PewDiePie promises no more offensive jokes on his Youtube videos
Web-based comedian and video producer, Felix Arvid Kjellberg, more popularly known as PewDiePie, recently released a new video on his channel regarding the new advertisement policy of Youtube.
PewDiePie is still currently earning the most popular channel with the highest number of subscribers. But with the website's new rules and regulations, he now promises to remove the offensive part of his non-gaming videos.
PewDiePie has been the center of criticism these past few months because of his satirical videos that deemed inappropriate by many viewers. According to Polygon, one of the comedian's controversial non-gaming videos where he used the word 'nigga' gained a worldwide negative feedback with #PewdiepieIsOverParty even trended on Twitter. Another video he uploaded was one where he displayed the message "death to all Jews" as a joke which resulted to even bigger worldwide criticism with some accusing him of being Anti-Semitic.
PewDiePie later apologized for the video and mentioned that he meant to portray it as a meme rather than a serious cultural issue. Other Youtube personalities and fans came to his defense, however, the issue had resulted for Disney's Maker Studios, one of the comedian's advertising outlet, to drop him from their network because of his controversial anti-Semitism issue. He later confirmed that a number of his other advertising partners have also cut ties from him.
It was also reported that more than three of PewDiePie's Youtube videos have already been demonetized by the website as of now. This resulted for him to have lesser income compared to how much he had been making on his first few years. According to him, the only way to keep up with the new advertising policy released by Youtube is to recreate his content into a friendlier, non-offensive videos. He mentioned on his newly-released video that there will be no more swearing and no more sexual jokes and Hitler jokes.
PewDiePie recently announced that he was moving to livestream platform, Twitch, for his weekly show. This has made his fans question him if he was leaving YouTube. Twitch has its own rules and policies but it has been reported that the website provides more freedom of expression for the comedian.
