UPDATE: Musician claims he’s bicurious and that his gay bashing video was just a ‘joke’
In an unlisted YouTube video, Australian electronic musician Nick Bertke, better known as Pogo, explains his pathetic homophobia in detail.
It’s…something.
The video found its way onto Reddit, and now former fans (including us!) are wondering what on earth is going through someone’s head to be so seemingly proud of their weakness.
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In the self-published clip titled “Why I called my channel Fagottron”, Bertke says:
“I’ve always had a very thorough dislike of homosexuals. I’ve never liked a grown man acting like a 12-year-old girl. I’ve always found that to be quite disgusting. And so I thought to myself, how best can I express to the world that gays are just an abomination?”
He adds: “I think nothing encapsulates the sissiness of a guy quite like the word ‘faggot’…I have a fairly robust resentment of the gay community. I don’t want to really get into this, but when there was the Orlando shooting and the guy was shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ or something I was like (pumps fist). But yeah, I’ve got to be a bit careful with that because well, you know, I don’t like gays, but I don’t want to see people getting killed in nightclubs either. But still, I mean, it’s just fantastic.”
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Pogo made a name for himself on YouTube remixing classic Disney movies into euphoric electronic soundscapes and has racked up over 110 million views on his channel.
Something tells us he’s about to plateau at around 110 million.
One commenter summed it up nicely: “In a few months TMZ will publish he was found kissing a guy.”
“This guy’s so deep in the closet he’s finding Christmas presents,” chimed another.
And whether his views are self-hatred or just hatred, one thing is certain:
“How to destroy your career in less than 3 minutes,” described one astute viewer.
UPDATE: Musician claims he’s bicurious and that his gay bashing video was just a ‘joke’
Chrisk
I’m sure he thinks of gay men 24/7. Textbook case of self hate.
NateOcean
It’s a common enough ailment among closeted males.
In the psychiatric community we call it: Penis Obsession / Gay Obsessioin
POGO for short.
DCguy
Just waiting for the first interview with one of the Rent Boys he hires every weekend.
elemirion
So deep in the closet, he’s found Narnia, but they spit him back out.
drmiller
What an awful, awful thing to say about millions and millions of people you don’t know. Someone I’ve never met, I’ve never even heard of, apparently hates me and thinks I’m an abomination because my sexual preferences differ from his. Yikes!
gtrahanis927
Definitely deep in the closet — and full of self-hate! I’ve never heard of him but you can bet that I will not be listening to him in any way and passing this info along to all my friends. Pogo needs to go the way of Roseanne Barr — buh-bye!
Chrisk
The fact that he does a creepy laugh when he mentions the people getting killed at the Pulse Nightclub tells me that he’s also got some other very serious issues going on.
Captain proton
He’s down to ~711,000 subscribers as of now
Josh447
How many did he have B4 the Vid?
Jon
He had over 110 million! Now he’s down to around 600,000. Interesting what hatred and bigotry can do to your career, isn’t it? He’s been working since he was 18; he’s now 29, and yet all of his work is going up in flames because he boldly went where no one should have gone before…or EVER!
Have a nice ride, Pogo.
DCguy
Hi Jon,
I think he had 110 million VIEWS, I don’t think he had that many subscribers. But whatever he had I bet it’s gone down!
johnnymcmxxx
If he is an “electronic musician” it only means he is a clumsy white guy who can’t dance very well, playing dreadful EDM music which is the death spiral dance music has fallen into. Buh-bye homophobe. I’m sure Neo-Nazis are looking for a dj for their homoerotic get-togethers and they can’t dance for shit either.
Paco
Hmm… he sounds like another closet case that is resentful of the brave authentic gay community that faces homophobia head on.
jaxtonypiper
The current theory is that he was doing it to be funny and ironic.
Because, as you know, the Pulse Nightclub massacre is just RIFE with comedy fodder. I mean, if you can’t laugh at the slaughter of 50 human beings, what CAN you laugh at??
Sadly, he is being defended online by those who are beating the “Free Speech” drum of war.
