YouTube has pulled PewDiePie from its advertising platform after anti-Semitic videos were posted to his account.
The decision came after Disney chose to cut off its relationship with the YouTube star when it was made aware of videos on the channel that included people showing signs reading "death to all Jews".
YouTube said that the PewDiePie channel would be removed from its advertising platform and that it would also be cancelling a reality show that the YouTube star features in. "Weve decided to cancel the release of Scare PewDiePie Season 2 and were removing the PewDiePie channel from Google Preferred," a spokesperson told The Independent.
Google Preferred is an advertising platform that allows advertisers to contact YouTube's most popular stars and advertise on their platforms. It isn't the only way to advertise on the service, but YouTube highlights it on a special page as a way of accessing "the top 5 per cent of content on YouTube" and feature "alongside some of the most engaging and brandsafe content" on the site.
The videos are no longer allowed to be monetised because they are in violation of YouTube's "advertiser-friendly content guidelines", which are stricter than the normal guidelines and require that people cannot feature "controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown".
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-anti-semitic-death-to-all-jews-a7580206.html
Fucking idiot.