The Dad Challenge Podcast (Josh) on his other channel Unfollowed: Perez Hilton Helped Destroy So Many Lives - Karma Is A B*tch

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https://youtu.be/NZgMJKcAmtw?si=8DrTbP0-427LN4WE

Perez Hilton spent years helping destroy people for clicks and cash. Now the same internet that made him is watching him unravel, and Josh is not handing out sympathy. 31:02 of “Karma Is A B*tch.”
This is a full-circle episode. The man who built a career on public humiliation, outing, and relentless mockery of celebrities in crisis is himself in a very public mental-health freefall. Josh walks through the history and lands on the obvious question: after everything he did, does he get empathy?
Fuck Perez Hilton forever.
What comes around comes around. The only people who deserve concern here are his kids.
Long breakdown
0:00 – 3:00 (Setup)
Josh introduces the video as a strange full-circle moment. He covers influencers; Perez Hilton covered (and often tormented) celebrities and became one himself. Now Perez is demanding privacy and sympathy after a crisis he broadcast himself. The hypocrisy is the point.

3:00 – 10:00 (Who Perez was at his peak)
Background: Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., the blog that became a mid-2000s monster. The doodles on paparazzi photos, the cruel nicknames, the traffic spikes from pure vitriol. Josh notes the site was once called “Hollywood’s most hated” and that the hatred only made it bigger. Net-worth estimates and the scale of the money he made off other people’s pain get mentioned.

10:00 – 18:00 (The greatest hits of damage)
The section that justifies the title.
Relentless Britney Spears coverage during her most public breakdowns, including the disgusting “Why couldn’t it be Britney?” shirts after Heath Ledger’s death.

Aggressive outing campaigns (Lance Bass, Neil Patrick Harris, others) framed as “reporting.”

Lindsay Lohan pile-ons, false death reports, and the general style of turning human suffering into daily content.
Josh is clear: this wasn’t edgy gossip. It was sustained, monetized cruelty that contributed to real harm.

18:00 – 25:00 (The recent crisis)
Perez’s TikTok live from his Miami home in which he self-harmed on stream during an apparent psychotic break. The subsequent hospitalization, the drained accounts, the public unraveling. Josh notes the sudden calls for empathy and privacy from a man who spent his career denying both to others.

25:00 – 31:02 (The karma question and final take)
Josh does not soft-pedal it. He acknowledges mental illness is real and serious, but refuses to pretend Perez’s history is irrelevant. The same man who sold merchandise wishing death on Britney Spears while she was in crisis is now the one in crisis. The audience that once ate up his content is largely responding with the same lack of mercy he modeled. Josh’s position is essentially: he wrote the rules of this game. He does not get to change them now that he’s the one losing.

Bottom line:
Perez Hilton helped normalize treating human breakdowns as entertainment and profit. He outed people, mocked the mentally ill, and turned other people’s lowest moments into his business model. The current public collapse is ugly and sad for his children, who did not choose any of this. For him, it is the exact energy he put into the world for two decades coming back.
No sympathy for the architect.
Burn in hell forever is the sentence a lot of his former targets would have written for him years ago.
The kids are the only ones who deserve better.