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YouTuber PewDiePie has announced he is expecting his first child with Italian wife Marzia Kjellberg.
The Swedish internet personality, 33, who's real name is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, took to all his media channels on Sunday to announce the joyous news 'breaking the internet' with over YouTube 680,000 views in just one hour.
Sharing a video montage entitled 'We're having a baby' with his staggering 111 followers, which included a look at the sweet moment the duo discovered they would be parents.
The footage showed the happy couple, who wed in 2019, reading the positive pregnancy test before sharing a look at their baby's ultrasound scan.
The soon to be parents beamed shared a whole host of quality time together and documenting Marzia's growing bump.
Expecting: YouTuber PewDiePie has announced he is expecting his first child with wife Marzia Kjellberg
Last year PewDiePie was forced to apologise after he was slammed for uploading a video in which he appeared to mock a deaf woman using American Sign Language.
The video maker came under fire after posting his most recent YouTube video to his millions of subscribers.
But he has hit back by saying that he had 'no clue' the woman was deaf and was only making fun of her long nails, adding that it was an 'honest mistake'.
In the video, titled My Dog Cringes at TikToks, PewDiePie is seen playing various clips from the social media app which he then proceeds to make fun of.
One clip, which has now been removed from his video, shows deaf TikToker Scarlet May telling a story in American Sign Language.
After a couple of seconds PewDiePie stops the video and says: 'No, I'm not listening to this.'
He then makes fun of Ms. May's nails before comparing them to his dog's claws.
Ms May responded to his video saying it was 'very weird and very unnecessary'.
Pride: The Swedish internet personality, who's real name is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, took to all his media channels on Sunday to announce the joyous news 'breaking the internet' in the process
Expecting: Sharing a video montage entitled 'We're having a baby' with his staggering 111 YouTube followers including a look at the moment they discovered they would be parents
Love: The footage showed the happy couple reading the positive pregnancy test before sharing a look at their baby's ultrasound scan
PewDiePie then picks up his dog, Maya, and begins to imitate Ms. May telling a story, using her paws to copy Ms. May's hand movements.
He was slammed by critics on YouTube and Twitter, who reuploaded the clip alongside comments such as: 'Not Pewdiepie making fun of a deaf woman???'
'So why is nobody talking about pewdiepie making fun of a deaf black woman?' one person said, sharing the video.
Another wrote: 'Pewdiepie mocking a deaf tiktok creator for signing in her videos simply because she has long nails…as if the dude couldn't be any worse.'
Beaming: The expectant parents appeared over joyed by the news but didn't say when the baby was due
'Honestly if you still like pewdiepie grow tf up. not only is he racist, he's now apparently mocking a deaf girl on tiktok who is using sign language,' a fourth added.
Ms May, who has 6.2million followers on TikTok, then uploaded a response video in which she says: 'He made a reaction video to my TikTok, making fun of my nails and making fun of my signs with his dog…
'So how do I feel? I feel like it was very weird and very unnecessary but at the same time I wasn't surprised, I'm used to it.'
She adds that one of the reasons she uploads videos to TikTok is to show that deaf people can have long nails while using sign language.
