Shadowing Practice: Remember That Vegan Teacher? Her Life Is Ruined Now. - Learn English Speaking with Video
Choose a practice mode
Each mode opens a full-screen practice room.
526 sentences
If sentences are too short or too long, click Edit to adjust them.
1
Why would anyone want to go and see somebody who's an animal who gets sponsored by McDonald's?
2
My two sons are not vegan.
3
No. How is he different from Hitler?
4
Name the one way he is different.
5
He doesn't have a mustache.
6
That's the only difference I see.
7
You know what makes a person worse than Adolf Hitler?
8
Cooking meat on camera without feeling sorrow for the cow.
9
At least that's according to 62 -year -old Katie Karen Dykemeyer, infamously known online as that vegan teacher.
10
In her eyes, chefs like world -famous celebrity Gordon Ramsay are complicit in what she calls a modern -day hall of st for animals.
11
Even Travis Scott is considered an animal of st for partnering by McDonald's.
12
Travis Scott, the rapper, he's an animal of st.
13
He gets sponsored by McDonald's.
14
He encourages millions and millions of people to keep going there.
15
Katie has sparked massive outrage from various online creators across multiple social media platforms.
16
For years, she made some of the most extreme and unprovoked attacks on non -vegans, whether through off -handed rants or her signature zero -melody songs.
17
Yet her argument always boils down to the same point.
18
If you're not vegan, you're evil and racist.
19
She has pushed her doctrine on everyone around her, including her own sons, whom she reportedly begged to go vegan as her birthday present.
20
And when they politely declined for 10 consecutive years, she cut them off completely and compared the feeling of betrayal to what Jeffrey Dahmer's mother felt.
21
My two sons are not vegan.
22
I offered them a hundred thousand dollars each to become vegan.
23
I thought about Jeffrey Dahmer's mother.
24
Even household pets are spared from her forced indoctrination.
25
She feeds her own dog a strictly plant -based diet while insisting that said dog has never been happier.
26
As a result of her behavior, she was banned from TikTok, but she's back on the platform today with over 1 .3 million followers.
27
And that's not even counting her YouTube channel, where over 780 ,000 subscribers wait for her next upload.
28
Because the truth is, Katie's extreme crusade has a lot of downsides.
29
She brings up racial slurs to prove unreasonable philosophical points, and she contradicts herself in areas where she believes that extermination of certain animals is crucial for animal safety.
30
So, how did a retired school teacher ever become the most hated vegan on the internet?
31
To get our answer, we need to go back to the summer of 2020, when one of the most striking outrages of the 21st century happened.
32
Millions of people around the world had flooded the streets of every major city after George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis, was killed by a police officer.
33
Floyd's last words were, I can't breathe, and it became a rallying cry for the Black Lives Matter movement that followed.
34
People were angry, heartbroken, and demanding justice.
35
And in the middle of all that pain, Katie decided it was the perfect time to release a song.
36
The title, I Can't Breathe.
37
You might be thinking, oh, it's a song in solidarity with George Floyd's case.
38
Maybe it would address police brutality and systemic racism.
39
And maybe, just maybe, it would show even a tiny bit of respect for the man who owned those dying words.
40
Unfortunately, if you thought any of that, you couldn't be further from the truth.
41
Katie's song was dedicated to a 65 -year -old Canadian animal rights activist and protester named Regan Russell,
42
who was run over and accidentally killed by the driver of a livestock transport truck during a demonstration.
43
Katie had, in some sick, twisted way, thought it was wise to use the popular cry of a dying man to write a tribute to this activist.
44
What's worse?
45
The entire essence of the five -minute song was her comparing the death of a human being to the farm animals.
46
The video description read, All lives matter to those who live then.
47
Help everyone to keep breathing, not just the ones in your own personal group.
48
If you are not vegan, then by default, you are for animal abuse.
49
If you are for animal abuse, your voice does not matter.
50
Your actions are already speaking so loudly that we cannot hear a word you are saying.
51
If you choose to pay for the rape, torture, and murder of innocent sentient beings, when there are other options, you should be behind bars.
52
Want credibility?
53
Change? Be decent? Be vegan?
54
Start now.
55
This particular insensitive message only showed that Katie the grandma had priorities that were not in line with the general population.
56
While the world was enraged that a man had died unjustly, she thought it was the right time to sing about cattle and chicken.
57
Only one part of the entire track resonates with Reagan Russell's death.
58
The lyrics were, I am a Canadian woman with a protest sign your Auschwitz truck has run over me.
59
Beyond that, 90 % of the video was primarily geared towards preaching about veganism.
60
Katie sang about the injustice that horses, rodents, and lab monkeys face at the hands of infrastructure.
61
And it gets worse.
62
In the middle of the song, the lyrics become extremely brutal, and Katie was no longer referring to animals.
63
I'm an immigrant worker with COVID being forced to dinner.
