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Apparently, he used the freelancing site Fiverr to hire people from India. He asked these people to make a sign with "Death to all Jews" written on it and to sa

Apparently, he used the freelancing site Fiverr to hire people from India. He asked these people to make a sign with "Death to all Jews" written on it and to say "Hitler did nothing wrong." [1] [1] http://kotaku.com/disney-drops-pewdiepie-over-anti-semitic-jokes-1792324412 http://kotaku.com/disney-drops-pewdiepie-over-anti-semitic-j...

Agentlien 10y ago
I've never had very much respect for PewdiePie. I understand that his image is built around being provocative and offensive, but this really is a few steps too far.
- dogma1138 10y ago
  He isn't really provocative and offensive, his image is more of a lobotomized manchild.
wodenokoto 10y ago
It is very unclear how the anti-semitic message was delivered. There is a lot of ways to deliver anti-semitic content without being anti-semitic. For example, you can show a clip of one of Hitlers speeches and you have anti-semitic content. Judging from your link, it seems more like he is ridiculing poor indians, by making them jump around for pennies for his amusement, than insulting jews.
- Agentlien 10y ago
  So, the main joke is him having enough money to get poor people to execute on his silly whims and then laughing at them. If we pretend that this is perfectly decent behaviour, how does throwing an anti-Semitic message into it add to the joke? For a lot of people, including myself, the answer to that question is "it doesn't". As for the comment that you can include hateful comment without yourself expressing those opinions: this was no archive footage of Hitler delivering a speech. This was people holding up a sign with an anti-Semitic message because PewdiePie explicitly asked them to create a sign with an anti-Semitic message and record themselves holding it up.
  - ferdbold 10y ago
    The main joke, as explained by PewDiePie, was to "prove that the modern world is crazy and will do anything for 5 dollars". I don't think the point of it was to flaunt his riches on poor Indians, and as such I don't find it nearly as offensive as you do. I agree the execution is a bit tasteless though. He could have done away with the nazi stuff without changing the premise.
    - Broken_Hippo 10y ago
      "I agree the execution is a bit tasteless though. He could have done away with the nazi stuff without changing the premise." See, that's the entire thing. He could have chosen a slew of other ways to do this. He didn't. He chose this. It might be hate with a handy excuse or it might be stupidity that is masking itself as hate. It doesn't matter to me. Disney not standing for it is hardly surprising. I used to hear rumors of moral codes for storyboard artists and the parks have a pretty strict dress codes. They are obviously concerned about their outer image, and I don't see how one could miss that while working for them.
    - anigbrowl 10y ago
      He didn't explain anything, that's his excuse. Are you really this gullible, or are you also making excuses for this?
    - crestedtazo 10y ago
      > The main joke, as explained by PewDiePie, was to "prove that the modern world is crazy and will do anything for 5 dollars" People should make an effort to understand that this is an excuse he came up with after realizing what a bad idea this was, not a real, legitimate reason for doing something. This is a person who gets paid enormous amounts of money to just do whatever he wants and talk about what he thinks. Is it that far-fetched that someone with so much money and so much free time and free will would get bored and watch poor people dance and embarrass themselves for his amusement? Note, this is not meant to be an attack on PewDiePie's character (his actions speak toward his character just fine). This comment is mostly about providing insight into why a person might do something like this for no real reason and genuinely see nothing wrong with it.
- anigbrowl 10y ago
  You could ridicule poor indians by getting them to hold up a sign saying 'lol indians'. Several points come to mind: 1. that wouldn't be much better 2. It's not at all unclear how the anti-semitic message was delivered 3. Why the fuck would you make excuses for such obvious bad behavior I mentioned here a couple weeks ago that I thought it is sometimes OK to punch nazis and people lost their shit. But someone can throw out 'kill all the jews' as a joke and it's very important that we sit down and think about this analytically. You really need to spend more time reading history books. You should probably brush up your ethics too, they seem sadly deficient.
draw_down 10y ago
Jesus.
dogma1138 10y ago
The problem is that those sentences became a meme on the internet. I've seen people wearing Mr. Perfect like HDNW shirts at gaming conventions in the UK the vast majority of them didn't knew wtf that even meant.....
Arizhel 10y ago
>and to say "Hitler did nothing wrong." Microsoft said the exact same thing with their AI bot "Tay". And it wasn't just a fluke; it was running for hours and hours saying that kind of stuff before they finally decided to muzzle it. I wonder if this guy got this idea from that incident.
- jwilk 10y ago
  This phrase is much older than Tay: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hitler-did-nothing-wrong http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hitler-did-nothing-wrong
- Eleopteryx 10y ago
  That was a coordinated effort by 4chan though.

