KSI didn't do much different from what Sacha Baren Cohen does... making people uncomfortable by playing a character; it's a joke but yeah it had the intended effect of making me uncomfortable in places, particularly when he mimed cunnilingus at that one girl. The rest of it was pretty funny but not that.
That said I was fairly baffled by the "sexual assault" hyperbole that came out of various news outlets after eurogamer.
Matt Lees had a point when he said the guy probably isn't appropriate for micosoft to use.
But I'm not so seething with moral outrage I never want him to get a sponsorship deal again or for his channel to get closed or whatever.
Wait.. Walking up to a girl that he can't call "massive tits", who still seems to have an amazing rack, and saying "where have your boobs gone?", in a world where tits seem to be the epitome of skewed bodily images, where most girls are not satisfied with the boobs they have, this is a funny line? No matter how big the chance that line has of affecting the girl, the possibility that this can seriously harm her self-image is present. The chance that it's another comment in the lines that makes her unsure of her body is ever bigger. Sure, you can try and say it's unlikely, but that would be because the girl has a great defense to a hurtful statement, not because it's not hurtful. Because it is.
I figure finding this funny is when what you find funny overrides your compassion. To me, no matter how funny the lines are, the superimposed feelings of getting this said at me stand in the way of me finding it funny. When you look at the comments of those defending what he's doing, you get a sense that this must be the overbearing thing. Feeling that these girls somehow 'deserve it', is exactly what's wrong with the video.
I can defend shock-humor. I can defend insult-humor. But the moment those things start nearing things that can be a fragile piece of a human's self-image, humor can
never justify the possibility that you may be hurting someone.
Asking girls why they're not fingering is not only saying too much about the guy, to me, but it's called sexual harassment for a reason. It's breaching into a sphere most people wish to hold private, and when you are a public figure, in the sense that you have a mic and a camera, breaching into things that way is not something you should be striving to do.
EDIT: If you've any grounding in today's gaming world, and the problems female face with just being on Xbox Live, or the ongoing discussion of female portrayal in games, or just pay attention to the childish relationships the "alpha of the flies" seem to endow on the females that are present, you should know that this is not the direction we'd want to take our medium. Stories about outrages over women's costumes at ComicCon, shaming and guilting the women who partake in so many ways, while lamenting the ones that aren't female enough, or do not present ample bosom, these oppressive views and immaturity is not something I wish to permeate through our community. Saying it is funny is saying it is OK. Because nothing that's not OK is funny. Or shouldn't be, if you have common decency. This is not a modernistic criticism of the state of our community. It's a dunce who thinks it's OK to do these things. It's open sexual harassment. It's disrespectful, and it outright strives against all that's called common decency. That is not an achievement. It is merely treating women like crap. Nothing else.
The fact is that he's not only criticizing this girl for not having big enough boobs, but that her outfit aren't presenting her boobs well enough. I'm genuinely sad if you can't see that this is objectification of females, reducing women to their looks and generally condensing all that's wrong with the way we treat females.
Great job to Matt for highlighting these issues. Without it, I wouldn't have known what a massive tool this guy is. It's such obvious abuse of copy-right, hilariously much so, when seen in the light that the use of "copyrighted material" is both very small and used to critique, something law luckily enables us to do.
. CANT WAIT I FREAKING LOVE THAT GAME!! Thanks @EA_ActionMan