Sup you beautiful bastards
hope you're havin a fantastic Monday!
welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into it the first thing we're gonna talk about today by far
One of the most requested stories in fact it was something that I want to talk about Saturday
There are updates the story after I had filmed we had technical problems
And so I figured let's just talk about it today
And that is the very troubling story around DEFY, the screen junkies and specifically Andy Signore for the sake of this story
It's important you understand how this umbrella works
This isn't just a guy from the screen junkies you had Andy who created screen junkies other shows like man-at-arms
But in addition to that he was senior vice president of content at defy media
And DEFY media if you don't know is the digital media company behind screen junkies, smosh, smosh games
Clevver TV, the AWE me channel, BREAK, Made Man
Okay, so that said, what happened? well on Friday a woman by the name of Emma Bowers went to her Twitter and Facebook to make allegations
Against Andy, writing: ''In light of recent events with Harvey Weinstein now is a good time to remind everyone
I was sexually harassed by Andy Signore, the creator of screen junkies
I was interning aka working for copy credit on some viral videos for him, and he came across some pinup photos
I had done
He messaged me to say how hot I was and tried to play it off as silly
"Lol jacking it to you and your undies" when I tried to brush it off
He offered me to come over so he could do it in person. I will never forget his exact words quote
"You can read a book for all I care." You need to understand this guy was my boss
He was in a position of power and I was a very under skilled young lady working with him for free with the promise of
If he could pay me, so I say "I'm flattered but no thank you", 'cause I was desperate to break into the world of costume design.
a few months later when I realized the project was going nowhere. I finally got the courage to back out
I told him I was done his response. Oh, that's professional of you
I tried to move on but that experience killed my desire to get into costume design
And it causes me a lot of rage to see my Facebook friends who are woke,
active and feminist repost and reblog honest trailers that allow this awful creep to make money, so yeah, it's not just Weinstein
I wish I'd fought more which I'd screen capped his messages
But I was young scared and dumb so I did girls in Hollywood get taken advantage of so much
I just want people to believe me when I say this happen and very soon after this post from Emma Bowers other women started coming
forward with their
experiences one of the most troubling coming from a woman by the name of April dawn in response to Emma she wrote he tried to
Force himself on me, and I've been in talks with their HR for the past two months
But all they've done is protect him and in a more detailed statement she wrote over the past two months
I've been talking with screen junkies HR department after Andy signor tried to actually assaults me on multiple occasions
I did what I believed to be the right thing and trusted the company to do something considering two other women also came forward with
Me HR company continued to not take me seriously and only had andis interests in mind
He threatened my boyfriend's job security saying he would fire him if I told anyone this has been the hardest time of my life
but I'm coming forward in hopes that no other women will have to be subject to this kind of treatment took out sex toys and
Tried to force them in took pictures of me without my permission and promised a position at screen junkies for sexual favors
I hope this encourages more women to come forward because I believe you then confirming this claim you saw writer comedian host Danny
Fernandez tweeting saying in July I called defies
HR and gave them the names of women and witnesses who agreed to talk to them about Andi he never contacted the additional witnesses that
Also, included two male producers. They had a detailed list of graphic instances
He told one of the women that they had quote defies best interest at heart that is literally what they told her about her sexual
Assault several of the people in the film community knew this I know because I told them personally and continued to work with him then
We also saw fans coming forward with their
Experiences with Andi what a woman that came forward was Devin Murphy who shared alleged emails and direct messages here
It looks like he wants her to send a picture. She does he then allegedly responds. You should be a youtube star
I'd have that show on screen junkies Plus. Lol. Especially if you're in that outfit. Hop
He also saw a screen junkies staff responding to this incident on Twitter
How Rudnick who's on screen and a writer for screen junkies tweeted shocked saddened and disgusted by the news today
I believe in support the women who've come forward. It takes bravery to speak screen junkies producer Dan Morrell tweeting I'm numb
I don't know what to do questioning everything. I thought I knew those that came forward
I hear you
And I believe he had writer for screen junkies and honest trailers Spencer Gilbert right Isaac and saddened and frankly in shock right now not
Going into work. That's for sure
Then finally screen junkies and defying media publicly respond writing we had screen junkies and defying media have no tolerance for harassment or retaliation
Of any kind we've been conducting a thorough investigation
And the allegations made against Andy signor and are preparing to respond to those allegations and take appropriate
action given the additional information that was made available today
We feel it is necessary to suspend Andy's employment while we continue our investigation you will take all necessary
action once the investigation is fully complete at this point many people pointed out that that did not seem to line up with many of
The claims specifically with Danny Fernandez and other women saying we came to HR we had all this information
Any Fernandez responded multiple women came forward and we gave you the of male producers who had witness and you did nothing?
