His peak of popularity was in a different era of societal awareness. His humor had an edge that was often crude and immature 15 years ago and unacceptable today, culminating in him dropping the N bomb during a livestream several years ago, and even after apologies, people just can’t let go and are still trying to crucify him.
Some others are simply hating on him because he has opinions that don’t fully align with theirs. Others, simply for being popular.
Personally I don’t feel one way or the other about him, but the video is worth watching. He shows a deep understanding of the system and its components, and more expertise than Linus “Yes, do as I say!” Sebastian presented.
Was the N bomb considered a bad thing in Sweden at the time? Here in Estonia it’s the young people of today who see it as a bad thing, people in their 40s and up see it as completely normal because it’s just always been normal to use it. Like the word is in the dictionary and doesn’t have a “vulgar” tag
Could be, I have no idea. I’m Hungarian (not a fact I like to advertise), and in my language, “néger” is the correct word. It’s not considered vulgar because the word simply doesn’t have the same historical context. The variant with two "g"s is still no-no. We also have a popular hard candy called “Negró”, so named because of its black color.
The short of it is that he was an entry point for the MAGA pipeline years back. I don’t know if he still schills for white supremacist podcasts and the like anymore, though.
There is this video analysis which, while taking pewdiepie as a major example, it is about the online-gamer-manosphere-trolls pipeline that leads into weird shit:
Fuck that guy though. Probably get someone else to be your Linux spokesman.
Did I miss something?
His peak of popularity was in a different era of societal awareness. His humor had an edge that was often crude and immature 15 years ago and unacceptable today, culminating in him dropping the N bomb during a livestream several years ago, and even after apologies, people just can’t let go and are still trying to crucify him.
Some others are simply hating on him because he has opinions that don’t fully align with theirs. Others, simply for being popular.
Personally I don’t feel one way or the other about him, but the video is worth watching. He shows a deep understanding of the system and its components, and more expertise than Linus “Yes, do as I say!” Sebastian presented.
Was the N bomb considered a bad thing in Sweden at the time? Here in Estonia it’s the young people of today who see it as a bad thing, people in their 40s and up see it as completely normal because it’s just always been normal to use it. Like the word is in the dictionary and doesn’t have a “vulgar” tag
Could be, I have no idea. I’m Hungarian (not a fact I like to advertise), and in my language, “néger” is the correct word. It’s not considered vulgar because the word simply doesn’t have the same historical context. The variant with two "g"s is still no-no. We also have a popular hard candy called “Negró”, so named because of its black color.
Besides him giving a Nazi salute while he pays two guys to hold a sign that says “death to all Jews” https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/17/14613234/pewdiepie-nazi-satire-alt-right
and using the N word? Article sugar coats saying it wasn’t intentional when he said of another player “what a ni–er” https://www.businessinsider.com/why-pewdiepie-accidentally-using-n-word-matters-2017-9?op=1
I think the dude has matured since all those things happened. He hasn’t really been in the zeitgeist for about 5 years now.
That was 8 years ago.
The short of it is that he was an entry point for the MAGA pipeline years back. I don’t know if he still schills for white supremacist podcasts and the like anymore, though.
There is this video analysis which, while taking pewdiepie as a major example, it is about the online-gamer-manosphere-trolls pipeline that leads into weird shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw
It is in no way recent news about him, but some of the issues aound his past is somewhat related with what is exposed in this video.
Ditto