Draft:E;R (YouTuber)

E;R
Personal information
Nationality	American
Occupation	YouTuber
YouTube information
Channel	Esemicolonr
Years active	2015 – Present
Genre(s)	Video Essay, Comedy
Subscribers	377,000 (August 13, 2024)
Total views	56.8 million (August 13, 2024)
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers

E;R is an Alt-Right American YouTuber known for his video essays on film and television. He is described as a Neo-Nazi by news publications for his content, which makes frequent use of Anti-Semitic, racist, sexist, ableist and homophobic slurs and rhetoric.

Career

E;R created his YouTube channel in 2015, with his first video in a four part series entitled "The Legend of Whorra" criticizing the animated children's program The Legend of Korra. E;R has produced videos on television programs and movies such as Steven Universe, and the 2017 live-action remake of Death Note. In 2017, E;R uploaded "Get;Out: A Review for Non-Racists", in which he reviewed the horror comedy film Get Out. The review decried director Jordan Peele's "race-mixing" and included racist caricatures of black people. The review was later taken down for violating YouTube's policy on Hate speech, which E;R claimed was "hateful" in itself.

On a video uploaded on December 9, 2018, YouTuber PewDiePie included E;R as part of a list of channels he recommended to his audience, saying "We also have E;R, who does great video essays... he did one on Death Note, which I really, really enjoyed..." and linked the channel in the video description. E;R thanked Kjellberg for the promotion on Twitter, writing "Subscribe to @pewdiepie for baste and redpilled content. (T-thanks, senpai. ?)" Shortly thereafter, online outlets noted that E;R's content was filled with bigoted rhetoric, with the video description of E;R's Death Note video stating "The truth about why this took so long is because I thought it was so funny to call Black L “Niglet” throughout all my recordings (obviously because it’s an ingenious pun on Lawliet [pronounced Law-let])...", but decided not to since YouTube would be "looking for A N Y reason [to take the video down], so I redid all the audio to erase my speech crime." The video also included a joking reference to the murder of Heather Heyer, and promoted the Alt-Right conspiracy theory that Heyer had actually died of a heart attack. It was also noted that E;R operated accounts on Gab and Bitchute, websites known for their heavy Alt-Right userbase. On Gab, responding to a user who asked him "What's the best way to redpill people on the (((Jewish Question)))?", E;R responded: "Pretend to joke about it until the punchline /really/ lands. I would assume."

E;R's channel gained 35,000 subscribers after PewDiePie's promotion, although upon receiving criticism PewDiePie removed the recommendation to E;R's channel. In a video discussing the shoutout, Kjellberg wrote "I thought it would be nice if I gave a shout-out to some smaller channels that I enjoy. […] Now apparently one of those 28 likes to have hidden and not-so-hidden Nazi references in his videos. You know, obviously if I noticed that, I wouldn’t have referenced him in the shout-out..."

E;R is a frequent guest on the podcast hosted by YouTubers Mauler, Rags and Fringy entitled Every Frame a Pause. He first appeared as a guest on an episode where they discussed a breakdown of Avengers: Endgame.

Content

E;R's content revolves around reviewing animated television shows and films, with White Supremacist messaging included throughout. In a video from June 11, 2016, E;R uploaded a video in which footage from Steven Universe precedes a slideshow of headshots of Jewish corporate media and social media company executives and a Anti-Semitic "echoes" meme. The video also added a graph that stated "2% of the world’s population controls 96% of the world’s media", referencing Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish Global control. The video included text reading "Cut the (((Gems)))", (a reference to the Anti-Semitic three parentheses and wordplay on "Kill the (((Jews)))) and ended with a play on the Anti-Semitic slogan known as the Fourteen Words, reading "We must secure our existence and a future for human children." The video's comment section was filled with praise for Hitler and Nazism, and was later taken down for violating YouTube's community guidelines.

E;R's video on Steven Universe, titled "Steven Rapeyverse, or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love to Fuse", featured an unedited four minute speech by Adolf Hitler, and referred to the show's creator Rebecca Sugar as "a Jew." This rhetoric was denounced as Anti-Semitic Nazi Propaganda by Vox, Newsweek and the Verge. Vox specifically has described E;R as using "the guise of film, anime, or cartoon criticism to convey anti-Semitic and hateful thoughts or imagery."

Left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker criticized PewDiePie for promoting E;R, citing the Gab post as proof of E;R being a Neo-Nazi, writing: "[E;R is] straight up a neo-nazi... [who] makes video essays on children's cartoons with added nazi propoganda."

External Links

E;R's Channel on YouTube