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PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 159 points 1 year ago (26 children)

I'm loving Pewdie's redemption arc

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That's going to be one long arc though

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is it though? I never paid any attention to him, so I only know that one time he made some kids make a sign with heil Hitler or something like that (which from what I've read was just a joke in bad taste, he isn't a nazi or major racist). Otherwise, I haven't heard anything bad about him, he was just never someone I cared to know more about and watch, seemed to be mostly for kids. Please, correct anything I've said if I'm wrong.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    He has had some serious run ins with controversy like the bridge incident and a shooter co-opting the T-Series fake beef but beyond that it's basically people reacting seriously to him aping Filthy Frank, in my opinion I think he's made good enough on not shooting himself in the foot now, mostly probably cuz he's a Dad now and trying to ape Filthy Frank is too much effort.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    started with minecraft & redstone, now linux & degoogling, can we extrapolate that in some years pewd's gonna start hrt lol

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    has he stopped "accidentally" naziing?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He got backlash from his own fans from all edgy and toxic jokes. I remember some of his Indian fans are angry for his PewDiePie vs T-series stuff (T-series: Indian music company).

    I think around 2019, he apologized and recognized all the edginess he did, and promised to do better.

    For the last five years, all of his content are basically wholesome family stuff or creative activities. Even his recent art journey video are widely shared among young art communities that's not even his fans.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I really don't get how so many people here are so happy that a Nazi is using Linux and doesn't like Google anymore. That's not the kind of clown I'd want representing or being a spokesperson for my interests and it's really making me second guess the people here.

    Edit: @nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 's comment has provided info I didn't have, and recontextualizes the attitudes here I wasn't understanding, so now I get why there's support for this.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Grow up. he did.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Might wanna take your own advice. For example, instead of making a drive by shit post, you could have done what another commenter did and actually explain why people are on board with this guy. That person's comment had me reconsider my position. Your comment just makes you look like an ass.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Yeah this is why it's so offputting seeing so much praise for him here. I don't believe he's ever outright apologized and owned up to what he's said and done in the past (I could be wrong though?). Last I checked the dude was literally a neo nazi.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My wife was a PewDiePie fan from before the slur incident so I've loosely seen some of his content over the years. He's apologized multiple times, and he's shifted his style significantly multiple times since then.

    Basically in the last few years he's grown up a ton. He married his girlfriend of a decade or more after earlier refusing marriage, had a baby, emigrated to Japan and now posts tons of creative and day-in-the-life style vlogs

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Didn't he stream a dead body in a Japanese suicide forest shortly after moving to Japan?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That was Logan Paul, and actually the Paul brothers' antics actually greatly delayed Pewd's immigration as the Japanese government actually stopped granting new visas to any social media personalitiws for some time after the Paul incidents.

    If I remember correctly he wasn't able to immigrate until mid-2020 thanks to the Paul Borthers' lack of respect for anyone

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There's no redemption arc because he literally never did anything wrong. His content was always family friendly

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