YouTube Under Fire For Unintentionally ‘Racist’ Valentine’s Day Tweet

Valentine’s Day is over, but YouTube is still going through the wringer for posting an…odd Valentine’s Day tweet. In fact, some people are describing it as unintentionally “racist.”

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Subscribe to black creators.

— YouTube (@YouTube) February 14, 2018

Or you could just subscribe to black creators because their content is good? Seriously guys? You’re literally telling people to subscribe to black creators solely because of the color of their skin. That’s ridiculous.

This tweet is so patronizing. I’m sure most black creators want subscribers because of their content, not because of their skin colour. Black creators like any other creators work hard making content, they don’t need you encouraging sympathy subscriptions just cos of their race.

— Jacques 🥀 (@arcadeyblog) February 14, 2018

If you want to prevent racism, why are u creating a divide between the community of creators according to their color? Why are u paying attention to their color instead of their content? Its great to see support but im not sure this is the way to do it.

— Bade (@BadeDmrkr) February 14, 2018

My thoughts exactly.

I think the tweet is the problem. Its saying we should treat a different skin colour with higher regard and give more to them due to what happened in the past. its almost like looking down on african americans by saying they cant grow themselves.

— ˢᵖᵃᵈᵉ [clips in desc] (@SpadeTelevison) February 15, 2018

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Fire your social media management team.

— Lüminism (@LuminismYT) February 14, 2018

I'm just going to keep subbing to who ever I want to instead of using race as a determining factor. If you want to sub to creators just because they are black you go right ahead though.👍

— westell (@Westell_599) February 15, 2018

Or, subscribe to who you like, regardless of skin color, and stop being racist.

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) February 14, 2018

Stop dividing and just promote good content, regardless of race. Sound good?

I subscribe to creators that put out good content, I don't subscribe to anyone based solely on the colour of their skin.

— Regular Sean (@onlycatsandhats) February 15, 2018

Roses are red
Violets are blue
YouTube sucks
Don’t tell me what to do.https://t.co/3bF55Thm8N

— Jeremy Frankel (@FrankelJeremy) February 15, 2018

Ok this is taking it a little too far… just because someone's skin is darker does not mean that I should subscribe to them?

— Trenton Peluso (@p_eluso) February 14, 2018

Well I guess that means you’re a racist. (I’m obviously kidding. Liberals are not.)

Roses are red
Violets are blue@YouTube likes black creators
Unless they are from @PragerU pic.twitter.com/nXESl234sl

— PragerU (@prageru) February 14, 2018

Oh snap!

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Dividing people based on demographics is a regressive thing to do.
…
Subscribe to creators from all walks of life whom provide great content of real value that you enjoy. This is the 21st century, let's all move forward together.

— Michael Montero (@MonteroOnBoxing) February 14, 2018

Roses are red violets are blue subscribe to good creators no matter what skin colour they are

— Charlie (@ctstangroom34) February 14, 2018

Much better!

h/t Twitchy