anyways thanks for posting a 45 minute stream promoting his channel on the first night of Hanukkah ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I actually was a fan of yours back in middle school, i’m super sad to see that this is where your content is going.
(goyim please rb but keep your opinions off my post)
All of these people who respond to this sound like…toddlers, grade S toddlers. Honestly, the past is the past, or is that too hard to understand?
Please explain.
This shit was resolved so long ago. Pewdiepie himself fucking apologized and was punished for this shit.
Can y’all stop shitting on this man just because he’s famous and made jokes in poor taste?
He made a mistake, paid for it, and y’all are still treating him like shit.
His apology was terrible and he’s gone on to do antisemitic and racist things since. Like, how many times does he has to make these “mistakes” before we are allowed to not forgive him in your book?
I was not aware he kept doing it. Nor was I aware that his apology sucked. And I couldn’t look for this stuff because I’m on limited data and can’t waste it looking through hundreds of videos to find his apology.
Now, if he kept doing it, then fuck him. Second chance was offered and he spat in our faces.
No one’s ever gonna convince me it’s ok to shit on markiplier for this though. All he did was talk about his friend. And when this shitstorm initially happened, both him and Sean condemned Pewdiepie’s actions.
You can condemn the actions of your friends while still being friends with them. It’s entirely possible Mark isn’t even aware that Pewdiepie kept going with this shit. I highly doubt that with all the stuff Mark does on a daily basis that he has time to watch Pewdiepie’s videos.
If you don’t have time to watch his videos or hear about his constant racial slurs and antisemitic “jokes” then maybe you shouldn’t be telling people to follow him.
Like, he can make a video saying that pewdie is not an antisemite or any of “these labels” and even people you abhor deserve respect and that he deserves respect but he doesn’t keep up with the literal headline making racist things that his friend does and says?
If you support someone who has been racist, repeatedly, by asking people to subscribe to them to win an imaginary internet competition you made up that pretends to save YouTube, then I will judge you for supporting a racist.
It’s not complicated and honestly if you know you aren’t informed on the subject maybe you could listen to the Jewish O P and just … Not assume you know better than them? Just be quiet when you know that you don’t know half of what is going on.
I’d add: Even if this defense did hold water, you’re saying that he’s blatantly recommending a product he knows not one fucking thing about, which is actively harmful to some of the people he’s recommending it to.
Why exactly shouldn’t his credibility get fucking destroyed for that?
I feel like people are getting angry over Pewdiepie vs T-Series because they’re imposing a bunch of other community concerns onto it. For the Youtube community, it’s not just “Pewdiepie vs T-Series”, it’s “individual creators vs corporations”, it’s “individualism vs capitalism”, it’s “Youtuber vs record label”.
This is a problem that has struck to the core of Youtuber anxiety, and corporations elbowing out youtube-original creators has been the main issue at the center of Youtube politics for so long now that people are acting like “Pewdiepie vs T-Series” is the most important battle ever waged for the soul of Youtube.
This has led a lot of people to openly ignore a lot of the horrible shit Pewdiepie’s done and said in favor of portraying him as the Youtuber hero the site needs to survive. As bad as Tumblr’s getting right now, with the explicit content ban, Youtube is in almost as dire straits, and while T-Series getting more subscribers than Pewdiepie won’t actually mean anything significant, people have projected all of their hopes and fears built up for the last few years into this one “battle for ultimate Youtube supremacy”.
For what it’s worth, I don’t think Mark (or Jack, for that matter) have ever personally said or done anything problematic, and they’ve both done a lot to support various underprivileged communities through charities and the like. They’ve also spoken out on their channels against bullying others because of their race, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
The problem is that they’re blinded by their friendship with Felix to realize what a shit-bag he really is. They’re caught in the trap a lot of people, unfortunately, get caught in where they think their friend can’t possibly be a racist, or a sexist because racists and sexists are evil monsters, and Felix is nice to them, so he can’t be an evil monster.
They don’t realize that racism and sexism are things you do and are taught, not things you inherently are, and your words and actions are indicative of your true personality. This is a trap a lot of people are stuck in, where they have that one friend who says some racist stuff, but you know the guy, and you know that he’s not REALLY a racist, he just “has an edgy sense of humor” and “likes to get a rise out of people”.
To expand on this, on Youtube, Pewdiepie isn’t just A Youtuber. He’s The Youtuber. He is Mr. Youtube himself. He is the hero to the common man, the lowly Youtuber who only wants to make it big in the world. In the eyes of the Youtube community, Felix is living proof that Youtube belongs to Youtubers, not to corporations. Pewdiepie is a symbol on Youtube, and when that symbol is attacked (rightfully so, because of his racism), people on Youtube take it as a personal attack against themselves and the soul of Youtube, so they rush to defend him, regardless of how deserved it is.
“Rallying around a racist antisemitic shitshow is the only chance indie youtube has!”
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