J.K. Rowling Promotes Fake News, YouTuber Loses Scholarship Over Video, and Venezuela In Chaos 

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As a Venezuelan who had to leave my country due to the extreme social and political instability, I have no words to describe my gratitude for having done some digging into our very complex issue and raising awareness among the international community of what we are going through. The information presented today is highly accurate and very complete, and it mesmerizes how someone from outside could get it so well, as I always have trouble explaining other people what's happening there as our reality other there it's so fucked up that it sounds like fantasy or fiction to a lot of folks in the first world. Again, thanks a lot for taking your time on this and please, keep helping us on spreading the word and expose the Venezuelan tyranny to the world.

I'm from Venezuela, and the situation of my country it's horrible. Thanks for telling what's happening, we really need your help the narco dictatorship it's destroying my country and killing non stop people that only want a better future and protect the freedom and democracy

i did notice those tweets by Rowling and when i tried to correct her by saying that it could be fake and she's overreacting ... but some of the fangirls jumped at me and sprewd insults towards me 😣

Before the video starts. I'm really glad he's finally covering Venezuela.

Thank you for finally talking about Venezuela, and bringing some light to the situation.

When your currency is worth less than video game currency you know you're fucked. Good luck Venezuela 🇻🇪 I wish you the best

I was born in Venezuela but I moved to the U.S. at an early age and even though my mom and my step-dad watch Venezuelan news 24/7 and I kind of knew about the situation, I had no idea it was actually THIS insane. Phil opened my eyes and now I guess I'll have to be joining my parents in watching the news because most of my family is still living there. I appreciate all the research you did for that segment of your video because it even informed someone who was born in that country but was too ignorant to know anything about it.

Thank you for talking about Venezuela, Phil. I have a co-worker friend who left his friends and family in Venezuela two years ago because of the violence - he was a lawyer there and it became too dangerous for him to stay. He talks to me every day about his home country, how much he loves it and how sad he is because of the violence and brokenness. He is one of the kindest people I know. I hope conditions in Venezuela improve... and that Maduro is held accountable.

Venezuela's president looks like the Latin version of Stalin.

THANK YOU De Franco, I'm from Venezuela, and I've seen a lot of coverage over our situation and NON OF THEM GET IT RIGHT, it's frustrating! and it does us harm! The way you covered the "election" saying that it was illegal because there wasn't a referendum for it, and explaining how the voting works and that it is gerrymandered as hell... NO ONE has explained it like you have, or at all...(pathetic). SO GOOD JOB, AND THANK YOU. I just want to make a few clarifications, people tend to give Chavez a pass, or even put him on a pedestal because of his work with social programs. So I want to point a few things out, because Chavez is the cause of what we are living today. 1) Chavez started arming civilian groups, called Circulos Bolivarianos (that today terrorize low income communities mostly). And when there were elections or opposition protests, they would be there to kill or instill fear in the people. 2) Before Chavez there were a LOT of social programs, he just destroyed them to help himself and his corrupt government, but after he started loosing popularity and the election was coming up, he "created" new social programs (that are nests of corruption) and marketed the hell out of them (they are really effing good at that, marketing and propaganda) 3) Before Chavez, president Caldera (he was not good for Venezuela, but was at least democratic), the government would build around 250k social interest homesm yearly. Chavez did no such thing until he needed a popularity boost, so he created another social program and started building (way less) homes (more marketing), in 2011 I think (Gran Mision Vivienda Venezuela). Also, he didn't build all of them, he painted some, he stole some, he built some.... 4) Maduro didn't actually win his first election, not really. He got the votes, if you checked the ballots vs the signatures, you would get that number. BUT, there as HUGE pressure on social programs users, government workers to vote for him (there are multiple videos of this). And, they nationalized Chinese people, Cubans etc. dead people voted... and so on and so forth. AND ALSO, they didn't let the opposition audit the voting registry (as required by law). If they had let the opposition take a look at the ballots and the signatures/ids/names, you would have seen the cheating. 5) Chavez started nationalizing any private company that stood against him. After Chavez stole them, the companies would collapse due to mismanagement. When Maduro came into power, there were barely any left. Chavez could take that hit because oil prices were high, but Maduro can't because oil prices dropped. So yeah, Chavez started the economic collapse by making us almost 100% oil reliant. But still, other than not being harsh enough on Chavez and not explaining a little bit more about the armed groups and the Maduro first elections, you did a great job. WE VENEZUELANS APPRECIATE IT! we really do. It's not often we see a news youtuber do a good job about our situation. Look at TYT cover of Venezuela, it was pathetic. THANK YOU PHILLIP.

