|access-date=2021-11-14|website=The Mycenaean|language=en-US}}</ref>

She worked as a registered nurse for 25 years, and later attended [[Concordia University]] to become an [[English as a second or foreign language|ESL]] teacher in French Canadian schools. She worked both jobs and eventually dropped her nursing career to work full time in the school system. Diekmeyer left her job at the start of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] and began her online career.<ref>{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UozPFvOOcjY|title=@Mic the Vegan vs @SSSniperWolf|date=10 September 2021|last=Diekmeyer|first=Kadie|type=video|publisher=That Vegan Teacher|access-date=11 September 2021|via=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>


== Career ==
== Career ==
Diekmeyer created her YouTube channel on 21 July 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|title=That Vegan Teacher|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-q4j_ttUgWmir4-Cwh_Hrg/about|access-date=25 February 2021|website=YouTube|archive-date=19 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319050912/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-q4j_ttUgWmir4-Cwh_Hrg/about|url-status=live}}</ref> As of 11 November 2021, her channel has over 140,000 subscribers and over 39 million views. Her account on [[TikTok]] went [[Viral video|viral]] for a song called "Eating Animals Is Wrong, [[McDonald's]]" in July 2020.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Asarch|first=Steven|title=A TikTok animal rights activist was banned from the app days after making a sexual joke about a 16-year-old YouTuber|url=https://www.insider.com/that-vegan-teacher-banned-tiktok-going-to-stop-2021-2|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319050600/https://www.insider.com/that-vegan-teacher-banned-tiktok-going-to-stop-2021-2|archive-date=19 March 2021|access-date=25 February 2021|website=[[Insider Inc.|Insider]]}}</ref>
Diekmeyer created her YouTube channel on 21 July 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|title=That Vegan Teacher|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-q4j_ttUgWmir4-Cwh_Hrg/about|access-date=25 February 2021|website=YouTube|archive-date=19 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319050912/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-q4j_ttUgWmir4-Cwh_Hrg/about|url-status=live}}</ref> As of 11 November 2021, her channel has over 140,000 subscribers and over 39 million views. Her account on TikTok went [[Viral video|viral]] for a song called "Eating Animals Is Wrong, [[McDonald's]]" in July 2020.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Asarch|first=Steven|title=A TikTok animal rights activist was banned from the app days after making a sexual joke about a 16-year-old YouTuber|url=https://www.insider.com/that-vegan-teacher-banned-tiktok-going-to-stop-2021-2|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319050600/https://www.insider.com/that-vegan-teacher-banned-tiktok-going-to-stop-2021-2|archive-date=19 March 2021|access-date=25 February 2021|website=[[Insider Inc.|Insider]]}}</ref>