I don’t care what his motivation was. His flagrant use of the word “faggot,” and the flat-out celebration of a senseless slaughter (even IF he was being funny) is disturbing and very sickening. No apology can salve that. I don’t care if he’s straight. I don’t care if he uses this “opportunity” to come out. He deserves every single bit of hate he’s getting.
queerty02
….Fagottron is his name for himself though? He sounds like a real dick pig.
WindsorOntario
So if he was 48-years-old and 600 pounds, would he still be ‘yep definitely, for sure, deep in the closet’ or just another crazy person? Gay men are not qualified to make decisions on whether another person is gay or not because everyone in shape, normal looking and around 21 MUST be ‘for sure, definitely in the closet and gay’.
Donston
I hate when people automatically make that connection as well. However, you can’t deny that in today’s world a young, successful, non super religious guy making club music yet showing unbriddled, unbashed hatred towards gays and feeling the need to share it with the world is rather strange and could indeed hint towards resenting his own same-sex/queer preferences. Either way, the dude sounds like a silly child here. So much so that it was hard to be offended. Just pray on it and keep it pushing.
CarrieV
That was the most concentrated pile of fxcking shxt I have ever heard in my life. Toxic. An unbelievable load of toxic, putrid homophobia at a level I have never seen nor heard before, this is even more hate-filled than bozo Fundamentalists I’ve heard blathering. Not a sentence went by without shockingly proud anti-gay rhetoric.
Jesus, I gotta say, I am having severe trouble believing (or wanting to believe) anyone can be so sick to feel this way.
May his career formally be tied to the same anchor as Roseanne’s.
Bob Scardino
So much to unpack here:
• “You come on my channel you deserve honesty” – like I’m a total douchebag.
• “To be a bit more p.c. about it, how can I express to the world that I view gays as an abomination” – because if I’m going to be an asshole I should be p.c. about it.
• “Nothing encapsulates really the sissiness of a gay guy like the word ‘faggot’” – and yet, there is nothing that encapsulates the douchebaggery of him like the word ‘sputum.’
• “I wanted to be subtle with the whole thing” – so Bassoonatron would be more subtle.
• “I don’t play the bassoon” – but I am a baboon.
• “I don’t like gays, but I don’t want to see people getting killed in nightclubs either” – but if they are going to be killed they might as well be gay.
Serenity333
Him cheering for the killer of our people was the final straw. This guy is dangerous and needs to go down. There’s some people in this world who can never redeem themselves. He’s one of them.
Josh447
“I’ve always had a very thorough dislike of homosexuals. I’ve never liked a grown man acting like a 12-year-old girl. I’ve always found that to be quite disgusting.”
Lots of gay people feel the same way. I think this guy doesn’t like faggots, guys who act like girls, however may not have probs with general gay people that don’t run that trip. I think he has lumped all gays as faggots but with further dissecting, would probably find he has acceptable and unacceptable categories. The guy is truly hatecentric regardless. Gay? Who knows. Nonetheless, he speaks for a huge majority of people that do dislike “faggots”/ guys who act like twelve year old girls etc. I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
Pistolo
Why are so many of us always chomping at the bit for homophobes to be gay?! I know the self-hating gays get the most attention because it’s melodrama but it is still possible and far more likely that homophobes are straight people or, rather, a lot of self-hating gays are used as sacrificial goats for straight group of people with a bigoted agenda. Continuing to support this myth it’s just all repressed homosexuals exonerates the many offenders and those complicit with them who are just straight. Remember, it wasn’t gay people who were voting against us to get married, adopt, voting against candidates who stood up for us….it was lots and lots of straight people who didn’t give a damn. Don’t drink the kool-aid and act like it’s always gay-on-gay crime.
STAY STRAIGHT, kid. I don’t want to have anything in common with you, Pogo.
