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PewDiePie promotes known white supremacist... again.
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He's racist. It kinda is what it is at this point though. Unfortunately he continue to poison young minds. And no one is going to or can do anything about it. Or at least it seems that way.
You people act like PewDiePie is supposed to know every single person on youtube ( and TikTok) and do a research of about every single person he might want to add to his video.
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With the size of hi audience he absolutely does have a responsibility to vet the people he features in his video. If he an;t do it himself then he should hire someone that can.
At this point, I just don't understand the handwaving by people. Also relevant (PARODY):
https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/...y-puts-entire-kkk-uniform-middle-game-stream/
https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/...y-puts-entire-kkk-uniform-middle-game-stream/
Right because doing research and being responsible about who you platform isn't a thing at all
Uhm this is really grasping at straws. There's no promoting, just reacting to a random clip of a guy that I'm pretty sure Pewdiepie and most people have no idea is a white supremacist. It's just getting ridiculous now.
Doesn't really matter--that's entirely beside the point in the end and it doesn't change one single thing whether he actually knows who people like this are or not, and is a strange place to get hung up on. He doesn't have to know. Whether he knows or not, whether it's intentional or not, the result is the same. Even if he didn't mean to at all, even if that wasn't his intent at all, the effect is promoting this guy either way. And that's what matters in the end: that result, regardless of whether it's intentional or not.
That being the case, if this is completely unintentional, if he didn't mean to do this at all, the right thing to do would be to nonetheless apologize and call this guy out in no uncertain terms and make it clear he does not support him at all. That doesn't change whether it's intentional or not. And indeed, if he didn't mean to do that at all and this is really just one big accident, that if anything should make it all the easier for him to do that and absolutely no skin of his nose at all.
That is, unless he either does not care whatsoever or this was indeed intentional. Except in those particular cases, I can't see any reason that shouldn't be what he does in these kind of situations to make this right, if this indeed isn't what he stands for at all and this is all an accident, unless he either doesn't care whatsoever or did mean to promote people like this.
Poor millionaire, most successful youtuber ever who can't contract someone to do that for him or an entire team of people...
As someone working in advertising i'm expected to research every piece of media i'm using in my pieces and know who did them and if i'm legally allowed to use them or not and how should i be crediting them
Its not really a stretch to expect a youtuber to know who they're putting on their videos
The result is the same, nobody gives a shit who this TikTok guy is in the 15th or so episode of "PDP reacting to TikTok memes". People laugh and forget about it while journalists for some reason are promoting these people much, much better than PDP.
You're concious that he's filthy rich AND that this is his fucking work right? WTF
Oh, poor, misunderstood pewdiepie. If only he had the money to pay someone for curating the channels and videos he is covering.
Baked Alaska is still alive?
EDIT: here you go. https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/465137-subscribe-to-pewdiepie-vs-t-series
Also, this.
EDIT: here you go. https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/465137-subscribe-to-pewdiepie-vs-t-series
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Highly doubt this incident was intentional considering the video and series itself, but it's no excuse. He's got more than enough money to ensure someone reviews his output for things like this and the fact he doesn't despite issues now and in the past shows at the very least a lack of care. When that lack of care is about your image being associated with white supremacy then I have to question the person themselves.
So if a boycot aint effective its not worth doing it?
To me it sounds like; i hate PDP because he supports nazi shit and i hate YouTube for giving him a platform. But i still want to use YouTube instead of boycotting it because i dont want to take the loss.
It looses a lot of credibility in my eyes.
What the fuck is wrong with people saying we shouldn't hold peeps accountable for what THEY put on THEIR damn channel?
I mean damn, the dude has vast resources ffs.
He should be criticized if he is using materials from nazis.
I mean damn, the dude has vast resources ffs.
He should be criticized if he is using materials from nazis.
You guys don't get it, Europe doesn't have the same history with Nazis (We haven't had our own Charlottesville) so it's just a cultural misunderstanding that keeps on happening.
I'm a 100% sure PDP is a dipshit at this point and there's plenty of solid evidence to support that. This is not of them IMO and blowing up and making threads over things like this just exhausts me at this point, that's my problem though and letting all these small things slide is probably not a good thing either...
