What do you think of 'Pewds' hosting Ben Shapiro? Don't you think that signal boosting people like that is something he should reflect upon instead of soulless 'prayers'?
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PewDiePie attempts to distance himself from Christchurch Mosque shooter who pledged support (READ THREADMARKS)
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What do you think of 'Pewds' hosting Ben Shapiro? Don't you think that signal boosting people like that is something he should reflect upon instead of soulless 'prayers'?
"Do anything to conflate". Yeah, like having the shooter directly invoke him.
I thank my fucking stars that people like Vinesauce and Cinemassacre have no connection to PDP.
Though JonTron appeared in one of the latter's vids, was that before or after the racism?
The extreme left. Why not just blame cultural Marxism and get it over with.
cannot be worse then the troll on gamefaqs switch board who makes about over 10,000 burner accounts
Honestly I think a lot of it especially with young kids is that they end up placing so much of their self identity in Felix that they 1. Are Blind to the troublesome stuff he has been toying with because being part of a larger fanbase makes them feel seen and appreciated so they are willing to hand wave a lot of bullshit. 2. Feel like they are being directly attacked as a result of people being critical of Felix.
These YouTubers have a legitimate responsibility to not lead their young fanbase in shitty directions and they are all doing horribly at it.
I think there is also a real problem with desensitization and media these days and kids especially not being able to grasp the real world consequences of things.
I guess don't come between some people and their shitty youtubers.
Imagine being over 40 and even knowing about PewDiePie. Stay away from the kids man.
"Extreme left"
Ok. Look, I'm tired of repeating it, but that is not the point of this thread. And yes, people SHOULD look at someone's past for his shitty behaviour IF he never apologized or did anything in order to change and be better. PDP so far has been silent on many of the issues of the past and blamed the media. Can you really blame the people for looking at him and how he uses his huge ass platform to keep promoting white supremacy and normalizing edgy stuff?
And how people are not supposed to be linking this tragedy with Felix's past when one of terrorists literally spouted his name on his support?
I think I'm gonna take a break from this thread, my head is spinning with some of this rethoric.
He absolutely has not done enough. He at the very least needs to remove anti-muslim extremists from his Twitter follows, remove his videos speaking with them, and apologize for giving xenophobia a platform.
Dollars to doughnuts this single tweet is all we see from him on the matter. Zero self-reflection. Zero accountability.
Also this is fucking terrifying (check the replies).
https://twitter.com/kjellrad/status/1106421195916795904
Legit cult.
Also this is fucking terrifying (check the replies).
https://twitter.com/kjellrad/status/1106421195916795904
Legit cult.
II don't think he would have many if he wouldn't agree with misogynists, featured Islamophobics on his channel and actively flighted against the Alt-right ideology instead of cheerfully engaging conversations with them and making 'jokes' with them.
Is not inevitable.
what? if you spend anytime in the gaming community/youtube you are going to have some knowledge of pewdiepie, no matter how old you are. that's a weird comment to make.
Cinemassacre have their own issues, Google mike's racist comics and you'll see what I mean.
The YouTubers and content creators that are reaching out to PDP to offer thoughts and prayers to him are twisting my melon, man. They are all as bad as each other.
Hopefully Geoff retires the shitty award he hands out to these internet personalities at the Game Awards as well, don't fucking legitimise them when you are celebrating this industry ffs.
Hopefully Geoff retires the shitty award he hands out to these internet personalities at the Game Awards as well, don't fucking legitimise them when you are celebrating this industry ffs.
Jesus, you're not exagerrating. This behavior was the kind of thing I thought was a silly exagerration in the "Two Minutes Hate" bit in 1984, before I learned about the actual, everyday cult behaviors that took place in places like Jim Jones' compound. Seeing it play out so plainly in a social media equivalent is unsettling.
holy shit that's fucking insane. Pewdiepie is a fucking shit excuse for a human being. I don't think the fucker realizes that he has a huge level of influence on a great ton of people and his mentality/content/beliefs get spread onto his followers like butter. For the lack of a better way to describe it, his fanbase is essentially a reflection of him, so his fucking nothing-ass apology is complete bullshit from the get go. Fuck that guy.
I genuinely can't imagine treating PDP as a victim in this situation. Everyone chooses to forget who he associates with. Everyone chooses to ignore the reality of his bigoted lampooning. Like if PDP actually cared, there was a way long before this shooting to now to distance himself from the community that spawns violence. Like did everyone forget "Death to all Jews" didn't happen? Did everyone forget that he torpedoed a partnership with Disney for the sake of "satire" about genocide?
