PewDiePie explains why he avoids politics in YouTube videos Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg has more than 100 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, no doubt spanning the political and cultural spectrum, but has explained that politics doesn\u2019t play a big part in his content because he simply isn\u2019t that interested. Although he has been caught up in controversy, largely due to the size of his audience which means that almost anything he says in a video is under intense scrutiny, he has remained fairly impartial when it comes to political comments. In an interview with the New York Times, Kjellberg has shared some insight as to why this is, explaining that there\u2019s not a politician in the world that \u2018excites him\u2019. PewDiePie \u2018not interested\u2019 in politics \u201cAre there any politicians who excite you?\u201d, NYT\u2019s Kevin Roose asked. \u201cNo\u201d Pewds replied, \u201cI couldn\u2019t name one, no.\u201d As Roose observed, there was nothing but trouble to be gained from Kjellberg engaging in politics, and instead \u201cinsists he\u2019s not interested at all\u201c \u2013 unless it makes for good comedy. PewDiePie explained that he used to discuss US President, from an entertainment standpoint, because he \u201cbecame a meme for a while\u201d, but because it \u201cstopped being funny\u201d he moved on. PewDiePie with his diamon play button. Of course, this apathy towards politics hasn\u2019t prevented the Swede from being dragged into political debates, however unwillingly. Most infamously, the New Zealand mosque shooter proclaimed \u2018Subscribe to PewDiePie\u2019 during his horrific livestream, which prompted Kjellberg to end the \u2018Sub 2 PewDiePie\u2019 movement prematurely. He described this as a major turning point in his life, and Roose said he looked \u201cgenuinely pained\u201d when asked about it again. He also said that he had toyed with the idea of deleting his channel, but never as a serious consideration. He also voiced that he disagrees with Brexit during a livestream, amid revealing that he was leaving the UK to live in Japan. Pew News was one of the YouTuber\u2019s most popular series. The YouTuber also recently discontinued his incredibly popular \u2018Pew News\u2019 series, where he would discuss a handful of trending stories from that week on the internet. Part of his reasoning for this, was to avoid his own involvement in these dramas, stating that none of it really mattered at all anyway, in the grand scheme of things. His transition into much safer, but no less entertaining content, with his focus on Minecraft and gaming videos, has been fruitful for his channel\u2019s growth too, pushing him over the 100 million subs mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PewDiePie explains why he avoids politics in YouTube videos Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg has more than 100 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, no doubt spanning the political and cultural spectrum, but has explained that politics doesn\u2019t play a big part in his content because he simply isn\u2019t that interested. Although he has been caught up […]<\/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-57130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57130","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=57130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}