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PewDiePie fans keep making junk ransomware
- wetpaws 8y agoPoor PewDiePie. First, christchurch guy and now this.
- TylerE 8y agoLie down with the alt-right, catch fleas.
- klohto 8y agoHow is he alt-right? Let's also label him russian troll why were are at it!
- throwaway-hn123 8y agoPerhaps you should learn to read?
- gabbygab 8y agoIt's what the media and the extremist left call everyone who isn't extremist left.
- whateveracct 8y agoYeesh you live in a bizarro bubble. Wish you well :)
- gabbygab 8y agoI don't live in a bubble. Media and people who use the term "alt-right" live in a bubble. You have to live in a bubble to even use a term like alt-right. But you know that already.
- dang 8y agoCould you please stop using HN for ideological battle so we don't have to ban you again?
- dang 8y agoNo ideological flamewar on HN, please. And definitely no personal attacks. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- happytoexplain 8y agoThis is a biased exaggeration.
- swarnie_ 8y agoIts a weird narrative the MSM tried last year, clearly a few people fell for it.
- user764743 8y agoOP didn't say he was alt-right, just that he likes to lie down with them.
- wetpaws 8y agoPeople who downvote, would you mind telling why the heck are you doing it?
- dang 8y agoPresumably because it was unsubstantive flamebait. Please don't post unsubstantive comments here. Also, please don't break the site guidelines by going on about downvotes. Such comments are always off topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Midnightas 8y agoOkay, the printer one was fun but this is taken waay too far now.
- jessaustin 8y agoAs background for anyone who didn't hear about this, I enjoyed the relatively recent "Darknet Diaries" episode called "Hacker Giraffe".
- gabbygab 8y agoMore like someone does something for media attention. Isn't it funny how all of these things happen after the media started using pewdiepie for clicks? For years, pewdiepie went about his business and nothing happened. Then one day the media decided to exploit pewdiepie for views and all of a sudden, the attention seekers pile on.
- throwaway-hn123 8y agoFor years he was a relatively normal YouTuber. Then, for some bizarre reason, he decided that he felt more in common with trolls, incels and alt-right assholes and he became news. Compare his output now with that from a few years ago. He's become a total dick, and he gets the followers he deserves. It's cute that he has so many fanbois though.
- sparkie 8y agoPewDiePie gets more views on Youtube than the entire mainstream media combined, who pour a shitload of money into Youtube to get their videos promoted because they are losing viewers and can't get the ratings through good content. Of course they hate the fact. They try to paint him in a negative light at any point possible, which just backfires on them, because they are just doubling-down on the same garbage which is what caused their massive loss of viewership in the first place. People are fed up of old media pundits and their garbage "news" (or deliberate omission of). Pew News is now the mainstream news. Of course, trolls have taken the opportunity to use PDP to keep trolling the left-wing media, who seem eager to take any bait they're thrown.
- dkdbejwi383 8y agoAll I know about PewDiePie is that they are a YouTube user. What's the connection with terrorism and ransomware?
- lftl 8y agoThe Christchurch gunman name dropped PewDiePie at the start of his feed of the shooting.
- jquery 8y agoHe also said Spyro 3 made him a fascist. The best thing to do is to ignore anything the shooter said and forget about him, and remember the victims.
- happytoexplain 8y agoIt would be naive to pretend the connection between the shooter and Spyro is as random and meaningless as the connection between PewDiePie and white nationalist/alt-right trolling. I'm absolutely not blaming PewDiePie in any way for things that crowd does, even if they give a religious-terrorist-style pledge to him before they commit murder as a "joke", but I do think he is somewhat at fault for their attraction to him.
- jquery 8y ago>I do think he is somewhat at fault for their attraction to him. Please elaborate, what would you have PewDiePie do differently?
- snovv_crash 8y agoI feel like YouTubers are the next "bad influence", a position held in the past by marijuana, video games, rock 'n roll, heavy metal and communism. The funny thing is that the ones complaining are the same ones who's generation was accused of listening to bad influence music like SOAD, Marilyn Manson and Rammstein, all of whom were blamed for shootings in the past because the perps happened to listen to them.
- 5trokerac3 8y ago> "PewDiePie fans" More like trolls piggybacking off PewDiePie as a meme.
- happytoexplain 8y agoIs the assertion that they don't actually support or watch PewDiePie? Or that they do so ironically? How can we even begin to make these distinctions without a god's-eye-view of all these people and all this fans and all their intentions?
- 5trokerac3 8y ago"PewDiePie fans keep making junk ransomware" is a different headline than "Virus encrypts hard drive until PewDiePie reaches 100M followers" The former, for people who only read headlines, implies PewDiePie is at fault, or at least condones ransomware in his name. It's the same (purposefully?) ignorant reading of "chan culture" as the implication that every Pepe meme is Nazi propaganda.
- cannonedhamster 8y agoA very large percentage Pepe memes are white supremacist propaganda or just blatantly racist. They took something that was decent and ruined it. I mean it's like claiming Charlie Daniels isn't conservative despite most of what he says being conservative and on conservative networks. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, it's probably a duck. Source: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pepe+meme&ia=images&iax=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pepe+meme&ia=images&iax=images
- 5trokerac3 8y agoThis argument is entirely disingenuous. For at least a decade, Pepe memes were wholly generic. People all across the spectrum used them. In the last three years, a (dis?)information campaign to align Pepe memes with the alt-right resulted in a massive drop in use of the meme by non-alt-right people, who didn't want to be considered guilty by proxy. You're using the after-effect of the association as proof of origin.
- crushcrashcrush 8y agoPewDiePie's community is toxic and gross and represents everything that is wrong with the internet and gaming culture. This does not surprise me.
- crushcrashcrush 8y agoAlso, this story should not have been flagged.
- cheez 8y agoPewDiePie has an audience of 60 million if I remember correctly. For comparison, ~120 million people voted in the US 2016 elections. If you are thinking that 60 million people are all toxic and gross and represent everything that is wrong with internet and gaming culture, with respect, you're being an extremist. Just like those in that community who are noisy enough to get your attention.
- crushcrashcrush 8y ago60 million people out of 350mm in the USA possessing and acting on non-progressive ideologies that are suppressive, racist, regressive and generally incompatible with life in 2019? Yes I do believe that, and a lot of people would agree with me.
- Asooka 8y agoHoly shit this is such a juvenile and entitled comment. Please grow up, you're everything that's wrong with the USA.
- crushcrashcrush 8y agoYou sound like part of that 60MM, or 17% of the US.
- dang 8y ago
- rbanffy 8y ago> For some misguided reason These people are some of the most misguided humans our species ever produced.