Battlefield... did an oopsie.
The Game Awards... did an oopsie.
But PewDiePie... made the biggest oopsie, oh my gosh.
Big oopsie. No recovery.
It's over for Pewdie oopsie.
Poopsie. Doopsie doopsie.
I'm Gloria Borger, and you're watching PewNews.
(classic Pew News music)
What did PewDiePie do this time, huh?
*reads* "PewDiePie gives shout out to hateful, anti-Semitic YouTube channel."
Oh my gosh. I knew it
"YouTube star PewDiePie promotes channel with anti-Semitic content"
"PewDiePie is shepherding his legion of 14-year-olds"
Hey! Did someone just have their birthday? 👏👏👏
👏👏👏Happy birthday! Looks like you're 14 now!👏👏👏 (why thanks poods c: )
"towards Neonazi content on YouTube. Probably something that someone should check into!"
I AGREE! We SHOULD check into it! Why don't we just do that, shall we?
Let's see what he actually said.
*weird sound* Can't wait to get this guy for promoting Nazism.
We finally have him now bois!
PewDiePie: "E;R who does great video essays about... he did one one uh Death Note which I really really enjoyed."
*SHOOK SOUND*
*SHOOKETH SOUND PT.2*
Did you catch that?
Oh my god.
Did you see that? Did you catch that?
Did you notice the shepherding of 14-year-olds to Nazi propaganda?
Did you notice the immediate indoctrination of 75 million children into Nazis?
Did you notice it? That's right. He recommended someone for their anime review. *waooowww*
So basically what happened was that PewDiePie, shouted out 28 channels last Sunday. That's right.
Not ten, not fifteen, twenty-eight. Okay?
Because, I was getting so much attention for all this "subscribe to PewDiePie" meme, that I thought it would be
nice if I gave a shout out to some smaller channels that I enjoy.
And I thought "Hey! The more the merrier."
Now, apparently one of those twenty-eight
likes to have hidden
and not so hidden Nazi references in his videos
and, you know, obviously
if I've noticed that, I wouldn't have referenced
him in the shout out
not because, i have a problem with Nazi references
being offensive in themselves but because
I said publicly a year and a half ago
that I was gonna distance myself from Nazi jokes
and that kind of stuff.
because I want nothing to do with it, and I don't really care about it.
Generally, I've done that. I haven't really erm--
I don't really have a reason to, I don't know, dip into that again, it's just stupid.
But you know, YouTube star PewDiePie now promotes anti-semetic content.
By what? By saying I enjoyed his anime review?
The worst thing that I've seen him reference was from another channel that he has, not the channel I mentioned.
AND a video that was 2 years old.
So.. Wow. Amazing.
And, yes, he does have Nazi references in them,
and I see them now, but
unless you pay close attention, and unless you're well familiar with Nazi trivia, or whatever you wanna call it,
these references WILL go past you.
The irony here is that I'm supposed to be the Nazi, but I don't know any of these goddamn references.
I mean, again, all I said was I like this guy's anime review
and anyone with a level-headed brain can tell that I don't know this guy more than this.
So The Verge posted about this, the "science and tech-news" media outlet(i smell bs)
They just couldn't help themselves by getting a few clicks outta this.
Saying stuff like:
"Since Kjellberg's shoutout, E;R has amassed an approximate additional 150,000 subscribers.
That's 150,000 more viewers, some of whom may be extremely young, tuning into anti-Semitic and hateful content."
(an/give this guy an oscar already)
That's right everybody, we're radicalizing the youth
One anime review at a time.
Now, a simple two-click search fact-check will tell you that:
No, the Verge, not 150,000 new subscribers,
12,000!
...new subscribers.
This was at the end of the video,
most people don't watch that far.
It's 28 channels,
I'm not gonna know every single thing about them.
Maybe I should have-- You know, in retrospect, I should have just limited it.
But hey, I thought, "The more smaller channels I can help, the better."
People are saying-- making the argument-- that I should have hired a team
to background check on these channels.
I should have really made sure, since I have so many subscribers,
it's my responsibility to make sure I have people doing this and checking that it's right.
But, The Verge can't even, themselves a big news outlet,
get simple facts right in this own story.
The Verge, a tech company, can't even show you how to build a computer properly.
I don't know if you've see this video(I have and hated it so much, Pewds)
but it's pretty goddamn laughable.
The point of me bringing this up is the fact that this could have happened anyway,
with me having, I don't know, other people helping me, or-- or not.
