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PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty
New submitter Shane_Optima writes: After losing his Youtube Red show and his contract with Disney, the owner of the most subscribed channel on Youtube, Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg (aka "PewDiePie"), has released a video response to the Wall Street Journal and other mainstream news outlets, who have labeled his comedy videos variously as racist, fascist or anti-semitic. In it, he accuses the mainstream media of deliberately fabricating and misrepresenting the evidence used against him because they are afraid of independent content producers such as himself. In the video, PewDiePie discusses the recent actions of the Wall Street Journal, whose reporters sent nine cherry-picked and edited videos to Disney, which led directly to Disney's decision to terminate their relationship with him. These video clips and others used to "prove" PewDiePie's guilt have been edited (he claims) to remove all context, to the extent of using a pose of him pointing at something as a Nazi salute and using a clip where other players are creating swastikas in a game and editing out the part where he is asking them to stop. The most-cited video in the controversy involves seeing if he can use the site Fiverr to hire someone to create a video containing an over-the-top message for a mere $5. After a couple of laughing males unfurl a sign saying "Death to All Jews," he recoils with widened eyes and sits, apparently dumbfounded, for another thirty seconds before the video ends, without him uttering another word.
PewDiePie's video comes several days after a Tumblr post where he attempted to clarify that the videos were intended to be comedy showing "how crazy the modern world is." He has not yet used the phrase "fake news" in his response to the controversy, but given the current trends surrounding that phrase, it isn't surprising that his supporters are resorting to it frequently. Is this all just another unfortunate instance of collateral damage in the war against far-right political movements, is it a campaign of malicious retaliation by old media that is terrified of new media (as Felix claims), or was J.K. Rowling correct when she called out PewDiePie as a Death Eater? Err, I mean, ...as a fascist?
Update: Apparently, canceling his Youtube Red series was deemed an insufficient response. Youtube has now removed the mirror of PewDiePie's "Death to All Jews" video because it "violates Youtube's policy on hate speech." The original posting of the video had already been marked private by PewDiePie shortly after the controversy erupted. A quick check of Vimeo and Daily Motion came up empty, so you're on your own if you wish to find out for yourself what the controversy was all about.
PewDiePie's video comes several days after a Tumblr post where he attempted to clarify that the videos were intended to be comedy showing "how crazy the modern world is." He has not yet used the phrase "fake news" in his response to the controversy, but given the current trends surrounding that phrase, it isn't surprising that his supporters are resorting to it frequently. Is this all just another unfortunate instance of collateral damage in the war against far-right political movements, is it a campaign of malicious retaliation by old media that is terrified of new media (as Felix claims), or was J.K. Rowling correct when she called out PewDiePie as a Death Eater? Err, I mean, ...as a fascist?
Update: Apparently, canceling his Youtube Red series was deemed an insufficient response. Youtube has now removed the mirror of PewDiePie's "Death to All Jews" video because it "violates Youtube's policy on hate speech." The original posting of the video had already been marked private by PewDiePie shortly after the controversy erupted. A quick check of Vimeo and Daily Motion came up empty, so you're on your own if you wish to find out for yourself what the controversy was all about.
Hmm, students and professors of a university in my county have protested against the invitation of an Israeli minister for some event about security along other major world politicians (including Merckel). Simply because he is from Israel (because all Jews are evil and all Palestinians are good). The new anti-Jew sentiment is called anti-Israel so they can claim they are still for freedom or religion and not racist (since Israel is not a religion nor a race). If even professors are ready to protest against a Je ... Israeli, you know that antisemitism is back and it is pretty popular. And no, it are not the 'far/alt right' movements who protest, it are always far left to moderate left movements who pick up the signs to ban Je .. Israeli from academic happenings.
I guess you forgot that both Milo Yiannopoulos and Ben Shapiro are respectively of jew descent and practicing jew...
anti-jew != anti-zionist.
There is actually orthodox jewish groups who are anti-zionist, but I guess that's like black-on-black violence, you conveniently forget about them.
Not really. Gawker was trashy clickbait, and they had no right to oust a gay person or publish private sex tapes. I'm as leftist as you can get, and can acknowledge that.
Doesn't make Breitbart any better. It's basically borderline racist, right-wing Gawker.
> He is apparantly suprised that broadcasting a sign with "Death To All Jews" on it would get him fired.
Actually, he's surprised that his other video about the media taking things out of context would itself be taken out of context to prove that he was some kind of Nazi.
