As YouTuber, musician and boxer KSI gears up for his next fight against ex-Love Island contestant Tommy Fury in October, the content creator has been taking aim at his opponent in a series of posts on X/Twitter – but one tweet mocking Fury has seen the Sidemen member branded “ableist” by social media users. KSI, real name Olajide “JJ” Olatunji, took to X on Thursday evening to share a series of posts mocking Fury, one of which featured a video of a disabled model flexing his muscles. In a caption accompanying the TikTok video from user @the_honest_1, JJ wrote: “Can’t lie, Tommy Fury has never looked better.” The clip was taken from the account of 20-year-old Amine Sheik, a person with a shorter upper body who has more than 193,000 followers on the social media platform. However, Olatunji has since been criticised for his use of the video, with X users labelling the “Holiday” singer “ableist” and “pathetic” for using a disabled person to belittle his rival: Neither KSI or Sheik have responded to the tweet and the backlash since it was posted. It is not the first time KSI has come under fire for comments and actions around disability, with the social media influencer previously being filmed giving a video message to an autistic fan telling them to “get well soon” before asking his friends “am I being r****ded” when he was met with shocked reactions. He also forced his editor to subtitle gibberish in a video from 2020 after his YouTube content started coming with closed captions – a feature which makes videos accessible for deaf viewers. In April, the YouTube star took a break from social media and apologised after he was filmed saying a racial slur during a ‘Sidemen Sunday’ parodying popular daytime game show Countdown. KSI fights Tommy Fury on 14 October in Manchester, with Prime co-founder Logan Paul also on the card against mixed martial artist Dillon Danis. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

Soccer superstar Leo Messi's arrival in America has sparked a surge in ticket prices, apparel and now, streaming subscriptions.

Gigi Hadid has called out Israel for its recent portrayal of Palestinians as nothing more than 'terrorists'

The acclaimed British novelist Ian McEwan is baffled by the current obsession with sensitivity in the publishing world. "Be brave,"...

Ever since Josh Duggar's arrest, fans have been wondering whether he is still married to Anna Renee Duggar

We can't help you fulfill your ambitious New Year's resolution of reading a book every week. We can, however, help you give that ever-growing pile of (potentially unread) literature a chic, spacious, and affordable living space — aka, a best-selling, under-$100 bookcase.

Jeremy Renner and Sonni Pacheco, who parted ways in December 2014, share joint custody of their daughter Ava

Pianist André Watts, whose televised debut with the New York Philharmonic as a 16-year-old in 1963 launched an international career of more than a half-century, has died

'I knew pretty early on that Mark was my dream man and I genuinely feel like the luckiest man on earth to get to marry him,' Scott Hoying said

Forget about the funny pages. If Kay Powell wrote for your paper, you dove straight into the death notices.

Paige Spiranac recently revealed how she tackled online hate by experimenting with her attire

The years-in-the-making Oxford Dictionary of African American English will offer proper attribution to words and phrases that originated in Black culture.