64
Then perhaps in an effort to link the title to its original roots, Katie threw in a George Floyd reference to boot.
65
She sang, I am an American man on the ground.
66
A knee is pressed into my neck.
67
The line was immediately followed by layered cries that closely mimic that of the bystander reactions, heard in the footage of Floyd's final moments.
68
Then just as quickly as she ventured the topic, she pivoted back to her sentiments about animals.
69
In the aftermath, Katie did not apologize or take the song down.
70
She simply disabled the comments so no one could tell her what they thought.
71
It was as if she was locked in her own world and didn't care about what people had to say to her.
72
And as if exploiting George Floyd was not enough, Katie took things a step further.
73
She posted a video titled, Are You Racist?, where she sat in front of a camera and casually discussed racism.
74
The video featured a brown doll, which Katie uses to symbolize a black persona, a fact she establishes within the first few seconds of the video.
75
Then with the emotional intelligence of a wet paper bag, she began a long ramble about how society should ban cruelty instead of just the use of the n -word.
76
Is banning words a good idea? When does it end?
77
If we say we can't say the n -word, but then people ban even saying the n -word,
78
then the n -word becomes the x -word, the n -word that used to be the other n -word.
79
Her argument was that banning words was a slippery slope.
80
She rambled about how the N -word becomes another N -word, and then another, claiming that if we start banning language, it never ends.
81
And her beef wasn't only with this particular slur.
82
Katie addressed a slew of others.
83
What about other words?
84
The F -word.
85
The C -word.
86
The R -word.
87
The S -word.
88
Her reasoning didn't make sense at all, and more than anything, they were just as insensitive as she was in the George Floyd period.
89
She closed that short clip by stating that society should reclaim these stigmatizing words instead of banning them.
90
When does it end when we start banning language?
91
Is it a good idea really?
92
Or is it better to just reclaim words that have hurt us?
93
Just not let them have any power.
94
Then for the closing act she made the n -word into a motivational initialism, and stated that the brown doll represented the distinct words she coined out of it.
95
Katie probably thought she was speaking words of wisdom, like a preacher on a pulpit.
96
However, in reality, she just came up with a creative way to use a racial slur on a brown doll
97
that is racist no matter how one tries to frame or justify it.
98
And it gets worse.
99
You see, Katie's warped view of racism is not limited to only that video.
100
In another clip, she applies the concept to animals.
101
The term she actually leans on is speciesism, which is is broadly defined as the misguided belief that one species is more important than another.
102
She appears to use speciesism and racism interchangeably, treating them as the same because both, in her view, deal with skin color.
103
And those guilty of it, according to her, are meat lovers, because vegans can't be racist since they aren't selective with animals.
104
I believe that racism is wrong and it is ignorant, I'm against it.
105
That's why I'm vegan, I don't believe in judging others just based on the exterior.
106
Though there are times where Katie apportions racist blames to anything she perceives as non -vegan.
107
Cocomelon.
108
Why are you serving white bread?
109
And what in the heck was that batter?
110
Hopefully that was some sort of pancake mix or waffle mix that was made without eggs.
111
We're looking for no use of animal products.
112
We're looking for plant -based milks.
113
Nothing in that video was about racism, the same way none of these racist connotations were explicitly stated in the brown doll video,
114
but Katie was desperate to seem smart and knowledgeable about the intersection between racism and veganism.
115
In the Brown Doll video, she tried to force the vegan narrative in the description, which read, Don't be racist.
116
Don't discriminate against anyone.
117
Don't be cruel to humans, animals, or the planet.
118
Be vegan from now on.
119
The comments are also turned off, leaving the 2 .7 million people who watched the video with no room to voice out their opinions.
120
Katie knew the kind of backlash that would greet her if she opened the platform, and that's why she kept disabling this feature.
121
There are, however, some comment sections she didn't silence, some of which are under her Gordon Ramsay videos.
122
Gordon Ramsay is one of the most beloved celebrities on the planet.
123
He is a multi -Michelin chef who has over 40 million followers on TikTok, 22 million subscribers on YouTube, and a reputation for being honest and hilarious.
124
He is also a chef who built his entire empire on cooking meat.
125
To Katie, this kind of packaging made him the perfect target, and like a moth looking at a flame, she began to antagonize him.
126
Between 2021 and this very moment, Katie has uploaded up to 10 videos about Gordon Ramsay.
127
She started with a video where she tried to break down the difference between food and animals because, in her opinion, Ramsey wasn't familiar with the topic.
128
So Gordon, one of the problems that I noticed
129
that you have is you don't seem to understand the difference between food and animals.
130
So food is something that you get out of the ground or you take it from a tree.
131
It is something that doesn't have feelings and it's something that's very healthy for us to eat.
132
Now, animals are alive.
133
They are sentient beings like us, like chickens and cows, sheep, pigs, you know, these things are not actually...
134
It was simple, and for a second, almost persuasive.
