It’s kind of sad that you’re so terminally online that you think that everyone else must know who the hell this guy is. All I know about him is that he’s some YouTuber I have never watched any of his content no have I really heard anything about any controversy.
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rtxn@lemmy.world 17 hours agoI seriously doubt that anyone who asks that question doesn’t already have a foregone conclusion, but fine, I’ll indulge you.
Probably not. If he was, and had been hiding it his entire life, even in the era when he was the youtube star and had zero restraint, why would he slip up those few times, and especially such highly public ways?
He did and said some shit in his early 20s, and he deserved the criticism at the time, but those incidents weren’t repeated and weren’t part of a pattern. He wasn’t the paragon of virtue and maturity, but I’m willing to bet my left nut that neither are the people who are lining up to crucify him.
echodot@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
saimen@feddit.org 12 hours ago
I don’t even know this guy at all and what this is all about. That’s why I didn’t understand your post but it made me curious. Apparently this youtube guy is accused of being a Nazi because of things he said in his 20s which only came out after he became famous?
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Not the person you’re replying to, but honestly I don’t pay attention to pop culture shit, so I’d ask honestly too, and thanks for providing the explanation, I assumed he had moved on since I heard little of his antics anymore but it’s good to see info. Don’t assume people know things like that. Just assume they don’t and get to be one of todays lucky 10,000. 🙂
In case you aren’t familiar with the lucky 10k, see here.
xkcd.com/1053/
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yeah I remember when he was a big name doing that shit. Then he recently popped up talking linux. And in between it became a somewhat regular occurrence in my country for people to march with swastika flags. For all I knew it was edgy jokes from an era where fascism was still outside the Overton window, or he just became a low key supporter of modern fascism but without any stunts big enough to get noticed
rtxn@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
The discourse goes to the same fucking place every time Felix is mentioned. People don’t deserve the benefit of doubt.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
? Who is Felix? Is that pewdipie?
Did this go to the same place?
rtxn@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Extrapolate from the context. I’m tired of explaining obvious things.