Felix Kjellberg has become a success story in the social media realm.
In the past three months, the 25-year-old YouTuber, Felix Kjellberg has been on the cover of Variety magazine and was interviewed by ESPN. Along with this, the YouTuber has written a book for teens that became popular on Amazon's website before a month of its release. Now, the young vlogger has become the first ever person on Earth to reach 10 billion YouTube views.
The majority of Felix Kjellberg fans are teenagers with a keen interest in video games. "The humor, I just don't understand it, I'll see in the comments, 'Check out 4:26,' said Felix's mother in an interview with ESPN.
What is PewDiePie?
Felix Kjellberg's YouTube Channel is PewDiePie. The name he took from the sound a laser gun make, 'pew;' 'die' is for death and pie...is for no particular reason. Felix is born in Sweden. His parents are both high-powered corporate executives who motivated him to enrol at Chalmers University of Technology. For a period, he studied engineering though he loved making art and playing video games. While pursuing his college, he dropped out to play games full-time on YouTube.
In 2011, Felix had attracted an international following. In 2012, he moved out from his parent's house and started dating Marzia Bisognin, an Italian woman, who apparently is a YouTube star. According to Gamespot, Felix has signed to Disney-owned Maker Studios and has built the largest audience on YouTube.
In 2014, Felix Kjellberg made more than $7 million and now his entire views has crossed 10 billion. The population of Earth? 7 Billion.
Felix took this opportunity to share the news with his fans. He posted the screenshot of the number of views and subscribers on Tweeter with a caption, "THIS IS INSANE."
Today we made history! 10 billion views! THIS IS INSANE. Thank you all so much! Kisses pic.twitter.com/L3Td2HMX4N
— Felix Kjellberg (@pewdiepie) September 6, 2015
What Felix's video are actually about?
Felix Kjellberg's videos vary from general-interest to lifestyle suggestions to camera-ready demeanour.
His other videos are game reviews, to his witty conversations with his Italian girlfriend, Bisognin. His videos always have two things, their own lingos and their use of absurd words.