I live in Venezuela and it's like living in hell. Literally. It's the worst nightmare ever.

My man, THANK YOU for letting people know about the horrible situation and injustice that it's going on in my country, the more the rest of the world knows, the better is for Venezuela, thus making the dictatorship unpopular and giving support to my people who have been fighting for 100 days. THANKS 🙏

That was a good breakdown of the Venezuelan Situation. Too bad people care more about shitty twitter drama and petty Trump bs

For a writer, JK Rowling sure doesn't like to read much huh.

I'm not one of these people that thinks JK Rowling should not comment on political issues, given any platform we all have the right to share our opinion, but any reasonable person should know you apologise to anyone you misrepresent, whether you like them or agree with their morals or not. I am personally disappointed in her because i assumed she had more respect for the being fair and balanced than she demonstrated.

in this case I really think he should've chosen college over YT. he didn't even have to choose between the two if he could just keep a balance between the two... it's sad bc there's a high probability that his channel won't last anyway. you can start YT whenever you want but college it harder to get back to

I can't thank you enough Phillip, I am currently living here in Venezuela and our days are getting darker and darker, thank you for covering our story, over 140 people have died and they just seem to not care about shooting us. I hope anyone who see this send a prayer for my country. It really feels like a never ending nightmare. Thank you Phillip and God bless you, your family and your crew.

J.K. rowling has been doing this since the pewdiepie's case. It's a shame that she didn't learn to be critical on the context at all.

Why did Rowling not apologize to the president! But you are RIGHT. Trump was not my guy, Rubio was, but it made my skin crawl. She is playing in the mud, absolutely. It ruins Harry Potter for me, honestly...

Wait so this guy has a full ride to college and an option to continue to do what he wants to do, DOESN'T TAKE IT, and then starts a GoFundMe to pay for college? Whether or not you agree with how the NCAA is doing business, you gotta be living in a fantasy land to have an option as clear as this and back out of it. That's going to be a hard reality to face when he stops getting donations and realizes his RU-vid likely can't support a college tuition.

Thank you for speaking about my country! You have no idea how much it means to us Venezuelans ❤ Everyone, please spread the word of what's going on!! The more everyone knows about the current situation in Venezuela, the better 🇻🇪💕

I'm so thankful you discussed Venezuela's plight, I have over thirty family member still stuck there and unfortunately every single news network seems to be ignoring what's really going on there. Hopefully your video will get some people's eyes to open and start sending relief to Venezuelan citizens.

Being a college student and watching most of the athletes I've had in classes never show up and piss away their free education. I don't feel sorry for the rules even though they are very harsh because, at some schools that scholarship is equivalent to more than the average income of families in the area. These athletes get school for free in exchange for playing a game they like to play. Most students would kill for that, I know I would. He was also given a really good offer from the NCAA to keep playing and have his RU-vid channel but he didn't accept it. It's his fault that his scholarship is gone now.

Thanks for reporting on Venezuela! We need as many attention from international sources as possible, but you forgot to mention a very important aspect, which is the proven corruption of Maduros and Chavez governments. Both have been found to have millions of dollars in offshore accounts, as well as all of their party leaders. And maduros government has also been accused of exporting drugs. Thanks again for the segment!

As a venezuelan I say Thank you!!!

I'm from Colombia, and us Colombians are willing to support our Venezuelan brothers ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

The NCAA rules are dumb. However, as long as they are the rules, and every other athlete has to follow them, then he should have to follow them. I'm surprised they even offered a waiver. So given the waiver, I don't feel bad that he decided against playing, it was his choice. He was offered a simple resolution, where he could play football, make videos, and make money off his videos. He decided against it. The fact he thinks the public should now donate, and pay for his tuition, is sad. You had your tuition paid for, and you decided you didn't want that, so now we should pay your tuition? I'd rather donate to the tuition of somebody that didn't throw away a full ride scholarship.

I'm Venezuelan and i'm very happy you made this video showing how fucked up the country really is. Keep the good work Phillip.

J.K Rowling keeps getting into this kind of stuff she should know better, but I guess she is just letting out her true self.

