JoJo Siwa is addressing the criticism over the controversial Nickelodeon board sport “JoJo’s Juice.”
The 17-year-old YouTube star, who has a younger fanbase, took to Instagram and TikTok on Monday to shed some gentle on how the kids‘s sport ended up with “inappropriate” content material for the focused six and up viewers.
“Over the weekend, it has been dropped at my consideration by my followers and followers on TikTok that my identify and my picture have been used to advertise this board sport that has some actually inappropriate content material,” the “Boomerang” singer stated. “Now when corporations make these video games, they do not run each facet by me, so I had no concept of the sorts of questions that had been on these enjoying playing cards.”
The web sensation continued, “Now once I first noticed this I used to be actually, actually, actually upset approximately how gross these questions had been and so I introduced it to Nickelodeon’s consideration instantly. And since then they’ve been working to get this sport to cease being made and in addition pulled from all cabinets wherever it is being bought.”
Siwa went on to elucidate that she would “by no means, ever, ever would have authorised or agreed” to a sport that reportedly included questions approximately being arrested and nudity.
Different questions included on the multi-player sport had been “Who on this room would you most wish to date” and “Have you ever ever stolen from a retailer?”
The “Dance Mothers” alum ended her video on a constructive word by including, “I like you all a lot. Thanks for bringing this to my consideration in order that method I can put a cease to it and get it mounted instantly.”
Amid backlash, Nickelodeon and “JoJo’s Juice” producer Spin Grasp launched an announcement addressing the sport. “We respect and worth the connection JoJo Siwa has together with her followers and take the issues raised relating to the sport ‘JoJo’s Juice’ very significantly,” the assertion learn. “This sport is now not being manufactured and we have now requested that retailers pull any remaining product from their cabinets.”
