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YouTuber Youtuber with the most subs in the world called out other content creators for “ruining Japan” in a video posted on Thursday.
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Youtuber with the most subs in the worldwhose real name is Felix Kjellberg – and has 111 million subscribers on the platform – described other YouTubers as “nasty” in his video.
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While the Swedish content creator didn’t mention names, clips from the Somali-American creator Johnny Somali and Cypriot creator Fifi “Fidias” Panayiotou were featured in his video.
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Youtuber with the most subs in the world moved to Japan with his wife Marzia in May 2022 and welcomed your son Björn on July 11, 2023.
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Trending on NextShark: PewDiePie calls out ‘nasty’ YouTubers for ‘ruining Japan’
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JohnnySomali, whose real name is Ismael Ramsey Khalid, rose to infamy in May 2023, through provocative videos filmed in Tokyo. He was arrested in September for invasion and loaded with “forcible obstruction of business” due to a separate incident at a gyudon chain in Osaka.
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Fidias, on the other hand, generated outrage for fare evasion while participating in a $10,000 video race in October.
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PewDiePie, who already faced several accusations of racism and anti-Semitism, linked the rise of “annoying style YouTubers” to Logan Paulo 2017 incident in the Aokigahara Forest in Japan, also known as the “Suicide Forest”.
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In addition to foreign YouTubers, PewDiePie highlighted similar behavior from local content creators, including a group who put a bed in the middle of crossing Shibuya in Tokyo in 2019 and the “sushi terrorism” phenomenon.
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“It’s really frustrating, because for a lot of people Japan is an escape from this bad behavior that often happens in public. Japan is generally seen as more polite and therefore people want to protect that,” he said.
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Khalid, who is currently in Israelresponded to PewDiePie’s video in a X wire, calling the Swedish YouTuber a “hypocrite,” threatening him with a lawsuit and accusing him of racism and anti-Semitism. “See you in court FELIX,” he noted.
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Khalid also said that he has not been banned from Japan and that he “can and will return in the future.”
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