That Vegan Teacher

Kadie Karen Diekmeyer[2][3] (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 Karen Diekmeyer
Born (1964-09-24) 24 September 1964
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Other names
  • That Vegan Teacher
  • Miss Kadie
  • Miss Karen English Teacher[1]
Occupation
YouTube information
Channels
Subscribers153,000
Total views44.2 million
Updated: 14 December 2021

Early life

Kadie Karen Diekmeyer was born on 24 September 1964 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[4] According to one of her videos titled "Ep.2 - Ethan Trace is a Disgrace", she said that she is of German and Swiss ancestry. 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.[5]

Personal life

Diekmeyer claims that she became vegan on 27 June 2016.[6] She is also an atheist.[7] Diekmeyer married to her boyfriend of nine and a half years on 4 December 2021.[8] She lives together with her husband and mother-in-law, who are vegan, too.[9]

Career

Diekmeyer created her YouTube channel on 21 July 2018.[10] As of 14 December 2021, her channel has over 153,000 subscribers and over 44.2 million views. Her account on TikTok went viral for a song called "Eating Animals Is Wrong, McDonald's" in July 2020.[11]

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.[12][13] The video received more than 750,000 views on TikTok and over 100,000 on Twitter.[14] 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."[15]

Rachel Kiley of The Daily Dot has characterized some of Diekmeyer's content as racist and homophobic,[2][16] 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.[2][16] 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.[2][17] 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.[11][17]

TikTok ban

On 23 February 2021, Diekmeyer was IP banned from TikTok for breaching community guidelines. The exact cause of her ban is unclear.[2] 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.[2]

References
  1. Miss Karen English Teacher (13 February 2020). "Miss Karen is Here". YouTube. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Happy Birthday To Me! Go Vegan for the Animals - and Me!, retrieved 20 October 2021
  5. Diekmeyer, Kadie (10 September 2021). @Mic the Vegan vs @SSSniperWolf (video). That Vegan Teacher. Retrieved 11 September 2021 – via YouTube.
  6. "Yes, Pancho, I Ate Meat!" – via www.youtube.com.
  7. "@Ben Shapiro: Be A Good Jew - Be Morally Consistent - Be Vegan From Now On!" – via www.youtube.com.
  8. "Finally! After 9 1/2 Years!" – via www.youtube.com.
  9. "My 81-Year Old Mother-in-Law, Won't Leave My Kitchen! 💚" – via www.youtube.com.
  10. "That Vegan Teacher". YouTube. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
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