Netizens praise PewDiePie after his new video on Sushant Singh Rajput

Team Udayavani, Jul 24, 2020, 10:51 AM IST

Swedish YouTube sensation, PewDiePie posted a video reacting to an old video of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput on Thursday, July 23.

The video was titled, ‘Reacting to Sushant Singh Rajput’, the YouTuber starts it off with a disclaimer, “I won’t pretend to know who he was, and say I was the biggest fan,” he said.

“But I heard about him recently and looked him up, felt he was a cool dude,” and said that how he wanted to know more about him, and mentions that he knows about his death.

In the video PewDiePie Googled for Sushant Singh and calls him a successful commercial actor with hits like Kai Po Che and Chichhore.

He reacted to a video of Sushant Singh addressing a group of IIT Students back in 2016, where Sushant can be seen speaking about his journey as an engineer to a Bollywood actor.

Responding to the video He said, “Hey, this guy, just like me, did engineering.”

When Sushant Singh Rajput talks about success, PewDiepie reacts and said, “People put way too much importance on success.”

PewDiePie ends the video and said, “He’s such a smart guy, and the message in this video is so strong as well. It’s so strong that I wholeheartedly believe.”

“It really makes you sad to think that he passed away at such a young age,” he added.

As soon as the video came out, Twitter trended the Youtuber with hashtags #PewDiePie and #Felix and praised him for his respect towards the late actor when compared to Sushant’s colleagues in the industry.

The 23 minute video has viewed over 2.3 million times in just 11 hours of its upload with over 400k likes and 39k comments in YouTube.

Here are some of the reactions on Twitter.

Pewdiepie – a guy who didn’t know who Sushant was, spoke about him way more respectfully than most people. #pewdiepie pic.twitter.com/bVUemZhxkM

— Somya Upadhyay (@otpthoschei) July 23, 2020

This video from #pewdiepie is beautiful, the fact that two people from different countries who made it to the top, on their own owing to their talent and hardwork, can have such similar experiences, inspite of the cultural differences is insightful
RIP #SushantSinghRajput pic.twitter.com/fEpRt1SqB8

— Harshit Saxena (@_harshitsaxena) July 23, 2020

I’ve stayed quiet on this as it’s a sensitive topic. But today, #Pewdiepie said the same what I’ve felt all along. A person with that mentality just couldn’t go like this, that too without even leaving a note. I really really hope for a CBI investigation. ?#SSRDidntCommitSuicide pic.twitter.com/WaNCeluJuw

— Shrey Tyagi (@iamshreytyagi) July 23, 2020