Wow, you're either retarded or got simply baited. You realise that's the whole point of the joke right? Thanks for saying it again in simpler words, you goddamn autist.
I watched it, when it was on TV. To me, it's a video bragging about the exploitation of the proles, and the proles letting it happen.
Basically, the antithesis of Communism. It's almost an anthem of anti-communism. aka Capitalism. I mean, we elected the penultimate capitalist here in the US.
If you watch old pro-communist propaganda it was chock full of videos highlighting the excesses of greed and exploitation under a capitalist system. They always focused on the evil bourgeoisie and caricatured them as greedy and lazy and exploitative and stressed systemic injustices (all notes the video hits). Somehow I don't see a video showing life under a bourgeois stereotype (who literally calls himself "the bourgeoisie") as being a celebration of capitalism and it's super weird you'd come away with that impression.
If you wanted to make a simple video that compelled kids to dislike the upper class, what could you possibly do differently? I think you're just stuck on the whole idea of it being actual propaganda as if I think it's literally a Disney plot as opposed to 1 or 2 writers getting away with something surprising.
frame the bad guy of the cartoon as the bourgeoisie
make everyone around him depressed
grey and sinister tones
use of "proletariat" and "bourgeoisie" terms only used by anti-capitalists to critique capitalism
the whole plot of the episode centers around this being a dystopian future to be avoided
sorry fam I'm just not seeing the celebration angle but to each his own I guess
Hearing that fact has actually made me somewhat furious. I'm just sitting here thinking about how people are trying to sanitize the internet, make it nice and clean for the normal people to come in and hang about. Oh you can't joke about nazis, that's unacceptable! The humor on your channel must be clean and up to YouTube's standards, so you can compete with the [GONE VIRAL] TOP 10 FUNNIEST ANIMAL CLIPS OF THE WEEK and whatever clips they have from Jimmy Kimmel or Saturday Night Live that they're pushing on your front page instead of the content you actually subscribed to.
It's especially aggravating that the r/news thread on this is filled with people jerking each other off and finishing in each other's mouths over "oh, he should've known better", "holocaust jokes are NOT comedy", "Virtue signal and outrage!". Fuck the sanitized internet these people want, give me the most racist, blasphamous, evil bullshit we have to offer. Fuck the corporations that hold a quasi-monopoly on social media, and fuck the people who cheer them on. In short:
NO HE HAS TO BE PAID FOR HIS /R/IMGOINGTOHELLFORTHIS EFFORT-LEVEL JOKES BY DISNEY OR HE'S OPPRESSED AND PC CULTURE HAS OFFICIALLY WON REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
(YouTube hasn’t pulled ads from any of Kjellberg’s other videos, nor taken any of the videos down, though Kjellberg has himself.)
if edgy 13 year old mountain dew sippers want to hear retarded "death to all jews" jokes they can still watch it. they're not censoring anybody or removing content, they (a fucking Family Cartoon company) are just saying "yeah we're not gonna slap our logo and brand with your nazi jokes" anymore.
The average without being partnered is around $1 per thousand views I believe. According to socialblade he gets around 9 million views per day (around 3-4 million from the video he uploads that day). That's still $9,000 per day if he drops to average levels.
brands are less incentivized to work with him directly?
I don't think he does much/any sponsored content. He could probably start though if needed. EEVBlog only has around 400k subscribers but Dave said that Audible is willing to pay him around $4k per sponsored video.
He also has a merchandise store which probably generates significant revenue.
Advertisers generally don't get to choose who they advertise to or don't. Plus I'd imagine one of the networks which don't care about antisemitism (like RoosterTeeth) will try to get him partnered with them after this dies down.
They're taking him out of the preferred ad program. So his CPM will go down slightly (although it'll also go up slightly due to not having to pay Disney anymore).
Entire article. If you use adblock it pops up some shit.
Disney has dropped PewDiePie, the world’s highest-earning YouTube star, after a series of videos that featured anti-Semitic messages, according to The Wall Street Journal.
PewDiePie, a 27 year old from Sweden named Felix Kjellberg, whose foul-mouthed gaming videos have netted him 53 million subscribers, made $15 million in 2016, according to Forbes. Some of that was a result of a joint venture with Maker Studios, the multi-channel network Disney bought for $675 million in 2014. That joint venture is finished in the wake of these videos, Disney confirmed to Business Insider.
“Although Felix has created a following by being provocative and irreverent, he clearly went too far in this case and the resulting videos are inappropriate," a spokeswoman for Maker Studios told Business Insider. "Maker Studios has made the decision to end our affiliation with him going forward.”
According to a Wall Street Journal review of Kjellberg’s channel, he posted nine videos since August that “include anti-Semitic jokes or Nazi imagery.”
