• Linearity@infosec.pub
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    12 hours ago

    Wtf is wrong with this place, why is everyone fighting
    And why does it seem like they all hate Pewdiepie?

    • MolochAlter@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      This is a site populated mostly by the too edgy or too contrarian for Reddit, with the same flaws in incentive systems as Reddit, why are you surprised lol.

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      3 hours ago

      lot of old farts on here that never grew up on youtube, just ignore the bitter old heads and people who think there too highspeed to have ever enjoyed his videos.

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      9 hours ago

      And why does it seem like they all hate Pewdiepie?

      He took a fascist turn during Trump 1 and never really recovered his image. Got into a bunch of weird exploitative shit, not unlike Mr Beast. The most notable being when he tested the Fiverr service and paid five dollars to get Indian freelance actors to laugh and show a sign saying ‘Death to all Jews’.

      After that, he started getting deplatformed and his following fell off considerably. So, like a bunch of other has-been YouTube starlets, he decided to get even more edgy and reactionary, further poisoning his image. It’s the same death spiral Russell Brand and Rob Schneider fell down.

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          2 hours ago

          Yeah I’m certainly not going to claim to be an avid or long time watcher of pewdiepie but… No he didn’t? The fiverr thing happened, sure. But the rest of that is wild conjecture and misinformation.

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            6 hours ago

            He said the nword once (terrible thing), almost a decade ago, apologized for it and improved (I guess) as a person
            I’m sick of internet people calling for a guillotine whenever someone makes a mistake even once

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              1 hour ago

              The person I was responding to said

              I personally love him for being the same guy all this years.

              My point was not necessarily that he needs to be excommunicated from humanity, but that they might want to reconsider whether him “being the same guy all this years” is a good thing

              (I do not actually give a single shit about Pewdiepie in any fashion positive or negative)