PewDiePie explains why online cancel culture is \u201cridiculous\u201d YouTube: PewDiePie[jwplayer h3XPfMqQ]During his July 2 upload, YouTube king Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg weighed in on the \u2018cancel culture\u2019 debate. The Swedish star explained how canceling someone can sometimes be \u201cridiculous\u201d and dangerous. For many, PewDiePie has been the face of online entertainment over the last decade. The Swedish personality has over 105 million subscribers on YouTube, and is one of the most watched channels on the platform. While most know him for his gaming and reaction content, the star sometimes tackles current events. During his latest video, he opened up about his views on cancel culture, and explained how it can be problematic. PewDiePie on the nature of cancel culture For his latest upload, the YouTuber reacted to a group having a debate about cancel culture. While watching the conversation, the Swedish personality gave his own take on personalities such as Jenna Marbles being canceled for older content she made years ago. \u201cWith Jenna, that was actually nine or ten years ago. To me, that changes things a lot, especially if I know that person has grown out of that. That doesn\u2019t make it okay, what they did, but at the same time I don\u2019t see a reason to drag them through the dirt because of it,\u201d he said. The Swede brought up the James Charles drama from 2019 to demonstrate how canceling someone can become problematic. \u201cRemember when James Charles was canceled, and the entire world was so sure that he was a predator? The amount of people that spread that message around, causing him to almost be suicidal. Did we learn anything from that? \u2026 This is just ridiculous.\u201d He then followed that up by stating that nothing has changed since the makeup mogul had been attacked without evidence. \u201cNo one learned anything. If anything this is worse now. Did we learn that maybe we shouldn\u2019t point fingers before we know the truth? No. Those days are over,\u201d he said. Pewds also said that while he believed cancel culture started out with good intentions, no one is held accountable when they get it wrong. \u201cThat\u2019s the problem. No one holds the people who are a part of the hate mob accountable. I think the James Charles thing is such a good example,\u201d he continued, before revealing how being canceled himself has impacted him. \u201cI have definitely become so much more aware of not just what I say, but how what I say can be perceived. Because it\u2019s not just what you meant. It\u2019s if you can take a portion of what you said, and it seems like something else. That\u2019s enough. That\u2019s how careful you have to be,\u201d he said. (Topic starts at 3:33.) While the content creator was critical of cancel culture, he went out of his way to give a balanced take on the subject. The star said it was a good thing for us to be able \u201cdraw a line\u201d at what is no longer acceptable today. Despite PewDiePie tackling the current issue, the 30-year old joked that he\u2019s become \u201ctoo old\u201d to dive into YouTube drama, and has told his viewers that he has no plans to bring back his PewNews segment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PewDiePie explains why online cancel culture is \u201cridiculous\u201d YouTube: PewDiePie[jwplayer h3XPfMqQ]During his July 2 upload, YouTube king Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg weighed in on the \u2018cancel culture\u2019 debate. The Swedish star explained how canceling someone can sometimes be \u201cridiculous\u201d and dangerous. For many, PewDiePie has been the face of online entertainment over the last decade. The […]<\/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-57291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57291","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=57291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}