Video star PewDiePie said in a bizarre rant that he believes YouTube is sabotaging his channel. The Swedish YouTuber also said that he will going to delete his YouTube account because Google’s video service has been penalizing him in some way, leading to a dip in popularity. In a second video, he reiterated a threat that he would leave the site where he is the biggest personality.
He pointed to his race as well as the kinds of games that he uses in his videos as possible reasons for the conspiracy against him. PewDiePie’s real name is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, a 27-year-old Swede whose crazy antics and big reactions to games made him into a celebrity on YouTube, with tens of millions of followers. He’s influential because his promotion of games can make or break many titles.
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