[DashRattlesnake]

> and the video gaming vlogger Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, whose "Pewdiepie" YouTube channel featuring Nazi-themed jokes has 54 million subscribers.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it a single joke that got him in trouble? The article's wording here is pretty slippery, but it seems to be trying to give the (as I understand it) false impression that "Pewdiepie" was a Nazi humor site. That doesn't give me much confidence in the rest of the article.

[frgtpsswrdlame]

From the end of the article:

>The gaming vlogger Pewdiepie, whose YouTube channel is the world's largest, made rape jokes early in his career and sometimes uses the word "slut" as an insult. Since August, he has made nine videos featuring Nazi imagery or anti-Semitic humor, according to an investigation by the Wall Street Journal. (He later apologized but also said the Journal took the remarks out of context.)

And I would read the whole thing, the author did a fair amount of interviews but obviously needed to "anchor" this article to current events and chose a poor one in Pewdiepie. The rest is pretty good.

[nsxwolf]

The reporting on the issue has just been absolutely terrible. If someone knew nothing about this man and only read the WSJ piece and other articles, it would be totally reasonable for them to come away from that thinking that Kjellberg is an antisemite that runs a pro Nazi YouTube channel.

The media is in a dangerously sorry state.

[wyager]

It was a bunch of innocuous crap that the WSJ trumped up for clicks. One of the "nazi" things he did was stick his arm out in a manner vaguely reminiscent of a nazi salute, but it was clear from context that he was doing nothing of the sort. They evidently waded through dozens of hours of video to find a few images and sound bites they could attack.