PewDiePie made a video on why he installed Linux and explained why everyone should do it too. Due to his number of followers, this might be the year of the Linux Desktop? Hooray?

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    7 hours ago

    You will find two major incidents. The bridge incident where he said the n-word in PUBG and a edgy joke where he tried to see how far Fiverr creators would go and asked for a video of people to write “Hitler did nothing wrong” on a sign. He apologized and condemned the behavior for both.

    To me it seems like the source of a lot of the negative quick opinions come from a bad article WSJ did on him.

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      3 hours ago

      He’s also promoted the books of fascist talking heads like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and Steven Crowder through his book club.

      There’s a reason the Christ Church shooter yelled “Subscribe to PewDiePie” besides being a topical meme.