One such video from January 11, since taken down, featured Kjellberg hiring two men to make a sign that read “Death to All Jews,” using the freelancer website Fiverr. Kjellberg later said that video was a joke that had gone too far, and YouTube pulled ads from the video. (YouTube hasn’t pulled ads from any of Kjellberg’s other videos, nor taken any of the videos down, though Kjellberg has himself.)
The situation is further complicated for YouTube, since beyond Kjellberg being its biggest star, he also has a show on YouTube’s $9.99-a-month premium service, YouTube Red, called “Scare PewDiePie.” YouTube declined to comment about Kjellberg to The Journal.
Business Insider has reached out to YouTube and PewDiePie for comment.
In all honesty I'm a little surprised that Disney hasn't already got a full stable of teens/twenty-somethings churning out content. Just take the reject child actors and give 'em some webcams and green screens
One such video from January 11, since taken down, featured Kjellberg hiring two men to make a sign that read "Death to All Jews," using the freelancer website Fiverr. Kjellberg later said that video was a joke that had gone too far, and YouTube pulled ads from the video.
Oh no, how ever will he live, making $10mil instead of $15mil. If you'd told me ten years ago that I could facefuck petite Italian girls and get paid millions of dollars for saying "fuck" and "pussy" over game footage, having no marketable skills and screaming like a fucking girl, I would have pissed in your cereal and called you a fucking liar.
Obviously, because PewDiePie made some racist jokes on a channel famous for offensive humor, we should drop him. Not like he's obviously displayed liberal and progressive viewpoints in the past and has donated millions to countless non-profit charities. Nah, he's clearly an evil bastard. Now where's that Onision guy, who emotionally abuses his wife and literally asks for kids to send him photos of them in their underwear? Or that Keemstar guy, who literally doxxes people and broke down on camera because a chinless 20-year old called him out?
Source? I generally don't believe it when a social media personality talks about how generous they are because they usually either donate other people's money, or take other people's donations for themselves.
Dude, you use /r/mensrights. Although I'm not against full gender equality for both men and women, as both men and women have a lot of advantages and disadvantages in society not offered to the other gender, /r/mensrights is a cancerous cesspool of incels, misogynists, and alt-rightists.
What if I think that escalating economic inequality and corporate domination are bigger issues than a white dude victim complex?
It won't matter. Give power to people who hate you--even if you agree with them on some politicial issues--and it will always backfire against you, because they will never help you.
Also, liberalism isn't against corporate domination or escalating economic inequality, it just pretends to be. When was the last time a liberal politician actually did anything about those issues? Obama was President for 8 year, during which inequality escalated more sharply that in any other period we have figured on.
Liberals will only ever help minorities and feminists, no matter what they say. Like with the ACA, where they claimed to give people free healthcare, but only gave free checkups to women, and jacked up men's insurance rates to pay for it.
That's how liberalism always goes. No matter what they say, they hate white men, so white men will get nothing and be expected to pay for everything.
Inequality is on the rise and the current Democratic Party is corporate friendly, but the rest of your spiel is MRA bullshit. In case you didnt notice most of that rising inequality is because rich white men got richer, not because feminists and minorities took over the world. Weird right?
Obviously, because PewDiePie made some (admittedly too over-the-top) racist jokes on a channel famous for offensive humor, we should drop him. Not like he's obviously displayed liberal and progressive viewpoints in the past and has donated millions to countless non-profit charities. Nah, he's clearly an evil bastard.
It's simpler than that. The people involved in this decision probably know that Pewdiepie doesn't actually wish death to the jews, but they know continuing to be associated with someone who's made these jokes could make them look bad too.I imagine Disney is especially sensitive to accusations of antisemitism because of what Walt was like.
What was he like? The only evidence people have that he was anti semitic was that he associated with anti semites. That hardly enough proof. Hell even one guy who "hated his guts" said he wasn't anti semitic.
You spergs will defend private companies from serving gays but when they don't want you saying nigger on their free services, THAT is a bridge too far!
I think PewDiePie just made a bad choice, but he is not seriously racist nor need to cause more alarm than necessary. I'm very much a liberal and don't like racists, but this is one of those times where I don't think it needs to be treated that drastically. They could have just fixed the mistake and talked to him about what was wrong.
Unfortunately, racist jokes have become the norm over the internet and modern times. You're considered prude if you don't like racist jokes. I have experienced this a LOT when I play Cards against Humanity online. I don't really like the racist jokes in that game, but it is not considered ok to say that in the chat rooms. I have been argued against endlessly, just for saying once that I simply don't really like the racist cards. Called a prude, etc.
