YouTubers Say The Darndest Things
An editorial about celebrity and consequence.
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Didn't really feel this article. Isn't it obvious that Social Media stars can't be axed by a single entity like studios, networks and labels? I also think that all that attention doesn't help. This seems to be the modus operandi these days: 1. YT guy says sth racist, causes shitstorm 2. 1000 articles get written about scandal, 1 or 2 of them are always end up being out of line/insulting/not well researched 3. YT guy cherry picks 1 or 2 flawed articles for his apology video and screams "witchhunt!" 4. Follower count/money basically stays the same 5. Racists feel encouraged, cause "SJW's" have taken the L I also disagree with using subscription counts as a metric. Just because YT guy X has X million subs, doesn't mean X million people are paying attention to him. I have subscribed to plenty of channels and never watched a single video again.
Brilliant article. I am having a great deal of fun forcing everyone i know to read it XD
Well said Jim! I should expect nothing less!
Well. Good stuff, man. Time to make popcorn and watch the comments and fallout. I'm just waiting for the next nutters to attack your website at this point. Lord knows some of these bastards have the Froth.
I keep asking you to have my babies Jim. You keep not replying. This is clearly your secret message to me that you will, indeed, impregnate yourself with my spawn.
I know, when I realized the truth it blew me away too.
While I wholeheartedly agree with this editorial, I always feel sad when people have to point out the obvious. What you wrote there is what everyone should have known from the very start. I honestly consider all of this "common sense". Perhaps common sense doesn't exist anymore.
I personally feel PewDiePie was a bit undeserved, not really JonTron. I think criticizing PDP's jokes were fair, I don't personally believe that Nazi jokes or trivializing the holocaust is particularly funny, but I think there's a sizable amount of people out there that do and they're not all alt-right neo nazi's. I get that PewDiePie is a huge internet celebrity with a young fan base, but I do feel taking out some of his lazy jokes out of his entire youtube video catalog to insinuate he's a Nazi sympathizer is a hit piece. JonTron however said some outlandish and borderline/straight-up racist remarks that have no factual backing. I like his comedy videos but he said it, and he gets to deal with the fallout fairly.
Great article, Jim. The only thing I would disagree with is your caveat that what PewDiePie and JonTron did are not comparable. As a Jew (however irreligious I may be, I am still ethnically Jewish) I feel these are completely on the same level. Calling for the death of an entire subset of the population is not a joke. Especially not with the rash of bomb threats towards synagogues occurring across the country or the swastikas popping up everywhere.
I get where you are coming from. But the Pewdiepie story isn't as black and white as you might think. He wanted to show ppl how messed this app called "FIVER" is and what poor people are willing to do for 5 €. That's how the "Death to all Jews" sign came together. There were also some ill advised jokes about Hitler. WSJ hitpiece was 99% inaccurate and there is no proof whatsoever, that PDP is a nazi. That being said, you have all the rights in the world to be offendend.
This is the exact breath of fresh not alt-right air I needed. Thanks Jim <3.