Deji announces social media break after YouTubers vs TikTokers loss to Vinnie Hacker YouTube: DejiYouTuber Deji has announced he\u2019s going to be taking a break from social media to work on himself, following his loss to TikToker Vinnie Hacker at the Battle of the Platforms fight event. Viewers couldn\u2019t take their eyes off the action on June 12 when a series of popular YouTubers and TikTokers stepped into the ring to find out once and for all who the better platform is. With the fights including Tayler Holder vs. Gib, and Austin McBroom vs. Bryce Hall, social media was in a frenzy, and there were plenty of wild and often unpredictable moments that made the night one to remember. In a shock result, TikToker Vinnie Hacker took the win over YouTuber Deji, which turned out to be the only win for the TikTok side. Here’s the post match interview with Vinnie Hacker pic.twitter.com\/cVGhfd7meY \u2014 Dexerto (@Dexerto) June 13, 2021 Since the fight, Deji has referred to himself as a \u201cfailure\u201d on social media, with fellow competitors and other influencers, including older brother KSI, flocking to the tweet to send kind words to the YouTuber. No you\u2019re not deji. You got in that ring. That\u2019s more than what many could ever do. Ultimately you\u2019re an entertaining YouTuber, boxing or not. So don\u2019t worry about this for real. \u2764\ufe0f bro \u2014 ksi (@KSI) June 13, 2021 On June 13, he uploaded a short video to his YouTube channel in which he addressed the fight from the previous night. \u201cI don\u2019t want to talk too much because actions speak louder than words, and I know what I need to do,\u201d he told viewers. \u201cI\u2019m gonna be taking a break from social media, and I\u2019m just gonna be working on myself because that\u2019s what I need to do.\u201d Expanding on the reason for the break, he explained that: \u201cI need to work on my cardio, I need to work on just myself as a whole, because I do wanna box again.\u201d He also went on to reassure those who are concerned about him. \u201cDon\u2019t worry about me,\u201d he said, \u201cI am all good, as you can see I\u2019m all cheerful, I\u2019m happy, this isn\u2019t a facade. I\u2019m living life, alright. I needed this. This is something that\u2019s just gonna ultimately help me in the future.\u201d \u201cI will be off social media for a while, and I just wanna say thank you for all those who supported me, all your nice words. All the people at the event, all the people on the internet, you guys are lovely, honestly.\u201d It\u2019s not clear how long Deji will be gone from social media, but with his plans to improve on his boxing skills even further, fans will no doubt be excited to see him step into the ring again at some point. You can see the full results of the Battle of the Platforms here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Deji announces social media break after YouTubers vs TikTokers loss to Vinnie Hacker YouTube: DejiYouTuber Deji has announced he\u2019s going to be taking a break from social media to work on himself, following his loss to TikToker Vinnie Hacker at the Battle of the Platforms fight event. Viewers couldn\u2019t take their eyes off the action […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}