In the internet's social environment, lately, racist jokes have become so much the norm - That I assume PewdiePie made a joke of it, out of habit But he probably didn't have a serious agenda to spread racism.
We should talk about how racist jokes have become the norm, and how that's not really ok. But I don't think we need to be excessive about it and blame a person more excessively than they need to be blamed.
Now, That would be different, if PewDiePie were to respond like the people I encountered in those CAH chat rooms: Trying to prude shame you for disliking a racist joke. THAT would deffinitely make a person an asshole racist.
I haven't watched PewDiePie much. The little I've seen of him, I've gathered that I like him better than some other youtubers for this reason, and I could be wrong but: he seems different from other youtubers who are trying to be jerks, in order to gain popularity. He seems sort of like this sweet, geeky type who is just there to try to be funny, Which I appreciate more than the "Look I'm so great because of what an asshole I am" types. Am I wrong or right? I don't know, I've only seen a couple of his videos.
Also, I don't know if this is PewDiePie's official tumblr blog, but I found this http://pewdie.tumblr.com/ where an explanation is written of what happened.
We should talk about how racist jokes have become the norm, and how that's not really ok.
Except that for many people racist jokes are OK. You really don't want to have the conversation because then you'll find out how many people disagree with you. I'm not giving up Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock cracking on white people just because you're a little queasy about Jew jokes. I'm not letting morons like you tell geniuses like Mel Brooks we can't play up their ethnicity for humor. The are really only two problems with jokes about race. The first problem are those who clearly make those kinds of joke in a mean-spirited and unproductive manner. The second problem is that even when the jokes aren't mean-spirited, and are even made in the context of a broader point meant to make people realize how alike we all really are, people like you get all fucking cringey because you're worried someone will think you're a bad person. The first problem is solved by booing idiots off the stage. The second problem is solved by you developing a backbone and giving up on being a little bitch.
Oh look, I left the computer for just a few hours, and already some pushy trolls arrived, thinking that saying a bunch of loser stuff will make them impressive...
Bahhhh sheep.
You're "Not going to let" me tell Mel Brooks something or whatever? (btw I never said anything about Mel Brooks.) I think you have the wrong idea about whether you "let" me do things, as I'm not your property.
Oh my fucking god, go away you stupid trolls. Think it's funny to tell someone to "end themselves." or continuing to bitch about Mel Brooks, even though I already told you I wasn't talking about Mel Brooks.
I was obviously talking about white racism, not people of color using racism for themselves. I've never seen Mel Brooks, and don't care as far as this topic.
And voting yourselves up with your multiple accounts, thinking it will impress somebody. It doesn't. All I said was that I don't really like racism. but that PewdiePie isn't all that guilty.
Find something more important to get Overly pissed off about, you stupid little flies, who need to be swatted with a fly swatter.
Reminder that this is a guy that read a bunch hyper degenerate gay porn involving popular child icons (including Disney's Frozen) to his predominately underage audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYxtOfvkXeo
But if he so much as ironically squints at a jew it's curtains. Now I'm not saying it was the jews, but this is so obviously a case of the jews smacking him down.
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n/a Mircabre 2017-02-14
Cancer, oy vey
n/a SaintJason 2017-02-14
Where the fuck you're been?
n/a respaaaaaj 2017-02-14
Honestly you'd think being unfunny eurotrash would be enough to get him dropped to be honest.
n/a SoButtscrewed 2017-02-14
You really need to settle down.
n/a StrategicSarcasm 2017-02-14
Lie some more, sheesh.
n/a TruthPains 2017-02-14
In earnest he honestly isn't honest enough.
n/a bytewake 2017-02-14
at least he's honest
n/a Ryuklovesapples 2017-02-14
Haha yeah Pewds sucks am I right?! xDDDD
n/a atakeonhooper 2017-02-14
he does though
n/a Senator_Chickpea 2017-02-14
honestly
n/a NMJ87 2017-02-14
Have you guys ever noticed that when someone in the media says Jews control the media, they get fired from their job IN THE MEDIA?
n/a Mad__Sweeney 2017-02-14
It's as if anti-Semitic behavior is not palatable to normal people. Go fucking figure.
n/a jPaolo 2017-02-14
Are normal people run by Jews????
n/a ThatOtherPromise 2017-02-14
(((normal people)))
n/a Whitey_Supreme 2017-02-14
What's wrong with antisemitism? Jews are extremely powerful and successful. Antisemitism is "punching up".
n/a Gothmog26 2017-02-14
You should respect your betters. Every country on earth that isn't shot is run by the Jews.
n/a VicePresidentJesus 2017-02-14
I think part of the problem may be that one time it got a few million Jews gassed.
n/a MakeAmericaSageAgain 2017-02-14
Allegedly...
n/a VicePresidentJesus 2017-02-14
Real talk though, if the Jews got together and pinned 6,000,000 fake murders on the Germans, they deserve the W.
n/a ErisIsMyGoddess 2017-02-14
They are never gonna let that go, are they?
n/a aonome 2017-02-14
How the fuck can you get baited so easily on /r/drama
n/a Imgur_Lurker 2017-02-14
By being yet another SRDIne
n/a John_Ketch 2017-02-14
Wow, you're either retarded or got simply baited. You realise that's the whole point of the joke right? Thanks for saying it again in simpler words, you goddamn autist.
n/a Grammorin 2017-02-14
What if I think it's great that Jews run the media and I'm pro semitic control?
n/a Lord_Tartarus 2017-02-14
Figures. PewDiePie is the first person to GET WOKE since Walt and they fucking kick him to the curb. FUCKING TYPICAL.
MAKE DISNEY WOKE AGAIN
n/a atakeonhooper 2017-02-14
Are you telling me you cant also be a Nazi and work for Volkswagon?!
I mean, that's just respecting the corporate history.
n/a The_Real_AzorAhai 2017-02-14
Implying Disney isn't [communist propaganda]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClqpcdJ6yKk)( now
n/a HybridKernel 2017-02-14
Seeing as Walt was pretty anti-semitic, bordering on a neonazi, I doubt this.
n/a The_Real_AzorAhai 2017-02-14
Can you really be considered a "neo"nazi if you lived through the age of the actual nazis?
Also a Disney show song from the last few years doesn't really have anything to do with Walt himself
n/a HybridKernel 2017-02-14
Fair enough. He was about as close as one can get to being a nazi, without ending up in an internment camp.
Well, except for corporate culture, instilled by the founder.
n/a The_Real_AzorAhai 2017-02-14
I'm just saying, the song is literally about exploiting the proletariat
n/a HybridKernel 2017-02-14
lol @ u thinking Nazism isn't about exploiting the proletariat...
Communism (Real communism) is about empowering the proletariat, since they are the the working class, and bringing down the bourgeois.
n/a The_Real_AzorAhai 2017-02-14
Oh so you didn't actually watch it. Fair enough
n/a HybridKernel 2017-02-14
I watched it, when it was on TV. To me, it's a video bragging about the exploitation of the proles, and the proles letting it happen.
Basically, the antithesis of Communism. It's almost an anthem of anti-communism. aka Capitalism. I mean, we elected the penultimate capitalist here in the US.
n/a The_Real_AzorAhai 2017-02-14
If you watch old pro-communist propaganda it was chock full of videos highlighting the excesses of greed and exploitation under a capitalist system. They always focused on the evil bourgeoisie and caricatured them as greedy and lazy and exploitative and stressed systemic injustices (all notes the video hits). Somehow I don't see a video showing life under a bourgeois stereotype (who literally calls himself "the bourgeoisie") as being a celebration of capitalism and it's super weird you'd come away with that impression.
If you wanted to make a simple video that compelled kids to dislike the upper class, what could you possibly do differently? I think you're just stuck on the whole idea of it being actual propaganda as if I think it's literally a Disney plot as opposed to 1 or 2 writers getting away with something surprising.
n/a HybridKernel 2017-02-14
I dunno... I see it as a celebration of bourgeoisie. But, I suppose that's the point of good art.
n/a The_Real_AzorAhai 2017-02-14
sorry fam I'm just not seeing the celebration angle but to each his own I guess
n/a gives-out-hugs 2017-02-14
I thought it was the nazis putting people in camps, not the other way round
n/a HybridKernel 2017-02-14
Well, we put "sympathizers" into internment camps as well.
n/a TheSmugAnimeGirl 2017-02-14
I wonder how he'll survive being the most popular Youtuber without someone cutting into his profits?
n/a HodorTheDoorHolder 2017-02-14
He lost Disney money. That's serious money.
n/a TheSmugAnimeGirl 2017-02-14
Dude makes like, 7+ million off YouTube alone, he'll be fine.
n/a lionbaiter 2017-02-14
But some GoT kiddo said it was serious.
n/a Boris_the_Giant 2017-02-14
He's audience is mainly children, they'll leave sooner or later. He better start making wise investments right about now.
n/a nomad1c 2017-02-14
so what you're saying is he should start to groom some new children
n/a MegaSeedsInYourBum 2017-02-14
The onison strategy does seem to work.
n/a The-Mars-Travolta 2017-02-14
If the children don't come to you, cum to the children?
n/a Orsonius 2017-02-14
implying new children dont come to youtube every day.
n/a ABillionYearsOld 2017-02-14
He got removed from their ad partners program. He's cooked.
n/a TheSmugAnimeGirl 2017-02-14
Well that's retarded. RIP pewds.
n/a ABillionYearsOld 2017-02-14
It's just weird. What did they think he was gonna do? Get less offensive as time went on? Why would they think that?
n/a TheSmugAnimeGirl 2017-02-14
Time to rant like a raging autist again.
