In a move that will shock no-one who’s had the displeasure of wandering onto a YouTube comments section, vlogging sensation PewDiePie has turned off the ability for users to comment on his videos.
With over 30 million subscribers and a reported $4m a year made from his channel, Felix Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie, has every right to be a bit of a diva.
“I go to the comments and it’s mostly spam, and people self-advertising, it’s people who are trying to provoke, and people replying to all these, just all this stuff to me, it doesn’t mean anything,” he said in a recent video. “I don’t care about it. I don’t want to see it. I just don’t care.
“It’s been bothering me for so long now, I’ve been trying to find solutions to it, I’ve been hoping it would get better, I was hoping YouTube would try to figure a way out, but it doesn’t seem like it, and I’m just sick of it,” he said. “So I’m going to turn the comments off forever, they’re not coming back this time around.”
“I wouldn’t say we lose something, I would say we’re taking the next step in the right direction. This has been going on for too long, the comments being shit.”
He then went on to say that this wasn’t the death knell for his fanbase; they can still reach him on Twitter and Facebook. Check out the announcement below.
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