I just think it’s pretty cool that Felix, who has never really mentioned anything Linux before, chose to go with a Linux distro for the PC he put together.
Link to video : https://youtu.be/tsu0Rw3Nqi8?t=1554
Linux doesn’t make up for being a nazi.
I seem to be a bit behind on pewdiepie being a nazi sympathizer, mind enlightening me?
This video is a good place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw
Last I heard, Pewdiepie has been trying to pass it off as jokes, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck. (And whether or not he’s “a nazi” deep in his heart doesn’t matter. He’s doing and spreading naziism.)
He made that as a waful joke, to the point even his fans also asking him to stop making those edgy jokes. He used to make N-word or any edgy joke because he was toxic gamer mentality. I remember seeing a total backlash on Pewdiepie official subreddit.
After the incident, he stopped making any edgy jokes. All of his content in the past half decade are basically wholesome or hobbyist stuff. He also recognize his mistake on several occasion.
I don’t know who he is, just that he’s some kind of YouTube celebrity. Apparently, if he’s not an extremist, he’s a braindead idiot. I’m not sure it’s actually much better. Well, maybe a wee bit better, but not by much.
I just watched the video, and it’s a mix of good points and FUD IMO coming from a very specific worldview (esp with the art style and music choice). I do think it’s worth a watch, as it challenges the predominant view and encourages you to think.
Thanks for linking it! I disagree with some of the conclusions, but it was useful nonetheless.
To what are you referring to?
the streaming in an SS uniform and paying people on fiverr to hold up signs saying “death to all jews”, probably
the streaming in an SS uniform […]
Do you have a source?
Source?
This I see the points. Im sure they were clickbait edgy “jokes” but ofcourse someone with such a huge following should not be making these kinds of references. Thanks for the info!
i posted in another thread that got removed that really the important takeaway from what happened is that as he and his audience radicalized eachother. the people who didn’t want to see the edgy stuff left, and he made no effort to distance himself from it at the time, so more edgy people started following him. in the end you had what the in-group saw as edgy humour while the rest of the world saw nazi shit. and like the “layers of irony” thing that 4chan had going a few years ago, what the in-group thinks its projecting doesn’t matter.
Yeah, i stopped watching him for a number of hears when the edgy-ness was in full force. I enjoy his recent content since he has settled down in Japan, but I wont forget the dark years.
Im pretty sure you are referring to him wearing a british military uniform. Also he did not have anyone say death to all jews. Provide source and I will correct this though.
You don’t know what you are talking about. He never wore a Nazi uniform and that Fiverr thing was a joke. He tried to see what would be the most horrible thing a Fiverr would so.
i don’t care what he says the intentions were, just like i don’t care what Elon and Bannon’s intentions were with their “unfortunate gestures”. a normal human being would never have thought to do that. the intentions don’t matter, only the actions.
Elon musk is an oligarchs who spoke to a neonazi party, lies and gaslights and the list of shitty things he said or did is longer than Samuel Jackson’s Imdb page.
PewDiePie is a video creator that has thousands of hours of innocent content with three jokes that were too edgy. Which he then apologized and condemned the ideas that he misrepresented.
No wonder why pewdiepie fell off.
He never “fell off”. He just started a family and stopped posting
Oh yeah
If he was a Nazi I don’t think he’d be living in Japan. Furthermore, calling people Nazis when they’re not Nazis really devalues the term. Be more intentional with your words.
be more intentional with your words
PewDiePie has a massive platform, and therefore has a greater responsibility to be intentional with his words.
While true, I haven’t heard him dropping Nbombs for like 5 years at least.
The year of the linux desktop is upon us… right guys?
It might actually be. Linux gaming has come an awful long way thanks to Wine, Steam, Proton, Wayland, etc. Driver support is improving with or without the manufacturer’s help. OpenGL’s constant playing catch-up with DirectX has given way to the limitless potential of Vulkan. The web has moved almost entirely to properly open standards like WebExtensions and Canvas, and has become powerful enough that many well-known apps are literally just Electron wrappers around a HTML/Javascript core that can run on any plaform. Likewise Mono has implemented almost all of .NET and even Microsoft’s own “.NET core” cross-platform (mostly so it can run on containers and cloud more effectively, not to help Linux specifically, but we’ll take it) All these buzzword technologies add up to a seriously strong open source gaming ecosystem, and distros like SteamOS, Bazzite, and others are finally starting to put all these pieces together and polish them into something seriously usable as a daily driver and for gaming.
