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The Christchurch gunman name dropped PewDiePie at the start of his feed of the shooting.

He also said Spyro 3 made him a fascist. The best thing to do is to ignore anything the shooter said and forget about him, and remember the victims.

It would be naive to pretend the connection between the shooter and Spyro is as random and meaningless as the connection between PewDiePie and white nationalist/alt-right trolling. I'm absolutely not blaming PewDiePie in any way for things that crowd does, even if they give a religious-terrorist-style pledge to him before they commit murder as a "joke", but I do think he is somewhat at fault for their attraction to him.

>I do think he is somewhat at fault for their attraction to him.

Please elaborate, what would you have PewDiePie do differently?

I feel like YouTubers are the next "bad influence", a position held in the past by marijuana, video games, rock 'n roll, heavy metal and communism.

The funny thing is that the ones complaining are the same ones who's generation was accused of listening to bad influence music like SOAD, Marilyn Manson and Rammstein, all of whom were blamed for shootings in the past because the perps happened to listen to them.

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