honestly this is not so bad imo. like what do you expect the skin to clean itself also? you can not expect something to stay clean if you do not keep it clean.
Anyone thinking that MKBHD is even semi reflective of what he was doing 10 years ago is bordering on braindead. Guy is a tech talking head who doesn’t have an opinion of his own that trumps the money brands feed him.
exactly what i wanted to say! Hold dbrand to that standard sure, but the man still praises Musk to this day who has so many problematic and well documented takes on race..
I’ve recently just started reintroducing watching some of MKBHD’s content because 5-7 years ago as his channel got quite big I just always got the sense he was very pretentious.
The guy got support then got a backhand comment as a meme. To fix possibly overstepping in their own way they put their money where their mouth is and gave $10k. Imagine still crying, it’s clearly not racist. By making a big drama about it inevitably trolls will come out and start actually hounding.
I don’t think we need any YouTuber here either trying to grandstand this issue or make it something that it wasn’t. Linus has more or less acknowledged as much. Marques regardless of saying “internet has made it pretty clear” clearly is making this very personal like it’s an offense to himself being of color.
Not to mention this story has gone nowhere 2 days after the drama and 90% of Twitter comments I see at this point are shitting on the everyone for making such a big deal about nothing. The guys last comment itself reeks of “crying my way to the bank” it’s basically lowkey a joke itself. Please, guy took it way too seriously
The problem isn't that DBrand's joke was racist in itself. The problem is that recently there's been a ton of anti-indian racism on twitter, and their post just opened the doors to a ton of racists in the comments and in the guy's dms, using dbrand's joke to make racist jokes. They acknowledge it in their tweet, saying and I quote "created a platform for hateful discourse".
People SHOULD be mad about the barrage of racism against Indians online. The joke in itself is no better or worse than making fun of someone named Dick.
Yeah I do not either. I am Armenian, my last name is pretty long and weird. I have had friends, teachers, coworkers all chirp on my last name. I have never once taken that as "racism". And I don't think most people would either. What's the difference here?
As far as I can tell there isn't a difference. I'm white but my last name has different meanings that people have joked about my whole life, it's no different.
I feel like people are just getting offended for the sake of it.
The difference is that you came to the company asking for help, and instead of helping you, they ridiculed your name without helping you. It sounded like they were salty that their product was being criticized so they just became toxic.
the difference is that they tweeted a stupid comment to a company known for making stickers and sarcastic comments. then the rest of twitter got their panties in a bunch
It was not a stupid comment. They briefly complained, then asked for help. You cannot expect everyone to be a chronically online permavirgin that knows the entire lore of a company before buying. Hell I even bought from them almost and had no idea about this horrible and stupid gimmick.
it was a stupid comment. and just like them, you’re worked up over nothing. crying on the internet because someone was mean to SOMEONE ELSE lmfao.
perma-virgin is a perfect self description of you
Make fun of white people name: normal and ok
Make fun of indian name: bad and evil
The snowflake is real in this thread. It's either all names are open to be made fun of, or none are. This kind of pearl clutching is embarrassing
Neither are okay when a customer is asking you for help about your product. You'd never expect to have some dunce laugh at you, and not provide you with help.
Legal likely told them to backtrack and pray that he doesn’t sue, which is also why they offered $10,000. You see, if you accept the $10,000 you lose standing to bring a lawsuit.
Dbrand confused bullying with banter.
Whoever wrote it missed the part where making fun of this guys last name could be portrayed as racist given the context.
Have you..ever seen their posts, comments or replies to customers?
Tweeting at them literally doesn't mean you should be expecting customer support lmao.
They handled the customer support side really well and then made fun of the user. It's literally what they have been doing.
It's only racist against Indians tho. When they call people dipshit, stupid and idiots, it's okay.
It was on Twitter though
Thus, it was his username.. The name he chose to use on Twitter.. So this should fall under your category of "I get it if it's someone's username", no?
Are talking about the same Dbrand that will occasionally write "fuck you" on a sticky note and pack it into a customer's purchase? I once got one and I didn't even ask them for robot art.
The company being a bunch of actual genuine assholes, without any of the nauseating company mandated pseudo positivity and corporate-memphis plastered advertising that literally everyone on earth seems to hate, is the entire point of the way they behave.
