After gaining 10,000,000 subscribers on YouTube, he posted a video encouraging fans to donate to the charity: water association to provide clean water for developing nations (shown below, right). Furthermore, PewDiePie has also encouraged his fans to be active in charity. Jude Hospital out of funds he recieved from being a YouTube partner (shown below, left). Since then, PewDiePie has also donated over $34,000 dollars to St. After receiving the cash prize of $6750 in April, he donated the entire amount to the World Wildlife Foundation. After receiving more than a million votes, he was crowned King of the Web on February 29th, 2012. On February 1st, 2012, PewDiePie entered the King of the Web contest, a social media competition that awards cash or merchandise prizes to the winners of a weekly competition. He also hates being rickrolled and getting tons of his over obsessed fans chatting with him on PlayStation. In one of Pewdie’s videos (shown below, right), a Teleporting Naked Guy apparently startled him so much that he had to close the game and look at pictures of kittens. He also considers Teleporting Naked Guys, a type of “jump scare” characters that catches the player off guard in Amnesia custom stories, to be one of his biggest enemies. PewDiePie is also known for hating barrels (below left) that are seen throughout Amnesia, since they create loud noises and attract Servant Grunts.

Chair” and created a fake language called “Chopnese” during a playthrough of “Afraid Of Monsters.” Enemies

PewDiePie also calls chairs that he throws at enemies in any game “Mr. PewDiePie has also named rotting pigs found in Amnesia’s kitchens and cellars “Piggeh,” giving them the personality of a sexual predator that often is found in fan art (below right) as well. The Bro often appears in PewDiePie fan art and cosplay (below left) as one of his recurring enemy characters in the series. However, he will often place Stephano on the nearest shelf immediately after telling the creature to keep quiet.Ī Servant Grunt, one of the monster classes that appear in Amnesia, was given the name “The Bro” in another playthrough of the game. When PewDiePie is scared or distracted, Stephano advises him to not make noises or complete actions that will alarm enemies. Over the course of PewDiePie’s YouTube series, the object gained a fearless personality with a French accent. In the video, PewDiePie finds a golden statue in a bookshelf and names it Stephano (sometimes spelled Stefano). The first character he created was introduced in a run of a custom Amnesia story titled “Abduction,” uploaded to YouTube on April 17th, 2011. Throughout his videos, PewDiePie talks to props in the games as if they were real people.

In addition, posts and fanart about PewDiePie appear on Tumblr under the tag “pewdiepie” and there are more than 8700 pieces of fan art for PewDiePie on deviantArt. Outside of YouTube, Pewdie’s Facebook fan page has 195,528 likes, his official forum has 11,000 members and a wiki about his videos has 45 pages. PewDiePie’s YouTube channel has over 1,400 uploads, including playthroughs of over 40 games and 30 Amnesia custom stories sent in by the fans, 1,000,000 subscribers and fares an average of 253,391 views per day. In October 2011, a single topic blog F*ck Yeah PewDiePie was created for fans of his videos, which has gained 2200 followers in the span of 8 months. In the first few months following this video, he began uploading playthroughs of Call of Duty: Black Ops, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dead Space 2.

As of August 16th, 2013, PewDiePie became the most subscribed YouTube channel of all time, surpassing the previous record held by the sketch comedy duo Smosh since January 2013.įelix Kjellberg began his YouTube account PewDiePie on April 29th, 2010 with a Minecraft playthrough video showing a zombie that had spawned in a minecart. He is known for his Let’s Play videos, often choosing horror-themed games. PewDiePie, or Pewdie is the YouTube alias of Swedish gamer Felix Kjellberg.

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