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PewDiePie
Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie, is a Swedish YouTuber. Best known for his gaming videos, he is also recognised for his satirical commentary, comedy-sketches and lifestyle vlogging. Kjellberg's popularity on YouTube and extensive media coverage have made him one of the most noted online personalities and content creators. Media coverage of him has cited him as a figurehead for…
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culture · Swedish YouTuber (born 1989) · YouTuber · writer · gamer · Internet celebrity · television producer · Japan Enthusiast · also PewDiePie, Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, Pewds, Pewdiepie, Felix Kjellberg, PewDie
Born 24 October 1989 · Q13423853
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2026· 25 entries
Dexerto: PewDiePie responds to outrage over “iron cross” in ADL donation video
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Dexerto: PewDiePie trolled by fans for not knowing Bangladesh is a country
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Dexerto: PewDiePie stunned after horror game playthrough goes terribly wrong
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Dexerto: PewDiePie mocks Belle Delphine bathwater controversy with his own version
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Dexerto: PewDiePie takes shots at Alinity for being “infuriating”
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Dexerto: PewDiePie reveals new ‘Pixelings’ mobile RPG game
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Marketing Directo: PewDiePie o cómo embolsarse la friolera de 7 millones de euros al año siendo «youtuber»
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Dexerto: PewDiePie speaks out on Pokimane’s copy strike scandal
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Dexerto: PewDiePie celebrates Minecraft series success in the craziest way
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Dexerto: PewDiePie has already smashed another huge YouTube milestone
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Dexerto: PewDiePie makes a comeback after falling way behind T-Series in YouTube sub race
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Dexerto: PewDiePie explains why he’s been banned in China
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Published video “Earthquake by Mount Fuji”.
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Published video “Meet our newest family member”.
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Published video “I tried to make a Manga”.
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Published video “MY trillion $Dollar Project is finally OUT!”.
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Public attention spiked: 4,853 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 1,530, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Is PewDiePie Retiring From YouTube Vlogs? YouTuber Drops Shocking Update About His Future” (NDTV).
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NDTV: Is PewDiePie Retiring From YouTube Vlogs? YouTuber Drops Shocking Update About His Future
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Published video “Ending the vlogs.”.
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Published video “Never been this disappointed..”.
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Published video “Our Old Man Is Getting Old”.
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Published video “I Fixed YouTube !”.
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Published video “I Trained My Own AI... It beat ChatGPT”.
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Published video “Nothing Sweeter Than This Moment”.
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2025· 11 entries
Published video “what just happened?”.
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Published video “My Favorite Animes of All Time”.
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Published video “"I believe ALL religions now"”.
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Published video “Daily Life of PewDiePie Today”.
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Published video “THIS IS NOT A COINCIDENCE”.
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Published video “PewDiePie on YouTube Meta Over the Years”.
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Published video “That could be me”.
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Published video “How PewDiePie Started YouTube”.
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Published video “u good bro?”.
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Published video “This is too good”.
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About Kjellberg's fan base around 2013, Tubefilter's Sam Gutelle stated that Kjellberg's "middling" gaming skills "was part of his appeal", allowing for him to be seen by viewers as a "big brother" figure
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2020· 1 entry
VERA Files rated the claim “Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie praised President Rodrigo Duterte and said he wants to "borrow" him for his country.” Fake.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
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2019· 8 entries
Awarded Red Diamond Creator Award (2019).
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Yahoo: PewDiePie vs. T-Series: YouTube Channels Keep Battling for No. 1 Spot
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CNET: PewDiePie cracks 86 million YouTube subscribers in ongoing T-Series battle
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Kjellberg's Minecraft videos led a surge of interest towards the game, which saw an increase in players
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“more apolitical than anything”
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Kjellberg's channel became the second overall, and the first run by an individual creator, to receive the Red Diamond Creator Award
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Kjellberg released two more video games: PewDiePie's Pixelings on 15 November and Poopdie on 12 December
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Was a guest on the Cold Ones YouTube podcast
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2018· 4 entries
“Stop atack, eh, atack... atackonizing me!”
