According to YouTube’s chief business officer Robert Kyncl, the site has paid $3 billion to the worldwide music industry since 2005. In comparison, Spotify—another site another criticized for not treating musicians fairly—paid about $1.8 billion for licensing and other costs last year alone.

Ironically most advanced scientific research fields have a diversity problem of almost all Asian males, not white people. Honestly, I don't really care as long as the best and brightest are the ones getting hired.

the Houston-style control center where dozens of (white, male) scientists crunched data

I would beg the Sorting Hat to put me in Tellerpenn

Wouldn’t using these names actually mean that we’re acknowledging the importance of Native Americans - that the magical culture of America never tried to erase them but instead actually lifted them up?

Native American here. These names are ok.

It has been an unpopular opinion when I’ve expressed it out loud, but I honestly think Rowling is torpedoing her franchise with every little new thing she puts out. Joined by others, of course.

They should have gone with

Ah, man! I totally starred you for your rational break down of the video and showing it is meant to be Earth, but then I had to take it back because you turned all juvenile misanthropic on me. Damnit.

Infinity War

First time that I understand manly man do manly thing and have a smile coming from them

Don’t say that over at Jezebel. That’s the sponsor of the week over there.

I’ll respect the opinion of anyone who is legitimately offended by this, but I’d certainly be interested in hearing the rationale. It seems that this article is just assuming people will be offended, which is just going to excite the anti-SJW trolls into preemptive aggravated dismissiveness.

Why is using a gimmicky trend just harmless fun when you swap faces with somebody the same color as you, but somehow racist if you should *GASP* dare to swap faces with somebody that looks different? Get over your racist assumptions. Do the swapped faces look weird? Sure, but not any more weird if I swap my bearded…

If you are offended by this you are stupid.

Oh wow, an “article” by Sploid that’s nothing more than a few sentences of introduction and a video someone else made. How unexpected.

The problem is that they can’t. It’s all they’ve got in order to try to be relevant and ‘edgy’.

This isn’t blackface and this isn’t offensive to any reasonable person.

“The lens we launched today was created in partnership with the Bob Marley Estate, and gives people a new way to share their appreciation for Bob Marley and his music. Millions of Snapchatters have enjoyed Bob Marley’s music, and we respect his life and achievements.”

This isn’t black face. It’s actually Bob Marley’s face sort of imposed over your face. It’s literally like any other face swapping software.