what pewdiepie did:
- turned the war against T-Series into a charity event that raised 200 thounsand dollars in a day
- that’s not even counting the millions of dollars he raised for charity during his entire career
- shouted out numerous small creators so they get some attention (we all know youtube’s algorithm sucks)
- brought attention to a channel who’s host had passed away, knowing it was his dream to have a popular channel on youtube. his parents now host the channel.
- constantly interacts with his fans via community driven videos, gives attention to numerous artists that post on his subreddit
y’all:
- “he said the n word that one time, so :////////”
Actually me:
- For his time as a youtuber, he has consistently made rape jokes, promoted nazi imagery and beliefs, literally paid people who didn’t speak much English to hold up signs that said “death to all Jews”, and yeah, said the fucking n word
- Has never offered decent apologies for these instances, instead resorting to bullshit excuses like “it was a joke” or “it was a heated gamer moment”
-He consistently promotes alt-right and far right zealots, has actively cited neo-nazis as having good youtube channels, and follows all of these people on twitter:
you may recognize several of these as being active and vocal transphobes, homophobes, racists, and misogynists, many of whom have been pushing ideas like white genocide that have an actual body count for years
-Passively allows nazis to use him as a recruiting tool and as a dog whistle. Introducing people to racism and nazism in a fun, comedic manner is a historically extremely effective method for radicalizing people to violence. It’s no coincidence that 51 people were murdered under his name.
-It literally doesn’t matter whether he actually supports nazism, he has still fostered a space for nazis to feel safe and to recruit new members and unless he actively and unceasingly condemns the ideology and drives away all the nazis who follow him he is complicit in everything the alt right has done or will do in his name. He hasn’t even attempted to do such a thing.
-It doesn’t matter how much of other people’s money he gives to charity. People are dying because of him.
-And yeah, again, he said the fucking n word. stop supporting racists.
And for all the “uwu he’s HUMAN he makes mistakes” dumbasses in the notes I’d like to say, “so what?” We’re all human, what makes him so special that we are constantly told to exempt him from criticism or responsibility?
He’s a piece of shit that was never funny in the first place, quit supporting him.
“Raising money for charity and being nice to your fans totally negates using dehumanising racial slurs, joking about the genocide of an already-persecuted minority, and positively engaging with white supremacists” is one hell of a argument.
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