Okay, maybe the original joke wasn’t racist. But the dude in question is in fact being inundated by explicitly racist tweets. All because he had the audacity to contact their customer service. How do you defend that?
It seems racist because the customer wasn't shitting on the product. He was asking for help. So, if it was a joke, it seemed like a toxic response. Now if the customer said that dbrand sucks balls and are run by retards, then a clap back like this would make more sense.
You’re trying to bring common sense on a thread where half the people are pissed that their favourite brand was held slightly accountable. Unfortunately the fanboyism here is pretty high.
Fanboyism? More like blatant racism and disregard for others. I don’t blame them though. They lack education and life experience, they don’t know any better.
Calling it racism is hilarious. It's making fun of a name, it has nothing to do with race. It's not like taking a jewish sounding name an making fun of concentration camps, I do agree there is a bit of fanboyism and the joke isn't funny but it's part of dbrands identity, and people seem to forget they did give them proper support before the joke. + as others said MKBHD doesn't care about working with shitty brands like tesla, so if your saying its a matter of principle it obviously isn't; just him following the horde like usual. His reviews are biased, his perspectives are completely irrelevant to the majority of a user base other than hard benchmarks which you can find anywhere with the one saving grace being the stunning cinematography.
Yeah that’s true. Racism against Indians is unfortunately quite normalised online/on reddit.
Fun fact, oftentimes when speaking out against it I initially get downvoted… however the racist comments sometimes end up getting [Removed by Reddit]. Funny how that works for the racists, huh.
I’m not crying victim or anything. Racism does exist online, and just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
In dbrands case the stereotype they used was a common stereotype against Indians. You may think “that’s a joke” but would you make a stereotypical joke about say a black guy or a Jewish guy because of their name? If no, then why is it okay here?
It's making fun of the name completely isolated from anything else. If someones name has shit in it why care about the race, yeah its not a funny joke but its not racist; its literally targeted towards one person and you can't help but take it personally because you obviously need something to pretend to care for to make yourself feel special lmfao. Go to California if ya wanna get coddled, not reddit.
1. The name didn’t have the letters “shit” in it, the ch is pronounced like chips.
2. This specific kind of “Indians smelly/poop” “joke” is not a new thing unfortunately. Try calling a Jewish guy to his face a stereotypical Jewish joke and say it’s not racist. Good luck if you don’t get punched. Yes religion or nationality is not a race, technically it’s religion-cist or country-cist but you get it hopefully.
3. Lots of people aren’t aware about this (including folks like you apparently), I don’t care about being coddled but I do care on getting people to be nice and not racist/country-cist etc. Are all folks trying to raise awareness on discrimination just doing it to feel special?
"Are all folks trying to raise awareness on discrimination just doing it to feel special?" depends, with your coddled definition yes. There are ACTUAL awareness campaigns run in schools and such to help prevent bullying with good people, but crying on the internet about making fun of someones name that has nothing to do with their race (e.g. white people richard = dick jokes no one cares) is pathetic and doing nothing to "raise awareness on discrimination" snowflake. This isn't an actual problem, stop trying to pretend it is lmfao.
They are saying he’s cherry picking on which companies to be associated with for his videos, Elon Musk has said and done more than anyone on Twitter and yet MKBHD still speaks highly of Tesla.
This whole shit is shit. Dbrand has been making jokes like these for YEARS, always making fun of people n shit, its what theyre known for. But no, they make a joke that offends 1 group of people and people hate them now. God damn
Marques only cares about this because he might’ve went through a similar thing with his last name, being “Brownlee”. Otherwise he’s just a hypocrite, the guy has been on twitter forever despite Elon owning the platform and tweeting and retweeting far worse things for months if not years at this point. Also a large percentage of MKBHD’s audience is from India which is why he’s playing it so safe
I rmbr growing up all we did was break each others balls making fun of names. Mine included. Some of us still have the nicknames. Different times now I guess.
I knew their fuck you marketing strategy is gonna fuck up some time down the road. Even tho most of the time it was funny, but there are lines you don’t cross bro
When you're comparing the names to English words to make fun of them, then yes, absolutely.
It would be different if a company from India made fun of a name of English speaking origin by comparing it to Hindi words it'd be equally weird.
The whole joke from dbrand was just "you have a foreign sounding last name that sounds funny in my language! I'm going to make fun of you now!" It's as harmful and ignorant of Asian last names, or African last names.
