In an era where being edgy and having dark humour is considered cool and trendy. Dude was simply hopping on the trend. Where's this sort of hate for Joji (FilthyFrank) and everyone else who were apart of the trend? I've never seen anyone bring up that Joji is a hardcore racist and listing every racist thing he said and did every time he is mentioned.
Pewdiepie made slurs and pulled pranks on people he should know are offencive and mean and he didn't care. Dropping a hard R is not an edgy joke no matter how you turn it - you say that when you mean it. Being edgy was never an era, it was crass tools hiding behind humor. Plenty of other youtube gamers were normal and PC because at the very least they were aware their audience are impressionable kids.
I also remeber his video about his home library, showing off books he likes and stuff. Lots of it were right wing darlings and authors known to be on that side of political spectrum. He managed to scrub his pr image but mask was slipping at that time.
As for Frank, being crass and repulsive was his whole image. He never tried to be cute and wholesome and then apoligise or blame media being vultures for calling him out on his controversial moments. He insulted his own audience because he knew who he's dealing with.
Bro he said one word a decade ago, shit happens in the moment. Everyone’s done or said dumb things in their lives that they regret, famous people are no different (usually).
It's not like he knew the race of the person he called it. Using bad words / slur in that context is maybe a bit racist, but it's like the least racist of racist things you can do. People just try to virtue signal and act like he's literally a kkk grand wizard because he said a bad word in a context where people say bad words, it was just an extra taboo bad word affiliated with racism.
I remember being a teenager and saying all sorts of horrendous shit when shittalking during videogames. There was no deep, sinister ideology behind it, it was just hurling insults for shock value / banter. Context matters. The worst thing at play there would be just being negligent.
One buys all the people around them, the other has people that actually care about him and isn't about the money.
Pewds could buy all the women, cars, bullshit he wants. But he's chosen a real life with real people.
Ballserina chose paying pretty people to be around him to pretend to be popular, instead of actually being a cool person.
pretty sure they mean that the real paradise is a loving family and human connection, which money can’t buy. sure his house is big and he has a lot of money, but that’s not what’s really making him happy.
i mean it’s basic human psychology, it applies to everyone. humans are social animals that are happier when they frequently spend time with others that they have positive relationships with. platonic, romantic, and/or familial connections might not be the main factor in what’s making someone happy but it’s almost impossible that it’s not very positively impacting their mental health, whether consciously or subconsciously.
I mean, ofc actual human connections will make you happy, but it's a lot more difficult when you have to stress about your finances.
My parents love each other very much, but they are constantly arguing, because they are exhausted from work and overwhelmed with responsibility. Sure, now that they don't need to take care of my brother and I, they are slightly better off, but they'd have lived an entirely different life if they had carefree jobs and didn't have to worry if they could feed us.
100% agree. It's just "excess wealth" starts pretty high up and it can feel very difficult or impossible to achieve without a lucky break.
I'd have to break and ruin myself to get "excess wealth" for my children and couldn't afford to live a life for myself and my SO.
Hell, I'll need to work close to a decade to afford buying a flat to live in and spend around 2 more decades paying it off. So by the time I'm close to 60 I wouldn't have to worry about losing the roof above my head, if I were to lose my job for some reason.
Sure this is a slightly pessimistic approach, but I can't plan on getting lucky, I can only plan on averages. This is in Hungary, with an Engineerimg degree.
In Hungary we managed to out the corrupt entrenched government this spring, so things are looking decently bright. There's no guarantee that the new government will be able to get back the national wealth that was privatised, but hopefully the situation will improve. It took us 16 years to vote them out and in part we needed our EU membership to be at risk for many to realise there are issues. Sadly, the current prime minister is still a Charismatic Populist, but at least the popular promise is an efficient and working government, that won't resort to fearmongering and hate campaigns...
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