No shit.
YouTube's most prominent personality,Well-Endowed Customer and Young Female Escort PewDiePie (a.k.a. Felix Kjellberg), has finally realized what we've all already known: Nazi jokes are tasteless at best, hateful at worst. And after the events of this past weekend, we have a hard time understanding how anyone could find them funny.
In a video released today, PewDiePie quickly references the recent events around the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, getting to his main point: He's now reconsidering making Nazi references in his YouTube videos that are watched by millions of people.
This past weekend, white supremacists and neo-Nazis carrying torches in Charlottesville chanted anti-Semitic and Nazi-era slurs in protest of the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue. The group clashed violently with counter protesters and an Ohio man protesting the statue's removal drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing one and injuring more than a dozen others.
SEE ALSO: How you can take action against white supremacy after CharlottesvilleSo what does that have to do with a video-gaming YouTuber? A little context first.
PewDiePie found himself in hot water this past February after the Wall Street Journalposted a review of several of his recent videos that included multiple anti-Semitic "jokes" and Nazi imagery. Once PewDiePie's racist references were put in the spotlight, Disney's Maker Studios cut ties with the YouTuber. His channel has since grown from 53 million followers to 56 million while he continued to make occasional anti-Semitic references. The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist and neo-Nazi news site (that has been kicked off both GoDaddy and Google web hosting services after this past weekend) had a banner that declared itself "The world's #1 PewDiePie fansite."
Following the events in Charlottesville, he'd now like to distance himself from the white supremacists and neo-Nazis that he says people are grouping him in with. "It sort of gave me a little bit of perspective, because technically I got grouped in with these people somehow," PewDiePie says in the video. "Somehow," he says.
This video comes four days after PewDiePie himself tweeted a picture of a group of white supremacists holding torches, saying, "These guys clearly watched too many pewdiepie vids." He's referencing the exposure he received thanks to his anti-Semitic jokes.
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"I'm just a guy making jokes on the internet," PewDiePie said. "Believe it or not, I want nothing to do with these people. I have no hate in my heart and I only have hate for hateful people."
Some of PewDiePie's past "jokes" have included paying people to hold up a sign that read "Death to all Jews" and doing the Nazi salute.
"You guys can keep doing what you're doing with your tiki torches."
PewDiePie claims he didn't believe that Nazis existed at the time, but that he's now come to the realization that they are not just a group relegated to history.
"I remember back when everything happened in February, I was sort of like, 'I mean they're just jokes, there's not actual Nazis out there, what are you talking about?'" he said.
He then said that he's not going to make any more Nazi jokes.
"Nazi memes are not even that funny anymore," he said. "It's sort of a dead meme."
PewDiePie spent most of the 2 minutes and 30 seconds attempting to distance himself from groups of white supremacists and neo-Nazis. He never once uses his platform to denounce their actions and/or views, opting instead to take a more hands-off stance on the situation only insofar as it relates to him.
What does he say instead? "You guys can keep doing what you're doing with your tiki torches."
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