It is a way of circling back to angry fans afterwards, who are (even now) out of the loop, saying: “Yeah, but we did make a video about why the US tour was cancelled. *** UPDATE: Like most of their videos, this one was also removed or made private, but someone re-uploaded it***ĭie Antwoord made this video “unlisted” on their YouTube channel, because they don’t really want their fans to see it. It was already published on the 9th of August: The first thing Ninja and Yo-Landi did, was make this video. Yes, that was the first thing fans saw and swallowed, but not the first PR stunt Ninja attempted. The first thing they attempted wasn’t the public post Ninja made on Facebook.
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The festivals must have contacted Die Antwoord as early as the end of July to inform them of their decisions to drop them – Ninja and Yo-Landi wouldn’t have just found out via the news, you know? So Ninja and Yo-Landi sat on this devastating news for quite some time while they tried to figure out how to turn this turd ship around. Remember that their post on Facebook trying to explain and normalize everything, only came out after the first two festivals dropped them from their line-ups, literally a day after it came out in mainstream news. Seeing this whole episode in context, it is understandable that Die Antwoord tried their best to get rid of this damning video under the pretense of “copyright”. This was published on Saturday the 31st of August and he does a very good job at spoon feeding the info and explaining it to the fans who seem unable to use their own brains. We will circle back to this timeline again but we need to have a look at Edwin Costa taking a few steps back and doing a proper unpacking of the Adelaide video first. A third festival, Riot Festival, dropped Die Antwoord from the bill as well, after Ninja’s lame explanation. We covered his lame response and lies to their brain-dead fan base over here in the 19th of August. Only THEN did Ninja speak up for the first time on their Facebook page with 2.5m followers, bending the truth in all sorts of shapes and directions. On the 17th of August it was reported that Die Antwoord was pulled from at least two festivals. Mainstream media both in South Africa and abroad seemed to have picked up on the story in the week and a half that followed, because… On August 7, Edwin’s Generation covered the video in detail, elaborating on how Die Antwoord justifies using the N-Word as well.
Apart from that, there were also footage in the same video of her abusing a black fan in the front row of a Die Antwoord concert: “Vat hierie man hier weg! Hysie welkom hier nie! Vat hom weg! Fokof jou swart naai! Gaan vrek, jou doos!” ( “Take this man way! He is not welcome here! Take him away! Fuck off, you black fuck! Go and die, you vagina!”). On August 5, we posted the Whitney Houston video on Watkykjy in which Yo-Landi called her a crack-whore bitch (on the day she passed away). The latest upload managed to stick in the Watkykjy article linked above. For the next 3 weeks following the upload of the “One Night in Adelaide” video, Die Antwoord had various uploads and re-uploads removed from YouTube. On July 18, we posted an article and video concerning Die Antwoord’s physical attack on Andy Butler and subsequent false claim that he sexually molested Yo-Landi.
We need a quick recap and a timeline of the last month, though: Go catch up over here in detail if you’re late to the party.