Hearing that fact has actually made me somewhat furious. I'm just sitting here thinking about how people are trying to sanitize the internet, make it nice and clean for the normal people to come in and hang about. Oh you can't joke about nazis, that's unacceptable! The humor on your channel must be clean and up to YouTube's standards, so you can compete with the [GONE VIRAL] TOP 10 FUNNIEST ANIMAL CLIPS OF THE WEEK and whatever clips they have from Jimmy Kimmel or Saturday Night Live that they're pushing on your front page instead of the content you actually subscribed to.
It's especially aggravating that the r/news thread on this is filled with people jerking each other off and finishing in each other's mouths over "oh, he should've known better", "holocaust jokes are NOT comedy", "Virtue signal and outrage!". Fuck the sanitized internet these people want, give me the most racist, blasphamous, evil bullshit we have to offer. Fuck the corporations that hold a quasi-monopoly on social media, and fuck the people who cheer them on. In short:
FUCKING NORMALFAGS GET OFF OF MY INTERNET
n/a ABillionYearsOld 2017-02-14
Fuckin normies.
n/a im-a-koala 2017-02-14
But it's not like they aren't still hosting his videos.
n/a Sloppysloppyjoe 2017-02-14
NO HE HAS TO BE PAID FOR HIS /R/IMGOINGTOHELLFORTHIS EFFORT-LEVEL JOKES BY DISNEY OR HE'S OPPRESSED AND PC CULTURE HAS OFFICIALLY WON REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
n/a Sloppysloppyjoe 2017-02-14
if edgy 13 year old mountain dew sippers want to hear retarded "death to all jews" jokes they can still watch it. they're not censoring anybody or removing content, they (a fucking Family Cartoon company) are just saying "yeah we're not gonna slap our logo and brand with your nazi jokes" anymore.
n/a TheSmugAnimeGirl 2017-02-14
Oh, okay, then disregard my post there, I suck dicks. Though my rant about r/news still remains because those dudes are faggots.
n/a HybridKernel 2017-02-14
Of course you're an autist, raging about a hosting provider pulling ad revenue from a program they don't like.
Get used to it. That's how the real world works. When you piss off consumers, people don't buy your product anymore.
n/a LSeww 2017-02-14
Really? Consumers were pissed?
n/a HybridKernel 2017-02-14
Yep. That's how ad driven companies work.
n/a LSeww 2017-02-14
Disney is a consumer? Wtf lol.
n/a HybridKernel 2017-02-14
Yes, a consumer of Pewdipie's labor... Disney would be the purchaser of his time.
What part of this do you not comprehend?
n/a LSeww 2017-02-14
The one that you are a dumb fuck?
n/a HybridKernel 2017-02-14
Nice try, chief. How about you refute how someone purchasing a product (Labor) from supplier of product (labor) is not a consumer of said product?
U mad bro?
n/a pol__invictus__risen 2017-02-14
he got the ads removed from like, one video. N B D
n/a Lost4468 2017-02-14
No he just got removed from being a preferred ad partner.
n/a ABillionYearsOld 2017-02-14
Doesn't that mean his ad share goes way down and brands are less incentivized to work with him directly?
n/a Lost4468 2017-02-14
The average without being partnered is around $1 per thousand views I believe. According to socialblade he gets around 9 million views per day (around 3-4 million from the video he uploads that day). That's still $9,000 per day if he drops to average levels.
I don't think he does much/any sponsored content. He could probably start though if needed. EEVBlog only has around 400k subscribers but Dave said that Audible is willing to pay him around $4k per sponsored video.
He also has a merchandise store which probably generates significant revenue.
n/a ABillionYearsOld 2017-02-14
Yeah his ad share goes way down, and who wants to advertise on a fascist neo-nazi stream? The MSM just declared him so.
n/a Lost4468 2017-02-14
Advertisers generally don't get to choose who they advertise to or don't. Plus I'd imagine one of the networks which don't care about antisemitism (like RoosterTeeth) will try to get him partnered with them after this dies down.
n/a ABillionYearsOld 2017-02-14
You absolutely can and companies do exclude particular content creators from the marketing efforts.
n/a HybridKernel 2017-02-14
They most certainly can. Have you had a look at the Google Ad Partner Portal?
