Besides him giving a Nazi salute while he pays two guys to hold a sign that says “death to all Jews” www.vox.com/…/pewdiepie-nazi-satire-alt-right
and using the N word? Article sugar coats saying it wasn’t intentional when he said of another player “what a ni–er” businessinsider.com/why-pewdiepie-accidentally-us…
rtxn@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
His peak of popularity was in a different era of societal awareness. His humor had an edge that was often crude 15 years ago and unacceptable today, culminating in him dropping the N bomb during a livestream several years ago, and even after apologies, people just can’t let go.
Some others are simply hating on him because he has opinions that don’t fully align with theirs. Others, simply for being popular.
boonhet@lemm.ee 9 minutes ago
Was the N bomb considered a bad thing in Sweden at the time? Here in Estonia it’s the young people of today who see it as a bad thing, people in their 40s and up see it as completely normal because it’s just always been normal to use it. Like the word is in the dictionary and doesn’t have a “vulgar” tag
brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 hours ago
Because of his “edgy”, shitty provocative humour and how high profile he was, he’s generally considered one of the horsemen of the adpocalypse.
He did one too many nazi joke, articles were written, and suddenly all content creators had it a lot harder to get ad revenue, because announcers were all like “associating with youtube creators will ruin our brand”.
Pewdiepie may not be the only factor, but he was certainly a big one.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Theres a lot more problems than that. Both GamersNexus and Louis Rossman have made videos on it.
Shady sponsor deals. Making huge mistakes when testing things from new small companies (one guy machining custom watercooler blocks), calling the device garbage because their own mistakes caused it not to work, refusing to return the prototype one they tested as they had agreed to, and then auctioning it off. Claiming all of that was just honest mistakes while making no efforts to make it right and doubling down on calling it shit. Many many cases of Linus just being an abusive bastard of a boss behind the scenes. Many cases of anonymous current and former employees talking about toxic workplace culture (coming from the top down), insane crunch, deadlines set too tight that cause issues in reviews.
Regular smaller mistakes in their reviews and videos with no standard company policy on how they should go back and edit them to inform viewers of the mistake. Numerous cases where they acknowledge the mistake privafely but refuse to even add a pinned comment to the video.
His team knew about the Honey extension, one of their sponsors, being a scam. It hijacked any links to online stores nd made them referal links to kick back money to Honey. While countless other youtubers made exposes about it he refused to say anything about it to his viewers and then had a tantrum on the podcast about how it was unfair to expect him and his team to say anything about it after he was called out.
Every. Single. Time. When Linus is called out on this stuff in a large enough way, he throws a very public tantrum.
At best, Linus is an overgrown child who is unfit to run a business of the size and clout his has.
rtxn@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Your comment is pointless, this isn’t a thread about LTT.
Bezier@suppo.fi 2 hours ago
Torvalds and the tech tip guy share the same first name, but they are in fact not the same person.