This has been going on for months remember when your HR person replied, okay?
So what do you want us to do about this?
How about your job?
And as this story gained more and more traction over the weekend more women came forward with their
experiences with Andi both of these stories seemed to be him trying to flirt with
Or connect with fans and there did not seem to be a shortage of these claims and then on Sunday screen junkies and defy media
Released another statement writing defy media and screen junkies have today terminated Andi signore's employment effective immediately
simply no justification for this egregious and intolerable behavior in August defies HR team was made aware of
Allegations made against Andi at which time an investigation was launched on Friday new information became available and the scope and magnitude of his
Inappropriate actions became apparent you're acting swiftly to address the concerns of the people affected and then going forward our community is free of harassment
or discrimination of any kind and ultimately where I land on this is I'm just I'm
Disgusted and understand this story is about Andi signor, but it is much bigger than Andi and understand
I'm not saying it's one or the other there is Andi
But then I also have to look to defy media if I media who women said they went to the HR department to report this
Defy media themselves saying they knew about this since August, and it wasn't until the public found out about it
Or as they say we got more information
information at the women who said they went to HR say that they had that we see them make a meaningful move by terminating in
And I have to say on a personal note with how pivotal. I hear Andi is over there. It is hard for me
Not to feel like he was being protected. I've got to ask de 5
What is your HR department like I have never worked for a company where the HR department?
Gets the claim that from a woman that someone a man in a high position
Tried to sexually assault her or sexually harassed her and that launches an investigation that according to the women
You didn't ask for more information also judging from his timeline while you were still engaged in this investigation who's still around?
Many female employees many female guests
I mean what kind of HR department allows that and it's not because
HR departments are these these beautiful things that are just looking out for
People a part of the corporate machine that is meant to yes protect the employees, but also protect the company from a lawsuits
That's crazy, and it makes me want to fight or elise an active timeline of their suppose at investigation
I mean honestly to defy I have to ask you how do you expect your employees to feel safe?
What the situation has shown so many people is that?
You can be sexually harassed you can go through the proper channels you bring it to HR
And they will handle that for you. They will keep you safe after about two months and a lot of public anger
I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt
But when when I see Danny Fernanda is replying to this?
Announcement Friday scope and magnitude we literally told you he tried to force a dildo on April when he pushed himself on her and again
Explaining that HR didn't contact the witnesses
I can't help I feel like defy only did this because it was public
But that said I am gonna pass the question off to you. What is your takeaway from this situation?
