I don’t particularly watch/like PewDiePie, but he is joining the train and spreading the word, which is awesome. He is self hosting services and using GrapheneOS now.
I don’t particularly watch/like PewDiePie, but he is joining the train and spreading the word, which is awesome. He is self hosting services and using GrapheneOS now.
Crazy to see people stating that they never saw a video of him, but I guess the intersection of his audience and the fediverse is predictably low, especially in a degoogle community.
His recent arc with Linux and now this are pretty nice though.
I think it’s a generational thing. Millennials especially slightly older ones have not really been exposed to this guy at all.
In fact, many of us have actively avoided him. 😂
I just remember he made the baby talk videos back in the day. I was like wtf is this shit? Then avoided him forever after that.
Less nice: the arcs of nazisms and bigotry
Here we go again 🙄
I’m not into drama in general, and those are serious allegations. He sure had questionable stuff going on, but considering him being an actual nazi had always seemed far off to me, but we’ll never know.
This guy rambling about degoogling and GrapheneOS, to an audience (700k views after 3h) that surely has nothing to do with that, is just great news to me as of now.
No one ever gets to be a Nazi “ironically” - pretend to be a Nazi, and you’re a Nazi. He could agree with me on a dozen issues, and he’d still be a Nazi (and it might make me question that much agreement). Seems awfully convenient all these recent forays into Linux and talking about degoogling - almost like after years of keeping a lower profile, he and his team are trying really hard to rehabilitate his public image.
This isn’t YouTuber “drama” - this is a guy who repeatedly engaged in very public examples of bigotry and parroting Nazi symbols and salutes. So yeah - we do in fact know.
The guy is trying to rehabilitate his public image by talking about a niche nerd stuff??? It doesn’t make any sense
It won’t. Lemmy users don’t understand they are in an echo chamber and isolated from common sense. They think foss is some click bait genuinely disconnected people.
And surprise, surprise, almost half of his “I use Linux now guys” video is showing off the window manager hyprland, which got a lot of bad press over the past 2 years:
https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html
This guy still crying about this. Did he show off the bigotry or the software? Answer the question and no ifs and buts
By that logic then I’m literally a super hero every time I tie a blanket around my neck and pretend to fly.
Is it that crazy? He’s just a game streamer, right? Plenty of people have probably never watched any streaming, let alone from one particular guy.
He has been the most subscribed youtuber for a while in the past. But yeah, mostly gaming and he already “quit” YouTube several times.
Taylor Swift has been the biggest selling artist but plenty of people will never have listened to her music, football is the most popular sport in the world but many will never have watched a match, etc. To sum up with a statement of the obvious: the world’s a big place so even very popular things can still be relatively niche!
I watched a Primeagen reaction video to a recent video of Pewds, and that was the first I’ve seen a PewDiePie video. I’ve probably caught a couple of shorts over the years, but this was the first video, and it might have been last week.
I never watched his stuff in his “glory” days of yore, but he popped up in videos from Magnus the bouldering/rock climbing guy, and that showed him under a new light. Then I saw his Linux arc and started gaining more respect for him. It seems he’s kind of retired from the brain dead content and now has that new dad energy which I vibe with a lot more. Still not watching him regularly though, I don’t know what the rest of his content is like.