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YouTube's Biggest Personality Promoted an Anti-Semite
This was posted back in December but I'm bringing it back as a reminder of today's tragedy:
Felix Kjellberg, a Swedish YouTube personality best known online by his account name “PewDiePie,” promoted, in one of his video offerings, another YouTube account that has posted white nationalist and anti-Semitic content. At the time of this article, Kjellberg has more than 75 million subscribers on YouTube, making his channel the most popular on the gargantuan video platform, and broadcasts to an audience that skews younger in age.
Right Wing Watch reached out to Kjellberg via email but has not received a response.
At the end of a video published on December 9, Kjellberg included a YouTube channel operating under the name “E;R” in his list of recommended channels. The shout-out was noticed by members of the progressive YouTube community, who sounded an alarm.
“We also have E;R, who does great video essays about—he did one on Death Note, which I really, really enjoyed,” Kjellberg said. He also linked to the E;R channel in the video description, which has received 15,000 additional subscribers and more than 70,000 new video views since Kjellberg’s plug.
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In one video, uploaded June 11, 2016, cartoon footage from the Cartoon Network show Steven Universe precedes a slideshow of various social media and corporate media company executives believed to be Jewish and the anti-Semitic “echoes” meme popularized by white nationalist media personalities. The video ends with a play on the white supremacist “14 Words” slogan, reading “We must secure our existence and a future for human children.” The channel also features a video from March 3, 2016, that contains uninterrupted footage of an Adolf Hitler speech overlaid with anti-Semitic cartoons.
On Twitter, the “E;R” account has posted referring to Jews as “them”—common usage in white nationalist circles—and re-posted jokes about Hitler.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/youtubes-biggest-personality-promoted-an-anti-semite/
Right Wing Watch reached out to Kjellberg via email but has not received a response.
At the end of a video published on December 9, Kjellberg included a YouTube channel operating under the name “E;R” in his list of recommended channels. The shout-out was noticed by members of the progressive YouTube community, who sounded an alarm.
“We also have E;R, who does great video essays about—he did one on Death Note, which I really, really enjoyed,” Kjellberg said. He also linked to the E;R channel in the video description, which has received 15,000 additional subscribers and more than 70,000 new video views since Kjellberg’s plug.
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In one video, uploaded June 11, 2016, cartoon footage from the Cartoon Network show Steven Universe precedes a slideshow of various social media and corporate media company executives believed to be Jewish and the anti-Semitic “echoes” meme popularized by white nationalist media personalities. The video ends with a play on the white supremacist “14 Words” slogan, reading “We must secure our existence and a future for human children.” The channel also features a video from March 3, 2016, that contains uninterrupted footage of an Adolf Hitler speech overlaid with anti-Semitic cartoons.
On Twitter, the “E;R” account has posted referring to Jews as “them”—common usage in white nationalist circles—and re-posted jokes about Hitler.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/youtubes-biggest-personality-promoted-an-anti-semite/
The trolls are trying to convince us that PewDiePie is innocent. They can't get away with this. The killer screamed "Subscribe to PewDiePie" at the end of his killing spree. This will not stand. Youtube must ban him now.
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