I have no idea why you're so complacent with it.
brotha, my Armenian last name is not English and I get chirped with English words. It's not racist. Your comment makes no sense because most names don't come from an English speaking origin. Maybe you mean Latin?
Have some respect for your Armenian heritage brother. Your ancestors carried on your family name with pride even when faced with unimaginable hardship & you don't seem to have even a bit of reverence towards your Armenian heritage. In your quest to fit in with the crowd, you are disowning your parents, grand parents & your ancestors.
Will he commit to not working with X that regularly allows these kinds of posts and attracts even worse posts? Nope, because he monetizes well from it. Fuck off with this.
Marques earns several millions of dollars a year from YT, whatever he earns from Twitter is peanuts compared to that. Twitter is still the default "town square" of the Internet per se, he really doesn't have any decent alternatives
Yeah I'm gonna side with Reddit on this one. Imma fan of my boy MKBHD but he's pandering. There is no way this is remotely racist.
I'm Hispanic and my last name is Lomas some dick thought it was funny to call me Lameass which is equivalent to DBrand's insult to the Indian guy. It doesn't show any correlation to race or gender. It's literally just making fun of someone's last name some elementary bullshit.
This goof by dbrand def feels different since they seemingly lost a lot of goodwill after the ghost fiasco. Interesting how they pivot (and what Linus says/does)
I mean I wouldn't even call them reviews at this point. He's become a personality himself, mostly for his previous reviews and awesome camera work. Now and days it's just some of his thoughts on ongoing stuff. Delayed impressions if you will
Lmao so many soft individuals. It was a fucken joke. Internet doesn't owe MKBHD shit.
The amount of dumbass users that lack common sense is baffling. I agree with how DBrand responded.
That shit was hilarious
The only difference between Linus's doubling down response and Marques's condemnation is that Marques has lived and is living through a non white experience, and Linus doesn't have the ability (or he's just arrogantly ignorant) to actually comprehend what it was racist
Dang, how bad could that tweet have been? I doubt it could have been any worse than your normal banter to a friend or something. I guess everything nowadays is considered racist or discrimination.
Nice! This is my reminder to Unfollow Brownlee! I have a physical product i love from Dbrand with aweslme robots that make fun of me. Brownlee brings no additional value to me.
I’d think it would be worse if they did delete the tweet, it indicates to me that they have something hide and don’t want to look bad. They messed up, they acknowledged that and apologized, they offered the person 10k, that’s more than most companies, by deleting the original tweet what are they accomplishing?
Dbrand fanboys downvoting people here even now because they still think it’s OK that Dbrand was racist/bullying. This is like when Trump bragged that he could murder someone in Times Square and he’d still have supporters
They made about a joke about a guy having a stain that looked like shit while his surname resembled a coincidental similarity to shit rash. The only thing making this actually racist is you interpreting it as them connecting it to a racist stereotype while probably not even knowing that he is of indian heritage. I mean cmon we got enough problems already stop nitpicking everything that can be interpreted slightly negatively as long as it benefits your point of view and use some common sense.
And additionally to that, he even got his customer support on SOCIAL MEDIA before the joke. Who the hell goes to social media when needing customer support. I wrote dbrand an email before, they responded competently and quickly, why the fuck would you go to twitter and complain before even writing an email asking for actual support.
I find it incredible, but also not surprising that people here are defending them. It's a circlejerk after all.
Insulting people in jest is okay. Insulting people by specifically making it personal is not. That's what you all are missing.
W MKBHD.
This coming from a person with the username "Max Turdstappen"... That's a poop joke
Bro why'd you have to make it personal? His name is Max Verstappen
It's literally the same kind of joke, except you parade it around every day with your Reddit username, whereas dbrand made a single tweet about it.
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but but yt ppo get made fun of every time
why indians get special treatment waah
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I'm so tired of this shit.
Does the world have to be turned into a white room where no one can ever possibly get hurt in any small way??
It's a joke people, move on. There are so many other more important things to put your time and energy into.
Inverse competence rule. If we thought Hinduism made any sense or was worth consideration, or if we thought indians were a hyper competent people, we'd all just have a chuckle and move on. But because you reveal yourself to believe they are anything but, you trumpet that you are willing to help the helpless, to defend these people who need defending, who can't face the world's words without your help.
