Did he though?
This could apply to any criticism towards ADL
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PewDiePie pulls $50,000 pledge to Jewish anti-hate group after fan backlash
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Did he though?
This could apply to any criticism towards ADL
So in the end it's all about him, as usual. He's just someone who I think doesn't warrant attention at this point. Every time he gets criticised he reacts in the most self-absorbed and petulant ways- the SoM backlash, the N word incident, the Wall Street Journal and now this. He's pathetic.
He can't use Wikipedia before announcing his donation? It's not like the ADL's controversies required a Congressional inquisition. 2 minutes on Wikipedia would have told him "hmm, maybe this isn't such a good place to donate as my atonement."
Pewdiepie fans trying to gaslight people 2 days after that post lol
That's not how this works. A dude loses that benefit the second he decides rape jokes and 'kill all jews' is hilarious, and doubly so after going full hard-r on stream for getting killed in a video game, and failing to really apologize for any of those incidents.
He gains it back when he changes his behavior permanently. He hasn't done that. At all. He has shown the world what kind of person he is over and over and over again and his fanbase doesn't care, which shows you what kind of people they are. When that fanbase convinces him to pull a donation to the ADL, therefore, it's almost certainly about their anger at the existence of Jewish people and not a more nuanced sign of support for Ilhan Omar.
They are. You can't complain someone is about to do something shitty and when he then decides to not do it, you also complain about that.
I'm sure all of the people who were posting about how be was being blackmailed/threatened into donating to the ADL by the Zionist conspiracy had the best of intentions.
Lmao at people in this thread who think PDP withdrew that donation due to being made aware of their stances on Israel-Palestine, and not because the right-wingers in his fanbase went nuclear and started sharing white supremacist/neo-Nazi conspiracies and threatening to unsub.
He definitely should know where his money goes. He seemingly trusted wrong people, as this was something that was suggested to him. I don't know by who. It's also possible he did his research on ADL website (I would personally go directly to charity website to know what their missions are), which don't include those controversies.
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Maybe he made his reasoning purposefully vague in a futile attempt to appease both the nazis and the pro-palestine folks.
lol
Until I hear any explanation from him, I'll just assume that 4chan blackmailed him. Hey, baseless conspiracies are hip right now!
It'a obvious he's doing this to please his fanbase whining about him selling out and spouting conspiracy theories, no chance he did this because of any actual reasoning other than protecting his cred. People need to stop giving him so much leeway considering he's shown his ass multiple times, this isn't a one off thing.
Actually it turns out the ADL is hot garbage as discussed in the first thread.
It would've been for PDP to rescind this pledge if he had picked another charity but he failed to do that so he still looks poorly regardless.
If he donates the money to another charity that fights anti-semitism or racism it wouldn't be in the interest of those nazi fans either.
I find it both incredibly hilarious and depressing, that he'll easy announce a charity he'll donate to without even doing research about them.
Wow. Just wow.
^Love this reference!
pulling a pledge? everyone knows you cant pull a pledge, or else whats the point of the pledge
seriously wtf
^Love this reference!
Because he didn't pick a new one at all.
Get off this forum when reading replies and you would realize how naive this was.
Also this.
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That would be golden. I'd LOVE to see the comments on a video announcing this.
Yesh but now he's donating the money to a charity doing something he's passionate about, call it going on a limb but I don't think he's exactly passionate about fighting racism and antisemitism.
ahahah exactly this, ppl jumping to conclusion all over the place... I'm lost...
Given the context of his fanbase sharing right-wing antisemitic conspiracies about the ADL instead of criticism of it being generally anti-Palestinian, people should rightfully be sceptical about why he pulled the dono.
I am going to say I saw this coming. He is just doing this for publicity. He was not going to go against his fan base.
Let's see the new charity
Let's see the new charity
GASP.
how could you suggest slander like that, don't touch my golden boy plz.
lmao this is fuckin' wack, so he donates to a charity as part of taking responsibility for being the influential role model he is, and then immediately has to reverse that decision.
I can't hate on the decision if the ADL is a legitimately shitty organization, but this shit could have been avoided with a ounce of research, that's not the height of responsibility, man. I'm just hoping that money actually makes it's way to a good organization at this point.
And this opinion is excluding the abhorrent response from his 'fanbase.' You wanna speak out against hate? Call out the comments on your damn reddit or your youtube comments, which even by youtube standards are magnificently terrible.
I can't hate on the decision if the ADL is a legitimately shitty organization, but this shit could have been avoided with a ounce of research, that's not the height of responsibility, man. I'm just hoping that money actually makes it's way to a good organization at this point.
And this opinion is excluding the abhorrent response from his 'fanbase.' You wanna speak out against hate? Call out the comments on your damn reddit or your youtube comments, which even by youtube standards are magnificently terrible.
He's a piece of shit because he blamed his entire problematic past on the media, and when he pulled the pledge to the ADL, he admitted he hadn't bothered to do even the barest amount of research on them. He's clearly just looking for somewhere else to throw his money where people can move on and forget his past behavior while putting in the least possible amount of work.
Guy can't win. Like I said in a thread about cancel culture, PDP has been "cancelled" so nothing he can do will ever be acceptable for some people. ADL is a shit choice to donate money to, I liked the initial gesture and I like it even more than he's been reflective about who he gives the money to.
I was going to post in the original PDP thread that him picking the ADL just further proves that he's nowhere near are political savvy or intentional as people make out. People seem to think he's some alt-right mastermind intentionally trying to brainwash people.
Nah, he's right. Fuck the ADL. If he doesn't donate the money elsewhere, then he deserves criticism.
No see he never was taking responsibility, he was trying to buy his way out of any further criticism. Literally his statement was all about the mainstream media slandering him
Did he say that? If ends up being a charity that doesn't address any bigotry that would indeed be shitty
If some of y'all really think that PDP is trying to "Change for the better" than I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
I didn't know Era had a comprehension problem. You want to feel validated by your hate for PDP that you would overlook, very clearly that the organization he donated to was, infact, a fucked up one to donate to? Writing your own narrative that he's "listening to his nazi fans" is even lower.
It's literally in the OP
"I made the mistake of picking a charity that I was advised to instead of picking a charity that I'm personally passionate about," Kjellberg said in the video. "Which is 100 percent my fault."
Pewdiepie has a shit record that should suffice for anyone to already have an opinion of this racist.
Maybe he 'could win' if he didn't blame the media for his past behavior, and maybe show that he cared about becoming a better person by putting in the barest amount of care in researching the organization he pledged to donate money to.