I exempt my ad campaigns from all sorts of types of content (Adult, for example).
n/a Lost4468 2017-02-14
You can't decide to not show ads on specific users though.
n/a FuckURedditor 2017-02-14
If that were true, people other than the usual SRS types would be saying it.
n/a Strephyl 2017-02-14
Said the right wing cliché
n/a Ronocm13 2017-02-14
Well apparently Youtube is taking him out of their ad program as well so he won't be making much at all I imagine.
n/a Lost4468 2017-02-14
They're taking him out of the preferred ad program. So his CPM will go down slightly (although it'll also go up slightly due to not having to pay Disney anymore).
n/a Velxon 2017-02-14
Entire article. If you use adblock it pops up some shit.
Disney has dropped PewDiePie, the world’s highest-earning YouTube star, after a series of videos that featured anti-Semitic messages, according to The Wall Street Journal.
PewDiePie, a 27 year old from Sweden named Felix Kjellberg, whose foul-mouthed gaming videos have netted him 53 million subscribers, made $15 million in 2016, according to Forbes. Some of that was a result of a joint venture with Maker Studios, the multi-channel network Disney bought for $675 million in 2014. That joint venture is finished in the wake of these videos, Disney confirmed to Business Insider.
“Although Felix has created a following by being provocative and irreverent, he clearly went too far in this case and the resulting videos are inappropriate," a spokeswoman for Maker Studios told Business Insider. "Maker Studios has made the decision to end our affiliation with him going forward.”
According to a Wall Street Journal review of Kjellberg’s channel, he posted nine videos since August that “include anti-Semitic jokes or Nazi imagery.”
One such video from January 11, since taken down, featured Kjellberg hiring two men to make a sign that read “Death to All Jews,” using the freelancer website Fiverr. Kjellberg later said that video was a joke that had gone too far, and YouTube pulled ads from the video. (YouTube hasn’t pulled ads from any of Kjellberg’s other videos, nor taken any of the videos down, though Kjellberg has himself.)
The situation is further complicated for YouTube, since beyond Kjellberg being its biggest star, he also has a show on YouTube’s $9.99-a-month premium service, YouTube Red, called “Scare PewDiePie.” YouTube declined to comment about Kjellberg to The Journal.
Business Insider has reached out to YouTube and PewDiePie for comment.
n/a zahlman 2017-02-14
Do you even Noscript? Or archive?
n/a Strephyl 2017-02-14
>noscript
>working websites
pick one
n/a DO_NOT_PM_ME 2017-02-14
Use this ad blocking list:
https://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/
n/a SoButtscrewed 2017-02-14
He'll just have to wipe his tears with his billions of dollars, I guess.
n/a bfbj 2017-02-14
In all honesty I'm a little surprised that Disney hasn't already got a full stable of teens/twenty-somethings churning out content. Just take the reject child actors and give 'em some webcams and green screens
n/a Bankrotas 2017-02-14
Nah, they bought makers to do it for them
n/a cuteman 2017-02-14
They do, but like Disney movie properties, they'd rather buy something that's already popular.
Star wars, Marvel, etc. They didn't invent. They bought.
n/a anotheraccount323 2017-02-14
What a funny joker, always kidding around.
n/a TheSmugAnimeGirl 2017-02-14
The funny thing about the video is that they pulled out the sign and said "Subscribe to Keemstar".
n/a mrpenguinx 2017-02-14
Its almost like the context is super important here.
n/a hotblondeboob 2017-02-14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNGuVk9Hvz0
n/a atakeonhooper 2017-02-14
that is funnier than i thought it would be
n/a mrpenguinx 2017-02-14
Amazing what context can do, isn't it?
n/a Lord_Tartarus 2017-02-14
Oh no, how ever will he live, making $10mil instead of $15mil. If you'd told me ten years ago that I could facefuck petite Italian girls and get paid millions of dollars for saying "fuck" and "pussy" over game footage, having no marketable skills and screaming like a fucking girl, I would have pissed in your cereal and called you a fucking liar.
n/a jubbergun 2017-02-14
There's your new YouTube channel. Kids will tune into that shit fo' sho'.
n/a Remlan 2017-02-14
You also have to spend half your day editing videos and formating them, then keep doing that for a few years every single fucking day. Have fun !
n/a ThisGuy481 2017-02-14
Obviously, because PewDiePie made some racist jokes on a channel famous for offensive humor, we should drop him. Not like he's obviously displayed liberal and progressive viewpoints in the past and has donated millions to countless non-profit charities. Nah, he's clearly an evil bastard. Now where's that Onision guy, who emotionally abuses his wife and literally asks for kids to send him photos of them in their underwear? Or that Keemstar guy, who literally doxxes people and broke down on camera because a chinless 20-year old called him out?
