If you don’t wanna watch the video it seems it’s all about this https://unhook.app/
“Unhook YouTube Watch YouTube free of distractions. Block suggestion feeds, comments, and more.”
good?
I’ve never cared for this jackhole, but a douchbag doing good is a win in my book.
The people hating on him clearly haven’t seen much of his content lately. He’s grown up and has his life together pretty well now. If you think nobody is deserving of a second chance then you do you, nobody is forcing you to watch his content. I honestly love his redemption arc and I’ve watched some of his content lately and really enjoyed it. And good for him that he likes self hosting and is doing all these pc DIY projects.
he dint really accept his/or dealt with the consequences, he merely fled to japan to avoid and waited til all the drama died down, he mostly isnt on a redeeming arc, everyone just forgot about him.
I’ve never seen piewdiepie before his Linux journey. What did he do and what consequences does he deserve?
He did/said a bunch of racist shit in videos/streams.
In 2019 someone livestreamed themself committing a hate-crime/mass shooting, killing 51 Muslim people in New Zealand. The shooter began his livestream with “subscribe to Pewdiepie!”
That seemed to be a rude awakening for Pewdiepie, and I believe that he’s stopped with the racist shit.
What racist things did Pewdiepie do/ say himself though? I don’t think it’s fair to attribute someone using his name to commit terrorism to him.
Similarly the guy who shot trump was wearing a demolitionranch shirt.
He’d use the N-word, and make “jokes” like paying people to make a sign that said “death to all Jews”.
I assume that he was trying to be edgy, but it was a little too far.
Someone also defaced a holocaust, but that just tangential, he was an integral part of the alt-right pipeline radicalizing normies
he dint really accept his/or dealt with the consequences,
- He publically apologized for it (no ukulele though, which is how you know it’s a fake apology)
- He didn’t do it again
What else would you want him to do?
And what consequences are you specifically talking about?
Over the years I think I care less about some public apology or statement to accept that a creator has moved past old behavior (I assume you’re talking about the bridge, I don’t really follow PewDiePie).
We see too many fake apologies and if it’s been some time, apologizing just gives an opportunity for viewers to dogpile when someone is trying to move past something.
I think if it’s been a few years and he’s clearly shown to have grown past it, that’s enough for me. You never really know what a content creator’s private beliefs are just how they choose to use their public persona.
People moved on long before he moved to Japan, or at least most people, there are still some that hate him for a mistake he made many years ago.
People can change and grow up and deserve second changes, I grew up racist just because of my environment, but as I got older I grew out of that and saw that it’s wrong and hurts and divides people.
Am I also unremarkable because of what I used to be like before my brain was fully formed?
I totally missed him being a Youtube jackoff and only watched my first Pewdiepie video last year when he was degoogling. Because I was doing that as well. Then saw his Linux video and that made me realise Linux was for me.
So while people might think he’s some sort of douche, to me he’s just fucking brilliant! So funny and smart, and really wants to help people escape from the awful internet we have now, where everything is sucking up your data. He gives great advice on how to do that and does it in such a funny way.
People keep mentioning his redemption arc lol, but i’ve just seen the great stuff so for me, abs love his stuff! Highly recommended!
Best thing for Linux, having such a huge Youtuber praising it so much!
Well he’s 36 now. Think he’s realized that it’d be cringe to behave like a teenager for much longer and his original fans are all adults now anyway, so he’s decided to aim his new videos at them rather than getting new teenage fans. Put it this way, he had 100 million subscribers 7 years ago, he has 110 million now. One has to assume his average subscriber age has risen a lot in recent years.
Honestly great that this is how it’s gone. I find him way more relatable now than when his fame was at peak.
I like that you like him now… But i don’t think the main reason he’s become cool now is due to him… not wanting to be cringe lol.
Obv yeah the audience n he grew but it sorta takes agency away from him by knowing its all bullshit haha. Like yes, he’s a huge YouTube star but he’s also now huge advocate of privacy, security and mental health.
He’s not just doing this cos he doesnt wanna be cringe.
Honestly, cringe was an oversimplification in the first place on my behalf. My take is that he’s realized that he can either keep doing what he did for over a decade (put out cringe content, which would be even more cringe as he reaches 40 soon), or he can actually do something useful with the reach he has, and be someone his son can actually be proud of. And he went with the latter, over the easy money of the former.
Okay yeah, thats a more accurate picture.