Even in the original video, in which he was dismayed to find out that someone would actually do those things for a few bucks, he says that he's not proud of this and apologizes to the viewers because he didn't think the people he hired on Fiverr would actually do those things.
But I bet you didn't actually look at any of that, and now the videos are marked as private. The best I can find now is this discussion by a friend of his.
If you read the comments on the outing, their leftist audience criticized them en masse for doing it.
He made a dark joke about the fact that there's a real fucking website where you can pay $5 and someone else will happily wish death upon all Jews halfway around the world.
Except that's not what happened at all. He paid them to say words that they had no understanding of. He was the one who understood the meaning of the words, the people on fiverr were just a couple of poor guys in india who had probably never even heard of judaism, nazis, or anything else relevant to whatever point he claims to have been trying to make.
So at best he proved he could literally put heinous words in other people's mouths and in the process he fucked them and got them kicked off fiverr. He thought he was being clever and edgy when he was actually just being abusive and crude for shock-value.
The asshole had a brand, he sucked at managing it and drove off his advertisers. Now he knows what its like when someone a lot richer than you decides to use you to make a point without regard to your welfare. Karma bitch.
I wouldn't consider them upstanding but they are at least honest about their views. Whether or not you agree with them is another thing entirely, but making up stories about them seems to be the status quo lately.
Look at an entirely "pointless" narrative. Harward turning down the offer for some position:
This is what Harward says:
"Like all service members understand, and live, this job requires 24 hours a day, 7 days a week focus and commitment to do it right. I currently could not make that commitment.", basically, I'm retired, I don't want a new job.
According to CNN, they cite the letter then go on with this narrative:
A friend said Harward called it a shit sandwich (no verifiable sources)
A Republican official told CNN (no verifiable sources)
A senior Republican familiar with the process (no verifiable sources)
Marks said he didn't want to speculate why Harward turned down the job, but said turmoil in the White House was likely a contributing factor (basically, I don't want to speculate but here is my speculation)
In the end 5 journalists work on a piece that had just two verifiable sources in it, Harward himself and a senator that says all of the above is untrue.
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He tells me that even adjusted for population, fewer blacks are killed by police than whites.
He's close. You have to adjust for population and crime rates. Black Lies Matter is bullshit, racist, and divisive politicking by radical left-wing agitators.
Okay, let's look at the context. The guy has gone alt-right. He claims that his is discriminated against because he is white, and pushes other white supremacist ideas.
What he now claims was a joke is actually part of a long running attempt to prove that white people are treated differently, i.e. that brown people holding up such a sign would get a free pass. Ironically he has disproven his own assertion here, because they brown guys who held the sign have suffered the consequences as well.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I agree with you, have never heard of that guy before either. Then I clicked a link on youtube out of interest to a video in which he's whining for almost 20 minutes about how unfair he was treated because some maker of comics and movies for children and Youtube (which has no age restriction) did not like his 'joke' video about how to pay some guys to tell the world that all jews should be killed. This guy has made many millions of dollars with uninteresting, stupid, and uninspiring youtube videos - it's never quality that wins on a global 5-minute attention span market - and now he's complaining that he cannot make 'joke' videos about killing jews and keep being sponsored by Disney!
O tempora o mores, I guess.
would you ever need any more proof that he's a sexist, racist nazi scum?
Yes. Only the alt-right thinks that way, because it's central to their victim mentality.
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I'm sorry, but were you responding to the parent, or the grandparent, some idiot called x0ra, who wrote:
BTW you do know Ben Shapiro no longer works for Breitbart, right? He quit a year or so ago, when Breitbart started defending senior Trump staff when they assaulted Breitbart's own reporters.
Here's Shapiro on the alt-right. Amongst the choice quotes are:
So FWIW, one of the two people you mention actually strongly supports the notion that Breitbart is controlled by anti-semites. The other, Yiannopoulos, incidentally, isn't proof of anything: he's attacked his own sexuality before, and he's rejected his jewish roots.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
I suppose that's a result of pandering for eyeballs.
Partly. It's also that there's six corporate conglomerates who own all the major media in the US. Naturally, these organizations have similar interests. These are also the interests that fund the politicians. So the job of the media is to propagandize the public to accept the political agenda of the elite. Not to inform. It's a media-run state rather than a state-run media.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
What about this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
When Trump says "CNN is fake news," how can I reasonably disagree?
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.