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Huge thanks for the shout out!

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To what do I owe this pleasure?

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FTC calls me: "wildly popular... PewDiePie."

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If you ever meet me in person
please refer to me as the wildly popular, PewDiePie.

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Basically, this happened:
PewDiePie and other youtubers took money

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from Warner Brothers for positive game
reviews.

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Now that's fucked up..(sigh) I am just
disappointed.

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This is all over my twitter feed. People
are saying 'PewDiePie took corporate money

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to not disclose paid game reviews #Shame.'

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'Warner Brothers and
PewDiePie's shady influencer marketing.'

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So... shady.

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It's disgusting. 'Bloggers and influencers
have responsibility to disclose'

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'Now that PewDiePie got caught getting paid off by publishers to shill for games-'

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'can we hate him now?' Can we just hate PewDiePie now? I don't really know what

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he does but I never liked him and 
now I got a reason to hate that son of a

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bitch

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he got paid; and he didn't disclose it.
That's disgusting.

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That's despicable, fuck that asshole - oh wait, no wait it's right there.

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First of all, this is two years ago.

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Second of all, it's right there... It's
right there, it's right there.

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No one mentions this, no one! 'This video
was sponsored by Warner Brothers'

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Basically what happened, was that a lot
of youtubers were involved in the

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sponsorship; but since I'm the biggest
YouTuber

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my name is the only one that pops up and
basically what happened was that we

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weren't required to disclose.

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I still did it. Some other YouTubers
actually didn't disclose it, but i'm

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getting all the shit for it and it's
kind of bullshit

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Yes, I could have disclosed it better, I
could have put it above the fold

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So basically all these news articles are
using me as a clickbait putting my name

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to shame when I didn't even do anything
wrong

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The Verge, Variety, Polygon, Recode,
Mashable... the list goes on.

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and this person put it out pretty, pretty
well. 'The FTC found that Warner

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Brothers was at fault and The Verge used
PewDiePie's name as clickbait.

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The reddit post says 'this is a terrible
article with a clickbait title-

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-if you're interested in this issue-

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-you're better off simply reading FTC's
press release. Of course Warner Bros did

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not pay PewDiePie for a positive review as
PewDiePie generally doesn't do reviews'

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Everyone is calling me a reviewer, and
that is unethical for me to do a

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positive review, but I'm not a reviewer; and
if you watch the video this is what I say.

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*video* "Thank you for liking
and commenting on this video as always

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bros and thank you for hanging out with
me today, I had a lot of fun playing this game so I hope you did as well."

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That's disgust-  (disgusting)

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I had fun playing the game? Fuck you, he would never have said that. Piece of shit-

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How dare you 2014 PewDiePie enjoy a game,
that is critically acclaimed. Disgusting.

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Can we all just hate PewDiePie now? 
What they paid PewDiePie to do; was a paid

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promotion. Which is perfectly legal, as
long as it's disclosed; which it was.

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"which it was"

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Why is no-one mentioning this? The
headline is misleading the people

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getting paid to the reviews are failing
to disclose that, were other less known

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YouTubers who would bring in less clicks.

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according to the FTC, it was the
responsibility of Warner Brothers, to ensure

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that YouTubers taking part in promotion
correctly disclose this fact

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Okay, it goes on. You get the point.
Thank you Nicole Sund.

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I appreciate that you did this. Here's an
important point, this is two years ago and

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the FTC didn't release
guideline specific to YouTube until

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2015 and this video was in 2014.

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I do want to say that because of this,
back then, YouTube paid promotion was a bit

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of a grey area.

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Nevertheless, I still disclaimed it. It's
there in the description -_- but this is how

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it looks like today; I'll make a verbal
mention before the video even begins

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"this video was brought to you by Loot Crate" and
the top line in the description; mentions

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it as well and this is so you bros can
know if the video is sponsored or not

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right away

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I'm all for disclaiming content I have
no problem with it

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I'm gonna keep doing it and finally, 'The Verge is trash for using PewDiePie to get

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views when all the other YouTubers who
didn't disclose the Warner Brothers with our

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sponsorship at all. This happens time, and
time again, with media they take- they

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take someone popular like me, and they
run whatever story is going to get the

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more clicks, and you know, my name gets
run into the ground and a lot of these

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articles are saying like we're still
waiting for PewDiePie for a reply

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we're still waiting for PewDiePie to
respond to this horrific act

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that he has committed

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I don't fucking need you. I have an
audience

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I can talk to them. You're
literally insignificant and that's why

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you're pulling this shit because I think
you know it.

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This is my response. Now excuse me while
I go play Bear Simulator, the greatest

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game that has ever been made. - and also I
have to disclose this video was

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sponsored by CSGOLotto.

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Thanks for grouping me with those people, Polygon.
Really appreciate it.

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We're practically the same, honestly
thanks for people who saw through this

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bullshit and commented, and boasted about
it I really really appreciate that

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people see past the headlines because
the problem with this is people read the

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headline and that's all that they
get out of it. If I did something wrong

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I should have- I should be paying the
consequences, in this case I don't think

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I did anything wrong. but that's all for
now

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I'm sorry this had to take up a video,
I'll see you bros in the next one.

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*Brofist*