Jon ‘JonTron’ Jafari has been removed from a video game called Yooka-Laylee by U.K. developer Playtonic after the YouTube star made several incendiary, far-right statements in recent weeks about immigration and race.
Jafari, who counts roughly 3.1 million subscribers on his own gaming channel, and who co-founded a network of gaming channels called NormalBoots, according to Gizmodo, tweeted his support for Iowa Representative Steve King’s anti-immigrant statement that “We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.”
Subsequently, in a two-hour livestream with fellow gamer Steve Bonnell, Jafari likened immigration to apartheid South Africa and made other false claims, including that Mexicans are setting up ethnic enclaves to take over parts of America and wealthy black Americans commit more crimes than poor whites. He also expressed anxiety about the fact that he believes whites will become a minority in the U.S. by the year 2042, according to Gizmodo.
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Jafari, who counts roughly 3.1 million subscribers on his own gaming channel, and who co-founded a network of gaming channels called NormalBoots, according to Gizmodo, tweeted his support for Iowa Representative Steve King’s anti-immigrant statement that “We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.”
Subsequently, in a two-hour livestream with fellow gamer Steve Bonnell, Jafari likened immigration to apartheid South Africa and made other false claims, including that Mexicans are setting up ethnic enclaves to take over parts of America and wealthy black Americans commit more crimes than poor whites. He also expressed anxiety about the fact that he believes whites will become a minority in the U.S. by the year 2042, according to Gizmodo.
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- 3/24/2017
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Jon Jafari started his video game-centric YouTube channel under the banner of JonTron back in August 2010. In the less-than-four-years since, the New Yorker's comical, critical, and sometimes nostalgic look at terrible video games (and occasionally other pieces of very bad entertainment ephemera) have amassed quite the following. And it's easy to see why. Jafari covers the very popular online video gaming genre unlike anyone else, by way of compelling takedowns with a Mystery Science Theater-esque spin. Plus, the dude's got a pet parrot that sits on his shoulder while he plays. JonTron officially hit the one million subscribers mark on YouTube on May 7, 2014. We caught up with him to ask how it feels to cross the seven-figure sub threshold, what all goes into the making of his videos, and what he's planning next. Tubefilter: How does it feel to have one million subscribers? What do you have to say to your fans?...
- 5/15/2014
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
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