Pewdiepie built a Gaming PC, and installed Linux Mint on it!
I just think it's pretty cool that Felix, who has never really mentioned anything Linux before, chose to go with a Linux distro for the PC he put together.
Last I heard, Pewdiepie has been trying to pass it off as jokes, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. (And whether or not he's "a nazi" deep in his heart doesn't matter. He's doing and spreading naziism.)
He made that as a waful joke, to the point even his fans also asking him to stop making those edgy jokes. He used to make N-word or any edgy joke because he was toxic gamer mentality. I remember seeing a total backlash on Pewdiepie official subreddit.
After the incident, he stopped making any edgy jokes.
All of his content in the past half decade are basically wholesome or hobbyist stuff.
He also recognize his mistake on several occasion.
I don't know who he is, just that he's some kind of YouTube celebrity. Apparently, if he's not an extremist, he's a braindead idiot. I'm not sure it's actually much better. Well, maybe a wee bit better, but not by much.
He already said publicly multiple times that what he his edgy joke in the past is wrong.
We should embrace people progress into a better individual, right?
All of his content in the past five years after that incident also all wholesome or positive stuff. No more edginess or even slur.
I just watched the video, and it's a mix of good points and FUD IMO coming from a very specific worldview (esp with the art style and music choice). I do think it's worth a watch, as it challenges the predominant view and encourages you to think.
Thanks for linking it! I disagree with some of the conclusions, but it was useful nonetheless.
This I see the points. Im sure they were clickbait edgy “jokes” but ofcourse someone with such a huge following should not be making these kinds of references. Thanks for the info!
i posted in another thread that got removed that really the important takeaway from what happened is that as he and his audience radicalized eachother. the people who didn't want to see the edgy stuff left, and he made no effort to distance himself from it at the time, so more edgy people started following him. in the end you had what the in-group saw as edgy humour while the rest of the world saw nazi shit. and like the "layers of irony" thing that 4chan had going a few years ago, what the in-group thinks its projecting doesn't matter.
Yeah, i stopped watching him for a number of hears when the edgy-ness was in full force. I enjoy his recent content since he has settled down in Japan, but I wont forget the dark years.
Im pretty sure you are referring to him wearing a british military uniform. Also he did not have anyone say death to all jews. Provide source and I will correct this though.
You don't know what you are talking about. He never wore a Nazi uniform and that Fiverr thing was a joke. He tried to see what would be the most horrible thing a Fiverr would so.
i don't care what he says the intentions were, just like i don't care what Elon and Bannon's intentions were with their "unfortunate gestures". a normal human being would never have thought to do that. the intentions don't matter, only the actions.
Elon musk is an oligarchs who spoke to a neonazi party, lies and gaslights and the list of shitty things he said or did is longer than Samuel Jackson's Imdb page.
PewDiePie is a video creator that has thousands of hours of innocent content with three jokes that were too edgy. Which he then apologized and condemned the ideas that he misrepresented.
If he was a Nazi I don't think he'd be living in Japan. Furthermore, calling people Nazis when they're not Nazis really devalues the term. Be more intentional with your words.
If you think that has any relevance today then you're kidding yourself. Had the Axis won the war then Germany and Japan would be at eachothers' throats by now. Any alliance Nazi Germany had was one of convenience. They didn't honour their agreements. See: Russia.
Here's my opinion: You say the N word, even as a joke, that's on you. And it'll stick to you like shit on a stick. But it's on me to give people the benefit of the doubt and think charitably of others. I'm not gonna write a person off because they said a slur. I believe people can change and want to see that change in the world. If I didn't then there wouldn't be any incentive for others to change. Fighting bigotry is about building bridges, not tearing them down.
Yeah okay, I agree with all that, but once someone has established a pattern of harmful behavior, it becomes dangerous and naive to assume that they've changed without any sort of evidence.
We don't get to just assume Felix is a changed man just because he has the self-control not to drop hard-Rs on stream anymore, but he has to actually disavow those past actions as something more than just a "heated gamer moment."
He has to disavow the members of his fanbase who do believe that sort of thing is okay and that he's their guy because he'd say and do stuff like that.
He has to actually do something to show people he's better.
Go ahead and build another bridge next to the five that Pewdiepie burned. You are making such an effort to defend this creep that it damages your credibility. Probly not the best hill to die on, but you made the choice, not me. I’d wish you luck, but that would be a lie.
A couple ways. First, I personally try to live as an example of the change I want to see.
Additionally, something beautiful about TTRPGs that I've noticed is how they foster a counter culture to the apathy-driven discourse seen on social media.
Those who can't imagine two men or women being together don't stand much of a chance to contribute creatively when people are more concerned with whether snake people have "snitties"
I can appreciate that. And I do the same, though likely in a different way. Being open and nonjudgmental encourages others to be so, opening the path to change. Peace and understanding, all that hippy stuff.
But in the case of snitties, I must take a hardline stance. Snake people are reptiles and so have no need for snitties. Their many young consume eachother and only the strongest survive.
Do you actually think that two imperialist ethnostates would coexist for any meaningful amount of time? Do you truly think that Nazis actually saw the Japanese as "honourary Aryans"? Political jabbering to maintain good relations. A racist is a racist is a racist and Nazis hated anyone lacking blonde hair and blue eyes.