Full Article: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59q98k/pewdiepie-alinity-copyright-feud-twitch-fails
Now I don't want this to be a "hate on Pewdiepie" thread but it's something that should be called out and discussed, especially when you have million of kids looking to him as an role model/entertainer. Why are so many big mainstream Youtubers and Twitch players like this? What can we do to encourage people to drop people like Felix who treat others poorly or say/do horrible things without consequence and support streamers and Youtubers who haven't made as many bad choices as Felix has?
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"An ongoing feud between Felix Kjellberg, better known as Pewdiepie—the most popular YouTuber in the world—and popular Twitch streamer Alinity Divine, is a perfect example of how women are still objectified, vilified, and exploited in the gaming community, simply because they are women.
Earlier this month, Kjellberg, who has more than 63 million subscribers, uploaded a video of himself testing the Tobii eye tracker, which is able to show in real time what a user is looking at on the screen. Kjellberg invited fans on Twitter to send him videos to view, and recorded the results. One of the videos he watched, "SEXIEST TWITCH GIRL STREAMERS APRIL 2017!!! #2," was a compilation that featured Alinity."
"While Kjellberg struggled to keep his eyes off their chests, he "jokingly" called women in the video "stupid Twitch thots," a derogatory term for women that stands for "that ho [whore] over there." Alinity saw a video and retaliated by filing a copyright claim with YouTube.
In his latest video on the subject, uploaded Wednesday, Kjellberg chastised Alinity for filing the claim, and suggested that Alinity somehow deserves the abuse she is getting online for wearing revealing clothes. He shows examples of times when she wore a sheer top and her bra straps showed, or when she played Just Dance in a dress.
"You're just playing games with the shortest skirt ever, that's our fault for looking at it in any sexual way, right?" Kjellberg said in the video. "I know you don't portray yourself to be the smartest person, but I know you're not that dumb to not be aware of what you're doing," he says. "Showing your underwear on screen? That's our fault, right?""
Now I don't want this to be a "hate on Pewdiepie" thread but it's something that should be called out and discussed, especially when you have million of kids looking to him as an role model/entertainer. Why are so many big mainstream Youtubers and Twitch players like this? What can we do to encourage people to drop people like Felix who treat others poorly or say/do horrible things without consequence and support streamers and Youtubers who haven't made as many bad choices as Felix has?
MOD EDIT: Reminder that any posts shaming streamers for their outfits or sex appeal, along with any comments rationalizing harassment of any kind, will be moderated accordingly.
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