If anything I think this thread is promoting the guy more than PDP did. I didn't even know who the guy was, now I do, thanks I guess?
PDP is still dumb and probably racist, but I don't think this particular episode is worth mentioning unless you're a news website hungry for clicks
PDP is still dumb and probably racist, but I don't think this particular episode is worth mentioning unless you're a news website hungry for clicks
He is just reacting to random tik-tok videos... The name of the supremacist channel is there because of the watermark of tiktok, like come on...
The fact that you guys really think showing a random 10 sec tiktok in a 13 min video that happens to be from a random white supremacist means he is promoting him really shows.
The fact that you guys really think showing a random 10 sec tiktok in a 13 min video that happens to be from a random white supremacist means he is promoting him really shows.
Sorry but i don't agree. He did not promoted nothing. It was a 10 second random clip and im sure 99.9 % people who watched the video doesn't even know who this guy is. Actually people mad at this thing is the one who promote this dude.
People are mad because he's about to lose the #1 subscriber spot to an Indian corporate music channel.
he did that for the nazi channel back in december too, i'm amazed how, according to his fans, he NEVER knows what he does, despite he prepares these videos right? and he has how many followers again?
I'm not here to judge, but he knows everything, and he hides behind excuses like "it's a joke".
Consider that Felix knows exactly what the response will be because he's done this shit several times before.
Tomorrow he'll make a memetastic twenty minute oopsie video and talk about how things have been blown out of proportion by the media and that people are just being ridiculous.
Controversy just brings more eyes to his shit content and the crap it promotes. Rinse and repeat.
PewDiePie's mistakes remind me of a joke:
*at a court*
Judge: "Will the defendant please give us his version of the facts?"
Defendant: "Yes, your honor. I was peeling onions in the kitchen, when my roommate slipped on a peel, and had the misfortune of falling down on me, stabbing himself on the knife I was holding."
Judge: "Noted; please continue."
Defendant: "Well, then the same thing happened again thirty seven times in a row..."
*at a court*
Judge: "Will the defendant please give us his version of the facts?"
Defendant: "Yes, your honor. I was peeling onions in the kitchen, when my roommate slipped on a peel, and had the misfortune of falling down on me, stabbing himself on the knife I was holding."
Judge: "Noted; please continue."
Defendant: "Well, then the same thing happened again thirty seven times in a row..."
If you heard about him here, you heard about a white supremacist. If you heard about him in PDP's video, you heard about a guy who makes funny YT videos. Totally the same thing uh?
I wish this had happened in summer, it gets really hot here and it would be nice to be fanned by all this handwaving.
So at what point in the 15 seconds did Baked Alaska promote his hateful views? What do you mean he was just doing a dance.
OUTRAGEOUS. This outrage culture you got going on yikes, but when James Gunn get's fired because of it you're all like WTF THIS HAS TO STOP.
OUTRAGEOUS. This outrage culture you got going on yikes, but when James Gunn get's fired because of it you're all like WTF THIS HAS TO STOP.
A completely different scenario from a youtuber. Advertising is a regulated industry.
Yeah does he watch tons of these and this one happened to be a nazi?
Not excusing it, just curious
The PDP defense force here really is something. It doesn't matter if it was unintentional. This is his fucking job and he employs 3 editors. If I accidentally promoted a white supremacist at my job I'd get fired.. why the fuck should someone with exponentially more resources and reach, and a history of doing this, be given a pass?
Exactly. The thread title is misleading as hell. He didn't promote that piece of shit at all, haha.
Is the implication that he actively went out of his way when selecting videos to react to and specifically picked the one with a white supremacist that he knew would cause controversy because...... why?
What kind of cartoony villian are we trying to make here? I never watch this dude's content but man this whole thing sounds like such contrived controversy stirring. Like giving us any possible reason to hate this dude when he's doing the most basic youtube stuff.
What kind of cartoony villian are we trying to make here? I never watch this dude's content but man this whole thing sounds like such contrived controversy stirring. Like giving us any possible reason to hate this dude when he's doing the most basic youtube stuff.
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