PewDiePie was born on 24th October 1989 in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is a video game commentator, streamer, and a renowned internet celebrity with a net worth of a staggering $45 Million. At a certain point, PewDiePie was the channel on Youtube with highest number of subscribers on the planet.
With this much influence over online viewers, PewDiePie has also been the highest-earning YouTuber in the world. His YouTube videos usually feature him reacting, commentating, and playing multiple video games. He refers to his fans as ‘Bro Army,’ and he always ends his videos with a ‘Brofist’ celebration.
PewDiePie’s Early Life
PewDiePie’s birth name is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, and his parents are Ulf Kristian Klellberg and Lotta Kristine Johanna. His father is a corporate executive, and his mother is a Chief Information Officer who has earned multiple awards. He also has a sister named Fanny.
PewDiePie had a focus on pursuing a professional degree in Industrial Economics and Technology Management at the Chalmers University of Technology. After finding out he wasn’t interested in the courses, he dropped out and used his photoshopping skills to save up some money for a computer till 2006. He joined YouTube in 2006 with the name “Pewdie,” playing Call of Duty as his first game on the platform.
PiewDiePie’s Accomplishments
Since the launch of his channel in 2009, PewDiePie has gained an astonishing amount of subscribers on his channel. At the Nonick Conference 2012, PewDiePie got a chance to speak in front of a huge audience. In October 2012, PewDiePie was ranked as the #1 YouTube channel by OpenSlate in terms of their SlateScore.
In April 2013, PewDiePie’s channel grew from 6 Million to 19 Million subscribers, which led him to the United Kingdom in search of better internet connectivity. According to a report, he earned subscribers at the rate of 1.037 subs per second. He also had 1.8 Billion views on all his videos that year. Not only in terms of the highest subscribers on YouTube, at the time, he was also the highest-paid personality in the world.
In 2013, CelebrityNetWorth revealed that PewDiePie was the highest-paid individual on YouTube, with an annual earning of $12 Million. In 2014, his earnings were boosted to $14 million; in 2015, he earned $9 million; in 2016, he made around $15 million and has made close to that amount every single year since then.
Apart from his YouTube earnings, PewDiePie charges around $450,000 for a single sponsored video. In total, all the money PewDiePie has earned since 2013 is $73 million, if not more.
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