Do you think that HR try to do their best or they were?
protecting someone feel like anything would have happened if this hadn't turned into such a public event I loved know your thinking and why and
those comments down below then let's talk about the brand of
Coming under fire over the weekend for an ad they put out. I mean I people were outraged on Friday
dev released a three-second Facebook ad and in that it featured a
dark-skinned woman in a dark shirt and taking that shirt off to reveal a very
Light-skinned woman in a light shirt and many people started saying that this was offensive this was racist saying this calls back to overtly racist
Soap advertise essentially showing dark-skinned people as dirty than soap gets involved in the equation and boom now your light skinned you're not dirty anymore
Thanks so now after all the outrage dove removed the ad than issuing this statement that is committed to representing the beauty of diversity in
An image we post this week
We missed the mark and thoughtfully representing women of color
And we deeply regret the offense out of his cause the feedback that has been shared is important to us
And we'll use it to guide us in the future. I will say the situation as it's been described here
I mean it looks pretty damning for Dove at the very least it seems incredibly tone-deaf
That said it should also be noted that there is more to the equation here
Have a claim that this small ad was meant to show quote ad of body washes for every woman
Well, then why was your ad just a dark-skinned woman turning into a light-skinned woman well
It wasn't the full ad actually featured three women
There's a third woman in the ad that has a darker skin tone and so ultimately where I land on this is do I understand
Why some people are angry here?
Yes, I get it especially when a lot of the way that this story has been presented is dark-skinned woman turns into light-skinned woman
Thanks, soap. I mean I get it if the ad only features two people you could see that as a before-and-after
When you look at the ad and it's three second
Entirety you see kind of what they were going for so the question
I want to pass off to the story is if you saw this before
and now you are aware of the full ad is it still offensive to you know what you think then because
The world is a silly stupid place. Let's talk about the McDonald's Rick and Morty riots
I say riots cuz I'm a fan of hyperbole now in this if you're not familiar there has been a craze over the idea of
McDonald's reira leasing their Szechuan sauce it's because of something that happened in an episode of Rick and Morty this season and since that episode
Aired McDonald's just jumped on top of that use that as a marketing tool
They kept building up the hype until they announced yes for one day only
McDonald's around the country where you could go in and get Szechuan sauce and things got
Ridiculous videos and pictures started popping up from outside of McDonald's with hundreds of people lined up
And it seemed to be understood that there would be a limited supply of the sauce but not
How limited it would be or some people claiming that there were stores that only had 20 packets others
17 once these stores start running out of sauce people start losing their damn minds
We saw instances of police having to be nearby to keep things calm people in the stores chanting and yelling at the employees
My favorite things to come out of this situation was a video of what appears to be a guy taking
$10 per nugget if you wanted to dip it in the sauce
And I have to say I personally thought that was genius
Until I went to ebay and saw that three of these sauce packs three of them sold for over eight hundred forty eight dollars
Also an important thing to note Rick and Morty the Creator is Adult Swim
They reportedly had nothing to do with this campaign Justin roiland a co-creator of the show tweeted
FYI we had nothing to do with this McDonald's stuff not happy with how this was handled please be cool to the employees it's not
their fault and in response to this whole situation
McDonald's has said, "We've heard ya! We're gonna make this right in the last 24 hours
We've worked to open any portal
Necessary and at work Szechuan sauce is coming back once again this winter and instead of being one day
Only in limited to select restaurants were bringing more a lot more." and so ultimately where I land on this story is a little bit
Conflicted there's part of me that I understand
It's incredibly easy to want to make fun of people losing their mind that they didn't get a nugget sauce they're the people I empathize
With the most of the people where you see that they did their work
they made sure the location that they were gonna go to that they were gonna sell the sauce they traveled hours to get there because
There was nothing near that those people got incredibly inconvenienced
And and that sucks and on the other end I get that limited availability sells like crazy
but you knew the amount of demand for this product imagine most of
McDonald's
they're aware of the campaigns people started to bring back the sauce and all the likes and the
Retweets and all the videos, and then they allegedly send one of the locations
That's going to get the sauce 20 packets that doesn't even seem like limited availability that seems like a troll nono
