YouTube's biggest star PewDiePie - real name Felix Kjellberg - is taking a break from the platform that launched him to fame
PewDiePie has announced he's quitting YouTube after becoming the video-sharing platform's biggest star.
The controversial star had hinted in August that he was planning to take a break from YouTube, saying: "I do think it would be good for me to take a break at some point. It would be nice to not have YouTube in my brain for the first time in 10 years." Felix was on the verge of a total career meltdown as subscribers deserted him and he was dropped from a number of lucrative endorsement deals.
Reports at the time suggested he'd also uploaded others videos containing anti-semitic jokes and remarks. "I'm sorry for the words that I used as I know they offended people and I admit that the joke itself went too far. In the stream, which was shared by another YouTube user, the Internet sensation was heard using the slur in frustration before seemingly issuing a half-hearted apology.
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