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PewDiePie isn't an amateur he's a professional who makes millions of dollars each year while playing and streaming games, and one who's routinely been in trouble for trotting out botched attempts at anti-political correctness satire as humor. You should know better, and so should PewDiePie.Īs I said on Twitter, the idea that you "accidentally" say slurs of any sort while streaming to thousands of people just doesn't just happen. That's rationalization, not an explanation. At first, he was appalled, but later, it became part of his lexicon. (And to be clear, he gave me permission to share this.) Despite telling me how he's outwardly progressive and part of Denmark's "most far left party," Mark admitted to saying the slur, too. I've decided to keep him anonymous, but let's call him Mark. Even the folks who've used the "it's just a word" defense on social media have largely acknowledged what PewDiePie did is wrong, but take issue extrapolating larger meaning from the incident because of a flimsy apology.īut at what point does ignorance cross into malice, by virtue of tacitly ignoring what you know to be wrong?Īfter initially sharing my reaction to PewDiePie's comments on Twitter, I heard from a number of people, including a resident of Denmark-not far from PewDiePie's home base in Sweden. The central source of tension is whether PewDiePie casually spouting "nigger," a word historically-and currently-used to denigrate a once-enslaved population, is evidence of racism, that PewDiePie himself is racist.
Don't use that word, and you're okay! It's a low bar. Vanaman later told BuzzFeed he "regrets using a DMCA takedown," acknowledging fears over censorship, but declared "he's a bad fit for us, and we're a bad fit for him."Ĭampo Santo's decision to use the equivalent of a nuclear bomb on YouTube is extreme, but worries over the slippery slope seem overblown. Though this was not my intention, I understand that these jokes were ultimately offensive." I know my audience understand that and that is why they come to my channel. "I think of the content that I create as entertainment, and not a place for any serious political commentary. "I make videos for my audience," he said at the time. YouTube cancelled a second season of its Scare PewDiePie show after a Wall Street Journal report highlighted videos of PewDiePie using Nazi imagery and using an online service to pay poor people to hold up a sign saying "Death to All Jews." PewDiePie defended those videos as satire, and argued the WSJ took him out of context. This isn't the first time PewDiePie has stepped into hot waters this year.
(Because PewDiePie's streams aren't archived on YouTube, I can't currently tell whether this happened before or after.) In the stream, though, he later mentioned that when someone does a "dick move," he "tried to think of the worst word." On that count, at least, he was right. PewDiePie hasn't commented since, his last tweet being about how "it sure is windy in england right now.
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