PewDiePie hits back at accusations that he promoted a \u201cscam\u201d to fans PewDiePie, YouTube \/ NimsesYouTube king Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg is no stranger to scandal, following the controversial \u2018Subscribe to PewDiePie\u2019 meme amid his now-defunct battle with T-Series: but this time, the Swede is coming under fire for a completely different reason. Kjellberg addressed concerns over a mobile app that he\u2019d advertised in an episode of \u2018Pew News\u2019 on June 7, which introduces a markedly revolutionary concept of turning a user\u2019s time spent in the app into cryptocurrency. The application, named \u2018Nimses,\u2019 is an \u201cinsane concept\u201c to PewDiePie \u2013 but critics are finding the program a bit skeevy, and voiced their concerns on the Swede\u2019s subreddit. [Ad plays at beginning of video below.] PewDiePie came across these concerns during an episode of \u2018LWIAY\u2019 on June 9, where he fought back against claims that Nimses records user data outside of the app. \u201cThis is just demonstrably false,\u201d Kjellberg argued. \u201cApps can\u2019t do that, if you uninstall it. It\u2019s already spreading misinformation, just in the title. Literally every single social media tracks what Nimses does. It\u2019s a social media app.\u201d [Timestamp: 8:08 for mobile users] The YouTube king went on to berate his overly protective fans, who he felt were digging up \u201cfalse information\u201d in an attempt to clear up the situation \u2013 which ultimately made it seem like he was advertising a malicious program. \u201cEveryone seems so protective of me,\u201d PewDiePie continued. \u201cMy fans are like, \u2018Oh, we need to protect him from the media stuff,\u2019 but then you\u2019re spreading misinformation to make it look like I\u2019m promoting a scam. Obviously, that makes it look way worse.\u201d https:\/\/nimses.com\/en\/about\/However, PewDiePie\u2019s fanbase aren\u2019t the only netizens skeptical of the program: tech news site \u2018Kaspersky\u2019 claims that the Ukrainian-developed app \u201cisn\u2019t safe so far,\u201d noting that to earn more money in the program, users must give away their privacy piece by piece, uploading a profile picture and personal information to become \u201cvisible\u201d to other users. Kaspersky likewise claims that location tracking services must be enabled for Nimses to work \u2013 meaning that users must be willing to have their location tracked if they want to take part in the social media experiment. While the app has since fixed a number of the issues raised in Kaspersky\u2019s article, there is still an unsettling aura of unease around Nimses \u2013 a scandal that follows similar accusations surrounding PewDiePie\u2019s involvement with livestreaming platform DLive in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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