Article 31SRD PewDiePie: YouTube megastar's N-word outburst sparks developer backlash

PewDiePie: YouTube megastar's N-word outburst sparks developer backlash

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Games developer Campo Santo files copyright takedown requests against Felix Kjellberg after racist comment, and urges others to follow suit

YouTube's best-paid star Felix Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie, has yet again used a racial slur on the video-sharing site.

The 27-year-old video blogger called an opponent a "fucking nigger" while live-streaming playing the online game Playerunknown Battlegrounds, before correcting himself to "fucking asshole", adding: "I didn't mean it in a bad way."

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