inu-kun said:
In the end it's the advertisers fault, when you have ads on a platform designed for people to upload videos without any pre check besides copyright you'd have touchy content whether it's a guy saying ****** and immediately apologizing afterwards, political shitheads or ISIS recuitment videos. And thinking about it, this isn't a Johntron event with a full lecture, this contrevercy is by people combing through his videos looking for something to attack him with and using a single heat-of-the-moment remark for it.
But this is because the majority of those are children, I can gaurantee most of the views are by kids getting hyped on games rather for looking to political news and opinions.
I agree in a way that it is the advertisers' fault, but in another way I don't. When they're sponsoring someone, that individual is not just taking their money with no strings attached. In fact, no one who is currently working is doing that. Most contracts have their own form of Brand Protection, as if you comport yourself in a manner which they find distasteful, you can be reprimanded or summarily fired.
Now, where it is the Advertisers' fault comes down to backing an individual who goes live for a good percentage of the time, and is young and immature. That is an adverse risk if I ever heard one. It was stupid to think a child like that would be able to continually stay on message, but that's where they found themselves in. But if Bwana Pie signed those agreements (even with Youtube when he got monetized), his actions are his to suffer on.
Now, I should state this: I have not put in my opinion about the ACTUAL Pie-Seonsaengnim Word slip situation. Because it is as follows: I don't really care that he dropped an N-Bomb. I don't care if he fully hates all non-white people or he just listens to a lot of rap and thinks it's cool to say. I do not care about the videos he makes or how popular he is.
I'm using this as an fairly recent example to point out a matter that I truly don't understand: What people use or think the like/dislike button is for.
If we want to get into my politics, I simply don't get why a lot of people want to use the N-word. I don't understand why they are so concerned. Every group has limits attached to it. This is nothing new. Noone Examplehead might have a hot wife, and all the friends agree. And in fact, the common group joke is that every person in the group would rather come home to Examplehead's wife than their own.
But not one of them in their right mind would go to his face and say "Hey, Noone... you remember when you got drunk and you said that your wife was a hot little w**** and she did you right. Well, I believe it and I would let her do me right as well". If the husband disagrees with that kind of talk about his wife, you crossed the line.
Meanwhile, while he might permit that talk with his friends, he might frown upon it when his postal worker comes up and says just 'innocently' "Hey, Mr. Examplehead, you have a really sexy wife". Line crossed. There are always degrees of what is permissible when you're dealing with other people. The same is with every group of friends, group, association... It's nothing new.
Why certain people have picked being able to say the N-word as their hill to die on, instead of me being able to tell those certain individuals and the entire world how I do their hot wife in absolutely sinful ways is beyond me.
... What's that? Because it would offend THEIR sensibilities and that the line that shouldn't be crossed? Hmm. Interesting.
Lastly, I wouldn't take your guarantee. I spent a lot of time with kids at my previous job as a Para. They are miniature versions of their parents. Children shouldn't have politics at 5, but when you have to put boys in a time out because they were going to little girls saying that "President Trump doesn't like you, President Trump doesn't like you!", and then say they shouldn't be in trouble because the president says it's ok to act however you want to girls... it's safe to say that you can't just overlook stuff because you think they do not grasp it.
