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Re:Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier by teh_klev on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:59PM (#31817914)
> I hope you are right because he's got quite a bit of power these days.

Oh c'mon. The guy is just a YouTube celeb like hundreds of others and easily disposable, what is this "power" he wields?

Re:Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier by fartcannon on Monday June 20, 2022 @08:26PM (#31818130)
On the most recent wan show, his fans located and harassed an ex employee of the new facility he bought because he was mildly perturbed over the state of the building. That's some unchecked power.
Re:Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier by kup0 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @08:37AM (#31823115)
Which he told them beforehand not to do, and afterwards chastised them for doing so, being clearly frustrated that his fans would so something like that and make things worse for everyone.

If he wielded the power himself (encouraged that behavior) that's one thing, but fanbases of scale will eventually always have a subset of people that behave poorly like this despite even being directly told not to by the person they're supposedly a fan of...

Re:Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier by fartcannon on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @08:12PM (#31830580)
Exactly. He's powerful.