PewDiePie

Who is PewDiePie?

If you spend a lot of time watching YouTube, the name PewDiePie would have popped up on your screen very often. And if you love video games, there is no way that you could have missed this name. Well, let us inform you that the YouTube celebrity with the most number of subscribers is not Justin Bieber or Rihanna. Sorry to disappoint you, this title goes to ‘PewDiePie’. Justin Bieber might have 24 million subscribers and Rihanna 22 million subscribers, but this guy here has actually over 48 million subscribers for his YouTube channel. Interestingly, the only thing that he does is post videos of himself playing video games. For all guys who love playing video games and get lectured about this, remember you can make a fortune out of this. For any kind of doubts regarding the same, we suggest that you approach PewDiePie.

The Meteoric Rise to Stardom

You won’t believe if we say that this guy literally left his studies to become a YouTube personality. After dropping out from college he started a YouTube channel. Felix Kjellberg began his YouTube page ‘PewDiePie’ on 29th April 2010 with a Minecraft playthrough video showing a zombie that had spawned in a Minecraft. After a few months of this video, he began uploading playthroughs of ‘Call Of Duty: Black Ops’, ‘Amnesia: The Dark Descent’ and ‘Dead Space 2’. During the initial days, PewDiePie was known for playing horror and action video games.

It was in 2011 that his fandom increased. In October 2011, he created a single topic blog ‘Fuck Yeah PewDiePie’ for the fans of his videos. In the span of eight months, his YouTube channel had over 1, 4000 videos uploaded. Those videos included playthroughs of around 40 games and 40 Amnesia custom stories which were sent by his fans. Felix can be crowned as the ‘Social Media Giant’. We only talked about his YouTube channel; outside YouTube too he is the king! He enjoys over 7 million Facebook likes, 8 million followers in Twitter and then again 10 million in Instagram, and we are still counting!

What Makes PewDiePie So Special

The first thing that makes him so special is he is loved by everyone, irrespective of age and gender. On the occasion of his book launch in Manhattan, fifteen hundred teenagers gathered to get a glimpse of him. According to http://www.rollingstone.com/, a 21 year old girl said that she arrived from New York early in the morning around 4 am, after driving 33 hours from Texas.

That’s actually nothing; she also mentions about an elderly women who was standing next to her, who along with her niece flew from Peru. For record! The distance between Peru and Manhattan is nearly 5,554 km. Now time to meet a 16 year old fan, Shane. Shane Flanagan took a bus from New Jersey, the previous day of the occasion and camped outside a patio umbrella. And that has its pluses; he was the first on the line! We told you, PewDiePie is loved globally.