You don't achieve PewDiePie's level of fame
and fortune without butting a few heads along
the way.
In fact, he has sparked a whole lot of drama
and rivalries over the years, inspiring hate
and backlash from plenty of big names.
"Believe it or not: I'm not into creating
drama!"
"There's some beef…"
"There's some beef!"
"...that you're trying to start."
"I love starting beef!"
One of the most recent cases of a big-name
YouTuber taking shots at Pewds comes from
Trisha Paytas.
It all started back in May 2019, when PewDiePie
uploaded a 'Cringe Thursday' video in which
he called the YouTube star an aggressive,
victim-playing, liar and manipulator, his
words, not ours.
The reason for calling her out like this?
She had allegedly convinced fellow YouTuber
Nikocado Avocado to fly from Colombia to L.A.
in order to collaborate with her, only to
ghost her guest creator and leave him high
and dry.
"Trisha invited him to collab.
He flew all the way over from Colombia.
And she just ghosted him.
AH!
Cancel Trisha Paytas right now."
Paytas responded to PewDiePie's comments within
days via a response video, and seemed apologetic
and torn up over the entire thing.
But she would later make an appearance on
Logan Paul's Impaulsive podcast, where she…
well, to say she "backtracked" would be an
understatement.
"Ew.
F--- him and his declining views."
"Hello, friends.
This is Alinity…"
PewDiePie has a pretty solid relationship
with a lot of the biggest video creators in
the world of games, even being close friends
with Markiplier and Jacksepticeye.
Unfortunately, a video released by PewDiePie
back in May 2018 found him in a venomous online
battle with one of the biggest names on Twitch:
Alinity.
PewDiePie uploaded a video in which he watched
a compilation of videos sent to him by his
fans involving female live streamers caught
in revealing clothes.
The catch?
He was using an eye-tracking device.
You see where this is going, right?
During the video, PewDiePie said things along
the lines of:
"I just feel like they win over me, and they're
not gonna win over me, stupid Twitch thots.
No."
And…
"If a girl dresses like that, she wants you
to look, right?"
One of the women featured in the video was
infamous, cat-tossing, vodka-spitting streamer
Alinity, who wasn't too happy with the content
of the video and filed a copyright claim to
get it removed.
Unfortunately, her actions against PewDiePie
only made a bad situation worse, as the YouTuber
and his fanbase went on to continuously criticize
her for her actions, leading to plenty of
bad blood between the two.
It's worth noting that Pewds did bring up
a good point in an ensuing video: Namely,
that Alinity, who has openly admitted to receiving
money from a company called CollabDRM for
every copyright strike that she submits, probably
wasn't striking PewDiePie because she was
offended.
She was doing so, in fact, to earn a living.
"A company that's called Collab…And they're
sending me $700 last month for copy-strike
hitting people.
Good money!"
Let this one be a lesson, folks: There are
two sides to every story.
The truth, as it turns out, is usually somewhere
in the middle.
PewDiePie is an internet celebrity and, as
a result, much of the drama he gets roped
up in involves other internet creatives and
influencers.
As his audience has grown, however, so too
has his reach and influence in the world.
His audience is so big, in fact, that when
he uploaded a video poking fun at an Indian
television show, the actual creator of the
show found out about his video and was none
too impressed with him.
"You India, you lose, everybody."
"Don't laugh!"
Back in May 2018, PewDiePie uploaded a video
titled "YOU INDIA YOU LOSE," in which he did
a You Laugh, You Lose-style challenge by watching
a compilation of clips from various Indian
television programs.
One show in particular, Kasamh Se, was slammed
by the YouTuber in his reaction video.
"Wait, wait…This can't be real.
This can't be real!"
International television mogul and creator
of Kasamh Se, Ekta Kapoor, wasn't delighted
about this at all.
She took to Twitter to slam the internet star,
chastising him for what she considered rude
and racist comments.
Their feud would continue for months, as PewDiePie
uploaded videos calling Ekta Kapoor out and
she continued to respond via Twitter.
"What's up, everybody?
Etika Kapoor here, and I hate PewDiePie."
PewDiePie has made a lot of his living by
playing video games, and lots of them.
"Oh…Momma mia!
Ah!
JESUS!
OH.
UGLY!
Ahh!"
When it comes to one game in particular, though,
he isn't allowed to make a single dime off
of videos about it.
The game in question is Firewatch, the first-person
narrative experience from Campo Santo.
When PewDiePie landed in hot water for using
a racial slur during a live stream in September
2017, Campo Santo co-founder Sean Vanaman
decided that enough was enough.
The game developer filed DMCA takedowns on
every Firewatch video PewDiePie had made and
vowed to do the same for any future Campo
Santo games.
In a damning multi-part Twitter thread, Vanaman
stated that he was, quote, "sick of this child
getting more and more chances to make money
off of what we make."
The weird thing, though?
"This is literally if you go to Firewarchgame.com/about.
It says 'Can I stream this game?
Can I make money off of those streams?'”
As with much of the drama radiating off of
PewDiePie at any given moment, this whole
kerfuffle inspired quite a bit of discourse,
so much, in fact, that legal experts started
weighing in.
While some felt that the action was totally
within Campo Santo's legal rights, others
claimed that filing a DMCA takedown without
a valid legal reason could be a violation
of DMCA rules.
In the end, Pewds admitted that it was a grey
area, and he wished Campo Santo, and Vanaman
in particular, all the best.
"I think it's important that we don't abuse
these laws because they exist to protect artists,
not to make any form of censorship or, um…abusive
claims."
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