135
For a moment, you might even try to key into her logic.
136
However, the differentiation itself doesn't hold up.
137
Plants are alive, too, so by Katie's own, it's alive, therefore not food, logic, fruits and vegetables wouldn't be food either.
138
And food isn't defined by where you get it from, but by whether it's nutritious and eaten to sustain life.
139
Salt, mushrooms, and water don't come from a tree.
140
Tofu and oat milk don't come straight out of the ground, but they're still food.
141
She was confusing what food is with what she thinks we should eat.
142
Gordon eventually responded to this particular video with one where he watched her rant in silence, then called her a vegan donut and took a massive bite out of a beef burger.
143
The video got over 66 million views and 12 million likes, more than Katie's entire YouTube channel combined.
144
Viewers loved it and other celebrities cheered in the comments.
145
It was funny and dismissive and it made Katie look ridiculous without Ramsay ever having to say a single cruel word.
146
But that was only the beginning of their online battle.
147
In a follow -up video, Katie bounced back with more insults than the first.
148
She called Ramsay the devil and framed the entire narrative around how he was a psychopath.
149
She reacted to his reaction video by practically calling him immature.
150
Then she compared him to Hitler and said the only difference was
151
that Hitler had a mustache and had stopped people at 6 million.
152
Ramsey, in her head, was way worse.
153
Name the one way he is different.
154
He doesn't have a mustache.
155
That's the only difference I see.
156
I would even suggest that he is a human.
157
Because Hitler at least stopped at 6 million or more under his care.
158
And that wasn't all the weapons she had in her arsenal.
159
While highlighting her preferred food choices, Katie fixed Ramsay as some big orchestrator of animal The old lady analyzed one of his videos
160
and referred to cheese and mayonnaise as violent products that Ramsay was directly promoting.
161
And in the same breath, she still contradicted herself by calling them vegan food.
162
In another one, he is talking about promoting basically cheese in this dip.
163
He's promoting all kinds of violent products.
164
Cheese comes from a cycle of violence.
165
Mayonnaise comes from a cycle of violence, butter, all of these things that he promotes.
166
Mayonnaise could be vegan, cheese could be vegan, but he makes a point, the butter could be vegan, there's all vegan versions of this.
167
But instead, he doesn't care.
168
Her real issue was simply that he wasn't using his massive platform to promote vegan food.
169
Scratch that.
170
Katie wanted Ramsay to go fully vegan.
171
He is encouraging people to buy products that come from this cycle of violence.
172
Instead of saying, from now on, all of my restaurants will be vegan.
173
Instead of saying, from now on, all of my recipes will be vegan.
174
Instead of saying, I was wrong, I was a f*es terribly.
175
Instead of doing that, he is continuing to push forward to try to make more
176
and more money off of the backs of these innocent creatures.
177
It was as if the old grandma poured all of her anger and frustration onto Ramsay.
178
Every analogy she used, she tried to put him in the animal's place
179
and asked if he would like it if the tables were turned.
180
Katie would also go the extra mile to demand
181
that Ramsey be jailed and his followers should leave him and subscribe to her own channel.
182
Gordon Ramsey should be in jail.
183
He should be accountable for the crimes that he's committed
184
and for the millions of animals that he's promoted that other people should be hurt as well.
185
I urge you to unfollow him, unsubscribe, and subscribe to this channel instead.
186
This call was made on just that video.
187
In subsequent ones, Katie wasn't kind with her words.
188
She started wishing for Ramsay to kick the bucket and claimed
189
that his absence on Earth would serve some level of a good.
190
Her messages have been passed across with words and songs.
191
The graphics were so striking
192
that it left people wondering how they never got flagged by YouTube and why there was no trigger warning beforehand.
193
The ease of access only gave Katie more fuel and confidence, and that's why she never stopped.
194
It even got to a point where she started to involve his family.
195
Katie made a video titled, Why is Gordon Ramsay Such a Terrible Father? where she accused him of teaching his children speciesism, which she described as the purest form of racism.
196
Katie dissected a video where Ramsey's daughter pranked him with a bottle of water and egg.
197
Although it's a harmless father -daughter content, the old lady saw it as Ramsey teaching his child homophobia and ableism.
198
She even accused his daughter of stealing an egg from a chicken.
199
She stole something.
200
Or at least he did.
201
Somebody stole an egg from a chicken.
202
It's not right to steal.
203
But apparently this family thinks it's okay to steal.
204
And they also think it's okay to take these stolen products and break them.
205
So now she takes the egg and smashes it on his head.
206
The accusations were completely wild and baseless, and it looked like Katie was looking for any and every reason to hate on him.
207
She had made talking points about him as an individual, then as a chef, and finally as a father.
208
Again, Katie's insensitive nature couldn't have been more apparent within and between these episodes.
209
Yet despite the attacks, Ramsay didn't react harshly to her.
210
His second and final response was in the form of another rage bait video, where he announced that he was turning vegan only to cook and serve meat.