But I do understand I have a responsibility, especially with my past,
but I can't help but seeing this as outrage for the sake of outrage,
and getting clicks from negative attention associated with my name,
which is just sad.
That this is still going on.
Anyone with a level-headed brain can see what I said in that video and notice I'm--
"He's clearly not seen more of this guy's channel.
Maybe I can just tell him."
But instead, it just immediately becomes a shame campaign
to smear my name, and I guess I shouldn't be surprised, honestly.
But, I'm getting so much love and I'm getting so much support right now(LOVE AND SUPPORT)
by all you guys.
Of course there's gonna be people that wanna put me down for that, of course.
So, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
But, this is it? This is all you have?
Pewds: "We also have E;R, who makes great video essays about, uhh
he did one on uhhhh Death Note, which I really, really enjoyed."
****ing pathetic.
The one thing I will say that I regret about all this
is the *lighting in the video
I mean, what the hell is that?
WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY GODDAMN FACE?
So I am not using the green screen today, cuz I'm like,
I'm not messing with that.
Now, I wasn't planning to do another Pew News so soon but,
I felt like I needed to address this, especially cuz so much
out of context
is associated with all these headlines.
👏 👏
Uh! Sorry, just one more thing that I wanna talk about this which is that
I removed E;R from that video
and, apparently, you can edit video now, so he just won't appear at all.
Like I said, because, if I knew then what I knew now, I wouldn't have--
I just wouldn't have put him in there.
I still really wanna shout out smaller channels
so I'm just gonna keep doing that
but I'll be more careful in the future.
Maybe I can ask The Verge for help, that would be great!
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Next news please.
The Game Awards!
The Game Awards, more like The Cringe Awards,
came out a few days ago and, oh boy.
Some highlights, let's go through them.
Host: "These are the games whose stories captivated us with complex characters,
surprising twists, and pRoFoUnD pHiLoSoPhIcAl iDeAs."
"Best Narrative"
"Marvels Spider-mpRoFoUnD pHiLoSoPhIcAl iDeAs"
Now, as always, a lot of great moments from these award shows.
Pompous guy: "I'm expecting to win, so hopefully I get up on stage."
Host: "I was gonna say 'I can only imagine your speech.'"
Deep-voiced whamen: "And The Game Award goes to:
"GOD OF WAR"
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
*BGM: MGSV - Quiet's theme*
Pompous guy: "This is bullsh**!"
"The Oscars just ****ed themselves up. This is the ****."
"**** the Oscars, you know? **** THE OSCARS! **** YOU, I'M TELLING YOU."
"If the whole world tells me "Your game is ****", no, stop. Uh, that's--"
Now, just to be clear, this was a meme from TerakJK
and I'm not familiar if they're a Nazi or not, I haven't done a background check.
Just want that to be clear.
A shrimp?: "That's a good shell-fie my friend."
Ninja: "Did you just say shell-fie?"
Shrimp: "Si, si. It's a crustacean thing."
(is this whole segment over yet?)
(no?)
Shrimp: "SAY MANCHEGO!"
(why are we still here?)
(just to suffer?)
But the most talked about from The Game Awards 2018 was when SonicFox,
the furry, won the "E-Sports *player of the Year" award.
Dude: "Okay, and The Game Award goes to:
SonicFox everybody!"
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
SonixFox: "OH MY GOD!!" (my same reaction when I saw your fursuit head)
"Hey, look, ma!"
"Uh, I guess I wanna say this is a big honor, uhh..."
"I'm sure you guys heard the story of when I went to IPS Finale"
(I can't understand him through the fursuit head I'm sorry if this isn't 100% accurate)
"One of my closest friends, sorry kinda nervous,"
"UHH"
"His dad had cancer, and after I won-- before I even, like,
uhh, did the match, I told him whether I win or lose, I'm gonna be donating at least
like, 10k of the prize winning to his father for his Stage 3 cancer.
I hope it works out for him."
"Um. And."
Oh my god, the silence. 'Please Wrap It Up'
Now, this goes on for way too long,
and they-- the teleprompter even said 'Please Wrap It Up'
SonicFox: "The goons back at home. Gang, gang."
(make this end)
"As you guys also may know, or may NOT know,
I'm also, SUPER GAY so I MEAN"
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
But the thing that most people are talking about is the end of the speech that goes, like this:
SonicFox: "I guess all I gotta really say is that I'm
gay,
black,
a furry, pretty much everything a Republican hates, AND
the best E-Sports player of the whole year, I guess. Thank you so much."
