I don’t normally watch him but this popped on my feed, and I’m pretty impressed. Dude really fell the Arch+Hyprland rabbit hole and ended up loving it.
Probably one of the largest YouTuber switching to Linux, and is very positive about it.
That Hyprland rice is pretty sick too.
According to a quick search: Paying non-english people to hold up a “Death to all jews” sign, saying the hard r n-word, mocking someone about an overdose with a meme, supporting a nazi YT channel, and fans defacing a ww2 memorial in his name
Never even knew this guy existed till last year, but seems par for the course for a lotta YT personalities.
the sign thing was a joke to see how far they would go (https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/13/14605060/pewdiepie-disney-deal-lost-nazi-anti-semitic-imagery), but i agree it’s very questionable and bad taste/disgusting to publish the video. he didn’t quite own it up for this one, and he was also following several alt-right figures at the time. i agree this is horrible but i feel like he’s changed since then and hasn’t done things like that since 2019.
he made this apology video much longer than the relevant stream clip two days later for the hard-r incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLdxuaxaQwc. I think it’s pretty convincing.
these incidents were also horrible, but he also apologized for them well, and everything you mentioned (except for the fiverr sign) was in 2018 and it doesn’t seem like there was much since. https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-44969322 in the case of the nazi channel, it was based on his impression of a single video that reviews death note and only had a dozen or so seconds of nazi references (joking about the charlottesville car attack) https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134748/pewdiepie-er-pewnews-youtube-hateful-content-anti-semitic
it should be really clear that pewdiepie encouraged neither distasteful vandalism nor the las vegas shooter. pewdiepie was the biggest meme on youtube at the time, especially amid the giant subscribers race against t-series. 4-chan and its extensions tend to gravitate towards macho online culture.
Gotta protect that money. There were plenty of life lessons to not do such things, even if it was a joke. Stupid and childish. Should have never happened in this evolved world.
Are you defending him because he apologized after backlash? I don’t understand what your reply is meant for; I was just answering another poster’s question.
some of these things are hideous. some of these things the way you word them makes them sound way worse than I actually are, like the one with the death note review. and i don’t think he’s a nazi is what i’m saying. and i think not having things repeat is an indication of taking in the lessons learnt and lends credence to the apologies.
You know what’s not difficult? Not doing all that nazi shit in the first place for clout or for the memes. You really think he’d have apologized if his money hadn’t been on the line after backlash? I don’t get why you’re defending this trash nazi.
Ah yes, let’s invent time travel
The reason it’s par for the course is because people like him made people connect the dots between getting famous/rich and being a bigoted piece of shit. He could’ve done something productive with his fame and he chose to literally be a Nazi. If he actually wants to not be associated with that, which I doubt he cares about, then he needs to at least acknowledge he did it and maybe even say it was wrong. Seems like a pretty reasonable place to start if you ask me
What do you mean by a reasonable place to start?
I’m not sure what’s unclear here
You cannot atone for an act without first admitting culpability, otherwise you’re just papering it over and continuing to show disrespect to those affected. This is Apologizing 101.