Instead we have the WSJ taking clips out of context from his video on how the media takes things out of context (!!!) and sending them to his sponsor to get him terminated, along with a coordinated media campaign.
"Kill all Jews" is taken out of context. Wearing a nazi uniform and watching Hitler videos is taken out of context.
Who knew that Pewdiepie required so much context?
The fact is, that Youtube is a visual medium. Images matter. When someone makes comedy videos and that contains signs saying "Kill all Jews", there are going to be problems if you are looking for big mainstream sponsors. Genocide is a sensitive issue with Jews. Go figure.
"Old media" is doing so well right now because people are figuring out just how bogus "new media" really is.
Breitbart's numbers are falling, and the "mainstream media" numbers are soaring. From the New York Times to CNN, MSNBC, all on an upward trajectory. Attacking the messenger is a well that's going dry very quickly.
I read the headline and the first paragraph. Which is all most people read, and all you need to see to understand the narrative the WSJ was establishing: that PewDiePie is shilling anti-Semitism, and therefore is an anti-Semite.
Again, I suggest you offer us a quote from "the headline and first paragraph" that establishes that Pewdiepie is an anti-Semite. In fact, I'll make it more than a suggestion. I challenge you to offer a quote from the "headline and first paragraph" that does anything like that.
And remember, "shilling" for anti-Semitism does not make you an anti-Semite. Some people, some very well-known people in fact (think "White House") are shills for anti-Semitism but probably don't really have any conviction one way or the other. They're just opportunists who thought they could make a few more bucks from pandering to anti-Semites, like Pewdiepie.
Are you actually too stupid to understand media manipulation or are you just pretending to be?
Your response to the previous comment got me thinking about how many of the people here who are having conniption fits over the Wall Street Journal and Disney and Pewdiepie have even read the WSJ article.
You admit you didn't, but you have based your entire opinion upon it.
Did you ever think of the possibility that you're the one being manipulated by media?
So you agree the WSJ is out of line for smearing him as one?
I don't care about pizza so much as I'd love a Chicago-style hot dog. I ordered one at James Coney Island out by Timber Oaks and they put barbecue sauce on it. On a Chicago-style hot dog.
Houston has some of the best food that I've ever had, from Tex-mex, barbecue, taco trucks, Alfreda's Soul Food, Punk's, etc. I went out to Killen's to have ribs and they were so good I wept. But for some reason they cannot make a Chicago-style dog here.
I did see the end of the "death to all Jews" clip and he's clearly horrified by it.
So horrified that he made it part of his "comedy" videos.
I don't have any clue if PDP is an anti-Semite or Nazi. The issue is that he has some very bad judgement and bad taste. Why is it such a shock that a company like Disney might not want to be associated with that?
You understand documentaries about the holocaust are there to impress upon people how bad it was
Did you just compare Pewdiepie videos with Claude Lanzmann's Shoah?
PDP: The worst thing anyone can say is "death to all Jews."
PDP: Let's pay some people to say that and put them in a video! Also, let's have one where I'm dressed like a nazi and watching a Hitler video. It will be hilarious.
Anime and Pocky are more popular with alt-right jackoffs than they are with the Japanese. And last time I checked, "alt-right jackoff" is not a racial group. No one is born an alt-right jackoff.
You realize that a vast majority of the people aligned with the politics you are defending would hang you out to dry for defending guns.
I'm not "defending guns". I'm giving my personal history. I'm a gun owner for nearly 40 years and I still believe in strict background checks for owning guns, and in the right of local communities to make their own gun laws. Most of the gun owners I know feel the same.
He didn't make a joke about killing Jews. 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.
You think it makes it better because he paid someone else to make jokes about killing Jews?
I don't watch stupid YouTube videos like his, but my understanding is that he was the most watched YouTuber, with millions of subscribers,
He had millions of subscribers who don't pay a penny for his videos. He made his money from commercials, and now some of those sponsors have decided he's not worth the tsuris.
Listen, Mr "Shane_Optima ( 4414539 )", I was on Slashdot when you were still getting humiliated by middle-school cheerleaders. You're in no position to show anyone anything, much less a door.
put that in the context of the thousands of Youtubers trying to figure out Youtube's uncodified content policy so their videos won't be de-monetized.
If someone is so stupid as to not understand that making jokes about killing Jews, wearing Nazi uniforms and doing it more than once isn't likely to upset a sponsor, then it's not even the free market at work. It's Darwin.
The generation who pounded every fascist in Europe into the ground or until they surrendered taught their 10 year old sons how to shoot rifles, routinely drank while driving, smoked cigarettes ubiquitously, expected women to be feminine and subservient to their husbands, and threw around racial slurs both with and without hate.
My father fought with Merrill's Marauders in the China-Burma theater and got a Bronze Star for it. He taught me how to shoot a rifle and a handgun when I was 11, but he never drank while driving, smoked a cigarette or expected my mother to be subservient. He never used a racial slur that I heard and he taught me to respect other people and hate fascism.
Today, I try to do the same. I taught my daughter martial arts from the time she was 8, don't drink and drive, etc, etc, etc. And I qualified both Marksman and Sharpshooter with firearms even all these years later. You know, just in case the fascists come back. My daughter, who is right now earning a PhD in math, is a better martial artist than her old man and will gladly punch a fascist.
Your view of the people who fought in WWII is clearly from the movies. They had the same ratio of good people to assholes as everyone else.
