FubarberryYoutuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'
msmc101i don’t really know if the linux community should be claiming the guy who casually drops the n word like he breathes air as our guy.
UlrichFFS, it was years ago, no one is claiming him as “our guy”, and he’s an extremely influential person so just take the win.
Yeah. Guy does a few Nazi things and anti-Semitic things a few years ago and he has to live with that reputation forever? . And come on, why are you living in the past? Just because Kanye straight off said some Nazi shit every few months? Dude, separate the art from the artist!
Oh, and Kevin Spacey did a bit of rape back then. But it was so long ago!
And while we’re here, Bill Cosby drugged those girls in the 70s. Like my dude, who wasn’t a little edgy back then?
You’re going to equate a word with being a Nazi and rape? Using a racial slur is literally a small subset of being a Nazi.
Nah I’m saying you say racist shit, you don’t get off the hook.
Is there an avenue to getting off the hook? Apologizing and not doing it again? Or does he lose everything for the rest of his life?
For context, I barely know who pewdiepie is. I just have to imagine that when public figures fuck up, maybe there’s a spectrum of available consequences other than “they must lose their job and never been spoken of again.”
I was thinking QtPie, who is a much nicer person.
Pretty sure PewDiePie is an ass, but “he said a racial slur once ten years ago” isn’t a great argument against anyone, generally.
He didn’t really apologize at all. He brushed it off, moved on, and then everyone pretended like it didn’t exist.
His PR machine worked hard to clean up his mess.
Imagine if JK Rowling’s got quiet then two years later, came back and everyone gaslight you into saying they just went through a phase.
Thanks for the context. I read your comment as “you don’t get off the hook ever” which is not what you said.
I think your original argument just wasn’t fully fleshed out. Seems you don’t like the guy for a lot more reason than the one you gave, which might be legitimate.
Damn, so according to you anyone who played COD or Halo back in the day should also be banished from society?
So I decided to look up the article, and see what the defense was.
Here’s the article: mediaite.com/…/Screen-Shot-2019-09-19-at-16.04.33…
And indeed, it does seem to be a Vetements piece he’s wearing. I could not however find the exact outfit, but those are the Georgian designer’s signature, in Georgian letters, which can be compared here:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demna_(designer)
In looking through some videos from that era, he is wearing multiple articles of clothing from Vetements which tracks. So it’s not a one off piece of clothing he was wearing from that company.
As for the cross, it is a design used in Georgia, including on their traditional flags:
And it is known as a Bolnisi Cross
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolnisi_cross
It is similar to the German iron cross, except the iron cross always has white or iron bolding, which the Bolnisi Cross does not
(You can compare them in these search results: duckduckgo.com/?t=fpas&q=german+iron+cross&ia=ima…)
PewDiePie’s PR machine got you so good you’re defending a multimillionaire for his BS.
Nah, I just actually look up claims rather than taking them at face value, and live in Europe.
Didn’t the dude literally dress up like a Nazi as a joke? Or am I misremembering.
I’m not that familiar, tbh.
You’re not misremembering.
He had a team scrub that off the internet and now a bunch of people have been gaslit.
Ok thanks… I can picture it in my head so I was confused when people here were so focused on the iron cross thing.