The intro is great. He’s got all the Linux meme’s nailed
Haha! I started watching one Pewdiepie video, I dunno, five-or-ten years ago or something, and as soon as I started the video he started screaming. I turned it off and never went back.
what did he do that this picture makes people leave this community?
You don’t need to worry about it. His new content is that of a completely different person, and it’s been more than half a decade since his last controversy.
don't look
Again, I genuinely feel that Pewds’ content has changed dramatically since his early days, for the better. He seems much more considerate, thoughtful with what he says, and mellower in general. I don’t think anyone should feel bad at all for liking his recent content.
But you clicked this so…
I’m gonna stick to things Pewds drew controversy over that were actually on video. Not laying out accusations, just laying out why he’s a controversial figure in an unbiased fashion.
Forewarning, some of this is heavy.
Pewdiepie was a very edgy youtuber for most of his career, usually laying out unfiltered hot takes. They were all pretty normal edgy guy things. Think Idubbbz in terms of flavor.
I will say that I personally noticed a major change in his content after his slogan "Subscribe to PewDiePie" was used in the Christchurch mosque shooting in 2019. I think he realized just how toxic portions of his audience were from that tragedy, and ended up changing direction because of that. That was also mostly not in his control.
There were something like half-a-dozen controversies directly caused by his own actions, such as when he payed two people on fiver who didn’t speak English to hold up a sign reading “death to all jews”, and calling it a social experiment to show how people will do anything for money.
Another time he faced backlash for saying the N word during a livestream.
He also said he joined ISIS as a joke at one point.
Most of his controversies are like this, where he does some edgy inflammatory shit, realizes he went to far, apologizes, then everything goes back to the way it was before.
He started YouTube in 2006, then again in 2010 under PewDiePie. It’s been more than a decade either way. It’s been 6 years since his last controversy. I wouldn’t worry about how people judge him now.
He’s the most viewed YouTuber. It’s apparently impossible for a decent person to achieve this level of success in the hate machine that is the YouTube algorithm.
I watched him like 15-16 years ago. Didn’t follow since then. I guess all these big youtubers are either racists or child molesters
great fallacy, love it
TBH that’s the first video of his that I’ve ever watched. It’s not too bad, but there’s not much in the way of substance. Not for me. When I want to drain my brain after a hard work day, I’d rather watch some sci-fi.
Said the bad n word on stream.
He’s a noted antisemite as well.
most of the times those are just jokes (or satire) that goes out of hand
I actually like him for challenging the over-butthurt norms
just about every comedian on earth has to go tolerate this populationThat is incorrect. He is a true antisemite.
Is that bad?
Why would it not be bad
This guy just walks fresh onto the scene and starts dropping better observational comedy than I see from people with 20+ years of experience on both platforms.
IKR? My favorite part was:
Little baby windows “are owu sure you want to dewete candy crush?”
Linux: hands you a gun “Do it. Eldridge horror sounds You are god”
I expected it to be a silly video with lots of misinfo but he’s just spitting for 20 minutes straight, really pleasantly surprised.
Can’t stand YouTubers but he isn’t wrong.
he was the most subscribed one for a reason
That’s like saying Fox is the number one news channel. There’s truth to that because they are number one in broadcasting…. Not cable, not satellite, not OTT, not internet. That viewership was only 2+ million. Number one doesn’t mean anything, except there could be a social problem. So what he was number one of the size of a small country. What does the rest of the world have to say about that? Makes you wonder…… at least should.
I’d like to preemptively direct prospective commenters’ attention to rule 6 about public figures.
For the lazy
6> . (NEW!) Regarding public figures
We all have our opinions, and certain public figures can be divisive. Keep in mind that this is a community for memes and light-hearted fun, not for airing grievances or leveling accusations.
Keep discussions polite and free of disparagement. We are never in possession of all of the facts. Defamatory comments will not be tolerated. Discussions that get too heated will be locked and offending comments removed.
Lmao. What an unbelievably stupid rule. “Just pretend everyone is cool even if they’re a total loser or whatever”
You can say whatever you want about whoever you want, but this is not the place to litigate those issues. This is “Linux Memes”, not “Linux Circlejerk”. Have your Spicy Hot Takes somewhere else.
If you have an issue with a post because it’s about or was made by a person you disagree with, kindly downvote and move on. Throwing a tantrum will never be productive.
Just say this isn’t the right place for it. No need to debase yourself and call it a tantrum.
Average blahaj user if he’s not allowed to be toxic lmao
None of the items listed in the rule state that
Nah he was right about Linux so be quiet about the racial slur stuff for sure.
Yeah, that rule is stupid and short-sighted.
Someone drops a bad word and you want to cancel them? “Why is everyone moving to the right?”
Sure, we’ll all just ignore the fact that Tux tried to circumvent totally legitimate and logical tariffs because of rule 6.
Okay, buh-bye c/linuxmemes 😘
And nothing of value was lost
That’s a nice rice even, what the hey, kinda makes me wanna fuck around in wms again
the relapse is real
