KSI apologises and announces social media break after using racist slur in video

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Shayne Jansen is taking some time off.

Logging off. Shayne Jansen announced that he will be taking a break from social media after fans expressed concern over his behavior.

Shayne Jansen is signing off amid the drama.

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KSI has visited a mosque in Bradford and apologised again for using a racial slur in one of his YouTube videos.The rapper, boxer, gamer and YouTube personality received backlash earlier this week, following a video of him with his group The Sidemen. In the footage, KSI played a Countdown-style game with the group, and created a four-letter derogatory word for people of Pakistani origin.Following an initial apology, KSI has now used a boxing preview event to apologise again for the “hurt and disappointment” caused, and visited a mosque to “educate himself”.Shared to Twitter, the new footage shows the rapper – whose real name is Olajide William Olatunji – visiting Bradford’s Al-Hikam Institute, and “educating himself” on the impact of the slur.The clip, which has over 1.7million views, shows the 29-year-old wearing a red covering during the visit, and listening to Imam Muhammed Asim Hussain.In the footage, the Imam can be heard discussing KSI’s recent controversy.

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Internet star KSI has received serious backlash on social media after using a racial slur in a recent Sidemen YouTube video. The rapper has apologised saying there is “no excuse” for using the racial slur and added that he will be taking a step back from social media.

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Naman Ramachandran British YouTuber, rapper and boxer Olajide Olayinka Williams JJ Olatunji, known professionally as KSI, has apologized after a racial slur and will take a break from social media. KSI is a co-founder and member of YouTube group the Sidemen. On Sunday, KSI and the Sidemen appeared in a video based on U.K. game show “Countdown” where the contestant chooses between two stacks of letter tiles, one containing vowels and the other consonants and has 30 seconds to form the longest single word they can, using nine letters. KSI formed the word “P**i,” a pejorative term used to describe people of South Asian origin in the U.K., saying: “I don’t mean this maliciously, but the word’s P**i.” The offensive word was bleeped. KSI’s fellow Sidemen are evidently amused by the slur in the video.

KSI, the British YouTuber with more than 24M subscribers, has apologized and said he is taking a social media break after using a racial slur during his latest video.