211
I got a confession.
212
I'm turning vegan.
213
Dinner, happily, done.
214
I'm turning vegan.
215
Even when Katie continued to hound him by accusing him of laughing at trillions of animals
216
and demanding that American dairy brand Silk drop him as their oat milk sponsor, Ramsay never responded again.
217
Instead, he posted a video compilation of farmers who thanked him for standing up for their industry.
218
The caption read, Always standing behind farmers, grateful for the work they do, and passion they have on a daily basis.
219
These farmers had faced all levels of hatred from people who
220
hated them for the kind of jobs they did in the agricultural sector.
221
So, with Gordon Ramsay not siding with the vegan teacher, aka Katie, he gave hope to farmers who had faced immense discrimination.
222
Chef Ramsay, several of us just wanted to get together and say thank you.
223
You see, you might not have been thinking about it
224
when you duetted the vegan teacher and did what you did and said what you said, but it meant a hell of a lot to people like me.
225
Thank you, Chef Ramsay.
226
Thanks, Chef Ramsay.
227
Thank you so much for standing up for us farmers.
228
I really appreciate it Ramsey.
229
Gordon Ramsey, if you're looking at this, what's happening big cheese?
230
The video amassed a striking 30 million views and it completely shattered Katie's online esteem in the eyes of thousands of onlookers.
231
Commenters on every of her social media platforms, especially her YouTube, shunned her for the way she had been bullying the renowned chef.
232
One commenter wrote, there's a difference between encouraging people to be vegan and forcing people to be vegan, which is a fact.
233
In all her arguments, Katie had tried desperately to impose a vegan doctrine and rebranding on Gordon Ramsay.
234
And if we look beyond the online battles, you'd also notice one other disgusting feature in her preachings, her use of graphic images.
235
Katie employed actual footage of commercial farming.
236
It was like a tactic for cornering viewers instead of just informing them.
237
Psychologists call it moral shock, which is defined as a visceral, emotional, and cognitive reaction of outrage,
238
unease, or bewilderment caused by an unexpected event or information revealing that the world is not as it seemed.
239
By employing this tactic, a person can overwhelm the viewer's disgust response so they can't think logically.
240
They feel guilty, sick, and responsible.
241
Once someone is in that state of shock and guilt, they are far more likely to surrender to whatever doctrine you're preaching just to make the discomfort stop.
242
This was practically emotional blackmail.
243
Katie was showing the horror, implying Ramsey caused it, and then offering veganism as the only way to wash the guilt away,
244
though it's highly possible that she might have done this without realizing because of how insensitive she truly is.
245
Be that as it may, the undisputed fact remains that Katie's controversial page grew over the years, her following which had been 91 ,000 subscribers,
246
and 2021 had tripled insurmountably to 780 ,000 five years later.
247
That is some sizable growth for an old lady who didn't use social media the way anyone would naturally expect.
248
And that's exactly what makes her story so strange.
249
Katie Karen Dykemeyer, or that vegan teacher, was a middle school English teacher in Quebec, Canada.
250
She lived a quiet life for decades.
251
She got married twice once in 1988 where she had three kids
252
and then 2021 to her current husband Giorgio Benetti you probably don't know me
253
but I am the person that lives with the vegan teacher
254
and today's a special day because we officially got married yep today December 4th December 4th 2021.
255
We decided to get married.
256
We decided, of course.
257
Katie worked as a nurse for 25 years and lived a pretty normal life, which is why her transformation into one of the internet's most aggressive personalities was so jarring.
258
The old grandma joined the social media scene in 2018 when she created her YouTube channel.
259
Her first video, which was uploaded on the very day she created her account, was a jingle about carrots and a levantine dip known as hummus, which is made from cooked mashed chickpeas blended with tahini,
260
lemon juice, and garlic.
261
Hey, do you like my new carrots and hummus sweater?
262
Carrots and hummus!
263
They go together like me and my carrots and hummus sweater!
264
Carrots and hummus!
265
Her content later gravitated into hardcore activism, following an incident on December 7, 2019.
266
That day, 12 animal rights advocates associated with the group Direct Action Everywhere entered
267
and occupied the Poor Greg Pig Farm in St. Hyacinth, Quebec.
268
They discovered that inside the facility, mother pigs and piglets were trapped in terrible conditions.
269
However, when police arrived, they ignored the farm's practices and arrested the whistleblowers instead.
270
The animal justice community was outraged due to the fact 11 of the 12 advocates were found guilty of breaking
271
and entering the property.
272
It was the kind of injustice that could make anyone angry, and this was what pushed Katie to spread her doctrine with full force.
273
She wrote and dedicated a song to the activists who were arrested in this particular incident, and she clamored for an animal bill of rights to legally protect animals from the ills of commercial farming.
274
This bill, she argued, should ensure that animals had legal representation in court and shouldn't be used in farming efforts.
