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MTV forced to delete white guy video

  • 21-12-2016 02:18PM
    #1
    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭


    So MTV posted a video telling white guys how to improve in the new year. Needless to say it drew a large reaction from across the web. They have now deleted it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGFfbSoAQfM


    The video is pretty stupid in general but I can't quite figure out what it's goal was.


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  • #2
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    I want to smack the guy narrating that video.


  • #3
    MrMorooka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭MrMorooka


    Little CuChulainn wrote: »
    The video is pretty stupid in general but I can't quite figure out what it's goal was.

    Advertising, looked like it worked. Now we are all thinking of MTV again.


  • #4
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    I didn't get some of the references, but I agreed with some of the others. Still, looks like it was designed to be provocative and it did the job.


  • #5
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭Dr Crayfish


    Who cares? As a white guy, I'm really happy I can laugh at myself.


  • #6
    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    MrMorooka wrote: »
    Advertising, looked like it worked. Now we are all thinking of MTV again.

    I know they say all publicity is good publicity but there's many cases were goofs like this have proven the opposite. I can't see this as being anyway positive for MTV.


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  • #7
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    lol MTV

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #8
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Little CuChulainn wrote: »
    I know they say all publicity is good publicity but there's many cases were goofs like this have proven the opposite. I can't see this as being anyway positive for MTV.

    On a scale of provocative it's closer to writing a blog post than going full Trump.


  • #9
    Oodoov
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭Oodoov


    Time for a tax on stupid. America would be loaded.


  • #10
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,101 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    MrMorooka wrote: »
    Advertising, looked like it worked. Now we are all thinking of MTV again.

    But are we watching MTV?


  • #11
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    lertsnim wrote: »
    But are we watching MTV?

    No. We're listening to a sanctimonious git whinge over a video that MTV made.

    Editing to add: I mean the voice over on the video. Just in case anyone thinks I mean the OP.


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  • #12
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Meh, the M in their name went from Music to Moron at the turn of the millennium.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #13
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Don't have a problem but I would like them to commission a black and Asian guy video too just for the sake of balance.


  • #14
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,101 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Don't have a problem but I would like them to commission a black and Asian guy video too just for the sake of balance.

    Do one for the ladies too while they are at it.


  • #15
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    Would it be fair to say a lot of special snowflakes were triggered by this video?


  • #16
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    MrMorooka wrote: »
    Advertising, looked like it worked. Now we are all thinking of MTV again.

    No....no we are not.


  • #17
    Vinculus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 369 ✭✭Vinculus


    Who remembers seeing Mazzy Star playing a live session on 120 minutes?

    Miss that MTV


  • #18
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Maximus Alexander wrote: »
    Would it be fair to say a lot of special snowflakes were triggered by this video?
    If they weren't then wouldn't have had to take it down. ;)

    Dumb video, but pretty funny situation from it all the same.


  • #19
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,801 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Ze is not amused


  • #20
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    MrMorooka wrote: »
    Advertising, looked like it worked. Now we are all thinking of MTV again.

    thinking and reaffirming how sh*t it is.


  • #21
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,369 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Feck but some young liberals are adamant on shooting themselves in the foot.


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  • #22
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,310 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Little CuChulainn wrote: »
    I can't see this as being anyway positive for MTV.
    Ah yes, MTV, a channel that should be called AnythingButMusic TeleVision!
    Vinculus wrote: »
    Who remembers seeing Mazzy Star playing a live session on 120 minutes?

    Miss that MTV
    Remember when they actually had music, instead of talk of some Z list celeb?


  • #23
    Osmosis Jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,370 ✭✭✭✭Osmosis Jones


    It's just MTV trying to remain relevant by attacking the only group of people they're allowed to.


  • #24
    Sabre0001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Sabre0001


    Had me worried for a second. Thought we could no longer get tips on how to look Pretty Fly...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AltMeuPkWRs

    🤪



  • #25
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,423 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Vinculus wrote: »
    Who remembers seeing Mazzy Star playing a live session on 120 minutes?

    Miss that MTV
    I still have a Sonic Youth special from 120 Minutes on video.


  • #26
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,873 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    South Park this year:

    "That's how the world works now. You get blamed for the group you belong to. Even if you didn't do nothin'!"


  • #27
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    I bet they played a music video straight after they aired that.


  • #28
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    I bet they played a music video straight after they aired that.

    The most factually inaccurate post in the history of After Hours. MTV playing music? Would ya ever f*** off! :D


  • #29
    midnight city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 531 ✭✭✭midnight city


    The chirpy condescension in the video is enough to make my head explode.


  • #30
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    Could someone run it by me again what the point of that video was ? Just waste 3 mins of my life.


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  • #31
    Maguined
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,247 ✭✭✭Maguined


    TallGlass wrote: »
    Could someone run it by me again what the point of that video was ? Just waste 3 mins of my life.

    MTV are running loads of videos like this to appeal to millenials.

    Decoded is great for laughs, people of colour cannot be racist as racism is prejudice plus power.


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