Warner Bros. Paid PewDiePie & Other YouTubers For Positive Reviews.
>In a blockbuster finding by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Warner Bros. was discovered to have paid popular YouTube “influencers” to give positive reviews of their games, hype specific sales avenues and even provide filmed play-sessions (commonly called “Let’s Plays” in YouTube Gaming parlance) that ignored bugs and minimized flaws or negative criticisms – all without disclosing the consumers that these presentations were paid advertisements in disguise.
>fuck off I was young You must still be young then.
Logan Moore
some lotr game
Caleb Long
Shouldn't this be on Sup Forums?
Don't give me this: "Well, WB make movies so hurrr" They make games also, so this belongs on fucking Sup Forums
Justin Sullivan
Sup Forums BTFO >hurr there's no paid reviews you fucking retarded autists
Noah Baker
Games journalism has been transparently awful and corrupt for over a decade.
This isn't news.
Also Pewdiepie and one who watches Let's Play or other friend simulators instead of actually playing the games deserves to die. Seriously.
Jayden Robinson
>PewDiePie >video games >WB It has nothing to do with movies. Film critics trashed all recent WB movies.
Anthony Butler
When are they going to go after Disney? Because it's getting ridiculous
Lincoln Allen
It's time to go back to your chan.
Matthew Cook
Let's plays aren't all like Pewdiepie, or even normally like Pewdiepie, yet many people seem to think they are.
It's also funny how crazy upset people get over (real or imagined) "friend simulators" yet have no problem with watching porn aka sex simulators.
Lincoln Nelson
>fuck off, I was young and you're so old and wise now, right? i mean 2 years ago is a long long time
John Nelson
People know what let's plays are like. They're all retarded, kid.
Alexander Lewis
There's a difference between knowing and proving.
Oliver Price
If you think they're all like Pewdiepie, then no, you don't know what they're like. Kid.
Xavier Phillips
its proof that WB is heavily involved in internet shilling.
Jackson Harris
>There's a difference between knowing and proving.
not on Sup Forums there isn't
Ian Gray
considering all the bullshit youtube threads that are up 24 fucking 7 on Sup Forums, your argument holds no water.
Wyatt Thompson
> (You) >>There's a difference between knowing and proving. >not on Sup Forums there isn't
why do people quote entire one line posts?
Jason Edwards
JUST
Blake Butler
Retardation (read: pewdiepie imitation) is proportionate to views though.
Thomas Thompson
>Anonymous 07/12/16(Tue)16:46:29 No.71909661 ▶ > > > (You) > >>There's a difference between knowing and proving. > >not on Sup Forums there isn't > why do people quote entire one line posts?
William Phillips
Nah,
Elijah Martinez
>why do people quote entire one line posts?
For emphasis and sometimes dumb motherfuckers don't read the post the person is replying to and take them out of context.
Jeremiah Long
SHILL
Joseph Edwards
>in other news, water is wet
Ethan Hall
Yeah. Disney does this shit all the time and no one cares
William Reyes
>YESHTADAY
Sebastian Garcia
Prove it.
Jaxson Campbell
but that's just a paranoid conspiracy theory its impossible for two people or groups of people to deceptively cooperate behind the scenes for mutual gain tinfoil paranoid etc
Angel Brown
>pewdiepie
Literally who?
Isaiah Price
someone who's incomparably more influential than any of the """""critics""""" worshipped by this board
Robert Butler
You retards realize that he has been active on Youtube for more than 5 years, right?
Zachary Hernandez
I don't like PewDiePie but he always discloses if his videos were sponsored.
Elijah Bailey
When I was young I thought he was shit, so no excuses.
Benjamin Roberts
>batman v superman bombs >civil war does well critically >"disney paying off reviewers" >it comes out warner/dc actually does pay reviews
god i wish i had a laughing evans folder
Adam Morris
They're all the same. You don't have to get so butthurt about this.
Alexander Foster
You realise that if you weren't so insecure about what you like you wouldn't have to point out that you were young?
Xavier Rodriguez
I really hope no one is shocked by this.
The whole "youtube is by the people for the people" thing is bollocks.
Angel Evans
How does this confirm they got paid for positive reviews? It just means they got paid to review the games, nothing about that they have to be positive about them.
Aiden James
>Youtube e-celebrities
Go away
Tyler Rodriguez
Witcher 3
Also Mad Max.
So, the two best games of last year
Owen Thompson
This deal was just for one game, Shadow of Mordor. It wasn't for a movie.
