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Cake day: August 10th, 2023

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  • One thing to add to what others have said:

    After having done these three or four very questionable things, people realized that YouTube’s algorithm was essentially sending Pewdiepie’s viewers down a radicalization pipeline. The algorithm would start recommending alt-right content to people who had watched Pewdiepie videos.

    He himself still at that point made fun of the journalists who reported on this, essentially showing the stance of “I am not responsible for what my viewers do” and “I am not a Nazi and I am not radicalizing anyone”.

    In response to the fiverr video in 2017 he was dropped from his partner network and his Youtube Red show was cancelled midway into production. Additionally in what was called “adpocalypse”, advertisers forced Google to disable ads from being shown on controversial videos.

    And then in March 2019 a Nazi terrorist livestreamed himself shooting 50 people in two mosques in New Zealand. Before starting to shoot, the terrorist screamed “Subscribe to Pewdiepie!” This was the point where he finally seemed to wake up to the fact that some of his viewers actually were far-right extremists. And he stopped doing any edgy stuff that could be interpreted as being pro-Nazi.


  • Besides all the stuff related to sex that many people have already written down here:

    1. That it is normal to have overwhelming emotions at this age. It’s fine if he gets angry, or sad or whatever. Find an outlet for that emotion.

    2. He is gonna get a long stronger. It is important to approach this with sensibility: saying stuff like “strong men are dangerous” or “men are strong and women are weak” etc can actively harm young men’s mental health. I’m sure there are good resources for this online as well, though I’m not sure where. He needs to realize that he will need to control how much force he puts into things much more than as a child, but at the same time that people are not afraid of him and should not be.





  • Microw@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow did you find Lemmy?
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    4 months ago

    In the wake of the Reddit API changes, I decided to jump off that ship. Saw Lemmy mentioned but a lot of posts were painting it negatively, due to federation things and tankies. I was on Squabbles (lol) as my Reddit replacement platform for a few months before that disintegrated and then finally arrived at Lemmy.






  • Is the majority enthusiastic to vote for him? His own campaigning rallies were a snorefest, as far as we saw.

    For me the main “a-ha” here is that so many people apparently still believe his stupid story that he is a guy who makes deals to fix the economy. Instead of a con-man. I have no idea why democrats were not able to destroy this “economic leader” image that he has built. Or why Harris and Walz did not focus on the issue every poll in the last month did say was the most important one: the economic situation.