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?

  • lefixxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 day 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
      54·
      1 day 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.

        • nagaram@startrek.websiteEnglish
          3·
          8 hours ago

          Its how you can tell PDP fans weren’t paying attention. He promoted it a few times but it didn’t gain any traction and he abandoned it.

          Or maybe it just didn’t help with the fascism allegations from the bridge moment and the Fiverr incidents since those all happened about the same time.

          Hell, he had Ben Shapiro host an episode of LWIAY. Sure it wasn’t peak genocide apologizer we have now Benny Boy, but he was still a verifiable dick head grifter.