Watford YouTuber KSI has defended PewDiePie after the Swedish star was dropped by Disney's Maker Studios.

The YouTube vlogger was axed by the brand after he published a number of offensive anti-semitic videos on the platform.

Responding to the controversy on Twitter, KSI - who grew up in Watford and now has 15 million Youtube subscribers - wrote: "All beef aside, @pewdiepie getting dropped by Maker, OVER A JOKE, is absolutely ridiculous. Thank god I left them last year."

The separation was first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Monday evening, and has since been confirmed by Disney-owned Maker Studios, with a spokesperson saying: "Although Felix has created a following by being provocative and irreverent, he clearly went too far in this case and the resulting videos are inappropriate.

"Maker Studios has made the decision to end our affiliation with him going forward."

PewDiePie has amassed close to 14.7 billion video views on his main channel alone.

The Journal reported Monday that he had uploaded multiple videos with anti-semitic jokes and remarks last month.

In one of those videos, he had paid two people in India through a crowd-sourcing platform for holding up a sign that read "death to all Jews."

Google responded by removing advertising from the video in question, but he defended it as a joke in another video uploaded a week later.

Both videos, as well as a subsequent video with controversial remarks, have since been removed from his channel.