That hair couldn't be any douchier.

He did apologize, profusely. In the same exact video. Everyone and their grandmother knew it was a joke, and he apologized not only in the video but in a follow blog statement somewhere else (I'll find it when I get home). But the media still went out of its way to demonize him for something everyone with common sense knew was a joke.

He was making a point about the stupid things you can do on Fiverr, but it really was just an indefensibly stupid joke. Yeah, he got beat up by the media, but maybe none of that would have happened if he'd simply apologized instead of making a 12 minute rant and flipping off the journalists that just did their job covering his fuck-up?

He apologized in the original video where he actually did the act. And that video is a month old, in that time he posted a follow up blog post where he apologized again and only now is the media giving him shit.

I don't think what Disney did was wrong (even if I do think it's silly to say they didn't know his other questionable videos, there's no way they didn't know). But the media doing everything they can to actually make people believe he's a legitimate racist Nazi is the biggest crock of shit I've ever seen.

Did we watch the same video? He complained about "the media" nonstop and flipped off the WSJ reporter he singled out throughout the video.

I just watched the video, I don't see the problem with PDP. He apologized in here as well, and what he said was pretty much 100% correct.

Seems you're not really vested in it then. You may think he's rambling or whatever but that doesn't discredit what he's saying (which is absolutely correct).

Honestly, how could you get though that? I tried watching the video in the OP in the full but ended up skipping around  and maybe getting four minutes of it total down. It's pointless rambling.

maybe none of that would have happened if he'd simply apologized instead of making a 12 minute rant and flipping off the journalists that just did their job covering his fuck-up?

I don't believe so, personally. From what I've seen, it's as though they have a vendetta against him. His Nazi jokes are offensive but it's obvious to anyone with a brain that they are not normalizing white supremacy or fascism, they're mocking it more than anything. For these journalists to sift through so many hours of his content, cherry pick out the Nazi or Hitler references, and then take them completely out of context, to me, alludes to some ulterior motive of slandering him rather than a genuine concern for the normalization of Nazism/Fascism. Unless these journalists are that deluded in thinking that his shock humor is actually going to normalize Nazism.

It's not really an issue of who's right, the media or PDP

The whole things reminds me of that scene in Die Hard 3 where Bruce Willis wears a sign in Harlem saying "I Hate Niggers"

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Would it be wrong for him to get his ass kicked by some hoodrats? Yes. Is it also incredibly stupid to do the joke in the first place, and kind of silly to whine about the repercussions in a very half-assed apology video? Also yes. Journalists are vultures, but they didn't make him do what he did.

So by this rationale, professional comedians should be hounded out by the media every single time they dare to make a mildly off colour joke about jews?

Get fucking real, the comedy business would be over in weeks if that was the case. Pewdiepie is a cancerous gimp, but no one deserves a slew of hit pieces directed at them for facetious jokes that nobody besides the media gives a shit about.

"mildly off colour joke about jews"

"kill all jews"

that's SO fucking tame dude

this isn't the fucking 60s

The 60s were tame? All they did was do hard drugs and kill vietcong all day.

you also couldn't get away with making anti-Semitic jokes to an audience of millions--pewdiepie wouldn't just get castigated by the media; he straight-up would not have a career. it would be over.

Now, I agree with you that the joke was stupid and distasteful, but that's just my irrelevant opinion. Should he have had the foresight that such a shitstorm would occur if he joked about that? Absolutely, but on principle, maybe we shouldn't have to baby-proof our senses of humor to appease overly-sensitive people who don't even watch Pewdiepie, never will, and weren't even alive during the Holocaust--and I think that's the bigger topic.

Why should he even have to apologize? "It's just a prank/joke." isn't an excuse, it's a legitimate argument because that's literally what he was doing. All his videos since he stopped playing video games has been complete jokes or down right shitposts, why does he need to apologize for the content he puts on his channel? Of course it seems half-assed and not sincere, because it's bullshit he has to do it in the first place for people who don't give a flying shit about him anyways.

This is nothing like going to Harlem with a sign with "Niggers" written on it, because PDP is doing all of this from his own channel, for only the audience that is subscribed to him. He doesn't make videos for the viewers outside of the regular audience that watches him, so why should he cater to them when they get upset over it?

I'm not justifying the reporters. All I've said is that the joke was fucking stupid and his apology was hardly one at all.

You mean the PR that was out for blood against him for no reason? And Disney only fired him because they were backed into a corner by that same PR with giving Disney out of context clips of his "Nazism". If they had kept him that same PR could have used it to slander them as well.

He doesn't. But if he was going to, he should do it seriously rather than in a whiny, flippant vlog in which he complains about his apology not being taken seriously. Why might he consider apologizing sincerely? Because that's the quickest way to calm a PR shitstorm like this and not get fired by Disney.