Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg or as the
world knows him, PewDiePie is in another storm of controversy. During
a live stream of the game Playerunknown Battlegrounds,
PewDiePie said a racial slur and then laughed after saying it. While
some gamers having been sticking up for him saying “He said it
in a gamer rage”, but that still doesn't make it right. Every
person who is reading this article has probably said something they
regretted in their life, but there are two major differences about
PewDiePie.
The Live Stream Incident NSFW: Language Warning
The first one is that PewDiePie is a
public figure. Being a public figure comes with the responsibility of
being a role model for your younger fans who may not know that word
is not proper. Kids tend to emulate who they look up to and we don't
need kids walking around using that word because their favorite
YouTube Star used it and thought it was funny. As a YouTube Creator
he should know the demographics of his viewers and at least be
semi-aware of some major world news events that are impacting his
viewers lives. Racial tension has been a major hot button topic
recently in the United States, especially with the events that
happened in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The other major thing is that this is
not PewDiePie's first brush with highly offensive material. This past
January, he posted a video with the message of “Death To All
Jews”. He said it was a joke saying that the site he hired the
actors from “would do anything for five dollars”. That
video caused PewDiePie to lose his deal with Disney. After his Death
To All Jews scandal, Neo-Nazi websites such as The Daily Stormer
proclaimed themselves as “PewDiePie's #1 Fan Site”. In the
past he had also posted a few other videos with Anti-Semitic messages
including one that depicted a man dressed as Jesus Christ saying,
“Hitler did absolutely nothing wrong”.
