TGL Round-Up: PewDiePie Under Fire Over Racial Slur, Leah Remini Forgives Mother for Scientology Introduction, Patty Jenkins Back For Wonder Woman 2
The world’s most popular YouTube star, PewDiePie, is under fire over his usage of a racial slur during a recent live stream.
While playing PlayerUnknown’s Battleground, PewDiePie (real name: Felix Kjellberg) said about an opponent who was shelling him: “What a f—ing n—–… sorry, but what the f—.” He then added, “I don’t mean that in a bad way.”
The latest controversy comes after Kjellberg in February lost his deals with Disney’s Maker Studios and YouTube in the wake of his ill-advised pranks to pay random strangers to spout anti-Semitic sentiments and after reports of his videos featuring Nazi imagery.
PewDiePie has not yet responded to the controversy.
Leah Remini won the trophy last night for Best Informational Series or Special at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
During her speech, the former King of Queens star forgave her mother for introducing her and her family to Scientology.
“Mom, thank you. You are officially forgiven for getting us into a cult,” she joked.
A&E’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath’s second series is currently airing.
The director of the first Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins, has inked a deal to direct the sequel, Variety reports.
Variety was first to report that Jenkins was already working on a script for the sequel with Geoff Johns, who oversees the DC film universe along with Jon Berg for Warner Bros.
Gal Gadot will also return for the sequel.
PewDiePie cannot stop courting controversy.
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He is a racist
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An unashamed racist!
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That’s the problem when you’re putting your life out there 24/7, you’re bound to say something that’ll upset somebody somewhere.
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Especially in 2017.
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True dat. True dat. I like the old way of finding out one of your favs was a racist, bully, pedo, closet gay, whackjob – by reading it in a tell-all book 20 years after the fav kicked the bucket.
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My generation doesn’t have the patience…
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You want to binge watch your gossip.
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maybe he needs to stop doing questionable shit?
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Happy that the director of the first one is back 🙂
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Hope the sequel is better
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He must have forgot that he was on a live stream
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Must have!!!
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No excuse. He is a bigot and deserves shunning!
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preach it. just because he forgot people could doesn’t make anything okay. it just shows that he makes those comments in privacy all the time.
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Someone has to explain to me about what’s so entertaining about watching somebody else play video games.
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While they’re at it, someone please explain how that earns this kid millions of dollars every darn year!!!
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Bloody Millennials.
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YouTube ad revenue is generous and Pew is popular. That’s not even factoring in endorsement deals.
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Endorsement deals? Does he drink Pepsi while playing video games? Is that how he endorses shit?
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Pretty much. As well as tweets and YouTube videos solely to plug products…
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preach it. he’s not even that special. he just sits there and reacts like anybody else would.
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Leah Remini deserves that Emmy and so much more. Take that cult down y’all!!!
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she’s doing it. one season at a time.
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PewDiePie propagates to his young audience Antisemitism and racism. Ban him from YouTube and lock him up for hate speech. That’s the only acceptable solution.
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Should we stick him in the great Tower of London while we’re at it, Queen??
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The tower and then he should be stoned to death. Queenie will toss the first stone, she’s totally without sin.
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Why don’t we toss her? She’s got the fucking thinking power of a stone.
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leah remini is my main girl. go leah.
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In all seriousness, good for Leah for forgiving her mother for that. I’d be so bloody furious if my mum introduced me to a cult that cost me time and money to escape from!!
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I might be sending my mom a bill for the courses.
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Patty Jenkins is a huge talent. She needs to direct more. Monster and Wonder Woman are great movies to have on your resume.
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The problem is they’re like the only two movies on her resume. I thought she’d take off after Monster but nope.
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These 2 movies are watchable thank of their lead actresses.And i am generous with Gadot because she only do badass or charming
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The world has a most popular youtube star? Actually never heard of him.
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Most subscribed to user on Youtube and earns over $10 million a year. I’m not making this up.
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PewDiePie knows exactly what he’s doing. What do people expect from someone who calls his followers the “Bro Army”?
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Youtubers fucking stink.
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