PewDiePie made a video on why he installed Linux and explained why everyone should do it too. Due to his number of followers, this might be the year of the Linux Desktop? Hooray?

    • sparkosthenes@lemm.eeEnglish
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      vor 2 Tagen

      Can we reserve that word for actual Nazis that want to commit genocide, not edgy 15-year old like personalities?

      What he did with the sign was arguably very cringe, but it’s pathetic to compare that to someone who actually believes X group of people deserve to die.

      If we label everyone a Nazi, the word means nothing and when actual Nazis show up(they are) we’re fucked.

    • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      284·
      vor 2 Tagen

      What did pewdiepie do? Not defending him, I dont follow him at all, and I am just wondering.

      • lefixxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        vor 1 Tag

        You will find two major incidents. The bridge incident where he said the n-word in PUBG and a edgy joke where he tried to see how far Fiverr creators would go and asked for a video of people to write “Hitler did nothing wrong” on a sign. He apologized and condemned the behavior for both.

        To me it seems like the source of a lot of the negative quick opinions come from a bad article WSJ did on him.

        • nagaram@startrek.websiteEnglish
          54·
          vor 22 Stunden

          He’s also promoted the books of fascist talking heads like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Steven Crowder through his book club.

          There’s a reason the Christ Church shooter yelled “Subscribe to PewDiePie” besides being a topical meme.

            • nagaram@startrek.websiteEnglish
              3·
              vor 4 Stunden

              Its how you can tell PDP fans weren’t paying attention. He promoted it a few times but it didn’t gain any traction and he abandoned it.

              Or maybe it just didn’t help with the fascism allegations from the bridge moment and the Fiverr incidents since those all happened about the same time.

              Hell, he had Ben Shapiro host an episode of LWIAY. Sure it wasn’t peak genocide apologizer we have now Benny Boy, but he was still a verifiable dick head grifter.

      • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        395·
        vor 2 Tagen

        So I read up on it again very briefly because that was ages ago but: The story goes in 2017 he paid an Israeli on Fiverr to dress as Jesus and hold a sign declaring that Hitler did nothing wrong. I have not seen the video so I don’t know for sure, but apparently he wanted to show how far you can take things with Fiverr without any resistance from Freelancers.

        I think he did something very wrong to shock his audience for clicks similar to Logan Paul’s disgusting Suicide Forest stunt around that same time and he got a ton of criticism for it. I don’t know what happened afterwards because I’m really not in that bubble but I don’t think a video likes this makes someone a Nazi and the comment above is a bit of a Fediverse knee-jerk reaction to this kind of stuff. I understand why people would still despise him for that though.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          21·
          vor 1 Tag

          I didn’t know about any of this. I don’t like him for completely different reasons and I suspect a lot of people will be like that.

          Wasn’t he big into that whole CS go gambling thing? I actually can’t remember when that was that might have been pre-2017

        • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          vor 1 Tag

          This is just the tip of the iceberg, the example that’s easy to cite. Over time in his videos he made a welcoming environment for fascist and hateful groups to feel welcome and at home. The more apt comparison is that if you run a bar, and you don’t kick Nazis out, you own a Nazi bar.

          • lefixxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            vor 1 Tag

            I think you are wrong. He did some mistakes but they were not a tip of an iceberg. I was there watching the videos at that time and I never saw anything that fostered a racist or homophobic environment. He didn’t make specifically anti-racism content and the only LGBTQ related thing he did was offering a different view on the drama related to a queer make up artist.

      • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        115·
        vor 2 Tagen

        He said the n word a few (maybe even several, by now) years ago. Idk if that makes him a nazi but maybe he did something else I haven’t heard of

    • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      vor 2 Tagen

      I can see some ytbers be nazis, but not him. I know he said the n word, and even if he maybe had some alt right or similar views back in the day, but he is a genuinely good ytber nowadays imo