Namewee loses, then regains hacked YouTube account with 1.4b views
Controversial rapper Namewee temporarily lost his YouTube channel, which fell prey to hackers, resulting in hundreds of his videos disappearing overnight.
He took to Facebook on Tuesday saying that the channel which he has operated for 13 years, had been hacked by someone...
Controversial rapper Namewee temporarily lost his YouTube channel, which fell prey to hackers, resulting in hundreds of his videos disappearing overnight.
He took to Facebook on Tuesday saying that the channel which he has operated for 13 years, had been hacked by someone in Russia.
However on Wednesday evening, Namewee posted that the account had been restored: "Namewee's YouTube Account is back! Thank you to everyone who has helped us and supporting us! We will keep creating our music/videos and keep voicing out for freedom!" he said.
He also took the opportunity to voice his support for Ukraine following the Russian invasion.
The rapper’s Taiwanese agent told The Taipei Times that his management team had reached out to YouTube for assistance in restoring the music videos and related comments after they vanished overnight and the title of his channel changed from “Namewee” to something else in Russian.
Prior to the hacking, his channel had recorded 3.27 million subscribers and 1,432,644,663 views.
Namewee has had a string of flashpoints in his career that include controversial songs such as ‘Negarakuku’ (2007), ‘Oh My God’ (2016), ‘Like A Dog’ (2018) as well as the movie ‘Babi’ (2020).
Most recently, in October last year, he scored his biggest hit with ‘Fragile’, a saccharine duet in Mandarin with Australian Kimberley Chen that pokes fun at Beijing and its supporters among the Chinese diaspora who readily accept China's official media line.
Despite the video and song being banned from music streaming services in China, it was viewed by millions.
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