Personally, I find his particular flavor of pro-gun ownership to be distasteful, in particular, happily being filmed wearing an assault rifle slung over his back while ordering food. I know that's not necessarily unusual in Texas, but I think he should be more aware of his global audience.
What made me pissed was wearing the assault rifle on video while _mocking_ one of the parents of the Sandy Hook massacre. He has also said some questionable lines in his videos (like when he was surprised that the electrician who came to his house was black).
Not really. Nearly everyone in my family has owned guns, including myself. We have family who hunt professionally. Several of us know people who concealed carry for legitimate self protection. Carrying a gun on full display is something you do because you have a specific purpose to use that gun. Doing so for entertainment is ridiculously unsafe under most circumstances and to the extent it’s part of American culture it’s a particularly toxic variant of that. But that’s a very limited subset of America. Most of our shitty gun culture is much more just plain American toxic culture generally
I think he joked that Morgan Freeman came to his house, but yes, it was a bit tonedeaf
Why?
Why should the 8-Bit Guy, or anyone else, "be more aware" of an audience for which he creates interesting free content?
If people don't like his videos because of something that appears on his videos (or off screen, in this case), fewer people will stop watching them and maybe he will change his approach/message to cater to them. Or not.
If you mean that he should avoid triggering his audience, <https://gfycat.com/ImaginaryGrandioseAgouti>