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I dunno, I’m just spit balling here, but when Google drops you from their stupid YouTube rewind videos because you said a bunch of N bombs, maybe you should just go away. I’ve used Linux as my primary OS since 1999, and my kids, aged 9 and 12 have only ever used Linux. But I’m just offering that even though he promoted Linux we might not praise him for that. I personally think he sucks, have never followed what he’s doing, but because he’s so popular his misdeeds sometimes come across my news feed.
I managed to avoid finding out who or what PewDiePie is back when he was a meme and I have no intention of finding out now
Reading this thread, I am glad I never said a naughty word in my life ever.
in front of a camera?
I can’t tell if you’re being genuine or not, but there is a difference between using a swear word ever and being a hateful bigot and using slurs against marginalized groups
Yes I never did that ever when I was younger. I only said heck once.
Defending the use of racial slurs as swear words definitely doesn’t make you look like a weird fucking loser man, keep it up. You’re fighting the good fight.
Trying to hammer on a one time thing from a decade ago which the person has apologized for and has not reoffended is awesome. You are saving humanity.
Except PewDiePie is not that. Sure he apologized for saying the N word hard-r. But then proceeded to create a whole racist campaign against India in the name of fighting the corpo T-Series where he made one of the most racist songs I’ve ever heard.
Then there’s the whole antisemitic Fiverr thing where if he genuinely did it to prove that any heinous shit could happen there, he still didn’t need to do it that way.
Then there’s Musk and Shapiro in his channel.
Then there’s the Nazis in his audience.
Then you have the bunch of incel and machist memes he reacted and laughed too constantly in his channel.
Then you have that he has gone on record saying more than once that he’s favorite author is the Japanese fascist Yukio Mishima.
And to top it all off you have the ChristChurch shooter shouting him out.
PewDiePie has been a right wing fucker that has eased a shit ton of young people into the alt-right pipeline for years. The fact that people keep excusing him is just fucked up to no end.
Watch the video The PewDiePiepeline on YouTube.
Thanks for the compilation. I did not know about his other violation. Everyone kept going on about his bridge thing.
Is his other stuff recent as well or has he toned down since?
Thanks for the thorough background here, because I think most people (including myself) who just ignored him this whole time aren’t seeing this whole picture.
Like the comments above, they’re seeing what looks like a petty morality crusade years after a guy who makes stupid videos let a bad word slip, which, yeah, looks ridiculous out of context.
PewDiePie has been a right wing fucker that has eased a shit ton of young people into the alt-right pipeline for years.
Why am I not surprised, that this world’s definition of success always seems to go hand-in-hand with bigoted fascism?
It’s also a very chicken-or-egg question I think. I’m genuinely curious: Do internet/podcast/streamer celebrities get their status from already being like this, and signaling the fashy bros club that they’re ready to join the “in group” , or do they get pulled and influenced into that circle because they innocently found success from stupid videos?
Is social media influencing this directly via an algorithm that simply draws the connection between right-wing extremist ideals and capital wealth?
I feel so tragically for young folks. So much of anything pulling for their attention anymore is a targeted psy-op to “pipeline” them into some kind of zealotous soldier or another.
The Internet used to be about cats and gaming used to be a hobby divorced from political office except when someone tried to argue they “cause violence” every few years.
I’m glad to be able to inform!
Like the comments above, they’re seeing what looks like a petty morality crusade years after a guy who makes stupid videos let a bad word slip, which, yeah, looks ridiculous out of context.
Yep, but there is also a weird parasocial relationship a lot of people have with him where everything wrong he does is just an oopsie, to the point where even when someone has the full context of what I mentioned, a lot of people can’t seem to add 1 + 1 and come to the conclusion that it isn’t just a bunch of mistakes, but rather who he is as a person. The pattern of repetition with him is always muffled by the constant barrage of people that will not hold him accountable, if you visit Reddit right now you will see just that on every Linux related sub.
It’s also a very chicken-or-egg question I think. I’m genuinely curious: Do internet/podcast/streamer celebrities get their status from already being like this, and signaling the fashy bros club that they’re ready to join the “in group” , or do they get pulled and influenced into that circle because they innocently found success from stupid videos?
