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Google and Disney are ending business relationships with YouTube superstar Felix Shelburne better known as PewDiePie after he posted multiple videos that featured anti-semitism and Nazi imagery on his YouTube channel the 27 year old Swedish born video star has YouTube's most subscribed channel with 53 million subscribers in a video from January 11th he paid two men to hold up an anti-semitic sign in another video he paid a man to dress like Jesus and talk in support of Hitler The Wall Street Journal found 9 videos that included such anti-semitic jokes and Nazi imagery the YouTube star had a business partnership with Disney's maker studios and when the journal reached Disney for comment the company said it was severing ties with shell Berg and a spokeswoman said quote although felix has created a following by being provocative and irreverent he clearly went too far in this case and the resulting videos are inappropriate after the videos gained widespread attention YouTube cancelled the second season of pewdiepies reality show and pulled his channel from its premium ad revenue program his channel will still be making money from traditional YouTube display ads in these controversial videos shel Berg did not outright endorse anti-semitic ideas he has since insisted he does not support any kind of hateful attitudes and that he was doing it to highlight the absurdity of services like Fiverr where you could pay someone five bucks to say anything PewDiePie became popular for making videos of himself playing video games and he's known for crude humor he reportedly earned about 14.5 million dollars last year from his videos for more on the story as it develops head to cnet.com