PewDiePie slams mainstream media for \u201cfake news\u201d about quitting YouTube Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg announced he would be taking a break from YouTube sometime in 2020 and made national headlines for the decision, slamming the mainstream media for their choice of headlines. On December 14, PewDiePie released a video saying that he was tired and will be taking a break from YouTube uploads in 2020. Currently, PewDiePie uploads a video a day so he\u2019s been a very busy man and he\u2019s taking a well-deserved break after breaking the 100 million subscriber threshold. In a video uploaded on December 17, the Swedish YouTuber took aim at how the media handled his break. The thing he took exception to the most was the fact that many stories said he outright quit YouTube, even though that isn\u2019t an accurate statement. Despite this, publications took the story and ran with it. \u201cFirst of all, we should look at what I said,\u201d he said before showing a clip from his video where he said he\u2019ll be away early next year. \u201cThat\u2019s it. That\u2019s all I said. Early next year I\u2019ll be away for a little while. I never said I\u2019m quitting.\u201d (Quote begins at 1:25) Later in the video, he even goes as far as labeling these reports as \u201cfake news\u201d due to their falsehoods. \u201cI don\u2019t wanna be all \u2018fake news,’\u201d he said. \u201cBut, it is. It is. I don\u2019t know what to tell you.\u201d (Quote begins at 2:58) On top of that criticism, he also took aim at stories bringing up his past incidents and linking them to his break. It\u2019s been a constant theme in mainstream coverage of PewDiePie and something he\u2019s always had an issue with, as mentioned in many of his previous videos. He showed several outlets do this in their articles and tweets during his video, including CNN and other mainstream sites. This rehashing of old issues goes directly counter to PewDiePie\u2019s wish to move on from these controversies, and does little to help his public perception. PewDiePie has definitely had his share of criticisms with the media and we can now add this to list. Perhaps this is one of the reasons he deleted his Twitter, just as a way to move more away from social media. As with many other creators, PewDiePie continues to struggle with the limelight and the public\u2019s perception, adding to the strain this new generation of entertainers feel on a daily basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PewDiePie slams mainstream media for \u201cfake news\u201d about quitting YouTube Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg announced he would be taking a break from YouTube sometime in 2020 and made national headlines for the decision, slamming the mainstream media for their choice of headlines. On December 14, PewDiePie released a video saying that he was tired and will […]<\/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-57543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57543","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=57543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}