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[FelipeMGM]

http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/youtube-cancels-pewdiepie-pulls-ads-death-to-jews-1201987810/

Google’s YouTube has canceled the second season of PewDiePie’s reality show and pulled his channel from its premium advertising program after the Swedish-born vlogger’s prank involving an anti-Semitic slogan gained widespread notice.

The announcement from YouTube came just hours after Disney’s Maker Studios said it was terminating its relationship with PewDiePie, whose actual name is Felix Kjellberg, over the same videos.

 

[LotusHD]

Lol

 

[SocksAndShoes]

Good. Stop normalizing this shit.

 

[Disxo]

Wow, pewds

 

[KZXcellent]

Seems like they're a little late on pulling this but sure, okay. Not a surprising move.

 

[Lil'DigiOp]

Death of Pewdiepie career

What a moron

Talk about shit where you eat 💩

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

Hold that L.

 

[WilsonX100]

well he won't lose enough viewers to impact him plus he has other ways to make money/already has a shit ton.

 

[Goldenroad]

And the collective world IQ just went up one point for the first time in months.

 

[Hystzen]

Looks like his im deleting my channel troll has come back to bite him in ass

 

[jelly]

PewPewLives channel incoming...

 

[Lights and Waves]

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

well he won't lose enough viewers to impact him plus he has other ways to make money/already has a shit ton.

Sponsors are more valuable than viewers. Also his twitter is banned.

Edit: Or not banned.

 

[ViolentP]

well he won't lose enough viewers to impact him plus he has other ways to make money/already has a shit ton.

Losing a major revenue stream is worse than losing millions already in the bank.

 

[pauljeremiah]

 

[TatteredHat]

Good, hopefully this'll be a lesson for him to not fuck around with this shit.

 

[KZXcellent]

Looks like his im deleting my channel troll has come back to bite him in ass

Has it? Seems unrelated to this and this isn't going to kill his career. Not when he has an audience this absurdly big.

 

[Indelible]

Good riddance, he is the opposite of entertainment.

 

[GavinUK86]

He's well and truly shot himself in the foot this time.

But it's not like he has to give a shit anyway, look how much money he has. I wouldn't care if I was him.

 

[ViolentP]

Whoever decides to pick him up however is expected to make a mint.

 

[LiK]

More money gone. Hope it was worth it, Pewds. Other big channels need to learn there are consequences for playing with fire.

 

[Duxxy3]

Hope he invested well. Career is probably finished.

 

[WilsonX100]

Losing a major revenue stream is worse than losing millions already in the bank.

youre right. but he has other ways of making money like those mobile games and merchandise and im sure his fans will continue to support him

 

[phanphare]

sounds about right

hopefully he learns from this

 

[Diprosalic]

it says who he is in the OT, but of course you already knew and just wanted to make a stupid joke.

 

[4 is a cutie]

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

Maybe he can do drink away his pains with Palmer Luckey.

 

[Hoho for breakfast]

I actually kind of liked him too. What a dumbass. I dont even understand WHY he would do shit like this as a "joke" unless he at least somewhat actually feels that way. Maybe he doesnt but man he really shouldnt have said/done that shit. Really not smart in times like these especially.

 

[soqquatto]

"it was just a joke"

maybe the next jokester will learn something from all this

 

[Ferr986]

Good. Stop normalizing this shit.

Indeed. Good to see finally consequences on people normalizing racism and nazism on the net.

 

[ViolentP]

Hope he invested well. Career is probably finished.

Far from it. He lost his primary revenue stream but that can be replaced. Frankly, I think a number of people will be frothing to pick him up as he will still be bringing millions of viewers with him.

 

[WilsonX100]

Sponsors are more valuable than viewers. Also his twitter is banned.

well his viewers will continue to support him im sure

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

youre right. but he has other ways of making money like those mobile games and merchandise and im sure his fans will continue to support him

His fans are all alt-right types so he can have them. There defending him right now on twitter.

Edit: Sorry. Not all Pewd fans.

 

[Diprosalic]

Maybe he can do drink away his pains with Palmer Luckey.

don't put them into the same category.
one made an obvious joke that was in bad taste and the other guy actually believes this stuff.

 

[ActWan]

Rip Pewdiepie lmao

 

[Hari Seldon]

He had a reality show? wtf?

 

[Conkerkid11]

Oh damn, that sucks.

Looking forward to all the reactions to this, and whatever h3h3 has to say.

 

[ViolentP]

youre right. but he has other ways of making money like those mobile games and merchandise and im sure his fans will continue to support him

Absolutely. But his userbase has enormous value. Someone is going to want to capitalize and take over Youtube's role. And I am sure he will as well.

 

[HonMirin]

He's well and truly shot himself in the foot this time.

But it's not like he has to give a shit anyway, look how much money he has. I wouldn't care if I was him.

Whoever decides to pick him up however is expected to make a mint.

Being linked to anti semitism regardless of how successful you are is a death sentence. Look at what happened to Mel Gibson. No company wants to be associated with someone with perceived racist views.

 

[kurahador]

youre right. but he has other ways of making money like those mobile games and merchandise and im sure his fans will continue to support him

If anything, he'll get new "fans" if you know what I mean. I just hope he make a sincere apology about this issue at least.

 

[gnexus]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

 

[Yohane]

I really don't understand. With all the contracts he signed for, no actual producer check his videos before uploading on youtube?

 

[BumblebeeCody]

Looks like his im deleting my channel troll has come back to bite him in ass

IT was clearly a joke and I still have idea why people even believed it. It wasn't even a Troll.

 

[Chû Totoro]

I sort of never liked him but since I've tried to watch like 3 videos I wouldn't say my opinion is solid. This said, reading the article he seems to be a moron (if not a complete ass hole).

He deserves the money he got so far (I guess since he didn't stole anything from anyone) but I'd be happy to see the kids who were watching his videos going to watch someone else.

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

I expect his other deals to fall off in the next coming days. Give it time.

 

[Aaron D.]

That's a shame.

He always seemed like a nice guy, but it looks like he had a serious lapse in judgement.

Hopefully he can learn a valuable lesson from this.

 

[chefbags]

Oops lol. Sucks but I got no remorse for someone who tries to "joke" about this and make it seem like it was funny.

 

[SliceSabre]

While I'm glad there is punishment for what he did, I mean his channel is still going to live on and he's still going to make a lot of money, just not as much as before correct?

Or is this the death knell of his channel?

 

[Diprosalic]

Being linked to anti semitism regardless of how successful you are is a death sentence. Look at what happened to Mel Gibson. No company wants to be associated with someone with perceived racist views.

are you talking about 2017 Oscar nominee Mel Gibson?
yeah he totally got black listed by companies.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]