15 Most Embarrassing Video Game Moments Of 2017
14. PewDiePie Has A Racist Year
Starting the year off strong, back in January PewDiePie released a video where he said the N-word. Shockingly, this didn't go over well.
He then doubled down when he decided to post a video going over the website Fiverr, which allows people to sell services for $5. He paid two men to hold a sign saying "DEATH TO ALL JEWS," which again, shockingly, did not go over well.
This event would be covered by the Wall Street Journal, and all of this press coverage eventually found its way to Disney, who owned MakerStudios, with which PewDiePie had a deal for his own network. That deal was no more, as Disney saw all the bad press and parted ways with him. Disney wouldn't act alone, as Google also cancelled the "Scare PewDiePie" series on YouTube Red.
He wasn't done yet though, in September PewDiePie would once again say the N-word while playing PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on a stream. Campo Santo studios would come out and say they would file for copyright strikes on his videos featuring their game Firewatch, and studio co-founder Sean Vanaman would call PewDiePie "worse than a closeted racist."
Recently, PewDiePie was left out of the YouTube Rewind video for 2017, saying he wasn't even asked to participate. It's a safe bet it was because of the controversy surrounding him the whole year.