PewDiePie got suspended from Twitter after making an ISIS joke

PewDiePie got suspended from Twitter after making an ISIS joke
Credit: PewDiePie / YouTube

PewDiePie – the most popular YouTuber, at about 47 million subscribers – was temporarily suspended from Twitter, and has been unverified.

The suspension appears to stem from a joke PewDiePie (whose real name is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg) made about joining ISIS with fellow YouTuber Jacksepticeye. This originally led to PewDiePie becoming unverified – because making jokes in poor taste makes you less of a real public figure, apparently.

He then retweeted a post from parody account @SkyNeiws, which claimed PewDiePie had his account unverified due to “suspected relations with Isis”:

Users were divided, with some noting PewDiePie’s sense of humor, and other’s claiming he’d gone too far.

We’ve contacted Twitter for more information about the suspension. Moral of the story? Don’t make running jokes about ISIS if you have millions of followers.

Or, you know, ever.

Update 1:45PM ET:
The account is now back, albeit still without verification. Moreover, it now shows him to have just 77 followers, instead of the previous 8.63 million.

Lost Followers PewDiePie

Ouch. 

Thankfully suspended accounts slowly have their followers slowly repopulated, so expect this to be back to normal soon.

Update 2:12 PM ET: Twitter responded, saying, “we don’t comment on individual accounts for privacy and security reasons.”

Update 2:30 PM ET: His followers are back. All normal. Also there’s this explainer video of sorts from the man himself:

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