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Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by Frondo on Monday March 27, 2017 @10:57AM (#13968223)
You could examine everything I have ever, ever written and you will never find me paying someone to hold up a sign reading "Death to Jews".
Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by alva on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:07AM (#13968309)
No, but I could now quote you in the news saying you wrote "Death to Jews" online.

And that is pretty much what all of this is about.

Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by PhasmaFelis on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:24AM (#13968461)
Seems to me it's about someone literally paying a guy to hold up a sign that says "Death to Jews".
Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by sqeaky on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:49AM (#13968698)
The joke was that he was asking a bunch of people to do unreasonable things for $5 and someone else actually agreed to this. He went into it knowing it was unreasonable and thats the joke. We only hear about this, because no one else did the other crazy shit he suggested.
Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by watwut on Monday March 27, 2017 @12:26PM (#13969074)
Do we know what other crazy shit he suggested?
Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by quirkafleeg on Monday March 27, 2017 @12:52PM (#13969368)
His other crazy shit was to pay someone to say "Hitler did nothing wrong".

When that guy, who was dressed as Jesus, was banned by Fiverr, Pewdiepie stated: "Isn't it ironic that Jews[1] found another way to fuck Jesus over?"

Whether his quest to push the comedy envelope extends further than Nazi/Jew related material, I don't know.

[1] Fiverr is based in Israel.

Edit: And the predictable downvote within minutes. How funny that the fans of Pewdiepie, and his "free speech", have such a reaction to a post stating objective facts about what he said.

Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by sqeaky on Monday March 27, 2017 @01:17PM (#13969666)
I didn't downvote you, nor am I a fan. I only saw parts of the episode when a friend watched it, so I did not see it in it's entirety.

Is what you listed a complete listing of things he attempted to get through? Or just your selection of what he tried that was prejudice? It seems likely he also would have tried to get some other dumb things through on the level of dick jokes.

Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by sangnoir on Monday March 27, 2017 @04:03PM (#13971194)
Do we really need the complete list of things he said before we can judge the wisdom (or lack thereof) of the headline-grabbing ones?

"Is what you listed the complete list of ingredients to this homeopathic medicine? Or just your selection of the poisonous ones? It seems likely they would have put in some other healthy things on the level of ginseng"

Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by sqeaky on Monday March 27, 2017 @04:58PM (#13971721)
If you don't provide sufficient context, in any argument, then that is just cherry picking.

In this case, if the list contains mild things and racism, then its probably just that PewDiePie is racist. If the list contains nothing socially acceptable and some of it happens to racist well then clearly the whole thing was for shock value, and the racism was probably just a way to push your buttons.

Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by quirkafleeg on Monday March 27, 2017 @02:32PM (#13970395)
I haven't seen him or any of his fans give any examples in his defence of other things he did that were not along the lines of "Hitler did nothing wrong" and "Death to all Jews", which I'd expect them to do if he'd done so.
Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by quirkafleeg on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @03:28PM (#13979838)
The zealous petulance displayed by Pewdiepie fans in this thread over anything that doesn't try to excuse his anti-Semitic remarks and behaviour is really weird.
Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by raesene6 on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:12AM (#13968345)
No, but I could point to many other mainstream accepted comedians who get TV shows and are part of the "establishment" who have made jokes which mention the holocaust, and a range of other taboo topics. Heck if you want one example just look up Jimmy Carr. He has even made a joke out of the offensiveness of the jokes he tells.
Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by coldtea on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:07AM (#13968314)
You just wrote the phrase "Death to J..." on HN. You are obviously an anti-semite worse than PewDiePie, who didn't even hold the sign himself. That's the level of attack on him, and your comment is not helping either.

Also, are you so sure we won't find something similarly damning in your whole life, or even in just in your past month?

Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by baby on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:02AM (#13968256)
You're not a comedian.
Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber by busterarm on Monday March 27, 2017 @11:16AM (#13968383)
Allow me to introduce you to Andy Kaufman.