Variety: YouTube Cancels PewDiePie Show, Pulls Channel from Premium Ad Program
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The Lamonster
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Damn 
People are getting confused because it was banned last summer for a short period of time because he decided to announce on it that he had joined ISIS.
For the "lulz" I guess?
comshoplesce
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How on earth did the earned millions of $ is beyond me.
Fess
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Should've known better than to joke about that. Sad to see it go south though. I've never seen his videos until just days ago when I started watching him play Resident Evil 7 and simply couldn't stop watching, he's loud and annoying but it was certainly enjoying to see him get so honestly scared and tried to chat himself out of the anxiety.
TastyBread
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The video in question if anyone is curious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtxXKezbQ9w
Will be interesting to see what he has to say on the matter, when he wants to he actually talks about more 'serious' topics in a calm and concise manner, like forced positivity on youtube and of course the craaazy money he makes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtxXKezbQ9w
Will be interesting to see what he has to say on the matter, when he wants to he actually talks about more 'serious' topics in a calm and concise manner, like forced positivity on youtube and of course the craaazy money he makes
insane amount of subs, views and clicks.
Garrett Hawke
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Talk shit, lose your YouTube partnerships
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Well no advertiser will want to use his channel to promote their products, he will also stop getting free games and product to promote as again his channel has been tainted.
SafeinSound
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Justice deserved. No sympathy.
The Lamonster
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So, do we know what percentage of his total ad revenue came from this Google Preferred program?
He'll probably still get some free games. I bet the guys that made Hatred are trying to call him up as we speak.
Ok, so just wait 11 years, show that you have "learned" ...
That being said, racism and any sort of hate speech - even if not considered serious will and should have consequences
RoadHazard
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He had a reality show? I thought he was just a guy who made millions yelling at games. Oh well, I'm sure he'll be fine. With his millions and millions.
IronicSonic
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lol wtf is this nonsense.
Fess
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why oh why did he upload a video like that if it was just a dumb joke to test if they would write that sign? He could've just said that he write some stupid things and they actually wrote the sign anyway. He must've known what would happen, otherwise he wouldn't have said he was sorry and that he wasn't anti-semitic etc afterwards. Was it a test to see what he could get away with?
Ugh it has nothing to do went being a a hater :/
I wish I knew. But his rise to popularity were from mainly horror games he played.
abstract alien
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Why did he do it? Doesn't really matter I guess, he still made a fuck ton of money and is set for a few lives. Well, he should be anyway. He had to have seen this coming.
Captainbojanglesiii
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That is true. All we can do is hope that the kids are taught in school that being anti-semitic is wrong. Problem is that they are definitely not all taught that in certain regions. I do think it's especially stupid when his audience is kids
Captainbojanglesiii
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Yeah, no. There are alt-right fans of just about everything. His audience is way too large to pin them all to one group. Some of them certainly are, though
If by current environment you mean post WW2, you are correct.
djplaeskool
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[Basks silently in the Schadenfreude]
One of his latest posts for Valentines Day..
...and kids are a large part of his audience, wow.
Yep. People got use to it because you can legally express yourself this way in US (not the same in a lot of countries), but a sponsor have its own terms.
Well... it was no secret Gibson was black listed in hollywood no one wanted to work with him . The film he was nominated for wasnt backed by any big time companies in Hollywood... only after it received critical praise etc etc did people begin to letting Mel back into the "hollywood spotlight." Money talks I guess.
LinkSlayer64
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Did anyone actually watch the YouTube produced content?
Meme Master Flux
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He runs revelmode, I'm sure he'll be fine.
Mechanized
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Felix is a good dude who doesn't deserve the avalanche of vitriol he's receiving over this. Obviously Disney would cut ties and he should have known better. But youtube is over-reacting like most of these threads, pc culture gone way too far. Liberals turning into some fringe hard line group attacking anyone and anything seen as offensive. Even things done in jest, comedy when needed most right now is getting attacked by this hyper-sensitive fringe. It's sad. Not the way to get either a conversation going or point across. There absolutely are people trying to normalize nazi-ism and racism, but Felix certainly is not.
One of his latest posts for Valentines Day..
...and kids are a large part of his audience, wow.
He clearly doesn't give a fuck who his audience is, but to be honest with that much money and all, why should he even care restricting access to his things?
Is this really the kind of comedy we need most right now? Really?
Yes he is. He's not doing it on purpose obviously, but he's unwittingly showing millions of little kids that "Death to all Jews" is funny.
Like come on man, there's defending a comedian's right to a dark joke, and then there's defending a HOLOCAUST joke told to a bunch of impressionable kids.
TheJollyCorner
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He's young enough that hopefully this is a learning experience and he can make an effort to better himself.
Then again, the mixed cocktail of money, narcissism, and perceived lack of accountability makes a hell of a roadblock to actually learn from this. Guess we'll see how much (if at all) he regrets the way this all went down in the coming months.
Then again, the mixed cocktail of money, narcissism, and perceived lack of accountability makes a hell of a roadblock to actually learn from this. Guess we'll see how much (if at all) he regrets the way this all went down in the coming months.
Don Friday
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That's been a weird thing in general with YouTube "stars". I'm in my 30s and occasionally enjoy Markiplier and Game Grumps because they make me laugh. I don't consider myself uptight but I really wouldn't want my child under the age of 13, at the minimum and with a lot of discussion, watching their vids. I have a kid whose almost 4 and sometimes he'll catch me watching them on my tablet and want to watch too for the gameplay so I either have to turn it off or mute it. Definitely don't want him repeating that shit in pre-school.
I never really followed Pewdie but from casual observations he definitely seems to be in his rockstar-who-doesn't-give-a-shit-anymore phase.
edit: I guess it's no different than me sneaking my dad's porn or watching inappropriate stuff on MTV or cable. I suppose it's the accessibility that is the troubling part. But that's the internet in general. A lot of shit I'll be dealing with in the near future.
I've seen this kind of thinking from a few people and I just want to say it's bullshit. If someone makes a racist joke against any other minority group, people don't try to explain it away as "Oh well I'm sure they arn't actually racist, they just made a bad joke." but it seems to be a thought lots of people hold when the minority group in question is Jewish people. I don't know if this is because people see Ashkenazi Jews as "white" so it's more ok to make such jokes, but believe me if he had paid those people to make the sign say "Death to all Blacks" nobody would be coming here to say how not-racist Pewdiepie is. Hell, this thought process of Jews being a more acceptable punching bag probably explains why he thought it was ok to upload these videos in the first place and why it took so long for any sort of action to be taken.
Realize who your audience is and who has access to you. His audience is really young.
You can go on Saturday Night Live or a late night show for adults and do this stuff. You don't make racist jokes on a show like that. He, much like his viewers, needs to grow up and actually use their heads when it comes to what their stage is.
I do think this world has become rather wimpy when it comes to PC things, but there's a time and place for "satire" and certain kinds of "jokes". You don't do this if you're sponsored by Disney and have a huge following of kids. Granted, as parent that's actually worth their while, my daughters have never watched and never would be allowed access to him.
I mean he's posting pictures of a cartoon girl with cameras photographing her in her underwear in a bed. Really? You're ok with 8 year olds seeing this stuff?
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