YouTube star PewDiePie faces backlash over racial slur

Youtube star Pewdiepie is facing backlash from games developers after using a racial slur in one of his videos.
The 27-year-old video blogger, the world highest-paid YouTube star, called an opponent a “f**king n**ger” while live streaming himself playing online game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, before correcting himself to “f**king a**hole”, and apologising, adding, “I didn’t mean it in a bad way.”
This isn’t the first time PewDiePie, real name Felix Kjellberg, has courted controversy – he was dropped from Disney-owned Maker Studios over allegations of anti-Semitism earlier this year (17).
In response to his latest scandal, Sean Vanaman, the co-founder of games developer Campo Santo, announced he would be filing a copyright claim so YouTube executives would remove a video of Kjellberg playing his game Firewatch.
“I am sick of this child getting more and more chances to make money off of what we make,” he tweeted. I’d urge other developers & will be reaching out to folks much larger than us to cut him off from the content that has made him a milionaire (sic).
“Furthermore, we’re complicit: I’m sure we’ve made money off of the 5.7M views that video has and that’s something for us to think about… His stream is not commentary, it is ad growth for his brand. Our game on his channel =endorsement.”
The blogger, who films himself playing video games, has almost 60 million subscribers on YouTube, and reportedly earned $15 million (£11 million) from the site last year.