In September 2020, Diekmeyer was criticised for saying she would no longer sign her [[organ donation|organ donor card]] as she did not want to donate her organs to meat eaters when she dies.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=Digital|date=14 September 2020|title=Vegan activist blasted for saying she would not donate organs to meat eaters|url=https://7news.com.au/sunrise/on-the-show/vegan-activist-blasted-for-saying-she-would-not-donate-organs-to-meat-eaters-c-1315745|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319050602/https://7news.com.au/sunrise/on-the-show/vegan-activist-blasted-for-saying-she-would-not-donate-organs-to-meat-eaters-c-1315745|archive-date=19 March 2021|access-date=5 March 2021|website=Sunrise|publisher=[[Seven News|7NEWS]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Chiorando|first=Maria|date=14 September 2020|title=Vegan TikTok Star Blasted For Refusing To Donate Organs To Meat Eaters|url=https://plantbasednews.org/opinion/vegan-tiktok-star-blasted-refusing-donate-organs-meat-eaters/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319050630/https://plantbasednews.org/opinion/vegan-tiktok-star-blasted-refusing-donate-organs-meat-eaters/|archive-date=19 March 2021|access-date=5 March 2021|website=[[Plant Based News]]|language=en-GB}}</ref> The video received more than 750,000 views on TikTok and over 100,000 on [[Twitter]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Morris|first=Seren|date=14 September 2020|title=Vegan TikTok activist says she would not donate organs to meat eaters|url=https://www.newsweek.com/vegan-tiktok-activist-says-she-would-not-donate-organs-meat-eaters-1531681|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319050631/https://www.newsweek.com/vegan-tiktok-activist-says-she-would-not-donate-organs-meat-eaters-1531681|archive-date=19 March 2021|access-date=5 March 2021|website=[[Newsweek]]|language=en}}</ref> In March 2021, she made a YouTube video titled "ARE YOU RACIST?", using the word "[[nigger]]" and other profanity, stating that people should "ban cruelty, not words" and that everyone must "reclaim" words that have hurt others, and not "let them have any power."<ref>{{cite web|last=Bonfiglio|first=Nahila|date=4 March 2021|title=That Vegan Teacher spells out N-word in video urging people to 'ban cruelty, not words'|url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/that-vegan-teacher-n-word-video/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319050604/https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/that-vegan-teacher-n-word-video/|archive-date=19 March 2021|access-date=8 March 2021|website=[[The Daily Dot]]}}</ref>
In September 2020, Diekmeyer was criticised for saying she would no longer sign her [[organ donation|organ donor card]] as she did not want to donate her organs to meat eaters when she dies.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Staff|first=Digital|date=14 September 2020|title=Vegan activist blasted for saying she would not donate organs to meat eaters|url=https://7news.com.au/sunrise/on-the-show/vegan-activist-blasted-for-saying-she-would-not-donate-organs-to-meat-eaters-c-1315745|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319050602/https://7news.com.au/sunrise/on-the-show/vegan-activist-blasted-for-saying-she-would-not-donate-organs-to-meat-eaters-c-1315745|archive-date=19 March 2021|access-date=5 March 2021|website=Sunrise|publisher=[[Seven News|7NEWS]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Chiorando|first=Maria|date=14 September 2020|title=Vegan TikTok Star Blasted For Refusing To Donate Organs To Meat Eaters|url=https://plantbasednews.org/opinion/vegan-tiktok-star-blasted-refusing-donate-organs-meat-eaters/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319050630/https://plantbasednews.org/opinion/vegan-tiktok-star-blasted-refusing-donate-organs-meat-eaters/|archive-date=19 March 2021|access-date=5 March 2021|website=[[Plant Based News]]|language=en-GB}}</ref> The video received more than 750,000 views on TikTok and over 100,000 on [[Twitter]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Morris|first=Seren|date=14 September 2020|title=Vegan TikTok activist says she would not donate organs to meat eaters|url=https://www.newsweek.com/vegan-tiktok-activist-says-she-would-not-donate-organs-meat-eaters-1531681|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319050631/https://www.newsweek.com/vegan-tiktok-activist-says-she-would-not-donate-organs-meat-eaters-1531681|archive-date=19 March 2021|access-date=5 March 2021|website=[[Newsweek]]|language=en}}</ref> In March 2021, she made a YouTube video titled "ARE YOU RACIST?", using the word "[[nigger]]" and other profanity, stating that people should "ban cruelty, not words" and that everyone must "reclaim" words that have hurt others, and not "let them have any power."<ref>{{cite web|last=Bonfiglio|first=Nahila|date=4 March 2021|title=That Vegan Teacher spells out N-word in video urging people to 'ban cruelty, not words'|url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/that-vegan-teacher-n-word-video/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319050604/https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/that-vegan-teacher-n-word-video/|archive-date=19 March 2021|access-date=8 March 2021|website=[[The Daily Dot]]}}</ref>
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=== TikTok ban ===
=== TikTok ban ===
On 23 February 2021, Diekmeyer was [[IP address blocking|IP banned]] from TikTok for breaching community guidelines. The exact cause of her ban is unclear.<ref name=":0" /> Diekmeyer posted a video on her YouTube page after the ban, claiming that she was [[Censorship|censored]] and promising to not give up on her platform.<ref name=":0" />
On 23 February 2021, Diekmeyer was [[IP address blocking|IP banned]] from TikTok for breaching community guidelines.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Giliver|first=Liam|date=2021-02-24|title=Who Is That Vegan Teacher? Why Did TikTok Ban Her?|url=http://plantbasednews.org/news/social-media/who-is-that-vegan-teacher-and-why-is-she-going-viral-on-tiktok/|access-date=2021-11-14|website=Plant Based News|language=en-GB}}</ref> The exact cause of her ban is unclear.<ref name=":0" /> Diekmeyer posted a video on her YouTube page after the ban, claiming that she was [[Censorship|censored]] and promising to not give up on her platform.<ref name=":0" />


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 06:18, 14 November 2021

That Vegan Teacher
File:Miss Kadie "That Vegan Teacher" screenshot 2020.webp
Diekmeyer in 2020
Born
Kadie Karen Diekmeyer

(1964-09-24) 24 September 1964 (age 60)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Other names
  • Miss Kadie
  • Miss Karen[1]
Occupations
Years active2018–present
YouTube information
Channel
Subscribers140,000[2]
Total views39.3 million[2]
Last updated: 11 November 2021

Kadie Karen Diekmeyer[3][4] (born 24 September 1964), known online as That Vegan Teacher, is a Canadian Internet personality and animal rights activist. She is mostly known for her TikTok and YouTube career promoting veganism, sometimes in controversial ways. Kadie is best known for posting vegan-related content on TikTok and YouTube.

Early life

Kadie Karen Diekmeyer was born on 24 September 1964 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[5] According to one of her videos titled "Ep.2 - Ethan Trace is a Disgrace", she said that she is of German and Swiss ancestry.

