Feb. 24, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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| So I've been unbanned from Twitter and the person who faked the screenshots against me has been banned himself. | |
| This is how things are supposed to work. | |
| And I find it very interesting that this happened honestly within about an hour of those videos going live. | |
| So it's not like the 12-hour ban or anything like that expired. | |
| This seems to have been a direct consequence of me messaging Jack through my videos, who I tagged in the title of the video, who I've untagged now since the problem's been solved, because he doesn't need to keep getting notifications about this. | |
| But I think it's very interesting that speaking back to them en masse works, and I really think that that's the case. | |
| So I think we should speak back to the media in general. | |
| People like the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, any regressive outlet you can think of, anyone who was desperately up in arms about, say, oh, I don't know, PewDiePie's jokes. | |
| Those sorts of people need to be put on notice that we're paying attention and we are much more numerous than them. | |
| So I've created a Thunderclap campaign that I would like people to sign up to so we can get a hashtag trending. | |
| Now, I'd appreciate it if you didn't spread this on Twitter before the Thunderclap goes live, because I think it will have a lot more impact that way. | |
| Basically what this is, is the app Thunderclap asks you for permission to access your Twitter account for one day and one tweet only. | |
| And this is the tweet. | |
| Dear mainstream media, jokes are not evidence of bigotry, you morons. | |
| We will not let you hashtag gas the jokes. | |
| And that links directly to a 12,000 strong petition to get PewDiePie reinstated with his sponsorships at both Disney and YouTube Red. | |
| I'm sure it'll fall on deaf ears, but it's important to let them know that look, we have the power to influence the people, just like they do. | |
| And I think we do. | |
| I really think we actually have that now. | |
| And so I think it's worth us pushing forward. | |
| Now, you can say I've already got 74 people, which is just people in my friend's circle who I'd message and say, hey, would you like to support this? | |
| And we already have a social reach of over 800,000 people. | |
| And I would really like it if, I mean, obviously we need 500 for this to work, but I would really like something like 5 or 10,000 for this to really give the impression that there are a lot of people who want them to start listening. | |
| Because they get all of this done by simply ignoring us and pretending we don't exist. | |
| And we can change that if we force their hand and make them talk to us. | |
| This is the accompanying text on the Thunderclap. | |
| The mainstream media is unfairly maligning Felix Schelberg as an anti-Semite, decrying a handful of jokes that he has made in his videos over the last six months. | |
| There's been a campaign of character assassination that has cost him a sponsorship deal with Disney and YouTube Red. | |
| Felix Schellberg runs the largest YouTube channel in history called PewDiePie, and the loss of these sponsorships has cost him millions of dollars. | |
| This is a completely unfair attack on Schellberg. | |
| He is a comedian, and his jokes are not an indication of bigotry. | |
| They are only meant to make you laugh. | |
| This is not an isolated occurrence. | |
| There are dozens of articles in existence attacking alternative media personalities. | |
| More importantly, we cannot let the media wage war on comedy and go unchallenged. | |
| Satire is an important tool at our disposal for political discourse, and we should not let them take it away from us. | |
| If a comedian wants to make off-colour jokes, they should be free to do so knowing that it is only a joke. | |
| Nothing is off-limits for comedy. | |
| And then I'm linking to two lists of articles written specifically on PewDiePie and then others written on other famous YouTubers. | |
| And I think that this is definitely worth the time. | |
| And I would love to see their reaction to us getting an offensive hashtag trending. | |
| If you'd like to promote this campaign yourself and make a video about it, please feel free to, or you can mirror this one, I really don't mind. | |
| And the Thunderclap goes live tomorrow at 3pm Eastern. | |
| So you haven't got too long, so please do sign up to it as soon as possible. |
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