Christian Diaz
When I was young my dad would take me to the parades
Lincoln Wright
What does this have to do with television/film?
Joseph Rodriguez
>Paid by creator to review their game >Not disclosed that fact That's illegal in itself.
Christian Long
>'kid' >anime picture
Alexander Nelson
>Witcher 3 PDP did two videos on Witcher 3 and dropped it almost immediately. He disclosed that he got paid to do that. Must suck to be a ytber like him, he can't just play 200+ hours of Witcher 3 because there is a lot of shit videos to shoot. Also I think that W3 was Bandai-Namco.
Asher Sullivan
Hello, summer.
Brandon Ross
>e-celebs isn't Sup Forums >paid shilling for games isn't Sup Forums
Kayden Bailey
Isn't that kind of the fault of the reviewer to not disclose that it's a sponsored review?
Michael Taylor
>that post
ew
Christian Edwards
PewDiePie is a Celebrity Celebrity, being the most watched person on the planet and all.
Which makes no sense to me after watching one of his shitty Flappy Bird videos a few years ago.
Adrian Brooks
So is he going to receive death and rape threats
Chase Foster
you do realize that's like the point of what he's doing right? he can reach millions of viewers that traditional advertising won't reach/work on. social media influencers are the new advertising platform.
Christian Smith
business is business. now get this thread outta here
Kayden Kelly
We can only hope.
Aaron Scott
Pewdiepie is a creepy looking bastard
Charles Robinson
"YouTubers" are jizz guzzling worthless, useless, pandering, self important wastes of oxygen, is this news to anyone at this point?
Jack Robinson
People watch porn for extra stimulation during masturbation. Nobody trying to make any form of connection with the performers.
Dominic Hall
I guess we know who makes all those endless BvS threads now.
It's good to know that at least they're not doing it for free.
Oliver King
Exactly, this proves Disney paid more
Asher King
> YouTube influencer PewDiePie
is our country really this fucked?
Lincoln Bell
Who said otherwise? WB paid to get their products on channels, that's legal, thats called advertising.
What is NOT legal is for a youtuber to fail to say "this is an advert" or words to that effect.
Carter Morris
>mfw death grips told anthony fantano to shill them >for free
Chase Collins
>DCucks insisted that Disney is paying off critics >mfw it turns out Warner Bros. is the one who is paying off critics >mfw Warner Bros. probably created half of the "DAWN OF CAPEKINO" threads HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! DKEKS ETERNALLY BTFO!
Luis Martinez
>i hate pewdiepie the lets player
Gavin Johnson
>always blame Disney about buying reviews >it was WB the entire time
Nathaniel Rodriguez
Pewdiepie often writes that a video is sponsored by this or that company though.
Gavin Cook
Pottery.
Levi Ross
Hello Warner Bros. intern, how much are you getting paid to post on here?
Brandon Nguyen
Fuck off
Jackson Phillips
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John Howard
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Wyatt Adams
>Writes So it's easily overlooked.
Wyatt Reed
The article's talking about video games.
Ian Flores
>youtubers are confirmed lying paid shills >some of the have resorted to getting 13 year old kids into gambing on GS:GO and lying about owning the websites rakng in money from them. >all those prank/e-celeb news channels
Youtube is in dire need of a purge, I remember when the videos I used to watch were shit like Kimbo Slice punching out bums in people's backyards....Now its full of aids and "reviewers".
Matthew Young
>WB buying reviews
Wait a second, wasn't Disney supposed to be the one constantly buying reviews?
Thomas Garcia
Wow, that's it. Gaming """""""""""""""""""""""""journalism""""""""""""""""""""""""" is finally dead! I can't believe my eyes! #wow
Camden Stewart
Since it has been confirmed that Warner Bros. will happily pay off YouTubers it isn't a stretch to think they would pay off film critics too. Meanwhile there's 0% proof that Disney has ever paid off anyone. Face it DCuck, you've just been fucked hard.
Ian Bailey
>ShillDiePie paid to be a cuck about games Stop the fucking presses
Benjamin Walker
why would pewdiepie need their money when he has the biggest channel on youtube?
Ian Gutierrez
Again, the marketing suits at WB are FUCKING IDIOTS. Shadow of Mordor didn't need extra publicity. They should have spent that bribe money on their films division.
Jayden Lee
Disney was the one that wasn't caught, though. If you're going to do something illegal, ensure plausible deniability..
Jason Gomez
a little dissapointing but yeah the arkham games are the only good thing WB puts out