“We need more women, just because” is the kind of straw man that lazy thinkers use when they want to convince people that they don’t have to do any intellectual work. It’s not “just because”, and it never has been. Women buy and play video games, and are participating significantly in the economic market for video…

I bet she uses an anime avatar on Twitter

How long before this anime girl’s racist politics are exposed?

How did you manage to find yourself in the comment section of a video game website, mature adult man spending his time doing nothing but the most valuable work in the world. I’m confused.

Exactly—at worst, the subject matter of the joke was really offensive, at best he’s making two individuals the butt of a joke that they don’t, nor do they have reason to (language, I’m guessing) really understand.

Pewds isn’t a bad person, but did do something wrong - didn’t work on his bit. YouTube enablers are babies. JackSepticEye and Casey Neistat are adults. Time to grow up, YouTube.

Fuck Sargon.

The vast majority of Pewdiepie’s fans are children. And children are stupid. They’re not emotionally mature enough to fully grasp nuance or context. They see Jacksepticeye criticizing his actions while also voicing support, and all they understand is “Jacksepticeye talked shit about Pewdiepie.” They can’t see how…

I’m a firm believer that one can get away with a lot of raunchy jokes if they’re told well. I mean look at It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, they’ve pulled off a lot of really offensive jokes through using the context that the protagonists are horrible people. The problem with Pewdiepie’s joke was that the context of…

“We collectively, as YouTubers, have built this thing. It is ours, not theirs.”

I don’t care whether he apologizes or not but I’m more of the opinion of - if he’s going to go through the trouble of making an apology video, maybe he should try being sincere? I just don’t care for the attitude of “well it’s your own fault for being offended” rather than “I did something pretty insensitive and I’ll…

That’s nice. But I’m pretty sure no one appointed you to speak for the entire Jewish community. Other Jewish people’s feelings are just as valid as yours.

I am worried about his implicit assertion that its not his fault that the show got canceled. I mean I get that the man doesn’t have much experience in working on things at more than 1-man show level.

I hope the people who are happy about his cancellation understand that they’re not just celebrating a professional blow to PewDiePie, but that they’re celebrating the loss of employment for all of those hardworking professionals.

What a BS “I’m sorry you were offended” non-apology. This dude wants all of the perks of being a celebrity with none of the legitimate criticism that comes with it.

That seems to be the go-to method for edgelords:

The context argument is important, I absolutely understand that. I also understand the whole, “you’re causing these words to have power,” argument.

The new algorithm has been pretty good at getting me content I actually want to watch. I’m hoping it’ll get better at filtering out the channels I’ve said no to a hundred times already.

The reason there are not many competitors to YouTube is because it costs a massive amount of $ to maintain even a fraction of the amount of traffic YouTube gets. The ads pay for that. The ads also pay the thousands of content creators who would not have the $ otherwise to justify the time and effort it takes to make…

Are you implying Game Theory is a concrete source of information now?

Even though it’s really the only large sources available to them, all of those statistics and science classes I took are making me question how data from only 49 sources is a significant data set for determining a conclusion, based on how many total YouTube channels there are (even if you weed out the channels with…