#Pewdiepie obscurity 5 update#
#Pewdiepie obscurity 5 series#

Exiting the mosque, he allegedly shot another person on the pavement before driving the short distance to Linwood mosque where he allegedly continued his killing spree. On March 15, 2019, at approximately 1:40 PM local time, Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian gym trainer with no previous criminal history 1 who was active on extreme-right internet forums, entered the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he allegedly shot dead 42 people. What was unique about Tarrant’s attack-at least insofar as extreme-right terrorism is concerned-is that he livestreamed his atrocity on Facebook and in doing so, highlighted the Achilles heel of such platforms when faced with the viral dissemination of extremely violent content. There’s nothing to back up any of the claims.Editor’s note: This article includes a December 28, 2020, addendum with key new details from the December 2020 report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch attacks.Ībstract: In the space of 36 minutes on March 15, 2019, it is alleged that Brenton Tarrant, an Australian far-right extremist, fatally shot 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch in the deadliest terrorist attack in New Zealand’s history. Worst of all his channel is very much aimed toward children in their formative years.' Sure, Pewdiepie was once again able to brush off the allegations as defamatory and remarked how '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. Ruiz labeled his content a ‘white supremacist platform’, and wrote in her petition: 'PewDiePie has on many occasions proven once and again to promote and affiliate himself with white supremacist and Nazi ideologies. Taking all of the heavy stuff into account, it's no secret that Maria Ruiz petitioned to get him removed from YouTube back in September this year. I don’t know why anyone got it in their mind to do this, it’s stupid.' He even made a donation to the park saying 'glad it got fixed.' World War II memorial in New York vandalized by Pewdiepie's fans. Obviously it’s disgusting, obviously, I don’t condone it whatsoever.

Labeling the act 'disgusting', he said: 'I don’t think I’ve done anything to condone this sort of behavior.

Unfortunately, they took it a bit too far when the phrase ended up scrawled on a World War II memorial in New York City. When Pewdiepie was feuding with T-series over who has more subscribers on youtube, his loyal fans and followers started trending 'sub to PewDiePie’. It’s not that I think I can say or do whatever I want and get away with it, that’s not it at all, I’m just an idiot, but that doesn’t make what I said or how I said it OK.'ĥ. I’m disappointed in myself because it seems like I’ve learned nothing from all these past controversies. The Brighton based YouTuber later said in an apology: 'It was something I said in the heat of the moment, I said the worst word I could possibly think of, and it just sort of slipped out.

#Pewdiepie obscurity 5 series#

This controversy came shortly after he had attempted to distance himself from Nazism, following a lost brand deal with Disney and even his YouTube Red series canceled. Pewds was live-streaming himself playing Players Unknown Battlegrounds and had said 'What a f***ing n****r… sorry, but what the f***.' He paused right away and apologized, before laughing it off as he realized the blunder he had made. The biggest Pewdepie controversy that blew right up was when the vlogger uttered the n-word during a live stream. So it only makes sense that in the wake of this announced break, we take a look at the top 5 controversies Pewds has tactfully braved.

#Pewdiepie obscurity 5 update#

Sure, it took YouTube's latest update on family-friendly content for Pewds to announce the big decision, but things are especially shocking as the 30-year-old newly married Swedish vlogger has lived through controversies involving racial slurs and offensive memes that escalated way out of hand. Pewdiepie, real name Felix Kjellberg announced on his latest video that he indeed is choosing to stay away from putting out content as he is 'tired'. This is way less drama by Pewdiepie's standards because his kind of vlogging is no stranger to controversies. Add to that his charity live streams and the countless donations he has made over the course of his flourishing career, and there's no wonder why he is so widely adored. With over 100 million subscribers acquired over the last five years, everybody's beloved Pewds managed to rack up four billion views in 2019 alone - a feat acquired despite his battle with T-series making the headline towards the end of 2018. After years of reigning the video-blogging, or vlogging forum on YouTube for years, PewDiePie has finally announced he is taking a break.