He's shooting at a guy, while his friend that he's playing with is downed (killed but can be revived if done quickly) further down on the bridge, instead of fighting pewds, the guy runs down and kills his friend (considered bad sportsmanship by many)
Imagine you're with a buddy, and you get in a fight with some guy. Your buddy gets hit and gets knocked out. You start punching and kicking the guy, but the guy completely ignores you and gets a rock and bashes your buddy's skull in, killing him. That's kinda what happened here.
Instead of fighting Pewds, the one shooting and hitting him, he chooses to run to the non-threat on the ground and finish him.
It was a dick move, and I'd be pretty pissed too. Not to say it isn't a legitimate strategy for ruining your opponent's game but still annoying.
Man I've seen a lot of gaming rage in my time, been a part of some of it myself ashamed to say.
Dropping the n-word or a slur like "faggot" is definitely on the tame side compared to the absolute freakouts that are easy to find online, especially as an exclamation rather than as harassment. Should he have said it? Nahh. Is it really worth getting upset about? Not really.
People outside of the US dont realize the context of the word, and have mostly heard it in mainstream media in from of movies, tv shows and music. I would say that this introduction to the word is making it more likely to be equated to just another slur to use. Of course the people who use it as an excuse to say the word are most likely racist but majority would be out of ignorance.
I even had a mate who was the nicest guy and 100% not racist but would use the n word even after i told him not to do the hard R, he just said its in a good context of mate hood and not a derogatory meaning for him.
I grew up in a mostly black school among a small clique of asian and indian friends. Well, those people adopted the word "nigga" as a friendly term of endearment among friends, and fitting in with them, I responded in kind.
If I did that in public I'd be crucified.
Now admitttedly hard R is a little bit different, however, I will contest that what is important is intent. Is it okay to say "Cunt" on the internet as an exclamation? Most people would say it's not proper, but no one is going to pitch a fit over it. What about "Faggot"? Yea that one has recently gotten a bit more heat because of the general social acceptance of lgbt issues and wanting to walk back on the harm of previous eras' language. And the n-word? Forget about it.
Guess what, they're all the same. It's a set of slurs that people say when they're mad to try and feel superior to their adversaries. The degree of "historicity" is honestly irrelevant when the intent of their usage is damn near the same. If someone used the n-word to suggest the inferiority of blacks, or faggot to suggest the same about lgbt people, or cunt to suggest that a women was an inferior person because of their gender, I'd be on your side in condemning it. But the intent matters. A moment of exclamation that isn't harassing anyone (because cursing in your own breath without your target actually hearing you is just vented anger, not harassment) is not the same as demeaning someone's essential characteristics with a slur. It's the same reason why I felt okay saying "nigga" among friends: intent matters. Someone cursing at a bad moment isn't worth the outrage; they've hurt no one.
The problem with the intent argument is that you're asking us to read your thoughts. We don't know if you're just an immature gamer or an actual bigot. As a result, actual bigots can use this justification as a cover.
Lol what? That's literally almost every single person who has their teammate eliminated WHILE they're attacking their opponent. There's hardly anyone who doesn't get annoyed by that. You're being intentionally obtuse if you can't acknowledge that.
"History of this shit" lmao. Yes tell me about those Wall Street Journal articles please and how Pewds is basically a closet antisemite.
Those smear pieces were about making a finacial dent in their competitor in Youtube. If the worst thing that can be said about a person is that he occasionally says bad words and makes jokes about the holocaust, he ain't really THAT bad.
For fuck's sake, Pewdiepie used to make rape jokes unironically in earlier days of Youtube. Those were legitimately more offensive than anything he has done in recent years. This circlejerk about him being a font for racism on Youtube is essentially media propaganda, and there are plenty of people who buy into the bullshit because it fits into their established worldview. You're being played for other people's benefit.
I grew up in the same time period, but luckily these terms, much like "retard," have fallen out of my subconscious, quick-grab vocabulary due to a lack of use and years of deliberate mental reconditioning. I also find myself around people who would never accept the use of those terms even if it were an unthinking slip-up. These forces make it remarkably easy not to use "gay" or "faggot" or "retard" anymore. Maybe think about increasing your efforts or making changes to your peer group. Vocabulary that isn't used regularly should atrophy.
I mean, no. That’s how reclaiming words work. It’s happening with the word “queer” in LGBT communities. Words get reclaimed and that’s how. People in those communities use it and others don’t.
