Logan Paul reveals why KSI left Sidemen after he confided in PRIME enterprise companion

Logan Paul has weighed in on the drama surrounding KSI’s resolution to depart Sidemen after reaching out to his Prime co-founder.

In case you missed it, KSI, whose actual identify is Olajide Olayinka Williams Olatunji, shocked followers on Sunday (31 Might) after asserting he was leaving the Sidemen after greater than 12 years.

“That is truthfully the toughest video I’ve ever needed to make in my life,” he mentioned in a video shared to his YouTube channel.

“I’ve gone backwards and forwards on this resolution for a really very long time.

“I’ve spent months making an attempt to determine what the fitting factor to do is. However after numerous thought, I’ve determined that I’ll not be doing Sidemen movies. At present, thirty first of Might, can be my closing Sidemen video.”

The information blind-sided his followers and likewise got here as an enormous ‘shock’ to the Sidemen.

Yesterday, KSI shared one other assertion giving additional particulars into his ‘unhappy’ resolution.

In a put up on Instagram, he wrote: “I do know this information has been laborious to cope with.

“I do know that some folks don’t need to imagine it. However it’s actual. I can be leaving the Sidemen. Writing that is simply unhappy. I’m unhappy. In fact I’m unhappy.”

Now, Prime co-creator and pal Paul has weighed in on the matter, and shared KSI’s reasoning behind the shock transfer.

Throughout a latest episode of his Impaulsive podcast, co-host Mike Majlak mentioned he thought the entire thing was ‘cap’ and that the Sidemen had been enjoying followers ‘like a fiddle’.

Majlak mentioned: “They need us to imagine they’re having some form of breakdown, so everyone tunes in from everywhere in the world, after which they are saying what’s happening right here… after which instantly they arrive again with a brand new product.”

Paul then chipped in to disclose that he had truly reached out to KSI for the within scoop and confirmed that it was actual.

“I mentioned the identical factor,” Paul admitted. “I mentioned, ‘no method, that’s not potential, this has acquired to be work.’”

However then he acquired in contact with KSI to ask him if it was ‘work or a shoot’.

“He mentioned, ‘it’s actual,’” Paul mentioned.

“He mentioned, ‘it’s been 13, 14 years’.

“I don’t need to air out his info however usually, he was excited to get a while again for himself and for what he desires to do together with his life.

“He’s rising as a creator, and as an individual – as all of us are. He’s an grownup now and he simply desires time and Sidemen was taking numerous time. It’s a large channel and their output is rather a lot.”

He completed by saying: “So far as I do know… I assumed it was pretend, however KSI leaving the Sidemen appears like an actual factor.”