Phil, thank you so much for bringing light to what Is happening in Venezuela not many people know what is going on... i have to send my Venezuelan grandparent a HUGE box of food and it honestly saddens me that there own country doesn't provide a BASIC human right to consume food #Prayforvenezuela 🇻🇪🙏🏾

J K Rowling seems like the kind of person who repost minion memes about anti-vaccinations...

A scholarship and a football career? Why would he pass that off for a RU-vid channel? I understand a ton of RU-vidrs get bank off of making this their career but this is such an unreliable source of income. Hell even if he was making a ton of money, there's no way that would be an excuse to just pass up a scholarship. There has to be more than this, I can't just believe this guy would just drop this opportunity for his semi-successful RU-vid career.

Did J.K ever apologize to pewdiepie for doing the exact same thing to him though?

yes! we're fucked, a dollar is GOLD for us... currently i have a war tank in the door of my house so is not that easy to go out and protest against this government of NARCS, the mayor of my city is hiding, he's been destitute and can be going to jail and the government is blaming him in a very unfair way, just because he is opponent and the people of this city is in 90% opponent to the government and that's why we have since 2 weeks from now in every corner military...this topic is very delicate an can go for hours and hours, but for now.. if you are reading this pray for VENEZUELA & humanity

As a Venezuelan, seeing this video has left me speechless. It means a lot to see that you dug into the history of CRAP that has been going on in the country. I hope that this video will enlighten people everywhere to no longer consider Maduro as "president" but as he truly is... a dictator. Venezuela is a beautiful country with an amazing potential, but it has and will continue to take such brave protestors for there to be any changes. Thank you for such another amazing and informative video!

As a Venezuelan citizen I'm so happy and glad that you talk about this,we don't have food or medicine not even higiene products like toilet paper and we feel like the world is just leaving us to die in here we don't have passport or money to get out and nobody's does nothing and then I see this video thanks so much philp in the name of my family and country thanks

Relating to boogie, I had have gastric bypass surgery back in 2012. I was close to 500lbs. Do to diagnosed from cancer. But I always been a big person all my life. I also have been a active person, from playing football, basketball, and baseball. I have tried many ways to lose weight, from exercising, pills, diet powders, and even starving which I don't condone. Gastric bypass surgery was my last resort and Does not mean you're lazy to try and lose weight. Fast forward today, I have lost over 300lbs with diet and exercise and I think in my case it helped me. But remember everyone is different. I'm now a healthy weight and comfortable in my skin. I never had a low self a steam even though I was bullied when I was younger. Everyone is different. Love yourself no matter what people say. 💪💪

We have friends in Venezuela and been there ourselves...and believe me, it's always been pretty bad. Recently I've heard more about one way for people to get food is when they're voting they make an agreement to vote for one person and in return they get food for their family. It's truly heartbreaking. He puts his people in a terrible situation just to thrive himself. So fuck him. This is not how we're supposed to treat other human beings. We're supposed to love and care for them, not treat them like toys that we manipulate for our own gain.

On the Trump/disabled kid fake news story, J.K. Rowling is very much to blame for her part but why are we not also giving more attention to this Ansel Herz guy? He is, after all, the one who initially shared the edited clip.

I hope that one day Venezuela will be free and peaceful and that I can finally visit my family.

My Parents own a shipping company that it's main priority is to send boxes to venezuela and right now the government is barely letting us ship anything to Venezuela so less and less people are coming to send stuff to that country. My parents are really stressed out since business is heavily declining and we may even have to move to a smaller place because of the awful Venezuelan government. There is NOTHING we can do right now because not even the money we pay our worker in Venezuela is helping them since there is no food and the government is basically stealing all of their money. Please like this to so Phillip Defranco could see this and just read how that damned country even affects the United States

My uncle just went to Venezuela for vacation on an island for 5,000 usd all inclusive. He was telling me how terrible the situation is there and seeing this doesn't surprise me in the least. Damn they are fucked.

