Earlier this year, YouTube's biggest star sparked controversy after Disney severed ties with him over jokes about Jewish people and Nazis. At the time, Felix ‘Pewdiepie' Kjellberg apologized but continued to make many Nazi references in defiance to the outrage. Months later, Kjellberg says he has a different perspective about those jokes and says he's no longer going to make them.
”At this point, I'd really just want to distance myself from all of this," Kjellberg said. ”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?' And then I look at this, and I'm like oh, I see. OK!"
The ”this" he is referring to are the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, when torch-wielding white supremacists held a rally that got violent and resulted in a counter-protester being killed. Like many of us, Kjellberg watched in horror, and in a recent vlog update, he says that the events at the rally made him reconsider his approach to humor.
