Born Felix Kjellberg, he is a YouTube celebrity whose comedy and video game commentary channel has earned over 110 million subscribers. He was voted Most Popular Gaming Web Star at the 2014 Teen Choice Awards. In 2016, he was included on Time Magazine’s list of The World’s 100 Most Influential People.
Pwediepie Early life
The hero of our story was born Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg in 1989. He was born and raised in Göteborg, Sweden, where he kept living for the most part until his YouTube career really took off.
Felix was interested in art and photography from an early age. Despite this, he enlisted at the Göteborg Chalmers University of Technology to study industrial economics and technology management.
That part of his life was cut short in 2011, but contrary to popular belief, PewDiePie revealed years later that he did not leave university to pursue a YouTube career, “because that would have been very stupid”. He did it simply because he did not see himself working in the field of technology.
Pwediepie Career
Felix Kjellberg has been on YouTube since 2006 when his channel was titled just PewDie. It was not until 2010 that he added “pie” at the end and became the behemoth we know now.
Young Felix was an innovator a decade ago with his gameplay/reaction streams and videos. That wasn’t a thing back then, and it’s probably why he got so big for it and why millions of people are trying to do the same nowadays.
The PewDiePie channel and its Let’s Play concept was growing like most on YouTube: It was a slow and steady growth over its first two years of existence. In 2012, that all changed. Thanks in large part to his Amnesia gameplay videos, PewDiePie grew in popularity seemingly overnight, breaking a different subscriber milestone almost every month.
Although PewDiePie was overtaken by the Indian record label T-Series for the most-subscribed YouTube channel by spring, he retained the top spot for an individually operated channel, surpassing 100 million subscribers.
Pwediepie Net Worth
PewDiePie has a net worth of $40 million. At various points in recent history, the channel has been the most-subscribed channel on YouTube and he has been the highest-earning YouTuber in the world. His YouTube channel typically features videos that show him playing various video games.
The Swedish YouTuber is by far the individual personality with the most subscribers on YouTube, with nearly 110 million subscribers. In total, videos on the PewDiePie channel have been viewed approximately 27.5 billion times.