Donston
I agree that it is often a myth. Most closeted homo/gay/queer men are not unabashed homophobes and are not interested in spewing hatred. They don’t want to even think about gay people nor do they want to look suspect. Constantly shading and hating people you having nothing to do with or want nothing to do with will make you look suspect. However, a gay/homo-leaning orientation, being closeted, contending with self-resentment or internalized homophobia or self-misandry, having some type of mental illness and sometimes religious fear or guilt- these things do often combine to make someone a more persistently vocal, hateful homophobe.
Kangol
I’m not sure about “chomping at the bit,” but for the umpteenth time, here’s Psychology Today on the studies showing a strong correlative link between homophobia and same-sexual arousal.
As it states, “Heterosexual men with the most anti-gay attitudes, when asked, reported not being sexually aroused by gay male sex videos. But, their penises reported otherwise.
“Heterosexual men who reported having the most anti-gay male attitudes were more aroused by gay male pornography than heterosexual men who had pro-gay male attitudes.”
Also, here’s Scientific American on the same topic.
DCguy
Except it isn’t a myth, and it points out the massive hypocrisy of the bigots.
Remember, the ENTIRE case in Ca. against lgbt rights and marriage collapsed because the “research” that the bigots were basing their case on was done by a guy who got caught with a male prostitute during the case.
Straight people have a LOT of other stuff in their lives to worry about, so when one of them completely zeros in on lgbts there is a reason and more often than not it’s because they can’t get it out of their head…..because it applies to them.
Sam6969
Actually, it has been known for a long time now that the results of those studies are frequently misinterpreted, since readers (including some journalists) conflate physiological arousal and sexual attraction. Negative emotions, such as anxiety, can also produce inflation of the penis (Anxiety increases sexual arousal, Barlow, David H.,Sakheim, David K.,Beck, J. Gayle, 1983). So, those studies do not prove much.
Another controversial recent study using Eye-tracking just showed that even if among the most homophobic men there might be homosexuals, not all of those men are homosexuals. It is a controversial study, because impulsively looking longer at homosexual stimuli does not necessarily mean they have hidden homosexual tendencies. People with negative biases can look longer at negative stimuli too.
Of course, we know from life and experience that the most homophobic men are suspect of being hidden homosexuals themselves (there are many examples), but (unfortunately) we still do not know in what proportions.
Zakaroo
Just checked and now he is down to 30,000 subscribers…. that is a fast free fall from the purported 110 million listed in the article. All I can say is, GOODBYE, POGO. YOU WON’T BE MISSED!!!
Josh447
PS You’re wrong. The vid had 110M VIEWS. That number has nothing to do with number of subscribers therefore we don’t know how many subscribers he’s lost or gained . It seems I heard somewhere he gained thousands of subscribers from this video.
DCguy
OMG! 6 hours before you posted this he had over 700,000. WOW! That is a MASSIVE DROP and makes be feel good about the percentage of his fans that don’t tolerate his bigotry.
Josh447
It seems he has two accounts one called Pogo and one called Nickmix. As of this morning Pogo has 708,000 subscribers and Nickmix has 30,000. Not sure of previous numbers.
Josh447
“This morning” is Fri June 6. 10am.
valentino888
What a shame. Me and my closest friend, (also gay) were big fans of his music. We’ll have to throw it out now, and perhaps even terrorize that little bastard.
Greg Mahan
Nicholas “Nick” BERTKE was ARRESTED IN THE USA IN 2011 & Taken Into Custody For 3 Weeks. ?He WAS DEPORTED & IS NOT ALLOWED ?TO REENTER THE USA No Sooner than 2021!
He is from South Africa & Lives in Australia … He is NOT From Michigan & Did NOT Study at the University of Michigan! ??
Chrisk
Wtf. Just gets crazier.
Josh447
He and Rosanne should do lunch. Though they have nothing to teach each other. It’s easy to destroy a career.
draven
This guy is creepy and mean. He’s probably a bully too. Put probably abuser also. Guys like this are ticking timebombs waiting to go off. Worries way to much about fem gay guys. Lol …I bet he wouldn’t say all that crap in a room full of black thug gay men…..