Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known by his online pseudonym PewDiePie, has always been scrutinized by the media regarding how much money he makes, but this time they have dug up something else to discuss. The media, specifically the Wall Street Journal, recently came out with an article discussing PewDiePie as a Neo-Nazi. Between February 2016 and February 2017 Pewdiepie has uploaded multiple videos with Nazi symbolism. This has caused a massive coverage on the subject throughout the internet and has subjected Felix to two partnership cancellations with big companies, Google, and Disney’s Maker Studio. Although there has been Nazi symbolism in only a handful of Felix’s videos, the media have incorrectly used it as proof to say he is a Neo-Nazi,
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The article described how he uploaded videos with “Neo-Nazi” symbolism like the videos titled, ‘Death To All Jews’ and 'Hitler Did Absolutely Nothing Wrong' to his YouTube channel. After the Wall Street Journal article had been published, Disney announced that the company was removing PewDiePie from its Maker Studios program. Later that week, Google announced that it was canceling the second season of his online show “Scare PewDiePie,” which had already been recorded. After the widespread of this false accusation, PewDiePie received massive hate from the media, fans, and other celebrities. In a response posted on Tumblr, Felix said that people should not be offended at his videos because they were not meant taken seriously and that his apparently “anti-Semitic” videos are being taken out of …show more content…
As laughable as it is to believe that I might actually endorse these people, to anyone unsure on my standpoint of hate-based groups: No, I don’t support these people in any way.” Even if he was joking, however, the reality is that many Neo-Nazis on the internet think Felix’s antics are genuine. They are unmistakably only claiming this because Pewdiepie has over 50 million subscribers, they are just trying to delusion people to consort with their cults. In the past few weeks, the Daily Stormer, the internet’s most prominent racist blog community, rebranded itself as “the world’s #1 PewDiePie Fansite,” complete with a image banner of Adolf Hitler and the YouTube star. The media is not aiding the situation by publicizing this story. The Media has bashed PewDiePie for the Nazi references and being a bad role model. But in reality, this ultimately directs the people who watch PewDiePie to those Nazi websites by making them aware of them through the Media’s “revealing” of
The article described how he uploaded videos with “Neo-Nazi” symbolism like the videos titled, ‘Death To All Jews’ and 'Hitler Did Absolutely Nothing Wrong' to his YouTube channel. After the Wall Street Journal article had been published, Disney announced that the company was removing PewDiePie from its Maker Studios program. Later that week, Google announced that it was canceling the second season of his online show “Scare PewDiePie,” which had already been recorded. After the widespread of this false accusation, PewDiePie received massive hate from the media, fans, and other celebrities. In a response posted on Tumblr, Felix said that people should not be offended at his videos because they were not meant taken seriously and that his apparently “anti-Semitic” videos are being taken out of …show more content…
As laughable as it is to believe that I might actually endorse these people, to anyone unsure on my standpoint of hate-based groups: No, I don’t support these people in any way.” Even if he was joking, however, the reality is that many Neo-Nazis on the internet think Felix’s antics are genuine. They are unmistakably only claiming this because Pewdiepie has over 50 million subscribers, they are just trying to delusion people to consort with their cults. In the past few weeks, the Daily Stormer, the internet’s most prominent racist blog community, rebranded itself as “the world’s #1 PewDiePie Fansite,” complete with a image banner of Adolf Hitler and the YouTube star. The media is not aiding the situation by publicizing this story. The Media has bashed PewDiePie for the Nazi references and being a bad role model. But in reality, this ultimately directs the people who watch PewDiePie to those Nazi websites by making them aware of them through the Media’s “revealing” of