Recent years

Kadie claims that she is a member of the LGBTQ+ community.[6] She originally came out as a lesbian, and bisexual a few weeks later.[6] She has a dog named Bella, who is on a vegan diet.[7]

She worked as a registered nurse for 25 years, and later attended Concordia University to become an ESL teacher in French Canadian schools. She worked both jobs and eventually dropped her nursing career to work full time in the school system. Diekmeyer left her job at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and began her online career.[8]

Career

Diekmeyer created her YouTube channel on 21 July 2018.[9] As of 11 November 2021, her channel has over 140,000 subscribers and over 39 million views. Her account on TikTok went viral for a song called "Eating Animals Is Wrong, McDonald's" in July 2020.[10]

In September 2020, Diekmeyer was criticised for saying she would no longer sign her organ donor card as she did not want to donate her organs to meat eaters when she dies.[11][12] The video received more than 750,000 views on TikTok and over 100,000 on Twitter.[13] In March 2021, she made a YouTube video titled "ARE YOU RACIST?", using the word "nigger" and other profanity, stating that people should "ban cruelty, not words" and that everyone must "reclaim" words that have hurt others, and not "let them have any power."[14]

Rachel Kiley of The Daily Dot has characterized some of Diekmeyer's content as racist and homophobic,[3][15] including repurposing the slogan of "I can't breathe" for a song about the process of killing animals and arguing that coming out as LGBTQ+ is an "inherently selfish" act as opposed to coming out as vegan.[3][15] Diekmeyer has also compared the meat-eating industry to the Holocaust, arguing that the slaughter of animals is equivalent to or worse than the Holocaust.[3][16] She also garnered controversy when she commented on an early 2021 TikTok video by TommyInnit, a YouTuber known for playing Minecraft, talking about his YouTube Play Buttons. She used TikTok's stitch function to respond, "Tommy! The nice vegan girls don't want to see your buttons, but if you want them to play with your buttons, you're going to have to show them your fruits and your vegetables," while taking out a cucumber, pear, and apple.[10][16]

TikTok ban

On 23 February 2021, Diekmeyer was IP banned from TikTok for breaching community guidelines.[17] The exact cause of her ban is unclear.[3] Diekmeyer posted a video on her YouTube page after the ban, claiming that she was censored and promising to not give up on her platform.[3]

References

  1. ^ Miss Karen English Teacher (13 February 2020). "Miss Karen is Here". YouTube. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b "About That Vegan Teacher". YouTube.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Kiley, Rachel (23 February 2021). "TikTok bans That Vegan Teacher after homophobic, racist videos". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  4. ^ Asarch, Steven (23 February 2021). "A TikTok animal rights activist was banned from the app days after making a sexual joke about a 16-year-old YouTuber". Insider. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021. Kadie Karen Diekmeyer, known online as That Vegan Teacher, has been banned on TikTok.
  5. ^ Happy Birthday To Me! Go Vegan for the Animals - and Me!, retrieved 20 October 2021
  6. ^ a b Browning, Bil. "Vegan influencer says coming out as animal rights activist is less selfish than coming out as queer". LGBTQ Nation. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  7. ^ "That Vegan Teacher Exposed". The Mycenaean. 16 October 2020. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  8. ^ Diekmeyer, Kadie (10 September 2021). @Mic the Vegan vs @SSSniperWolf (video). That Vegan Teacher. Retrieved 11 September 2021 – via YouTube.
  9. ^ "That Vegan Teacher". YouTube. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  10. ^ a b Asarch, Steven. "A TikTok animal rights activist was banned from the app days after making a sexual joke about a 16-year-old YouTuber". Insider. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  11. ^ Staff, Digital (14 September 2020). "Vegan activist blasted for saying she would not donate organs to meat eaters". Sunrise. 7NEWS. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  12. ^ Chiorando, Maria (14 September 2020). "Vegan TikTok Star Blasted For Refusing To Donate Organs To Meat Eaters". Plant Based News. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  13. ^ Morris, Seren (14 September 2020). "Vegan TikTok activist says she would not donate organs to meat eaters". Newsweek. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  14. ^ Bonfiglio, Nahila (4 March 2021). "That Vegan Teacher spells out N-word in video urging people to 'ban cruelty, not words'". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  15. ^ a b Kiley, Rachel (26 January 2021). "Popular TikTok vegan co-opts 'I can't breathe' to protest animal cruelty". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  16. ^ a b Puhak, Janine (24 February 2021). "'That Vegan Teacher' says TikTok ban won't silence her following petition, controversies". Fox News. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  17. ^ Giliver, Liam (24 February 2021). "Who Is That Vegan Teacher? Why Did TikTok Ban Her?". Plant Based News. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
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