Boy oh boy, another reason not to watch videos who don't denounce the alt right / havr reactionary communities!
#pewdiepieblackmail is a thing now.
Tldr, Felix donated to an charity that advocates against antisemitism, the ADL. They were in opposition to pewds actions when the whole kill all jews "edgy haha joke" thing broke down. Pew fans got mad because they called him a bigot, now that pew donates to the ADL his community turns against pewds.
we're not antisemi! *donates to ADL, ADL IS JEW
Pewds fans are saying all the right wing talking points to denounce the ADL. They say they are anti free speech, pro censorship, anti white, runned by jews etc.
Image credit https://imgur.com/a/s3DFQ1N
4Chan, another heaven for "free speech, anti censorship" and a safe space for bigots, has tried to use pew to serve as a platform for "the red pill" ideology.
Now they jumped on the opportunity again, they were organizing for up voting comments that pushed their agenda.
Source https://www.reddit.com/r/PewdiepieSubmissions/comments/d2gtc3/regarding_adl/
And the only mention of this controversy I could find in the fediverse is from Alex Jones, taking sides against the ADL.
In the past, several people criticized pewds for being racist, pew fans say this is nonsense, so then the pew critics explained they ment that pew normalizes a problematic ideology while not being racist himself, the pewd community denied normalizing bigotry.
Now that pew is donating money to an organization that opposes racism, the pew community goes insane.
If pewds is alt right / light or not does not matter, because 4chaners have allready encoded their messages to the overall media landscape.
Now that phill reported on the news crediting pool the YouTube algorithm will start recommending reactionary videos to viewers it the most subscribed channel.
If the pewdiepie community still seems non problematic watch this vid:
Pewds response implied that the media was to blame, ignoring the efforts of 4Chan to twist his videos into alt right propaganda.
If pew was a better man he would call his reactioary fans on their bullshit, but sadly his alt light viewers outnumber the others, he's not brave enough to sacrifice, to leave the bad apples behind and instead blames the media - ironically this still plays into 4chans game, since they also hate the media for being leftwing Jews.
Pews response
https://twitter.com/pewdiepie/status/1171761588879142913?s=20
4chans operation seems to have succeeded, the "alternative" media has allready boosted their ideology.
Most notably Phillip DeFranco, who fell for the anti free speech narrative while not reporting on the efforts of 4Chan to boost this perspective. He even pointed to Tim Pool, a reactionary news channel with ties to more alt right channels.
Phill d source https://invidio.us/watch?v=Gb1kkxYNC3s
Tim connected to the alt right source (takes side with Sargon)
https://invidio.us/watch?v=31PmSTY7bnM