Piewdiepie made a community post yesterday supporting it and asking people to go sign if that has still something to do with it.
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illi@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago844k now. Wow. I wonder what caused the sudden surge? Or is it just that most momentum can be gain at the start and towards the end like with Kickstarters?
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 6 hours ago
He seems to be doing good stuff. Kinda giving whiplash
illi@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Well whatever it was it seem to be working. 876k now. Crossing fingers.
sip@programming.dev 8 hours ago
910k and going.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
After Ross announced the campaign is dead a bunch of YouTubers (and media, I think?) picked up the topic and started spreading the word far and wide. This is the result.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Here’s what bugs: Why didn’t channels like GamerNexus and LTT cover the petition until after Louis declared it dead?
seralth@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
LTT likely because Linus is extremely out of touch. Like comically so.
Game nexus likely because Steve is more focused on other sectors of the industry. He’s a hardware and news guy more then a “gaming” channel in the strictest of sense. So it just very likely slipped his radar.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
That’s actually one of the most annoying parts about the whole thing. SKG campaign has been running for what, a year now? Barely anyone with an audience cared enough to even look into it, let alone spread the news. Now that things came close to failing suddenly everyone thinks it’s an important topic and scrambled to make videos/posts/whatever. I’d like to give them the benefit of the doubt but I just don’t have that in me any more…
We could’ve been in so much better place with awareness, petitions and general sentiment if people in the industry actually cared about these things from the start.
Better late than never, I guess. I just hope there’s enough time to push through the EU petition as well.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Well, there’s at least two aspects here:
Fucking Thor, PirateSoftware.
Up untill Ross posted his ‘SKG is dead’ video… Thor had by far gotten the most views of anyone with a video discussing SKG.
And Thor… well, he was anti-SKG, and had been spreading a bunch of objectively false bullshit about it, actual FUDD.
So… about half of Ross’s video was dedicated to pointing out how Thor was wildly misunderstanding things, and fairly graciously and politely trying to correct these misconceptions.
So here’s the two sort of things at play I see, in terms of 'why sudden surge now?'
But uh, almost certainly much, much more relevant