The most subscribed to channel on YouTube — by far — belongs to a rather strange young Swede named Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie. Kjellberg has over 60 million subscribers, whom he refers to, alas, as the ‘Bro Army’. Most of his videos consist largely of him sniggering, putting on silly voices and making comments about other YouTubers. He is, of course, absolutely brilliant. For older readers, just imagine if Clive James on Television had been scripted by the Monty Python team, with the production values of Spike Milligan’s Q…
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Outside the PewDiePie cult, he’s more famous for his casual racism. When a clip of him using the N-word appeared last year many thought it should be all over for him. But then he’d already survived accusations of anti-Semitism the year before — he’d paid people to hold up a sign saying ‘death to all Jews’.
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