PewDiePie arguing

[Gilligan's Hell]

I could write a book that could take up a whole library shelf about how PewDiePie is sexist, racist and just outright awful but it'd need a big language warning on the cover... with "pocket edition" written underneath the title.

I'd say Mark and (if there was a button) HarshlyCritical mainly because he plays alot of interesting games and good custom stories and reads the notes.

[AGP]

I tried to watch Pewdiepie way back when I first found Let's Plays and I did not like him. It was the first video of his Cry of Fear playthrough and he was just so noisy and constantly editing bits out to the point where I got so confused as to what was happening.

Even now, I find him to be WAY too loud and obnoxious.

However, when has does his collabs with the other Let's Player I'm subscribed to, he's a lot better. Pewdie, I find is easier to handle in small, diluted doses.

[Statyk]

I could write a book that could take up a whole library shelf about how PewDiePie is sexist, racist and just outright awful but it'd need a big language warning on the cover... with "pocket edition" written underneath the title.

I'd say Mark and (if there was a button) HarshlyCritical mainly because he plays alot of interesting games and good custom stories and reads the notes.

HarshlyCritical is the only let's player I can watch at the moment. I'm not one for let's plays anymore, but he has good, solid commentary. No bullshit.

[MrWhitticus]

Argue as much as you want about how he's apparently a good person.

Keep this shit out of other threads about actual topics that should stay strong.

If this doesn't work I'll convince a mod to delete it.

Go

[victorkim890(KimmyChimmy)]

delete this thread :|

[Heartless Rogue]

just delete this thread :|

Just leave this thread

[MrWhitticus]

just delete this thread :|

I made this thread for you Kim. Taste it and realize your true home.

[victorkim890(KimmyChimmy)]

good for u

[MrWhitticus]

If this thread has no posts within the next 3 hours feel free to get rid of it

[Kreekakon]

Well MrWhitticus, I'll be the first one to try, and make this thread work. Don't worry I come in the tone of peace even if the tone of some of my sentences does not sound like it

However first things first:

Argue as much as you want about how he's apparently a good person.

I made this thread for you Kim. Taste it and realize your true home.

You shouldn't ever open a "discussion" with sentences like this ever. It is extremely passive aggressive, and implies that you likely have no respect for any counter points the other party would turn up with.

Enough of that though, to some of the things you said in the other thread:

This doesn't count for shit. The fact that a good 60% of his audience is made up of people your age and younger means that by making frequent use of rape jokes, homophobia, misogyny, transmisogyny and ableism has an effect on the younger watcher's mind and it may become apparent to them that the aforementioned horrible traits are part of normal life, and they will start using them themselves.

All in all, PDP is offensive, whether he's being serious or not, and he is a bad influence on young children and probably is one of the reasons that I heard a 9 year old yelling "faggot" at a dude wearing a pink jacket at a shopping center last week.

You are only half-right here. It is true that a media entertainer/public person should brush themselves up to not be a bad influence on their targeted audience.

But that's the key point here: There is no way that Pewdie's targeted audience is ever young children considering the way he acts, and the language he uses in his videos. His target audience is likely more grown-up, and mature people who can think for themselves while enjoying Pewdie's form of humor.

It is not his problem that children who can be negatively affected by him try to go, and watch his videos. They are not suitable for them, and parents should keep their children from coming into contact with things like this until they are ready.

Counter Argument: But Pewdiepie is already wrong at his core, because he acts like this. The very fact that he makes potential offensive jokes is already wrong regardless of target audience.

My response: By this logic any movie, video game, or Yotube video that is offensive in any manner should be taken down, because they are offensive. It can't work that way. The way it should work is if a person enjoys this, and can think for themselves likes it...then they can go ahead, and like it. For minors who can't yet think for themselves well, parents should moderate them.

Counter Argument: Pewdiepie should change his humor style once he realizes that his core audience is rapidly becoming young children.

My response: I sort of already covered this in saying that young children are not his target audience at all, and it's not his problem if minors wander into something not intended for them. It's like saying a movie theater should change the R-rated film its playing if a child gets let in by the guards regardless of the fact that he's underage.

And yes, he is making fun of rape victims by making it seem like the horrible events that happened to them are just a game and should not be treated seriously

Not to mention that although he has apologized about these things he has made no effort to black them out of his "jokes" making his apology worthless

I have not been paying intensively close attention to Pewdie's videos for this, so I may be wrong, but I can say with about 70% confidence that in regards to rape jokes at least he has not been making them all as of late, and I do not recall the word even popping up.

He did use to make them, but like you said he apologized for making them sometime back, and they seem to have either completely stopped or dropped insanely in appearances.