PewDiePie rhymes with cutie pie, Right? Do you know who he is? Well, he is a popular YouTube Star and a university dropout who launched his YouTube channel on April 29, 2010, giving up his studies in industrial engineering to play games on the video platform. He posts videos online and everything related to gaming content and makes money from it.
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Pewdiepie Early Life
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PewDiePie was born Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, in Gothenburg, Sweden on October 24, 1989. His parents are Lotta Kristine Johanna and Ulf Christian Kjellberg. His father is a corporate executive and his mother is an award-winning Chief Information Officer. He has an older sister named Fanny. In high school, he used to skip his classes to play video games. He graduated from Göteborgs Högre Samskola.
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YouTube
He joined YouTube on December 19, 2006, and created a channel known as “Pewdie”. He used to put some mix of vlog videos along with Call of Duty, Minecraft, and various other horrors/action games. He again created a new channel on 29, April 2010. On his new channel, he focussed on playing short clips of his best CoD kills with entertaining commentary and edits.
Early Success of Pewdiepie
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Earlier, he began playing the game. His Amnesia Let’s Plays videos struck a nerve with the greater YouTube audience and his channel began to skyrocket in subscribers. PewDiePie’s channel began to grow, reaching 1 million subscribers in July 2012 and 2 million subscribers in September 2012.
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Highest Paid YouTube Star
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He isn’t just a big YouTube star, but he is also the highest-paid person on the site. In 2013, he was the highest-paid YouTube star on the planet with earnings of about $12 million. In 2014, his earnings topped $14 million. In 2015, he earned $9 million. In 2016, PewDiePie made $15 million. In 2017, he made $12 million. In 2018, he made $15.5 million. In 2019 he earned $13 million. As this writing, PewDiePie charges $450,000 for a single sponsored video. Since 2013, he has made more than $73 million pre-tax off his YouTube Empire since 2013. In an interview, he confirmed that his net worth is “much much” higher than $20 million.
His Personal Life
PewDiePie met Italian Marzia Kjellberg in 2011. They established an online friendship then eventually a romance. In 2012 PewDiePie set her up with a YouTube channel called CutiePieMarzia. Her videos focused on fashion, makeup, books, movies, and beauty. It eventually became one of the most popular beauty channels on YouTube. The duo got married in August 2019.
Pewdiepie’s Net Worth
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PewDiePie is the most popular YouTuber of all time, with millions of subscribers. As of 2020, his net worth is estimated to be $30 million.
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