Agentlien 10y ago

I've never had very much respect for PewdiePie. I understand that his image is built around being provocative and offensive, but this really is a few steps too far.

dogma1138 10y ago
He isn't really provocative and offensive, his image is more of a lobotomized manchild.

wodenokoto 10y ago

It is very unclear how the anti-semitic message was delivered. There is a lot of ways to deliver anti-semitic content without being anti-semitic. For example, you can show a clip of one of Hitlers speeches and you have anti-semitic content. Judging from your link, it seems more like he is ridiculing poor indians, by making them jump around for pennies for his amusement, than insulting jews.

Agentlien 10y ago
So, the main joke is him having enough money to get poor people to execute on his silly whims and then laughing at them. If we pretend that this is perfectly decent behaviour, how does throwing an anti-Semitic message into it add to the joke? For a lot of people, including myself, the answer to that question is "it doesn't". As for the comment that you can include hateful comment without yourself expressing those opinions: this was no archive footage of Hitler delivering a speech. This was people holding up a sign with an anti-Semitic message because PewdiePie explicitly asked them to create a sign with an anti-Semitic message and record themselves holding it up.
- ferdbold 10y ago
  The main joke, as explained by PewDiePie, was to "prove that the modern world is crazy and will do anything for 5 dollars". I don't think the point of it was to flaunt his riches on poor Indians, and as such I don't find it nearly as offensive as you do. I agree the execution is a bit tasteless though. He could have done away with the nazi stuff without changing the premise.
  - Broken_Hippo 10y ago
    "I agree the execution is a bit tasteless though. He could have done away with the nazi stuff without changing the premise." See, that's the entire thing. He could have chosen a slew of other ways to do this. He didn't. He chose this. It might be hate with a handy excuse or it might be stupidity that is masking itself as hate. It doesn't matter to me. Disney not standing for it is hardly surprising. I used to hear rumors of moral codes for storyboard artists and the parks have a pretty strict dress codes. They are obviously concerned about their outer image, and I don't see how one could miss that while working for them.
  - anigbrowl 10y ago
    He didn't explain anything, that's his excuse. Are you really this gullible, or are you also making excuses for this?
  - crestedtazo 10y ago
    > The main joke, as explained by PewDiePie, was to "prove that the modern world is crazy and will do anything for 5 dollars" People should make an effort to understand that this is an excuse he came up with after realizing what a bad idea this was, not a real, legitimate reason for doing something. This is a person who gets paid enormous amounts of money to just do whatever he wants and talk about what he thinks. Is it that far-fetched that someone with so much money and so much free time and free will would get bored and watch poor people dance and embarrass themselves for his amusement? Note, this is not meant to be an attack on PewDiePie's character (his actions speak toward his character just fine). This comment is mostly about providing insight into why a person might do something like this for no real reason and genuinely see nothing wrong with it.
anigbrowl 10y ago
You could ridicule poor indians by getting them to hold up a sign saying 'lol indians'. Several points come to mind: 1. that wouldn't be much better 2. It's not at all unclear how the anti-semitic message was delivered 3. Why the fuck would you make excuses for such obvious bad behavior I mentioned here a couple weeks ago that I thought it is sometimes OK to punch nazis and people lost their shit. But someone can throw out 'kill all the jews' as a joke and it's very important that we sit down and think about this analytically. You really need to spend more time reading history books. You should probably brush up your ethics too, they seem sadly deficient.

draw_down 10y ago

Jesus.

dogma1138 10y ago

The problem is that those sentences became a meme on the internet. I've seen people wearing Mr. Perfect like HDNW shirts at gaming conventions in the UK the vast majority of them didn't knew wtf that even meant.....

Arizhel 10y ago

>and to say "Hitler did nothing wrong." Microsoft said the exact same thing with their AI bot "Tay". And it wasn't just a fluke; it was running for hours and hours saying that kind of stuff before they finally decided to muzzle it. I wonder if this guy got this idea from that incident.

jwilk 10y ago
This phrase is much older than Tay: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hitler-did-nothing-wrong http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hitler-did-nothing-wrong
Eleopteryx 10y ago
That was a coordinated effort by 4chan though.