‘Gays are just an abomination’: viral WA musician Pogo delivers homophobic rant
Perth-based electronic musician Pogo has incensed fans after a video of him talking about his homophobic attitudes and cheering on the Pulse massacre was discovered on YouTube.
Pogo is the alter-ego of Nick Bertke, who gained online popularity by remixing samples from classic Disney films and other movies into songs.
Bertke had seemingly created the video to explain his YouTube channel’s name, ‘Fagottron’. It is unclear when the video was actually recorded.
The video has been on a Pogo fan YouTube channel since the start of May, but was only recently discovered and posted on Reddit, .
In the video, Bertke coldly explains the origin of the channel’s name and openly states that he’s “always had a very thorough dislike of homosexuals”.
“I鈥檝e never liked a grown man acting like a 12-year-old girl. I鈥檝e always found that to be quite disgusting,” he says.
“And so I thought to myself, how best can I express to the world that gays are just an abomination?”
“Or to be a bit more PC about it, how do I express to the world that I view gays as an abomination?” Bertke says.
“I think nothing encapsulates, really, the sissiness of a gay guy quite like the word 鈥榝aggot鈥�, so I’m going to call myself ‘Faggottron’ and hopefully people get it.”
Bertke’s explains that the cover for the name’s intent was that it references the German word for bassoon, ‘fagott’.
“I wanted to be subtle with the whole thing.”
He goes on to talk about his reaction to , appearing to call the 2016 mass shooting murder of 49 primarily Latinx queer people in Orlando, Florida “fantastic”.
“I have a fairly robust resentment of the gay community.
“I don鈥檛 want to really get into this, but when there was the Orlando shooting and the guy was shouting 鈥楢llahu Akbar鈥� or something I was like,” Bertke says before pumping his fist.
“But yeah, I鈥檝e got to be a bit careful with that because well, you know, I don鈥檛 like gays, but I don鈥檛 want to see people getting killed in nightclubs either.
“But still, I mean, it鈥檚 just fantastic. It amazes me to see the West actually welcoming in a culture through the floodgates that wants gays dead.”
In 2013, Bertke was and given a 10-year ban from entering the country after he was found to be touring the country without a work visa.
He has over 700,000 YouTube subscribers and tens of millions of views on his videos.
What a complete and utter tool. You realise the dance community is largely made up of LGBT people and supporters? I hope this destroys your pathetic excuse for a career you worthlesss pos.
this POS need to be destroyed-we did it with Roseanne, time to take out the trash from down under
Who cares? He’s just another American arsehole. Untalented, uneducated trash. I can understand why the mass media gives this moron oxygen but why does the GLTBIQ Community do so as well?
If anyone is a fan of the type of garbage he pretends is actually “Music” and they don’t agree with his Hate-filled utterances – and yes there are heterosexuals out there who support us – then simply boycott any of the so-called “performances” of this nobody.
He’s South African-born, lives in Australia. Not an American. Quite relevant for a local gay news publication. But sure, the rest of your comment is absolutely correct.
Well, it looks like youtube has pulled the video. Pity, in a way, because it would be good for all the world to see his hatred and form opinions of his attitude.
All you have to be thankful for is that he’s not a relative and he’s not your neighbour and further, that your’e not likely to trip over him on the street.