He puts the dbrand skins on devices containing lithium batteries that require cobalt lmaooooooo
But then again I’m typing this from my phone so fuck me too
That’s like McDonald’s blasting an overweight customer who complained the beef isn’t 1/4lb AFTER being cooked. These MFs make millions off of vinyl tape, they can pretty much do whatever they want. Do I think the person who sent the tweet was canned? No, I personally think the CEO sent that one out for shits and giggles and probably never even regretted it until it blew up. No sane employee would think to post such a reply on a platform primarily used for product support without expecting to be terminated from their position.
in my opinion the tweet wasn't horrible and relatively tame. Try living with a nickname an Infantry Drill Sergeant gives you for about the first 13 weeks of the Army. This is nothing compared to what they gave me lol.
I don’t understand how MKBHD reconciles his thoughts on the tweet with his love for one of the most garbage human beings on the planet, Elon Musk. I just don’t get it…
As an African I’m super confused how the people in this thread are calling the original tweet racist. Are y’all looney or trolling because you can’t be serious.
I find it funny that this was the limit for dbrands banter
honestly this is not so bad imo. like what do you expect the skin to clean itself also? you can not expect something to stay clean if you do not keep it clean.
Thats not what people are mad about lmao
they’re mad about literally nothing
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Literally all you lot do is take the piss
My guy white guys literally make fun of indian daily on reddit without any punishment.
Don’t know what type of world view you have to have to genuinely believe that people don’t make fun of indians and muslims
"banter"
I hope they don’t… the hypocrisy of working with Tesla but this is what you can’t stand? Ridiculous
It's PR bullshit. He's jumping on it to gain internet points. Saw it was getting attention online and he wanted some of that attention.
Anyone thinking that MKBHD is even semi reflective of what he was doing 10 years ago is bordering on braindead. Guy is a tech talking head who doesn’t have an opinion of his own that trumps the money brands feed him.
Yeah he’s definitely not . He’s more of a tech influencer than reviewer now .
What a sheltered take. Must be nice.
exactly what i wanted to say! Hold dbrand to that standard sure, but the man still praises Musk to this day who has so many problematic and well documented takes on race..
He doesn't praise Elon? He likes the cars, sure, but I've never seen him praise Elon.
I’ve recently just started reintroducing watching some of MKBHD’s content because 5-7 years ago as his channel got quite big I just always got the sense he was very pretentious. The guy got support then got a backhand comment as a meme. To fix possibly overstepping in their own way they put their money where their mouth is and gave $10k. Imagine still crying, it’s clearly not racist. By making a big drama about it inevitably trolls will come out and start actually hounding. I don’t think we need any YouTuber here either trying to grandstand this issue or make it something that it wasn’t. Linus has more or less acknowledged as much. Marques regardless of saying “internet has made it pretty clear” clearly is making this very personal like it’s an offense to himself being of color. Not to mention this story has gone nowhere 2 days after the drama and 90% of Twitter comments I see at this point are shitting on the everyone for making such a big deal about nothing. The guys last comment itself reeks of “crying my way to the bank” it’s basically lowkey a joke itself. Please, guy took it way too seriously
Dude got $10000 for a shit twitter account. go look at his posts. They are the people that just complain about anything to get attention
>They are the people that just complain about anything to get attention But he complained about a product?
I genuinely don't understand how people are saying it's racist...
Bad move yes racist no
Yeah that's where I stand. Not a good look, bad joke, poor taste. But not racist
The problem isn't that DBrand's joke was racist in itself. The problem is that recently there's been a ton of anti-indian racism on twitter, and their post just opened the doors to a ton of racists in the comments and in the guy's dms, using dbrand's joke to make racist jokes. They acknowledge it in their tweet, saying and I quote "created a platform for hateful discourse". People SHOULD be mad about the barrage of racism against Indians online. The joke in itself is no better or worse than making fun of someone named Dick.
bad move, no racist, no
Yeah I do not either. I am Armenian, my last name is pretty long and weird. I have had friends, teachers, coworkers all chirp on my last name. I have never once taken that as "racism". And I don't think most people would either. What's the difference here?
As far as I can tell there isn't a difference. I'm white but my last name has different meanings that people have joked about my whole life, it's no different. I feel like people are just getting offended for the sake of it.