275
The advocacy's continued on YouTube for a while longer before she continued on her TikTok account.
276
This account was created in 2022, and Katie Soft launched it with a jingle about opening the vegan door through some pro tips.
277
However, it's not her first TikTok page, as the first one would be banned in 2021 due to her harassment and extreme nature.
278
On her current TikTok profile, she stated that she became a vegan in June 2016 and stopped eating eggs, meat, and cheese since then.
279
If we take a look at the math, Katie was born in 1964, according to Wikipedia.
280
Therefore, she should have been 51 years old by the time she stopped eating meat and other products.
281
That's half the lifetime of the average man, and somehow puts an aspect of Katie's behavior into perspective.
282
She did not start off as a vegan.
283
Katie spent five decades eating the way most people eat, yet she couldn't even afford to cut other people any slack for not following her steps.
284
Gordon Ramsay was 53 years old when she launched her online harassment campaign against him.
285
The man was two years older than Katie had been when she made the switch, and Ramsay wasn't the only person who suffered this harassment.
286
If we want to consider the long list of people Katie targeted, we have to start from where she herself started, which was with her immediate family.
287
Her husband sailed with the whole vegan campaign, and is featured in some of her videos.
288
They go together like me and my carrots and hummus sweater.
289
Carrots and hummus.
290
They go together.
291
However, the main problem lies with her children.
292
You see, Katie's sons refuse to become vegan.
293
No matter how many times she asked in over 10 years, many birthdays, Christmases, and Easter's came, and Katie pressed on.
294
My two sons are not vegan.
295
No.
296
and I've asked them every single birthday of mine since I became vegan as a birthday present to become vegan
297
and stop the animals.
298
Every birthday, every Christmas I asked them.
299
She even offered them $100 ,000 each, but they said no, and what'd she do?
300
Katie cut them off and compared them to Jeffrey Dahmer.
301
I thought about Jeffrey Dahmer's mother.
302
She did nothing wrong to raise this boy who would end up hurting animals, people, everyone.
303
I did nothing wrong, but I see no joy in continuing to hope.
304
And so I've decided to sever my relationship with them, to go no contact with my sons.
305
I never want to try to send them ever another text.
306
I've sent them thousands of texts.
307
I've sent them videos of many activists I've sent them articles
308
about the planet about health everything I offered them a hundred thousand dollars each to become vegan nothing worked and
309
so I'm giving up in her line of reasoning she had
310
done nothing wrong as a mother just like Dahmer's mother had done nothing wrong
311
but the truth is
312
that Katie's sons were not the problem they were just like
313
the 85 to 90 % of people in the world who eat meat.
314
Not everyone wants to be vegan, but Katie could not accept that.
315
She couldn't accept that her own children didn't share her beliefs.
316
So at the end of the day, she wrote an open farewell letter to them, as well as a note to her unborn grandchild, hoping that they'd become vegan someday.
317
Now, if her own immediate family isn't spared from her forced principles, what more outsiders?
318
Katie once confronted Australian comedian Isaac Butterfield over his four -month -old son.
319
She stated that she was trying to protect the kid from his father, who wanted to steal his vegan virginity.
320
Beyond her sons and unborn grandchild, Katie also focused her attention on her dog, Bella.
321
Bella the rescue dog has been vegan since August 2017, which means Katie has been feeding an omnivorous animal, a plant -only diet of vegetables,
322
grains, and plant -based kibble for the better part of a decade.
323
Katie has argued a number of times that Bella is eating a vegan -approved diet from trusted veterinarian sources, but one would argue that it's probably a good thing that Bella and other dogs have Katie's blessings,
324
because as much as her crusade calls for animal safety.
325
It also calls for the extermination of some others, particularly cats.
326
Katie believed that cats should not exist.
327
She called cat owners because they feed their cats fish -based food.
328
All kinds of other innocent animals, and that's not right.
329
Her opinion was founded on the premise that other animals need animals to survive.
330
Carnivores exist to hunt for meaty food and not plants.
331
It's well within the normal circle of nature, and Katie refused to see it that way.
332
And that's why she came up with this absurd talking point.
333
Her arguments are always all over the place.
334
Even though she wants cats gone, she still sees them as oppressed animals and speaking of such animals,
335
Katie has tried to address the predator versus prey dynamic in the animal kingdom after much ridicule from the online community.
336
She finally gave her two cents and they were a dollar short of reasonable cents.
337
Katie suggested that lions and tigers should be taught to stop eating meat so we can achieve a complete vegan world.
338
We will have a vegan world when everybody is striving to do their best to cause the least.
339
At this time, nobody is trying to tell the lions
340
and the tigers what to eat what we are doing is stressing
341
that all of us can do better even she herself knew
342
that what she was talking about was a mere fairy tale
343
so because of how helpless
344
and pathetic this particular notion looked she shifted to another vantage
345
point katie condemned god for creating wild animals like lions
346
and god wasn't the only one she blamed katie also canceled
347
a law for the same thing she posted another video titled allah created lions
348
or baby zebras in front of their crying mothers.