It’s honestly both. The algorithm on social media platforms will favor right-wing content for a myriad of reasons, ranging from simply being part of the status quo and/or playing into suppressed prejudice of easily impressionable/influenceable people, all the way to the fact that the right is the one that holds the means to create, publicize and boost this type of content, while the left usually do not have the resources needed to do so, you can look at Prager U in the US for example, or think-tanks like Brasil Paralelo here in Brasil, where they will create a lot of very right-wing content and push it hard into the masses, usually buying a shitload of ads that will end up everywhere, included in leftist content on YouTube for example.
The Internet used to be about cats and gaming used to be a hobby divorced from political office except when someone tried to argue they “cause violence” every few years.
Yeah, the monopolization of the internet sucks, hopefully it’s not impossible to revert that. Federated social media like Lemmy here (yay!) is a good step to that, but I hope more and more people will just create websites for their interests.
I’ll disagree on the gaming point tho, gaming, like every media has always been political, it’s just that now-a-days there is a large portion of reactionary content in the pop culture and gaming communities where everything is “woke” and whatnot. And even when the content of the game might not have been political by themselves, like Tetris for example, the conditions surrounding its inception and distribution certainly were.
There is also the issue with gaming journalism, where it ends up being just a corp controlled ad for the games rather than being actual critic of the media being played. It’s like a dystopian version of cinema where the content and the message doesn’t matter, only that you help sell it to maintain your brand on the good side of these gigantic publishers.
Did he ever apologize for it, though?
Yes it was a whole thing back in the day about Youtuber apology videos.
Lol the pirate party in the country I’m from was co opted by Nazis
Not trying to be a dick, i simply don’t know, but what does that have to do with the post and pewdiepie?
Well in the post the OP stated that Pewdiepie was a supporter of the pirate party as if this negated any claims to him being right wing. I just wanted to point out that the pirate party can have right wing elements as was the case here.
Edit I’m not trying to be a dick but what did adding that statement at the bottom of the post have to do with pewdiepie using Linux?
I for one am very happy to see! He is a great influence to a lot of people and showing that Linux isn’t scary will boost numbers by a solid amount ✌️
Let’s call it “big” influence , maybe?
He is a great influence to a lot of people
lmao
Hyprland soon to be known as “the Nazi OS” if it keeps getting shown off by a well known swedish neo Nazi
Does Hyprland work well for gaming compared to KDE? Can it do HDR, VRR and so on?
Always wanted to try a tiling WM but was afraid of losing features.
Geeez these comments guys…
So even if you like or dislike pewdiepie. I think him showing of Linux is good. Getting more people to realize Linux exist and is a viable alternative to Windows or Mac is a good thing.
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I agree. As more regular people use Linux, it will become more obvious who the gatekeeping losers are and why they should be routinely ignored.
“Think different” to me is “don’t let the people chronically on internet forums dictate your every move.”
Assholes being called out for being assholes is a good thing.
Both can be true!
I think we need to avoid the monkey-brain tendency to want to assign tribalistic moral judgement tags based on OS usage. Rotten folks can use Linux and Windows as much as anybody else.
High profile usage of Linux? Neat! By that guy? Bummer. Such is the duality of free choice. =\
I have a feeling this thread won’t be about Linux.
Nazi and transphobic. OP should be ashamed of posting this.
How about you being ashamed about parroting unbased allegations. PewDiePie never showed significant evidence he is a Nazi and transphobic. The two mistakes he did in his 1000ands hours of content he apologized and condemned the behavior.
The words nazi and transphobe have lost their meaning because of how much hysterical people have used them when they’re not applicable.
Holy stockholm syndrome. Nazi and transphobe have lost their meaning because we lives in a transphobic nazi society.
Lol, thanks for proving my point.
He’s an attention-seeking edgelord and a buffoon, but I highly doubt the Nazi allegations. This comes from someone who genuinely believes in the right to punch Nazis. We need to be careful about throwing the Nazi-card in all directions, or the real ones will slip through the cracks (some have already managed to skip into positions of power while us plebs are squabbling). He did a couple of insanely stupid things that he should have grown out of by age 15, hopefully he learned from that.
