Pewdiepie is not a quiet man – anyone who has ever seen one of his videos knows as much. In a recent upload, however, YouTube’s biggest star claims that he was evicted from his apartment in Brighton for being too loud.
It’s not the inconvenience of being kicked out that angers him, but the circumstances in which it happened. We’ll admit, having watched the below video, the whole situation seems pretty damn bizarre.
To sum up: Pewdiepie, otherwise known as Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, had a soundproof booth set up in his apartment, but would sometimes record portions of his videos outside the booth, where neighbours could hear.
In April of this year, Kjellberg was recording in his kitchen when a man came to his door to complain about the noise, and started yelling anti-gay slurs (he can be heard in the background at the 1:30 mark in the below video).
Kjellberg later said that the man in question was actually his landlord, who had come to complain because he thought he could hear the sounds of somebody having gay sex in the apartment.
As far as we know, Kjellberg is not gay, but you don’t need to be gay to know that homophobia is f’kn rank, and he has since slammed his landlord over the incident, and his attitude in general.
To be clear: I made a video, landlord thought I was having gay sex. Comes down to call us faggots. Next day evicted w/o previous notice.
— Felix Kjellberg (@pewdiepie) June 17, 2016
He later received a letter telling him to vacate the premises by June 29. In the below video, which shows him packing for the move, Kjellberg vents his anger, saying:
“If you’re gonna be a landlord in Brighton, the gay capital of UK, maybe try not be a fuckin’ prejudiced piece of shit, how bout that?”
We don’t know all the facts here, and we have no idea if Kjellberg is being kicked out as a result of this one incident, or if he was a noisy neighbour in general, but turfing somebody out because you think they’re having gay sex is pretty damn gross.
Fans need not worry about disruptions to their regularly-scheduled video game commentary. Pewdiepie has already lined up an office space in which to make videos.
“So much shitty content is going to be made here,” he promised. “Hopefully we can yell as much as we want.”
In April of this year, Pewdiepie himself addressed his tens of millions of subscribers and apologised for the generally shitty attitude that he himself displayed towards gay people in his earlier videos.
“I really don’t like that,” he said, citing a gay joke from a video from 2011. “But I feel like back then I didn’t understand. I was so immature, and I thought things were funny because they were offensive.”
“I would say a lot of stupid shit,” said the now-26-year-old. “I’m not proud of it. I’m really not. But I’m also glad I’ve grown past it.”
Source: Kotaku.
Photo: Vincent Sandoval / Getty.
