PewDiePie made a video on why he installed Linux and explained why everyone should do it too. Due to his number of followers, this might be the year of the Linux Desktop? Hooray?

  • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    264·
    1 day ago

    What did pewdiepie do? Not defending him, I dont follow him at all, and I am just wondering.

    • lefixxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 hours ago

      You will find two major incidents. The bridge incident where he said the n-word in PUBG and a edgy joke where he tried to see how far Fiverr creators would go and asked for a video of people to write “Hitler did nothing wrong” on a sign. He apologized and condemned the behavior for both.

      To me it seems like the source of a lot of the negative quick opinions come from a bad article WSJ did on him.

      • nagaram@startrek.websiteEnglish
        41·
        6 hours ago

        He’s also promoted the books of fascist talking heads like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Steven Crowder through his book club.

        There’s a reason the Christ Church shooter yelled “Subscribe to PewDiePie” besides being a topical meme.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      365·
      1 day ago

      So I read up on it again very briefly because that was ages ago but: The story goes in 2017 he paid an Israeli on Fiverr to dress as Jesus and hold a sign declaring that Hitler did nothing wrong. I have not seen the video so I don’t know for sure, but apparently he wanted to show how far you can take things with Fiverr without any resistance from Freelancers.

      I think he did something very wrong to shock his audience for clicks similar to Logan Paul’s disgusting Suicide Forest stunt around that same time and he got a ton of criticism for it. I don’t know what happened afterwards because I’m really not in that bubble but I don’t think a video likes this makes someone a Nazi and the comment above is a bit of a Fediverse knee-jerk reaction to this kind of stuff. I understand why people would still despise him for that though.

      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        11 hours ago

        This is just the tip of the iceberg, the example that’s easy to cite. Over time in his videos he made a welcoming environment for fascist and hateful groups to feel welcome and at home. The more apt comparison is that if you run a bar, and you don’t kick Nazis out, you own a Nazi bar.

        • lefixxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 hours ago

          I think you are wrong. He did some mistakes but they were not a tip of an iceberg. I was there watching the videos at that time and I never saw anything that fostered a racist or homophobic environment. He didn’t make specifically anti-racism content and the only LGBTQ related thing he did was offering a different view on the drama related to a queer make up artist.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        I didn’t know about any of this. I don’t like him for completely different reasons and I suspect a lot of people will be like that.

        Wasn’t he big into that whole CS go gambling thing? I actually can’t remember when that was that might have been pre-2017

    • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      115·
      1 day ago

      He said the n word a few (maybe even several, by now) years ago. Idk if that makes him a nazi but maybe he did something else I haven’t heard of