PewDiePie roasts Deji for controversial prank at Esports Awards Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg, the current king of YouTube, has shared his hilarious reaction to YouTuber Deji Olatjuni\u2019s controversial practical joke at the 2018 Esports Awards. Deji incited criticism for his reveal of the Awards\u2019 Esports Publisher of the Year, who he at first said was Epic Games. Deji owned up to his prank as a representative from Epic made his way to the stage, revealing Blizzard as the true winner of the category. \u201cNo I\u2019m joking, I\u2019m joking, it\u2019s a joke,\u201d he said. \u201cIt goes to Blizzard, well done Blizzard.\u201d Blizzard\u2019s representatives could then be seen heading to the stage, one of which shook his head at Deji\u2019s antics. PewDiePie put a hand over his face in apparent secondhand embarrassment, laughing at the crowd\u2019s ensuing cries of shock and disbelief during a \u2018Pew News\u2019 video on November 15. \u201cWhy would you do that, Deji?\u201d he asked through a laugh. \u201cWhy? \u2026they went up and everything! Stupid YouTubers, I love it.\u201d Of course, that wasn\u2019t the only prank Deji pulled at the Esports Awards; the YouTuber-turned-host also took shots at streaming platform Twitch for allowing (and even participating in) illegal streams of the KSI vs Logan Paul fight, of which he was a member. \u201cYo, shoutout to Twitch for illegally streaming our fight, you owe us money!\u201d Deji shouted. \u201cWoo!\u201d Man, I really pissed off the eSports community :joyful::joyful::joyful: \u2014 Deji (@Deji) November 13, 2018 In keeping with his bombastic personality, Deji called out those who taking issue with his hosting skills on Twitter, writing, \u201cMan, I really pissed off the eSports community.\u201d While Epic may not have procured Publisher of the Year, Fortnite streamer Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins ended up taking the prize for both Streamer of the year and Esports Personality of the Year, following up from his previous double-win at the Streamys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PewDiePie roasts Deji for controversial prank at Esports Awards Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg, the current king of YouTube, has shared his hilarious reaction to YouTuber Deji Olatjuni\u2019s controversial practical joke at the 2018 Esports Awards. Deji incited criticism for his reveal of the Awards\u2019 Esports Publisher of the Year, who he at first said was Epic […]<\/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-57146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57146","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=57146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}