For anyone defending Pewdiepie, perhaps it's worth considering why this bastard said "Subscribe to Pewdiepie" before going on to butcher 40+ people. Why that phrase/meme above all others?
No, Pewdiepie didn't directly incite someone to go and do this. No, he's not the most extreme YT figure out there. No, he doesn't come out with explicit white supremacist rhetoric. But he is the laughing, "for the lulz", hugely popular figure who people that swim in the shitty waters that Brenton Tarrant did identify with, because of his "jokes", or his linking to far-right sites, or his anti-media stance, or his refusal/inability to condemn the stuff he's perceived as supporting with his "jokes".
No, Pewdiepie didn't directly incite someone to go and do this. No, he's not the most extreme YT figure out there. No, he doesn't come out with explicit white supremacist rhetoric. But he is the laughing, "for the lulz", hugely popular figure who people that swim in the shitty waters that Brenton Tarrant did identify with, because of his "jokes", or his linking to far-right sites, or his anti-media stance, or his refusal/inability to condemn the stuff he's perceived as supporting with his "jokes".