PewDiePie responds to allegations of being transphobic YouTube king Felix \u201cPewDiePie\u201d Kjellberg has responded to accusations of transphobia after critics took issue with comments he made in a Dr. Phil reaction video. Although Kjellberg stands as YouTube\u2019s most subscribed content creator, the massive spotlight shining on his channel doesn\u2019t always bode well for potential scandals, as the Swede has discovered yet again. On November 15, PewDiePie uploaded one of his regular Dr. Phil reaction videos, in whichhe commentates on the proceedings of past episodes. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YnPs3rsOnNc&t=116s During this episode, PewDiePie used male pronouns when referring to a young person who filmed themselves gargling mouthwash in a Wal-Mart and dubbed them \u201cJeffree Star\u2019s rejected son,\u201d referring to the iconic makeup mogul of YouTube fame. However, critics were quick to note that the shopper in question is a transgender woman by the name of Bameron Nicole Smith, and took to Twitter to accuse the YouTuber of blatant transphobia. https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaneelLal7\/status\/1195812654842966016?s=20 https:\/\/twitter.com\/loveIyongs\/status\/1196374834424401921?s=20 https:\/\/twitter.com\/CornyOnTheTele\/status\/1196142323299737601?s=20 PewDiePie has since responded to the accusations in a video uploaded on November 20, claiming that he didn\u2019t hear anyone address Smith by male pronouns and had even researched the gender of her first name, Bameron. \u201cHonestly, I didn\u2019t even think about it, because she had a masculine name,\u201d PewDiePie argued. \u201cI looked it up. Bameron is a boy\u2019s name. \u2026she wasn\u2019t mentioned as a \u2018she\u2019 anywhere by anyone in the video, so it\u2019s not that weird.\u201d The YouTuber went on to deny that he was transphobic and even denounced such behavior, encouraging his viewers to refrain from misgendering others. \u201cI actually support LGBT,\u201d he continued. \u201cI could have been more careful, but I would never purposefully misgender someone as a way to antagonize or troll. I wouldn\u2019t do that. Same with sexuality. That\u2019s not okay, you shouldn\u2019t do it either. I wouldn\u2019t do it.\u201d (Timestamp: 11:50 for mobile viewers) While Smith has yet to respond to PewDiePie\u2019s latest video, she uploaded a video reacting to his initial comments on November 19, calling out his use of male pronouns in reference to her during his commentary. \u201cI know you\u2019re not out here with 100 million, however many plus subscribers you have, with your eight thousand scandals, misgendering trans people,\u201d Smith said of the issue. \u201cHow are you out here doing that? You obviously saw that I present feminine. There\u2019s no ifs, ands, or buts about it.\u201d https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uz4wTlyLE_s&feature=youtu.be This debacle marks the latest of PewDiePie\u2019s scandals, leaving the YouTuber to address online outrage once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PewDiePie responds to allegations of being transphobic YouTube king Felix \u201cPewDiePie\u201d Kjellberg has responded to accusations of transphobia after critics took issue with comments he made in a Dr. Phil reaction video. Although Kjellberg stands as YouTube\u2019s most subscribed content creator, the massive spotlight shining on his channel doesn\u2019t always bode well for potential scandals, […]<\/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-57448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57448","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=57448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}