Yup that's to the point. Imagine what it would be like MKBHD praising a Galaxy S7 or a OnePlus 3 so much so in his reviews and getting paid for it by the respective companies. I bet millions would trust him with their eyes closed. This is some serious mess which needs to be cleaned.

If only most people actually wanted this and didn't use adblock services. I make YT videos and also run websites and each year the amount of people using adblock goes up(currently hovers around 20-30% a month).

I understand some websites place to many annoying and vast amounts of ads. Just stop going to them instead of hurting every site trying to cover costs. Losing sometimes 30% of potential tial revenue on something that doesn't pay much per person to begin with is the cause of problems like this.

Where was he lying about it's worthiness? He played the game, enjoyed the game, said so, didn't do a "review" as people claimed he did and did actually disclose in the description that the video was paid for by WB at a time when you actually weren't obligated to do so and a lot of other YouTubers didn't because WB didn't ask.

I love how this whole story has gone from "Pewdiepie was paid for reviews" to "Yeah, er.. well he should've done more!" This is more a story about WB now than anything, but then again things have changed since 2014.

And let's see if these douchebags apologize.

Well look at Angry Joe was milking and begging his subscribers for money to purchase a Wii U, YET he IS part of Channel Awesome which IS partnered with Maker Studios and he does make quite a bit of money each month, yet his subscribers needed to pitch in so he could buy a Wii U...And yet people try and defend him to the ends of the earth...