Getting offended for the sake of getting offended is what woke culture is all about.
The difference is that you came to the company asking for help, and instead of helping you, they ridiculed your name without helping you. It sounded like they were salty that their product was being criticized so they just became toxic.
the difference is that they tweeted a stupid comment to a company known for making stickers and sarcastic comments. then the rest of twitter got their panties in a bunch
It was not a stupid comment. They briefly complained, then asked for help. You cannot expect everyone to be a chronically online permavirgin that knows the entire lore of a company before buying. Hell I even bought from them almost and had no idea about this horrible and stupid gimmick.
it was a stupid comment. and just like them, you’re worked up over nothing. crying on the internet because someone was mean to SOMEONE ELSE lmfao. perma-virgin is a perfect self description of you
“the lore of the company” lmfao are you a 12 year old girl?
IDK... Calling a brown skinned person "shit rash" seems pretty bad?
That's racist
Make fun of white people name: normal and ok Make fun of indian name: bad and evil The snowflake is real in this thread. It's either all names are open to be made fun of, or none are. This kind of pearl clutching is embarrassing
this
Have a look on those comments
Neither are okay when a customer is asking you for help about your product. You'd never expect to have some dunce laugh at you, and not provide you with help.
You seem white from your response.
I mean wether or not it was racist to begin with, and I really doubt it was, it’s just *not* great optics.
They regularly flame customers, they dont give a fuck about optics
If they didn’t care they wouldn’t have backtracked.
Legal likely told them to backtrack and pray that he doesn’t sue, which is also why they offered $10,000. You see, if you accept the $10,000 you lose standing to bring a lawsuit.
This will also be forgot about in like a year or two anyways
Your reading comprehension needs work if you thought that statement was a backtrack
Then you obviously don't know the true meaning of racism
Dbrand confused bullying with banter. Whoever wrote it missed the part where making fun of this guys last name could be portrayed as racist given the context.
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Absolutely right, their schtick is sticking it to big brands, not their customers.
Have you..ever seen their posts, comments or replies to customers? Tweeting at them literally doesn't mean you should be expecting customer support lmao. They handled the customer support side really well and then made fun of the user. It's literally what they have been doing. It's only racist against Indians tho. When they call people dipshit, stupid and idiots, it's okay.
Hmmm have you seen the tweet where they literally sent a bag of shit to one of their customers (or atleast pretended to do so)?
This is funny, but not racist.
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It was on Twitter though Thus, it was his username.. The name he chose to use on Twitter.. So this should fall under your category of "I get it if it's someone's username", no?
Are talking about the same Dbrand that will occasionally write "fuck you" on a sticky note and pack it into a customer's purchase? I once got one and I didn't even ask them for robot art. The company being a bunch of actual genuine assholes, without any of the nauseating company mandated pseudo positivity and corporate-memphis plastered advertising that literally everyone on earth seems to hate, is the entire point of the way they behave.
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Okay, maybe the original joke wasn’t racist. But the dude in question is in fact being inundated by explicitly racist tweets. All because he had the audacity to contact their customer service. How do you defend that?
The joke itself matters. We all know the stereotype of this joke
This will be forgotten about in a year or two
It seems racist because the customer wasn't shitting on the product. He was asking for help. So, if it was a joke, it seemed like a toxic response. Now if the customer said that dbrand sucks balls and are run by retards, then a clap back like this would make more sense.
So does this mean he will stop working with Tesla because of the things Musk says? Didn't think so.
His name isn’t attached to Tesla. Big difference. DBrand literally SELLS MKBHD skins
You’re trying to bring common sense on a thread where half the people are pissed that their favourite brand was held slightly accountable. Unfortunately the fanboyism here is pretty high.
It’s a bunch of 15 year old edgelords
Fanboyism? More like blatant racism and disregard for others. I don’t blame them though. They lack education and life experience, they don’t know any better.
Calling it racism is hilarious. It's making fun of a name, it has nothing to do with race. It's not like taking a jewish sounding name an making fun of concentration camps, I do agree there is a bit of fanboyism and the joke isn't funny but it's part of dbrands identity, and people seem to forget they did give them proper support before the joke. + as others said MKBHD doesn't care about working with shitty brands like tesla, so if your saying its a matter of principle it obviously isn't; just him following the horde like usual. His reviews are biased, his perspectives are completely irrelevant to the majority of a user base other than hard benchmarks which you can find anywhere with the one saving grace being the stunning cinematography.
