The thing about this that seems weird to me is you’re treating it like gamers are going out of their way to figure out ways to “twist and bend” this so that it’s a good thing, but 1) you’re hardly “twisting and bending” anything, all you’re doing is... wearing an outfit that you earned in game in a way that you want,…

So, Space Funeral with higher production values. I dig it.

There’s this weird part of our culture that treats someone calling another person racist/homophobic/antisemitic/etc as worse than actually doing something racist/homophobic/antisemitic/etc. Also admitting you screwed up and did something wrong is worse than whatever you did wrong to start with.

This seems like a bit of a reach. Youtube was doing just fine before any of these dipshits showed up; they may have fostered more of a community, but Youtube would be just fine without these guys. Empirically, I use Youtube for funny videos and music to listen to at work, and the occasional video to watch while under…

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…

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

THAT’S A FUNNY JOKE, HOW ORIGINAL!!!!

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.

“But it’s always been a learning and growing experience for me...this whole situation has definitely been that for me. It’s something that I’m going to keep in mind going forward.”

Well, I certainly hope so. But it seems that every time he’s at the center of a controversy, he gets more defensive than introspective, as…

It’s not even so much that. If you don’t want the people you work with to suffer the consequences for your action then you should probably not do dumb shit in the first place.

Yes. And the reason for that emphatic “Yes” is the fact that to him its just ‘some jokes that you disagree with’.

I don’t think mocking a head of state is really very similar at all to calling for the extermination of minorities, But Thats Just Me, Probably

It’s not political correctness, it’s respect and human decency. People need to grow the fuck up.

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

Youtubers like this are the new generation of Radio Shock Jocks; empty and vapid content that aims for trashy and offensive, disturbingly popular, and annoying as all fucking hell.

So a dude with more money than most people see in their lives chose to take advantage of economically-disadvantaged individuals for the sake of some anti-Semitic “humor,” and is now surprised that there are consequences that go with that kind of behavior.

Got it.

Having read some of the comments on the previous article…

I agree completely with you, SwordBreaker. This isn’t news. This is shaming for shaming’s sake.

Talk about climbing on your proverbial soapbox. Geez, Ethan, Nintendo just took a trending joke and put its family friendly Mario spin on it. Nothing wrong with having a little fun. What’s with all the negative overanalysis? Of course people on twitter will give them crap and turn their own joke on them! It’s the…

Holy shit, do people actually take memes this seriously? They’re funny pictures with captions not a doctoral thesis on existentialism.

Wii was a massive success, they do really well from handhelds and Pokemon prints them money. And they have massive franchises that the consumer adore such as Mario. Pretty easy to see how they still have money and lots of it.