The premise of the BBC podcast Evil Genius, is to force a panel of comedians to vote Evil or Genius in a simplistic and reductive way that both spices up the discussion and satirises social media cancel culture.
In this episode they vote on Oscar Wilde, beloved author, dandy and gay icon who might have put his pleasure before his family obligations and paid teenage boys for sex. Keep in mind that the format is oversimplifying issues on purpose and sometimes the guests just get things wrong because they don’t know the “subject” very well–Wilde for example, despite what the panel seems to think, was very loving and caring towards his kids (as far as we know).