I honestly think im glad i missed his cringe douche phase. I actually hate that whole influencer youtube bullshit.
But he really is not like those twats now lol
pewdiepie is one of the modern celebraties that it kinda annoys me that I recognize the name. I feel like if I had not been a nerd and somehow I knew who captain kirk was even though I did not like sci fi. if I was not a nerd. I certainly like sci fi and know who captain kirk is.
I think most people in the native English speaking world recognize Kirk regardless of their opinion on sci-fi.
I mean now yeah but like in the 80’s and even 90’s not as much. wrath of con and 4 did relatively well and with blockbuster likely more people saw it. Despite that sci fi was really niche back then. How about like knowing who captain picard was in 1995.
Could swear I saw that last year or the year before
Blocking Ads*
What?
Now it’s correct. Just a typo I guess 😬
I fixed it, just gaslighting you.
Or maybe I’m not
You are advertising a youtube video
What an amazingly observant comment… Whats your point smart guy?
You are on a decentralized and open source platform
Omg no fucking way dude :O
Let me rip the video to self host it boss
I’m the farmer arguing we should improve society and not advertise youtube, you are the very intelligent guy calling me out. Pewdiepie is in the castle behind us.
can already tell this is gonna be the most insufferable comment section of all time
Wtf is wrong with this place, why is everyone fighting
And why does it seem like they all hate Pewdiepie?This is a site populated mostly by the too edgy or too contrarian for Reddit, with the same flaws in incentive systems as Reddit, why are you surprised lol.
Yer this whole experiment just recreated post Aaron Reddit culture but pre API changes
I mean I’m just here because of the API thing
Same, and I’d count that as contrarian behaviour.
Theres no place for nuance here, get outta here! /s
And why does it seem like they all hate Pewdiepie?
He took a fascist turn during Trump 1 and never really recovered his image. Got into a bunch of weird exploitative shit, not unlike Mr Beast. The most notable being when he tested the Fiverr service and paid five dollars to get Indian freelance actors to laugh and show a sign saying ‘Death to all Jews’.
After that, he started getting deplatformed and his following fell off considerably. So, like a bunch of other has-been YouTube starlets, he decided to get even more edgy and reactionary, further poisoning his image. It’s the same death spiral Russell Brand and Rob Schneider fell down.
The nazi who shot and killed 51 Muslim worshipers in Christchurch in 2017, shouted ‘subscribe to pewdiepie’ at the start of his live streamed rampage
you’ll have to excuse me if I never let that go
Not to defend them or completely dismiss their part in all that, pretty sure it was just someone else sending the fiverr video to them and them opening it while streaming. But the latter incident, where they shouted some slurs on air while playing some game, that’s I think more inexcusable. But I always got the impression they never were actual nazi or far right despite the subject matter of the incidents, it’s more just them being an idiot and trying to be funny and edgy for content and missing the target entirely on a couple of occasions. I think the aftermath speaks for itself, they did some reflecting and ended up changing the formula and content type entirely, and we are now seeing the fruits of that effort.
I don’t mean to belittle the shit they’ve pulled, but I also don’t want to paint anyone irredeemable, even less when they actually manage to do introspection and change. We should encourage that and highlight that instead. I’d reserve the unconditional hate and spite for those that deserve it, that don’t change, don’t reflect, perhaps actually mean the things they do and say, with passion.
Sorry, but something I’ve had to learn with time is that it really doesn’t matter who’s operating the gas chamber, if their actions rely on hundreds of other people openly saying “Death to all jews”. There’s no importance to whether those people would ever pull the lever themselves. The language is what’s important, not how much they were “only joking”. Both an ultra-racist and an edgy teen in their late 20s are just “trying to get away with it” and don’t care who they hurt.
Damn, WSJ really succeeded in their campaign
no its just virtue signalers and keyboard warriors remembering hed did a bad thing that one time on the bridge and assumed hes a Nazi now.
hed did a bad thing that one time
Far more than the one time. He had a whole routine about exploiting overseas labor to perform humiliating stunts.
Nah I’m not going to take a lecturing, each ‘incident’ can v easily have been explained, it’s why a lot of people on this page aren’t taking you guys seriously, your type are to tightly wound up
each ‘incident’ can v easily have been explained
You hear this from serial sexual harassers all the time. Every individual incident has plausible deniability. It’s the trend line that eventually catches up with you.
your type are to tightly wound up
My type being… big budget advertisers on YouTube?
