PewDiePie under fire after “mocking” a deaf TikToker
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PewDiePie, the famous YouTuber has come on the radar of netizens for making fun of a deaf tiktoker recently. As PewDiePie made his video by adding a deaf tiktoker’s video, netizens were quick to react to it. While PewDiePie is now facing backlash for his reaction to the deaf tiktoker’s video.
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PewDiePie mocked a deaf tiktoker
PewDiePie is a popular YouTuber who keeps posting videos on YouTube. He even has 111 million subscribers of him on YouTube. While like usual when PewDiePie was making a video. He decided to add a video of a deaf tiktoker that he was watching. In that video, a woman was using sign language to tell a story.
But as PewDiePie went to watch the video of the women. He stopped it in mid after a few seconds. Further, he said that he can’t watch it anymore. While he also mocked the long nails of the women. As he compared it with his dog’s nails. He even went on to mock his dog about the women’s way of communicating.
Netizens slam PewDiePie for mocking deaf tiktoker
As soon as the video of PewDiePie mocking the deaf tiktoker was posted by the YouTuber. The video instantly became viral. In fact, netizens went on to slam the YouTuber for his reaction to the deaf tiktoker. But then PewDiePie tried to edit the post and repost it. Yet he forgot to remove the previous thumbnail where the deaf tiktoker’s video pic was visible.
Netizens though were quick enough to get the video of PewDiePie saved. While they also uploaded it on social media. Netizens went on to slam the youtuber by saying that why people are not talking about the YouTuber who mocked a black deaf woman. While some even said the YouTuber is worse.
its crazy that people have defended him for so long, he literaly dropped the hard r and yet people are calling everyone who doesnt support him dramatic and sensitive
— ezra (@yuhezra) July 27, 2022Advertisement
Deaf tiktoker’s reaction to getting mocked by PewDiePie
Not only the netizens were busy slamming Youtuber for the way he reacted to the deaf tiktoker. But the deaf tiktoker whose name is May too gave her reaction on the mocking by the YouTuber. As she went on to share what she felt in a TikTok video.
In her new TikTok video May said that the YouTuber didn’t listen to her story just because she was using sign language and had long nails. Also, she said that instead, the YouTuber made fun of her with his dog. It was sad for May to have such a popular creator behave like that. She even said that PewDiePie didn’t apologize but rather edited the clip.
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