PewDiePie gives scathing response to allegations of Anti-Semitism PewDiePie, YouTubeYouTube\u2019s biggest creator, Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg, was accused of Anti-Semitism after promoting a controversial channel in one of his videos. Now, he is speaking out about the debacle \u2013 and he\u2019s taking issue with the media in the process. PewDiePie became part of yet another controversy after promoting a series of smaller channels during an episode of \u2018Pew News\u2019 on December 9. One of these channels, going by the handle \u2018E;R,\u2019 is notable for featuring Nazi imagery and problematic content \u2013 leading to wide speculation that PewDiePie was intentionally promoting an Anti-Semitic channel. Holy shit Pewdiepie shouted out E;R who legit pushes JQ bullshit on a regular basis and was slipping in dog whistles to the Heather Heyer murder being a heart attack what the fuuuuuuck \u2014 David Sherratt (@discordspies) December 10, 2018 However, PewDiePie claims that such allegations are untrue, arguing that he had no knowledge of E;R\u2019s Anti-Semitic references as stated in a response video uploaded on December 11. \u201cObviously, if I noticed that, I wouldn\u2019t have referenced him in the shoutout,\u201d PewDiePie argued. \u201cNot because I have a problem with Nazi references being offensive in themselves, but because I said\u2026 that I was going to distance myself Nazi jokes.\u201d PewDiePie went on to take issue with the media\u2019s coverage of the scandal, specifically calling out an article written by tech and news outlet \u2018The Verge\u2019 for allegedly using incorrect data when citing E;R\u2019s subscriber boost after Pewd\u2019s shoutout. Read More: YouTube Rewind set to break Justin Bieber\u2019s dislike record \u2013 Top 20 most disliked videos ever – The Swede likewise claimed that those unfamiliar with Nazi tactics would be unlikely to recognize the references in E;R\u2019s videos, calling the debacle \u201cironic.\u201d \u201cThe irony here is that I\u2019m supposed to be the Nazi, but I don\u2019t know any of these goddamn references,\u201d PewDiePie continued. PewDiePie has since edited his previous video to exclude E;R\u2019s channel from his recommendations, likewise deleting the link to his channel from the video\u2019s description.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PewDiePie gives scathing response to allegations of Anti-Semitism PewDiePie, YouTubeYouTube\u2019s biggest creator, Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg, was accused of Anti-Semitism after promoting a controversial channel in one of his videos. Now, he is speaking out about the debacle \u2013 and he\u2019s taking issue with the media in the process. PewDiePie became part of yet another controversy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}