Posted on 02/13/2017 10:17:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
Swedish gamer PewDiePie (known IRL as Felix Kjellberg) is the most famous and highest-paid YouTuber in the world. His videos have yielded billions of views, millions of followers, and helped him earn $15 million in 2016. But next year’s figure could be significantly lower following a report from The Wall Street Journal that Disney is ending its deal with PewDiePie for recent anti-Semitic content in his videos. Prior to today, PewDiePie worked with Disney via a joint venture with the Maker Studios, a digital video network that Disney bought in 2014. Though Kjellberg maintained “editorial independence” with Maker Studios, a representative said his anti-Semitic references “went too far” and deemed the videos “inappropriate.”
According to the report, PewDiePie posted a now-deleted video on January 11 which included two men he paid to make and hold up a sign reading “Death to All Jews.” After reviewing his channel, the Journal found that the YouTuber had “posted nine videos that include anti-Semitic jokes or Nazi imagery” between August 2016 and today. Other videos — some of which PewDiePie has also since removed from his channel — include one from January 22 featuring a man dressed as Jesus who said, “Hitler did absolutely nothing wrong.” Select All has reached out to PewDiePie and will update this post if we hear back.
While Google removed advertisements — effectively negating PewDiePie’s ability to monetize a given video on YouTube — from the January 11 “Death to All Jews” video before it was pulled (by Kjellberg, not by YouTube), the Journal also reports that the other nine videos containing anti-Semitic content are still live on the site with functional ads.
Don’t patronize Disney. It’s the owner and enabler of truly fake news.
Hard to believe how much money this guy has made by getting 13-year-old boys to subscribe to him on YouTube, because they find PewDiePie’s videos of himself squealing like a banshee while pretending to be scared of the horror games he’s playing to be somehow be the pinnacle of comedy.
Why the heck isnt he going after the Muslims?
It’s the Muslims who are going to ravage Sweden. Nobody else.
Antisemitism will get you fired from Disney.
“Islamophobia” will get you arrested in Sweden.
If all White straight males are racist why should any of us have work? Maybe we should be fired. Then we could go on welfare.
“It’s the Muslims who are going to ravage Sweden. Nobody else.”
God’s little joke: “You don’t want the Jews? Fine.You can have the other semites. And they’ll actually do to you what you have always accused the Jews of doing —desecrating the churches, raping the women, etc. Enjoy!”
He recently also got in trouble for using the "kinda" N-word "nigga" the "wrong" way.
Youtube has become a battle ground between the SJW's and the anti-sjws. SJW's have drawn a little blood here.
Making sexual jokes about Mickey Mouse will get you fired over lunch. Just ask Harlan Ellison.
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