Blame PewDiePie When Someone Dies Raiding Area 51 - Is there nothing we can’t blame him for?

[Jmz_33]

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Blame PewDiePie When Someone Dies Raiding Area 51

More than 500,000 people signed up for "Storm Area 51" after PewDiePie promoted the event on YouTube. Blame him when someone dies. | Source: YouTube

You may or may not know Felix Kjellberg, but if you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ll probably recognize his pseudonym. Kjellberg, popularly known as PewDiePie, remains one of YouTube's biggest stars with almost 100 million subscribers. And that's precisely why his latest antics aren't just in bad taste - they're altogether reckless.
Consider this. PewDiePie, who reportedly pocketed a cool $15 million in 2018 from YouTube, has faced criticism for making anti-Semitic jokes, and that didn’t do much to deter his popularity. But now he is on a different mission altogether – get people killed.
At least that's what his latest Meme Review threatens to do.

PewDiePie wants you to raid Area 51
Facebook has gone absolutely insane, with everyone from your conspiracy theorist uncle to your favorite movie star signing on to storm Area 51 on Sept. 20 to "see them aliens."

The event has gone viral and gained tremendous momentum. Over 1.3 million users say they will attend the event, and another 1 million report that they're "interested."

More than 2.3 million people have registered their interest in "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us." | Source: Facebook
And there's been a noticeable spike in interest since Kjellberg dropped his latest Meme Review.

When PewDiePie posted his video on YouTube, there were 841,000 people who were “going” to the event, with another 740,000 marking themselves as interested. In just one day since his video came out, almost 500,000 more people have registered.

Sure, the whole thing might be a joke, but it's yielding PewDiePie some serious cash. His video riffing on Area 51 has already been viewed more than 7 million times.

Don’t even think of going there
But there's at least one organization taking the event completely seriously: the US Air Force, which appeared to threaten an armed response to trespassers in comments shared with multiple media outlets.

"[Area 51] is an open training range for the U.S. Air Force, and we would discourage anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces. ... The U.S. Air Force always stands ready to protect America and its assets.”

Of course, no one - including PewDiePie - actually expects 1.3 million people to make the trek to the Nevada desert in late-September.

However, what if a few dumb teenagers show up anyway? What if they do so hoping they'll get a shout-out from PewDiePie himself?

Let's hope that doesn't happen. But if it does, celebrities like PewDiePie who encouraged them to raid Area 51 - even as a joke - should shoulder the blame.

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in the article are solely those of the author and do not represent those of, nor should they be attributed to, CCN.

 

[AltisticRight]

> has faced criticism for making anti-Semitic jokes
How about the countless Jewish comedians who make holocaust jokes that are funnier than kike this kike that?

 

[The Cunting Death]

Blame yourselves (the news, not the farms) for making this shit viral in the first place.

 

[break these cuffs]

PewDiePie must be held responsible! I'm hoping at least 10,000 11-14 year olds to die in the desert. That Swedecuck faggot better deliver.

 

[Vorhtbame]

The poll needs "anime tiddies" as an option.

 

[whatever I feel like]

I blame that obnoxious fucker who I had to mute on Facebook over this. I swear to God, he just would not stop posting about it.

Here's hoping he makes it all the way to the probe chamber, and stays there.

 

[dreamworks face]

One of the things I love about the internet is that it never fails to find a new low - I never thought I'd feel nostalgia for teenagers eating Tide pods, but here we are.

I see two possibilities:

1. Everyone on earth is actually in on the joke for once, and the news journalists that are covering this as if it's a real thing look like idiots.
2. A non-trivial number of retards actually rush area 51.

Before Tide Pods, I would've thought 2 was impossible. But here's to hoping we actually get ten thousand autists Naruto-running at area 51 so I can finally give up on humanity altogether.

 

[ES 195]

So should I thank Pewds for cleaning up the gene pool if this stupid thing goes south?
I hope there's at least a double digit kill count from this. Triple if we're really lucky.

 

[The Last Stand]

We've reached a point where if a Internet controversy happens, just mention Gamergate or Pewdiepie and watch the news media flock to that.

 

[casE sensiTive]

I'm fucking sick of hearing about Pewdiepie. I don't care if he's triggering the libs or a jew slayer. I find his content to be obnoxious and I don't give a shit what he does.

 

[Cuatro Vaginas]

Since the kids of today take their memes more seriously than their futures I don't doubt some will show up there. I just don't get it to be honest, this rapid-joke quick-editing culture is such a mess.

 

[HarveyMCR]

>Written by an Indian

They don't even try to hide their irrational and baseless hate of Pewdiepie anymore, do they?

 

[TowinKarz]

"Why does this guy we keep doing front-page news on every time he farts online just not GET that he's NOT IMPORTANT and should BE IGNORED before all this publicity goes to SOME OBSESSED PERSON'S HEAD and they HURT THEMSELVES?!"


Self-introspection: 0

 

[BlueSpark]

Please note that the site that published this is "CCN" which appears to be some shitty "news" blog run by a Pajeet.

 

[Anonymous For This]

If you're stupid enough to try to break through the security barriers at Area 51, honestly we should be thanking Pewdiepie for helping us weed out the gene pool.

 

[Clop]

I can practically smell the desperation in this article, the vain hope that Pewds would be tried in court for endangering all those innocent minds that could've grown up to be genderfluid Antifa queens instead.

Once again showing how little the media thinks of an average person. It's pretty fucking disgusting.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

Pewpewpeepee did nothing wrong!

 

[AnOminous]

No Null, no Sam Hyde. Bad poll.

 

[Rand /pol/]

What the fuck is this Area 51 thing? Some Reddit garbage?

 

[Jmz_33]

The poll needs "anime tiddies" as an option.

You got it bro