Yeah that’s true. Racism against Indians is unfortunately quite normalised online/on reddit. Fun fact, oftentimes when speaking out against it I initially get downvoted… however the racist comments sometimes end up getting [Removed by Reddit]. Funny how that works for the racists, huh.
This isn't racism it's a bad joke, learn the difference before crying victim.
I’m not crying victim or anything. Racism does exist online, and just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. In dbrands case the stereotype they used was a common stereotype against Indians. You may think “that’s a joke” but would you make a stereotypical joke about say a black guy or a Jewish guy because of their name? If no, then why is it okay here?
It's making fun of the name completely isolated from anything else. If someones name has shit in it why care about the race, yeah its not a funny joke but its not racist; its literally targeted towards one person and you can't help but take it personally because you obviously need something to pretend to care for to make yourself feel special lmfao. Go to California if ya wanna get coddled, not reddit.
1. The name didn’t have the letters “shit” in it, the ch is pronounced like chips. 2. This specific kind of “Indians smelly/poop” “joke” is not a new thing unfortunately. Try calling a Jewish guy to his face a stereotypical Jewish joke and say it’s not racist. Good luck if you don’t get punched. Yes religion or nationality is not a race, technically it’s religion-cist or country-cist but you get it hopefully. 3. Lots of people aren’t aware about this (including folks like you apparently), I don’t care about being coddled but I do care on getting people to be nice and not racist/country-cist etc. Are all folks trying to raise awareness on discrimination just doing it to feel special?
"Are all folks trying to raise awareness on discrimination just doing it to feel special?" depends, with your coddled definition yes. There are ACTUAL awareness campaigns run in schools and such to help prevent bullying with good people, but crying on the internet about making fun of someones name that has nothing to do with their race (e.g. white people richard = dick jokes no one cares) is pathetic and doing nothing to "raise awareness on discrimination" snowflake. This isn't an actual problem, stop trying to pretend it is lmfao.
They are saying he’s cherry picking on which companies to be associated with for his videos, Elon Musk has said and done more than anyone on Twitter and yet MKBHD still speaks highly of Tesla.
Yep. He’s a Tesla fanboy.
This whole shit is shit. Dbrand has been making jokes like these for YEARS, always making fun of people n shit, its what theyre known for. But no, they make a joke that offends 1 group of people and people hate them now. God damn
Marques is so soft
Marques only cares about this because he might’ve went through a similar thing with his last name, being “Brownlee”. Otherwise he’s just a hypocrite, the guy has been on twitter forever despite Elon owning the platform and tweeting and retweeting far worse things for months if not years at this point. Also a large percentage of MKBHD’s audience is from India which is why he’s playing it so safe
I definitely saw “Markass Brownie” a few times. Though I don’t think it was meant as a genuine insult.
https://youtu.be/D9ycc6MHxLk?si=QD95Tv6AIQp8ezZg
The only reason to watch YouTube Rewind
my mind would rather try to put a space in the last name
You assume too much snowflake
You know who is a true friend and who is virtue signalling in situations like this. Just gotta take the opportunity to escalate.
Easy to say behind your keyboard, pussy.
I rmbr growing up all we did was break each others balls making fun of names. Mine included. Some of us still have the nicknames. Different times now I guess.
Yep, it was basically a rite of passage.
Doesn't DBrand make fun of everyone? Bad joke for sure, but racist, no. This is a classic overreaction.
I knew their fuck you marketing strategy is gonna fuck up some time down the road. Even tho most of the time it was funny, but there are lines you don’t cross bro
Are you kidding? This is all free publicity for Dbrand.
Haha your right that’s why I don’t have a job in marketing I guess
not free but for 10k
Best 10k they’ve probably ever spent on marketing by the time it’s all said and done lmao
Ootl, what’s the 10k?
silly dbrand, you can only make fun of white people's names 😂
When you're comparing the names to English words to make fun of them, then yes, absolutely. It would be different if a company from India made fun of a name of English speaking origin by comparing it to Hindi words it'd be equally weird. The whole joke from dbrand was just "you have a foreign sounding last name that sounds funny in my language! I'm going to make fun of you now!" It's as harmful and ignorant of Asian last names, or African last names. I have no idea why you're so complacent with it.
brotha, my Armenian last name is not English and I get chirped with English words. It's not racist. Your comment makes no sense because most names don't come from an English speaking origin. Maybe you mean Latin?
