YouTuber PewDiePie calls India's TikTok ban 'epic win' in 'meme review' segment

Swedish YouTuber Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg aka PewDiePie called Indian government's ban on TikTok an “epic win” in one his latest meme review videos. Indian government recently issued an interim order to ban 59 Chinese apps including TikTok amid rising tension along Line of Actual Control (LAC).

After news of TikTok ban broke out, Indian social media was abuzz with hilarious jokes and memes which prompted PewDiePie to dedicate his “meme review” segment to it. In video titled 'Why is Dad Winning?', famous Swedish YouTuber called it an epic move.

"In meme news, India banned TikTok app. Yeah, India banned TikTok. Epic win, I'd say," he quipped.

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Rates memes on a scale of 10

PewDiePie n proceeded to browse through memes and found some of those quite hilarious. "re's a lot of great memes regarding this event but my favourite is..," said YouTuber and read out movie dialogues used in memes. While some of memes included dialogues from Hindi movies, he says he needs to learn Hindi. He first rates those memes as 1 on a scale of 10 but later says it was 10 out of 10.

“ Indian ones crack me up good bro, hell yeah!”

Ministry of Home Affairs banned 59 Chinese Apps stating that it has received many complaints from various sources about misuse of se apps. It said that apps were used to steal and surreptitiously transmit users’ data in an unauthorised manner to servers located outside India. Calling it a move to protect sovereignty of Indian Cyber, government said that it was a major blow to China’s Digital Silk Route ambitions.

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