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In June 2020, a compilation of several short excerpts from the program was uploaded to a YouTube channel under the title "Willi wills wissen Clips ohne
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in Munich. The camera team left the sleeping area around 10 pm. At around 1.30 am, Willi
Weitzel woke up with a bleeding wound on his head that had to be sewn with five stitches. The perpetrators, who attacked him with a baseball bat while he was asleep, were initially able to escape
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The various videos as "Willi Memes" or "Willi wills Wissen Memes" achieved widespread popularity due to the statements made by Willi
Weitzel, including possible sexual innuendos, black humor and, in particular, jokes against children and other people in wheelchairs (episode 126 "Was geht im
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then published a video in which he insulted the host of the show as a "son of a bitch". Weitzel then published a statement on
Facebook in which he wrote that those who are outraged by the film clips and see discrimination in the videos fell for those who tore the videos out of context.
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has been broadcast as a three to four-minute gap filler, in which Willi answers questions in a studio that children have asked him by letter or e-mail. With experiments, graphics or film clips, the reporter provides short and concise explanations.
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