In the Opinion piece, author Javy Gwaltney said, “Gaming's problem with toxicity is not a secret. Vanaman defended his decision saying, “I am sick of this child getting more and more chances to make money off of what we make… He’s worse than a closeted racist: he’s a propagator of despicable garbage that does real damage to the culture around the industry.”īacking up Vanaman’s last point is an article from GameInformer magazine. Legally, most lawyers agree that the game developers are within their rights to issue takedowns of the Let’s Play videos, but many worry that this move may force precedents to be set in the legally un-explored area of Let’s Play videos. Vanaman tweeted that PewDiePie ‘s actions had passed a “breaking point”. We're filing a DMCA takedown of PewDiePie's Firewatch content and any future Campo Santo games. Sean Vanaman, one of the co-founders of game development studio Campo Santo, announced that the development studio will be issuing a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown notice on PewDiePie’s video that shows him playing the game they developed, Firewatch. “It’s because of shit like this that the ‘adpocolypse’ is happening where people’s videos are being flagged as inappropriate for advertisers, because advertisers don’t anything to do with … I worry is coming for YouTube, and I worry it’s gonna be the fault of people like PewDiePie who keep getting attention for shit like this.”įellow content creators aren’t the only ones lashing out at the embattled Swede. Not only have YouTubers such as Matt Collins of Nerd 3, “Angry” Joe Vargus, Danny O’Dwyer, and more condemned Felix for his words and actions as of late some like Jim Sterling have even started claiming that PewDiePie is a liability for everyone else who uses YouTube to obtain their income because of his new racist image. Now YouTube’s biggest star has made headlines again for using a racial epithet. Channels have cited the resultant loss of ad revenue as a primary reason for their departure from YouTube. Soon after, YouTube was making headlines, because advertisers like Walmart, Verizon, and McDonalds started pulling their ads from the online video platform due to ads being found on videos with racist or violent content. ![]() This event was followed up by another prominent YouTuber, Jon “JonTron” Jafari, started making headlines for his consistent repetition of alt-right talking points. ![]() When Felix had his contract with Makers studios terminated, several prominent YouTubers came to his defense, such as Boogie2988, Markiplier, and more. Apparently, no one informed Felix about the KKK present at the rally, so he ended up using the N-Word in a recent livestream of Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds. Then after half a year without incident, Pewdiepie announced he would stop making Nazi jokes because of the Nazis marching in Charlottesville (but not before getting in a few of his own). He had his contract with Disney-owned Maker Studios terminated after an anti-Semitic joke aired on his channel in mid-February. YouTube’s most popular content producer, Felix Kjellberg, has had a rough time in 2017.
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