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A 2018 trip to Japan inspired Kjellberg to move to the country.
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Paul MacInnes of The Guardian wrote, "Given the scale of his audience and his influence, not much is written about PewDiePie
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Paul MacInnes of The Guardian wrote about Kjellberg's YouTube content; he noted that each week Kjellberg posted videos featuring one of three series formats, comparing this uploading pattern to television programming
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2017· 7 entries
popcrush: Who Is PewDiePie? YouTube’s Most Successful User Has a History of Making Racist Remarks
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“What a f****** n****r, jeez, oh my god, what the fuck?, what a f****** a**hole... sorry, but what the f***?”
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Forbes did not rank Kjellberg as the top gaming influencer, citing that his "overall brand suffered earlier this year when he included antisemitic content in nine of his videos"
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Highlighted various resources to help one's mental health in a video
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Which made him the sixth highest-paid YouTuber during that year
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That he had left due to a lack of interest in his course of study
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Justin Charity of The Ringer stated, "PewDiePie isn't a comedian in any conventional sense," but described his "hosting style [as] loopy and irreverent in the extreme: He's a little bit stand-up, a little bit shock jock,
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2016· 6 entries
Awarded Custom Play Button (2016).
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The channel experienced decreased viewership, which was similarly experienced by other content creators across the platform, due to changes in YouTube's algorithm
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Kjellberg organized another charity drive for Charity: Water in February 2016.
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Maker Studios' international chief content officer was cited in The Guardian as comparing "the average parent's bafflement at their teenage children's passion for stars like PewDiePie, KSI, and Zoella to past generations
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Fans entered his hotel to search for him, which he expressed annoyance with
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Douglas Holt of Harvard Business Review wrote of Kjellberg as "YouTube's greatest success", and regarded him, about gaming subcultures, "the star of this digital art world—just as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Patti Smith had
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2015· 6 entries
Ross Miller of The Verge wrote, "Love it or hate it, his success – like so many other YouTube personalities – isn't just in playing games but actually connecting and talking directly to an audience
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Kjellberg was featured on the cover of Variety's "Famechangers" issue, with the magazine ranking him as the "#1 Famechanger", or "those whose influence stands head and shoulders above the rest"
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ESPN noted that Kjellberg typically performed a "Brofist" gesture at the end of his videos, and often referred to his fan base as the "Bro Army", addressing his audience as "bros"
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The median digital Times subscriber was 54 years old
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Outlets described Kjellberg's income as sizeable, and even "remarkable"; Kjellberg appeared at the top of Forbes' October 2015 list of the richest YouTube stars with a reported $12 million earned in 2015
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Kjellberg was included on Time's list of the 30 most influential people on the Internet, with the publication writing that his channel "broadcasts some of the most-watched programs in pop culture
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2014· 3 entries
Awarded Teen Choice Award for Choice Web Star - Gaming (2014).
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In celebration of reaching 25 million subscribers in June 2014, Kjellberg announced another charity drive for Save the Children.
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Kjellberg's commentaries, then best known for featuring horror video games, began to actively feature games that interested him regardless of genre
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Diamond Play Button (2013).
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Kjellberg explained that they moved to the UK in July 2013 for preference to live close to the sea and for better Internet connectivity.
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded Gold Play Button (2012).
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Earned Silver Play Button (2012).
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And 2013, before becoming the most-subscribed on YouTube on 15 August 2013
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2011· 2 entries
And after establishing an online relationship, Kjellberg flew to Italy to meet her
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Kjellberg and Bisognin were introduced to each other through a friend of Bisognin's in 2011, and after establishing an online relationship, Kjellberg flew to Italy to meet her.
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2010· 1 entry
Primarily posting Let's Play videos of horror and action video games
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2008· 1 entry
Studied at Göteborgs Högre Samskola (2008).
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1989· 2 entries
Born 1989-10-24.
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Awarded Shorty Awards (1989).
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