Why did Christchurch mosque shooter tell viewers to 'subscribe to PewDiePie'?

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The gunman's mention of the meme was a nod to those in-the-know about internet culture – a fringe part of which helped foster his extreme anti-immigrant and Islamophobic ideology

fans in Bangladesh placed posters of the popular YouTube star around their local neighbourhood A link to the Facebook Live video was first posted to the controversial online messaging board 8chan, where several links to his manifesto were also posted.

 

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You are playing right into his hands. You are his puppet.

This article misses the point why he said it. He said it because he knew it would stoke the media into calling for censorship of PewDiePie, which will cause further division (since it has happened to him before) which the shooter clearly states his goal was to cause division

anwerofficial Dear, Respectfully, this isn't shooting but an act of terrorism. A plane look of videos in circulation shows that this terrorism act was well-planned and supported. You must call it terrorist attack otherwise it is simply hypocratic behaviour of ur media

This is very important article I think. At the same time,there's the Bangradish rugby national team in Christchurch for training. I've known this fact from other source of online sports news media. Same key is 'Bangradish'. What's terrorists intended for...

Bc he wanted to give an excuse to his madness. Its obvious that no dead will be able to sub anyway.

you are being manipulated

Don't know. Do tell.

This seems too ludicrous to believe as a blame point. What's next? A claim that he said 'Vote Conservatives'? It screams of desperation as an opportunity taken by the Indy to discredit ANYTHING right wing and attribute it to catalyst reason for terrorism

PewDiePie because they are all gays..Christchurch

I'm struggling to think of a more pointless article posted by you recently. That was just a word soup for clicks.

Because he was an unhinged maniac

For media attention and you are feeding it.

Jewish owned media throughout the world has already created Islamic phobia to encourage hate crime and ethnic cleansing

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