PewDiePie prank victims Funny Guys unbanned from Fiverr after sick ‘Death to all Jews’ stunt
TWO young men who found themselves at the centre of an offensive prank devised by the 'King of YouTube' have had their online business reinstated.
The duo, who call themselves the Funny Guys, were unbanned from cash-for-jobs site Fiverr after a two week campaign from PewDiePie, the world's most popular YouTuber.
In a tweet, the pair paid "heartfelt" thanks to PewDiePie, who made several attempts to reverse Fiverr's decision and called on the site to "ban me instead".
The YouTuber sparked a social media storm after he paid the two men to unravel a banner bearing the message “death to all Jews” in a video that’s been watched by 6.6 million people.
He later hit back at claims the stunt was anti-Semitic and said: “It’s 2017 now and we are going to have to start separating what is a joke and what is actually problematic."
The Swede, real name Felix Kjellberg, is the top most-subscribed user on YouTube, with more than 52 million adoring fans.
He was featuring website Fiverr in the now infamous clip which saw Funny Guys' business yanked from the web.
Fiverr lets customers pay people to do anything they want, like edit a photograph, or play a video game with them for an hour.
But since featuring in the Swede's hit vlog, their account was allegedly wiped from Fiverr.
PewDiePie immediately apologised and asked to be banned instead.
When quizzed by the Sun Online Fiverr refused to comment on individual cases stating "data privacy" reasons.
Funny Guys later released video in which they appeared to apologise for the stunt, saying : "We really didn’t know what the message meant…Some other people are telling we are talking and writing English but we didn’t know what ‘the Jews’ means."
On Sunday a Twitter account allegedly run by the pair sent out a link to their new Fiverr account.
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