TLDR: Maduro = Bad, but Chavez also = Bad Read if you want to understand how Venezuela is now in this situation. Good to see that you are education the world about the situation in Venezuela, but let us not paint Chavez as a successful or benevolent president. History needs to know what he was, just another populist trying to sell the poor a future he never delivered. They liked him because he was charismatic and because they hoped he would make things better for them. But he was clear from the beginning that he would do it at the expense of the high and the middle class. He portrayed money as evil and took the first steps to dismantling private property and entrepreneurship. And the people loved him because they thought he was Robin Hood. Taking money from what he called the evil bourgeoisie and giving it to the uneducated poor, who's greatest desire in life was having a home they could call their own. But unbeknownst to them is that he and his cronies just pocketed most of the money he promised them. The thing about Chavez is that he knew how to market himself, he was great at keeping his image, and he was always on brand. But a big part of the international community does not know the truth about him for two things: First, things hadn't yet crumbled for him because he still had very expensive oil to profit from and because he was very skilled at keeping the mobsters of his government mafia from getting too greedy and destroying the economy even quicker just for the sake of an easy buck. Second, he created a lot of "positive" relationships with other foreign countries by providing them with trillions of dollars worth of free oil. Many just sucked up to Chavez because they knew if they did that the fool would reward them with tons of money. But don't be confused, Chavez is the originator of Venezuela's downfall. He just died too soon to see it through. And his hand picked successor (Maduro) was somehow even more corrupt and incompetent than him, which just accelerated the whole process exponentially.

I'm from Venezuela and I watch your show everyday. Thank you so much for talking about wha'ts going on in our country.

Finally you talk about Venezuela Phil

If I were Donald I would have accepted the terms, even though I wouldn't be able to make as much from my youtube channel. However, if I was also him I would begin to take this debate to others and help bring awareness to how unfair this system is for college athletes and get a movement to begin reform within the NCAA's rules.

What can we do to help people in Venezuela rather than watching this like a television show from the safety of our sofas?

J.K. Rowling is a prime example of why you should separate the art from the artist. I love Harry Potter, however a lot of what of Rowling does now a days is ridiculous. It's pathetic seeing people defend her not for her views but because she wrote their favourite books.

There's no doubt that J.K. Rowling is one of the greatest authors of fiction of our time. She's just not that good with non-fiction and giving opinion. I can't imagine the difficulties she faced on her research to come up with the Harry Potter story, but then didn't even spent a minute effort to research the real story behind the boy on a wheelchair and Trump. Pity.

The Venezuelan president looks like a Mario Cosplayer.

...still waiting on J.K.Rowling to apologize to PewDiePie... 😂😂😂

I have a similar story like hundreds of others, born in 1994 my mom brought me from Venezuela to the us when i was 4. My whole family was still in Venezuela during chavez and maduro. My uncle was gunned down by the government this last march, it sucks, but thats what happens of your not a supporter of the red. The only choice now honestly is to fight. Venezuelans fought and slaughtered the Spanish for our freedom. Now we need to see this tyrant strung up with a knife in his heart before we can see freedom in our country again. All thats left to say is viva venzuela, viva mi pueblo.

I think that the NCAA rules are stupid AND that he was stupid for not agreeing to their terms. They offered him an attractive out, and he refused. At this point, I'm fine with him suffering these consequences, and am disgusted at him attempting to play the victim to get people to pay for his education instead.

Dammit Phil I've been refreshing my subscriptions for the past hour

I am a division 1 student athlete on scholarship at my university, and I do not believe that we should get paid for our athletic performance. I believe that we are not at universities to play sports, but are there to get an education. The scholarships we receive from the sports are simply one way to pay for that education. We are already given the very best medical care at our athletic training facilities, given priority access to tutors and counselors, and are given early access when signing up for classes or choosing rooms, in addition to thousands of dollars per year in scholarship. In addition, most of the major players in college sports that would be compensated with millions of dollars should we choose to pay amateur athletes, will end up playing in professional leagues and making that money regardless. In order to get the scholarship that I now receive, I have trained nearly every day for several hours a day working as hard as I possibly could, and I achieved my goals. When a student pursuing a degree in aerospace engineering wants to get a scholarship to a prestigious university, they do the same thing: they study hard for hours every day, and do their absolute best to achieve the test scores, GPA , and everything else they need to get that scholarship. Yet they will not get paid for their hard work outside of scholarships, so why should we?The case in the video is a little different, as the athlete was not getting paid by the university but by an outside revenue source having to do with his athletic ability. I see this akin to that same engineering student getting a paid internship in the summer; getting paid by an outside source for skills that they have used and honed at their university. This I would support; its the reason I cannot coach high school teams or anything like that while on summer break, which I find ridiculous. I would like to end this by saying that I may be a but biased, as I am not in a "superstar" sport like football or basketball but am instead in the relatively unknown sport of rowing,where although I am pursuing Olympic aspirations, USRowing cannot afford to pay its athletes living wages and sponsors generally do not pick up little known athletes like rowers.

