PewDiePie apologises for racial slur: 'I'm just an idiot'
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#31XT8)
Felix Kjellberg, the highest-paid YouTuber in 2016, says he learned nothing from previous racist controversies and that 'there are no excuses for it'
YouTube star PewDiePie has apologised for using a racial slur during a livestream, saying that he is "disappointed in himself".
In a short video posted to his YouTube account , the vlogger - real name Felix Kjellberg, the highest-paid YouTuber in 2016 - said he was "not going to make any excuses" as to why he said the n-word in the middle of a game of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, "because there are no excuses for it."
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