YouTube yanks PewDiePie video that attacked top kids channel

YouTube has been criticised in the past for a lax approach to harassment and in 2019 updated its policies to bolster protections. The company said it had started to see increased harassment of Cocomelon in the wake of the PewDiePie video being posted. — Reuters

YouTube has removed a video posted by popular creator PewDiePie that criticised Cocomelon, the most-watched children’s channel on the site, stepping in to protect one of its biggest names from harassment by the fans of another top channel.

The video, titled “Coco”, was an escalation in a long simmering feud between Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, and Cocomelon, a channel that makes animated nursery rhymes.