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[โ€“] Bongles@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

allowing Nazis and other right-wingers to fester in his community

Would you mind elaborating on that? Is it that these people are in his YouTube comments, maybe on a subreddit? I never followed this guy, I've only seen probably less than 5 videos he's made (likely only 2), one of which was this open source video.

Originally I avoided the guy because he was just a "loud is funny" let's player, then I heard he said the N word, and i had heard people trying to get him to be the #1 YouTube channel over some music conglomerate.

In any case, while you can do things to attract certain people, I'm not sure how much control you have over your community, which is why I'm asking.

[โ€“] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Sure thing. These people were both on his YouTube comments and on his subreddit. Tho I remember it being worse at the subreddit.

The issue is not that Nazis will watch his content, that's outside of anyone's control, but that his content funnels people into right-wing ideologies, which attracts these types of people.

The video "The PewDiePipeline" that I linked talks about this better than I could.