n/a nomanhasblindedme 2017-02-14
He's donated his own money?
n/a SaintJason 2017-02-14
He donated a shit-ton of his own money.
n/a MegaSeedsInYourBum 2017-02-14
Source? I generally don't believe it when a social media personality talks about how generous they are because they usually either donate other people's money, or take other people's donations for themselves.
n/a kryonik 2017-02-14
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pewdiepie+donates
n/a FuckURedditor 2017-02-14
No point in being liberal if you're a white men. All you're doing is handing rope to the folks who want to hang you.
n/a ThisGuy481 2017-02-14
Dude, you use /r/mensrights. Although I'm not against full gender equality for both men and women, as both men and women have a lot of advantages and disadvantages in society not offered to the other gender, /r/mensrights is a cancerous cesspool of incels, misogynists, and alt-rightists.
n/a VicePresidentJesus 2017-02-14
What if I think that escalating economic inequality and corporate domination are bigger issues than a white dude victim complex?
n/a elwombat 2017-02-14
SRD please go.
n/a FuckURedditor 2017-02-14
It won't matter. Give power to people who hate you--even if you agree with them on some politicial issues--and it will always backfire against you, because they will never help you.
Also, liberalism isn't against corporate domination or escalating economic inequality, it just pretends to be. When was the last time a liberal politician actually did anything about those issues? Obama was President for 8 year, during which inequality escalated more sharply that in any other period we have figured on.
Liberals will only ever help minorities and feminists, no matter what they say. Like with the ACA, where they claimed to give people free healthcare, but only gave free checkups to women, and jacked up men's insurance rates to pay for it.
That's how liberalism always goes. No matter what they say, they hate white men, so white men will get nothing and be expected to pay for everything.
n/a VicePresidentJesus 2017-02-14
Inequality is on the rise and the current Democratic Party is corporate friendly, but the rest of your spiel is MRA bullshit. In case you didnt notice most of that rising inequality is because rich white men got richer, not because feminists and minorities took over the world. Weird right?
n/a Strephyl 2017-02-14
Are they all disney employees too or are you just being a whiny bitch?
n/a ThisGuy481 2017-02-14
Just being a whiny bitch. I'm a /r/drama user. That much should be expected.
n/a SplurgyA 2017-02-14
It's simpler than that. The people involved in this decision probably know that Pewdiepie doesn't actually wish death to the jews, but they know continuing to be associated with someone who's made these jokes could make them look bad too.I imagine Disney is especially sensitive to accusations of antisemitism because of what Walt was like.
n/a Christafix 2017-02-14
What was he like? The only evidence people have that he was anti semitic was that he associated with anti semites. That hardly enough proof. Hell even one guy who "hated his guts" said he wasn't anti semitic.
n/a Pornthrow1697 2017-02-14
You spergs will defend private companies from serving gays but when they don't want you saying nigger on their free services, THAT is a bridge too far!
n/a techmaster2001 2017-02-14
pewdiepie sucks
game grumps master race
n/a SaintJason 2017-02-14
Both are shit. DSP is /our/ guy
n/a ZSSGaming 2017-02-14
DSP? The guy who accidentally jacked off on camera?
n/a SaintJason 2017-02-14
Yes and he is our guy you dumb bitch.
n/a ZSSGaming 2017-02-14
He didn't even wash his hands after. He's a degenerate.
n/a jubbergun 2017-02-14
"Accidentally"
n/a Orsonius 2017-02-14
>actually watching any of that garbage
n/a Ryuklovesapples 2017-02-14
That's not how you spell Funhaus.
n/a thefran 2017-02-14
This is against everything Walt Disney stood for :\
n/a hotblondeboob 2017-02-14
It's funny Disney turns on pewdiepie for making harmless jokes when Walt Disney was a notorious anti-semite.
n/a ZSSGaming 2017-02-14
How so? Because Meryl Streep says so? Lol
n/a hotblondeboob 2017-02-14
Obviously. Meryl Streep is never wrong.
n/a Thhueros 2017-02-14
What would they expect from the guy who looks like a young Heinrich Himmler.
n/a Velvet_Llama 2017-02-14
What a world.
n/a FuckURedditor 2017-02-14
ITT: SRS/SRD jerking into the popcorn. As always.
Remember when this was a real drama sub?
n/a ReBurnInator 2017-02-14
Hey grandpa, tell us a story from the olden days!
n/a thebadkangaroo 2017-02-14
I think PewDiePie just made a bad choice, but he is not seriously racist nor need to cause more alarm than necessary. I'm very much a liberal and don't like racists, but this is one of those times where I don't think it needs to be treated that drastically. They could have just fixed the mistake and talked to him about what was wrong.
