World’s number one YouTube celebrity, “PewDiePie” (whose real name is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg) was suspended from Twitter on Wednesday afternoon.
Pewdiepie has been suspended and unverified on Twitter for making a joke about joining ISIS pic.twitter.com/06QQcbmc7H
— Ned Donovan (@Ned_Donovan) August 31, 2016
The reason of account suspension was a tweet about ISIS, and his Twitter account verified status was removed.
Unverified is the new verified
— Felix Kjellberg ? (@pewdiepie) August 30, 2016
PewDiePie posted a tweet on twitter on Tuesday that he was unverified because he and a friend joined ISIS.
Me and @Jack_Septic_Eye have joined isis. Which is why we both got unverified.
— Felix Kjellberg ? (@pewdiepie) August 30, 2016
On Wednesday on YouTube he posted a video saying that it was a “joke” which has received 3million views already. Felix Kjellberg currently got 6.5M+ followers on Twitter.
According to a Twitter spokesperson said that,”We don’t comment on individual accounts for privacy and security reasons.”