Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoJust downloaded it and skimmed by frames… Seems to be a list of reasons to degoogle. Mentions privacy, security, and how Google is extending fingers into everyone’s privacy by browser, password manager, wallet, phone, etc.
november@lemmy.vg 2 weeks ago
Guy’s an ass, but if this gets people on board with degoogling then good for him.
candyman337@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Really didn’t like him when he was younger, he was a naive swedish kid that didn’t realize that the dumb shit he said online had ramifications because his audience was so big. He helped platform Ben Shapiro to a younger generation when he had him on his channel for a video, he had that scandal where he said the n word, and then of course the clip where he says the glass ceiling doesn’t exist.
I hope these days he’s realizing how idiotic some of that shit was and is actually trying to use his platform to make his viewers aware of valid issues rather than spouting off about topics he knows nothing about to his viewers who take his word as truth.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He also paid some Africans to hold an anti-semitic sign. To prove people will do things for money I think?
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The entire thesis of that video was “fiver and things like that lead to exploitation of the global poor”, the sign thing was just a catchy clickbait thing.
Tonava@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I think his reasoning was to see how far the sign holding folks would go for money, and they apparently didn’t really have any limits. Should he have done and shown it on youtube is the thing he can be criticized for
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
Heartbreaking: one of the most deplorable people in the world made a good point.
TheFogan@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I mean I don’t really consider him a deplorable person… He was a dumb edgy teen 15 years ago that happened to strike a cord with the overwhelming amount of dumb edgy teens on youtube, and strike it rich. I haven’t paid a ton of attention to him, but from what I saw of his linux and gadget crafting videos, it sounds like he’s grown up a fair amount from his days of scream streaming.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He was an edgy teenager deep into his 20’s.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
he’s still swedish though
Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Cossty@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If pewdiepie is one of the most deplorable people in the world you know of. You must live in some kind of alternative universe and in paradise.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
The president is pewmypie? I had no idea!
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Hey they said one of.
TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve never watched him, but isn’t he just a Twitch streamer?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The enemy of my enemy or some shit.
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
What’s he done to earn that title really? We live in a world of genocide, pointless wars and rapists.
nanoswarm9k@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Slightly right of neutral on a moving train is pretty bad.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
He annoys me, which is arguably worse.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’ve never watched him (I hated him when he would just scream at video games) but he seems to be a lot more mature these days. He even posted a video on why you should switch to Linux recently
somewa@suppo.fi 2 weeks ago
I was surprised that the video was actually quite good.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Calling this guy an ass shows that you have no idea who he is. You’re probably the type of person who thinks they’re well informed but exclusively get their info from echo chambers like Lemmy.
november@lemmy.vg 2 weeks ago
🙄
kemsat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I disagree. Things seem to get worse when the herds move to them. It’s as if things are good precisely because they aren’t there.
dieTasse@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
bro, open your mind for a minute. Privacy is for everyone. And we need masses wanting privacy otherwise nothing changes.
bastion@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
-bro, but yeah, good point.
kemsat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I definitely agree with you, but I remember how Digg & then Reddit both went to shit once the masses started to use them. Same with Facebook.
I feel like if we all spread out between multiple platforms, none will become big enough for the enshitification to hit them.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I think you’re seeing the wrong causation when it comes to enshittification. FOSS licenses prevent that sort of thing from happening. Linux is already, by far and away, the most popular server OS so consumers moving to it isn’t going to make it worse.
I dunno, maybe be less of a hipster bestie?
Lawnman23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
How are you going to do that advertising using one of their products? He has 100M followers and he’s a multi millionare, he should close his youtube account and move in another platform
november@lemmy.vg 2 weeks ago
Good point. People should only advocate for dgoogling on platforms full of people who have already degoogled. It’s stupid to try and reach people still using Youtube.