I understand why de la haye wasn't stoked about the terms of the contract but it feels like he only declined so he could have the publicity. The terms seems relatively fair to me but I think it's bullshit that he started a go fund me to pay for college. I don't know. Maybe I'm just bitter because I'm almost 20 grand in debt and not even 20 years old yet. A lot of people take out loans if they can't afford college and it feels wrong to me that he's asking for money because he was part of this controversy. It just seems wrong to me.

I understand why the NCAA has policies like that. The policy is in place to keep the players from capitalizing on their fame as players, but at the same time... why do you need a policy like that to begin with? If anything, LET the players capitalize on their fame. If it gets in the way of their playership, kick em. If it doesn't, they get a little extra green to fall back on (which will promptly disappear because most players file for bankruptcy several years after retirement), and if there's EVER a conflict of interest, give them an ultimatum and let it play out from there. Business is just business no matter how you look at it.

Hello, I know probably this is not going to be read by many but i just want to say im extremely happy you reported on our situation here at Venezuela, i have lived all my life wishing i could leave this place and now that i have to it breaks me, since the protests started me and my friends (age 17) have been active helping and I've been gassed with questionable substances punched with several objects, my dad got shot in the arm and 3 close friends of mine have been killed, please don't be blind towards us we keep fighting for basic human rights and for our liberty i love you guys so much and thanks for your support Phill SOS VENEZUELA

Thanks for talking about us!! Ive been feeling like no one cares and we're alone in this. I live in Venezuela and its the worst. It gets worse everyday, it sucks.

Thank for talking about Venezuela my friend. Appreciate it. It's important that people like you tell the world what's happening in my country

Ever since Jk retweeted the wall street journal on the Pewdiepie controversy and insulted Felix Without doing her own research, I lost all respect for her, honestly thought she'd be smarter but I guess her status got to her head, but I guess it must be boring now that your famous franchise is over and your just left with all those millions isn't it🤔

Thank's for commenting on what's happening here in Venezuela, it really help's a lot

J.K. should just stay quiet in her corner

I swear people pay WAY too much for sports

Talk about the Border tension between China, India, and Bhutan.

I'm a Venezuelan living now in Colombia, I moved 2 years ago due to a tear gas bomb that entered my house and later my kitchen window was broken 4 times! Not only that but my mom and dad were not making enough money to pay ANYTHING and that's without taking account that the supermarkets have absolutely nothing. Mind you this is back in late 2014. So what is happenig now? I have friends over there that go to every march and protest and I'm so afraid to see their names on the list of daily deaths...or a press friend who basically lives in every confrontation. It's scary man, and i always hurt for my country FUERZA VENEZUELA

The NCAA could pay athletes, but not if they also get full rides to the colleges. One or the other. As it is, it makes very little sense to give athletes free access to high education that they will not benefit from in the same way that students that go to the school purely for the degree will. It makes more sense to separate D1 sports from colleges in financial terms at this point.

THANK YOU Phil, for helping us spread the word on what's happening here in Venezuela.

I've had a look at Donald De La Hayes channel - 90% of his content is football related, and demonetising them would effectively end his channel.

I was hoping the first reply on Rowling's apology would be: "Man you're really good at making up stories, you should be an author" just like the Pewdiepie situation

I think the gofundme is the lazy way out.. want to go to college, go get a job like the rest of us have to do, who can fall back on a full paid way to college.. they gave him an option, he refused to take up on.

Phillip, there's a lot you didn't say because there's a lot the government does not let the international community know. I'm a big and active part of the protests and I would love to let you know what they're really doing to us (students from 14 to 25 years old), the torture, the pain, the persecution and the misrepresentation. Please help me let people know what's really going on in here. I'd love to get in touch with you. Thanks.

Man. I knew shit was going down in Venusuala but to this extent! Phil is so awesome.for giving the facts of the story and allowing us to see the full picture of this disaster. Thank you for being a clear, concise, and most importantly, truthful journalist. All my wishes and prayers go out to the citizens of Venusuala.

So he gives up his scholarship, then asks for everyone to pay for him to go to college?

Regarding J.K. Rowling and Trump; I agree with everything that you said. I would like to add that if you're going to be mad at J.K. Rowling for not apologizing to Trump, why aren't you mad at Ansel Herz for not apologizing to Trump or to the family? Would you have been satisfied if Rowling had just tweeted "Oops, my bad. Apologies." and left it there? Just seems like a double standard.