What's your takeaway here then let's talk about an update around the Casey Neistat
Jimmy Kimmel ad controversy we talked about yesterday if you want to know the specifics I recommend you watch that video first
but to oversimplify
YouTube D monetize Casey Neistat in a video where he was raising money for the victims of the Vegas shooting now is of no because
Casey said that he was going to donate all the money he made from Adsense on Twitter
They said sorry we love what you're doing, but this is a policy
I then tweet of them saying it looks like the implementation of that policy is bullshit because Jimmy Kimmel has ads on his Vegas
shooting solo video I got like a hundred twenty thousand plus retweets hundreds of thousands of like it also spawned a
fantastic hit piece from gizmo die wrote an article title YouTube videos about Las Vegas
Massacre blocked from making money in Casey nice that got piss they stated this was simply a case of a vlogger who feels he should
Be the exception to the rule something that Philip DeFranco agreed with they then tried to cast doubt on my claim that there were ads
Running on Jimmy Kimmel's video saying as of new an Eastern
No ads are playing on the video, which I showed and I actually had a screen float video
I showed the ads were still running at that time
I'm a little lazy reporting they then updated the article saying update there now appears to be ads on the video which is beautiful because
It appears that they can't even admit that they were wrong here and additionally to point out something else that was wrong with your reporting
the the problem isn't that Casey wants to be the exception to the rule the problem is that at face value the only exceptions to
The rule here are the Jimmy Kimmel's and the late-night host and the people with huge huge backing people are simply expressing their frustration
And asking why does it appear that these guys are the exception to the rule that said one?
I actually want to thank gizmoto for their lazy reporting here every time you do something like this
It just adds legitimacy to what I'm doing here and secondly we have updates to the story because YouTube
Contacted me this morning. So they confirmed what I theorized yesterday that the ads on that video were partners sold
I mean the ads on those videos were sold and placed by the Jimmy Kimmel sales team
Yeah As you're seeing before this video unless this video got
Demonetized or sold through you to one in front of Jimmy Kimmel's video reportedly partners souls the question then becomes do partners sold ads
Supersede YouTube ad policy according to my contacts at YouTube this morning yes and their reasoning behind
This is when YouTube is selling ads and they have the ad policy in place
They have to set broad rules right we all saw the YouTube ad pocalypse where advertisers were scared of what their content was in front
O because YouTube wanted to make advertisers feel safe they updated their ad policy we saw stricter enforcement
but most likely and I think
Understandably people are still going to have a problem with that their statement on Twitter to Casey Neistat seems to be them saying any any
Video about a tragedy no ads whatsoever. That's the rule it's that same in there appears to be flat blunt
So this is the rules it doesn't matter about context
I mean what this appears to show us is that YouTube has no moral problem with
Profiting off of videos around a tragedy because YouTube did confirm
They're still getting a cut from those partner ads it appears their blunt kind of caveman enforcement of this rule is more about just keeping
Advertisers happy rather make it less likely that the brands are gonna. Be outraged
I say blunt and caveman-like because a Casey nice dive video. It's not really about the tragedy
It's about raising funds to help victims
Although it potentially throws a wrench into that excuse is I was talking to fellow creator a buddy Ethan Klein of course
Massive youtuber he did his own video on this whole situation
According to him that excuse might not fully add up because quo network was unable to sell ads because on inappropriate content YouTube limits
Monetizable views it's total BS partner sold still goes through the same system the final update to the story
Is a final official statement YouTube sent me after we had our talk there they wrote for nearly eight years
We've allowed a small number of large
Whitelisted partners to run partner sold ads on videos in these cases the partners work directly with the advertisers to serve ads on their content
And in so doing took full responsibility for their placement including issues around brand suitability
But then adding in the specific case of tragedies like the one in Las Vegas
We are working to not allow such partners to sell against such concept
We have not completed this work yet
But will soon so from that it sounds like the partner sold ads will still supersede some ad policies
But not tragedies, and then I guess that's going to also create the question of well since these ads have been playing
What are you gonna do with your profits from it?
I know that's where we are right now, and I want to pass the question off to you
What is your takeaway from this and that's actually where I'm going to end today's show remember if you like this video you like what?
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