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I kinda like how he's so unapologetic to who he is and
obviously, I'm pretty sure he doesn't have to say that he's black, gay, and a furry for people to
make that assessment themselves.
But this last comment is what really uh-- It made people very angry.
Here's some comments from the video that I watched from IGN
saying that: ""Everything a Republican hates" really. Was that even necessary for a video game award?"
"pretty much everything a republican hates"
"k....."
"He's complaining about hate but he is spreading it......."
Now, I don't know, but I do know that people were pretty upset about this, and
I don't know, I see this guy and how he presents himself.
He's, uh, he's 20 years old.
He's clearly not the brightest, and
being this kinda open personality in a professional E-Sport gaming circuit,
you're bound to get a ton of hate. It's just how it is.
And I can only guess this but it seems like
he kinda have to develop some sort of "enemy" to cope with that.
But also, it's a joke, so who really cares? I don't know.
All I know is
"pRoFoUnD pHiLoSoPhIcAl iDeAs"
You disappointed Reggie, man.
This show was about bringing👏 people👏 together👏.
Phil Spencer: "As an industry, we are most powerful when we come together.
United by our common love for the art-form of games."
(Reggie looks so prod, man)
👏 👏 What do you guys think? As always,
passing on the question to you guys!
More comments, the better! 👍
👏Next 👏News
Battlefield.
Battlefield V, everybody. We have a new update!
We have been the development and story of Battlefield V ever since their trailer got released,
which became the most disliked trailer of Battlefield's history's franchise.(*Battlefield franchise's history)
It got 112k dislikes.
Hey! Companies getting more distant with their consumers!
Where have we heard that before?
Now, I've talked about this before, so I'll just quickly summarize, but basically,
they released this trailer that's supposed to depict World War II,
but instead it just seemed like a Gender Study class take on it.
Where you have a British female amputee
going "ALO!"
Female amputee in WWII: "Alo old friend."
And, uhh.
It's just overall cringe-worthy.
And to be clear, no one cares that there's a strong female character at the front of Battlefield--
What is it, Battlefield V?
They happen in games all the time, no one cares. No one pays attenton to this stuff, but
when you're depicting history and World War II,
it kind of seems like you're changing history for the sake of your gender social progressive ideas, and...
I can understand why people have a problem with that.
AAnd it's kind of like that SonicFox thing where
it's politics into something that doesn't have to have politics into it.
If you wanted to tribute-- pay a tribute to female soldiers,
you could have honestly just picked Russian snipers, who killed literally hundreds of Nazis,
but instead they made this weird fiction that just feels off, it feels weird, it feels forced.
On top of that, the EA director himself said, to the criticism about this, that
"People are just ignorant, there was actually amputees in the war."
Which, yes. But that's not how people see the war,
and remember the war.
It's always a great way to acknowledge criticism
by just calling your consumers "ignorant".
And I said I was gonna follow up if anything else happened with the Battlefield V, and now it did!
That's right, they had their launch party for Battlefield V called:
"#EveryonesBattlefield"
That's right, everybody. It's everyone's Battlefield.
Just as long as you agree with them.
They had some text in there, I don't know why,
uhh, but they basically say, uhh
"White men! White men! White men!"
I guess it says "Females ruin everything".
"Feminazis are trying to rewrite history."
"Genderfield 5!"
Oh, that's great.
I mean, it's kinda silly. I get it. They've probably been dealing with a lot.
A lot of... WHY AM I SO EMPATHETIC LATELY?
"Wow, shut up Felix, this is terrible, how could they?"
This was for their launch party, I get that they were trying to reduce tension
with all the criticism that they're getting.
But also, this kinda sends a message to your consumer that
"If you have any criticism for this game, you're just a hateful troll."
"You're just an evil hater, how could you?"
You know, I'm trying to give a level-headed criticism to this thing but, you know,
it's all grouped in as one thing.
It's also kinda saying that "Whatever the consumer are saying,
doesn't matter! We're gonna push forward on these ideas.
We just don't care."
Which is an interesting move, to say the least,
considering how the game's performing, as well.
It's hard to say for sure whether this is doing well or not, but it doesn't look positive.
And it's another example of companies and consumers
growing more and more apart.
You know, we have the YouTube Rewind now as well, quickly becoming
the most disliked video in all of YouTube because there's such a distance between
the site itself and how they wanna be perceived,
and how the consumers think of that, or what they think in general, I guess.
I don't know what the end result of this sort of thing happening is,
but I do know for a fact that it's just giving more power
to independent creators like myself so...
Hey! Thanks EA! I'll take it!
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