YouTube/ThatVeganTeacher
- That Vegan Teacher has created over a half dozen TikTok accounts that have been banned.
- These accounts pull in tens of thousands of followers in a week before disappearing from the app.
- The 56-year-old Canadian grew to popularity in 2020 after singing a song about how McDonald's should go vegan.
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That Vegan Teacher, the online moniker of online vegan activist Kadie Karen Diekmeyer, is back to making content on TikTok, but she keeps getting banned. The 56-year-old Canadian had her main account with over 1.7 million subscribers suspended in late February and has made multiple alternative accounts since, with most of them already being suspended.
Directly after her ban, Diekmeyer used the alternative account That.HolocaustTeacher to respond to those with questions about the ban. She also used it to push the ideology that factory farming is comparable to the Holocaust. That account was banned just a few days later for breaking TikTok's community guidelines.
-Def Noodles (@defnoodles) February 24, 2021
Over the next few days, internet detectives found at least five different accounts owned by Diekmeyer including thatvegannurse, thatveganteacherwhosings, thatveganteacherverified (now known as thatveganteacherwhocares), and thatmeatteachermisstofu. These accounts were mostly inactive, with Diekmeyer responding directly to comments, showing that the accounts were linked directly to her.
That Vegan Teacher continues to post on YouTube and TikTok
While her main TikTok accounts have been banned, her 40,000 subscriber YouTube channel has become the main source for her to keep in contact with her followers. She uploads daily, sometimes multiple times in a day, with long, rambling videos filmed in front of a green screen with comments and likes turned off. Sometimes she talks about topics of the day, like YouTuber D'Angelo Wallace discussing her content, while in other videos she just reads through her own TikToks.
One of her most controversial videos on YouTube was posted on March 2 and features Diekmeyer writing out the n-word on a piece of paper next to a doll of a black girl. Later that day, she posted a 30-minute rant video, claiming that the backlash to her video was "censorship" and that she knows she "isn't a racist person."
On Thursday, Diekmeyer posted a YouTube video about another one of her alternate TikTok accounts getting a ban. Miss.Katies.Vegan.School had 51,000 subscribers after a week of activity before it was banned, prompting her to create the video and go over every TikTok on the account and explain why it doesn't qualify as harassment.
Diekmeyer's latest account was Questioning.Our.Thoughts, which had around 20,000 subscribers before that account was also banned. In a YouTube video, Diekmeyer says she picked "Questioning our Thoughts" because it was an old email address she used and she liked the name.
In many of her most recent TikTok videos, Diekmeyer can be seen using the simple, green avatar of Minecraft YouTuber Dream. In her YouTube, she explains that she found the avatar as a sticker on the app and grew a liking to it.
Diekmeyer grew in popularity over the course of 2020 after posting a video of her singing, asking McDonald's to go vegan. Her infamy has only grown over the course of the pandemic, with many of her viewers disagreeing with her mission to turn the entire world vegan.
In a statement about her ban evasions, TikTok pointed to their community guidelines which say "we will suspend or ban accounts and/or devices that are involved in severe or repeated violations."