YouTube star PewDiePie has been videoed shouting a racial slur throughout one of his gaming live streams.
While broadcasting on-line, the Swedish streamer – whose real name is Felix Kjellberg – said "n*****" as AN insult in response to one thing that happened inside the game.
Seconds later, he looked as if it would realize what he had same, apologizing and claiming that "I do not mean that in a very bad way".
Some developers have already known as the comments a step too way and asked that their peers stop supporting PewDiePie. The maker of the massively popular Firewatch aforesaid that it might be filing a copyright request to take down Mr. Kjellberg's streams of his game, and urged others to try and do the same.
"He's worse than a closeted racist: he is a propagator of despicable garbage that will really damage to the culture around this trade," wrote Sean Vanaman on Twitter. He said that he hoped he and different developers could "cut him removed from the content that has created him a millionaire".
It is far away from the first time that the YouTube star – WHO is that the highest-earning and most well-liked person on the site – has been suspected of racism. Earlier this year, he was suspect of using Nazi and anti-Semitic imaging and slurs in his videos, as well as one that saw him pay people to hold up a sign reading "death to all or any Jews".
In the wake of the right rallies in Charlottesville and elsewhere last month, Mr. Kjellberg said that he would be toning down that kind of humour within the future.
"I'm just a guy making jokes on the internet," he said in real time within the wake of the criticism of his Nazi comments. "Believe it or not, I would like nothing to try and do with these people. I even have no hate in my heart and that I only have hate for hateful people.
"I keep in mind back once everything happened in February, I used to be sort of like, 'I mean they are simply jokes, there is not actual Nazis out there, what area unit you talking about?'"
This year, he was conjointly kicked off Twitter for having joked about Isis. He wrote that he was a connection the group and later same that he had done so as a joke.
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