Went to school with the kid

We legit used to joke that his mom was a spy. She (and he) were so fucking weird - like felt like she was probing you when speaking to you weird. And had all of these weirdly specific rules for the kid that were just so insane.

Also - Joey is almost certainly gay. We all thought so from 1st through 8th grade. He spoke like a white person trying to impersonate a sassy black woman, like all from the ages of 6 to 14 (and probably after too, I didn't speak to him after we left that school). Guy also used his hands to speak at a professional level.

Now that doesn't mean he is gay, but I was around him every single day for 8 years. He was not interested in women. And that all is fine, it's just that these days he is a traitor to his country on Twitter and attacks gay people to boot.

I'm really not surprised he turned out this way. He was very mean (and also was bullied), and while he had a lot of the mannerisms of a stereotypical gay guy, he def was self-conscious about that and tried to mask it.

I fucking wish I had videos of what this dude was like when he was younger. Like it is sad but also hilarious how he acted. Imagine the gayest child you can, doing like a gay New Yorker impression/mixed with elements of Whoopi Goldberg in the Sister Act or something.

Edit -

Here are some old videos from when he used to sing.

This kinda shows the mannerisms/way he spoke. It's toned down here a bit, it was way more apparent when he was younger. When I knew him he was basically a 10-year-old that exuded "R&B" at all times, just in the way he spoke/moved:

https://youtu.be/thZiFZwybZo

And this one is with Patti Labelle (who his mom was friends with). He sings at the end. They used to bring him on stage like he was a random guest in the crowd at every show. There are probably more videos of him at Patti Labelle shows throughout the years:

https://youtu.be/C16-DTXSBx0

Like dude could have been dope as fuck but he decided to go the Twitter grifter route^