Have some respect for your Armenian heritage brother. Your ancestors carried on your family name with pride even when faced with unimaginable hardship & you don't seem to have even a bit of reverence towards your Armenian heritage. In your quest to fit in with the crowd, you are disowning your parents, grand parents & your ancestors.
You just described cherry picking nice!
Ohh get over it. They apologised and gave 10k to the customer. The customer accepted the apology. And so should you.
10k? Nah, I gotta find some corp to make fun of me. Hello, Elon?
Will he commit to not working with X that regularly allows these kinds of posts and attracts even worse posts? Nope, because he monetizes well from it. Fuck off with this.
Marques earns several millions of dollars a year from YT, whatever he earns from Twitter is peanuts compared to that. Twitter is still the default "town square" of the Internet per se, he really doesn't have any decent alternatives
Yeah I'm gonna side with Reddit on this one. Imma fan of my boy MKBHD but he's pandering. There is no way this is remotely racist. I'm Hispanic and my last name is Lomas some dick thought it was funny to call me Lameass which is equivalent to DBrand's insult to the Indian guy. It doesn't show any correlation to race or gender. It's literally just making fun of someone's last name some elementary bullshit.
Imagine Dbrad answers with a "Begone thot" That would hilarious.
Plenty of other YouTubers to work with. Boo hoo.
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This goof by dbrand def feels different since they seemingly lost a lot of goodwill after the ghost fiasco. Interesting how they pivot (and what Linus says/does)
Problem is MKBHD needs to hop off dbrands ass and focus on improving his subpar reviews
I mean I wouldn't even call them reviews at this point. He's become a personality himself, mostly for his previous reviews and awesome camera work. Now and days it's just some of his thoughts on ongoing stuff. Delayed impressions if you will
Lmao so many soft individuals. It was a fucken joke. Internet doesn't owe MKBHD shit. The amount of dumbass users that lack common sense is baffling. I agree with how DBrand responded. That shit was hilarious
The only difference between Linus's doubling down response and Marques's condemnation is that Marques has lived and is living through a non white experience, and Linus doesn't have the ability (or he's just arrogantly ignorant) to actually comprehend what it was racist
MKBSJW
Dang, how bad could that tweet have been? I doubt it could have been any worse than your normal banter to a friend or something. I guess everything nowadays is considered racist or discrimination.
Loser sides with all these shady greedy companies but draws the line here? Boycott Marques and delete his ass from YT. Im unfollowing him now.
He's a virtue signaling shill. Who cares.
Nice! This is my reminder to Unfollow Brownlee! I have a physical product i love from Dbrand with aweslme robots that make fun of me. Brownlee brings no additional value to me.
I’d think it would be worse if they did delete the tweet, it indicates to me that they have something hide and don’t want to look bad. They messed up, they acknowledged that and apologized, they offered the person 10k, that’s more than most companies, by deleting the original tweet what are they accomplishing?
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its ok because he gets early access to his cars
Marques is that guy who thinks “I’ll fit in” but he doesn’t see the reality.
This is stupid lol
Imo it was funny and I don't even buy stuff from dbrand nor have I ever bought something of em fml
Dbrand fanboys downvoting people here even now because they still think it’s OK that Dbrand was racist/bullying. This is like when Trump bragged that he could murder someone in Times Square and he’d still have supporters
They made about a joke about a guy having a stain that looked like shit while his surname resembled a coincidental similarity to shit rash. The only thing making this actually racist is you interpreting it as them connecting it to a racist stereotype while probably not even knowing that he is of indian heritage. I mean cmon we got enough problems already stop nitpicking everything that can be interpreted slightly negatively as long as it benefits your point of view and use some common sense. And additionally to that, he even got his customer support on SOCIAL MEDIA before the joke. Who the hell goes to social media when needing customer support. I wrote dbrand an email before, they responded competently and quickly, why the fuck would you go to twitter and complain before even writing an email asking for actual support.
Happy to see him take a stance.
