The saga of PewDiePie’s Diamond Play Button has finally come to an end — and YouTube‘s most-subscribed star captured it all in a two-part series of sorts that’s currently live on his channel. After threatening YouTube for not handing over the award — even though Kjellberg has reached the 10 million subscriber milestone four times over — he decided last Friday to deliver a brutal roast of the platform.
In yet another hoarse-voiced rant, Kjellberg took aim at YouTube Red (“Too bad Netflix is already a thing!”), YouTube Gaming (“Good thing Twitch isn’t already a thing!”), and Google+ (too bad Facebook isn’t already a thing!”). He also lambasted YouTube’s comments system, its “corrupt” search algorithm, and the 45% ad revenue cut that the platform takes from creators.
But then, in a second video, fellow gamer CinnamonToastKen (whose real name is Kenneth Morrison) arrives at Kjellberg’s house and delivers the Diamond Play Button precisely in the manner Kjellberg had initially demanded — by a beautiful bearded man on a horse with a written apology. (A tweet from YouTube of the same plush horse that Morrison rode in on suggests the company might have been in on the joke all along.)
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Except, in part two of the series, Morrison is suddenly struck by jealously and steals the Diamond Play Button out of Kjellberg’s hands — whereupon they descend onto the beaches of Brighton for a duel. Check out how the two-part saga concludes below:
