{"id":142737,"date":"2026-05-31T21:02:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ksi-quits-sidemen-collective-after-13-years\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:02:47","slug":"ksi-quits-sidemen-collective-after-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ksi-quits-sidemen-collective-after-13-years\/","title":{"rendered":"KSI quits Sidemen collective after 13 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LONDON, May 31 \u2013 Social media star and Britain\u2019s Got Talent judge KSI has announced he is leaving the YouTube collective Sidemen after 13 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KSI, whose real name is Olajide Olatunji, has made football, comedy and challenge videos with the group \u2013 which has 23 million YouTube subscribers \u2013 since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>His spokesperson confirmed to the BBC that he was leaving, after many of his followers voiced suspicions that it was a stunt. Sidemen said it \u201ccame as a surprise\u201d but wished him well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is honestly the hardest video I\u2019ve ever had to make in my life,\u201d KSI announced on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve gone back and forth on this decision for a very long time,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019ve spent months trying to figure out what the right thing to do is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut after a lot of thought, I\u2019ve decided that I will no longer be doing Sidemen videos. Today, 31 May, will be my final Sidemen video.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KSI, who appeared in Saturday\u2019s final of ITV\u2019s Britain\u2019s Got Talent, said he remembered the group\u2019s early days, and that he had \u201cno idea that tens of millions of people were going to be watching us on the channel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe built something that none of us ever thought was possible especially back then when we were making random videos together and playing GTA,\u201d he said, referring to Grand Theft Auto.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cnothing bad has happened\u201d between him and the group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis decision is completely my own,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last few years, I\u2019ve felt myself being pulled in a lot of directions than ever before. Between everything else in my life, I feel like I\u2019ve been running at full speed, at 100mph.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, May 31 \u2013 Social media star and Britain\u2019s Got Talent judge KSI has announced he is leaving the YouTube collective Sidemen after 13 years. KSI, whose real name is Olajide Olatunji, has made football, comedy and challenge videos with the group \u2013 which has 23 million YouTube subscribers \u2013 since 2013. His spokesperson confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}