Felix thinks Logan ‘deserves a break’ (Picture: YouTube PewDiePie/REX)

PewDiePie has spoken out in defence of Logan Paul, as he claims the vlogger is ‘genuinely changing’.

Each to their own.

In a recent video, the gamer, who recently passed 80 million subscribers, laughed: ‘I think it’s safe to say I didn’t like Logan Paul before it was cool.’

However, in an earnest moment, he added: ‘I was starting to feel bad for him and you can tell he’s genuinely changing and we all make mistakes.’


‘Listen, I’m not trying to make his fucking apology video for you, all I’m saying is that, from someone that’s personally made a lot of mistakes that will definitely haunt me for the rest of my life, I think the kid deserves a break,’ the 29-year-old argued, presumably referring to the claims of anti-Semitism that he’s faced in the past.



‘It’s so hard to be nice, why is this so fucking hard?’ the YouTuber – real name Felix Kjellberg – joked.

‘I’m seeing patterns to show that Logan Paul is actually bettering himself,’ he summed up, after jokingly claiming that he’s now a Maverick (the term Logan uses to describe his fans).

And Logan clearly approved of the video, simply tweeting: ‘3 words: pew die mothafuckingpie.’

The gamer’s comments allude to the backlash and media attention Logan received after filming a dead body in Japan’s suicide forest.

In a more recent video in which the 23-year-old reflected on his year, he recalled that it ‘completely destroyed his image’.

‘In less than 24 hours I became the most hated person on the planet,’ he said.

3 words: pew

die

mothafuckingpie ??? pic.twitter.com/zb9YaLs56A — Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) January 7, 2019

‘I had made an inexcusable mistake, completely destroyed my image, lost every professional relationship that I had, became the internet’s favourite meme and, most importantly, had my eyes opened wide to the consequences of my actions.’

He added: ‘I felt every ounce of disappointment and hate directed at me, and while it was 100% my fault, it was critical that I felt all of it.

‘Being disliked was my biggest fear in the entire world,’ he admitted. ‘So, in a scramble to try and reverse the past, I asked myself “how do I fix this?” when the question I should have been asking is “how do I fix me?”’

He later admitted that he bounced back from the video far too quickly, claiming he became his ‘own worst nightmare’ and that he couldn’t trust himself.

Nevertheless, he seems to have come back from it largely unscathed, with more than 18 million subscribers, and now the biggest YouTuber on the site speaking out for him.

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