--- title: PewDiePie's 'Anti-Semitic Video' Is Still on YouTube description: Disney canceled its ties with the Swedish web phenom over the video, which is still on YouTube despite reports it had been deleted. canonical: https://time.com/4671429/pewdiepie-disney-youtube-antisemitism/ author: Feliz Solomon article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-15T03:34:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:08.835Z og:title: PewDiePie's 'Anti-Semitic Video' Is Still on YouTube og:description: The Swedish YouTube star says he didn't intend to offend or incite hatred og:url: https://time.com/4671429/pewdiepie-disney-youtube-antisemitism/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta26241be6bb0b408/6988ba650b72e3fa876eca53/gettyimages-493205782.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4928 og:image:height: 2772 og:image:alt: BRITAIN-SWEDEN-INTERNET-PEWDIEPIE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: PewDiePie's 'Anti-Semitic Video' Is Still on YouTube twitter:description: The Swedish YouTube star says he didn't intend to offend or incite hatred twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta26241be6bb0b408/6988ba650b72e3fa876eca53/gettyimages-493205782.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # PewDiePie's 'Anti-Semitic Video' is Still on His YouTube Channel > Sponsored content. 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There is no cost and no subscription requirement. by [Feliz Solomon](https://time.com/author/feliz-solomon/) ## Feliz Solomon Feb 15, 2017 3:34 AM UTC  Swedish Internet commentator Felix Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie an event in central London on Oct. 18, 2015 Swedish Internet commentator Felix Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie an event in central London on Oct. 18, 2015Ben Stansall—AFP/Getty Images by [Feliz Solomon](https://time.com/author/feliz-solomon/) ## Feliz Solomon Feb 15, 2017 3:34 AM UTC A video posted last month by Swedish web phenom PewDiePie, otherwise known by the name of Felix Kjellberg, was deemed offensive enough for Disney to [terminate commercial ties](http://time.com/4670095/disney-pewdiepie-youtube-antisemitism-felix-kjellberg/) with the popular YouTube star, but it appears to have not been in violation of the video hosting site’s community standards. Despite [earlier reports](https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-severs-ties-with-youtube-star-pewdiepie-after-anti-semitic-posts-1487034533?mod=mktw) that the content had been removed from PewDiePie’s YouTube channel, at time of writing [the video is still online](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtxXKezbQ9w&feature=youtu.be&t=11m16s) and has been viewed nearly 10 million times. The clip posted on Jan. 11 shows two young men, who PewDiePie says he hired through the online freelance service Fiverr, dancing and laughing while displaying a banner reading “Death to all Jews.” The video caused outrage among viewers who saw it as anti-Semitic, and ultimately led Disney to sever its commercial ties with the 27-year-old Internet star. Disney’s Maker Studios division had partnered with Kjellberg to produce a YouTube series called _Scare PewDiePie_—a deal that has now been terminated. A spokesperson for YouTube told TIME that the second season of the show has been cancelled and PewDiePie’s channel has been removed from the company’s Google Preferred platform, an advertising service linking clients with popular content. It was [reported](https://secure.marketwatch.com/story/disney-severs-ties-with-top-youtube-star-pewdiepie-2017-02-13) Tuesday that three videos—dated Jan. 11, 17 and 22—had been removed from PewDiePie’s official channel, which has more than 53 million subscribers. As of Wednesday, however, the content was still viewable. YouTube says that all content hosted on the site must adhere to its community guidelines, which prohibit hate speech. Flagged content is reviewed and assessed with consideration to the uploader’s intent, and satirical content is viewed as permissible even when it is found to be offensive, unless it is likely to incite violence. PewDiePie said in a statement posted on his Tumbler account that the video was intended to show “how crazy the modern world is,” by demonstrating that “people on Fiverr would say anything for 5 dollars.” “I think it’s important to say something and I want to make one thing clear: I am in no way supporting any kind of hateful attitudes,” PewDiePie said. “Though this was not my intention, I understand that these jokes were ultimately offensive.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4671429/pewdiepie-disney-youtube-antisemitism/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4671429/pewdiepie-disney-youtube-antisemitism/"},"headline":"PewDiePie's 'Anti-Semitic Video' is Still on His YouTube Channel","datePublished":"2017-02-15T03:34:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:08.835Z","description":"The Swedish Internet star says he had no intention to offend viewers or incite hatred","url":"https://time.com/4671429/pewdiepie-disney-youtube-antisemitism/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta26241be6bb0b408/6988ba650b72e3fa876eca53/gettyimages-493205782.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Feliz Solomon","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/feliz-solomon/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta26241be6bb0b408/6988ba650b72e3fa876eca53/gettyimages-493205782.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"BRITAIN-SWEDEN-INTERNET-PEWDIEPIE","caption":"BRITAIN-SWEDEN-INTERNET-PEWDIEPIE","creditText":"Ben Stansall—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4671429/pewdiepie-disney-youtube-antisemitism/","name":"PewDiePie's 'Anti-Semitic Video' is Still on His YouTube Channel"}}]}] ```