KSI hits out at critics trying to cancel him as transphobia accusations resurface YouTube: JJ OlatunjiPopular YouTuber Olajide \u2018KSI\u2019 Olatunji has hit out at critics trying to cancel him again as accusations of transphobia have resurfaced. Earlier in March 2021, the YouTube star was accused of transphobia due to his use of transphobic slurs in his Twitter posts. At the time, he apologized for his ignorance, not realizing that the word he used was a slur and that he wasn\u2019t to say it, explaining that he \u201cdidn\u2019t even know it was a bad word.\u201d Now, about a month later, it appears the comments are building up again, and KSI has addressed people trying to \u201ccancel\u201d him over the ordeal. My bad for saying transgender slurs. Honestly didn\u2019t even know they were slurs. I know now though \u2014 ksi (@KSI) March 9, 2021 In his April 15 YouTube upload, KSI spoke out about it once again, clearly not impressed with the issue cropping up for a second time. \u201cI don\u2019t understand,\u201d he explained. \u201cMe saying that word\u2026 I\u2019m transphobic? Why would that benefit my life? I just don\u2019t understand why. Why would I do that?\u201d He continued: \u201cThe thing is with Twitter, once they get a hold of a narrative, they just will never let that go. \u2018Yep, this is him, and he will never change. No, it\u2019s what I think he is! So deal with it!\u2019 Shut up\u2026 F**king idiots.\u201d Timestamp 8:50 Laughing at some memes surrounding the situation posted on Reddit by his fans, KSI does seem to have moved on from the matter, even if some of his harsher critics online haven\u2019t. The ordeal has been going for over a month at this point, but it might not be ending any time soon if previous online discourse is anything to go by. At the start of April 2021, KSI quit Twitter, saying that the platform is \u201cfull of pretentious people that are ready to cancel & destroy your legacy for breathing incorrectly.\u201d He returned a week later, saying he\u2019ll \u201cuse it from time to time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KSI hits out at critics trying to cancel him as transphobia accusations resurface YouTube: JJ OlatunjiPopular YouTuber Olajide \u2018KSI\u2019 Olatunji has hit out at critics trying to cancel him again as accusations of transphobia have resurfaced. Earlier in March 2021, the YouTube star was accused of transphobia due to his use of transphobic slurs in […]<\/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-53173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53173","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=53173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}