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Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"
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Fuck that guy though. Probably get someone else to be your Linux spokesman.
eh, he speaks to his own audience, which is probably still huge as hell. I doubt he'll be the "spokesman" to anyone else.
FTFY
Did I miss something?
His peak of popularity was in a different era of societal awareness. His humor had an edge that was often crude and immature 15 years ago and unacceptable today, culminating in him dropping the N bomb during a livestream several years ago, and even after apologies, people just can't let go and are still trying to crucify him.
Some others are simply hating on him because he has opinions that don't fully align with theirs. Others, simply for being popular.
Personally I don't feel one way or the other about him, but the video is worth watching. He shows a deep understanding of the system and its components, and more expertise than Linus "Yes, do as I say!" Sebastian presented.
Because of his "edgy", shitty provocative humour and how high profile he was, he's generally considered one of the horsemen of the adpocalypse.
He did one too many nazi joke, articles were written, and suddenly all content creators had it a lot harder to get ad revenue, because announcers were all like "associating with youtube creators will ruin our brand".
Pewdiepie may not be the only factor, but he was certainly a big one.
I mean, he did a little more than "one too many Nazi jokes." Including, but not limited to, supporting white supremacists and advertising their social media and books on his channel and social media platforms.
The number of people that I've heard (especially teenagers) arguing that "it's normal over there" was honestly disheartening. He was a major component of the MAGA pipeline in the years leading up to Trump's first presidency.
Was the N bomb considered a bad thing in Sweden at the time? Here in Estonia it's the young people of today who see it as a bad thing, people in their 40s and up see it as completely normal because it's just always been normal to use it. Like the word is in the dictionary and doesn't have a "vulgar" tag
Not really, no. Today the aversion to it has been imported, but not 15 years ago. Of course when you use it in English you know it's a significantly worse word but you also don't have the cultural bagage to know entirely what it entails. From what I gather, Felix has improved upon his ways in many ways and isn't much of an "edgelord" anymore.
Could be, I have no idea. I'm Hungarian (not a fact I like to advertise), and in my language, "néger" is the correct word. It's not considered vulgar because the word simply doesn't have the same historical context. The variant with two "g"s is still no-no. We also have a popular hard candy called "Negró", so named because of its black color.
Edit: missed the context. This was about Torvalds, not Tech Tips
~~Theres a lot more problems than that. Both GamersNexus and Louis Rossman have made videos on it.~~
~~Shady sponsor deals. Making huge mistakes when testing things from new small companies (one guy machining custom watercooler blocks), calling the device garbage because their own mistakes caused it not to work, refusing to return the prototype one they tested as they had agreed to, and then auctioning it off. Claiming all of that was just honest mistakes while making no efforts to make it right and doubling down on calling it shit. Many many cases of Linus just being an abusive bastard of a boss behind the scenes. Many cases of anonymous current and former employees talking about toxic workplace culture (coming from the top down), insane crunch, deadlines set too tight that cause issues in reviews.~~
~~Regular smaller mistakes in their reviews and videos with no standard company policy on how they should go back and edit them to inform viewers of the mistake. Numerous cases where they acknowledge the mistake privafely but refuse to even add a pinned comment to the video.~~
~~His team knew about the Honey extension, one of their sponsors, being a scam. It hijacked any links to online stores nd made them referal links to kick back money to Honey. While countless other youtubers made exposes about it he refused to say anything about it to his viewers and then had a tantrum on the podcast about how it was unfair to expect him and his team to say anything about it after he was called out.~~
~~Every. Single. Time. When Linus is called out on this stuff in a large enough way, he throws a very public tantrum.~~
~~At best, Linus is an overgrown child who is unfit to run a business of the size and clout his has.~~
Your comment is pointless, this isn't a thread about LTT.
Torvalds and the tech tip guy share the same first name, but they are in fact not the same person.
Wrong again. I was comparing Pewdiepie's video about Linux to LTT's Linux challenge. Felix has shown a considerable understanding of Linux and relevant components that many "tech" entertainers (least of all Linus of LTT) don't.
I assumed this was the mixup because of the unexpected Linus but I can't tell what's going on anymore
Besides him giving a Nazi salute while he pays two guys to hold a sign that says "death to all Jews" https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/17/14613234/pewdiepie-nazi-satire-alt-right
and using the N word? Article sugar coats saying it wasn't intentional when he said of another player "what a ni--er" https://www.businessinsider.com/why-pewdiepie-accidentally-using-n-word-matters-2017-9?op=1
I think the dude has matured since all those things happened. He hasn’t really been in the zeitgeist for about 5 years now.
That was 8 years ago.
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The short of it is that he was an entry point for the MAGA pipeline years back. I don't know if he still schills for white supremacist podcasts and the like anymore, though.
There is this video analysis which, while taking pewdiepie as a major example, it is about the online-gamer-manosphere-trolls pipeline that leads into weird shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw
It is in no way recent news about him, but some of the issues aound his past is somewhat related with what is exposed in this video.
Ditto