Comment on Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'

• VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nah I’m saying you say racist shit, you don’t get off the hook.

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  • triptrapper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is there an avenue to getting off the hook? Apologizing and not doing it again? Or does he lose everything for the rest of his life?

    For context, I barely know who pewdiepie is. I just have to imagine that when public figures fuck up, maybe there’s a spectrum of available consequences other than “they must lose their job and never been spoken of again.”

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    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He didn’t really apologize at all. He brushed it off, moved on, and then everyone pretended like it didn’t exist.

      His PR machine worked hard to clean up his mess.

      Imagine if JK Rowling’s got quiet then two years later, came back and everyone gaslight you into saying they just went through a phase.

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      • triptrapper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for the context. I read your comment as “you don’t get off the hook ever” which is not what you said.

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      • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Damn, so according to you anyone who played COD or Halo back in the day should also be banished from society?

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      • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think your original argument just wasn’t fully fleshed out. Seems you don’t like the guy for a lot more reason than the one you gave, which might be legitimate.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was thinking QtPie, who is a much nicer person.

      Pretty sure PewDiePie is an ass, but “he said a racial slur once ten years ago” isn’t a great argument against anyone, generally.

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• VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So I decided to look up the article, and see what the defense was.

    Here’s the article: mediaite.com/…/Screen-Shot-2019-09-19-at-16.04.33…

    And indeed, it does seem to be a Vetements piece he’s wearing. I could not however find the exact outfit, but those are the Georgian designer’s signature, in Georgian letters, which can be compared here:

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demna_(designer)

    In looking through some videos from that era, he is wearing multiple articles of clothing from Vetements which tracks. So it’s not a one off piece of clothing he was wearing from that company.

    As for the cross, it is a design used in Georgia, including on their traditional flags:

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    And it is known as a Bolnisi Cross

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolnisi_cross

    It is similar to the German iron cross, except the iron cross always has white or iron bolding, which the Bolnisi Cross does not

    (You can compare them in these search results: duckduckgo.com/?t=fpas&q=german+iron+cross&ia=ima…)

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    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      PewDiePie’s PR machine got you so good you’re defending a multimillionaire for his BS.

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      • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nah, I just actually look up claims rather than taking them at face value, and live in Europe.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Didn’t the dude literally dress up like a Nazi as a joke? Or am I misremembering.

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re not misremembering.

    He had a team scrub that off the internet and now a bunch of people have been gaslit.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok thanks… I can picture it in my head so I was confused when people here were so focused on the iron cross thing.

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  • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not that familiar, tbh.

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