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"Pewdiepie was always kinda racist - but now he's a hero to the Nazis"

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Wait a minute.

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No!

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You changed it!?

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Come on, media.

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What are you doing?

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What does it say now?

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"Pewdiepie's fall shows the limits of 'Lol Just Kidding'"!

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Hey

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Alright

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"Emma Grey Ellis"

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May I just say that:

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If you're gonna call someone

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"a hero to the Nazis",

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you may wanna double-check if that's true or not.

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Because afterwards you can't go "Lawl just kidding".

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The amount of cherry-picking that the media came out with after this whole thing to prove this narrative that I am somehow

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That was ...

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... beautiful.

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Please keep doing it. It's hilarious.

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Vox media posted this un-ironically

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"Arguably similar to nazi fashion: recently he has been wearing Himmler style glasses and sporting a fashy (slang for fascist) Hitler youth haircut."

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Vox.

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You got me.

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Damn it.

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I didn't want to admit this.

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I didn't wanna talk about this.

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I love Korean fashion.

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I love K-Pop. That's why I dyed my hair.

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I'm going through a mid-life crisis here, okay?

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I wanna be a K-Pop star.

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J.K. Rowling is calling me a fascist. I don't... Why? I don't...

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I guess she read it on a... She read it off a headline...

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And sorta went with it

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Well...

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I read on an online article

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that you once said in an interview that you found dressing up as a Nazi arousing.

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I read that on an online website, so it must be true.

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Right?

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J.K.?

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So..

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I made the apology video where, I thought at least, was from the heart explained the situation

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And I admitted that I didn't do everything-

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Like, I'm not guilt-free in this situation by any means.

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It was... It was met by... just the warmest positivity from the Internet.

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An... And anyone that I think saw it... It was just amazing and I owe you guys my biggest thanks for all the support that I got from that video.

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However,

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the media wasn't as impressed.

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They- they kinda stuck with their narrative.

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"Pewdiepie half-heartedly apologizes, calls media 'motherfuckers'"

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"Pewdiepie's 'apology' for Nazi jokes shows that he still doesn't get it"

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"Trump and Pewdiepie are using the same playbook"

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So we basically went from "Pewdiepie is a nazi" to "Pewdiepie is Trump".

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We'll get there one day, Media.

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I'm sure we'll get there one day.

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And I wanna point out,

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not all media.

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Okay?

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I've seen more and more balanced articles come out about this situation.

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Even though it seems pretty dead at this point.

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The whole situation, this is a testimony of old media not understanding YouTube.

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The fucking senior editor of Wall Street Journal *laughs*...

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The senior editor of WSJ tweeted:

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"Man, this Pewdiepie video is looooong."

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I'm..I'm sorry, Mike. I'll try and cut it down next time a little bit for you, so you don't have to spend so much time.

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Doing your ... Journalist research,

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I'll.. Maybe I'll add a little meme.

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I'll add a little meme.

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Maybe that will make it more interesting for you.

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I don't... I don't know...

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Senior editor, huh?

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How about that...

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Let's get into the Wall Street Journal thing.

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There's one thing that I wanted to talk about,

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that I didn't really do in my last video, which was

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the fact that Wall Street Journal

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went to the brands

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that I work with

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before they came to me

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for a comment.

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I know this because they didn't just talk to Disney and YouTube.

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It shows to me

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that they were just after making the strongest headline

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and the strongest story that they could get

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without any regards of what kind of damage they would do

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in the process.

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I mean, why...

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why would Wall Street Journal care about minimizing harm?

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It's not like it's one of the four major sections in the journalism code of ethics.

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I... I... I.. I

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I mean, why would Wall Street Journal care about that?

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I don't understand.

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They wanted that headline - they got the headline.

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"Wall Street Journal should've tried to get a response from me directly to begin with. Not going to brands I work with first. Proves to me their maliciousness"

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Christopher Mims of the Wall Street Journal tweeted back at me:

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"Demonstrably false, but anyway welcome to our post-truth age."

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He says: "nothing -- absolutely nothing -- gets printed in the Wall Street Journal without an attempt to reach a mentioned subject for comment".

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So,

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Seems fair, right?

