For anyone who doesn't know Mr Kjellberg is Pewdiepie. He'd agreed to donate money to a charity. He was "advised" that the ADL would be a good choice, so he announced he'd donate to them not really knowing anything about them. After he made the announcement there was a huge uproar from his followers about the ADL - not limited to the fact that the ADL had at one point advocated against PewDiePie in the past.
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As a result, Kjellberg withdrew the offer to donate to the ADL, saying he should have picked a charity he knew more and was actually passionate about. He did donate to a different charity as well, and the ADL threw a decent fit over the whole thing iirc
In case someone doesn't know .. ADL, the Anti-Defamation League, is a NGO working against anti-Semitism. The American section is separate from the international organisation.
^ the organization has been linked to some very shady/aggressive behavior in the past, and is among the groups that have advocated for having pewdiepie's entire life destroyed because of an poorly made joke. They also advocated to have pepe and the ok hand symbol be classified as hate symbols iirc.
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People also attempted to pressure Kjellberg into donating to them in the first place, and continued trying to pressure him after he rescinded the offer by labelling him and his fanbase racist late-night extremists
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As a result, Kjellberg withdrew the offer to donate to the ADL, saying he should have picked a charity he knew more and was actually passionate about. He did donate to a different charity as well, and the ADL threw a decent fit over the whole thing iirc
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People also attempted to pressure Kjellberg into donating to them in the first place, and continued trying to pressure him after he rescinded the offer by labelling him and his fanbase racist late-night extremists