PewDiePie YouTube Channel Issues Made Fans Fear a Shadowban
There is no doubt that PewDiePie, real name Felix Kjellberg, is the most successful gaming YouTubers on the platform. He currently owns the second most subscribed YouTube channel with over 107 million subscribers worldwide.
With how much of a spotlight is on him, Kjellberg is not a stranger to controversies and news. However, his fans were recently concerned with a recent issue involving his YouTube channel and searching for his videos in general.
The issues began when his fans searched for the PewDiePie YouTube channel on-site, with the channel not appearing in search results. Then, fans also noticed that the videos that would come up were from at least a year ago instead of his more recent content. Their fears were made even worse when Kjellberg posted on his community tab about his latest video not appearing in his subscribers' subscription boxes.
The fear his fans had was that Kjellberg was shadowbanned from YouTube. A shadowban is a ban from a website that the banned users wouldn't be able to notice at first. This usually results in the creator being able to see things as normal, but fans having trouble with accessing the creator's content.
With worries being spread, many started to believe that the PewDiePie channel had actually been shadowbanned. However, these issues with finding the PewDiePie channel and Kjellberg's videos have been recently fixed with it being easy to find his content once more.
In response to the rumors about the situation, the official YouTube Twitter account put out a statement claiming that the website does not shadowban channels. The statement goes further and puts out the theory that Kjellberg's recent videos were caught by YouTube's flagging system and was pulled from search results until it was manually reviewed. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, YouTube has stated that the review teams are far more limited than usual.
While some have been satisfied with the statement put out by YouTube, others still believe that there was some kind of shadowban that YouTube is now backpedaling on after being caught. Outside of this official statement, however, the truth of the situation may not be truly known for a long time. Due to Kjellberg's aforementioned controversies under the PewDiePie name, it could be possible that representatives from YouTube didn't want the channel to have the current place that it holds.
Kjellberg himself hasn't put out anything accusing YouTube of shadowbanning him and has only continued to put out videos on the PewDiePie channel.
Source: Polygon | TeamYouTube - Twitter
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