Just because someone wrote Harry Potter doesn't make them intelligent or a role-model lol. Same thing with people idolizing actors/actresses

J.K Rowling has disappointed me on many levels, starting with the whole 'pewdiepie is racist' thing. Yes, she is trying to say what she thinks to hopefully make the world a better place, but not trying to dig beneath the fucking title of the article has resulted in damage to everything she negatively talks about. I find this is a bigger problem than some, because with her gigantic fan base, she can change the entire opinion of who is "good" or "evil". Somebody needs to speak out about this. Just because someone is famous doesn't make being an idiot and not doing research acceptable, and with her massive fist of an opinion, she has too much power to be so careless.

The NCAA makes billions off students, then says the students cant make a few thousand because they're students.

Why do you keep saying "her target", you could say President Trump. And why would she give Trump an honest apology? Trump doesn't apologize for anything, therefore he isn't owed an apology because "Oh I was wrong".

I lost all the respect for JK Rowling since she called PewDiePie a fascist and never apologized. She lives in a fantasy world and as far as we can see, she is not the positive character. She should apologize to Trump, especially that he is not her president, she is British.

I had gastric bypass one year ago. Best thing I ever did. Lost 120 lbs.(195lbs now) Feel so good. Hype boogie gets the same or better.

So the NCAA and the school, more or less, offer to meet him in the middle with frankly a fairly good deal for him, all things considered. But he chose to turn down the offer to continue making very little money off RU-vid videos and then he actually has the balls to ask people to give him money to pay tuition?!? Fuck that kid. Seriously. You had your chance and blew it. Pay your own damn way through school like everyone else. I really hate people who try and take advantage of services like GoFundMe for their own personally gain. The fact that people have actually donated is ridiculous. He doesn't deserve anyone's money.

I definitely think the rules are messed up but to decide to waive your scholarship and then ask for other people's money is kinda low.

J.K. Rowling? More like J.K Trolling.

The Venezuela stuff sounds like the plot for a james bond movie

I was lucky enough to grow up in the UK, but my parents are Serbian and lived there until 1999. They lived through the insane hyperinflation that happened there (in Yugoslavia) in the 1990's. It got so bad that there was a 500 billion dinar note, which became worthless only 2 weeks after it was printed.

Thank you for talking about my country, you are bright and accurate as hell.

If England is my city, then Philip is my world.

JK Rowling is the classic case of someone being book smart but lacking all common sense

I am happy that you help the news of Venezuela spread ... but this did not start with Maduro, it was Chavez and since Chavez there are problems people spending hours in rows to get food, medicines and basic products. Since Chavez had already had these problems, I have friends from Venezuela who were able to flee to other countries, because they could, but their families and millions can not afford that. When they could travel to Venezuela in their suitcases only carry the most indispensable and the rest of the space was for medicines and anything that we could gather to send, because when entering the country immigration took their share, saying that they also had family. Now practically it is impossible to travel, since almost all the airlines do not travel because the government owes them money, sending a package with something is very expensive! And a bet because you dont know if it will arrive. People have been suffering for years !! And it's rare when you see that the news speaks of it.

Hey Phil I want to say great show as always but also huge respect to you for including the segment about Venezuela and displayed the situation accurately. Honestly I'm super appreciative it because I've realized that in many media outlets (at least the one's that aren't Spanish) don't cover the horrible situation of Venezuela or at least not too frequently and thus many people are potentially unaware of the crisis in Venezuela and so for you to explain the situation of corruption and injustice very well I'm super grateful. Thank you and keep making great vids as always :)

When will people start ignoring the irrelevant opinion of celebrities? Who cares what a fantasy book writer in the UK thinks? Just because your job has visibility doesn't mean your opinion has validity.

So he's quitting football because he can't monetize sports related videos? Big deal dude what the fuck. He could still make money off of all his other content.

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As usual i agree 100% with what Philip said himself. From what i hear the rules are idiotic but he was offered a good solution and is an idiot for not taking it

Thank you for talking about Venezuela, the heartbreaking situation of my country NEEDS to be out there more. 🇻🇪💔

I think that the ncaa policies on player payment are another form of indentured service.. What else would u call. Making a profit of someones hard work and skill.. While giving the bare legal minimum .

my hispanic brethren of Venezuela must continue to fight for their rights or else they will end up probably worst than El Salvador

While I think the NCAA rules are bullshit I would've signed that deal in a heartbeat. You can still monotize certain videos and you also get your scholorship. Unless there was something hidden in the fine print I can't see why you wouldn't sign it.