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02-15-2017, 04:22 PM
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The Voight-Kampff
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Report: PewDiePie YouTube Series Cancelled Due to Anti-Semitic Posts [Updated]
The Escapist has the story.
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Disney has reportedly cancelled the second season of PewDiePie's YouTube reality show: Scare PewDiePie, over some anti-Semitic posts.
Popular YouTube personality Felix "Pewdiepie" Kjellberg has just had the rug pulled from under him regarding his YouTube realtiy show: Scare PewDiePie. Both Disney and Google have announced that they are severing ties with the star, and although an official reason has not been given, the timing suggests it was due to some anti-semitic stunts that Kjellberg has been pulling.
"We've decided to cancel the release of Scare PewDiePie Season 2 and we're removing the PewDiePie channel from Google Preferred," a YouTube spokesperson said.
Nine of PewDiePie's videos are alleged to contain anti-Semitic imagery, including one recent video that featured the YouTube star commissioning two comedians to make a "Death to all Jews" banner, which you can see in the image above.
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Update: PewDiePie Apologizes For Anti-Semitic Content, Accuses Media Of Attacking Him
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02-15-2017, 04:40 PM
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International Playboy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Hong Kong
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His defense, which I believe, was it was a joke about antisemitism and someone being controversial and not a slur against Jews. All fine to do... unless you're employed by the House of Mouse. Then you can't play with fire. It's called "Selling out" for a reason.
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02-15-2017, 05:36 PM
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Evil Dead
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Seattle area
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Whatever happened to FREEDOM OF SPEECH?!?? People scream about wishing Trump dead on Facebook constantly and nobody bats an eye.
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02-15-2017, 05:37 PM
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Evil Dead
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I also find high irony that the first reply to this topic was from a dude called "Rommel". 
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02-15-2017, 05:44 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ElektroDragon
Whatever happened to FREEDOM OF SPEECH?!?? People scream about wishing Trump dead on Facebook constantly and nobody bats an eye.
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Freedom of speech has nothing to do with working in a corporate environment. That freedom is traded the moment you accept that job offer....
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02-15-2017, 05:58 PM
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Evil Dead
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 13,328
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He's free to make whatever videos he wants, just as others are free not to help him do so on their dime.
Potentially anti-Semitic YouTube millionaire gets his tail docked by billion dollar company that fires its American employees after forcing them to train their cheaper indentured servant foreign replacements. Gee, whom to root for?
Neither. 
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02-15-2017, 05:59 PM
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Evil Dead
Join Date: Aug 2006
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And his channel is not removed from YouTube, it is just not being promoted Google and Maker Studios (aka Disney) has severed their ties. But all of his videos are still available and he can continue to make whatever videos he wants, including monetizing them. So his freedom of speech has not been revoked.
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02-15-2017, 06:08 PM
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Evil Dead
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: CT - USA
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I've read that he was trolling people in a satirical manner. Disney is free and maybe even wise to distance themselves from this but I don't think Pewdiepie is worried. He's made quite a lot of cash off of his channel so far and he'll likely continue to do so.
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02-15-2017, 06:27 PM
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Evil Dead
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 10,723
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As Terran said. Greedy Jews vs. Millenial.
No one wins.
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02-15-2017, 06:27 PM
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Evil Dead
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Sunny, FL
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The Disney Look was originally written by Walt himself. It was designed to portray that "perfect america" look of the 50's.
http://cp.disneycareers.com/en/onboa...look/overview/
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02-15-2017, 06:33 PM
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Evil Dead
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Autarchist
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I couldn't believe he aired that segment when it happens, but he's been saying that this year he's tired of making videos he thinks other people want and is just going to hang out the real Pewdiepie, what he finds funny, and not care about the consequences. And he said, he never thought they would actually make the video, it was supposed to be a joke. But they did.
Then Fiver banned them, then he got them unbanned, then he got banned, like a couple times from Fiver...
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02-15-2017, 07:29 PM
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Cthulian
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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I am less disgusted by his antics than I am by his being popular, at all, to begin with. This piece of shit is exactly what happens when people stop reading books.
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02-15-2017, 07:53 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Azzy
I am less disgusted by his antics than I am by his being popular, at all, to begin with. This piece of shit is exactly what happens when people stop reading books.
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This. Exactly this.
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02-15-2017, 08:57 PM
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Dread Lord
Join Date: Mar 2016
Posts: 132
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Dude is a multi millionaire for no reason. At least my generation idolized talent...
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02-15-2017, 08:58 PM
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Evil Dead
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Denver, CO
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Couldn't give less of a shit. How does this no-talent ass clown have any audience whatsoever?
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02-15-2017, 09:26 PM
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Evil Dead
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Meeks
Couldn't give less of a shit. How does this no-talent ass clown have any audience whatsoever?
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I used to wonder the same then I realized his audience is mostly young kids that laugh at a grown up acting just like them while streaming games.
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02-15-2017, 09:27 PM
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Evil Dead
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Arlington, Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Azzy
I am less disgusted by his antics than I am by his being popular, at all, to begin with. This piece of shit is exactly what happens when people stop reading books.
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hahaha. So funny...but true. And sad.
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02-15-2017, 10:27 PM
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Evil Dead
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Boston/Ontario
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9 videos. 9 where he makes anti semetic statements. That he hasn't already and apparently won't be banned from YouTube really speaks to the double standard of left leaning companies like Google. You can bet if it was 9 videos trashing the racists domestic terrorists, BLM. He'd been banned ages ago.
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02-15-2017, 10:29 PM
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Autarchist
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Recursion City
Posts: 49,888
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I just discovered him like 6 mo ago. He's great.
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02-15-2017, 11:25 PM
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Evil Dead
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Boston/Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Anenome
I just discovered him like 6 mo ago. He's great.
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Sure if whiny douchebags are your thing. Personally I find him annoying as fuck.
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