Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber
by fixermark on Monday March 27, 2017 @02:43PM
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Howard Stern is an excellent example, particularly because you won't find him on most heavily-regulated media.
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Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber
by x0x0 on Monday March 27, 2017 @03:01PM
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Howard Stern is a terrible example: his advertisers knew exactly what they were getting.
PDP, unless he's stupid, should have known what DISNEY wanted. And it's not anti-semitic jokes, particularly following repeated use of Nazi iconography in his videos.
Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber
by talmand on Monday March 27, 2017 @05:47PM
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PDP was popular before Disney became involved, if Howard Stern's advertisers knew what they were getting then Disney should have known as well. You provide Stern an excuse but then deny the same excuse to PDP.
Re:Reasons YouTubers keep imploding, from a YouTuber
by Bartweiss on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @10:41AM
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Notably Stern's employers and advertisers seemingly didn't know what they were getting, as judged by their decision to drop him for racist comments. Maybe they should have known, maybe they knew but figured they could profit and then drop him when he screwed up, but they did hire him after his success and drop him later.
You're right that it exactly mirrors PDP's situation: off-the-cuff, inflammatory content creator partners with advertisers, does something extra-inflammatory, gets dropped by same.