• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    And why does it seem like they all hate Pewdiepie?

    He took a fascist turn during Trump 1 and never really recovered his image. Got into a bunch of weird exploitative shit, not unlike Mr Beast. The most notable being when he tested the Fiverr service and paid five dollars to get Indian freelance actors to laugh and show a sign saying ‘Death to all Jews’.

    After that, he started getting deplatformed and his following fell off considerably. So, like a bunch of other has-been YouTube starlets, he decided to get even more edgy and reactionary, further poisoning his image. It’s the same death spiral Russell Brand and Rob Schneider fell down.

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        2 months ago

        no its just virtue signalers and keyboard warriors remembering hed did a bad thing that one time on the bridge and assumed hes a Nazi now.

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          2 months ago

          hed did a bad thing that one time

          Far more than the one time. He had a whole routine about exploiting overseas labor to perform humiliating stunts.

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            2 months ago

            Nah I’m not going to take a lecturing, each ‘incident’ can v easily have been explained, it’s why a lot of people on this page aren’t taking you guys seriously, your type are to tightly wound up

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              2 months ago

              each ‘incident’ can v easily have been explained

              You hear this from serial sexual harassers all the time. Every individual incident has plausible deniability. It’s the trend line that eventually catches up with you.

              your type are to tightly wound up

              My type being… big budget advertisers on YouTube?