“And I obviously make Indian jokes and stuff like that, but I do that of all countries, and this is not what I’m about.” “Sometimes in these comments, you see… just really distasteful, unnecessary comments,” Kjellberg says.
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The platform posts popular Bollywood music and movie clips.ĭuring the stream, racist comments about the Indian population popped up on Kjellberg’s feed, which he promptly shut down and talked about how these things shouldn’t happen. Indian Youtube channel T-Series sits as the second most subscribed channel on Youtube with 94 million subscribers as of April 18. Photo Courtesy T-Series/ Wikimedia Commons Recently, Kjellberg raised £150,000 British pounds on a livestream for Indian charity ‘Child Rights and You’. In 2016, his holiday campaign “Cringemas” to raise money for RED, a charity devoted to fighting against AIDS, raised $1.3 million.
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Hit horror series Five Nights at Freddy’s was in part popularized by Kjellberg, and channels that are big now but were practically unknown a few years ago, like Jacksepticeye, were given shoutouts by Kjellberg, allowing other great channels to get the recognition they deserve.Īlong with putting other creators in the spotlight, Kjellberg has consistently raised thousands of dollars each year for charity over the course of his channel. PewDiePie has also been a great way for independent game creators and small channels to be showcased to a big audience. Kjellberg has never been a big budget YouTuber, and the environment he has created in which he is aware that he is just a normal guy at his core has built up a level of intimacy with his viewers that, in the early 2010s, wasn’t really present in the short sketch and movie review heavy halls of YouTube. The reasons for the community rallying around PewDiePie can be traced back to the early days of his channel. People like Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach, Sean “Jacksepticeye” McLoughlin and even tech billionaire Elon Musk have stepped up and supported Kjellberg, helping him gain hundreds of thousands of subscribers over the past few months. Since July 2018, he has gained a total of 25 million subscribers, a new record for the platform.Ī large amount of YouTubers have come together to support Kjellberg as well. These challenges have only made the fight that Kjellberg and his fans have put up against T-Series all the more astonishing. He also has the added challenge of his actions being labeled as the collective actions of the YouTube community, which simply isn’t true, as YouTube is a very diverse place where anyone anywhere can speak their mind. While some of his jokes have gone too far or didn’t play out the way he wanted them to, as is the case with many other comedians, he has apologized and spoken about how those jokes don’t reflect him as a person. Kjellberg’s channel has been under heavy criticism for almost as long as he’s been the most subscribed channel, being constantly surveyed by mainstream media for almost any joke that he makes. This is due to the large support that the YouTube community has given to PewDiePie, that has been able to withstand the power of even YouTube itself.
Having gained an average of 4 million subscribers each month since October, T-Series has come close to beating PewDiePIe several times, but has only been successful one time, and that was only for roughly a week. Then, in the summer of 2018, T-Series, an Indian music and movie company, started to threaten PewDiePie’s standing. This channel, named PewDiePie, would hold the place for five years, remaining unchallenged since then. Composed mainly of the duo Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox, the channel held the title of number one until December of that year, when a gaming channel, composed of Felix Kjellberg, took the position.
He held the title as most subscribed Youtuber from 2013 to March of 2019, though the title was retaken a week a later and is still held by Kjellberg as of April 18.Īt the beginning of 2013, the most subscribed channel on YouTube was the comedic group Smosh. Photo Courtesy camknows/ Wikimedia Commonsįelix Kjellberg founded the Youtube gaming channel PewDiePie in 2010.