349
And you love him?
350
Why?
351
Her logic was pretty much the same as the one for God.
352
Katie questioned the sense in someone devoting their lives to a religion, where the supreme being was responsible for animal cruelty.
353
Katie had gone above and beyond for her ministry.
354
She reached celebrity chefs, animals, and even religions, all for the sake of forcing people into veganism.
355
And this crusade has been ongoing for almost a decade online, and half the time, the advocacy was less while the instigations were more.
356
In six years, Katie had antagonized major celebrities on her page.
357
Anyone tied to McDonald's was her enemy.
358
Her beef with this brand was so deep -rooted.
359
Katie would stand outside a franchise with a guitar and sing a song that defamed the brand, telling customers they were paying for an innocent animal to be terrified and separated from its family.
360
She also told people that even buying a veggie burger
361
and putting non -vegan mayo on it meant they were still contributing to cycles of violence.
362
Singer and rapper Travis Scott was caught in this web as well.
363
She called him an animal and urged his followers to gather in favor of protests for animals and not for his concerts.
364
Travis Scott, the rapper, he's an animal.
365
He gets sponsored by McDonald's.
366
He encourages millions and millions of people to keep going there.
367
Why would anyone want to go and see somebody who's an animal who gets sponsored by McDonald's?
368
Katie also targeted Mr. Beast.
369
Mr. Beast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is one of the most popular YouTubers in the world.
370
He is known for giving away millions of dollars, launching developmental projects in different parts of the world, cleaning beaches, and planting tens of millions of trees.
371
But here's the downer.
372
Mr. Beast eats meat.
373
To Katie, that made him a hypocrite.
374
She posted a video titled, Mr. Beast.
375
No amount you give to charity can undo the damage you are causing by promoting eating meat.
376
In the video, she criticized him for spending $70 ,000 on a golden pizza while children around the world were starving.
377
She asked why he was spending that much money instead of giving it to the poor.
378
But before we watch him eat a $70 ,000 pizza, let's look into the eyes of this child.
379
There are millions of children around the world who are starving to...
380
Parents who are crying because they can't provide essential foods for their children.
381
$70 ,000 could buy a lot of food.
382
As that wasn't bad enough, Katie reacted to his videos and started nitpicking at every single non -vegan thing he did and ate.
383
Mr. Beast himself never responded, but his fans defended him and his good deeds in her comment section.
384
He literally has a food bank to give food to families that can't afford it.
385
He has donated over $10 million to the homeless.
386
The man literally bought like six stores to donate to charity, and the children had his own food bank and recently gave out 700 ,000 plus meals and remembered the trees.
387
Katie still posted a few other videos about Mr. Beast, from dragging him for milk chocolates to questioning his lack of vegan inclusion in his projects in Africa.
388
Katie was on a roll with him.
389
Since she was unsuccessful in getting a rise out of him, she quietly moved on to other battles.
390
One of the striking ones was with Grammy Award winner Billie Eilish, who happens to be vegan.
391
Billie Eilish has been vegan since she was 12 years old.
392
She has used her massive platform to speak out against the meat and dairy industries, launched non -profits to address food insecurity through plant -based meals,
393
and encouraged her millions of fans to stop wearing fur and wool.
394
She is by almost any measure exactly the kind of person Katie should have celebrated.
395
Instead, Katie attacked her, and you would not believe why.
396
She posted a video titles, Billie Eilish vs. David Rams, Who is Bravest?
397
In the video, she criticized Billie for not pushing veganism hard enough on her fans.
398
In her opinion, Billie wasn't brave as a vegan.
399
Katie played a clip of Billie saying, I'm vegan.
400
I'm not like out here like, don't eat that because I want a little lunch.
401
Yeah.
402
What?
403
I -I don't get it.
404
Why would you not tell people what not to eat if you're vegan?
405
If you're vegan, it means - Billie Eilish only expressed that she can't force others to be vegan, but her words triggered the vegan community, including Katie.
406
However, this wasn't the only reason why the old lady was so against Billie.
407
In one of her other videos, Katie said that Billie rode horses and vegans don't do that.
408
I know that she has ridden horses, and that's not vegan.
409
Riding a horse was enough to make Billie an enemy.
410
In another video, not writing enough songs about defending animals was also one of her crimes, along with Taylor Swift.
411
It was one minor issue after the next.
412
Billy never responded.
413
Most people never did, and Katie eventually sought attention elsewhere, and this was from Young Creators.
414
Actually, she's had plenty of history with chasing Young Creators since the start of her TikTok account.
415
In the course of her online reign, Katie had collaborated with Young Creators online.
416
One of them was her stepson named Ryan, a creator with a total of over a million and a half followers on YouTube.
417
Ryan often posted about Katie and would call himself her son.
