Vlogger PewDiePie has suggested that YouTube is sabotaging his channel because he is white.
The Swedish YouTuber has said that he is going to delete his account because the video site has been penalising him. That apparent conspiracy has led to his popularity falling, he said in a video where he ranted against the site.
And the problem might be that he is white, he said in the same rant. Laying out the possible reasons that YouTube is supposedly looking to undermine him, he pointed to his race as well as the kinds of titles he uses on his videos.
“I’m white,” he said in the video. “Can I make that comment? But I do think that’s a problem.”
He made the suggestion after claiming that YouTube wanted to put someone else on the top of the site, “someone extremely cancerous”. That might be Lily Singh, a Canadian YouTuber with Indian heritage, he suggested.
PewDiePie is by most measures the most popular of all of the YouTube stars. But he says that he is being penalised and that popularity is on the wane.
He said that he would remove his account once he reached 50 million subscribers. At that point he would remove his channel – though it isn’t clear whether he would start a new one or leave the site entirely.
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PewDiePie says YouTube is 'killing' his channel because he is white, and so he will delete his account | The Independent