PewDiePie recommends a YouTube channel filled with anti-Semitic jokes

On Monday, Felix Kjellberg - better known as PewDiePie - published a video that ended with a number of recommendations for other YouTube channels. One of those YouTubers is E;R, whose videos often include anti-Semitism and Nazi imagery. PewDiePie specifically shouted out a video that includes footage of a fatal incident at last year’s white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in a moment played for laughs. “We also have E;R,” PewDiePie says, “who does great video essays about - he did one on Death Note, which I really, really enjoyed.” Death Note - the Netflix adaptation of an anime and manga series - is about a notebook that allows you to write down someone’s name and the manner of their death, then see that murder carried out in real-life. In E;R’s video, that becomes a joke about Heather Heyer, a protestor of the Charlottesville rally who was killed by car at the event, including aerial footage of the incident. The man who drove that car was found guilty of first-degree murder only a few days ago. As The Verge notes, that’s not the only video with hateful and offensive humour on E;R’s channel - it’s just the one PewDiePie recommends. Others include an essay on Steven Universe published two years ago, in which E;R makes comments about the the creator of the series being “a Jew” and contains an unedited speech from Adolph Hitler.

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