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PewDiePie

Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, known online as PewDiePie is a Swedish


Youtuber, most know for his gaming videos and comedic formatted videos and
shows. PewDiePie is one of the most notable youtuber online. In fact, he has
reached over 10 YouTube subscribers (currently 110 million), which only 3
channels in the world can surpass competing against huge corporations.

Felix was born and raised on 24 October 1989, in Gothenburg, Sweden.


He grew up in a relatively small family, consisting his two parents and his one
older sister. Along his childhood, Felix was interested in art and intended to
draw popular video games characters such as Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog,
as well as playing video games on his super Nintendo.

During high school, he frequently played video games in his bedroom


and would skip classes to play video games at an internet café with friends.
During his last year of high school, he managed to buy himself a PC which he
made by selling his artworks through his grandmother’s gallery. Felix later
pursues a degree in industrial economics and technology management at
Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, but left the university in
2021.

Felix then decided to drop out of the university, it is reported that he left
because he wanted to focus more on his YouTube career. In 2017, he clarified
that he left because of his lack of interest in his course of study. He expressed
that, in general, leaving university to pursue his YouTube career.

The name Pewdie started to show on December 2006, he explained that


his name pew represents the sound of lasers and die refers to dying. He later
forgot his password and decided to start a new account named PewDiePie. In
his earlier days, he decided to make gaming videos such as amnesia which gain
the most traction from his audience and sky rocketed his popularity while at
the same time, he’s working on a hot dog stand as a part time job.
He keeps on making YouTube videos, gaining more subs, signing
contracts and eventually, he became the most subscribed YouTuber in around
2013. He then proceeds to do collabs and keeps on gaining more subscribers
along with his friends. He then started to make enough money to move to
Brighton, England with his girlfriend.

Later in 2019, Felix married the girl he loved since over 8 years before
his marriage. Since then, he has a noticeably calmer video and started to calm
down and limit himself from doing edgy videos and has matured a lot since. He
finally get to live a good life with huge amount of wealth, and fans across the
world.

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