What? Pewdiepie was seeing what people would do at fiverr for five dollars. Most of the jokes were him being rejected. The joke is very clearly not at the expense of Jewish people any more than, say, Nazis doing stupid things in Indiana Jones movies is.
He did. See the other people on fiverr he got to do other, stupid things. You did actually watch the video, right?
> likely to be rejected by people who understand English
They understand English perfectly - their email replies discussing the task were about the same level of English as spoken on HN.
> Now middle school kids can chortle together on the playground, "haha, 'death to all jews', that sure was funny".
If a kid thinks that they've misunderstood the joke (and I'd support rating the video something like '15+ mature' or whatever youtube's equivalent is).
I don't like the video, mainly because it seems like Pewdiepie is exploiting poor people, but saying it's making antisemitic jokes is simply Vox being Vox.
He did all those other things and he still did 'death to all jews'. I'm saying he didn't need to do that one at all. If he did other things in the video it supports my position.
> If a kid thinks that they've misunderstood the joke
Yes, kids are by and large stupid.
The biggest real hit for PewDiePie was that Disney studios dropped him as affiliate. Disney does not feature '15+ mature', they children+parents friendly as a strategy.
The latest X men film, 'Logan' is R 18, as was the previous one. And Buena Vista have a bunch of dramas aimed at adults.