PewDiePie Banned in China for Xi Jinping Meme
The popular youtuber PewDiePie was banned in China for showing in his film the (in)famous meme comparing secretary Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh.
Youtuber PewDiePie (a.k.a. Felix Kjellberg) is a controversial character. In the scandals he often provokes, he's usually the "bad guy". Not this time. He has just stepped on China's famous meme landmine by comparing the Secretary of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping, to Winnie the Pooh, with whom the Chinese censorship is effectively fighting. All search results containing the phrase "PewDiePie" have been blocked in the country. Kjellberg admitted that he expected such a turn of events. Below you will find this controversial material (the topic of Hong Kong, China and the controversy over Blizzard starts around 11:35) and the meme that caused all the commotion:
Youtuber himself informed about the whole thing. In his latest video entitled Piediepie is BANNED in China (to watch it, scroll down), he proves that since he is already banned, he doesn't care and proceeds to criticize American export goods for the next dozen or so minutes. He focuses on Bart Baker, who used to be successful and who is now creating cheap propaganda materials for the PRC (and probably suffering from depression). The effect of his cooperation with Chinese sponsors can be seen, amongst others, here - on his official instagram account.
