With 102 million followers have PewDiePie is one of the largest YouTube channels. Next year he will pull the plug.
YouTube star PewDiePie, with the civil name Felix Kjellberg, will take a break from the platform in 2020.
It tells the Swedish YouTuber on his channel, which, with 102 million followers has the largest følgeskare of individual YouTubere.
The 30-year-old Felix Kjellberg justify the break with, that he “feels tired”.
– I’m taking a break from YouTube next year. I’ve decided to say it in advance, because I feel tired. I feel very tired. I don’t know if you can see it says PewDiePie in the video and laughs.
His many videos on YouTube, where he often plays computer games, played a record number of times.
The u.s. business magazine Forbes estimates that Felix Kjellberg last year earned 80.000.000 dollars in filming himself while he plays computer games.
the Majority of the revenue comes from advertisements, which are displayed before the video plays.
But several times along the way in his career, he’s come to the wrong place.
Felix Kjellberg has worked with Disney, but in 2017 scrapped mediekoncernen YouTuberen after showing the content of nazi and anti-semitic.
Even said the Swedish multimillionaire, that the messages were meant as jokes – even if they were perceived as offensive.
Later in the same year apologized he for using the N-word during a live consignment.
Last year apologized he again to make a so-called meme – a humorous image on the internet – mocking the american singer Demi Lovatos hospital treatment for a suspected overdose of drugs.
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