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by newsclues 1303 days ago
I think that is a comment about alt right commentators online. YewTube sounds like an anti Semitic joke.
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phyzome 1303 days ago
That seems like overactive pattern-matching to me. Yew is a plant.
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Cyberdog 1303 days ago
Jesus, people see nazis behind every blade of grass nowadays.

Pray tell, what is antisemitic about "YewTube?" Just that it's one letter away from "JewTube?" Sure, but if the creators intended to be antisemitic, why not just call it that then?

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BlackLotus89 1302 days ago
Oh I even checked urbandict to be sure that it couldn't be this and all I found was the happy sound surfer make "Yew".

I think that's just a sign of the times that you see right-wing and left-wing comments everywhere even when it isn't there at all.

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