PewDiePie lashes out against outrage culture and white power \u201csymbols\u201d Felix \u201cPewDiePie\u201d Kjellberg rules as the undisputed king of YouTube, boasting over 102 million subscribers. However, internet fame comes with a price, as the Swede has learned throughout his career as an online entertainer. Unlike his usual \u201cMeme Review\u201d and Minecraft videos, PewDiePie\u2019s latest video \u2013 uploaded on November 7 \u2013 began as a sort of documentary, explaining the rise of certain \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d symbols that spawned online. However, gestures like the \u201cokay sign\u201d and memes like \u201cPepe the Frog\u201d have been merely twisted by 4Chan trolls and the like to get a rise out of the general public, which PewDiePie decried and urged his viewers to avoid acknowledging. \u201cEven if the okay symbol used to mean \u2018okay,\u2019 these things change,\u201d he argued. \u201cThe validity of its changed meaning is pointed towards white supremacists now actually using it \u2013 but of course they\u2019re going to use it. Unlike other hate symbols, this was given to them. Stop making it so easy for these people.\u201d The YouTuber went on to discuss outrage \u201cculture,\u201d claiming that backlash against fake dog whistles \u2013 which are then picked up and used by racist groups \u2013 is rewarded through social media engagement. \u201cThere is a clear culture around getting upset,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s false virtue rewarded with likes. We\u2019re basically training ourselves to act like this. \u2026by acting angry and upset at these things, you\u2019re giving validity to the symbol.\u201d Kjellberg concluded his discussion on the topic by claiming that \u201cby accusing people who aren\u2019t white supremacists of being white supremacists, you\u2019re helping white supremacists,\u201d and asked his viewers to stop \u201cgetting upset\u201d at and to stop spamming the \u2018okay\u2019 symbol. Some might see this video as a response to PewDiePie\u2019s past controversies, whatever the Swede\u2019s intentions for speaking out on this subject originally were \u2013 but given recent events, it does seem timely. During his years on YouTube, PewDiePie has been accused of being a white supremacist, with his latest scandal cropping up after he wore what critics claimed to be an \u201ciron cross\u201d during a September 12 video. While Kjellberg explained that the design was, instead, a Georgian Bolnisi Cross, the star continues to suffer from allegations of using racist \u201cdog whistles\u201d \u2013 a recurring theme that ties into his latest expose on the topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PewDiePie lashes out against outrage culture and white power \u201csymbols\u201d Felix \u201cPewDiePie\u201d Kjellberg rules as the undisputed king of YouTube, boasting over 102 million subscribers. However, internet fame comes with a price, as the Swede has learned throughout his career as an online entertainer. Unlike his usual \u201cMeme Review\u201d and Minecraft videos, PewDiePie\u2019s latest video […]<\/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-57379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57379","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=57379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}