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VIDEO We need to have a discussion about whether the world owes PewDiePie reparations due to the obvious damage done to his personality in his early days on YouTube when his initial low subscriber count resulted in his low self-esteem. This is an injustice which must be addressed because we are all collectively at fault for not instantly recognizing his talent hidden beneath his early nerdiness.

PewDiePie, the most popular personality on YouTube, has announced that his livestreams will now be exclusive to competing blockchain-based platform DLive. According to Variety, DLive “promises far better economic terms for creators” than YouTube, which has been intensely criticized by most YouTube personalities over the past few years for moving away from them in favor of major corporations and television-style content. Variety reported, Tuesday, that PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, will “use DLive exclusively (for the next several months, anyway) to present weekly live-streams,” and “is slated to kick off his first official DLive stream on Sunday, April...

Swedish gamer PewDiePie (known IRL as Felix Kjellberg) is the most famous and highest-paid YouTuber in the world. His videos have yielded billions of views, millions of followers, and helped him earn $15 million in 2016. But next year’s figure could be significantly lower following a report from The Wall Street Journal that Disney is ending its deal with PewDiePie for recent anti-Semitic content in his videos. Prior to today, PewDiePie worked with Disney via a joint venture with the Maker Studios, a digital video network that Disney bought in 2014. Though Kjellberg maintained “editorial independence” with Maker Studios, a...