And once you’ve got the gamers and enthusiasts, you’re on the cutting edge, you’ve got the tip of the spear, and the rest of the spear tends to follow where they lead. Is it happening? Too early to tell, but I wouldn’t rule out the possibility. The “Year of the Linux desktop” has always been a joke, but some people weren’t joking and have been seriously working on it. That work appears to be starting to really pay off. Combined with Microsoft’s various Windows 11 missteps continuing to fuel the fire, a lot of people are increasingly receptive to alternatives.
Funny how the “Year of Linux” had to switch to the “Year of Desktop Linux”. Any place Microsoft can not use their vendor lockin strategy, some you mention, Linux eventually dominates.
True, + I quit the proprietary programs/games that don’t work on Linux anyways
Always has been
I still live in the '96 year of the Linux desktop. Red Hat hasn’t enterprised yet, Debian is the scrappy new underdog, and the kernel maintainers are all young, flexible, and open to new technologies.
Linux is upon us in %CURRENTYEAR%
PewDiePie is a Nazi sympathizer.
We can even replace “Nazi sympathizer” with a shorthand designation: “Nazi”
i thought he got wife and kid to cosplay whole some, family friendly persona
He’s basically a classic trait of toxic gamer, making a racist remarks towards everyone. He was never a nazi in the first place.
Back when he did Hitler joke stuff, he instantly got backlash from his own community. He recognized the mistake and stopped doing it again.
I can assure you, these people are often doing it for banter or just for edginess. Never actually hates people.
I’m from SEA region, and people in SEA online gaming community did this all the time. Mocking each other ethnic groups or nationalities, while not actually hating each other, except for small minorities of course. Making Hitler joke, N-word, and other local edgy jokes.
Not saying this is a good thing.
Again, even his fans constantly asking him to do better all the time. And he’s now a better person.
I recommend to check his video about 100 days art journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJDtQTTAogk It’s one of high-regarding art journey video that even contantly get shared and reacted among art community.
Looking like a Nazi youth doesn’t help his case.
He was about to go mainstream and lost that oppurtunity because of dabbling in “for the lulz”
I know he’s doing more than fine for himself with YouTube revenue but he basically blew his shot at getting closer to being a household name.
Now he is and will forever be that guy my teenager watches and will eventually grow out of watching
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Links all over this thread. Have a time.
Dude made some edgy youtube vids 8 years ago. Haven’t touched the topic since. Therefore he’s a nazi sympathizer?
“Death to all Jews” is just “edgy” now, eh? Someone travel back in time and tell Hitler how edgy he was.
Awesome cognitive detoration. Congratulations.
Its the same logic as cobcluding that people who draw swatikas on Tesla stores are amthe actual Nazis. You can’t comprehend any context.
I love Linux because it’s good for everyone – Even insufferably annoying internet personalities who are also somewhere between ‘carelessly edgy’ and ‘actually a fascist’. 💩💩💩💩💩
Saw this stop when watching the video yesterday. He mentioned it one earlier in his ad read which I totally missed (thank sponsor block), but noticed it too when I saw the desktop. Personally think this is great, if someone has a big reach it’s Pewdiepie, though I doubt he’d ever make a video on it, but he might mention it here and there. Either way, great more people are realizing what a breeze Linux is.
I hope he does a video on it !
Why are comments such a cesspool?
There’s a timestamp in the youtube link that skips to the very end. Is that on purpose? Or were you just trying to show the terminal?
It’s the part in the video where you can see the Linux Desktop.
Ohhh. He used linux on it? I saw the thumbnail, but figured I didnt eant to see a compute build be chained down my windows. Time to actually give it a watch now
