There is evidence already in that video that suggests that he is starting to lean more left. Like he pointed out the ecological issues with AI. Even though he did say “I don’t like to be that guy” before saying that.
It seems like he is already doing some doubts and thinking that are signs of moving the left direction.
I’m trying to be the optimist here. If we want not just PewDiePie, but his subscribe-base to change sides, we need him to be extra careful and extra soft with this sort of change. He seem to know how to form good streams of thoughts and convincing narratives. This would take some serious carefulness on his part. And it seems like he is already taking small steps to do that.
He said the N word on stream, in a “heated gamer moment”. I have never ever said that word in private or otherwise, leading me to believe that is not his first time or last.
He paid poor people in India on fiver to hold a sign saying “kill the jews”
In his apology video he wore a shirt with a fucking iron cross on the collar.
He is a Nazi and to continue to hem and haw about whether he is or isn’t is exactly what crypto fascist losers like him want you to do.
PewDiePie is a Nazi. Stop carrying water for Nazis.
He also used to follow a ton of open white supremacist NAZIS on Twitter like Laura Southern and that guy who got punched in the face. People screenshotted it and he noticed and privated his follows. That was many years ago. But you don’t follow open Nazis if you’re just some gamer dude (if he was some sort of respectable journalist you could have an excuse of having a newsworthiness angle but he followed them because he liked their posts because he is a NAZI).
I think he’s more greedy than committed to bringing about Nazi goals so is somewhat careful about not exposing too much of that part of himself but he’s part of the white supremacist gamergate to white supremacist streamers pipeline and should be called a Nazi until they day he 1) admits he was a Nazi, 2) disavows that. 3) disavows other Nazi gamer streamers who exist in his “edgelord space” 4) becomes openly progressive and goes out of his way to denounce and attack fascists and white supremacy. Until that day he should be assumed to still be a Nazi.
Ok well in Europe people say and used to say the n word a lot, idk where you are from but when I moved here 17 years ago white kids saying the n word was „normal“ I was pretty shocked because I came from US schools where that was a huge no no. So I’m just saying hearing a white person saying the N word in Europe wasn’t a sign that people were dyed in the wool racists. As for the iron cross thing, that’s an older Prussian military symbol which is still used by the German military (yes it’s full of right wingers but which military isn’t) also Lemmy used to run around wearing iron crosses didn’t mean he was a nazi.
All the rest sounds just like an idiot trolling, I don’t know the guy and I’m not defending what he did, he definitely helped poison the discourse and gave Nazis a place where they could feel safe which is bad. I still don’t know if he’s an ideological fascist though so I’m not going to call him one. I’m not carrying water for any one at the end of the day idgaf about any of these internet personalities. I’m just also not going to accuse some one of being a nazi if I don’t know that he is one.
At the end of the day I think he just did all this shit for the controversy it stirred up because guess what in the media hellscape we live in stirring up controversy makes good money, a lot more than being sincere sadly.
There is evidence already in that video that suggests that he is starting to lean more left. Like he pointed out the ecological issues with AI. Even though he did say “I don’t like to be that guy” before saying that.
It seems like he is already doing some doubts and thinking that are signs of moving the left direction.
I’m trying to be the optimist here. If we want not just PewDiePie, but his subscribe-base to change sides, we need him to be extra careful and extra soft with this sort of change. He seem to know how to form good streams of thoughts and convincing narratives. This would take some serious carefulness on his part. And it seems like he is already taking small steps to do that.
I’m sorry no. He is not leaning more left he’s just an opportunistic crypto fascist.
I see him more as your typical edgelord who did enable a lot of shitty fascists, idk if he is an ideological fascist though.
He said the N word on stream, in a “heated gamer moment”. I have never ever said that word in private or otherwise, leading me to believe that is not his first time or last.
He paid poor people in India on fiver to hold a sign saying “kill the jews”
In his apology video he wore a shirt with a fucking iron cross on the collar.
He is a Nazi and to continue to hem and haw about whether he is or isn’t is exactly what crypto fascist losers like him want you to do.
PewDiePie is a Nazi. Stop carrying water for Nazis.
He also used to follow a ton of open white supremacist NAZIS on Twitter like Laura Southern and that guy who got punched in the face. People screenshotted it and he noticed and privated his follows. That was many years ago. But you don’t follow open Nazis if you’re just some gamer dude (if he was some sort of respectable journalist you could have an excuse of having a newsworthiness angle but he followed them because he liked their posts because he is a NAZI).
I think he’s more greedy than committed to bringing about Nazi goals so is somewhat careful about not exposing too much of that part of himself but he’s part of the white supremacist gamergate to white supremacist streamers pipeline and should be called a Nazi until they day he 1) admits he was a Nazi, 2) disavows that. 3) disavows other Nazi gamer streamers who exist in his “edgelord space” 4) becomes openly progressive and goes out of his way to denounce and attack fascists and white supremacy. Until that day he should be assumed to still be a Nazi.
Ok well in Europe people say and used to say the n word a lot, idk where you are from but when I moved here 17 years ago white kids saying the n word was „normal“ I was pretty shocked because I came from US schools where that was a huge no no. So I’m just saying hearing a white person saying the N word in Europe wasn’t a sign that people were dyed in the wool racists. As for the iron cross thing, that’s an older Prussian military symbol which is still used by the German military (yes it’s full of right wingers but which military isn’t) also Lemmy used to run around wearing iron crosses didn’t mean he was a nazi.
All the rest sounds just like an idiot trolling, I don’t know the guy and I’m not defending what he did, he definitely helped poison the discourse and gave Nazis a place where they could feel safe which is bad. I still don’t know if he’s an ideological fascist though so I’m not going to call him one. I’m not carrying water for any one at the end of the day idgaf about any of these internet personalities. I’m just also not going to accuse some one of being a nazi if I don’t know that he is one.
At the end of the day I think he just did all this shit for the controversy it stirred up because guess what in the media hellscape we live in stirring up controversy makes good money, a lot more than being sincere sadly.