A line from a 2018 Vox article about PewDiePie: "So what happens if these young, aggressively loyal, highly mobilized PewDiePie fans begin consuming extremist strains of YouTube content because they were exposed to it, either directly or indirectly, through his channel?"

Terror is usually enacted by people after when they feel they have reached the breaking point, when they stared into the abyss too long and the abyss stared back. Reform is out of the question, the system is rigged and against you and your sense of good, all hope is lost.

This mindset tends to be more common among the neurodivergent. A common trait of autism is fringe beliefs, whether that is mystical thinking, excessive religious zeal, conspiracy theories... I'm not saying this guy is autistic, I am speaking generally , but based on his writing and his posts online, heck even looking at his face I can tell by a "sixth sense" I can't quite articulate that he certainly does not have an average mind. He had a normal average life as he said, but his brain was already determined for him that he would likely be on the fringe of society.

alt-right was much better fuel for this than anything he found on the left

True, although some subs on this site like CTP and even /leftypol/ on 8chan adapt alt right style rhetoric, memes, culture in a way I can't describe but it offers a unique phenomenon you don't find anywhere else.

He could have remained a communist as he once was and ended up like some kind of.... I don't know he is an ecofascist so maybe he would have attacked a dam or something. But most important of all his entire mission wasn't traditional terror. This is importanthe

He was an accelerationist. He saw the current global order as a slow rot and knew both sides would frenzy after the event. And he was right. He did it to hasten to see which side would win, if white countries would "wake up" or be subjected to a final apparent tyranny and then dying out.

Our culture is growing more polarized, Russia before the revolution or Germany in 1920s had similar signs too. We live in a new era though, I don't know Why will happen. But he did succeed at his goal. It was inevitable.

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