This comes from someone who genuinely believes in the right to punch Nazis.
Well, I see the problem now. Punching people doesn’t solve Nazism.
If you were advocating for reeducating them, revoking their right to vote, or even putting them in prison, fine. But punching people is just some weird power fantasy, “I’m better than you because I beat you up.”
The fact you think beating people up just to feel dominant or whatever is good politics shows you have a lot in common with Pewds… and, well, Nazis.
This is one of the most libbed up things I’ve ever seen a lemmygrad user post… Are you just a wrecker account?
Are you saying the CPC is libbed up for deliberately using reeducation and formal justice systems to resolve the recurrent terrorism problem in Xinjiang rather than using force and naked brutality like liberal “democracies” usually do? Keeping in mind that the Xinjiang policies have been effective while imperialist violence has deepened and entrenched conflicts, and that those ongoing conflicts which have been resolved through pure force specifically use lethal weapons and mass execution, not some embarrassing discount Incredible Hulk imitation.
Or I guess we should be real here that you’re just fedposting.
Ok good luck with your state-sponsored reeducation programs in your Nazi-adjacent Western democracies where the left holds no political power 👍.
For everyone else who has a fucking clue: when your government has a gestapo police state that rounds up and deports the people the state has deemed undesirable, guess what? The Nazis are already in control.
Do you think the Soviets should have run around slapping random people who used to be in the Wehrmacht? Do you think throwing your milkshake at some German who supported Hitler in 1932 would have stopped the Nazis?
Punching random goons achieves nothing for the people. It is not praxis, it is not a revolutionary action, and saying you support it doesn’t suggest that you take actual steps to oppose anyone.
You guys are too far gone.
Last thing I remember was him dropping a hard R.
That was over half a decade ago. In the meantime he has spent time bettering himself and being a decent person.
You mean like growing up?
Yeah. People do that. Surprise surprise.
He was already 29 or 30 back then. Obviously you can grow to be a better person even when you are a grown ass man but definately a different situation when people do stupid stuff in their teenage years. It makes you question that was it genuine or did he do it to secure his income.
So like, the older I get the more I realize the myth of the mature adult is just that, a myth.
Most adults are immature as fuck and we don’t realize it as kids because they either keep their immaturity hidden from us or they’re hidden from us by society.
There are of course mature adults, but most adults are just big kids who never learned to take responsibility for themselves.
hey cool the nazis using the nazi made wm
“look at me! give me attention!”
I’m out of the loop on this one? A Swedish using a Polish WM, and you call them Nazis?
I know that the hyprland dev has strong political opinions, but I genuinely dont know what they are because I don’t care, and I use another WM. Are they really both Nazis? I dont know because I dont follow these guys. I dont want this word to be misused when actual Nazis are trying to take over the free world again
Vaxry was acting Polish in front of Drew DeVault and was immediately labeled nazi apologist.
The discussion went like this:
— is there anything that could sway your opinion towards genocide?
— well, claiming “no” would be presumptuous, I am just a human, so, probably yes?
— I rest my case
dropping pewds in ml and getting upvotes wasn’t on mine
The whiteness of these people shows through in weird ways.
Bad whiteness or good whiteness?
A transpobic twm and a nazi. Match made in hell.
PewDiePie has openly supported the Pirate Party, witch is far from Authoritarian, in fact, anti-corruption, anti-authoritarianism, and advocates for direct democracy, internet freedom, privacy, etc…
It takes 1 brain-cell to check if Felix is a Nazi!
He says slurs and definitely contributed to the popularization of internet that against Indians. Not exactly a good person.
Honestly I started looking into it (found some articles from 2017 where he showed Nazi imagery) and started asking myself wtf am I doing.
Calling people Nazis over the tamest crap is so old. I’m so done with the liberal crowd on Lemmy jerking each other off over simplistic issues. Get a grip.
He said a no no word in a fit of rage in a livestream over half a decade ago. Ever since then he’s spent time being a better person. But internet neckbeards never forgive.
my thoughts exactly. I’ll stick with sway