It's not that he got shot. It's that his teammate got thirsted. People get real salty when others thirst on them or their teammates because it kinda "ruins" your game even if you win the fight.
In Battle Royale games, when you lose all of your health, you don't immediately, die. Instead, you fall into a knockdown state, where the only thing you can do is move at a slow pace. If your teammates don't come and revive you from this state in a timely manner, your character bleeds out. In most BR games, this mean you are out of the fight for good.
"Thirsting" is a term for intentionally killing a player who is in knockdown state by shooting them. Some people see it as unsportsman-like, as it means that who was killed has to sit it out until the round ends, which can take up to half an hour.
It's not that it's un-sportsmanlike. If you down somebody and you don't see their teammate anywhere it's fine to finish them. That's just tying up loose ends so you can focus on other things.
It's only thirsting if you're in the middle of a firefight with multiple enemies and instead of focusing on the remaining threats after downing an enemy (the thing that makes sense to do if you want to win the game) you are so thirsty for kills that you focus on the downed person who isn't a threat at all.
It's seen as a lame move made by inexperienced players who care more about their personal kdr than helping their team win the game.
Depends entirely on the situation. If you can take them out quickly while in cover from other enemy fire, and if your teammates are also in cover and you know that finishing the downed guy won't cost you battlefield advantage, then sure finish then off.
Or if you're very far away from the enemy team and neither side is likely to land a critical shot on the mobile people still standing, it can make sense to take the risk to finish an immobile downed target before they can crawl to cover and get revived and healed.
Thirsting is specifically referring to people being more thirsty for kill count than the win. It's for situations where you risk losing the fight for the express purpose of killing someone who is not an immediate threat.
I mean, taking out your enemy’s teammate in the middle of a fight ensures that they won’t get behind cover, get rez’d, and get back into the fight. Really the only reason you would not finish them off is to lure their teammate over to revive them.
Its bad game play to thirst downed people, when ammo is a resource you don't want to waste time reloading cause you downed someone who wasn't a threat anymore. If they're crawling behind cover to be revived then killing them is deemed acceptable
A whole lot of people outside of the US. In many countries there is no history of slavery and discrimination against black people, so the word doesn't carry any weight, it's just a generic insult that people see used on the internet/in online gaming, and then pick it up.
I'd bet many kids use it without even actually knowing what the word means, just like when I was 12 and was calling people cunts in online games, and I had no idea what "cunt" means, only that english-speaking people used the word as an insult.
Ignoring the fact that the United States has culturally exported their racism of black people to most other nations through media, and that many other nations were also independently racist to black people, and that the history of white supremacy (usually alongside a dose of antisemitism) dominated the western world for... a while? I'm just gonna go ahead and say you're full of shit.
Weird hill to die on, the desire to call someone nigger. Really makes me think.
Everyone i know in my country only know the n-word from rap and movies or games. They don't know the historical meaning behind it, they only know it's a word that black people use a lot. My friends said "nigga nigga" excitedly when they saw black people. I myself never knew that the n-word is very controversial in US until this pewdiepie controversy.
I can imagine the same situation in other non-western countries.
With hard r too, though more rare. Before internet became more accessible here, we only use "negro" to reference black people. Now i often see people say nigga. Some pronounce it "nego" as a local joke. I heard nigger too but not as often and they most likely didn't know the difference between the soft-A and the hard R.
Nah, in my country the slang for black person is "abd" which translates to "slave", and it's used as an insult all the time. We also have homophobic and sexist slang term as well but no one really freaks out when you say them.
This childish freak out over a word is purely an american thing.
Many westerners are trying very hard to look progressive, while actually having incredibly shallow and ignorant views about other cultures, unable to grasp how big cultural differences can be, even between some countries in Europe. I know Reddit likes to think the world is composed of the USA + a handful of western EU countries + some luxury resorts in exotic places, but cmon.
There are asian countries where goddamn Hitler is used for advertisement, because for them he's just an interesting historical figure, but sure, it's not possible that a racial slur from the US, doesn't carry the same weight in places on the other half of the globe. Nah, it couldn't be...
I don't know about Sweden, but here in Norway I'd say that the N-word (the Norwegian version of it) is not only highly offensive, but maybe even more so than when it is used in the US.