Yeah I’m certainly not going to claim to be an avid or long time watcher of pewdiepie but… No he didn’t? The fiverr thing happened, sure. But the rest of that is wild conjecture and misinformation.
lot of old farts on here that never grew up on youtube, just ignore the bitter old heads and people who think there to highspeed to have ever enjoyed his videos.
Didn’t downvote. I’m old…like probably the oldest user here, and tho I have heard of Pewdiepie, I’ve never seen any of his videos nor do I know any of his lore.
are you bitter? if not then you dont apply.
Never tasted myself.
Me either, I’m too old and inflexible to try that anymore.
I’m old. I never understood the appeal of that cunt.
Im old and I personally love him for being the same guy all this years.
He said the nword once (terrible thing), almost a decade ago, apologized for it and improved (I guess) as a person
I’m sick of internet people calling for a guillotine whenever someone makes a mistake even onceThe person I was responding to said
I personally love him for being the same guy all this years.
My point was not necessarily that he needs to be excommunicated from humanity, but that they might want to reconsider whether him “being the same guy all this years” is a good thing
(I do not actually give a single shit about Pewdiepie in any fashion positive or negative)
yeah, its part of why the internet sucks, you make some bad decisions, fall for some stupid propaganda or listen to the wrong person, and you’re branded forever. People make bad decisions. It happens.
gods forbid someone make a mistake and then take a step back to reexamine their lives to try and be a better person.
Homie, they couldn’t waterboard me into posting that sentence publicly
You mean Here on fedi?
He can start by removing himself from YouTube.
Or by mirroring his content to other video sharing platforms like LBRY/Odysee or Peertube. It requires little effort, seems to be risk free, and lays the foundation to migrate from YouTube at some point in the future.
I’m a little puzzled why a lot of creators don’t do this, especially ones who criticize YouTube so much and promote self hosting.
I’m a little puzzled why a lot of creators don’t do this
my guess is that when you become “YouTube famous” you get perks and increased volume pay. this comes with a new contract that has binding resolutions, blocking you from uploading your content to other platforms.
Odysee is a bit of a nazi platform and I think most people want to host their own peertube instance but putting your videos on someone else’s instance results in them going down when the instance does
Tho since Pewds is getting more and more interested in tech, I think hosting a Peertube instance would actually be fitting for him.
Fuck this nazi bag of shit.
Why? What did he do?
He made a loose nazi joke like 10 years ago and the reaction was hilarious. He’s definitely not a nazi
I dont really understand, is it possible to block JUST the shorts on Youtube? Any idea where i can find more about that?
I dont want to leave youtube just yet, but occasionally the shorts are melting my brain.
I just block it with uBlock element picker (do the same for the sidebar and comments)
I know Brave is a big no no in these woods but they offer an option to select your own Content Filtering lists and one of those is Youtube Shorts.
Fantastic privacy feature.
Also they have Paywall Blocker, AI Suggsstion Blocker… Etc etc
The Unhook browser extension for Youtube lets you choose what to block. You can choose to toggle the Shorts off without toggling anything else off.
Yes, Brave let’s you do that.
While also supporting scams and homophobia
This is such an idiotic take. Yes i get it, Brave do try to offer some bullshit features out of the box, but there’s not many (if any) that don’t. You are not supporting scams or homophobia by using Brave.
You can very easily and quickly lock down Brave to remove all their nonsense. This is just the same like you do with other browsers so all good.
Yeah, company is shady, but browser is still grand for now if you do your own lockdown of features.
If you wish a browser rec, please go with Mullvad.
I am indeed talking about your support of a scammer homophobic company, not their slightly modified Chromium browser.
So, I support abusing women because I like The Shining and Stanley Kubrick was a loud jerk and total dick to Shelley Duvall during production?
Well he’s dead, and IIRC didn’t donate to anti-women organizations. J.K. Rowling is a better comparison.
Ok.
out of context
Lol
Okay, since I haven’t seen anyone mention it yet, you can block shorts using unlock origin. You can block pretty much any component on any website.
Just to make sure, uNlock or uBlock origin?
uBlock Origin for sure
I still use YouTube but never sign in, so basically I just search for what I wanna watch, Instead of subscribing I just have the channels I want in am RSS feed.
I might consider self hosting Invidious maybe.
cool. I’ve been thinking about this too. how do you do this? does yt host the rss feeds? or do you have to like scrape them?
