PewDiePie used a racial slur on livestream. Is he a liability for YouTube?
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Warning: This review contains spoilers for the most recent episode and past seasons of Game of Thrones.
“Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!” Some may read that and think of the catchy theme song for the popular 90s educational television show Bill Nye the Science Guy. However instead of song lyrics, that is actually the famous scientist demanding Disney pay his bill for playing the role of the Science Guy so many years ago.
Felix ‘Pewdiepie’ Kjellberg has posted a video to his channel essentially saying that he would stop making jokes about being a Nazi in his videos. Felix was famously cut loose from a contract that the top YouTuber had made with Disney after several pro-Nazi jokes came to light.
AMC’s show The Walking Dead has been the number one show in cable television for the last half decade. It has been the singularly most successful show that AMC has ever had a hand in producing. However not every employee at the studio is happy with the current state of the show. Creator of The Walking Dead comic that the hit show is based off of, Robert Kirkman, has joined former showrunner Glen Mazzara and executive producers Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert in suing AMC for cheating them out of their share of the show’s profits. AMC has released a statement denouncing the suit:
Brian Krzanich, the chief executive officer of Intel Corporation, has tendered his resignation from the American Manufacturing Council late Monday. In a public blog post on his company’s website Krzanich wrote, “I resigned because I want to make progress, while many in Washington seem more concerned with attacking anyone who disagrees with them. We should honor – not attack – those who have stood up for equality and other cherished American values. I hope this will change, and I remain willing to serve when it does.”
Warning: This review contains spoilers for this episode and previous episodes of Rick and Morty.
“August 11 is going to be a #BitOfADay... for a few reasons.” So was the message from the official Hamilton social media team this past Tuesday. After fans have been waiting for some news about what special thing was happening on August 11, Hamilton the Official App was finally announced and released for free on Android and iOS.
Earth, fire, wind, water, and heart. It is only through these powers being combined that Captain Planet, the environmentalist super hero from the 90s show Captain Planet and the Planeteers, can fight to make the world a better place. Captain Planet relied on his Planeteers: Kwame from Ghana, Wheeler from Broooklyn, Linka from the former Soviet Union, Gi from Asia, and Ma-Ti from Brazil to fight alongside him to help save the world from those who would abuse the Earth’s resources by polluting and destroying nature.
Activision CEO Eric Hirshberg said that the reboot of the Crash Bandicoot series, Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy, had “surpassed our wildest expectations by a very large margin”. Topping the US and European PS4 download charts and receiving an 80 on Metacritic, all agree that the game has done exceedingly well for a PS1 remaster.
Episode four of the newest season of Game of Thrones has been leaked and posted to Reddit. The episode has been verified independently of HBO as genuine. A watermark on the episode read “For internal viewing only”, and the resolution of the video was low quality. The video file, hosted on Google Drive, has since been removed from the initial post.
Known to many Millennials and possibly Gen-Xers for his role as the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter movie adaptations, actor Robert Hardy has died at the age of 91.
First, it was the ipod Classic in 2014. Now two other ipod models are being shelved by Apple. The tech giant seems to have avoided a large amount of fanfare as it has recently retired the ipod Nano and ipod Shuffle. These signal the last of the MP3 players that did not directly connect to the internet. This leaves the ipod Touch as the only remaining ipod sold through Apple’s official channel.
Mobile game developer Niantic had a pretty rough time trying to get their Pokemon Go Festival off the ground last weekend in Chicago. Tickets sold out almost immediately for the event that was to be held in Grant Park in downtown Chicago last Saturday. However, problems arose quickly after the event started.
