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  1. I’m not saying people shouldn’t be gay, I just don’t need their culture shoved in my face all the time. Lately, I’ve been inundated with some liberal nonsense and I just can’t deal anymore, folks. Apparently PewDiePie, the most highly-subscribed YouTuber, is in the news this week because he might soon be losing that title. Even more hilarious is that PewDiePie might lose his title to an Indian music company called T-Series. To fight back against losing his throne, PewDiePie has started a campaign to keep himself the most highly-subscribed person on YouTube.
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  3. If you’ve been delightfully unaware of Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg up until this point, I’m sorry to burst your bubble. His YouTube channel originally gained a lot of success from his comedic videos about gaming. The funny video game genre of YouTube video is wildly popular today among fans and that is partially because of the mark that PewDiePie has left on the platform.
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  5. Unsurprisingly, Kjellberg’s haters have not come without controversy — aka racism and Nazi imagery. According to the Wall Street Journal, nine comments between August 2016 and February 2017 had Nazi or anti-Semitic content. In one video, a "fan" hired people from a freelance site to hold up a sign that said, “Death to all Jews,” so you know, that’s something. Because of these videos, Kjellberg ended up losing a partnership with the Disney-owned Maker Studios. But it didn’t stop there. Later in 2017, Kjellberg got called out for yelling "this game is great!" at the audience during a stream of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.
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  7. His fans immediately came to his defense, claiming that he was just a normal dude that streamed. As with most of the content creators of the internet, when they do something offensive, no matter the context, anyone will claim they are racists or nazis.
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  9. PewDiePie has always been an interesting symbol for a larger conversation taking place online. Because PewDiePie isn’t owned by a network or a media company, he is genuine. YouTube has proven time and time again with some of their biggest channels like PewDiePie and Logan Paul that they immediately cancel all of their shows over the slighest bit of controversy. The only people who can hold him accountable are his fans, and because majority of the people in his community are just regular people, that won’t be happening any time soon - they trust he will do the right thing.
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  11. It would be one thing for PewDiePie to simply exist on YouTube, but he still, after all of this, remains completely supported. And not just by fans, but by other creators in the community. Just in this campaign, gaming YouTubers Jacksepticeye and Markiplier (who also started this really bad clothing brand together) encouraged people to subscribe to PewDiePie. Markiplier specifically had a livestream titled “I Literally Won’t Shut Up Until You Subscribe To PewDiePie” where he — with an admittedly sexy voice — ranted about the battle between these channels for nearly 50 minutes.
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  13. Something that I’ll give PewDiePie credit for is that during this campaign, some people were making funny remarks to T-Series, the Indian music channel, and in response, PewDiePie encouraged his fans to donate to Child Rights and You, a non-profit organization fighting against child labor in India.
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  15. PewDiePie said that he found these comments to be extremely comedic, but followed that up with saying “I’ve obviously made Indian jokes and stuff like that, but I do that of all countries and this is not what I’m about.” It’s hard to grasp that people, in 2018, are finding anything and claiming that it's racist.
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  17. With everything going on in the world, it’s more than slightly upsetting that this is what is taking up space. Like damn, is that how bored liberals are? Can they find a job? I have to admit, I would be thrilled if PewDiePie, with his gaming history, was automatically subscribed to by people in Sweden. It would prove that karma was very real and it was time for him to cash in. In short: Go subscribe to PewDiePie on YouTube.
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