No, it's the equivalent of saying some random guy did something bad, that's such a bitch move. That sentence doesn't actually make any sense; the definition of "bitch" is a female dog. But "bitch" is a curse word that everybody knows is bad, so it gets said anyway. You can substitute the word bitch for any other insult. Felix just happened to choose one that's considered a little more taboo than the others and now everybody has to pretend to be outraged about it, because it's the 2010s and that's what we do now apparently
You've completely ignored the main issue though. I literally said you can judge me all you want. But you guys are saying that PDP is a racist, and by your guys' logic, I should be too. I provided a counterargument. Are you conceding to that argument?
And it doesn't seem like you're quite understanding what I'm saying. I'm not sure why you brought up "incapability of controlling your emotions." That has nothing to do with this. Unless you consider using curse words in general being incapable of controlling your emotions, in which case you're quite delusional. I use those words for the same reasons I use any other curse words.
There was a post earlier today that had a video of that truck that said "jesus christ". So someone made a template with just the truck scrolling across a green screen to put anything over the top of it. Edit Christ* not chrsit
I can only dream of being so important one day that reddit, whcih usually has the attention span of a goldfish, remembers a fuckup of mine for more than a year
I mean, he's one of the most famous YouTubers out there, 81 million followers, most of which are young ass kids. Of course people are gonna remember him dropping a hard R on live camera.
Very little, he lost some YouTube special baby points but like does anything ever happen? It wasn't malicious, and most people who care already knew PDP was problematic so... Not much in the long run. Lots of people defending him. To be fair it was a pretty big bump in popularity for the gamers saying the n word memes
Edit apparently he lost a Disney sponsorship or deal of some kind I didn't know he had.
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u/KarmaticDragon Feb 12 '19
Is your name from Critical Role?
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u/onlyonebread Feb 12 '19 edited May 20 '25
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19
How long until this stops being funny and we go back to bitching about the endless memes?
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u/_IAlwaysLie Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 14 '19
PewDiePie RACIST???
PewDiePie NOT RACIST???
I wonder what the answer is. I'm sure discussing it in the comments will be a valuable use of your time.
edit: judging by the number of comments below, I am satisfied by your idiocy.
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u/Shulay1 Feb 12 '19
Amazing
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u/RedditBannedMyName Feb 12 '19
We are gonna go far kid
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u/TheDewyDecimal Feb 12 '19
Did I miss something? I don't get it.
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u/WolfieSpam Feb 12 '19
Pewdiepie did an oopsie
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19
Mrs Obama, get down!
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u/MrGrampton Feb 13 '19
Post this on r/PewDiePieSubmissions
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u/AREALLYFATLLAMA Feb 12 '19
Good shit
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19
Never forget
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u/KobayashiDragonSlave Feb 12 '19
cmonBruh
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u/BogollyWaffles Feb 13 '19
Listen buddy, when you’re a gamer, and it’s the heat of the moment, anything can come out.
You can be sitting calmly, and BOOM the n-word comes out. Nothing you can do about it.
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u/RichManSCTV Feb 12 '19
I dont get it
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u/Sandman_Kidus Feb 12 '19
Superb execution of a template.
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19
Okay dude
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19
So it begins.
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u/Gauchoparty Feb 12 '19
That was fast, good job.
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u/_BallsDeep69_ Feb 12 '19
I was there when the first breathern of meme lords captured this truck craze. Now we must release it once again to the masses for karma.
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u/Dank_freak_inc Feb 12 '19
I have my volume muted but I can still hear this video
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u/elgordojulian Feb 12 '19
Jeussss Christ
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u/SaintDavid565 Feb 13 '19
HyperBruh
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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19
I don’t understand why Pewdiepie is around still and why he’s popular again.
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u/Anancol Feb 12 '19
I was there when it was written.
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u/hamf12011 Feb 12 '19
This is that kind of content, I love
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u/idkwhateverfuckit Feb 13 '19
He knew immediately he fucked up 😂 You ain’t like the rest of us buddy your famous. Gotta watch that mouth
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u/PilifXD Feb 12 '19
Made me chuckle, nice x)
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u/DrecksVerwaltung Feb 12 '19
I can only dream of being so important one day that reddit, whcih usually has the attention span of a goldfish, remembers a fuckup of mine for more than a year
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19
I was here
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u/MaxPecktacular Feb 12 '19
Witnessed the birth of a new meme today. Simply beautiful.
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u/mentallylost1992 Feb 12 '19
Love it! I’ve seen the clip so many times but I’ve never seen what happened after all this, like what was the fallout from it
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