Daesh joke backfires on YouTube star PewDiePie

Hugely popular blogger PewDiePie was back on Twitter Thursday after his account was temporarily suspended when he jokingly claimed he had joined the Daesh terrorist group.
The Swedish Internet star, who has more than 47 million subscribers to his humorous YouTube video channel, surprised and horrified some of his fans Tuesday when he tweeted that he and fellow blogger Sean William McLoughlin had joined the terror group.
PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, had been protesting at the social network’s “annoying” verified accounts system which can generate automatic notifications on smartphones.
“Me and JackSepticEye have joined Daesh,” he tweeted, “Which is why we both got unverified.”
“I said NAZIS! Not ISIS (Daesh),” the Irish YouTube star tweeted back at him, whose account is still verified. 
But the exchange went down badly with some of the 26-year-old Swedish blogger’s fans, who first shot to fame for his gaming videos.
“That’s not something to joke about,” one reprimanded him. “Daesh isn’t something to take lightly. It’s serious. I love Pewds but I don’t like this.”
Then Twitter suspended his account — which at the time also carried a provocative graphic profile photo — to a further howl of protest from a group of his fans. The account was later unblocked.

Source: Arab News