Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you)

vzq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• sparkosthenes@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s long past being meaningless at this point.

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    • StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love my Lemmy client having the ability to label people. I already had you labeled as a Nazi apologist before opening this thread so it tracks to find you saying this here.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thank you for proving my point.

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      • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        yooooo what client lets you do that?

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  • WormFood@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    PewDiePie is the most basic kind of cryptofascist hiding behind a veil of edgy humour and he should not be welcome in the open source community

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  • vzq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We reserve it for the “hottie did nothing wrong” crowd.

    I don’t care if it’s edgy or ironic or earnest because I have no way to know that. Also, if you fuck goats ti be edgy you’re still a goat fucker.

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  • cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cant imagine there are mature minded people that use Lemmy

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  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    nah

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• Zeoic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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

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  • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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    • lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Once. The other big controversy was the Fiverr antisemitic joke.

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      • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh yea I forgot about that one too

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  • lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • nagaram@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Lumiluz@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This one I’ve never heard

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• PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

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