YouTube star PewDiePie recently came under fire for using the n-word during one of his broadcasts. The 27-year-old whose real name is Felix Kjellberg was in the middle of a live stream playing a video game when he blurted out the word. Since then, he has said “I didn’t mean that in a bad way,” but went on to fully explain himself via an apology that he issued on YouTube. Kjellberg went on to say “You probably won’t believe me when I say this, but whenever I go online and hear other players use the same kind of language that I did, I always find it extremely immature and stupid, and I hate how I now personally fed into that part of gaming.”
He also said his comments should be viewed as “something that I said in the heat of the moment,” and “the worst word that I could possibly think of.” He concluded by saying “it sort of slipped out.” Because of the word that “slipped,” Kjellberg lost a partnership deal with Disney. Eventually, in the video, the personality went on to shift the blame for his words on the media, saying that they misrepresented what happened in the first place.
Watch the initial video and his response in the gallery above.
Source: nme.com