Smarttube will block shorts, works best on TVs and large screen devices.
YouTube revanced will as well, make sure you download the right one, lots of fakes out there.
Not sure if you can filter out shorts within browsers with something like u lock origin filters, may need to look into it.
Shorts are literally brainrot. Fuck tiktok, fuck shorts.
Didn’t vanced die? I’m pretty sure the continuation is revanced over at https://revanced.app/
The reddit post has the recent updates, revanced, since a lot of fake ones popped up. Be safe with apks.
“Enhancer for YouTube” add-on lets you block shorts on Firefox and Chrome.
the only correct answer for desktop
Vanced lets you remove the tab and remove the full portrait default, think it pulls shorts from results too.
A much better experience
On Android you can remove shorts with Brave
Seconding ReVanced. RVX works like a charm. Not ready to leave the Google ecosystem just yet. But, when I do, I’ll switch to primarily using NewPipe.
I’m also keeping track of Haven as they may be an up and coming YT alternative for artists and creatives. They’re currently in seed funding so it’ll be interesting to see if they can get off the ground.
On android you can hide/remove with revanced.
Revanced not working so well lately…
idk what issues you have, I have it running on 5 devices
Mine started acting weird on wifi today, so I updated it. Getting a sponsorblock error 502, but working otherwise.
2.2.2 came out 12 hours ago, updating now to check it all again.
Here is the YouTube version I’m using.
Check out Morphe which is a fork of revanced and better maintained https://github.com/morpheapp
I’ll be honest morphe has been a total nightmare for me. It works 70% of the times. 30% of the times it rewinds mid video to a random timestamp. And will do that in a loop.
In my experience that has been the very worse app I used on Android for YT.
To be fair it’s not really their fault if YT is constantly trying to disrupt their app.
There is an extension for Firefox for blocking shorts. You lose the shorts button and any short you access through a link is converted into a regular, full size video.
He really went far from the Misogynist, racist piece of shit that made rape jokes, and who’s humor consisted of saying pussy every second line.
Didnt know pewds is breaching into the tech sphere (from gaming).
Do I need to sub him now? :pI never cared for any of his crap until last year when he deep dived into tech. The tech videos are good, he is a generally entertaining person. The dude has unlimited time and too much money, so he gets crazy deep in the weeds. It some ways I would say he is more competent that a lot of engineers. The self-hosted LLM videos are a good start.
My printer said I should
Mixed results.
He’s less annoying than he was covering gaming, he has some occasional hot takes, but I think overall he’s a positive influence.
I’ve never been into his content but I really enjoyed his journey to build a better local LLM. Way more technical than I thought he was capable of. I identified with his downward spiral into madness on his journey to do something completely useless but super interesting.
Beyond his interest in FOSS and privacy, he’s also just mellowed out a ton, the dude is in his mid (late?) thirties and you can tell.
Dude is also wealthy as fuck. That helps a ton.
His Japan & family vlogs are also really chill - he has become much more chill and proper. If you remember him from when he got big on YouTube 10 - 15 years ago, he was a completely different person!
I don’t really remember why everyone hated him (Besides being annoying and once using a slur, for which he probably was lacking complete cultural understanding), but he was pretty young when he popped off. Not everyone changes as they age, but many people do. It’s very reasonable to say he is a different person now.
I feel it’s reasonable to recognize the wealth he has collected, and to conclude he is not my ally.
I don’t fucking care who it is, wealth hoarding causes immeasurable harm, not to mention requires a sociopathic mindset. So…yeah, I’m not even giving him a chance. I got better shit to waste my time on…
I feel it’s reasonable to recognize the wealth he has collected, and to conclude he is not my ally.
Weird take. But hey: It’s a free world and you choose your own battles.
I don’t fucking care who it is, wealth hoarding causes immeasurable harm, not to mention requires a sociopathic mindset. So…yeah, I’m not even giving him a chance.
I- I guess?
I got better shit to waste my time on…
Now that’s a mindset I can get behind!
Eh, no two ways about it. Wealth hoarding is exactly the same choice as “push the button, get a million, but someone dies”. Same fucking thing. Literally
Didnt know Pewds killed someone to get the money.
At worst he sold his soul for partnerships with brands (and sold out his morals)
His redemption arch is in full swing.
He has a video on “I switched to Linux, and you should too” and a geGoogle video
Love what you did there. Arch btw
Love Pewds :D
