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PewDiePie panders to the "alt-right":

https://www.vox.com/2018/12/13/18136253/pewdiepie-vs-tseries...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/10/18134748/pewdiepie-er-pe...

https://www.thisisinsider.com/pewdiepie-response-nazi-youtub...

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Why is this comment being downvoted?

Look at PewDiePie’s twitter followers. Many are white nationalists.

such as?

Are you playing dumb or are willfully ignorant? His follows are public information.

Stefan Molynux and L. Southern, for two among others.

Neither of whom is white nationalist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux#Alt-right, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux#White_genocide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Southern#%22White_genoc...

> Many are white nationalists.

He has ~17 million followers — what is your methodology in determining with such precision the demographic profile of his followers?

I agree with the parent post's assessment, but only using personal experience and relativity (i.e. even a minority of pro-white-nationalism followers may be many multiples the percentage of white nationalist followers for other public figures).

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