418
It is Ryan, your son.
419
Text me back.
420
So I'm going to be vegan now from now on, and not just because I want to get some of your will money.
421
That's not why, though.
422
Together, they filmed TikTok videos about veganism and just funny, random mother -son moments.
423
And look what I found!
424
What do you think?
425
Aren't they perfect?
426
Do you want me to get them for you?
427
Text me right away, okay?
428
Because somebody else is lining up to get them.
429
They're trying to steal them from me, but if you let me know right away, I'll get them.
430
Just text me right away.
431
Aren't they cute?
432
Perfect for you, right?
433
Not long after, their relationship failed after Ryan was caught eating frog legs.
434
Katie posted videos saying that she would remove him from her will, and the whole online fight almost looked like content on its own.
435
My son, he's out of the will, my son.
436
I warned you, I'm only giving money to my vegan kids.
437
$100 ,000.
438
Ryan wasn't the only creator Katie involved herself with.
439
There was also a British YouTuber and Twitch streamer named TommyInit.
440
Tommy is famous for his energetic Minecraft content, and when Katie first noticed him, he was a teenager.
441
She expressed her intentions so that it'll learn how to play Minecraft for the sake of her agenda.
442
Then as time passed, she began to react to all his videos by leaving comments and making content about him.
443
This was around 2020, a year before she was permanently banned from TikTok.
444
Her comment to Tommy was clearly suggestive and horrific.
445
The whole thing was completely disgusting to stomach.
446
You'd think that a woman above 50 would understand what boundaries are when it comes to a young teenager.
447
But Katie was none the wiser.
448
Even after being called a creepy PDF for what she did to Tommy, she still continued to mingle with other young influencers and make obscene comments to them.
449
This was very much true with Benjamin de Almeida.
450
After Tommy, Katie started shooting content with Ben, who was in his early 20s in 2023.
451
Their content revolved around them dancing in TikTok duets and eating vegan food while smiling for the camera.
452
However, there was a time when history repeated itself and Katie made an inappropriate joke.
453
When I was nine years old, I just found this picture recently because I've been cleaning up.
454
But of course, this is not vegan.
455
It's not vegan to you.
456
They're not here for us.
457
This horse, the horse's name was Ben.
458
I just was.
459
Oh, really?
460
That's so weird.
461
I never made that connection, but yeah.
462
It doesn't mean I want to f* though.
463
Although in some shots, Ben looked uncomfortable and slightly lost in the whole thing.
464
Ben's silent reactions often led commenters to joke about him being held against his will, and even Katie would have to make a video to clarify that none of their assumptions were true.
465
Okay, responding to comments today with Ben and I, and so you say, Ben, blink three times if you're held hostage.
466
What?
467
What do you think?
468
What kind of person do you guys think I am?
469
Ben, can you believe that?
470
Look what they're saying to you.
471
They think that you are held hot.
472
What?
473
What are you doing?
474
Do you have something in your eye?
475
What is going on?
476
No, he's totally fine, right?
477
Mingling with young people had never served in her best interests, yet she continued to do so to grow her channel.
478
Like the other times she collaborated with young creators, Katie and Ben eventually split up.
479
Apparently, Ben had recorded some parts of Katie's house that were off -limits, and this led her to stop their partnership.
480
No, I won't be hanging out with Ben of the Week anymore, unless he really manages to pull off a sincere apology for what he did.
481
No. There were also accounts stating that Ben had an eating disorder and Katie had told him to starve.
482
Nothing about hanging out with young creators was reasonable or responsible from the onset.
483
In fact, it only solidifies the notion that her goal is to indoctrinate young people into veganism, since it was way more difficult to influence older adults.
484
And it's not like she's a reliable messenger in the first place.
485
Katie is a person who is highly insensitive and high on both savior and victim complex.
486
She believes that she has a duty to protect animals and enforce basic awareness of their rights on people.
487
However, her words are only convenient when it suits her.
488
Lives are only sacred to her when she's trying to make a point in a particular video.
489
One time, she stated that people should be willing to donate their organs when they because they could save lives.
490
Donating your organs and tissues when you you can save up to eight lives
491
and help restore the health of 40 other people.
492
However, in a separate video, she declared that she wouldn't donate her own to anyone because no one, with the exception of vegan activists, deserved it.
493
Her words have changed one too many times in the course of her online journey.
494
However, one constant factor is her habit and willingness to be controlling.
495
you don't think I control you mm -hmm and yet you're here
496
and I wanted you to be here so how did
497
that happen as of 2026 Katie is still posting videos on
498
her channel some of her content is street based now
499
and this means
500
that she interacts with people she comes in contact with on
501
site as always the main The main debate is about going vegan and sharing experiences about being vegan.
502
However, there are times when she warns non -vegans to stay away from her.
503
And other times, it's full -on confrontation with different factions of people.
504
Take this case for instance.
505
A random passerby handed her a flyer about Jesus.
