• Sips'@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

    Having such a big influencer as Pewds shout out selfhosting, ad blocking and general privacy improvements is a huge win, no matter what your opinion is of him.

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      4 months ago

      I’m always open to somebody’s redemption arc, even if I dislike them. The great thing about people is that we are capable of growth, even if not all of us always grow in the right direction, we always can.

  • Vegafjord oakframer@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Pewdiepie: doing dogwhistle for nazi and fascist stuff

    backlash

    apologize

    never doing it again

    for 10 years

    lemmy> he is a nazi scum, burn him!

    down with the pitchforks. the man made a grave mistake a decade ago. but he has moved away from the wrong path. long time ago.

    it’s time to give the man a break. not to forget. but to forgive.

    • Linearity@infosec.pub
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      4 months ago

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

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              4 months 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

              • trslim@pawb.social
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                4 months ago

                yeah, its part of why the internet sucks, you make some bad decisions, fall for some stupid propaganda or listen to the wrong person, and you’re branded forever. People make bad decisions. It happens.

                gods forbid someone make a mistake and then take a step back to reexamine their lives to try and be a better person.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        4 months 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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            4 months ago

            no its just virtue signalers and keyboard warriors remembering hed did a bad thing that one time on the bridge and assumed hes a Nazi now.

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              4 months ago

              hed did a bad thing that one time

              Far more than the one time. He had a whole routine about exploiting overseas labor to perform humiliating stunts.

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                4 months ago

                Nah I’m not going to take a lecturing, each ‘incident’ can v easily have been explained, it’s why a lot of people on this page aren’t taking you guys seriously, your type are to tightly wound up

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                  4 months ago

                  each ‘incident’ can v easily have been explained

                  You hear this from serial sexual harassers all the time. Every individual incident has plausible deniability. It’s the trend line that eventually catches up with you.

                  your type are to tightly wound up

                  My type being… big budget advertisers on YouTube?

  • Padit@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    I dont really understand, is it possible to block JUST the shorts on Youtube? Any idea where i can find more about that?

    I dont want to leave youtube just yet, but occasionally the shorts are melting my brain.