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This week started with controversial PewDiePie news—and that’s how it’s going to end, too. The YouTube megastar, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, posted a response video today addressing The Wall Street Journal’s report about alleged anti-Semitic comments. Those comments cost him both a lucrative contract with Disney and his deal with YouTube Red.

In his response, Kjellberg apologized for jokes that “went too far” and acknowledged that he offended people. But he also claimed that “old-school media” (in this case the Journal) attacked him personally for being a YouTube personality who makes a substantial living off the online video platform.

Let’s recap the controversy: The Wall Street Journal produced a video and an article earlier this week about PewDiePie’s alleged anti-Semitism, citing clips from recent videos in which he is shown watching a Hitler speech, making a Hitler salute, and paying two men to hold up a sign saying “Death to all Jews.” After fielding an inquiry from the Journal about the videos, Disney cut ties with PewDiePie, who had been running the Disney YouTube network, Revelmode. Shortly thereafter, YouTube announced it was canceling PewDiePie’s YouTube Red show, Scare PewDiePie, and it removed the YouTube star from its Google Preferred ad network.