Huuuuge thanks for the shoutout!
To what do I owe this pleasure?
FTC calls me:
'wildly popular'
"PewDiePie"
If you ever meet me in person
please refer to me as the:
wildly
popular
PewDiePie
Basically
this happened;
"PewDiePie and other YouTubers took money from Warner Bros. for positive game reviews"
Now that's fucked up
(Sighs)
I- I'm just disappointed
This is all over my Twitter feed
People are saying;
"@pewdiepie Took corporate money to NOT disclose paid game reviews.."
"#Shame"
"..Warner Bros. & PewDiePie's shady influencer marketing.."
So
Shady
It's disgusting
"Bloggers/influencers have a responsibility to disclose.."
"So now that PewDiePie got caught getting paid off by publishers to shill for games,
can we hate him now?"
Can we just hate PewDiePie now?!
I don't really know what he really does
but I never liked him and
Ooh! Now I got a reason to hate that son of a bitch!
He got paid
And he didn't disclose it!
That's disgusting!
That's despicable!
Fuck that asshole!
Oh wait no!
Wait! It's right there;
(Inside the video's about/details) "This video was sponsored by Warner Brother"
First of all;
This is 2 years ago
Second of all;
It's right there!
It's right there! It's right there!
No one mentions this!
No one!
"This video was sponsored by Warner Brother"
Basically what happened was that
a lot of youtubers
was involved with this sponsorship
but since I am the biggest Youtuber
my name is the only one that pops up
And basically what happened was that
we weren't required to disclose
I still did it!
Some other Youtubers actually didn't disclose it
But I'm getting all that shit for it
And-
It's kind of bullshit
Yes! I could have disclosed it better
I could have put it above the fold
So basically all these news articles
are using me as a clickbait
putting my name to shame
when I didn't even do anything wrong
The Verge
Variety,
Polygon
Recode
Mashable
The list goes on!
And this person put it out pretty- pretty well;
"1. The FTC found that Warner Bros was at fault."
And the "@Verge used @pewdiepie's name as clickbait."
Thi- A Reddit post says;
"..this is a terrible article, with a clickbait title.
If you are interested in this issue
you are better off simply reading the FTC's press release.
Of cause Warner Bros. did not pay Pewdiepie for a positive game review,
as Pewdiepie generally doesn't do reviews."
And everyones calling me a reviewer
and that is unethical for me to do a positive review
but I'm not a reviewer!
And if you watch the video
This is what I say:
(Video) Thank you for liking and commenting on this video as always Bros
and thank you for hanging out with me Today
I had a lot of fun playing this game
So hope you did as well!
That's disgusting?!?
I had fun playing the game!
FUCK YOU!
He would never have said that
Piece of shit!
How dare you 2014 PewDiePie!
Enjoy a game that is critically acclaimed!
Disgusting! Can we all just hate Pewdiepie now?
"What they Pewdiepie to do, was a paid promotions,
which is perfectly legal as long as it is disclosed,
which it was."
WHICH IT WAS
Why is no one mentioning this?
The headline is misleading.
"The people getting paid to do reviews and failing to disclose that,
were other less known youtubers who would bring in less clicks."
"According to the FTC, it was the responsibility of Warner Bros.
to insure that the youtubers taking part in the promotion correctly disclosed this fact."
Ok, it goes on.
So you get the point?
Thank you Nicole Sund!
I appreciate that you did this
Here's an important point
this is 2 years ago
and the FTC didn't release guidelines specific to YouTube
until 2015
and this video was in 2014
I do want to say that because of this
back then YouTube paid promotion was a bit of a gray area
never the less I still disclaimed it
it's there in the description
but this is how it looks like Today;
I make a verbal mention before the video even begins
(PewDiePie Video) Video was brought to you by Loot Crate!
And the top line in the description
mentions it as well
And this is so you bros can know if the video is sponsored or not
right away
I'm all for disclaiming content
I have no problem with it
and I'm going to keep doing it
And "5. Finally, @verge is trash for using @pewdiepie to get views,
when there are other youtubers who didn't disclose the WB sponsorship AT ALL."
This happens time and time again
with Media
They take-
They take someone popular like me
and they run whatever story is going to get them more clicks
And-
You know my name gets run into the ground
And a lot of these articles
Are saying like;
'We're still waiting on Pewdiepie for a reply'
'We're still waiting for Pewdiepie to respond
to this horrific act that he has committed!'
I DON'T fucking need you!
I have an audience
I can talk to them!
You-
You're litterally
insignificant
And that's why you are pulling this shit
because I think you know it
This is my response;
Now excuse me while I go play Bear Simulator
THE GREATEST GAME
THAT HAS EVER BEEN MADE
And also I have to disclose this video
was sponsored by CS:GO Lotto
Thanks for grouping me with those people, Polygon
Really appreciate it
We're practically the same
Honestly!
Thanks to people
who saw through this bullshit
and commented and boasted about it
I really really appreciate that
people see past the headlines
because the problem with this is
people read the headline
and they- and that's all they get out of it
If I did something wrong
I should'v- I should be paying the consequences
In this case I don't think I did anything wrong
But that is all for now
I'm sorry this had to take up a video
I will see you Bros in the next one
*Brofist!*