this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
149 points (70.6% liked)
Technology
69449 readers
4153 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
So I read up on it again very briefly because that was ages ago but: The story goes in 2017 he paid an Israeli on Fiverr to dress as Jesus and hold a sign declaring that Hitler did nothing wrong. I have not seen the video so I don't know for sure, but apparently he wanted to show how far you can take things with Fiverr without any resistance from Freelancers.
I think he did something very wrong to shock his audience for clicks similar to Logan Paul's disgusting Suicide Forest stunt around that same time and he got a ton of criticism for it. I don't know what happened afterwards because I'm really not in that bubble but I don't think a video likes this makes someone a Nazi and the comment above is a bit of a Fediverse knee-jerk reaction to this kind of stuff. I understand why people would still despise him for that though.
I didn't know about any of this. I don't like him for completely different reasons and I suspect a lot of people will be like that.
Wasn't he big into that whole CS go gambling thing? I actually can't remember when that was that might have been pre-2017
This is just the tip of the iceberg, the example that's easy to cite. Over time in his videos he made a welcoming environment for fascist and hateful groups to feel welcome and at home. The more apt comparison is that if you run a bar, and you don't kick Nazis out, you own a Nazi bar.
I think you are wrong. He did some mistakes but they were not a tip of an iceberg. I was there watching the videos at that time and I never saw anything that fostered a racist or homophobic environment. He didn't make specifically anti-racism content and the only LGBTQ related thing he did was offering a different view on the drama related to a queer make up artist.
I suppose we disagree.