PewDiePie

PewDiePie [ pju dipaɪ ː ] ( born October 24, 1989 in Gothenburg, Sweden as Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg ) is a Swedish author of YouTube videos about video games, called Let's Plays or gameplays. PewDiePie became known through his Let's Plays of the computer game Amnesia: The Dark Descent. With over 25 million subscribers, he is among the most - subscribed YouTubers.

The name of his original YouTube channel was Pewdie what comes from the noise of the shot with a fictitious " laser cannon " (see also: high-energy laser ) results ( Pew ), and the subsequent death of the " DOWNED " (English: the = die or die ). Since, however, he forgot his password for this channel, he created a new channel and hung the ending Pie (English: pie = cake ) to its original name.

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Life

Kjellberg was born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2008 he began to study at the Technische Hochschule Chalmers Industrial Economics and Technology Management. However, he broke his studies in 2011 in order to concentrate more on his YouTube career. He later moved with his girlfriend, Marzia Bisognin, better known by her pseudonym CutiePieMarzia, in her native Italy. Marzia also lived for a time with him in Sweden, but this one had reported a very difficult time for both was, especially since Bisognin neither Swedish nor could speak good English and so could not find work, while Kjellberg YouTube had made a profession. In July 2013 he moved for a better internet connection with his companion Marzia to Britain. Kjellberg is the son of KappAhl CIO, Johanna Kjellberg, which was named in Sweden 2010 CIO of the Year.

Kjellberg currently lives with his girlfriend and two dogs in Brighton.

Donate

Kjellberg is involved with the World Wildlife Fund and the Children's Research Hospital St. Jew. He also launched a water campaign ( original: " Water Campagne ")., To which his fans money, as a celebration of his reached then 10 million subscribers, could donate Kjellberg reached with the action around 250,000 U.S. dollars The Charity. : water reached a whole, also organized by other YouTubers, more than 450,000 U.S. dollars. Celebrating 25 million subscribers reached, he started another fundraiser for Save for Children, in which he repeated more than $ 250,000 collected.

YouTube career

Kjellberg created his YouTube channel in April 2009. 2012 began his channel, wax strong in subscribers. Kjellberg reached July 11, 2012 a million and in September 2012 two million subscribers. In February 2012, Kjellberg was nominated in a Internetkontest for King of the Web. However, he lost the title back, but he was shortly thereafter nominated to the Gaming King of the Web, based on his Let's Play -based YouTube channel. Kjellberg won the competition and donated the profits to the World Wildlife Fund. He also spoke at the conference nonick 2012th In October 2012 Kjellbergs YouTube Channel Open Late was promoted to 1st place all YouTube channels.

Kjellberg won next to Jenna Marbles, Smosh, good friends of Kjellberg, and Toby Turner an award in the category Most Social Show, as well as the Swedish Social Star Award. On September 14, 2013, released the song Jabba the Hutt, in cooperation with Schmoyoho, on iTunes. In the years 2012 and 2013 he was the " fastest growing " YouTube channel at all, which meant that it now ranks alongside Jenna Marbles and Smosh the most subscribed channels. On January 12, 2014 Kjellberg reached a total of 20,215,138 subscribers. It is therefore beside YouTube Spotlight of the most - subscribed YouTube channel. For this item, he took the World Record Award.

Format

Kjellbergs YouTube channel focuses mostly on Let's Plays, and his reactions (mostly recorded by a webcam), while he plays a variety of video games. He is known for his vast horror and action - Let's Plays, including the most popular horror Let's Play of the video game Amnesia: The Dark Descent and its publish mods. Unlike conventional so-called " Walkthroughs " his Let's Plays are for the "sharing gaming moments on YouTube with my bros" ( German: " video game moments with my share Bros " ) thought. His image also supports independent video game makers; his Let's Plays often lead to commercial success in sales. Kjellberg began later, on September 2, 2011 to YouTube weekly called vlogs, so video blogs to post on its own.

Awards

Records

  • Most subscribed YouTube channel (since 20 January 2014)
  • For the first time 12 million subscribers (August 17, 2013)
  • For the first time 13 million subscribers (11 September 2013)
  • For the first time 14 million subscribers (October 3, 2013)
  • For the first time 15 million subscribers (November 1, 2013)
  • For the first time 20 million subscribers (9 January 2014)
  • For the first time 25 million subscribers (15 March 2014)
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