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

• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I suppose we disagree.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh yea I forgot about that one too

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• lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This one I’ve never heard

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      • nagaram@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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