KSI apologizes for racial slur in Sidemen video & announces social media break YouTube: JJ OlatunjiKSI has apologized after using a racial slur in a recent Sidemen video, with the content creator also confirming he will be taking a break from social media as a result of the recent incident. In a recent Sidemen video, KSI faced major backlash after the content creator said a racial slur during the video. After the incident, fans of KSI and Sidemen took to social media to express their disgust at the moment, calling KSI out and compelling him to apologize for the moment. Umir, who is a football writer and content creator for the likes of GQ Magazine, posted about their dissatisfaction and disappointment at KSI and the Sidemen team for the incident. \u201cBeen a KSI fan for the longest but so weird for him to say \u2018p*ki\u2019 in the latest Sidemen vid even if they bleeped it & it was \u2018in jest\u2019 for content. Other racial slurs wouldn\u2019t be used as punchlines for YouTube gameshows. Just makes light of the word + certain people\u2019s experience.\u201d Umir goes on to add the \u201cfact the Sidemen team didn\u2019t edit it out suggests they were fine with it in which is so mad to me. They didn\u2019t think the use of the word for cheap laughs was an issue\u2026That minimises the topic\u2019s significance. Racial abuse toward Asians is taken less seriously, more of the time.\u201d In light of this backlash, KSI has posted an apology on Twitter, with the content creator then revealing his plans to take a step away from social media for a while. KSI apologizes for racial slur and announces social media break \u201cI wanna apologise for saying a racial slur in a recent Sidemen video. There\u2019s no excuse, no matter the circumstances, I shouldn\u2019t have said it and I\u2019m sorry\u2026I\u2019ve always said to my audience that they shouldn\u2019t worship me or put me on a pedestal because I\u2019m human. Im not perfect, I\u2019m gonna mess up in life, and lately I\u2019ve been messing up a lot.\u201d KSI then added, \u201cso I\u2019ve decided I\u2019m gonna just take a break from social media for a while.\u201d He has not confirmed how long this break from social media will be and what platforms he will be stepping away from. However, we\u2019ll be sure to keep you updated on the situation and if he reveals when he plans on coming back to Twitter. For all the latest entertainment news and updates, be sure to check out Dexerto\u2019s full coverage here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KSI apologizes for racial slur in Sidemen video & announces social media break YouTube: JJ OlatunjiKSI has apologized after using a racial slur in a recent Sidemen video, with the content creator also confirming he will be taking a break from social media as a result of the recent incident. In a recent Sidemen video, […]<\/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-53015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53015","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=53015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}