What do you do if you are a D-list celebrity whose only current claim to fame is playing a caricature of himself on a sitcom that is slowly falling out of favor? Well it's simple really: you attack a far more successful person with unsubstantiated claims in order to draw attention to yourself.
Wil "where is the other "L"" Wheaton took to Facebook to decry the fact that they were suggesting that he join a Pewdiepie fan club by saying this
Because Felix (Pewdiepie) has nearly 100 million subscribers, the comments flew back at Wheaton fast and furiously until Wil first deactivated commenting and then deleted the post entirely. If you know anything about Pewd's fanbase, you can understand an awful lot of the comments were in fact memes and the reemergence of the trash dove was in full swing (bonus points for knowing what a trash dove is.)
As memes tend to be, a lot of them were intentionally over the top and pretending to support Wil by photoshopping Pewdiepie into many actual racist situations such as wearing SS clothes, being involved in various atrocities, being involved in the slave trade, and basically just a ton of things that Pewd's obviously had nothing to do with because he wasn't alive at the time.
Wil's opinion about Pewdiepie was based entirely on rumors and of course a Wall Street Journal article that attempted to salvage their own failing platform by attacking an individual that is far more successful at engaging today's market than they were. WSJ did initially see a surge in viewership and clicks but I hate that this tactic worked because it only encourages more nefarious behavior of exactly this sort.
We all know why Wheaton deleted the post. He did it for the same reason that Pepsi deleted that awful SJW commercial with Kylie Jenner and why YouTube Rewind disabled comments..... because the response they received was overwhelmingly negative and not the result they had hoped for.
I sincerely hope that this doesn't result in any sort of success for Wheaton, because if you are a d-list celebrity who can't break through to bigger things in the acting game, I think it is a dirty trick to attempt to create some sort of false controversy to draw attention to yourself.
I was delighted to see that that the "Shut up Wesley" meme was brought back and is now something that is commented on anything Wil posts. Wil reacted by insta-blocking anyone who posts these memes and one person who was actually a fan of Wheaton calmly suggested....
"If you thow S#^T, you shouldn't act all butthurt and surprised when some S#^T gets thrown back at you."
In other news, Pewds has again passed T-series in subscriber count.
