Wednesday, February 15, 2017

YouTube star loses Disney deal over anti-Semitic stunt

New York-the makers of Studio Disney and Google's YouTube are moving away from the YouTube top star then made a joke is interpreted as anti-Semitic Nazi imagery and posted in the video.

Felix Kjellberg, known online as PewDiePie, has the most popular YouTube channel, with more than 53 million customers. 

Sweden YouTube star shot to fame by posting a video of her playing and commenting on a video game. Recently, he branched out on video games without doing a parody, tricks or make jokes.

Disney, makers of study that operates a network of channels and Kjellberg, said he crossed the line with a couple of their videos. January video shows two people in India paid by Kjellberg for holding a sign saying "death to all Jews." 

Kjellberg said the video was intended to show the point of what people go if they get paid to do something, but he did not think that it will actually do it. Another video showed images of Nazism was satire.

In Kjellberg blog says it is making jokes, but realize that they are offensive.

Kjellberg channel is already part of the maker of the Studios, the Walt Disney Co. bought the manufacturer in 2014 at $675 million. Individual contracts with producers as Kjellberg to produce videos for some of the YouTube channels.

Kjellberg shot the video where two men who watched sign of anti-Semitic but extracted on video from the Wall Street Journal. Other videos on the site are the pictures of the Nazis used satirically.

The maker of the Studios said in a statement that while the popular channels Kjellberg because of provocative and irreverent, learning ends with affiliation with him because he was going too far.

A YouTube spokeswoman Michelle Slavich said YouTube has canceled the release of the second season of the reality show Kjellberg "PewDiePie scare" and Your favorite programs channels Google ads that aggregate higher YouTube content that advertisers buy time on PewDiePie.
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