Other than the accusations that the other poster made (which I've heard as well), I wouldn't consider him a model expat. First, he essentially speaks Cave Russian (Morning! Taxi how much?) despite living there for decades.

The other more concerning thing, is this clueless chipper tourist act he does constantly - many times, I've seen him interview desperate, bitter, destitute people who lived in derelict former industrial centers of the USSR, telling stories of how their towns were the centers of industry, culture, activity - only for the factories to shut down, the opportunities disappear, the buildings turn to slums, and the only escape that remained was drinking.

And he just grills them question after question - and grins like a five year old at his first time at the zoo. It made me think something is very wrong with that man.

That is only on camera. He has been kicked off almost every other platform except YouTube. Visa, Uber, PayPal among others all kicked him off. Off camera he has been exposed as a debased sexual predator. Anyone interested can find the whole drama exposing him by searching reddit, his name, and similar terms to what I discussed.

I used to be a fan. Until as you described, I scratched the surface and found the posts he made. The rape allegations. It doesn’t take long to connect the dots that his trips to poor socioeconomic areas are not because they are interesting. But to find vulnerable women. And his naive audience is how he continues to pay for his predations.

I'm not interested one way or another but if you're going to make claims this extreme the least you can do is provide a link to the evidence yourself. Let's leave making unsubstantiated, outrageous statements to the other social media platforms that do it best.

These are just a few posts digging into his past. There are plenty more to research as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/internetdrama/comments/d4zo17/1_mil...

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/comments/judnlm...

Most of the URLs of that thread are broken including Archive.org.

Thanks for posting the links.