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But then he goes and says:

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"I have no idea about the chronology."

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Which was my fucking point!

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Christopher Mims,

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You demonstrated yourself false.

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So, welcome to the post-truth age.

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The other thing that I had a problem with, which I already brought up...

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I don't.. I don't think I need to elaborate on it.

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Which is ... the context,

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or lack of context,

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I think in the video there was one piece of context

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out of five in total.

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So...

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If you think that's a balanced way of doing journalism,

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you tell me.

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I have a big problem with the whole thing in general

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because,

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this whole thing wasn't a problem until it was brought up.

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Because my audience understands they were jokes.

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They weren't actually doing anyone any harm.

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But the way the Wall Street Journal defended this was

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that neo nazi web sites were supporting me.

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Calling it "the #1 Pewdiepie fan-site".

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Which I obviously had no idea about.

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I don't,

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Believe it or not,

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I don't go to neo-nazi websites.

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The Wall Street Journal condemns me for using

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"posts".

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They don't call it jokes.

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They literally said

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that

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the fact that I used Adolf Hitler

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and the fact that I used Nazi imagery;

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that's bad enough.

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It seems,

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right here,

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that you are guilty

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of the same thing.

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Oh, look!

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There is Hitler!

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This looks like Nazi imagery to me!

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Someone start the press!

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I think we have a "scoop"!

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It turns out the neo-nazi website have changed their mind.

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Right now they are the #1 Wall Street Journal fan-site!

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Interesting!

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I don't believe Wall Street Journal has made a statement,

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condemning these websites.

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So they must be a Nazi-supporting website now.

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I think we need to talk to their sponsors about this.

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NOT Wall Street Journal themselves.

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Or does context matter?

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I don't know.

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Oh, look!

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Here's their sponsors!

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How about that?

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Guess we need to talk to them first.

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I realize how childish I sound.

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Okay?

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It's just to illustrate this point.

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And if you didn't think it could be any more unethical,

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or any more stupid:

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One of their journalists,

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Ben Fritz,

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it came out that he's been doing the same kind of jokes.

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No!

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Not Ben Fritz!

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Say it's not true!

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He has a hard on for the Nazis.

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No!

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NOO!

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That's an anti-semetic joke!

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He wants to fry the jews?

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I don't even... Sorry... Sorry... I-I don't even want to show these jokes.

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I don't show anti-semetic imagery on my channel. That's disgusting.

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I'm so disappointed in you, Ben Fritz.

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I didn't wanna say this,

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because it didn't feel necessary,

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but there wasn't just pressure to get my show cancelled.

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Along with other brands that I worked with that they reached out to,

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YouTube also had pressure to demonetize my entire channel.

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Essentially, getting me fired.

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Luckily, my videos does not go against community guidelines.

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So it didn't.

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But they tried.

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So it seems only fair,

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by Wall Street Journal's own way of conducting themselves, that Ben Fritz

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should get fired.

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This whole thing has been embarrassing.

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It's been a fiasco.

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It doesn't make me happy when I find... like, these things out. It makes me sad.

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...That this is the world we live in.

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Where people...

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People make articles about people making jokes,

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that they make themselves.

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Trying to get their lives ruined.

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A thing that I saw a lot on the media was that,

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because I said,

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"Wall Street Journal did this attack on me",

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and people just didn't believe me, like:

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"What does Wall Street Journal has to gain from that?" or,

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"They're such a different organization, like, they have nothing to do with what I do, so it wouldn't make any sense".

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Well, here's a graph showing the trust in media going down based on age.

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I assume that pieces like this is not helping with that.

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Here's a graph of the newspaper ad revenue from digital and print, showing decrease of revenue in the media.

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Oh, okay, so Wall Street is losing influence and income...

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Hmm, I wonder who's gaining that right now?

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So what does Wall Street Journal has to gain from doing a piece like this on me?

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Nothing!

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Nothing, obviously.

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I mean, why else would they put the article behind a pay-wall? Twice!

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So Wall Street Journal is losing revenue.

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Maybe...

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Maybe I should buy the Wall Street Journal?

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Actually, I don't know.

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Seems like a failing business to me.

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*music plays*

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*laughing*

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Context matters, Ben!

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*laughing*