PewDiePie's $50k Donation to The ADL Widely Interpreted As 'Blackmail' Payment

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Sep. 11, 2019

Famed YouTuber Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg's announcement on Tuesday that he was donating $50,000 to the YouTube censors at the Anti-Defamation League is backfiring hilariously.

His young followers noticed immediately that Pewds' donation to the ADL came after they celebrated Disney for severing ties with him in 2017:

Many people interpreted the move as a blackmail payment and his zoomer followers took it as giving into the ADL's "bullying":

Holy shit this looks like a hostage photo pic.twitter.com/aXorKH0uMT
— Ethan Ralph (@TheRalphRetort) September 10, 2019

PewDiePie's video was flooded with comments about how the ADL is censoring YouTubers for their political views and post after post accused the ADL of censoring their comments.

PewDiePie responded to the controversy on Wednesday with a statement acknowledging the donation "doesn't make sense to everyone" consdering the ADL's attacks on him but he just wanted to "move on" with his life.

The implication seems to be that he's paying off the ADL to get the MSM off his back:

pic.twitter.com/Z9sACtodmj
— ƿ૯ωძɿ૯ƿɿ૯ (@pewdiepie) September 11, 2019

Tim Pool spoke out against Pewds' donation and made a video about it titled, "Pewdiepie just stuck a knife in the back Of The Youtube Community By Funding The ADL."

The ADL has caused collateral damage to tens of thousands of small creators livelihoods

Pewdiepie is not being a bigger man he's taking a payday on a milestone he reached thanks to the youtube community

He then funds an organization that will get people in that community banned https://t.co/e0nqXLKFoS
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) September 11, 2019

The top comments on Twitter were similarly woke:

For 50k you red pilled millions of Gen Z kids about the ADL’s censorship online whether you realize it or not.

A lot of people are rightfully confused because of it, but this was a brilliant move to expose the hateful ADL and their attacks on creators who think outside the box. pic.twitter.com/KIMZmhZvGk
— Gab.com (@getongab) September 11, 2019

YouTube To Censor “Controversial” Content with ADL Assistancehttps://t.co/sJsdHcQHLl
— Gab.com (@getongab) September 11, 2019

>gets bullied
>pays of his bullies

It's ok guys I'm fine pic.twitter.com/RhAnNOxBRD
— #Chris# (@chris_af_VP) September 11, 2019

It doesn't make sense to support the anti defamation league when their MO is defamation. The only organizations more hypocritical are PETA and the SPLC.

You could show you've moved on by never mentioning what happened and forget about, how most people move on.
— Shay Bryder (@shaybryder) September 11, 2019

Honestly you really shouldnt.. its the worst possible organization you could donate to... just think about how many others need that for actually important and real stuff
— Guden🇩🇰 (@Gud3n) September 11, 2019

Felix, The ADL straight up doesn’t care about you.

You can donate them every penny in the world and it wouldn’t be enough to them.

They are using a tragedy to manipulate your emotions, you’re playing straight into their game.
— Bryton Cherrier (@BrytonCherrier) September 11, 2019

@pewdiepie you need to watch this video from Tim Pool. You need to hear this. This is how most people are feeling right now.https://t.co/oeWR2tSr8X
— Zim Zam (@ExposingUrLies) September 11, 2019

Imagine donating to a hate group.
Smdh
— "...It's all fine now." (@RespectElves) September 11, 2019

Blink twice if you are held hostage
— hoes mad (@_mahzz) September 11, 2019

>giving money to bullies
Yeah that will surely work
— salty (@rlier23) September 11, 2019

The comments are filled with zoomers asking "what is the MSM" and "what is the ADL" and getting redpilled.

PewDiePie subreddit also started asking questions and one of the leftist mods (who said he had never even heard of the ADL before Pewds' video) responded by censoring everyone and insisting the entire backlash is just a 4chan hoax.

Something really weird is going on regarding PewDiePie and his 100mil video. I do not care about how you feel about him, it is worth looking into cause something very strange is going on. Please read some of the comments on this reddit post. https://t.co/NRSWH4r25R pic.twitter.com/hQ0TJY1qjy
— Typlayed (@TyPlayed) September 10, 2019

The Pewdiepie reddit mods are claiming this is a 4chan psyop but they actually can't delete posts fast enough lmao pic.twitter.com/13gz2Cntqz
— anomie (@cyberautism) September 11, 2019

Our ruling oligarchs mass censorship is backfiring and their propaganda isn't taking.

I believe this is what the kids refer to as an "epic gamer moment"!

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