his channel is mostly watched by children who will frequently forget their youtube password and subscribe to him like 10 times, and other children who will grow out of watching video game videos but not unsub, he gets a few million views per video which is normal for the biggest channels
His big controversies happened a while back though, and he already suffered the consequences of that. I don't know what more you think should be done about him, I'm pretty sure if he does anything remotely similar he would face removal from the site. He's been held accountable for being irresponsible in the past, but linking him directly to white supremacy now is a big stretch, his content for a long while has been very safe. He apologised for what he did and people moved on, he's only getting brought up again because of the shooting, but nobody actually thinks this is his fault, right?
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Ya I don't think (at all) that P radicalised this shooter - but I am worried about his influence and connections mostly because his audience is so young.
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Yes, he's definitely an influence! pewdiepie has a long-standing habit of repping cherry-picked extremist content creators — and then retroactively invokes plausible deniability while making half-arsed oopsie “It's Just a Prank Bro” style apologies.
Given his incredible following, even little moves on his part give those platforms a massive outreach — which makes him the ideal shill and a gateway for impressionable young people. While you could optimistically argue that he's just daft/insensitive and not be a formulator/advocate of their doctrines, he definitely plays a role in disseminating their ideologies by exposing his followers to known propagandists.
You really need to shut the feck up, same goes for your pals that keep pushing tedious arguments in predictable CE thread.
I have a dream that one day this world will rise up, live out the true meaning of the creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. And also I am not going to fight a youtube subscription war".
If that was the intent wearing a red cap would have been a whole lot more effective...
Seriously? Stormfront calls him their boy?
How in the living feck do you know what stormfront calls him on the regular?
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So you don't even want to question the motives or reason for referencing Pewdepe? Really? You'd sooner pass off the comment as completely random?
Wait why are you putting up the same excuses that the ultra right were putting last night for his conservative influence? I don't want to quote what he said when he talked about those games, but for anyone who has read it, it's completely obvious that you're either (a) being completely dishonest knowing what he said when he talked about those games; or (b) just believed whatever defence the far right and their supporters were putting up since yesterday on social media. I'm not talking about this YouTuber; I'm asking why you used this particular line of defence!
I saw it on a post on reddit that was outlining his various links to these far right types. Squishy has said otherwise in this thread, and I don’t have any plans to read any far right news, so it’s a 50/50 on if it’s true or not to me
They have forums. A quick google search of 'stormfront' and 'pewdiepie' would take you there, they're hardly an underground secret organisation.
you can guess everything about him by knowing he became e-prominent by having strongly held opinions about gamergate
I agree with the gist of your post, but this probably can be said for more than half the shit that passes on TV.
No worries.
Boogie is another youtuber. His whole stick was people feeling sorry for him because of his weight and him having angry meltdowns.
And, in the end, all these crazy killers are right wing.
Yep.Today,more than most,has been really f*cking depressing browsing through social media.
Even if he's not necessarily at all responsible for this, and even if he's not someone who particularly believes in this philosophy, the concern is that he's an enabler, someone who - willfully or otherwise - is leading youngsters to discover more harmful content. Even the most brutal terrorists out there will typically start somewhere, and if an influential figure can start the process of their radicalisation through inane memes and the like then that's obviously worrying.
While social media can be depressing as feck, by the same token there can be upsides too. I've seen plenty of uplifting stories about people who helped in the immediate aftermath of the incident, or people who have used social media to offer their support to people who were impacted, either directly or indirectly. And I've seen plenty of people point out some of the harmful news headlines and media tropes we've seen in the wake of the incident. Headlines that may not have been critiqued to the same extent had they existed only offline.
Yes Pewdiepie isn't responsible at the slightest but you can how sickos can see him as the symbol for white supremacy under threat from other races ( ie. his number 1 subscribed channel status being under threat from Indian channel). I'm not saying it's his fault in the slightest but It would help if he comes out and denounces white supremacists.
Its obviously his fault because he posts the "edgy" content, associates with worse elements and fully cultivates this image to profit.
Sorry no, that comparison is pathetically lazy. These people are definitely influenced by alt-right breeding grounds on the internet which, yes, includes certain aspects of meme culture. Obviously that doesn't mean that most people who participate are radicalized into terrorism, but some people are. By separating the people who do turn to terrorism from their participating in such environments you're falling straight into the old dichotomy of young white man terrorism = lone wolf, lone gunman, failing psychiatric system, etc.
What do you mean?
From what I gather, it's the neo-Nazis at Daily Stormer that refer to him as /ourguy/...
From what I gather, it's the neo-Nazis at Daily Stormer that refer to him as /ourguy/...
