Felix kjellberg: From Hotdog Seller to Superstar PewDiePie

Felix Kjellberg: From Hotdog Seller to Superstar PewDiePie

Introduction

Known online as PewDiePie, Felix Kjellberg is one of the internet's biggest stars- he has more than 100 million subsribers to his YouTube channel, and over 24 billion views. The PewDiePie channel is best known for its irreverent gaming content, shot in a "LetsPlay" Style- Videos of Kjellberg playing video games while giving an expletive-strewn running commentary. "Lets Play" became a hugely popular YouTube genre, and PewDiePie its superstar; his reperatoire has expanded to include live-action and animation comedy shorts. But as the Swede's fame has grown, his behavior has become increasingly controversial. He apologized in 2012 for his use of  "gay" and "retard" as supposedly playful insults and for making rape jokes- but after he posted videos containing anti-Semitic and Nazi imagery, he was dropped in February 2017 by his network partner, the Disney- owned Maker Studios; he was also ejected from YouTube's Red Platform and the Google Preferred program. he apologized, claiming his humor had been taken out of context, only to blurt the n-word months later during a live stream in September 2017. Like his videos, PewdiePie's future appears to be disturbingly unpredictable.

Felix Kjellberg to PewDiePew

Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg was born on October 24, 1989 in Gothenburg, Sweden. His mother and father, Johanna and Ulf, are both successful chief executives. As a child, he enjoyed art and playing on his Super Nintendo; his obsession with video games grew during adolescene, during which he spent  a lot of time gaming in his bedroom, or at internet cafes. "Sweden has a great culture around gaming," he told Rolling Stone magazine in 2015. "We're really nerdy people." During his last year of high school, he bought a computer with money he made selling artwork through his grandmother's gallery. He set up his first YouTube channel, PewDie, in 2006- "Pew" being slang for the sound of a laser gun firing- but as his interest in the channel waned, he returned to YouTube in 2010, he was forced to set up a new account, PewDiePie. By now, Kjellberg had learnt to edit videos from an online tutorial, and uploaded his first "LetsPlay" video- of him playing Minecraft. He registered his PewDiePie account while at chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, studying  industrial economics and technology management. He struggled to fit in at Chalmers: " I had nothing in common with the rest of the people in the Program," he told Icon Magazine's Maria Lindholm.

Struggle

As Felix said in the video, he started with selling Hot Dogs after dropping University, he felt in love with video games like any other gamer, and got inspired by some youtubers to start his youtube channel.

He reached his first 1 million subscribers in July 2012. Two months later, he had 2 million. By December that year, he had signed with Maker Studios- a  talent  network for video-makers that provides resources, expertise and help with promotion and marketing, in return for a share of ad revenue- and saw his channel quickly grow from 100 million to 200 million views per months. On August 15,2013, PewDiePie became the most-subsribed YouTube channel in the world. If you watch the video you know that he started from nothing, just him and his girlfriend "Marzia Bisognin" living together, but with time his channel exploded after a lot of efforts (watch the video for more context), as the years pass, he became the biggest youtuber, with his Gaming commentary then in 2016 he kinda switched to comedy because he was enjoying it better, which is something that we have to learn from that, no matter what you do, you've to do it with passion, and for felix to continue his carrier he had to make this choice. Now in 2017, we can say that he's one of the most influential people on the internet, with a clever mind and clever satire, he entertains millions everyday. 

Marriage

In July 2013, Kjellberg moved to Brighton, a Uk seaside town that has become a hub for YouTubes, with his  Italian girlfriend, Marzia Bisognin, (nickname CutiePie) a beauty blogger. They were introduced online in 2011 and began a long-distance relationship, before living together in Italy, then Sweden, and eventually settling in Brighton- because of the town's reliable internet connectivity- where they would share an apartment with two pets pugs, Edgar and Maya. 

In August 2019, Kjellberg and Bisognin tied the knot in a private London ceremony. Announcing the union on Twitter, he wrote: "We are married!!! I'm the happiest I can be. I'm so lucky to share my life with his amazing woman."

PewDiePie- Inspiring Quotes

1."Don't be a salad. Be the best damn broccoli you can ever be." PewDiePie

2."Stay awesome bros. I know you will." PewDiePie

3."Unless you stop trying, how can you not fail anymore," PewDiePie

4."It was so much easier to connect with my fans when I was smaller. I could answer every message, and I enjoyed that." PewDiePie

5. "Life is too short to focus on the things you hate, focus on what you love instead." PewDiePie

6. "Comments are my main way to communicate with your bros". PewDiePie

7. "With my channel, and what people associate with the Internet, most people think it goes viral, you become this huge thing super quick. I never had an explosion or a huge thing. It's just been something that has progressively been growing. It's been building." PewDiePie

8. "The thing that has made YouTube so successful is that you can relate to the people you're watching to a much higher degree than to the people you see on TV." PewDiePie

9. "I Just want to entertain; that is my main objective and what comes before everything else." PewDiePie 

10. "Everyone has played video games at some point these days, and video games are fun." PewDiePie

11."I'd like to help other YouTubers." PewDiePie

12. "When I started my YouTube channel in 2010, I never imagined that one day it would be the most subscribed channel in the world and that I would be a part of  such a great community." PewDiePie

13. "What I and other YouTubers do is a very different thing; it's almost like hanging around and watching your Pal Play games.." PewDiePie

14. "Everyone is entitled to their opinions, even thought they're wrong." PewDiePie

15. "We're all different but we're all the same. You just be an you don't let anyone tell you who you are. You don't need labels to make yourself feel valuable, you're better than that." PewDiePie

16. "Nothing is easier if you're an idiot." PewDiePie

17. "Every second you're closer to oblivion. No quote in the world is gonna change that."PewDiePie