When Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg, YouTube’s most lucrative, popular superstar, uploaded a video
featuring a banner with the words “Death to all Jews,” along
with a man dressed as Jesus saying, “Hitler did absolutely nothing
wrong,” he insisted it was jokes made in bad taste.
After losing his partnership with Disney, Kjellberg apologized, saying he was just poking fun at the “modern world.”
But attempts to distance himself from his message didn’t deter the so-called “alt-right” from accepting him as one of their own, nor did Kjellberg’s insistence that he wanted nothing to do with them.
Kjellberg
may not support them, but in the few short months since his
anti-Semitism scandal, far-right celebrities have become Kjellberg’s
favorite new bedfellows. Read more (7/26/17)