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I hate being a Pewdiepie advocate here, but this is a gross misrepresentation of what actually happened. Christchurch terrorist was trying to make his attack a
by rwz 8y ago
I hate being a Pewdiepie advocate here, but this is a gross misrepresentation of what actually happened.
Christchurch terrorist was trying to make his attack as viral as possible and saying something like "subscribe to Pewdiepie" was the best way to create perfect shit-storm online achieving exactly this goal.
PDP never expressed any views adjacent to white-supremacy or whatnot. I've been following his story for quite some time and haven't seen any proof of the opposite that could be argued in good faith.
> including encouraging his fans to follow one of them
This is also while technically true, only presents half of the story. PDP has made a video promoting 40+ other youtube channels with low subscribers count. One of the channels he's promoted for making a funny anime review turned out to be pushing some questionable content outside of these anime reviews. PDP cut out this part from his original video and apologized. Seems like his only fault in this situation was not doing enough research before recommending those 40+ channels.
Again, I'm not a huge fan of his, but these kind of bad-faith attacks on someone who's just making funny meme videos on the internet seem very unjust and counter-productive.