Splitsider reports Adult Swim has canceled Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace, a sketch show with purported ties to the alt-right. Adult Swim confirmed the cancellation with Splitsider, but hasn’t issued a press release with any more information about the matter. This news comes less than a month after a BuzzFeed article indicated the show and one of its creators, Sam Hyde, were generating content that “winks at Hyde’s alt-right fans.” BuzzFeed cites an introductory crawl for the show that reads in part “World Peace will unlock your closeted bigoted imagination, toss your inherent racism into the burning trash, and cleanse your intolerant spirit with pure unapologetic American funny_com,” and ends with something about the CIA and Mossad.
BuzzFeed also reported that, according to multiple anonymous sources at the network, many of Adult Swim’s other creators were opposed to Million Dollar Extreme from the beginning. Hyde swears he’s just making edgy comedy, but he’s also sharing videos about a Hillary Clinton-related, pizza-adjacent conspiracy, so it’s a truly peculiar strain if that’s the case. Adult Swim execs remained mostly mum about the series even after Brett Gelman cited it as one of the reasons he was leaving the network. Someone claiming to be Kim Manning, the senior director of programming, posted online that most of their shows leaned left, so Million Dollar Extreme had been the subject of “HOT, HOT debate” at the network.