But I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a rich white man chose to frame himself as a put upon bloke who "just can't believe why a strange bigot thinks he's on their side". Like fucking really? And then they hide behind "oh when oh when will all the hatred stop?" When people stop excusing it as fucking memes and jokes! When people stop treating faux intellectual garbage about the "Jewish question" and the "Islamic Religion of violence" and "white genocide/replacement" then we'll actually start some progress.
I don't think he's capable of taking any matter seriously. I legitimately think that he's an inconsiderate self-absorbed racist asshole that does things to be "in" with a crowd for his own amusement. Him playing the victim card should be to no surprise, he can't handle the influence of his platform.
Yes, a Youtuber with millions of subscribers regularly engaging in racist and nazi-courting behaviour is exactly the same as you being told off in a forum for downplaying that behaviour.
Fucking hell...
I mean Youtube in itself, from Travel, Gaming, Vlogs, is a haven for white people, so I'm not surprised it's cultivated that kind of right wing mentality from most of their prominent members, it's rotten to the core.
Well, I'm 41 and I know about PewDiePie. To be fair, I wish I didn't. :P
To all of you with the burner accounts:
If all of you guys are based, red-pilled individualists, why do all of you parrot the same NPC memes, post the same pepes, blurt out the same code-words, the same talking points, follow the same people and, to top all of your based individualist egalitarianism off, you blame all your problems on entire collectives such as "SJWs", "cultural marxists", "globalists", feminists, muslims etc instead of specific individuals?
Doesn't that activate your almonds? Doesn't it give your noggin a good ol' joggin'?
As for PewDiePie and "influencers" of his caliber, they are gateway drugs. Man the fuck up, take responsibility and quit the fucking alt-right cult. It's never too late.
If all of you guys are based, red-pilled individualists, why do all of you parrot the same NPC memes, post the same pepes, blurt out the same code-words, the same talking points, follow the same people and, to top all of your based individualist egalitarianism off, you blame all your problems on entire collectives such as "SJWs", "cultural marxists", "globalists", feminists, muslims etc instead of specific individuals?
Doesn't that activate your almonds? Doesn't it give your noggin a good ol' joggin'?
As for PewDiePie and "influencers" of his caliber, they are gateway drugs. Man the fuck up, take responsibility and quit the fucking alt-right cult. It's never too late.
If you truly think someone is out of line, report them.
That said, I would never have believed you actually read the threadmarks (or just generally followed the discussion) given the questions you were asking. At least not in good faith. We're all free to disagree with whomever we like, but I notice you're not really engaging with a lot of people (including myself) who replied without barbs. And right now you're making some eyebrow-raising comparisons/equivocations.
I suspect James leans conservative, he just doesn't ever talk about it.
Every right winger is like this basically
I cringe when they call others NPC
When a muslim kills in name of their god we call them terrorist and blame the religion but when a white dude kills in name of another white dude the other white dude has nothing to do with it and the first one was just a psycho????
It really angers me the soft hand that is given by the media and people in social media to White Supremacist terrorism when it is getting more dangerous than any other one.
It really angers me the soft hand that is given by the media and people in social media to White Supremacist terrorism when it is getting more dangerous than any other one.
One minor off-topic: I made comments in the past about the moderation in this place and while I might disagree on some things kudos to them, because it must has been an exhausting day.
Understatement of the year. :D His post was only missing a "so much for the tolerant left" meme.
Jesus. So we here at ERA are the nasty hateful bunch who supposedly aren't empathetic to the victims of these crimes while these people are spending their time coddling the rich white gamer? Basically thousands on thousands of people, his peers and his fans, brushing hair and cooing him to rest like they're the collective parents of an infant. Alright.
So I have to admit I learned a lot about PDP in this thread. All I have to say is the guy is a fucking piece of shite and jesus fucking Christ I will never ever watch his videos and continue not doing so. I have never watched his videos... I know he was a big YT celeb but man this thread changed a lot. Even if I dont personally know anything about him outside this thread... it must be said. Fuck this piece of scum garbage.
It isn't even getting. It's been up there for a long time. If you look at, say, terrorism stats in the U.S., the vast majority of terrorism incidents are from people born in the country, and right wing terrorists are as much or more common than Islamic terrorists. The perception of Islamic terrorism has been higher because it's been played up while white supremacist terrorism is downplayed.
Considering how much flack PewDiePie's got for Nazi stuff and the "death to jews" bit and yet he's still making millions. Do you think he'd get away with all of that if he was a brown dude?
Zero introspection. But I didn't expect anything in the first place.
And he's not condemning either white extreme nationalism.
People calling him Felix like they're buddies is so weird.
Let me make a quick Terry Bollea thread.
Let me make a quick Terry Bollea thread.
In Spain we just recently had a few extreme right-wingers knife a gay man in the throat (after already nearly beating him to death) and leave him to die. Yes it was ideologically motivated. No it doesn't count as terrorism apparently.
