PewDiePie responds to accusations of \u201ccashing in\u201d on VTuber trend YouTube: PewDiePieYouTube king Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg has finally responded to the outrage sparked by his recent VTuber switch, with many in the community accusing him of \u201cprofiting\u201d from a trend that dedicated indie creators have built up over the years. PewDiePie returned from his extended break with a surprising change: He\u2019s no longer showing his face, instead opting to become a \u2018VTuber\u2019 by using a stylized avatar in his place. VTubers (short for \u201cvirtual YouTubers\u201d) have been around for quite some time. Generally, these content creators use custom, anime-style avatars instead of showing their face online. A good number of VTubers have become wildly popular as a result, including the likes of Japan\u2019s Kizuna Ai and American VTuber Projekt Melody. It seems that PewDiePie\u2019s addition to the mix has not been well-received, though, with many in the VTuber fandom and even fellow VTubers themselves hitting out at the platform\u2019s most-subscribed independent creator for \u201chopping on a bandwagon.\u201d While this isn\u2019t the first time popular creators have been blasted for joining the hype (see the outrage against Pokimane\u2019s decision to do the same), PewDiePie instantly became the brunt of incredible ire from the community \u2014 and he\u2019s finally reacted to the hate. In a February 4 YouTube video, Kjellberg admitted that he is actually losing money over his decision to withhold his face from videos, rather than \u201ccashing in\u201d on the trend as some believe. \u201cWhere\u2019s the money?\u201d he laughed. \u201cWhere\u2019s the VTuber money I was promised? This is bullshit! If anything, I just pissed off brands, because I was supposed to do brand deals, and they were like, \u2018Well, you need to show your face.\u2019 If anything, I lose money for this.\u201d \u201cNo matter what, you\u2019re always going to have dumb people online,\u201d he continued. \u201cThis is the problem with the internet, in general \u2014 people throwing their opinions out there. Your opinion don\u2019t matter!\u201d Read More: Is TikTok\u2019s silhouette challenge dangerous? – That\u2019s not all; he even admitted that he didn\u2019t intend to become a VTuber full-time as many fans and critics believed, and had actually begun the whole charade as a joke (which explains why he hasn\u2019t gone all-out on an extremely detailed avatar). There\u2019s no telling how long PewDiePie will keep up his faceless videos, but it doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019s bothered by all the backlash coming his way, regardless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PewDiePie responds to accusations of \u201ccashing in\u201d on VTuber trend YouTube: PewDiePieYouTube king Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg has finally responded to the outrage sparked by his recent VTuber switch, with many in the community accusing him of \u201cprofiting\u201d from a trend that dedicated indie creators have built up over the years. PewDiePie returned from his extended […]<\/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-57446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57446","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=57446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}