PewDiePie speaks out after victims of ‘Death to all Jews’ prank get the boot from cash for jobs website
TWO people caught up in a viral prank by the "King of YouTube" are begging for his help after their livelihood was allegedly taken from them.
PewDiePie sparked a antisemitism storm after he paid two men to unravel a banner bearing the message "Death to all Jews" in a video that's been watched by 6.6 million people.
PewDiePie, real name Felix Kjellberg, is the top most-subscribed user on YouTube, with more than 52 million adoring fans.
The duo, who ran a business called “Funny Guys” on Fiverr, were paid just a few pounds to carry out the stunt.
Fiverr lets customers pay people to do anything they want, like edit a photograph, or play a video game with them for an hour.
But since the Swedish vlogger released a YouTube video showing the men holding up the offensive sign as they laughed and danced, their business was shut down by Fiverr.
They made a heartfelt YouTube video this afternoon in which they begged to be reinstated.
On Thursday afternoon the youngsters who appeared in Pewds clip could be seen “apologising” for the offensive banner and asking for help to get their business back up.
Appearing to read from a sheet, they said: “We are extremely sorry for the mistake we made…we really didn’t know what the message meant…Some other people are telling we are talking and writing English but we didn’t know what ‘the Jews’ means.”
They begged “please understand our situation” and claimed that “due to our mistake our Fiverr account is suspended".
“We need help from Fiverr and PewDiePie to get back our Fiverr account,” they added.
Felix has since asked Fiverr to reverse the ban, telling them to "ban me" instead.
But it appears he is trying to make amends.
The Swede also shocked fans across the world when he released a bizarre video on December 3 revealing that he will delete his PewDiePie account when he reached a landmark 50 million subscribers.
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