Maybe he was sincere. It doesn't matter if he never puts forth the effort and the actions to actually back it up, and if he's genuine then he should know that we're right to criticize him until he does so and should take the suggestions on what he needs to do better to heart
And I agree. He deserves any and all criticism until he shoes and proves he has changed. And it's no overnight ordeal. It's going to take a lot of time prove he has learned. I think he knows that because even as he calls himself an idiot, I don't think he's unintelligent.
Fuck off with the both sides bullshit.
Not once did he admit that what he said was an act of racism. Not once did he say sorry for the act, instead he apologized for causing offence. That's not good enough.
As I stated before, he admits that this was the worst thing he could think of. His very worst conduct possible yet done it anyway. If he doesn't address why his "nuclear option" verbally is to use a racist epithet, his words mean nothing.
I mean, when I'm peacefully talking about this as best as I can and someone responds telling me to F off, it's so hard to hold any real conversation. I get how passionate this topic is and understand emotions are running high. And in many cases, it wouldn't matter what he said in response because it's not good enough. No apology makes up for what happened.
I personally don't think he needed to mention it was racist. That's a pretty big given, and I also don't think it's on him to educate his fan base. He's not a teacher, he's an entertainer.
I think he needs to work on self improvement. You can't begin to lead by example if you keep making yourself a bad example. Which is what he has done over and over. Hence my hope he can grow from this. It's going to take time. Maybe nothing changes, but this is about it for him ever being taken seriously.
what makes this situation as dire as you seem to think it is? last time he fucked up disney pulled out of their deal with him and his youtube show was canceled. and what happened? this.
The thing is, Disney should have never been affiliated with him. It was shocking to see that they were. A guy swearing all the time playing games doesn't fit their image.
The YouTube show getting canceled I also thought was a bit harsh for having media take his comedic sketches out of context. That doesn't mean those sketches should exist, but they were around even during the first season. Felt weird to have a retroactive pulling out because the media chose to go after him again.
A cliff barely holding onto what? There were never going to be any repercussions for what he said.
He was probably never losing his channel and would still have a huge following. But I think deep down he actually cares about being a good representative of the YouTube community and cares about being taken seriously when it matters.
And on that front, he was alresdy on the edge, he jumped right off after saying what he did, then reached out after making this apology.
His past behavior suggests he won't change, he let's go, and that's that. He's just another Jake Paul type that can never be taken seriously about anything.
But I like to believe we as people have a capacity for change. I don't even like pewdiepie'content, but beyond that I think the hardest thing to do in these times is to calm down and really talk about it.
It happens all the time in terms of extreme reactions that are warranted, but get in the way of talking about it. It doesn't even need to be about something this bad - for decades Zelda 2 was my favorite Zelda game and I had Zelda fans often get very vocal at me about how wrong I was. There was little conversation, just a lot of yelling.
I'm not interested in yelling at the wall. I don't want to change how anyone feels. I just hope that the person at the center of it all can become better.
And yes folks, there are two sides. Both of them can be pretty extreme. I never talked about what's right and wrong.
We all know what he said was wrong. We all know that termn is racialy charges, and it sucks this day, 30 years into my gaming life, I still hear people throwing around the N word while playing games online. It's been happening for a long time, and I don't know what needs to happen to make it stop.