PewDiePie: Disney, Google cut ties with YouTube star indicted of anti-Semitism

A star YouTuber has been dumped by Google and Disney after being indicted of regulating anti-Semitic jokes and Nazi imagery.

With 53 million subscribers, Felix Kjellberg — or “PewDiePie” — is one of a many renouned filmmakers on YouTube.

The Swede has incited radioactive, however, after a Wall Street Journal reported that he has posted 9 videos given Aug that embody disgusting material. One video shows dual group holding a pointer that reads, “Death to All Jews.”

YouTube (GOOGL, Tech30) pronounced Tuesday that it has canceled a second deteriorate of Kjellberg’s show, called Scare PewDiePie, that had been consecrated for a YouTube Red subscription service.

A mouthpiece declined to contend how many Kjellberg would have warranted for a season, though vital stars can acquire fees allied to those of TV uncover creators.

YouTube has also private a PewDiePie channel from a “Google Preferred” service, that includes a network’s many watched and common videos.

Maker Studios, a multiplication during Disney (DIS) that produces YouTube content, reliable that it has also severed ties with Kjellberg.

“Although Felix has combined a following by being provocative and irreverent, he clearly went too distant in this box and a ensuing videos are inappropriate,” a association pronounced in a statement.

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YouTube has not private a videos constructed by Kjellberg, though it did frame some of them of advertisements. Kjellberg appears to have private one of a videos himself.

In a matter posted to his blog, Kjellberg pronounced that he does not support “any kind of horrible attitudes.”

“I consider of a calm that we emanate as entertainment, and not a place for any critical domestic commentary,” he said. “Though this was not my intention, we know that these jokes were eventually offensive.”

Kjellberg’s videos have been noticed some-more than 14.6 billion times on YouTube. Forbes estimates that he warranted $15 million in a year finished Jun 2016.

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