YouTube star KSI has apologised for utilizing a racist slur in a video and introduced he’ll take a break from social media.
The 29-year-old, who’s also called a boxer, rapper and founding father of Prime vitality drinks, used the derogatory phrase in a current Sidemen video.
In a recreation based mostly on Countdown, his crew needed to type the longest attainable phrase from 9 letters – and KSI gave “P***” as his try. The different gamers had been seen laughing afterwards.
The video has since been faraway from the Sidemen YouTube channel.
The clip drew outrage on social media, together with from DJ Bobby Friction, who wrote: “I had this racial slur thrown at me & obtained bodily beats by racists for my whole childhood.
“Genuinely upset that @KSI (a guy my children love) did this & thought it was funny. The rest of them laughing can go f*** themselves too. People dehumanising brown people like it normal.”
KSI addressed the fallout in a tweet on Monday.
He mentioned: “I wanna apologise for saying a racial slur in a recent Sidemen video.
“There’s no excuse, regardless of the circumstances, I should not have mentioned it and I’m sorry.
“I’ve always said to my audience that they shouldn’t worship me or put me on a pedestal because I’m human.
“I’m not excellent, I’m gonna mess up in life, and these days I’ve been messing up so much. So I’ve determined I’m gonna simply take a break from social media for some time.”
It’s not the primary time KSI has been compelled to apologise for his language. In 2021 he apologised for utilizing a trans slur, saying he “didn’t even know that t***** was a bad word”.
Source: information.sky.com”