During a YouTube livestream on July 11, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg trolled his audience by faking an apology, parodying other YouTubers' apology videos. He even pretended to cry on screen, with fake tear drops and all.
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Simply entitled “Apology Livestream,” the Swedish content creator started the broadcast by turning on some generic “sad” music and telling his viewers “guys, I’m here to apologize. I made the big oopsie. I want to be as honest with you guys as possible.” He then doused his eyelids with fake tears, and made a heavy sign, commenting “oh yeah, I forgot to sigh.”
As the music got louder, he began pouring more water on his face, and zooming his camera into his watery eyes, and making fake crying sounds. He went on, humorously exclaiming “I didn’t mean to kill all those people in Minecraft. It wasn’t my fault! By the end of the live stream, the 30-year-old content creator broke character, laughing and stating, “it legit looks convincing. It’s that easy to fake an apology, guys.”
Whilenot directly mentioning any specific content creators, the livestream was clearly aimed at past YouTubers who’ve released “apology” videos, specifically ones that felt forced or fake. Pewdiepie previously criticized YouTube personality Tati Westbrook, who released an apology video last month which was heavily disliked and panned, so it is likely that this trolling stream was partially directed at her. In a previous stream, Pewd directly criticized Tati’s apology, stating “that was not an apology, that was just shifting all the blame. It’s fking bullst. I can’t imagine uploading a video saying words that comes from my mouth, and then blame it on someone else. Even if I heard someone else tell me. It’s complete bulls**t.”
Pewdiepie announced back in March that he hadsigned a deal with YouTube for exclusive streaming rights, and with well over one-hundred thousand views per stream, it appears to have been worth it to the content creator.
