PewDiePie happily made Nazi jokes until he saw real Nazis

YouTube’s biggest gaming personality is done making Nazi jokes. Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg came under fire, and even lost his original YouTube Red show, in February for moments in his videos that were either anti-Semitic or sympathetic toward Nazis. He made those jokes to elicit emotional reactions and because, according to him, he didn’t think Nazis were a real, modern-day concern.

“I remember back when everything happened in February, I was sorta like, ‘I mean, they’re just jokes. There are not actual Nazis out there. What are you talking about,’” PewDiePie said in a recent YouTube upload. “And then I look at this, and I’m like, ‘Oh! Oh, OK. I see.’ And if for some reason Nazis think it’s great that I’m making these jokes, I don’t want to give them that benefit. So I’m going to stop doing it.”