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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?

    • sparkosthenes@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Can we reserve that word for actual Nazis that want to commit genocide, not edgy 15-year old like personalities?

      What he did with the sign was arguably very cringe, but it’s pathetic to compare that to someone who actually believes X group of people deserve to die.

      If we label everyone a Nazi, the word means nothing and when actual Nazis show up(they are) we’re fucked.

    • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I can see some ytbers be nazis, but not him. I know he said the n word, and even if he maybe had some alt right or similar views back in the day, but he is a genuinely good ytber nowadays imo

    • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

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

      • lefixxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days 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
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          3 days 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
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        4 days 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.

      • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 days 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