506
Very quickly into their interaction, Katie asked the gentleman if Jesus was vegan and if any of the tenets of the commandments appealed to veganism.
507
Is Jesus vegan?
508
The Bible doesn't tell us that, but...
509
Do you know the Ten Commandments?
510
Uh, off the top of my head, not exactly, but...
511
Can you think of two that might apply to veganism?
512
Uh, well, for you I'm thinking thou shalt not get one of them.
513
Yeah.
514
Probably.
515
Uh...
516
Thou shalt not steal.
517
Thou shalt not steal?
518
Okay, that's another one too, yeah.
519
Katie's videos don't pull much viewers like before, despite her high following.
520
She struggled to hit 10 ,000 views on YouTube.
521
And with over 1 .3 million followers on TikTok, she hasn't managed to pull a quarter of that amount in views going.
522
People are generally tired of her and have decided to move on and ignore her existence.
523
They make parody videos of her, and use her teaching methods to send a message that they won't be vegan.
524
That vegan teacher lost the chance to actually win people into her corner when she turned advocacy into indoctrination.
525
Is this the end of Katie's internet relevance?
526
Only time will tell.
Download App
Everything you need to speak fluently
AI PronunciationScore every sentence
IPA PracticeMaster every sound
VocabularyBuild your word bank
Vocab GameLearn while playing
FOR YOU
Recommend Video
B21
408 sentences
The Depressing Downfall Of Rate My Takeaway
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B2488 sentences
Olivia Rodrigo Attacked Over Cornell 7 Case
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B21
290 sentences
none of her kids are real...
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B21
34 sentences
A Great Reason to Not Be Religious Anymore - Anthony Jeselnik
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B21
205 sentences
Truly EVIL Human Experiments That Actually Happened
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B21
110 sentences
She Ate Herself to Death... Literally
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
C11
348 sentences
Pauline Hanson EXPLODES On Muslim Students After Brutally DESTROYING Them For Preaching Islam
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B21
360 sentences
We Have To Talk About Teacher Influencers
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B227 sentences
Ranking the Funniest Between Two Ferns Moments #funny #celebrity #trending #funny #foryou #shorts
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B21
378 sentences
Foodies vs Picky Eaters: We Try Each Other's Favorite Dishes ⎹ Taste Wars
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B21
140 sentences
Trapped in her best friend's house: The horrific last months of Annie Ee
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B21
360 sentences
Investigating MrBeast
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Remember That Vegan Teacher? Her Life Is Ruined Now”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: katie, vegan, animal, word. This video has 525 sentences and 6903 words to shadow. The speech runs for 37:12. The speaker talks fast, about 186 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| vegan noun | /ˈviːɡən/ | A person who does not eat, drink or otherwise consume any animal products |
| steal verb | /stiːl/ | To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it. |
| chef noun | /ʃɛf/ | The presiding cook in the kitchen of a large household. |
| racism noun | /ˈɹeɪsɪzm̩/ | The belief that there are distinct human races with inherent differences which determine their abilities, and generally that some are superior and others… |
| creator noun | /kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː/ | Something or someone which creates or makes something. |
| racist noun | /ˈɹeɪ.sɪst/ | A person who believes in or supports racism; a person who believes that a particular race is superior to others, or who discriminates against other races. |
| carrot noun | /ˈkæɹət/ | A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus. |
| follower noun | /ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/ | One who follows, comes after another. |
| celebrity noun | /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/ | Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about. |
| farmer noun | /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/ | A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm. |
| activist noun | /ˈæk.tɪ.vɪst/ | One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change. |
| doll noun | /dɑl/ | A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy. |
| encourage verb | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit. |
| innocent adjective | /ˈɪnəsənt/ | Free from guilt, sin, or immorality. |
| lion noun | /ˈlaɪən/ | A big cat, Panthera leo, native to Africa, India and formerly much of Europe. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go together verb | To be in a relationship. |
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. |
| run over verb | To exceed the allotted time. |
| stand up for verb | To speak or act in support or defense of (a person, a cause, a belief, or the like). |
| break down verb | To stop functioning. |
| bring up verb | To mention. |
| clean up verb | To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy. |
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- When does it end when we start banning language?
- Why are you serving white bread?
- Do you want me to get them for you?
- Ben, can you believe that?
- Do you have something in your eye?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | has been feeding · I've been cleaning |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has sparked · has pushed · has never been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is considered · are spared · was banned |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | man who owned · those who live · speciesism, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 97 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, wasn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: breathe /bɹiːð/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: chef /ʃɛf/, shock /ʃɔk/, racial /ˈɹeɪʃəl/, notion /ˈnoʊʃən/, partnership /ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/
- Long words — get the stress right: celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/, practically /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.k(ə.)li/, advocacy /ˈæd.və.kə.si/, collaborate /kəˈlæb.ə.ɹeɪt/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like vegan, steal, chef.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.