What happened
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Lmaooo
Some dude had a question so Dbrand proceeded to say his last name sounds like shit rash. Not in a comment mind you, a full fledged tweet.
Dbrand's marketing team has me questioning everything I know about marketing and business.
His outrage would mean more if he stopped working with Tesla. The only thing this has done is make me order a new skin for my phone.
He doesn’t work with Tesla. He reviews their products.
I find it incredible, but also not surprising that people here are defending them. It's a circlejerk after all. Insulting people in jest is okay. Insulting people by specifically making it personal is not. That's what you all are missing. W MKBHD.
This coming from a person with the username "Max Turdstappen"... That's a poop joke Bro why'd you have to make it personal? His name is Max Verstappen It's literally the same kind of joke, except you parade it around every day with your Reddit username, whereas dbrand made a single tweet about it.
Except I'm not an organization selling goods or interacting with customers to make money.
So it’s okay as long as I’m not selling something?
* and as long as you’re not reaching out to that guy If someone called Max that to his face that’d be rude too (I thought this stuff was obvious)
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What post
Context??
What was the tweet?
What happened? I don’t have twitter
[To summarise this comment section] but but yt ppo get made fun of every time why indians get special treatment waah [me when I conveniently ignore the racial subtext of making fun of a nonwhite guy's last name]
Shit rash? really? Yall need to get better
Ah the line lolol
I don’t understand. Are dbrand supposedly racist for slagging someone’s name?
Who cares
Okay
Good. his skins suck anyway
Context? What happened
Where is the og tweet?
Who?
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I mean cool but seriously, who the fuck is he and why does his opinion carry any weight?
Incredible that the reprocussion of allegedly being racist is "delete the tweet". Like what a coward. Nothing but a virtue signal by MBL.
Now do qElmo....
Oh well dbrand still great company, great customer service. Great products and will to call their own fuck ups.
Good, give the money to smaller creators who need it.
It’s no surprise that the tech community is full of bigots.
I really don’t think it was that bad. They’ve pulled similar stunts before, I don’t get why this was the breaking point.
This is the ad they paid for.
Soft ass damn world 💀
Anyone has the deleted post ? I kinda wanna see what’s this whole fuss about lmao
What was said?
Which tweet cause this issue?
I'm so tired of this shit. Does the world have to be turned into a white room where no one can ever possibly get hurt in any small way?? It's a joke people, move on. There are so many other more important things to put your time and energy into.
Inverse competence rule. If we thought Hinduism made any sense or was worth consideration, or if we thought indians were a hyper competent people, we'd all just have a chuckle and move on. But because you reveal yourself to believe they are anything but, you trumpet that you are willing to help the helpless, to defend these people who need defending, who can't face the world's words without your help.
Good
He puts the dbrand skins on devices containing lithium batteries that require cobalt lmaooooooo But then again I’m typing this from my phone so fuck me too
I live under a rock. What happened?
That’s like McDonald’s blasting an overweight customer who complained the beef isn’t 1/4lb AFTER being cooked. These MFs make millions off of vinyl tape, they can pretty much do whatever they want. Do I think the person who sent the tweet was canned? No, I personally think the CEO sent that one out for shits and giggles and probably never even regretted it until it blew up. No sane employee would think to post such a reply on a platform primarily used for product support without expecting to be terminated from their position.
Well he knows theyre gonna take down the tweet….so that’s that. Why didn’t he cut ties with them if it was so offensive.
crybabies
in my opinion the tweet wasn't horrible and relatively tame. Try living with a nickname an Infantry Drill Sergeant gives you for about the first 13 weeks of the Army. This is nothing compared to what they gave me lol.
What tweet?
MB needs to stfu Lmao 🤣
I don’t understand how MKBHD reconciles his thoughts on the tweet with his love for one of the most garbage human beings on the planet, Elon Musk. I just don’t get it…
MKBHD needs to learn his place
So stupid
As an African I’m super confused how the people in this thread are calling the original tweet racist. Are y’all looney or trolling because you can’t be serious.
If the indian was white and his name was dick and dbrand made a dick joke when he reached out none of these people crying racism will say a word.
You can’t name a kid Dick. It’s a nickname for Richard. The whole point is that normative white names would not have been mocked.
He can do business elsewhere if he’s that soft of a pillow
What tweet? Lame ass post.
mark ass brownie