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"Kill all Jews" is taken out of context. Wearing a nazi uniform and watching Hitler videos is taken out of context.
Who knew that Pewdiepie required so much context?
The fact is, that Youtube is a visual medium. Images matter. When someone makes comedy videos and that contains signs saying "Kill all Jews", there are going to be problems if you are looking for big mainstream sponsors. Genocide is a sensitive issue with Jews. Go figure.
"Old media" is doing so well right now because people are figuring out just how bogus "new media" really is.
Breitbart's numbers are falling, and the "mainstream media" numbers are soaring. From the New York Times to CNN, MSNBC, all on an upward trajectory. Attacking the messenger is a well that's going dry very quickly.
Again, I suggest you offer us a quote from "the headline and first paragraph" that establishes that Pewdiepie is an anti-Semite. In fact, I'll make it more than a suggestion. I challenge you to offer a quote from the "headline and first paragraph" that does anything like that.
And remember, "shilling" for anti-Semitism does not make you an anti-Semite. Some people, some very well-known people in fact (think "White House") are shills for anti-Semitism but probably don't really have any conviction one way or the other. They're just opportunists who thought they could make a few more bucks from pandering to anti-Semites, like Pewdiepie.
Your response to the previous comment got me thinking about how many of the people here who are having conniption fits over the Wall Street Journal and Disney and Pewdiepie have even read the WSJ article.
You admit you didn't, but you have based your entire opinion upon it.
Did you ever think of the possibility that you're the one being manipulated by media?
And not everybody sponsors it. Which brings us back full circle to the article about Disney pulling its sponsorship of Pewdiepie.
So, you're basing your opinion on an article that you haven't read.
Noted.
Also, we're learning that when someone ironically says, "actually", what comes after is usually nonsense.
I don't care about pizza so much as I'd love a Chicago-style hot dog. I ordered one at James Coney Island out by Timber Oaks and they put barbecue sauce on it. On a Chicago-style hot dog.
Houston has some of the best food that I've ever had, from Tex-mex, barbecue, taco trucks, Alfreda's Soul Food, Punk's, etc. I went out to Killen's to have ribs and they were so good I wept. But for some reason they cannot make a Chicago-style dog here.
Just came from the WSJ article. Could you please cite where in the article the Wall Street Journal says that Pewdiepie is a Nazi or anti-Semite?
Maybe you could post a quote from the article below so everyone can see it.
So horrified that he made it part of his "comedy" videos.
I don't have any clue if PDP is an anti-Semite or Nazi. The issue is that he has some very bad judgement and bad taste. Why is it such a shock that a company like Disney might not want to be associated with that?
Did you just compare Pewdiepie videos with Claude Lanzmann's Shoah?
PDP: The worst thing anyone can say is "death to all Jews."
PDP: Let's pay some people to say that and put them in a video! Also, let's have one where I'm dressed like a nazi and watching a Hitler video. It will be hilarious.
Anime and Pocky are more popular with alt-right jackoffs than they are with the Japanese. And last time I checked, "alt-right jackoff" is not a racial group. No one is born an alt-right jackoff.
People are quickly starting to learn that when someone cries "fake news", it almost always means that in fact it's not fake at all.
That's a joke? Are you into bumfighting videos too? Do you find conflict diamonds hilarious?
And the fact that he was "pointing" while wearing an ersatz Nazi uniform and watching a Hitler video is only coincidental.
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I wouldn't disrespect my elders that way. I was raised right.
I'm not "defending guns". I'm giving my personal history. I'm a gun owner for nearly 40 years and I still believe in strict background checks for owning guns, and in the right of local communities to make their own gun laws. Most of the gun owners I know feel the same.
You say "meat pudding" as if it were a bad thing.
You think it makes it better because he paid someone else to make jokes about killing Jews?
Like Starbucks, Rogue One and the musical Hamilton before them, I'm sure your "lambasting" will destroy Disney, Inc.
He had millions of subscribers who don't pay a penny for his videos. He made his money from commercials, and now some of those sponsors have decided he's not worth the tsuris.
First, I encourage all Slashdot readers to take a look at what Xenographic thinks is a "crass racial stereotype".
Second, I don't expect Disney to sponsor my Slashdot comments, nor do I look for the alt-right to spring to my defense because they don't.
Uh oh, the "gloves are off".
Listen, Mr "Shane_Optima ( 4414539 )", I was on Slashdot when you were still getting humiliated by middle-school cheerleaders. You're in no position to show anyone anything, much less a door.
If someone is so stupid as to not understand that making jokes about killing Jews, wearing Nazi uniforms and doing it more than once isn't likely to upset a sponsor, then it's not even the free market at work. It's Darwin.
My father fought with Merrill's Marauders in the China-Burma theater and got a Bronze Star for it. He taught me how to shoot a rifle and a handgun when I was 11, but he never drank while driving, smoked a cigarette or expected my mother to be subservient. He never used a racial slur that I heard and he taught me to respect other people and hate fascism.
Today, I try to do the same. I taught my daughter martial arts from the time she was 8, don't drink and drive, etc, etc, etc. And I qualified both Marksman and Sharpshooter with firearms even all these years later. You know, just in case the fascists come back. My daughter, who is right now earning a PhD in math, is a better martial artist than her old man and will gladly punch a fascist.
Your view of the people who fought in WWII is clearly from the movies. They had the same ratio of good people to assholes as everyone else.