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PewDiePie's 'Death To All Jews' Video Stirs Up Controversy
PewDiePie's 'Death To All Jews' Video Stirs Up Controversy
This is not the first time Felix has courted controversy in 2017 Good grief. It's been a hell of a week for the worlds number one YouTuber. He kicked things off by using the N word in a video and now he's courted controversy yet again by releasing a video which includes people dancing around a sign that says 'Death To All Jews'.
wetheunicorns.com
I'm not familiar with the article's site, but I've seen an article talking about it on ibtimes.co.uk as well. Did this seriously happen?




His fame is getting to his head. He's been acting up for quite some time now.
I don't even get what's driving all this. Is he just running out of ideas or getting bored or something? Like, mind boggling he thinks this is a worthwhile way to use his platform and channel.
Both.
Well the thing is, the video was about this website where you can pay 5 dollars to get people do stuff for you.
Felix decided to ask stupid and offensive stuff, mostly to see how far he can push and for comedy, besides he is lately mocking the media's ridiculous accusation of him being Nazi and racist. Most of his requests had been declined, this one surprisingly wasn't, and he was surprised as well that those guys actually did that. He even defended those guys when the site banned them, even if they were the ones who went against the rules and he donated 500 dollars to Jesus (another banned because of him) to start his own website.
Everyone remebers when Felix acts like a jerk to be funny, but everyone forgets the good he does when he is being serious. He is a weird guy for sure but I think he is being demonized lately and used as clickbait by the news.
When you say "the media" who exactly are you talking about? Because I certainly didn't know about him being racist until this particular incident. Are there any specific articles mentioning this?
But another bit you mentioned is more important: "when the site banned [the performers]". Pewdiepie caught some flack, but he still has his channel and the income from it. As far as I can tell, being on Fiverr was a much bigger financial deal for those two dancers who (presumably) did not understand the weight of the statement.
They got their account back (http://www.wetheunicorns.com/news/pewdiepie-fiverr-apology-dancers/), but what if they didn't? You said he got someone else (Jesus?) banned, and donated money to that person as well. Wouldn't it have been better if no one got banned because Pewdiepie was trying to make some kind of statement?
Like it or not, Pewdiepie is a public figure and with that comes responsibility and consequences for bad behaviour.
http://www.wetheunicorns.com/debate/pewdiepie-death-video-felix/
Well, I had started to answer this, then Imzy crashed and I got too bored to write it again. Anyway, About the racist thing watch his video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGX2mJ6IbS0 and if you want to know the articles, just google "Pewdiepie racist" there are a lot of them, no way I'm going to research on that.
About the all ban thing, I still think Felix shouldn't be blamed about that, the Funny Guys knew what they were doing, they had the possibility to say no, as most of the people actually did on the website since it's part of the rules to not accept orders who goes against the guidelines, the claimed ignorance of English (absolutely not believable since they work on the Internet how can they not know basic English, and even if it was true, they have google, and I say that having English as 3rd language), I really don't see how it is Felix's fault. They took the 5 dollars putting at risk their business.
About the Public figure thing, he is a ranting kind of comedian he does jokes and critiques society, he wanted to point out what people do for 5 dollars on the Internet (http://pewdie.tumblr.com/post/157160889655/just-to-clear-some-things-up).
About the "consequences for his bad behaviour", he took them even if he really didn't have to, helping those guys and Jesus, and they all got taken back because they were the most popular requests (https://youtu.be/SZAQHE_kveA) on Fiverr and they had the chance to actually build their own site as PewDiePie himself suggested and financially helped them to. In the end of the story, he made them famous and helped them, they even thanked him (https://youtu.be/WkZuAlHSqHc and https://youtu.be/GQ8JsSJnHJ8).
I would accept people saying they disliked the video, that it wasn't funny and that it was a stupid old meme that most people don't even know, but seriously I won't stay here pretending is a moral issue, don't we all have bigger problems here?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/13/pewdiepie-youtube-star-disney-antisemitic-videos
http://kotaku.com/youtube-cancels-pewdiepies-show-removes-him-from-premi-1792339668
You're free to feel what you like, just as much as Disney and Youtube are free to remove their investments from an increasingly toxic brand. "Nine videos that include either antisemitic jokes or Nazi imagery" are hardly an accident.
Whatever PewDiePie's youtube persona is, it does not change what is said on camera, nor does it mitigate his effect on impressionable audiences.
People can multitask; we can worry about the rise of unabashed racial hatred in the western world (https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/02/10/post-election-bias-incidents-1372-new-collaboration-propublica) and the ill effects of YouTubers flagrantly quoting and spreading antisemitism to young audiences.