PewDiePie is the top channel on YouTube, and is very likely to be the first channel on the video hosting site to pass 100 million subscribers. Despite his unprecedented success on YouTube, PewDiePie's career has been marked by a series of controversies, some of which have seen the popular YouTuber accused of promoting white supremacy. Now a petition has been made on the website Change.org by Maria Ruiz that calls for PewDiePie to be banned from YouTube on the grounds that his channel normalizes white supremacy.

The Change.org petition was first made a couple of weeks ago, but it has just started to get mainstream attention and as a consequence, has been generating a lot more signatures. The petition to ban PewDiePie has 76,480 signatures at the time of this writing, with more supporters added every few minutes.

The petition describes some of the PewDiePie controversies that have occurred over the years, and points to them as evidence of his supposed white supremacy. Examples listed include PewDiePie's use of racial slurs, as well as anti-Semitic and racist jokes that the YouTuber has made in the past. The petition doesn't appear to mention the most recent incident where PewDiePie was accused of anti-Semitism, which was when he accidentally promoted a channel with white supremacist content.

Now that the Change.org petition has started to get more attention, PewDiePie has created a video to respond to the accusations. In the video, PewDiePie points out how he has apologized for many of the incidents listed, and disputes some of the accusations as being false. "Just by glancing over the points that they made against me, it's so blatantly misrepresenting and misinforming people. A lot of these points are just flat-out lies as well," he said.

Regardless of one's feelings about PewDiePie, there's no denying the success of his channel. Despite the controversies, PewDiePie is on track to become the first YouTube channel in history to hit 100 million subscribers. And even when it seemed as though rival channel T-Series beat PewDiePie, he rallied back, putting a subscriber gap count of over 400,000 subscribers between himself and the Indian music video channel.

Due to his massive success, it's highly unlikely that YouTube would ever seriously consider banning him from the platform. So the petition is unlikely to actually enact any change, no matter how many people sign it.