

While his reason for leaving Chalmers has often been reported as a want to focus on his YouTube career, in 2017, Kjellberg clarified that he left because of his lack of interest in his course, and perceived the idea of leaving university to pursue a YouTube career as “fucking stupid”. During high school, he would skip classes to play video games at an Internet café with friends." He then went on to pursue a degree in industrial economics and technology management at Chalmers University of Technology, but left the university in 2011. His father is also a corporate executive.ĭuring his early schooling life, he was interested in art, and has detailed that he would draw popular video game characters such as Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog, as well as play video games on his Super Nintendo Entertainment System. His mother, a former CIO, was named the 2010 CIO of the Year in Sweden. He was born to Lotta Kristine Johanna (née Hellstrand, born ) and Ulf Christian Kjellberg (born 8 January 1957), and grew up with his older sister Fanny. Kjellberg was born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden. Kjellberg lives in Brighton with his fiancée, Italian Internet personality and fashion designer Marzia Bisognin. In 2016, Time named him one of "The World's 100 Most Influential People". Due to his popularity, Kjellberg's coverage of indie games has created an Oprah effect, boosting sales for titles he plays. Kjellberg has raised money for charities, encouraging his audience to donate to charity drives. While he criticized the coverage of the situation and defended his content as jokes that were taken out of context, he conceded its offensiveness. As a result of an early-2017 controversy regarding allegations of anti-Semitism in several of Kjellberg's videos, Maker Studios – the multi-channel network (MCN) he was signed to – ended their partnership with him. His content has been praised as genuine and unfiltered, but also received as abrasive, and in some cases, met with controversy. Kjellberg's most noted YouTube content includes his Let's Play video game commentaries, traditionally of horror video games, although he now produces a larger variety of comedic content. As of July 2019, the channel has received over 98 million subscribers and 22 billion video views, ranking as the second-most subscribed and eleventh-most viewed on the platform. From 29 December 2014 to 14 February 2017, Kjellberg's channel was the most-viewed YouTube channel. On 15 August 2013, Kjellberg became the most-subscribed user on YouTube, being briefly surpassed in late 2013 by YouTube Spotlight and several times in early 2019 by Indian record label T-Series. Kjellberg soon gathered a rapidly increasing online following, and in July 2012, his channel surpassed one million subscribers. In order to fund his videos, Kjellberg began selling prints of his Photoshop art projects and worked at a hot dog stand. After failing to earn an apprenticeship with an advertising agency in Scandinavia, he then decided to focus on creating content for his YouTube channel. The following year, he dropped out of Chalmers after losing interest in his degree field, much to the dismay of his parents. In 2010, during his time at the university, he registered a YouTube account under the name PewDiePie. He lives in the UK with his wife Marzia Bisognin.Born in Gothenburg, Sweden, Kjellberg originally pursued a degree in industrial economics and technology management at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. On 15 of August 2013, he surpassed the leading YouTube channel Smosh and having the most subscribed YouTube channel. He graduated from Göteborgs Högre Samskola and then went to pursue a degree in Industrial Economics and Technology Management at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. He is a Swedish YouTube video game commentator under the alias name, PewDiePie. He was born as Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg on the 24 of October, 1989 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Pewdiepie was really famous and extremely successful. Later on Thursday, he further announced that he and his wife are "Having plans to move toward the USA."

Support me by buying Electric Cars at BMW." just a few minutes after. The memories were a really fun time while they were at it, however, I have to retire now. Pewdiepie announced on Wednesday of June 3rd at 5:32 BST that he was "Going to quit YouTube." Then, when his commentators were really confused, he posted another tweet saying "It was a sweet and great ride while it was going. Pewdiepie had 104 Million Subscribers, so that was a huge shock. Pewdiepie was really popular you-tuber, he quits youtube after Markiplier, Skeppy, and other you-tubers insulted him, calling his act "Inconsiderate" after he made a video about Donald Trump. Pewdiepie becomes a lawyer after failure of YouTube.
