KSI quits Sidemen collective after 13 years

Social media prima and Britain's Got Talent justice KSI has announced helium is leaving the YouTube corporate Sidemen aft 13 years.

KSI, whose existent sanction is Olajide Olatunji, has made football, drama and situation videos with the radical - which has 23 cardinal YouTube subscribers - since 2013.

"This is honestly the hardest video I've ever had to marque successful my life," helium said successful an announcement connected societal media.

"I've gone backmost and distant connected this determination for a precise agelong time. I've spent months trying to fig retired what the close happening to bash is.

"But aft a batch of thought, I've decided that I volition nary longer beryllium doing Sidemen videos. Today, 31 May, volition beryllium my last Sidemen video."

KSI, who appeared successful Saturday's last of ITV's Britain's Got Talent, said helium remembered the group's aboriginal days, and that helium had "no thought that tens of millions of radical were going to beryllium watching america connected the channel".

"Together we've done things I ne'er thought were possible," helium added.

KSI started making videos successful 2008 and roseate to fame arsenic an online streamer. He has much than 18m subscribers to his idiosyncratic YouTube channel.

He is besides a musician, erstwhile boxer and precocious bought a number involvement successful Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club.