About the recent New Zealand shooting.
Why is everyone blaming pewdiepie?
He did not commit the crime?
He didn’t promote this kind of behavior and specifically spoke against it?
He was not involved in any way with this besides the fact that his name was spoken by the shooter?
But let’s put that aside for now and talk about the actual shooting.
Some articles are saying that 40 people were confirmed dead, with 48 severely injured. One article I saw also said that the attacker was planning the attack for 2 years.
One article I read also said that some people were arrested, 2 men and 1 woman I believe. One of the gunmen livestreamed the entire thing and even uploaded the footage to YouTube. It was apparently 17 minutes of footage.
Apparently one witness said that they heard continuous gunfire for 10 - 15 minutes.
Away from the actual facts of the shooting itself, what’s my opinion?
This is absolutely disgusting behavior and I hope the injured recover healthily. And the dead? I send my condolences to their families, and general loved ones.
Now I want to talk about Tumblr’s issue with Pewdiepie.
I seriously do not understand what your fucking issue is with the man. Do you just trust everything the media says about him?
The media constantly attacks pewdiepie, a primary example,
He said the N-word once and everyone was on his ass. Ninja says this word probably hundreds of times and he’s never gotten shit for it, has he?
The reason for this is because the media attacks pewdiepie because of how popular he is. They go after him because of attention, it sparks controversy.
They will go after him because even though people will go against them, there is one thing that saves their asses:
Any publicity is good publicity.
People going after the media, or going with them, gives them attention, it gets people talking about them.
Apparently you ignorant tumblr fucks will just believe anything these news outlets say because you don’t do your fucking research. Either that or you don’t do enough.
Don’t say we don’t care about what happened just because we’re defending Felix, We care a lot, and we feel horrible for those affected, but to blame such a fucking disaster on someone not involved just because you want a reason to hate and to criticize them is just fucking shitty.
Felix has already spoken out about this:
Now I’m inevitably going to get some criticism, but just know that if you reblog for that reason, I don’t care.
If you blame pewdiepie, or just hate him, unfollow me right now.
Enjoy some snippets of a few articles I read pertaining to the shooting.
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