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An immensely popular YouTube streamer has in one case once more come up nether fire for using racist language online.

Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg was playing "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" on a live stream over the weekend when he dropped the n-word.

"What a fucking north—–," Kjellberg said before correcting himself. "Sorry, only what the f—. What a f—ing a–hole."

"I don't mean that in a bad way," he added.

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The clip started spreading on social media and message boards, prompting some game developers to take action.

Following the incident, Sean Vanaman, the co-founder of Campo Santo, whose game "Firewatch" Kjellberg recently streamed, said he was going to file a DMCA takedown confronting the streamer, meaning the company would invoke their right to protect their copyright. While Vanaman didn't say whether the decision was in direct response to the video, the motivations are articulate.

"We're filing a DCMA takedown of PewDiePie'due south Firewatch content and any futurity Campo Santo games," Vanaman wrote on Twitter. "At that place is a bit of elbowroom you have to take with the internet when u wake upwards every solar day and brand video games. There'due south also a breaking point."

Kotaku reported that a video of Kjellberg playing "Firewatch," which had 5.7 million views on YouTube, had been taken down as of 7:30 p.chiliad. Sun night.

Yous tin cheque out his full statement below.

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We're filing a DMCA takedown of PewDiePie'due south Firewatch content and any futurity Campo Santo games.

— Sean Vanaman (@vanaman) September x, 2017

At that place is a fleck of leeway you have to take with the internet when u wake up every day and make video games. At that place's likewise a breaking point.

— Sean Vanaman (@vanaman) September 10, 2017

I am sick of this child getting more and more chances to brand money off of what nosotros make.

— Sean Vanaman (@vanaman) September 10, 2017

He's worse than a closeted racist: he'due south a propagator of despicable garbage that does existent damage to the culture around this industry.

— Sean Vanaman (@vanaman) September ten, 2017

Furthermore, nosotros're complicit: I'm sure we've fabricated money off of the 5.7M views that video has and that's something for usa to think about.

— Sean Vanaman (@vanaman) September ten, 2017

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This isn't the commencement fourth dimension Kjellberg has gotten into the news over things he said. In January, he posted a video that featured footage of men property a sign that said "Death to all Jews." A Wall Street Periodical commodity plant other instances of anti-Semetic jokes on his channel, prompting Disney'due south Maker Studios to sever ties with the star and YouTube Red to cancel his upcoming series.

"Although Felix has created a following past being provocative and irreverent, he clearly went too far in this instance and the resulting videos are inappropriate," Maker said in a statement.

In September of terminal year, he was also suspended from Twitter for making jokes about the Islamic State.

Kjellberg currently has over 57 million subscribers on YouTube. As of 2016, he was the highest-paid star on the video service.

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