I have never understood it myself, but I've always figured it's because he acts immature and the immature youngsters relate to it. Being loud, obnoxious and irritating let's him fit right in to their circles.
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PewDiePie attempts to distance himself from Christchurch Mosque shooter who pledged support (READ THREADMARKS)
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I doubt he mentioned pewdiepie as to thank him for his influence. "Subscribe to pewdiepie" is a very popular meme at the moment and its more likely he mentioned it as a sick joke.
The terrorist is telling you that Pewdiepie influenced him. Like how stupid do you have to be to not see how he's linked?
PDP has persistently welcomed, entertained, joked uncritically, and normalized the exact attitudes, ideas, and motivations for this slaughter. He's made mass killings like the Holocaust a key part of his "comedy" for his young, impressionable audience for years and years. He's massively influential, and he's shared and advocated for white supremacists and their propagandists with all the vigor of a true believer.
This killer directly alludes to that influence. PDP has consistently mocked the idea of any responsibility on these points, through a multitude of situations where he megaphoned the bigoted hatred that drove this killing. He playfully chides any criticism of it.
This killer directly alludes to that influence. PDP has consistently mocked the idea of any responsibility on these points, through a multitude of situations where he megaphoned the bigoted hatred that drove this killing. He playfully chides any criticism of it.
"not trying to defend while I actively defend" the shooter called out to a PDP meme DIRECTLY.
Yes, this shooter is fucked up and yes its obviously on the individual BUT this shit does not get created in a vacuum ITS NOT JOKES and if you think right-wing media has nothing to do with it your insane, the manifesto is full of right-wing extremist talking points.
Are you being obtuse on purpose?
Cool cool cool. So him repeatedly saying racist and anti-Semitic shit on stream, signal boosting a literal neo nazi, and hanging out with white nationalists is totally irrelevant to the white nationalist terrorist who shouted him out before shooting a bunch of people?
Got any proof?
Because otherwise, I'll continue to think that a guy that said "Subscribe to PDP" is a fan of PDP.
Is there no way the EU can do anything about 8chan?
Nope, but thanks to him and the shooter he inspired this is prime bait for the news to put out pieces blaming violence on video games.
Nope, but thanks to him and the shooter he inspired this is prime bait for the news to put out pieces blaming violence on video games.
Lots of trolls in this thread. Accounts 2 years old, sub 100 posts, just asking questions. Shits as old as time.
"I don't understand how influencers can influence people." "I mean really." "Propaganda can''t exist on youtube. Especially from my favorite streamer that i don't even like, pewds."
User Banned (2 Weeks): Downplaying hate speech, Trolling, Disingenuous comparison
I'm not going to blame Pewdiepie for this heinous act for the same reason that I didn't blame Democracy Now or Bernie Sanders for the 2017 shooting at a congressional baseball team practice. Correlation doesn't equal causation. There are fucking awful, evil scumbags on this planet. I'm not defending Pewdiepie or his style of "humor." I don't like Pewdiepie or his despicable attempts at humor and find them to be offensive on a fundamental moral level but I'm also willing to wager he's far from the worst media these perpetrators interacted with. The eagerness of people to tie responsibility to him is foolish.
Oh fuck off. The shooter also mentioned Candace Owens, are you saying she had nothing to do with this shit also?
Like why was this guy even liked in the first place? I remember his early videos where he would scream rape non-stop and even made multiple song videos about the subject. I just don't get how he was liked.
What a complete mystery how the subscribe to Pewdiepie meme became so popular among white supremacists.
Obviously he meant it as a meme, but if that's what you think to say before violently murdering people don't you think it's safe to assume that he is someone this guy was influenced by? If pewdiepie didn't have a history of racism and antisemitism and linking to and working with alt-right people, sure, I'd write it off as just a meme. But Pewdiepie is someone who has done ALL of that, and just recently boosted a nazi cartoon to his fanbase
It's not difficult to put this pieces together, people are just actively choosing not to because they don't want to question anything related to their hobby
Definitely not alt-accounts that are too scared to post on their real account. Nope.
what's the point in saying dumb shit like this? like, i can't even imagine giving you the benefit of doubt
A man helps normalize hateful ideas, but because most of his viewers don't go out and commit mass killings he's not complicit in any way with those that do? You're seeing this thread as people saying he's the sole cause of the shooting, and no one is saying that. But he is an influential figure that helped normalize the type of thinking that inspired the shooters, even if he's not the sole impetus.
I'm not sure what's so confusing about this.
Why the need to make excuses?
Lol this is something else. When you have to say im not defending a person. Your defending that person.
I'm not sure what's hard to understand about this. PDP doesn't need to attend the funeral of the victims and personally apologize for killing their friends and family. No one expects that from him. He's being talked about because he is part of a larger cultural movement of continually demonizing minorities and excusing and even praising white supremacy.
The same point others in the thread have made? Tragedies don't exist in a vacuum.
Just don't understand who posters are talking to when they come out with stuff like this. "I'm not ... but" doesn't cut it anymore.
PDP needs to understand the responsibility of fame and so must YouTube, streamers and Google. There must be a new set of rules to not let the idiots like PDP fester their services when they cross the line.
Responsibility.
Responsibility.
Victims and survivors get targeted because they were muslims, even committed by a maniac, it's an hate crime.
Answering a question with an alt after you account was banned? Yawn.
Can not have the face of youtube's most popular channel be a NON WHITE MAN. /s
It sucks when people you like are trash, it been happening a lot in these last few years but sometimes you have to reflect on it.
I'll never understand streamer culture. I saw a mob of people surrounding that Disrespect guy and he just looked so...pathetic in person. He's also apparently an asshole. The type of guy that would be working a shit job and hated by his coworkers if he hadn't gotten lucky as a streamer.
The same exact excuses came up last week when WWII Memorials were vandalized with "Subscribe to PewDiePie"
These cowardly fucks only comes out to troll and then crawl back to their corner thinking they said something so astoundingly insightful that we feeble normies will fail to grasp the concept when, in actuality, they only reveal their true vile nature and will be forgotten. No one is going to remember them. No one will talk about them. They'll just fade away as pathetic as they came
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Zero tolerance for this garbage. It doesn't need to exist, period.
Are Democracy Now and Bernie Sanders tied to an ideology that's deeply entrenched in violent and hateful rhetoric
It's more like being dragged through repeated deja vu of insanity seeing alt-right fuckheads and propaganda thrive and thrive and result in mass shootings while people continually chime in that there is no connection.
This shit is a science at this point.