Unfortunately, racist jokes have become the norm over the internet and modern times. You're considered prude if you don't like racist jokes. I have experienced this a LOT when I play Cards against Humanity online. I don't really like the racist jokes in that game, but it is not considered ok to say that in the chat rooms. I have been argued against endlessly, just for saying once that I simply don't really like the racist cards. Called a prude, etc.
In the internet's social environment, lately, racist jokes have become so much the norm - That I assume PewdiePie made a joke of it, out of habit But he probably didn't have a serious agenda to spread racism.
We should talk about how racist jokes have become the norm, and how that's not really ok. But I don't think we need to be excessive about it and blame a person more excessively than they need to be blamed.
Now, That would be different, if PewDiePie were to respond like the people I encountered in those CAH chat rooms: Trying to prude shame you for disliking a racist joke. THAT would deffinitely make a person an asshole racist.
I haven't watched PewDiePie much. The little I've seen of him, I've gathered that I like him better than some other youtubers for this reason, and I could be wrong but: he seems different from other youtubers who are trying to be jerks, in order to gain popularity. He seems sort of like this sweet, geeky type who is just there to try to be funny, Which I appreciate more than the "Look I'm so great because of what an asshole I am" types. Am I wrong or right? I don't know, I've only seen a couple of his videos.
n/a thebadkangaroo 2017-02-14
Also, I don't know if this is PewDiePie's official tumblr blog, but I found this http://pewdie.tumblr.com/ where an explanation is written of what happened.
n/a I_DRINK_TO_FORGET 2017-02-14
Someone needs another 10-20 years in the oven to reach mature adulthood.
n/a PoorLilMarco 2017-02-14
Gas the jews
n/a jubbergun 2017-02-14
Except that for many people racist jokes are OK. You really don't want to have the conversation because then you'll find out how many people disagree with you. I'm not giving up Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock cracking on white people just because you're a little queasy about Jew jokes. I'm not letting morons like you tell geniuses like Mel Brooks we can't play up their ethnicity for humor. The are really only two problems with jokes about race. The first problem are those who clearly make those kinds of joke in a mean-spirited and unproductive manner. The second problem is that even when the jokes aren't mean-spirited, and are even made in the context of a broader point meant to make people realize how alike we all really are, people like you get all fucking cringey because you're worried someone will think you're a bad person. The first problem is solved by booing idiots off the stage. The second problem is solved by you developing a backbone and giving up on being a little bitch.
n/a Imgur_Lurker 2017-02-14
Boy I have some really specific Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles Racism Drama for you (Open in new Tab)
http://imgur.com/gallery/A5wtA
http://imgur.com/gallery/9Ha0d
n/a SamWhite 2017-02-14
What the fuck is this faggotry?
n/a thebadkangaroo 2017-02-14
Oh look, I left the computer for just a few hours, and already some pushy trolls arrived, thinking that saying a bunch of loser stuff will make them impressive...
Bahhhh sheep.
You're "Not going to let" me tell Mel Brooks something or whatever? (btw I never said anything about Mel Brooks.) I think you have the wrong idea about whether you "let" me do things, as I'm not your property.
n/a lunchza 2017-02-14
Holy shit end yourself
n/a thebadkangaroo 2017-02-14
Oh my fucking god, go away you stupid trolls. Think it's funny to tell someone to "end themselves." or continuing to bitch about Mel Brooks, even though I already told you I wasn't talking about Mel Brooks.
I was obviously talking about white racism, not people of color using racism for themselves. I've never seen Mel Brooks, and don't care as far as this topic.
And voting yourselves up with your multiple accounts, thinking it will impress somebody. It doesn't. All I said was that I don't really like racism. but that PewdiePie isn't all that guilty.
Find something more important to get Overly pissed off about, you stupid little flies, who need to be swatted with a fly swatter.
n/a Akilroth234 2017-02-14
this would never happen if Walter Disney was still around
n/a wolfdreams01 2017-02-14
Considering that Walt Disney himself was a Nazi, this seems very much like a stone-throwing contest in a glass house.
n/a jubbergun 2017-02-14
I like how PewDiePie is all out of fucks to give and just doing whatever he wants.
n/a ralpher313 2017-02-14
Two flavors of Twitter cancer:
n/a ModerateThuggery 2017-02-14
Reminder that this is a guy that read a bunch hyper degenerate gay porn involving popular child icons (including Disney's Frozen) to his predominately underage audience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYxtOfvkXeo
But if he so much as ironically squints at a jew it's curtains. Now I'm not saying it was the jews, but this is so obviously a case of the jews smacking him down.